Your Horoscope for the year

Your may lose contact with an old friend.

Someone you know will be unwell (someone is bound to get the flu).

You will be lucky.

You will also be unlucky.

If you smoke this is a good year to quit.

If you don’t smoke this is not a good time to start.

If you buy shares some may go up, and some may go down.

You will not be attacked by a woman in medieval armour wielding a light sabre and chanting the songs of Elvis.

Now is a good time to be in love.

Be careful of your enemies.

This is a good year to give to charity.

Be careful when spending money, someone will want to profit at your expense.

This is a good year to buy a Jill Sobule album.

This is not a good year to die (but then what year is).

This is not a good time to have unprotected sex with a stranger, or share needles with them.

This is a good year for Australian wines.

This is a good year to learn something new.

This is a good year to travel, but not to Bosnia, Cambodia, or parts of Africa.

Be kind to a stranger.

Now is a good time to lose weight through healthy diet and exercise.

Now is not a good time to lose weight with fad diets, starvation diets or fingers down the throat.

You might learn something new.

This year, if you drink to excess you might get a hangover.

Do not believe all you read.

Avoid rabid dogs if you can.