Shall we make it different? Shall we change the way things are? Shall we fix the situation so that we don't end up tomorrow with more of what we don't want today? That's not such a tall order. It just requires a gentle journey down memory lane, not in a tourist bus but slowly, under your own steam, with time to stop and carefully consider various formative experiences. Something in your history has been long misunderstood. See it in a new way now, and you'll see your whole future in a brighter light. 

Our thoughts and feelings are subtly shaped by our expectations and by our sense of identity. These in turn, are affected by our education, upbringing, experience of life so far, and by the people we live, work or socialise with. On top of all this, there is the advertising we encounter, the peer pressure we receive and the romantic fantasies that books and movies plant in our minds. Step back from it as far as you can. Ask, what do you truly want?

 It is difficult to dance ballet in army boots. At times we need to be protected from our own desire to protect ourselves. If we draw on too many defence mechanisms to keep ourselves safe we lose the freedom to respond to life's lighter, brighter challenges. You are being offered a chance to do something rather exciting and different in your emotional life - on the spur of a magical moment. To make the most of this opportunity, you must overcome the desire to stick closely to an old plan. Be willing to improvise.

 Here is a chance to change your life, if ever there was one. Really, though, it would be a mistake to assume that everything is going to alter dramatically. Sometimes, time may bring immediate, impressive upheaval. More often, though, they force decisions. They bring matters to a head and oblige us to face facts that we might prefer to ignore. They allow us to adjust our ideas and free ourselves from negative beliefs. If, though, you want to rewrite the story of your life, you can begin.

In some clever novels, you find that the events and characters in one chapter have no relationship to those in another. You read on in a mood of puzzlement. It is almost as if you are looking at two different books. Slowly but surely as the story unfolds, though, the threads come together. You get to see how vital they both are to one another. You begin to feel glad that you stuck with what seemed, at first, like a journey that was getting you nowhere. That analogy will soon apply to the dramas now unfolding in your emotional life.