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Scorpio

You're not normally one for resorting to principles, so it's a surprise when you start denouncing irresponsible spending in your rivals. Like Turnbull, the rising floodwaters of your unpopularity will soon turn the moral high ground into an island.

Sagittarius

Sagittarian Britney Spears is copping flack for lip-synching her Australian tour. Communication will be back up from next weekend, but until then you'll have so much trouble getting your message across that you might as well be playing blind charades.

Capricorn

This is a good week for sneaking around, Capricorn. It's like how those Sri Lankans showed up to distract Macklin's detractors from the Racial Discrimination Act. A giant finger appears from the sky and a booming voice says 'Hey everyone, look over there!'

Aquarius

You get stumped by a fairly serious career setback this week, but you'll gain an important spiritual lesson in the process. It's great that you're the kind of person who appreciates the things money can't buy, because you can't afford anything else.

Pisces

In case you haven't been bombarded with memorial specials, today is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. A good time to remember it didn't fall - it was unsystematically knocked down. This week, keep chiselling away at your personal barriers.

Aries

It's a popularity crisis this week as peacemaking efforts rub up against a rather more powerful instinct for self-promotion. If you still don't know the difference between good attention and bad attention, avoid large gatherings of military personnel.

Taurus

Taurean tantrums are being neutralised with silence; Bainamarama's latest diplomatic spack-out barely copped a backslap from the Rudd government. Creative solutions please. Instead of escalating non-speaking terms, send a singing telegram.

Gemini

Mercury shuffles into your relationship sector on Sunday, so this is a great week for tying up loose ends at work, scheduling irritating meetings that should be got out of the way, and checking how much leave you've accrued so you can spend some of next week arguing.

Cancer

Wednesday is the anniversary of Ned Kelly's hanging and Cancerian Gough Whitlam's sacking. It seems Remembrance Day is about more than just uniform fetishisation; it's about coming up with a good soundbite to mark your defeat. Get composing.

Leo

Leo Thaksin Shinawatra has caused a stand-off between Thailand and Cambodia by getting himself a job as the latter's financial adviser. Perhaps Thailand ran out of money to extort. This week, you engage in strategic bridge-burning for fun and profit.

Virgo

Stephen King writes poetry for Playboy now? You Virgos are full of surprises. Some of these surprises will please some of your fans some of the time. A little selective project-announcing is in order, so keep any inappropriate excitement under wraps if you can.

Libra

This week, Librans are coming over all road-to-Copenhagen: your indecisiveness is leading to the kind of inertia that will kill us all. At this rate, the corporations will start solving your problems without you - wouldn't that be embarrassing.