Tell me what you're thinking.

Early Sunday morning - meaning, we'll be feeling it most today and tomorrow - Venus will oppose Pluto. Pluto in hard aspect to Venus always puts me in mind of a bandit holding up a bank in an old-time western. "Gimme all yer money!" Pluto hisses, low and mean -- or something you love, or something crucial to your self-respect. Give something up, Pluto insists... and Pluto in Sagittarius is not your silver-tongued, wheedling kind of gentleman bandit, he is blunt and rough.

And Venus is in Gemini, so what's at stake is probably not so much money, but the currency of words, thoughts, and information. "Tell me what you're thinking!" someone close to you is liable to demand, sometime in the next few days. Impatient-like, as if bone-tired of playing guessing games that you had no idea you were playing. As if they had a right to your thoughts, a right to hear particular words come out of your mouth, a right to make you put your signature to something you don't want to sign.

Fortunately, Gemini can make up long strings of words, entire paragraphs that mean nothing but sound plausible; and it's with this fool's gold that he will try to appease beligerent Pluto. "Sure I love you," says the boyfriend whose girlfriend has pinned him to the wall, Pluto style, to "once and for all" declare his true feelings for her. And here - he has given her just what she wanted, and exactly the words she longed to hear, and she can't quite figure out why she's not happy to hear them.

If you find yourself playing Pluto this weekend, shaking someone down for some kind of words or assurance or guarantee, beware. Like a prisoner being tortured, people will say anything you want to hear, if you hit them hard enough... but can you then trust what they tell you?