(July 23-Aug. 22) ★★ This is the perfect day to take time off and hide somewhere with good food and drink. Choose your guilty pleasure. This is because there’s a lot of woolly thinking out there, combined with apathy, distrust and discouragement. People are not sure who to trust. Draw the curtains and wait until Wednesday. Tonight: Enjoy solitude.

Your impulse might be to properly investigate, poking and prodding until they tell you more — but that’s unlikely to work out as well as you hope. Difficult as it is, try to take a step back and trust that your friends will open up when they’re ready.

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