If someone has very good reasons for not liking or trusting a newcomer to your social scene, you should take their warning to heart. If on the other hand they're merely passing on unfounded gossip, don't listen. Either way, make an effort to get to know a stranger to the work scene or neighbourhood before you make judgements about their character. If you're making arrangements a friend or loved-one is against, your hope is they will respect your decision.

Look on a recent challenging event as something you had to go through and learn from. Once you realise where you went wrong and how you might avoid making the same mistake again, the healing can begin. Your disappointment or distress won't be as strong once you notice the opportunities that look likely to come out of a difficult experience. You may have been struck down but you aren't out of the fight!

Someone seems to think it is their privilege to withhold information from you. This may be a corporation or a senior colleague and you're suspicious about their motives. Is someone keeping a secret in order to evade their responsibility as an individual or professional? Or perhaps they've made a recent mistake and won't admit it? If you suspect their behaviour isn't for your benefit, probe further. In close relationships, loving gestures will work wonders this evening.

It might seem as if you're faced with an avalanche of issues when trying to get a new venture off the ground. Others involved could be making things difficult for you. Reaching an agreement on method and future targets causes conflict and confusion. There is no right way to do any one thing and because everyone is coming to this project with their own set of issues, all you can do is consider all that is said and find a compromise.

If you are under a lot of pressure and this is affecting you physically and emotionally, find ways to relax. Think about swimming, hiking, walking or playing tennis. You will feel better after a little exercise and it doesn't have to be energetic. If you don't have any regular keep fit routine, walk to the shops instead of taking the car, use the stairs rather than the elevator. Another way to burn off stress doing something useful might be through gardening or housework.

A sudden and strong impression you can't ignore could cause you to abandon previously made plans. You aren't sure why you feel you must trust your instincts and you might never find out the reason. Even so, go with your hunches. Don't neglect your spiritual side as it holds the key to your personal empowerment. People will start to enter your life on a regular basis over the weeks ahead and each one will teach you something new.

Contact and meet up with friends if you've just broken up with a partner or you're feeling lonely. Group activities may not help you forget recent occurrences but you will at least be able to push gloomy thoughts to the back of your mind. What might also keep you going is knowing there is someone out there who is right for you. The worst thing you can do if you're feeling lonesome or forlorn is sit at home all day watching TV!

You're learning something about yourself through joint activities today. Working alongside a wise and wonderful person will lead you to set aside any preconceived notions about your strengths and weaknesses. You have made a wise choice of partner as someone is encouraging you to develop the strengths you feel you lack and realise you are more talented than you think.

You value your time and energy and might refuse to get involved in a project which seems doomed to failure from the start. You've always had a good idea of how things might turn out and you sense this venture's prospects aren't good. Someone is being overly ambitious and since they are the creator of this project they aren't going to be restrained. They aren't open to discussion and decision by consensus and you would rather not be included.

A loved one refuses to admit to reality; you're growing apart and this isn't helped by their keeping emotionally distant. If you can no longer connect with each other, it is pointless trying to keep up pretences that everything in your relationship is rosy. You may be hiding your true feelings because they're hard to handle, but unless your partner does a complete about face and becomes more loving and solicitous, you may have to suggest spending some time apart.

If you're trying to explain a recent incident and someone doesn't believe you, they're the one being unreasonable. Whether you're trying to clear up an untrue piece of gossip or you're attempting to justify your reasons for a recent decision, if others don't want to listen, you're wasting your breath trying to get them to understand. If you know you did nothing wrong you are justified in being upset because they don't respect you.

If a couple you know are having problems and their relationship isn't working, you may wonder why they're still together. As much as they might confide in you and ask for your advice, it is not for you to run their relationship for them. Sooner or later they must sort out their problems on their own. If they have serious issues to resolve the best advice you can give is for them to see a professional counsellor who will help them find consensual solutions one way or another.