Leo Weekly Horoscope

Mission: Efficiency is becoming mission critical, Leo, so spend this week whipping your life into shape! The sun spends the last five days of its month-long tour in Capricorn and your streamlined sixth house. Harness that solar power to clean house and organize, clearing the clutter from your physical and mental space. With your lust for life, you like to sample, experiment and explore. But this often leaves you with a mountain of trial-sized bottles, swag and freebies you’ll never even use. And let’s not even talk about your Inbox.

You’re not alone, Leo, so don’t beat yourself up. It’s just that you’ll have to make some tough decisions and ask yourself: Should it stay or should it go? From birthday cards you’ve saved for over five years to messages you’ve been meaning to respond to for months, you need to create some systems. Productivity expert Elizabeth Bowman has some answers that can help. Her downloadable webinars like “Digital Clutter: Tips for Organizing Electronic Files” and “Email Management 101: How to Have an Empty Inbox” might just change your life: http://innovativelyorganized.com/products.

If your environment already looks like a spread from House Beautiful, attack the clutter that’s in your mind. Are you spinning out, obsessing, dwelling and overthinking things? It’s time to get your Zen back by creating a daily meditation practice that quiets your mind. Turn off the telly and put down the e-reader at least an hour before you go to sleep. Instead, pick up a book or magazine that’s printed on paper (much easier on the eyes and more restful for the brain) and plug in an essential-oil mister. Get those twinkling, beeping, blinking gadgets out of your bedroom (that means stop using your iPhone as your alarm clock). All those light-emitting diodes can interfere with your ability to shut off your brain and stop thinking about the day. If you live in a studio apartment, devise a clever way to wall off your computer, using a bookshelf, Shoji screen or curtain as a divider. Make a master list of all those to-do items that are clogging up your mental channels. Scrawl down everything that’s keeping you up at night, from sending a belated holiday gift to picking up dry cleaning to finishing that 2012 annual report. Then, examine each item: Can you outsource or delegate these? Do! Which commitments are out of alignment with the new direction of your life? Drop those, STAT. You can’t be all things to all people, Leo, and the sooner you stop trying, the happier you shall be.

On Saturday the 19th, the sun blazes into Aquarius for a month, lighting up your seventh house of partnerships! If you worried you’d be going it alone at work and play, guess again. Mars has been hanging out in Aquarius since December 31, and on Saturday, Mercury also joins the Water Bearer party. That means you’ll have three powerful planets lighting up your house of dynamic duos this weekend (and all three will be there until February 5!). Call up the glam squad and get thee to a party. If you’re on the hunt for love, the odds of finding someone with long-term potential just skyrocketed.

Already in a relationship? Breakthrough moments are ahead where you can finally strike a mutually rewarding compromise and balance. It’s a wonderful time to co-create, so team up with your sweetie and plan a party or map out your shared goals for 2013. Business partnerships heat up too. Why go it alone when you can be four times as productive with a collaborator in the mix?