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Focus on money, which means on the facts and figures of your financial life. This will help more than your bank balance and credit rating. It will help your self-esteem, which is the single most meaningful issue to which you must devote yourself. Why does this come back to understanding your relationship to money? That mystery will eagerly reveal itself. You share a birthday with Glenn Frey, Ethan Hawke, and Thandie Newton. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 There are influential people in your life at the moment. You see something of yourself in all of them. Yet one person is offering you an idea about yourself that’s entirely unlike what others are saying. Don’t accept anything on belief. Rather, listen, and feel your way to your personal truth. APRIL 20-MAY 20 A close partner may be ready to take an existing discussion to a deeper level, and you’d be wise to follow. Relationships are the highlight of your chart at the moment, and will be for the foreseeable future. The more you invest into them, the more they will be dependable sources of happiness. MAY 21-JUNE 20 Before you respond to something someone says, ask yourself whether it’s even true, and whether it even matters. Try to get to the essence of the discussion: that is, the actual meaning of the words spoken. Take your time doing this. You might reply to something in an hour rather than in a minute. JUNE 21-JULY 22 You may suddenly discover that you’ve gotten to the bottom of a pressing mystery, then forget what you learned. It’ll come back to you, though you might take some notes, even if sketched on a place mat or written in Sharpie on the back of your hand. This is something worth remembering. JULY 23-AUG. 22 Today is one of those days when people can disagree with you all they want and it barely matters. If you get annoyed, remind yourself that there are all kinds of opinions in the world, and many possible viewpoints. Some mean more than others, though each one serves its own particular role. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 Keep an open mind, and be flexible in your viewpoints. These days, it seems like everyone is camping out in their position, ready to go nowhere, stocked with five cases of beer and a month’s supply of food. Easy does it. Look around, and listen to what people say. They might have a point. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 Your beliefs are being put to the test. You may need to reconcile what you believe is true with something you may have long felt is true. It will help if you go beyond believing and feeling, and sort this matter out carefully. You need to get all of you onto the same page. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 Mercury has entered your sign, which seems to have arrived with solving a deep mystery of some kind. It was not so strange after all, though do your best not to rationalize your discovery. Stay aware of how much you don’t know. That awareness is the true fuel of spiritual awakening. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 In any situation, you may be the only person who is willing to intervene and make sure the right thing happens. Don’t count on others to step up. If you feel guided to do this, then do it. You will know because when you start to move, it turns out to be easy. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 Take any opportunity to align your public statements with your most personal inner values. This is the time when you’ll reconcile what, for most people, seems impossible. Make sure this happens in the seemingly small, subtle matters, and the much more important ones. There’s just one of you — not two. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 Get the word out about what you do. Take the time to do some self-promotion and return phone calls or emails. If someone puts some wind in your sails and gives you a boost of momentum, make the most of it. You’ll be surprised how much people care about what you’re doing.