Think about travel and how to improve your mind as one is your passport to success. Slowly but surely, you're starting to reconsider your political or religious views. That's only normal considering the enormous changes the world is undergoing each day. If you feel uninformed about current events, now is the opportune moment to open up your mind and learn.

Investigate complex issues that range from sex to tax as a solution will appear by magic! Measuring up to other people's expectations won't make you happy. You must please yourself in the end. Ask yourself whether a bunch of expensive status symbols will really satisfy your desires. You're better off living within your means and engaging in more spiritual pursuits, like communing with nature or following the aesthete within you.

Mercury is in formidable form and that means weighing up pros and cons of a partnership. Becoming more self-sufficient has its valleys as well as its peaks. You're going to have to assume more responsibilities in order to move up the ladder of success. Although this cuts into your leisure time, you'll learn to live with this new arrangement. The key is to manage your schedule more efficiently.

Look to see where you can be of use or service in the world and you'll discover a job opportunity. You're tired of all your efforts going unnoticed, and demand recognition. Unfortunately, you've created this problem for yourself. Taking on extra work as a matter of course has made people blind to your contributions. The next time somebody wants a favour, say "no," just on principle. If not, name your price!

Concentrate your mind on how to achieve your heart's desire, with patience you will. Diplomacy is the cornerstone of long term friendship, especially today. You won't be free to express your true opinions to a pal who is in a difficult position. Humour this person if it is going to save them some pain and embarrassment. The truth will sink in later on, when they can handle it in private.

Don't do anything domestically to save a row without thinking clearly about the consequences. Working from home may be the only way to meet both your career and family commitments. If that's not possible, you have to scale back activities in one area of your life. Before you make sacrifices on the home front, consider whether a little extra money is worth an unhappy residence.

Present yourself seriously and formally and you'll have folks gagging for your ideas. Getting along with neighbours may be more difficult than usual. It's possible that different cultural practices are the source of the problem. Although it seems unfair to take on all the responsibility yourself, it may be a wise idea to get acquainted with their customs. It can ease the strain and you never know you might like it!

Your world revolves around cash but go into everything before coming to a conclusion. Don't make any big purchases without discussing them with those who matter. They may have different ideas about how your money should be spent. You must find some way to balance your wants with needs. Compromise isn't your strong suit, but you have to try anyway, if only with yourself.

Be discriminating and pedantic about decisions and choices or you'll lose out. Thumbing your nose at convention is not favoured. If you're socialising find out what style of dress is expected - and be punctual! Even more so look into your life and a partner's to eliminate any waste. If not you will rue the day you were extravagant as what you need in the future won't be there and it will all point back to what you did todayŠ

There's an old saying that if you dwell on something that hasn't happened you could make it so! Brooding over past upsets distracts you from more important business. This is one of those times when you have to concentrate on making a fresh start. Stop being so fatalistic. There are plenty examples in history of people who were defeated, only to later realise great success.

Think long term, think future, think objectives to come and then make them happen. You are at odds over several important issues. It's hard not to let these differences get in the way of an affair or friendship. Maybe the best solution is to spend some time apart. Once the events in question die down, you can come together again without acrimony. Some issues are too sensitive to debate and if you do, could drive an everlasting wedge between you.

Shop around and you'll find a chance to make your name in spectacular style - one prob home commitments. They may want something different for you, and it's hard for them to bear. At times like these, you must remember that your folks are mere mortals. They have their likes and dislikes, just as you do. When it comes to your life, however, there can only be one boss. Act to please yourself -- this is not a dress rehearsal!