Gemini

Your Week Ahead: A remote, heavily guarded fortress may help to keep enemies at bay, but it soon turns the occupant of the castle into a prisoner. A tough, cynical attitude may reduce your chance of ending up with a broken heart, but it will also reduce your ability to be sensitive. There's always a price to be paid for protection. Sometimes, that price is too high. It's better to be soft, vulnerable and 'truly human' than to be hard, sharp and short of compassion. Ideally, you need a balance. If in doubt this week err on the side of open heartedness. You can raise your defences again if you need to. But you really may not need to.

Your Week Ahead Part Two: Good teachers never give up. If their students won't grasp a point, they show it to them again and again in a slightly different way. The cosmos is, in essence, a teacher. Is it a good one? Well, it had better be... or we are all in trouble. We humans, though, make poor students. We talk about being at the University of Life, but often we don't even realise when there's a class going on. Why do you think the same scenario keeps cropping up in your life? Someone is trying to show you something. Be less defensive and more willing to make a discovery. And you'll yet learn something that proves to be most profitable.

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