HOROSCOPES
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 23): The risk you take in the next 10 weeks will be like jumping out of the nest: It’s fly or fall time. Love will be your cushion. November sees you very creative. People will pay good money to have what you were primarily doing for yourself. Your relationship with these people will make the end of 2016 great. Aquarius and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 40, 28, 3 and 18.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re so charismatic that people tend to do as you wish without even considering if it’s best for them. Luckily, you have their best interests in mind, so it is.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You agree to things you’ve never done before because you want the adventure. You have no worries about what the others think of you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): There is a good reason to catalog your work. You may not realize it, but you’ve built up a treasure trove of knowledge that others would love to know.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): People around you may be overthinking the simple issues you so clearly see. Success in relationships is a matter of communicating straight to the heart.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You approach your day with a sense of felicity, and all will pan out beautifully. The right words will reach the right ears. People will snap to your needs.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your strength and confidence will give you an unfair advantage in relationships. Take it and leverage it while it lasts. When you’re happy, others will be, too.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Just because you’ve passed this way before doesn’t mean that you’re regressing. Some tasks require you to circle back and repeat past steps. The end result will be neat, logical and lovely.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You’d love to think you’re in control of the direction a relationship takes. First, total control isn’t possible. And if it were, it would be deadly boring. Relax!
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Even if the task is lowly, doing it to your best ability and becoming great at it makes you powerful. Value power over status, effectiveness over popularity. This is spiritual strength.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You’ll accomplish what you set out to do but not in the way you thought. A strange bit of magic will happen as you focus on your strengths and talents.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’ll make a connection with someone you like immensely and also with someone you like a little less. Neither will know which category he or she is in.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You’ll eloquently speak of your beliefs and dreams, putting your visitors in the right headspace to agree with what you’d like them to do next.