Since the fourth of March the planet Venus has been in retrograde. In universe terms – no biggie, in astrological terms – holy moly, stuff is going down.

When a planet is in retrograde, it literally means that it’s travelling backwards and in astrology that’s pretty bad news. As Venus is the ruler of love and the heart, all the bad vibes that this retrograde is causing are going right towards your love life and making that cool guy from the bakery go cold on you for no reason.

The effect of this retrograde lasts 42 days and can mean anything from a bad date, to the end of a serious relationship, but do not fear – the last day is on April 15th, so we are nearing the end.

What to do till then? As far as we can tell, there’s not much you can do to protect yourself from the effects of this astrological mood swing and there’s certainly no way to avoid it, so our advice is as follows.

Get yourself off Tinder, out with your best mates and stop thinking about it.

If it really is the universe that’s f**cking everything up, after April 15th cool bakery guy will be just around the corner. If this is all rubbish however and he’s actually just a waste of space, you’re probably better of without him anyway!