Your well planned approach to work, to your love life, or to an issue with a good friend is about to run up against someone else’s beliefs about how things ought to be done. Your natural reaction is to stick to your guns and argue for your way, which is, after all, the best way. Still, diplomacy is essential right now. Allow them to make a contribution, maybe by joining the two approaches.

An interesting stranger is very interested in you. Think they’re not watching? They are, so look and act your best right now. The opportunity will present itself when introductions are made. Now is not the time to flaunt your foibles.

If one of you owes the other money, a favor, even a backrub, try to settle your accounts. Carrying a debt forward can complicate your interactions in unanticipated ways now.

When the economy was flush, you let yourself get caught up in the moment, and you certainly weren’t alone. But that doesn?t mean that your instincts still aren’t worth following now that you have come to your senses. Get reacquainted with them.