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The facets of a bold plan are coming together. Don’t rush the process; give it a year. Focus on developing the ideas that have come to you the past few weeks. In the process, you’ll clear away many things, and ideas, that no longer serve you. Strive for efficiency rather than for excess. Be precise, but keep looking up from your work. You share a birthday with Gene Kelly, Keith Moon and Kobe Bryant. JULY 23-AUG. 22 Although the fanfare, the Moon and the Sun have moved on from your sign, Mars remains a driving force in your life. If you’ve recently had ideas for how you want to change, grow or improve your life, you have the motivation and the energy that you need. Pace yourself and carry on. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 The Sun is finally in your sign, after one of the world’s most famous trips through Leo, featuring the total solar eclipse. For you, this was likely a subtler event than it was for some of the people around you, but the best is yet to come. Over the next few weeks, the discoveries will abound SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 Partners and collaborators will have an impact on the decisions you make today and for the next few days. Listen to their ideas carefully. What seems the most outrageous may actually make the most sense, and turn out to be practical. Ultimately, you will never know until you try. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 The recent solar eclipse has helped you define your mission, though you may be waiting for additional instructions from headquarters. That will be coming soon enough, though for now it will help if you do your best to answer your own questions. There are plenty of clues available now. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 The next few days may bring a phase of obsessively addressing the details of your professional projects, though this will pay off handsomely. The coming months will have you doing plenty of this, so get in the groove now. Verify the facts and figures. Make sure the right thing happens. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 You know you’ve got rather amazing potential. The question is how you’re going to materialize it. The method is action rather than thought, understanding that you’ll have to make mistakes, backtrack and correct them. This will build your confidence much better than mulling things over endlessly JAN. 20-FEB. 18 If this week’s eclipse of the Sun reminded you of one thing, it’s that the only constant is change. That, however, is your friend rather than your nemesis. Aquarius is a fixed sign, and you must take ongoing care to ensure that you don’t live within set patterns that dictate your choices. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 Mercury retrograde and the Sun both working through your relationship house is describing a partnership situation as a work in progress. It might not feel that way, though a series of rapid developments over the next few days will remind you that optimism is the only sane policy.