Venus won't hold your career back so much as seal it in a tea- chest on the slow boat to Macao. You'd have thought things might be looking up since your line manager left in August. But her antagonistic, Piscean replacement has Saturn ascendant and no higher goal than to see you weep before your peers while clearing your desk. Tough it out till February; she'll be moved sideways when a Lift Sex Outrage comes hard on the heels of an Expenses Scandal.

Bob's Career Tip: Don't chew cherry-flavour bubble gum before presentations, it turns your tongue red and people stare.