This week's Astro-Barry

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you can just make it through the first few days of the week (say, until late Wednesday), you'll be in a better headspace to deal with the pressing matters (budgets! schedules! procedures! plans!) that require your attending-to. Not that you especially want to deal with 'em right now… particularly when those proverbial 'Matters of the Heart' are liable to grab all your attention. Whether it's the bliss of a new romance, a recommitment to lasting love, a pressure to process more crap, a thirst for all-out war, or anything in between, the meat of interpersonal engagement will likely have you occupied as the week begins. And based upon how that 'engagement' transpires—considering Monday's full moon in your relationship house and a square from idealistically convoluting Neptune to ruler Venus in your sign—you'll either (1) feel super-inspired by the momentum it provided or (2) still too totally wrapped up in its deliciously or dastardly entangling knots to see straight. Yes, Taurus, it's possible things could become simply too much (good or bad), not allowing you enough of an out to get your shit done. Should that occur, well, go ahead and forgive yourself for temporarily dodging your duties. However, you'd better get to 'em next week, or else…

SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): Don't be caught off-guard, should you encounter anyone who's quick to discount you—criticize you, even—for being too 'excitable'. They wouldn't be entirely off-base, after all, since another full moon in your sign (the second in a row) kicks off a week in which you just may feel (consciously or not) like a bit of an instigator. However, whether this so-called 'excitability' is a problem or not is another story altogether. And as I see it, it isn't. (A problem, that is.) Maybe they're so critical because whatever's 'exciting' you is something that just doesn't interest them very much. But there's nothing wrong with your enthusiasm, just because they may not share it. In fact, the very notion of being too 'this' or 'that' cuts to the heart of one of your defining traits, Scorpio: passion. You are currently occupying a Scorpio body on this planet for the explicit purpose of feeling deeply about whatever it is you feel deeply about. You have not incarnated so that you may temper the tone of your involvements to suit those nambier-pambier types who are scared off by your intensity. You are no shallow vessel. Yes, I know I've recently encouraged you to embrace the lighter side of life. That, of course, was a passing instructive (since I wouldn't expect you to keep that up indefinitely). Now, the situation is this: If they won't support your obvious passion, then they can screw off. Put to them this way, alas, they might sing a decidedly different tune.