That's what you always want to do, isn't it? You want to be fair and wise, efficient and enlightened, helpful and constructive, positive and practical. Quite right too. But how can you manifest such qualities if you aren't sure about the appropriate way to respond to a particular challenge? Isn't there a risk that if you set out determinedly to do what's right without sufficient prior thought, you could end up doing something wrong? Be cautious but don't be fearful.
Are you suffering from a sense of isolation? Do you feel somehow estranged from the people around you? Is this why you are going to such lengths to relate? Right now, you are not so sure why you are reaching out to a certain person or group of people. What are you hoping to achieve? Actually, you are just following your instincts as they now lead you in a very wise direction. A process of mutually beneficial, constructive interaction has commenced. Now you just need to let it (and your heart) blossom.
All who seek wisdom soon realise how important it is for people to learn from past experience. Some of us, indeed, make a special effort to regularly review the past and check it for lessons that have yet to be taken fully on board. All this is laudable but it can sometimes lead to a different kind of problem. What if we don't fully understand our own history? What if we assume that 'this is what went wrong and must never happen again' when actually, some other decision or plan was at fault. Be careful what you rule out this 
What are you doing here? What are you supposed to be achieving and accomplishing? Ought you to be working harder? You are beginning to doubt yourself. You are losing faith in a plan that once inspired you. That's largely, though, because it is proving more difficult than you expected it to be. Before you decide to re-evaluate everything, try being more philosophical about the obstacle you seem to be up against. Live with it for a while longer, it may yet sort itself out with surprising speed and ease.
Historians tell us that President Truman had a sign on his desk that said, 'The buck stops here.' I wonder whether that was because he believed it to be true or he just thought it was funny. Even someone in a position as powerful at that can't be the ultimate authority on every subject, nor can they be held exclusively responsible for the decisions that other people make. Can you imagine how ghastly it would be if every buck in the world stopped with you? Remember, there are some things this week that are not your fault.
Everything about chess, we are informed, is logical. At any point in proceedings there will be something you definitely can do and something you can't do. Every action will have a perfectly predictable consequence - provided you are intelligent enough to see what this is. No wonder robots everywhere love it. Your life, though, is not a chessboard. Nor, despite what you are starting to feel, are you a pawn in anyone else's game. The only check you now need to concern yourself with is a reality-check!
'I was only obeying orders.' This excuse is too often proffered by people who stand accused of callous actions. They argue that it wasn't their fault and they imply that the person who ought to be on trial is the one who gave them the instructions. Yet as individual human beings with morals and ethics of our own, do we not each have a responsibility to question what we are told and to apply the advice that our conscience has given us? There will come a point, this week, where you have to make an important personal choice.
Imagine if you had the power of mesmerism. You could just open your mouth and gently lull people into doing your bidding by the sheer tone of your voice. If you wanted to bring people under your spell and grant your every wish all you'd need to do would be talk to them, sweetly. Er... look... I'm not saying that this is possible all the time, but it is possible some of the time while Venus is aligned with your ruler. No matter what's bothering or angering you now, before you try any other kind of approach, first try your charm.
The people who think that they have all the right answers usually turn out to be the ones who have been asking all the wrong questions. Opinions make us feel comfortable. Certainties reassure us and protect us against a sense of vulnerability that we often experience when we realise what a strangely mysterious and surprising world we are actually living in. Yet if we have no respect for the unknown and inexplicable, we soon develop a kind of dangerous arrogance. This week, that which is humbling you is helping you.
Are you ready for the future? Before you answer that, let's try another question. Were you ready for the past? Of course, you weren't. None of us have ever really been ready for any of the experiences that we have had in our lives. Or at least, we have not felt ready. Inevitably, we get taken by surprise. That doesn't mean that what's happening to us is bad or wrong. You probably don't feel ready for what's starting to happen in your life this week. Give it a chance. Go ahead and roll with it anyway. You won't be sorry.