Dear Catherine,
I am often asked questions like this, but I agree with Shakespeare's remark, in Julius Caesar: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/But in ourselves." We live on a planet that endlessly creates disruptive influences. The other planets in the sky don't make things worse, they merely show us, through their alignments, ways in which we may be able to make things better.

Dear Becky,
We had a Full Moon on July 2 and we'll get another on July 31. That's bound to happen every so often because a lunar month is shorter than a solar month. It is a quirk of the calendar with no special significance and I am not inclined to call it a 'blue Moon'. That occurs when two consecutive new (or full) moons, fall in the SAME SIGN. In mid 2006, when the Moon is truly 'blue', I'll make a very big fuss.

Dear Jonathan,
I was born in the southern hemisphere where the stars are different. Do your forecasts still apply?
Anne

Dear Kate and Anne,
All over the globe, you can see the same planets, as they move through the signs, near to the horizon. Only objects higher in the sky alter. So your daily forecast remains the same wherever you are but different locations DO have an impact and astrology can help us understand this. I'll say more about that, soon.

Dear Dave,
I have learned to be careful with crop circles. I know a couple of West Country chaps who take a perverse pleasure in going out in the night and creating them! They proudly boast about the tricks they use to fool the experts. But then again, proof that it is possible to fake something very convincingly is absolutely NOT proof that there's no such thing as the 'real thing'.