It’s no secret that this has been a stressful year for everyone, and recent events have made things even more intense. Which is why you’ll be happy to hear that the Sun enters Aquarius on Tuesday, your twelfth house of pulling away from the madding crowd. In astrology the twelfth house governs your subconscious mind, and everything that you need to do to make your mind a beautiful, secret garden.

This may sound corny, but we really do need to pull the weeds from that garden! So over the next four weeks, do whatever it takes to heal yourself emotionally and spiritually.

By the way, the twelfth house governs things like intuition, shamanism, talking to psychic mediums and so on. It is the place where we set up appointments with therapists who can help us with issues. Whatever method you use doesn’t matter. What does count is that you take good care of your inner world.

Another good reason to pull away from the world this week is that there are some tense aspects going on. You will feel this the most on Sunday, Wednesday and Saturday.

Megamouth Mars and unpredictable Uranus are super active in your house of self-expression, which is a nice way of saying that you could really shoot your mouth off and say something stupid. To be honest, this is even worse than Mercury retrograde!

So be very careful what you say, what you reveal. People don’t need to know your deepest darkest secrets. Nor should you be sharing confidences that other people have been trusted in you. Wednesday is particularly volatile, a time when you really could spill so much tea that it will look like the Boston Tea Party. And even if you are the absolute picture of discretion, someone else in your environment could mouth off big time. Go into Zen monk mode and say nothing.

Romance, especially your sex life, can heat up nicely after the Sun enters Aquarius. This is your house of behind-the-scenes activities! Saturday is also looking really good for romance, thanks to the two most amorous planets –Venus and Neptune–canoodling in the heavens