Horoscope: May 16, 2016

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Aries | March 20 – April 19



The current focus on dilemmas in the financial or business side of your life may not seem interesting. Once you’re actually involved with untangling them and are clear enough in your mind about what needs to be done, which won’t take long, you’ll find that you rather enjoy the process.

Taurus | April 20 – May 20



Although the facts aren’t yet clear, don’t let that keep you from taking recent promising ideas or offers to the next stage. These are brilliant but will probably need both investigation and then some careful consideration before you even think of finalising them. The sooner you begin this process, the better.

Gemini | May 21 – June 20



Recent frank exchanges may have seemed to go into too much detail or have been overly emotional, at least at the time. Since then, however, you’ve realised how difficult keeping these to yourself has been.  Saying what needs saying then and there is easier, even if it means raising tricky issues.

Cancer | June 21 – July 22

There’s a difference between others asking for your advice and them taking it. In fact, the individual in question is talking things through as a way of coming to terms with certain complex issues. Knowing that, make simple suggestions. Mostly, however, they’ll expect you to do a lot of listening.

Leo | July 23 – August 22



The odds are good you’re still sorting out the remarkable ideas and offers that arose during May’s first half. While some of these, indicated by superb alliances between your ruler the Sun and several of the planetary heavyweights, fell into place swiftly, others are more complex, if not downright puzzling.

Virgo | August 23 – September 22



Few things frustrate you more than facing misunderstandings yet being unable to discover the source of those problems. Ordinarily you’d probe until you found the answer. With your ruler Mercury ending its retrograde cycle in a few days’ time, instead, do nothing. Those missing facts could surface of their own accord.

Libra | September 23 – October 22

You know when to force an issue and, equally, when to back off. Yet with the emphasis on one of the most strategic portions of your chart since early May, you’ve been playing it cool for a while. Still, looking back on the past couple of weeks’ events, there’s been no other option..

Scorpio | October 23 – November 21

During the past two weeks your ruler Pluto benefitted from some of the year’s best planetary activity. These alliances, which involved heavenly bodies from the Sun to Mercury and Venus, have triggered a wave of ideas and offers as unsettling as they are thrilling. Explore them all. You won’t regret it.

Sagittarius | November 22 – December 21



Ordinarily you’d never make decisions based on facts you know are unreliable. Yet you’re in such a hurry to get things organised, you’re about to do exactly that. The solution? Busy yourself with something else. Once that’s done, things will be settled enough that you can take those plans further.

Capricorn | December 22 – January 19



Many seemingly straightforward decisions aren’t in your hands. As a Capricorn and somebody who’s a bit of a control freak, accepting that isn’t easy. Yet, the planetary pattern behind this arose in early May and continues until next week. Hopefully, therefore, you’re already aware that the less you do, the better.

Aquarius | January 20 – February 17



Certain individuals seem to think they’ve a better idea what or, perhaps, who’s in your best interests than you do. As good as their intentions are, you still feel these matters really aren’t their business. Despite that, wait and watch. The results of their efforts could be both surprising and wonderful.

Pisces | February 18 – March 19



By the week’s close, you’ll be giving serious thought to changes that, at the moment, you regard as being unacceptably disruptive. While your view may be accurate now, within days the circumstances in question will shift, so much you’ll need to rethink everything. This is great timing. Do exactly that.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 16^th, 2016.