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JULY 23 – AUG 23
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A transformation has been a long time coming, but this week’s planetary about-turns place you back in charge of your own destiny.
What you do next can surprise the world, yet inside you will sense it’s the perfect move for the real you.
Passion is not something that can be caged – it must fly free to satisfy you.
If you’re single, the moon sparks attraction for a fellow Leo.
DESTINY DAYS
Set a family deadline for Tuesday and stick to it this time.
Prize instincts are hot on Wednesday, and Saturday can spark a surprise “G” passion chat.
LUCKY LINKS
Someone with minimalist fashion style; pictures from the year you were born; the first letter and last number of your postcode.
Choose gold, purple, and rich copper colours to reflect your true regal self.
What does your star sign mean for you?
Aries – The best and worst characteristics of the head of the zodiac
Aquarius – The traits you need to know for the air sign
Capricorn – What does this star sign mean for your personality?
Cancer – The key traits for the sign include a keen love of food
Gemini – The traits to be aware of for the sign with a symbol of twins
Leo – The best and worst characteristics of the fire sign
Libra – What does the seventh star sign mean for your personality?
Pisces – The key traits for the sign include an interest in the arts
Sagittarius – The traits you need to know for the fire sign
Scorpio – What does this star sign mean for your personality?
Taurus – The best and worst characteristics of the earth sign
Virgo – The key traits for the sign include loyalty and kindness
MERCURY MOTIVATE!
Before you can start becoming your true self, you must recognise what that is – and this can be your week to do just that.
Accepting that feelings have a key place in your future, alongside facts, is so important.
By trying to suppress how you truly feel, you also limit the scope of your ideas and imagination.
You have a unique mix of power and personality ready to take off.
Fabulous is the home of horoscopes, with weekly updates on what’s in store for your star sign as well as daily predictions.
You can also use our series of guides to find out everything from which star sign to hook up with for the steamiest sex to what it’s like to live your life totally by your horoscope.
CHELSEA Jovanovich, 37, lives in Montana, USA, with husband Jake, 40, an accountant, and their sons Telden, three, and Stetson, two.
“Lying on the hospital bed, as the sonographer took an ultrasound of my abdomen, I heard the rushing sound of blood and exhaled with relief – my uterus was working. I say ‘my’, but just 36 hours before, it had been in another woman’s body.
I was only 15 when my mum took me to the doctor because my period still hadn’t started. Initial tests couldn’t explain it, so a month later I had exploratory surgery.
Doctors told me I had Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH) – a rare congenital disorder that meant I had a partially developed uterus, which the doctors removed during my surgery.
I would never menstruate or carry a baby. I was devastated.
Although I was still a teenager, I’d wanted children one day.
Mum supported me through the shock, but it was a lot to take in.
Time passed and, in 2010, I met Jake at university.
After a couple of weeks, I explained to him about my diagnosis and he was amazing, telling me not to worry.
Jake and I got engaged in August 2017, then a year later we had IVF using Jake’s sperm and my eggs (my ovaries were unaffected by my condition), and created embryos that we planned to use with a friend who’d offered to act as a surrogate.
However, before we could transfer an embryo, we received the crushing news that, due to a problem with the surrogate’s uterus, it couldn’t go ahead.
We were so upset, and we weren’t emotionally able to start that process all over again with a stranger.
A few years previously, I’d read about the first clinical uterus transplant trial in Sweden.
And in December 2018, soon after Jake and I got married, I discovered the University of Pennsylvania, 2,000 miles away from where we lived, was running a trial.
I applied and was accepted on to the trial in December 2019, but I still didn’t allow myself to get my hopes up that I might finally become a mum.
On Christmas Eve that year, I received a call – a woman wanted to donate her uterus, and doctors believed she and I were a good physical match.
Friends and family were concerned about potential complications from me undergoing major surgery, but I was determined
This incredible stranger was making a huge sacrifice for me.
Donors had to have completed their own family, had multiple medical tests and weren’t paid. I felt a strong bond between us, even though I knew nothing about her.
Friends and family were concerned about potential complications from me undergoing major surgery, but I was determined.
Coming round from the 10-hour operation in February 2020 and hearing the words: ‘You have a uterus,’ was surreal. Learning that my donor was recovering well too, was a huge relief.
Then, getting my first period two weeks later, at the age of 32, was both exciting and terrifying.
That August, our first embryo transfer failed, but we tried again, and in October I wept when a pregnancy test was positive.
I was desperate to thank my donor, and medics told me her name was Cheryl.
We began emailing and I learned she was a mum of two, who had donated after seeing the medical trial on TV.
In May 2021, I had a maternity photo shoot and invited Cheryl.
Meeting her in person and hugging her tightly, she felt like a sister to me.
She was so thrilled to feel the baby move in the uterus she’d given me.
Kissing his perfect, newborn face was incredible. I was a mum at last
At 34 weeks pregnant, I had a planned caesarean – I had pre-eclampsia and doctors didn’t want to progress my pregnancy any further in case of complications.
Our son Telden was born weighing 4lb 2oz.
Kissing his perfect, newborn face was incredible. I was a mum at last.
The uterus was left inside me so I could try for another baby in the future.
Five weeks later, Cheryl met Telden.
Seeing him in her arms was so special, because he wouldn’t have existed without her.
Our son Stetson was born in October 2022, weighing 7lb 5oz, using another frozen embryo, and my uterus was then removed, as is protocol after two births.
Today, I look at my miracle boys running around in superhero outfits, and I’m overwhelmed with love.
Thanks to the scientists, doctors and a stranger I’m still in contact with, my dream of motherhood came true.”
The first uterus transplant in the UK took place in August 2023
More than 100 transplants have been carried out worldwide, with about half leading to a live birth (Source: Scientific American)
OUR much-loved astrologer Meg sadly died last March but her column will be kept alive by her friend and protégé Maggie Innes.
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MARCH 21 – APRIL 20
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Slowly, a whole new Neptune sense of self is spreading through your mind – accelerated by the positive-power direction of Mercury this week.
Whatever outlook you choose, make it big, bold, and brilliant.
You can achieve so much when you set your mind to it, but do also pay attention to details.
Love-wise, with Venus still in retrograde, anything can happen, especially around “P”.
Leave list-making or box-ticking for Wednesday and Friday, as your organisational skills are strongest then.
Monday is a red-hot day for romance.
Two names, or two initials, intertwined; a song linked to the natural world; a journey from “B” to “A”.
Choose shades of red and orange to boost Aries energy, and cool white to help you keep things in perspective.
What does your star sign mean for you?
Aries – The best and worst characteristics of the head of the zodiac
Aquarius – The traits you need to know for the air sign
Capricorn – What does this star sign mean for your personality?
Cancer – The key traits for the sign include a keen love of food
Gemini – The traits to be aware of for the sign with a symbol of twins
Leo – The best and worst characteristics of the fire sign
Libra – What does the seventh star sign mean for your personality?
Pisces – The key traits for the sign include an interest in the arts
Sagittarius – The traits you need to know for the fire sign
Scorpio – What does this star sign mean for your personality?
Taurus – The best and worst characteristics of the earth sign
Virgo – The key traits for the sign include loyalty and kindness
As Mercury swings back out of retrograde, turn your full focus to the secrets you’re hiding in your life – from work ambitions to love crushes.
This is your moment to use your keen analytical skills and be totally honest with yourself.
Freedom comes from reality, not fantasy – now you see the difference.
This is also a planetary pattern of letting go of things you have outgrown.
This may be hard at first, but keep going.
Fabulous is the home of horoscopes, with weekly updates on what’s in store for your star sign as well as daily predictions.
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COPPER JACK (4.40 Ffos Las, nap)
Looked a different horse when winning on handicap debut at Chepstow last time. Today’s 5lb claiming rider Callum Pritchard didn’t have to get serious on him as he had eight lengths in hand crossing the line. The handicapper has shunted him up 9lb but he looks ahead of that and is hard to beat.
TREMORGIO (3.45 Southwell, nb)
This son of Dubawi streaked home to score by two lengths on debut at Newmarket last time. That was in October and he came back in February to scoot in over this course and distance. That was despite meeting plenty of trouble in running and he can step up again.
TARA ITI (4.27 Plumpton, treble)
Is rarely out of the frame and was a good second again at Sedgefield last time. The handicapper has left his mark alone and the first-time visor could give him another little boost.
PALAWAN DU MAZET (5.15 Ffos Las, Lucky 15)
He didn’t show a lot over hurdles but took a giant leap forward when getting off the mark on chase debut at Taunton 61 days ago. The second home in that race has franked the form by winning twice since and he can defy a 7lb hike in the handicap.
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JOE JOYCE is finished as a top-tier heavyweight after another punishing defeat to Filip Hrgovic.
The 39-year-old Putney man is too tough and decent and brave to keep taking these beatings.
And he is showing signs of decline which people around him must now address before it is too late.
The judges called it: 97-93, 96-95 and 98-92, confirming the fourth loss in five bouts for Joyce, who needs firm but fair advice.
Joyce was slow and hittable from the opening Manchester bell, getting tagged from the off.
Hrgovic, 32, couldn’t miss with almost every punch he threw but it was the Croatian bookies’ favourite who was cut over his left eye.
Joyce’s punch-eating hobby was evident again in the second, when Hrgovic was free to ping his braided skull.
But Hrgovic – whose only previous loss came on cuts against Daniel Dubois – was leaking blood again at an alarming rate.
Slow Joe woke up in round three and showed some of his 2016 Olympic silver pedigree.
But Hrgovic’s hands were too fast and accurate for our Brit in the fourth.
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After hopes of early KO faded, a quick exit became the second-best outcome but the 10-round fight trudged into the second half.
Hrgovic looked deflated and defeated by the start of round eight, after hitting Joyce with his best shots and not making a dent.
Joyce was battered at the end of round eight but his freakishly tough skull helped him survive again.
And the West Londoner was peppered again in the ninth, after his woeful coach insisted he “stop overthinking things”.
And the Englishman was smacked and slapped again in the final session, when it had already become hard to watch and only the visitor celebrated at the final bell.
After the fight, even Joyce’s own promoter Frank Warren urged him to “have a serious think about his future”.
The Queensbury chief said: “Joe has got to go and have a serious think about the future.
“He’ll sit down and have a think and we’ll plan for the future whatever he decides.”
But when asked about retirement, Joyce joked: “Are you not entertained? It was a good fight and it was tough.
“He’s a great fighter, he’s been doing it a long time.”
Meanwhile Hrgovic had his sights set on a rematch with IBF champ Daniel Dubois.
The Croat said: “This guy beat Dubois and I beat him so I want a rematch with Daniel Dubois.
“I did really bad in my last fight but congrats to him and he did a great job in his last fight. Of course I want to rematch him one day.”