Horoscopes: 17th to 23rd November

The sense of a personal recovery (whatever this means to you) is real, especially as the Sun returns to your sign for a month, indicating renewal and relaunch.

There are things you can do to make this easier.

Do try to avoid power clashes over expenditure, and use the New Moon to repair meaningful bonds – your self-insight is sharper now.

The spirit of Boudicca, ancient queen of the British Iceni tribe, is with you, which is just as well because you are quite determined to have your way over some kind of authority, such as an employer or government department.

Be careful not to be too provocative.

There’s immense capability to win by quiet guile, not through hostility.

Career, or any public duty role you perform, is under the most positive skies.

Even if you can’t abide your job, some promise in it will be found for improvement.

Aside from the New Moon, which holds the potential for financial progress in the weeks ahead, you will gain through ‘informal’ means, such as your social performance at parties or events.

The New Moon brings a more determined mood in your recent strivings to break into a new world, be this to do with overseas, education, philosophy and/or legal matters.

Never underestimate a Piscean once their mind is made up – and yours is! Your power now derives from a group, so don’t just try to act alone – you’re in good company.

Given that your ruler is Mars (god of war), the prospect of a tussle with bosses, or people who imagine they run your life, will probably fill you with a certain glee.

Where you will profit, however, is in putting a lot more energy into artful schmoozing or responsible manipulation.

This may lack hot drama, but you emerge the cool victor.

A thermal imaging camera would reveal a raised heat spot in your body – around the heart region.

Ruler Venus is inflamed by passionate Pluto, so at least one significant relationship gets hot or is due re-kindling.

An overseas break is the ideal scenario for this.

But any shared activity that has the virtue of novelty leaves an awesome vapour trail.

It has been said that the wealthiest people tend to be born under the sign of the Twins.

Quick-thinking shrewdness may account for this.

And so this week, the stars align very favourably for a cash uplift, though it’s all relative.

Hard work is the source, not a lottery win.

And the New Moon is a marker of recovered energy.

The inclination is to take off the muzzle on a natal talent – basically, to let rip and show the world what you can do.

The New Moon (your ruler) on helpful fixed star Agena intensifies this trend.

So a break away from formal work, any major distraction or other people’s troubles will give you space and time to devote to your self-expression.

For a while now, your home and family have preoccupied you more than usual, and this week is no different.

However, there is a big development.

At last you find the opportunity to bring about an improvement either in your surroundings or a relationship with a loved one.

Impetus for this comes from paying attention to a mundane detail.

A clash over money, perhaps in relation to work only you can do in a certain way, is likely.

Fortunately with horoscopes, another more effective approach can be seen.

The ‘lucky‘ Virgo stars favour the right use of words as a tactic.

Speaking from the heart, and using hard facts not emotive tricks, is the way to move people.

There’s never enough money to do all the things you want done to improve the home, and no promises can be made that this will alter.

But certainly much progress can be made under a Venus-Pluto link-up, which provides you with the funds to undertake a specific domestic repair or enhancement.

There’s reason to celebrate in your dwelling.

Before the Sun leaves your sign this week, the New Moon in Scorpio is a late ‘rebirth’ moment, when it is most auspicious to take up a challenge and/or to initiate a personal makeover, so the year ahead may be faced with a renewed confidence.

Pluto boosts your power to communicate your beliefs to the sceptics and scoffers.