HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 27).
You’ve often felt the world was trying to make you into something you were not. This year, the world seems only to support the person you want to be. This new level of help all around you allows you to let down your resistance and be carried by life’s flow. You’ll work without frustration, delighted by fast progress. Taurus and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 33, 50, 19 and 44.
ARIES (March 21-April 19).
Hearts are made out of remarkable stuff. They are built to be resilient and yet can somehow remain tender at the same time. Is it strange to be awed by your own compassion? Maybe, but nonetheless, it’s your destiny today.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20).
The mark of high intelligence is not the absorption of information but the curiosity that causes you to seek it in the first place. That curiosity will lead you to unexpected places today.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21).
Imagine your pain as though it were a marble trapped in a puzzle box of sliding doors and triggers. Keep investigating. Keep trying different moves until you find a way to release this pain and watch it roll right out of your life.
CANCER (June 22-July 22).
We are always teaching each other. The attractive moves and unattractive moves we make all get absorbed by the people around us. Today this principle will work for you. You’ll like what’s reflected back to you.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22).
As for the trillions of microorganisms that live on your body, what if your stress were tantamount to their Armageddon and your happiness were their Eden? In that case, happiness would be not only your choice but also your responsibility.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).
You’re allowed to interrupt your own negativity, which is best done with polite redirection. Think of your negativity as a person, and then follow the rules of friendly discourse, which sometimes include a deft change of subject.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23).
You long ago learned that home might be a place but it’s never only a place. Home is seldom where a person is born. It’s sometimes where a person stays. It’s always where a person hates to leave.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21).
Feelings are interesting to have, to witness, to cause. We have names for feelings, and this helps us process them, though it should be noted and respected (especially today) that those names are almost always reductive.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
If there’s something that’s worth asking over and over again, it’s the simple three-word question “Is that true?” To ask it of what you read and hear is a no-brainer. To ask it of what you already know -that’s next-level.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
In a world where many are friends of vicinity who secretly don’t want the other to succeed, you make it a point to do the opposite. You celebrate the success of your friends by supporting publicly and with enthusiasm.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18).
There are but two choices today: to be comfortable and inert or uncomfortable in action. Mostly the discomfort of work will be ever so slight. You’ll hardly even notice, in fact.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Literally, the word “pulchritudinous” means the more or less the same as “beautiful,” but audibly, not so much. The pulchritudinous people will crave your vibes today. So will the beautiful.
FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: With the Scorpio sun in a tug of war with Uranus, the main theme at this point of the Scorpio solar journey centers around issues of attention. The Scorpio new moon would like to point out right off the bat that it is not so hard to get attention, that attention can be forced through all sorts of literal and figurative pyrotechnics — pushing triggers through sexiness, alarm, fear, strangeness... All of these will work for a hot second, but they are not the same thing as true interest.
While attention may make the world exciting, interest is what makes it turn. Interest is a quality of awareness that lasts past the initial attraction. Interest comes with its own curiosity pack and asks the kinds of questions that, once answered, only lead to more questions. Without interest, no investment will be made.
If it is possible to make a person interested in what doesn’t initially interest them, it begins with an attention grab. But if that attention grab doesn’t hook them, well, there’s little to be done. When a person is really interested, it is likely for deeply rooted and often-unexplainable reasons. True interest is difficult to manufacture and even more difficult to thwart. Those who make these distinctions and apply this awareness in life this week will be soulfully rewarded.