HOROSCOPE

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (July 27): You set out to hone your skills, amplify your assets, pick up new experiences. Scorpio and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 8, 40, 2, 25 and 10.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you stand where you can see, you stand where you can be seen. What should you expose, and what should you protect?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may be detached from the place and time when a feeling was born, but there are portals that bring you back — images, smells — and you can feel it as sure as the first time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Hardships strengthen people. While in the thick of it, a person may not feel strong at all, but getting to the other side is its own badge of endurance.

CANCER (June 22-July 22): You will fill in for something or someone who is absent. You do not have to be as the other would be. Do you in the space and everyone, including you, will learn something new.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Resistance may or may not be futile, but it’s certainly not the best way to get leverage. Turn into the force that comes at you. Give way, or join it. Then wait.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you know exactly how much you’re going to win or lose, it’s not a risk; it’s a transaction. Doing a thing so many times that your prediction about the result is always right takes the risk factor out of the equation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Tackle the most difficult issues first and the other ones will either suddenly seem like nonissues or actually be nonissues, swept into the current of bigger solutions.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): This is not going to be what it was, but it’s also not an entirely new creation. You’ll take the best of what worked before and bring it into the future.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s silly to waste time on the question of who deserves what. Credit and blame are seldom distributed according to what people deserve.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There may be dozens before you, but your eyes keep returning to only one. It’s because what you exchanged has become a tether secured firmly to the core of your attention.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): What affects one person makes others feel vulnerable, as they realize the tenuous fragility that is life. This is why you like to spread good news wherever you find it. Today, you’ll find it in plenty. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): There are things that belong inside of you and things that would be better placed outside of you. You’re the one who gets to decide.