Financial limitations, an obligation or a difficult person has been making you feel restricted lately. It is as if something or someone has had you in their clutches and you have found it difficult to express yourself as freely as you would like to. Don't worry: this is changing. Saying what is on your mind both clears the air and encourages you to make a surprising decision. This puts you back in the driver's seat.

The security you seek and long for will come through finding a balance between personal interests and joint commitments. To be happy in yourself you need to be happy in your closest relationships. It is time to resolve any uncertainties or insecurities that have been causing problems in a partnership. Negotiations will be successful if you are direct and speak your mind.

You can do a lot to help people sort out their differences. Emotions are heated and there will be a time to speak and a time to be silent. Your intuition helps you sense when to act and when to hold back. Others appreciate your sensible intervention and an argument is avoided. You will have your reasons for keeping everyone friendly. What they won't realise is your intrusion was more for yourself than others!

Sometimes when people are too forceful or demanding, you will cut yourself off and pretend a situation doesn't exist. Today you may feel unsure about how to deal with an event or occurrence. Losing yourself in a fantasy world is not the answer. Be realistic and consider the problem carefully. This might help you deal with the circumstances in a more practical and efficient way.

Conditions linked with a job you are working on could have an unsettling affect on you and those around you. You feel you haven't been told it all or you are worried about getting caught up in a scandalous situation. It might mean going against the directives of a colleague you are starting to distrust but today you should follow your own inclinations.

If life lacks challenge and excitement you might be right in thinking there are better possibilities to explore. The thought of change may have held you back in the past but not so, now. Be sensible and refuse to be drawn into areas that are risky or uncertain. There is no harm in looking at social and business proposals that clearly have no strings attached.

You are trying to visualise a situation as you want it to be but this is not how it is in reality. Are you forcing yourself to believe a relationship or joint commitment will work even though it is plainly falling to pieces? Considering the tension you are going through because of this, why don't you admit to the problem and sort it out? Don't feel guilty about ending matters that aren't working.

Someone's dishonesty or pretence has put you in a difficult situation; you believed what they were telling you! You are angry with yourself for having fallen for a confidence trick or sob story. Before doing anything, you need to have issues you don't understand explained properly. Avoid making snap judgements and you will find a way out of the problem.

Symptoms you can't explain to others prevent you from getting on with plans already made. You are unable to face up to a job or assignment due to health problems or emotional difficulties. Your inclination in difficult circumstances is to remain detached or to remove yourself from the situation altogether. This could cause tension in relationships when people can't understand your behaviour or your reasoning.

If people are starting to question your decisions, a bit of self-analysis might not come in amiss! If goals you have been aiming for seem to be fading from your reach, ask yourself why you have taken so long to get there? You could have been trying to do too much at once rather than focus on one or two specific areas. Don't get over confident but changes you suggest today could make a big difference.

People who seem to be driving through life with the handbrake on are starting to frustrate you. Matters of personal importance are being jeopardised or put at risk because of someone else's sluggishness. Why let another person's inattentiveness have a negative affect on your inner being? Whatever is causing delay or confusion will be sorted out sooner if you remain calm.

There is a lot you have to deal with that is emotionally disturbing or bewildering. Switching off your emotions in order to cope does not mean you have become insensitive to matters that normally disturb you. Once you get through a set of circumstances and come out on the other side, you will need to give yourself time to get back in touch with yourself and take it all in.