If it’s your birthday

You’ll need to be flexible about evolving or developing your plans. Said another way: keep an open mind about your future, and let yourself be spontaneous. Life is unpredictable these days; it always was, though lately it’s off the charts. So you need a balance between being ready to make decisions, while at the same time focusing on a tangible goal. You share a birthday with Nelson Mandela, Vin Diesel and Elizabeth Gilbert. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 Take an inventive approach to solving a family or household problem. Suggest something that has never been done, or that shifts the flow of events. The same old emotional patterns are leading you nowhere, and you need a fresh and openminded way to see the situation. Be bold and experimental. APRIL 20-MAY 20 You are gradually finding your voice. Sometimes it’s necessary to say what is not true, and hear how it sounds, before you’re ready to say what is true. Today and for the next few days, you may come out with some things that really surprise you. Don’t doubt yourself. Rather, listen to yourself. MAY 21-JUNE 20 It’ll take a few days to figure out how you really feel. Don’t be surprised if you change your opinion a few times. Today you might think everything is wonderful and will work out for the best; other days, you might take a darker view. Day by day, you will gain a real understanding. JUNE 21-JULY 22 You must guide your life carefully over the next few days. There are going to be some unexpected turns in the road, though if you’re conscious and make your decisions one at a time, you can shift nearly anything to your advantage. Some- times the best path to success is indirect. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 There are moments when potential opens like a spigot and floods your reality: today, for instance. Refuse to accept the things about your life that you don’t like, and be open to the chance that much better things are possible. Take this rare opportunity and make at least one of them real. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 Are you wrestling with an ethical or spiritual issue? It would seem so; in a way that few would suspect, you’re not letting yourself off the hook about something. If you feel you must make amends, then reach out and do it. If you feel you must learn something, take the lesson and move on. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 You’ve had enough of the emotional thing for a while; as a Sagittarius, you are sensitive, but you don’t like to make a point of emoting or being too sappy. You’ll do it to please a partner, though it’s time they get on your wavelength and dance with destiny in that way you do so well. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 You know it’s time to take more initiative in a relationship. You cannot always let others lead the way, or set the terms of collaboration. Yet to assert your will seems to be demanding audacity you’re not sure that you have. However, there’s no actual doubt that you can pluck up some courage. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 Life has been teasing you with possibilities and the hope that things will get better. You know how hard you’ve worked to have a solid and stable existence. It would help if you didn’t try so hard. The next few days will bring many unusual developments. You don’t need to push. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 Over the next handful of days, Mars and the Sun move from your fellow water sign Cancer into fire sign Leo. You have been learning, exploring and stretching into your confidence in many new ways. Now is the time to make those things a habit. Pour your vitality into what you love the most.