If you want to explore the full potential of any opportunity, you've got to risk getting close to the limit of what it can do for you. Be aware of a risk in your emotional world now, but don't be put off. You've only got a limited amount of luck. The good news? You don't need very much. Most of what now needs to be achieved can be attained through hard work, clever thought and careful positioning. Put yourself in the place most likely to be useful at the time when you sense you're most likely to get a result. Then be patiently persistent. If you feel that this is what you have already been doing but you doubt whether it has done any good, have faith. You will soon see proof that you have been wise.
 Let's have a secret code. If I say the words 'three-toed sloth' you can assume that I am referring to 'you-know-what'. If I say 'pink with green stripes', that means 'you-know-who'. By developing this a little further, we can communicate safely about the sensitive matter that's now arising in our emotional life. Nobody else will know what we are on about. Not that it matters, for your secret is not actually as explosive as you fear. But if you do see a luridly striped sloth, be careful not to say too much about it!

 How far should you push a particular point? You sorely want a certain someone to understand something. This is really much more 'for their own good' than for yours. The thing is, though, you would benefit, albeit indirectly, if this person were to see a particular situation from a different angle. They can see and understand that much, which partly explains their reluctance to take on trust what you want to suggest. Be patient. Even without your intervention, this person will see the light sooner than you think.

 Many educational establishments attempt to foster a competitive spirit among their students. Yet surely all this is inherent in human nature and it might have been better if, as children, we had been taught to suppress this urge, rather than encouraged to pursue it. Arguably, it is the reason why our world is now full of such unnecessary conflict. This week, you may think you have an opponent, but if you alter your expectation, you may yet find out that you have a friend. Don't work against someone you should be working with.

 What's most interesting now is not your ability to fulfil a particular aspiration; it is your inability to reach another attractive - but seemingly unattainable - objective. Why is this proving so difficult? Why do you keep experiencing so many setbacks? Might there be a lesson to learn here regarding your emotional life? Could there be a wonderful reason for your apparent problems? It is as if you are being kept away from something you think you want but that you really do not need - so you can be led  This week, you really need to ask yourself if you deserve the best? You do. More pointedly, you deserve the ability to distinguish between the 'alleged' best and the 'actual' best. We live in a world where brand names rule supreme. Status is acquired by advertisers. Merit is perceived to have a direct relationship with price. You, though, are not looking now for some solution or situation that some foolish fashion follower might consider desirable. Your opportunity involves finding what's really best, at the deepest level, for you. Think of a fairground ride involving chairs that spin and swivel wildly, whilst rotating past a central pivot. Now, think of Planet Earth. It never stops turning as it orbits the Sun. And even the Sun is rotating slowly around a distant part of the Milky Way, which we call The Galactic Centre. No wonder so many of us feel light-headed, even dizzy at times. And, with all that endless revolving, why are we so surprised when our lives keep going round in circles? This week, things start to slow down and make sense.They call this the information age. It was intense enough when we just had all those books and libraries. Now we've got endless web pages and social network platforms to plough through. There is a limit to how much any of us can take on board. Should we worry about this? What if the stuff that we don't have time to look at, is the very stuff we most need to see? Perhaps we should learn to speed-read. Or then again, perhaps we should just relax. Your instincts, this week, are strong. Don't water them down by thinking too hard. Imagine being shouted at through a loudhailer. The horn of this instrument is uncomfortably close to your ear. Even if you could make the noise stop, it might be some while before you recover from the residual sense of deafness. Intense experiences often affect us more once they are over. Only then, do we have a chance to reflect on how powerful they have been. Might you now be reacting to a process that actually reached its peak some while ago? Relax this week; the worst of a struggle is behind you.

 If, at times, you can be your own worst enemy, then it stands to reason that at other times, you can be your own best friend. The two are, after all, much more closely connected than most people seem to think. Almost always, enemies are folk who once were friends. That, in turn, is the reason why it takes some people a while to work out who their enemies really are! And vice versa. Never mind who else is on your side now, just make sure, for the sake of your emotional stability, that you give yourself the support you deserve
 Tourists from every land flock to Paris to gaze at the Eiffel Tower. Parisians pass this landmark every day but hardly spare it a glance. When an item is familiar to us, we rarely stop to notice it. People and memories, too, can become 'just a part of our landscape.' We may frequently recollect a particular event - yet if we see it from the same angle each time, we never learn anything from it. You are about to gain a fascinating and helpful new perspective on an aspect of your emotional life, both historical and potential.
 You can't get far in the modern world without taking orders from one electronic device or another. Cash machines, answering machines, computers and now even washing machines... all insist we do things in a certain sequence or they won't co-operate. It's easy to forget that real human beings (when you can find them) are flexible. But we are, even if it sometimes seems as if we live in a world that is not. In your emotional life now, abandon formality and put aside protocol. Just communicate honestly heart to heart.

There must have come a point where, in relationships, things were just about 'fixable'. Things may have deteriorated, but a point of no return had not yet been reached. In some area of your life, maybe not even a bit romantic, it is nearly but not yet too late to rescue something that is slipping away. If you want that.