Your HOROSCOPE

If it’s your birthday

Play as if you have all the luck in the world, especially when initiating new projects or new directions. Push into the unfamiliar like you’ve been there before many times. If you are called to master a certain skill, proceed like it’s a refresher course, though slowly and meticulously. You know more than you think, as long as you maintain awareness of where you are. You share a birthday with Mae West, Robert De Niro and Kelvin “Posdnuos” Mercer.

ARIES

MARCH 21-APRIL 19 You can say what you would never dare to say. You can do things you might otherwise be too inhibited to do. That is, you can be who you are, and bypass all your usual fears of judgment or seeming too ‘out there’. People care much less than you might think. That’s good news.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20 You may be offered a financial opportunity early in the day that seems like a long shot. You’re typically over-cautious about money, though this is worth considering: perhaps a purchase of some kind that has an investment value. Just make sure you appreciate the thing for what it is.

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20 How you perceive yourself is what determines how you experience your life. Run the hard-luck stories through the paper shredder. Notice how good your life is, and appreciate the people who sincerely care about you. Do one difficult thing, to prove to yourself that you can do it.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22 It seems that, everywhere throughout the world and throughout time, nearly everyone is worried about money. You’re in a position to get a handle on your financial life and set many of those fears behind you. This is not about magic; it’s about being honest, gutsy and decisive.

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22 However you respond to the challenges of this week, remember that you’re not living in the past. If you catch yourself expecting things to turn out like they did in an earlier time in your life, update your files and awaken your mind to what is actually happening around you, and within you.

VIRGO

AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 Pay attention to the many ways you orient your life on the past: on long-expired expectations, on comparisons to who and what has come before, and on outdated beliefs you have about yourself. The moment you recognize how useless most of this is, you’ll have a stunning self-awakening.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 What seems like an odd or impractical suggestion from someone may be just the idea that you need. So if something seems like a bad idea at first, or if the person proposing it seems to be untrustworthy, that’s all the more reason to tune in and notice whether it’s actually a stroke of genius.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21 At a certain point you must leave people to their worries, and focus on what you simply must do. This is a sign of your strength, and will call upon others to be strong. Set a higher threshold for action or involvement. Your role is to focus on the most important priorities.

SAGITTARIUS

NOV. 22-DEC. 21 The correct path is often the most difficult. Despite all the spiritual commercials for how when you make the right decision everything goes brilliantly, consider the possibility that the greater challenge is your true point of attraction. It might be spiritual; it might be practical.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19 The benefit from Monday’s total solar eclipse is the ability to wipe your accounts clean. This counts for the spiritual as well as financial. For the first, forgiveness is the key. As to the second, honest negotiation and doing what you truly can is the thing to do. Be courageous.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18 There are few shortcuts to the kind of growth that you’re seeking, though there are better methods and worse ones; there is true intuition, and there is false. Verify your hunches, and be prepared to take the more challenging route to your destination. That would be the high road.

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20 If you’re feeling any sense of personal injury or insecurity, let it pass quickly. This is especially true if you’re feeling some regret over having asserted your personal needs in a household or family situation. You actually do matter, and standing up for yourself is good practice.