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Aries: Chin up! Try to sing a happy song. I know it's hard, what with your star moving past Jupiter and, more importantly, every ridiculous overcall from oppo getting them a good score, but it isn't helpful to sulk at the table.

Taurus: The club gives you a difficult decision on Tuesday: tea, coffee or orange crush. You will choose orange, as you are feeling a little parched, but soon regret the decision as the cheap orange cordial tastes like a poor blend of artificial flavourings. Which isn't all that surprising, as this is all it is — stick with tea!

Gemini: A conversation with a bridge veteran will result in your hearing all kinds of bridge stories from over the years. Overall, the sense you get is that bridge is a cruel game where there are far more defeats than victories. Now, is this the feeling from all older players, or just this one? And when you get to his age, will you sound as he does?

Cancer: You seem to be at the centre of everything now that you've gotten yourself onto the club and county committees. Try not to be frustrated about the seemingly endless discussions of exactly what the rules should be for allowing a substitute playing in the un-important club championship teams. History and tradition won't change just because you think they should.

Leo: An oracle is in my heart concerning the pointlessness of playing Gerber. There is worthwhile information to be found on the typical hand, for in the typical hand there is not a known source of tricks that makes an ace ask valuable.

Virgo: Do not be passive and underbid — why let your opponents declare all the hands? Do not be overly aggressive and wild — why concede large penalties on partscore boards? The man who plays good bridge will avoid all extremes.

Libra: "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." And this saying was never truer than when looking at the last auction of the evening, between two pairs who have no chance of winning, but feel that they should have done far better.

Scorpio: The desire to win a major tournament is sincere and certainly achievable. But it is also a chasing after the wind.

Sagittarius: A bridge players life is thus: he is born, plays bridge a lot, and then returns to the dust and is remembered no more. Unless he has a championship named after him, in which case future generations muse about who he might have been and whether he was a good player, or simple had a lot of money.

Capricorn: You want to be led to green pastures and still waters. But at the same time you want to play Moscito with some really confusing multi-two openings. Could we be seeing your Jackal and Hyde personality?

Aquarius: In the beginning is the Auction, and the Auction is part of the Game, and the Game is, in part, the Auction. Without the Game there would be no Auction and without the Auction there would be no game. The Play, which proceeds from the Auction, is also part of the same Game — though it is different. Makes sense, yes. Now what was is that I was trying to explain?

Pisces: With much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. Every hand record you see confirms this proverb — you could have made 4 on board 2, a heart lead on board 5 could set the contract, the opponents got lucky with a filthy overcall on board 8.