Taurus

Your Week Ahead: Sometimes, we have to do a lot of thinking. There isn't much of a chance to take action. It becomes clear that we are stuck and no matter how much effort we make, this is unlikely to alter. After a while, we become resigned to our fate and retreat into our private thoughts. Lately, you have been obliged to put up with a lot of things you don't like. Not any more. A tide is turning. Prepare to enter a brave new world in which everything really does seem fresh and hopeful, and you really do feel much more courageous. No matter what seems daunting now, resolve to find a way to resolve it... and you will.

Yasmin Boland writes: Try to step back and see the bigger picture of what happened to you in 2008. Can you already start to see a glimmer of a silver lining on some of the events which – at the time – felt like the end of the world? Of course, there are some losses and incidents which can never be rationalised away. But if you are in a positive frame of mind and you can already sense how you've actually benefited from what has happened in your world, then you're one of the luckiest Taureans. You have already made the most of the chances offered by the heavens over the past year. So? Thank your lucky stars! And if you haven't? Then use your insight as a springboard into 2009.

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