HOROSCOPE

Aries ( March 21-April 19): Your methods are sound and your capabilities mighty. But people don’t generally learn lessons they don’t want to learn. Focus elsewhere.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): If the signals you send are mixed by design, you’ll be intriguing. If they are mixed because you don’t know what you want, the effect will be off-putting.

Gemini (May 21-June 21): You can seldom detect what is going on inside a house from the outside. People are like that too. You have to “knock on the door” to find out the situation.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): It’s better to have many people speaking kindly of you among themselves than it is to have one person speaking kindly of you to many.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): “Don’t let your sorrow come higher than your knees,” and yet, your sorrow doesn’t tend to start in your toes. It starts in your mind.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Stubbornness and determination are essentially the same force — a will at full throttle Slam on the breaks or press on the gas.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You will be entrusted with an important role. You don’t have to know everything about this job going in. You’ll learn as you go.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Your life will be made easier if there is at least one person who will do as you request without hassle. You’ve earned this respect and should use it to advantage.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21): You’re likely to be generous by mistake today because you just happen to be where there are people in need, and willing and able to give what is needed.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The acquisition of facts does not make a person educated. So if you can’t remember all of the data thrown at you today, don’t worry.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Compliment the unique accomplishment of another. In doing so, you will raise this person’s opinion of you and quickly bond.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You tend not to want the attention of people who make you have to prove yourself before they will let you in their “club.”

Today’s birthday (Feb. 1): This month is filled with things so pleasant you don’t want them to end, and yet when they do, they are followed by even more pleasant things. Your lucky numbers are: 40, 20, 14, 6 and 2.