If it’s your birthday

Happy birthday, bold dreamer! Never content with normal, your highly individual vision pushes you to amazing places. You share your birthday with Tom Waits, Willa Cather, and Noam Chomsky, who all did it their way with fantastic success. This year, lucky Jupiter brings helpful people to your side and, until December 19, 2017, Saturn urges you to accept their gifts, to not try all on your own, and to enjoy breathtaking breaks in nature and beauty with loved ones. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 Today finds you in an unfamiliar and frustrating corner. While you’d prefer to be actively going forth in hot pursuit, instead you’re feeling uncertain of how to start your engines. Not a bad time to sit back and burn through some mental energy contemplating the thorn in your side at work. APRIL 20-MAY 20 You and your associates have recently worked through earlier difficulties, and you’re more willing to cooperate today. You’ve determined a way to compromise, and the organization you’ve been involved with is now able to accept your carefully conceived ideas. A close knit group only works when everyone participates in creating its value system. MAY 21-JUNE 20 Being adaptable is something which helps you to right whatever imbalances come your way. At this time you need to be more in touch with hidden aspects of your talents and use them to guide your way through the most recent demands made upon you. Unleash those cunning skills and get to it. JUNE 21-JULY 22 A recent confrontation was unavoidable, but you are still reeling from its aftershocks. Typically you move to one side allowing things to pass, but this time you took it full frontally on the chin. Don’t retreat into your shell. You’ve actually gained some ground, and you won’t want to lose it. JULY 23-AUG. 22 Being told what to do isn’t the Lion’s favorite thing. You don’t like to be in situations where you aren’t feeling that you and your benevolence can decide the outcome of something. Whatever valued items you share, things or beliefs, are just that, shared, meaning everyone has to be in on it. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 You have been having romantic thoughts, but being you, you’re not really indulging them, trying to avoid a ride on that infamous emotional roller coaster. If someone has caught your eye, you need to take the first step. Playing it cool may be safer, but why deprive yourself of all those wonderful earthy pleasures. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 Not in the most idealistic of places, your appealing good nature and charm isn’t what’s required. It’s one of those more mundane times when you’ve got to buckle down for some unglamorous grunt work. You’d rather be doing something else, but it goes a long way to smooth things over with work associates. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 You are imbued with a certain vitality and sense your passionate nature welling up inside you. Outside the temperature may be falling but inside it is heating up. Rather than overcoming others with that great wave your intensity can create, work instead to channel that Scorpio magnetism. It’s so much more alluring. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 You have been frustrated over how recent endeavors have been either stalled or just had the rug pulled out from under them. Identifying so fully with your accomplishments, this has left you feeling discouraged. Try to get some perspective from close friends or siblings, and when someone else talks, really try to listen. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 You value your independence, your individuality and being able to dig in and grapple with something where your strong intellect can be tested. What’s not a favorite mental exercise is hearing someone’s assessment of how you’ve been performing. Honesty is important to you. Let your inner truth seeker find the value in that. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 The Moon continues shining on you, and your emotions remain very close to the surface. You can feel all that buzzes around you. Try not to let your imagination tug you towards being overly impressed by the accomplishments of those you’ve been recently working with. Your stamina and idealism are their deficit.