If it’s your birthday

Today’s stunning Venus-Jupiter conjunction says that many gifts are coming your way; but you must be open in heart, mind and spirit to receive them. While your birthday chart shows the potential for significant material prosperity, the real benefits life is offering are emotional and connected deeply to your personal development. Make yourself available. You share a birthday with Robert Louis Stevenson, Whoopi Goldberg, and Jimmy Kimmel. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 Truly beautiful things can happen to you, and some will come into your life through the graces of another person. However, it’s time to take seriously this whole matter of nobody being your property, and you being the property of nobody else. To work, this must be a day-to-day quest. APRIL 20-MAY 20 Relationships are sacred to you. You’re the one who hangs in there through thick and thin, sometimes to your detriment. And when you don’t you’re likely to regret it. Honor this right now. There is indeed a truly important relationship in your life, and it deserves your full attention. MAY 21-JUNE 20 Mercury, the planet associated with your sign (and with Virgo), is now making a tense angle to Neptune. This is associated with difficulty discerning what is true, and also a tendency to be less than sincere. You must, however, be discerning, and err on the side of silence rather than dishonesty. JUNE 21-JULY 22 There are rewards for sincerity, especially when it comes to what moves you on the deepest level. It’s true that our society is not guiding people into themselves. Yet you are at this time being drawn to ask real questions, and to express what you might never, ever say. Seize the moment. JULY 23-AUG. 22 You know you have it good, though you need to be more willing to take some risks. Don’t gamble the house or your whole bank account. Set aside a portion of what you have for the purpose of taking a modest financial risk in a new project. If it’s worthwhile, you’ll know pretty soon. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 You may feel vulnerable and as if you cannot protect yourself from the thoughts or actions of another person, but is that true? Check whether you’re responding from some very early conditioning, and remind yourself of two things: The past is over, and you’re a grown adult who can handle your affairs. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 Something is bothering you but you cannot tell what it is. Don’t guess; be patient with yourself and see if you can figure it out. It may involve feeling like you haven’t accomplished enough professionally. Except for one thing: You’re actually making progress now, so don’t waste your time. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 You know your own potential. You can pursue that; you can wish for it to manifest, or you can strive to understand yourself. Nothing of any real meaning or lasting value is possible without genuine self-awareness and self-acceptance. Focus on that and you’ll get real results, and feel better. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 Try going through the next few days without using the words boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife. Take them out of your language, and notice what you must do in order to fill in the missing concepts. This is a process of taking total responsibility for your actions and choices. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 Set your sights high, and set your emotional sensitivity higher. One of the ways that people get ahead in life is to step over others, or step on them. You must be eminently fair in all that you do, and with everyone you relate to. Great things are happening. Be the very best person you can be. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 It can be difficult to understand that there are no actual limits to your success, though you’ll benefit from working with that idea consciously. Look for the blocks you place on yourself, and get them out of the way. Consider the many ways you’ve already accomplished what you previously considered impossible.