With Mars entering Gemini, the sign of the mind, you feel a need to toughen up your brain via a sequence of fresh mental challenges. A course of study with or without new technology, is the kind of stuff you’re intellectually made of. What you learn now will increase what you earn in the future.

Until early evening tonight a rare line-up of seven planets in your sign makes this a major turning point in your life. Without getting too egocentric or self-obsessed, between now and the 5th, you have a mega-choice to make regarding you and your role on the planet. It’s decision time.

Mars charges into Gemini whilst six other planets focus on the side of you, you hide from the world. As a result a most reserved and reclusive side of you is revealed. So although you are less inclined to confide in others you are more determined than ever to quietly show them what you’re made of.

Whenever there is a problem and wherever things are going wrong, support is there for the asking. There’s no use trying to hide something you’re ashamed of, as others have already noticed and are waiting for you to bring it out into the open. Do it for yourself before they do it for you.

Your powers of leadership are put to the test and you must remember that good planning and organisation is never wasted. If you leave too many things to chance or try to do too much at once, you aren’t likely to accomplish anything. To get the right results, you should prioritise and delegate.

No matter how settled you feel, there’s no harm in having one eye open on what might lie around the next corner. With a septet of complementary planets above you, life’s too short to get stuck in a snug little rut, so it’s time to take a chance and expand your interests and experiences further.

Today’s changes will make for a much better tomorrow - even if at the moment it doesn’t seem so. You might even feel as if your sense of identity or security is being shaken to its very foundations but things alter and have to move on. Maybe you have no choice but to let Fate take you in hand?

With colossal astral activity in your marriage house a choice has to be made. If a partnership has passed its sell-by date, don’t prolong the agony, get out now. On the other hand, if you’re happy in an affair, find out where you stand as now more than ever you must make a commitment.

Several heavenly bodies in Taurus highlights a need to look at your health and general well-being. Be honest as you consider whether or not you have you been expecting too much from yourself. A less stressful and more relaxed style of living would make you happier and healthier?

Be sure the odds are stacked in your favour before taking any risks today. Whether it’s money or your personal happiness that’s at stake, only speculation of the calculated variety is permitted. Know what you stand to gain or where you could lose; keep emotion out of it and heed your head.

You’re ready to inject cash and energy into improving your domestic world. Anything you do must be subject to a list of probing pros and cons. Change for the sake of it will prove costly and wasteful whereas alterations which improve your living standards will be beneficial to everyone.

The chances are you may have conveniently neglected the communications revolution going on around you, and left it to others to keep up with the techno-Joneses. None of that is allowed now if you are to find your place in the world and not get left behind on the scrap-heap. Embrace the Internet.