Mercury begins his retrogradation prompting you to re-evaluate your innermost beliefs and opinions. Accept a selfless desire to change negative habits or put an end to no-hope situations. If you have neglected your spirituality then you must feed these needs now.

Team efforts hit a brick wall due to the planet of communications moving backwards. You will feel you’re surrounded by fools when all folk can do is waffle on and on and despite their incessant talking they STILL get things wrong. Cut the verbiage all round.

Your ruler, Mercury, moves backwards causing all sorts of muddles and mix-ups, slowing you down and knocking your future plans for six. Cutting corners won’t help, in fact you are best to spool back over recent comments or situations to clear up any mistakes.

Thinking of travelling? Check dates, times, prices and routes of the journey. One tiny slip-up could cause frustrating delays. On familiar ground, that’s the best place to be, so you might want to think whether your journey is really necessary or not.

Any legal or financial matters should be approached logically and carefully. If they are mind-numbingly complicated then get a professional to represent your interests. Sign nothing without advice or you could store up a whole heap of hassle for yourself.

Mercury turns his back, astrologically speaking, on a close relationship and chaos could ensue. The jealous behaviour of someone close causes you unexpected trouble. To avoid misunderstandings be concise and succinct and tell it how it is.

Pay close attention to what you’re being told in employment or health issues and ask if there’s anything you don’t understand. It is better you ask someone to repeat themselves rather than to endue expensive mistakes due to a misconception or misunderstanding.

A cherished aim or ambition turns turtle this week unless you’re prepared to play the waiting game. You may have to sacrifice your own wants or wishes to help a friend or loved one. A youngster may have special needs when it comes to their health or education.

Be patient with those nearest and dearest to you. Family plans are the source of conflict mainly because no-one is communicating to the best of their ability. Someone is particularly annoying as rather than lie they deceive by withholding vital information.

Irrelevant thoughts faze your mind, preventing you from concentrating on the job in hand. Writing, study and any kind of focussed mental effort is hard going until you have sorted out something you should have dealt with a long time ago. Get to it now.

Don’t keep all your eggs are in one basket or you’ll lose out elsewhere financially - spread ‘em about a bit. Over the next couple of weeks be careful of being too gullible and believing everything you are told by someone who is after your cash.

Mercury turns retrograde making the most straight-forward issues a complex maze of worrisome grey areas. Don’t read more into situations than is actually there or you will be the architect of your own misfortune. See the world in black and white.