Be ready for an interesting and varied start to the weekend. Friends and neighbours will be seeking you out for your company. Invitations to parties and other festive events will be coming your way and this will give you several possible ways to spend your time. You certainly won't be complaining of being bored.

You've been seriously considering pulling out of social or volunteer obligations. People are starting to take advantage of your kindness. There's a limit to how much you can give to others. Once you break free of this situation you will realise how much you have missed spending time enjoying yourself.

If you need a colleague's cooperation a polite and honest approach will pay dividends. You will not mean to interfere or to step on anyone's toes in business and financial affairs. If you realise you have done so accidentally, apologise immediately. Someone who does not understand you may walk bitterly away.

Seeing friends and loved ones out and about on a weekend activity will hurt if you weren't invited. Someone will have known there was a high chance of you turning down the invitation but it would have meant something to you to have had the chance to say no for then at least you were included in their thoughts.

In a community festive event you might notice a newcomer looks uncertain. You sense they feel left out and that they might leave soon unless you make them feel more welcome. It could be that a lot of the conversation involves people they don't know. Make a little effort to include them and they won't forget your kindness.

Relationships will be tense until an annoying problem that is upsetting you all is resolved. Once this matter is sorted out to everyone's satisfaction, you should notice a marked difference in the atmosphere. You will be getting on surprisingly well with a hyperactive friend. Their energy will be contagious.

The phone call or visitor you are waiting for may not happen even if someone promised they would be in touch. While you are waiting, you could be missing out on some more festive and fun events going on elsewhere. You need to make it clear to others that they can't expect you to be at their beck and call.

You won't have been expecting the positive response you get when you speak your mind. Conversations are animating and you are finding it easy to express your views and feelings. This is your chance, too, to persuade someone who is stubbornly clinging to misguided beliefs, that there are other perspectives from which to look at this.

A close friend or loved one who gets out of the wrong side of the bed could take their mood out on you. At least this shouldn't set the pattern for the rest of the day as others you are with are feeling festive and cheerful so a tense morning will lead to a fun evening and it won't be such a difficult day after all.

A friend is hoping you will do them a favour by putting in a good word for them. This could get them a job offer which will please them. It could also lead you to later regretting having helped them out when they will in some way deceive you.

Remind yourself why a goal you have been striving towards is so important to you. You can and will get over the hurdles that are now standing in the way. Redouble your efforts to achieve this aim and to safeguard your future security. You are more convinced than ever that a recent difficult decision you made was the right one.

Leave work and responsibility for another day. An important event arranged for this evening has you on tenterhooks. Colleagues will find your restlessness distracting and will complain. Your family, on the other hand, understands what you are going through. They know how important a date, meeting or get-together will be for you.