If it’s your birthday

While certain factors are encouraging you to learn from the past, and to use what you know, you must be forward-thinking. Stick to goals that are new, though preferably ones that have some deep, living roots in your personal history. In this way, your most successful life will be a blend of old and new, the continuation of a story you began long ago. You share a birthday with Timothy Dalton, Rosie O’Donnell and Cenk Uygur. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 You can turn up the juice, and be at your sexiest and most salacious. As an Aries, you can carry this off nicely, maintaining every bit of your dignity. Be the dauntless person you are, intimidated by no one, and fearing no judgment — especially of your outgoing, saucy nature. APRIL 20-MAY 20 You may feel like you have to give up something of your true nature in order to get a certain result; for example, exchanging your emotional sensitivity for a cool mental strategy that gets the job done. But once you do that, you’ll be able to claim back your usual warmth and passion. MAY 21-JUNE 20 Don’t be attached to your public image, or to your concept of how you think people perceive you. You must simply do what you think is right, and say what you think is true — and only that. There’s no compromise on right and wrong. Stay far from gossip. Don’t repeat it, or pay it any mind. JUNE 21-JULY 22 You may be pushing some boundaries, though the truth is that’s the only way to get anything done in the world. Make peace with the fact that when you strive to do anything real, or make your mark on the world, you will piss off a few people. Be friendly to them and you’ll be fine. JULY 23-AUG. 22 The theme of your life right now is widening your horizons. This is like climbing to a high place and getting a sense of the landscape around you. Look out in all directions — the future is not a line before you; it’s something that surrounds you on all sides, and extends for many miles. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 You have an opportunity to let all of your old relationship tendencies wash away, like a watercolor in the rain. You don’t need to control anyone, you don’t need to be jealous, and you can afford to see yourself reflected in the people in your life. It’s easier than you may think. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 In the human realm, there’s very little that’s actually predictable, despite all our best wishes and best intentions. Yet what happens over the next day or two will serve to awaken you to the deeper reality of your relationships, and provide you with a rare opportunity to make contact. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 You may get the idea that someone is giving you the cold shoulder, though it’s likely they have something else on their mind. In other words, if you don’t take things personally, you’ll discover that whatever happened was probably not personal. Proceed as if nothing happened. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 Keep a close eye on what you spend, and what you earn. A diversity of factors are pointing to the potential for real change in your financial fortunes, and you will want to keep that change positive, both spiritually and on the balance sheet. Money is energy; and, therefore, a form of power. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 You have far greater impact than you think. Yet one thing that’ll help focus and refine your influence is staying in harmony with your sexuality. If you resist or go into denial, you’ll broadcast all kinds of static. If you hang loose with the birds and the bees, you will rock in the springtime. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 What seemed like the brutally honest, beautiful truth one day may seem like something you want to reconsider the next. So go ahead and reconsider, and remember there’s very little that’s wrong; only what you may want to revise, in favor of something better than before. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 You need two separate financial plans — one to handle your new ideas, and another to rework your old ones. The two don’t compete, and in about 10 days from now they will meet at an intersection where it all comes together and makes sense. Don’t rush; take one step at a time, thinking as you go.