Just 6 days before Venus, planet of love is due to reach your relationship sector, the Sun and Mercury align today in your romantic sector. This helps to counterbalance some very powerful and urgent work forces, giving you a chance to see both where you've been and where you're going. With Mercury in retrograde motion and the Sun moving forward, this is the day when the past and future come together, with surprising clarity.

With Venus due to reach your relationship sector next week, opening up her most important visit since 2002, it's important to put as much focus on your romantic situation as possible, before it gets competition. This should be the case anyway, with the Sun and Mercury bringing the past and the future into context during the course of the week, as they move towards an alignment on Friday. With the Sun in direct and Mercury in retrograde motion, this gives you a chance to look forward and back at the same time, with both new and old doors wide open. This gives you a chance to put a fairly challenging few years into context now that Saturn has moved on from your romantic sector. In retrograde motion for just 2 more weeks, if there are going to be second chances, now is the time.