'If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again.' Unless you prefer to follow the other well-known saying, 'Once bitten, twice shy.' But how are you supposed to know whether you are ahead or not? What if it is possible to get a whole lot further and you give up far too early? Now you can accomplish something that might normally prove extremely tricky. Even if you have taken a road in the past and failed to get very far down it, you should find that this time it actually leads you all the way to success. 
You have a pleasant surprise in store. This 'encounter with the unexpected' does not involve a material acquisition. It's an uplifting moment of revelation which causes you to see a key relationship or an arrangement in a different light. No matter what kind of changes you are anticipating, the reality will be different to (and better than) the theory. Though you won't have a problem-free time, the difficulties you are about to encounter will lead to highly constructive developments that could have come about in no other way.
'You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.' So goes the traditional agreement. Very sensible it is too. Recently, though, it seems as if there has been more back-stabbing than back-scratching going on. Someone, who ought to be helping, is hindering - and a relationship that should be sweet, is sour. Yet, in a strange way, conflict is helping to produce what co-operation on its own could never create. 
Can we leave the past behind us? That depends how much unfinished business we have! Many people have famously made spectacular attempts to change their identity and leave the past behind, but sooner or later, it has caught up with them. As, in some small way, at least, it does with us all. Which is why we need a) to avoid doing things we may later regret and b) if we have already done such things, to apologise and be honest. Whenever a part of your past is catching up with you. A good part. Here comes your reward for a wise choice