Come along, pull yourself together. Smarten yourself up. Raise your socks, iron your shirt, dab some stain remover on your jacket and neaten your hair. You are letting the side down. The cosmos needs you to put your best foot forward to enjoy what life is presenting you even without your will. But you have got to get it together. There is too much at stake. And actually, just a small amount of extra effort to keep making the right impression will very soon yet net you a most impressive result.

 Once we develop an expectation, we find it difficult to deal with the idea that things are starting to turn out differently. If the difference is positive, we generally adapt more rapidly. But if it isn't, it can be very hard not to succumb to a sense of resentment. Even those of us with the most fluid and flexible personalities object to feeling as if life is full of the wrong kind of surprises. Partly to defend yourself against such potential disappointment, you have embraced some pessimism. You will soon see proof that this is unnecessary.

Once you dig your heels in, you can't be budged. That's an asset, not a flaw. Well, most of the time it is. But every so often, life obliges you to move on. Things have to be shaken up quite a long way before you will even consider complying with such a cosmic request. And you don't like such shake-ups. You prefer to stick with what you have started and to stay with what you know. Lately, there has been much unwanted movement and uncertainty.

 Why do some people behave in such strange ways? They are unreasonable, impractical and difficult. Worse still, they won't ever admit that they are acting in this fashion. If it is pointed out to them, no matter how gently, they take umbrage and then make themselves even more awkward than they previously were. But then, we know they do that. We have seen it happen so many times. What we don't know is why?

 Only sado-masochists take pleasure in pain. Or so we are led to believe. But don't all our lives entail elements of the difficult, the uncomfortable or just the downright agonising? And don't we all, sometimes, have to do what we can to put on a brave face, smile in the face of adversity and take what little comfort we can within a situation that seems to be offering us very little? If we do it sincerely, we do not become mugs or fools, we become adept in the art of transformation. You can be a psychological alchemist . Wish you could fulfil more of your potential?There are nearly seven billion people on the face of this earth. It sounds like quite a lot until you realise that you could fit them all into an area much smaller than Scotland. But no matter how many of them you met or spoke to, you would never encounter one who was perfect in every way. It is therefore unreasonable to expect that one day you (or I, or any of us) might meet such a being. Today, you can make yourself a little closer to perfect if you allow yourself to be less aggravated by the many imperfections of others. 

Have you ever visited a night-club during the day? When the lights are up and there's nobody there, it is a very different place. Those exciting, secluded, shadowy corners are just a little messy and squalid when the sun streams through the window and there is no loud music blaring away. By analogy, in your life now, you are seeing the true face of a situation that you have previously only perceived from one particular angle. Don't treat this as a disappointment, just be grateful for a potentially valuable revelation.Decisions that we make in haste are often the ones that we then find ourselves repenting at leisure. But haste is generally born of pressure. Pressure is no easy thing to ignore. If we don't take it seriously, friends and relations draw our attention to it. And if we continue to ignore it long enough, even strangers consider themselves entitled to take an interest in our affairs and apply that pressure to us. But none of that constitutes a reason for you to speed up a process that needs to take time. Don't dawdle; but don't rush, either.Often, we worry about pushing our luck too far. We fear that if we try too hard, if we ask the universe for too much help or if we raise our expectations higher than we should, we will only invite disappointment. Yet luck can sometimes be a bit like a small kid in a buggy. It enjoys being pushed! Indeed, if it is left in one place for too long, it becomes much more prone to misbehave.

 Don't go ridiculously fast today. Don't gamble more than you can afford to lose. But do allow yourself to be adventurous. Give your luck just a little push.Seagulls look deceptively large when you see them in the air. On land, their impressive wingspan folds away like a concertina to give the impression of a much smaller bird. But then, we all appear to be much larger than life when we are at the peak of our powers. What now prevents you from soaring as successfully as you should? Don't waste your time, engaging in an irrelevant debate about landing rights, air space provisions and flight capacity. Just set your sights on the highest goal and head for it.You're just too good to be true admired  and appreciated.

 Boats don't sail on land. Cars don't drive in water. Few and far between are the amphibious vehicles and they, generally, are unsuitable for long journeys in either element. It is somehow necessary for you now to decide what kind of territory you are passing through and thus what kind of mechanism you should employ to make your voyage most successful. Remember that a compromise may be fine for the short-term but if your plans involve greater time and distance, you may have to commit yourself to a more exclusive choice.

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