A problematical Mercury highlights problems in the efficiency and effectiveness of your business plans which must be adjusted before they fall apart. Your work load needs support and sharing from others; delegate and rationalise when and where you can and introduce better communication methods and systems.

Play a careful game where money and love are concerned. Lavish gifts may make someone feel as if they are being bought. Whether you are the one being manipulated or it’s the other way round, remember that any relationship worth its salt is unconditional and shouldn't have to cost you a penny

Avoid making decisions based purely on instinct, judgement or emotion. Partnership affairs need extra careful handling as you are gripped by unreasonable jealousy or an irrational obsession and the bottom line is, you just aren’t thinking straight. You’re like a dog with a bone, but let this one drop!

Not everything you are told is reliable and the more hush-hush it is the less credible it will turn out to be - actually weakening your case if used as senior proof or evidence. Acting rashly on what you hear can lead you to making false accusations staining your own reputation. Be discreet at all times.

This weekend you are prone to taking things to extremes and on what basis? Walk out on a person, situation or incident on a capricious whim and the people you rely on will not be there to come back to in the future. You are driven by a fixation that has no rhyme or reason: come back down to earth asap.

Mentally you are under stress and tension this weekend. Someone is trying to box you into a corner so all the more reason to box clever. Whatever you are told you can guarantee they have dramatised or exaggerated the truth, so you can call their bluff with confidence and gain precious time.

The best way to sum up this weekend is that you will feel as if you’re driving the wrong way up a one-way street. There are obstacles around every corner in the form of rules, regulations and authority figures and if you come out of it all with a caution or fine, you will have got off lightly.

If there is one subject certain to give you room for a sleepless night then it’s money. You could be the victim of someone’s dirty dealings, but if you know you are being offered stolen goods or anything else which can make you guilty by association then don’t touch it with a barge pole.

You reach an emotional watershed when blocking your feelings is like trying to stop a river flowing; in the end it has no choice but to rise over the dam and drown you in confusion. Divert this torrent of emotion onto more positive pathways and let the past be submerged, along with your sorrows, forever, never to rise again.

Your life is full of knots so tightly bound together it is impossible to untangle them. There is no easy solution to the problems that you are up against now but if you keep calm, logical and in control, slowly but surely you will extricate yourself from any mess of your own making or not.

You are confined by responsibility and duty. The more restricted you feel, the stronger your need to break out of the prison you have locked yourself into and find freedom. Start with your attitude; a deeper understanding of you need psychologically will help bring forward your release date.

Intense feelings lead to an uncomfortable period when you must acknowledge there is a darker side to your character. You have been aware of a hidden you but now must deal with disturbing behaviour patterns if you are to understand yourself better, find peace of mind and take back control of your life.