If it’s your birthday

Your anniversary chart is all about business, though you need to handle things delicately. You would be well advised to ease off from ambition and aspiration, and stick to doing your work well. It’s essential that you maintain cordial ties with people in authority and leadership in whatever field you’re in, and master the arts of management and collaboration. You share a birthday with Carmen McRae, Barbara Kingsolver and Patricia Arquette. JUNE 21-JULY 22 Do your best to get along with people, though recognize when anyone you come into contact with has an agenda. It may have nothing to do with you, though you will need to sidestep carefully any involvement beyond what is minimally necessary — and even that, if possible. JULY 23-AUG. 22 Balance work and wellbeing, erring on the side of taking care of yourself. It’ll be a busy week on several different fronts, though none of what you do is possible without you feeling good and being rested. Make sure that’s high on your agenda; enlist the cooperation of anyone who can help. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 Among the many thin lines in life are those between anger and passion; between fear and desire; and between the creative and destructive use of energy. You will need to make a series of decisions this week, with a cool head and consciously keeping love in your heart. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 You may be getting sick of certain family or household matters, though you have some work to do before you can resolve them once and for all. However, before any real progress can happen, everyone involved needs to take an approach that relies upon something besides anger for motivation. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 Your words carry more impact than you may imagine at the moment — an emotional influence that people rarely appreciate for what it is. We live in a time when people go from high to high based on getting their buttons pushed, and use being righteous as a drug. Forget about it. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 At the moment, your solar chart is a study in financial struggle. However, you must keep your emotions out of the mix if you want a solution to whatever you perceive your problem to be. You need a strategy and motivation, and a little patience. Perhaps in some other order. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 The Moon is passing through your sign today, making conjunctions to Mars, Saturn and Pluto. This could be an emotional ride, and you will need to be gentle on yourself. You are a solid person, though you’re more emotionally sensitive than you let on. Remember that. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 You may feel like you’re all alone, though I assure you that you’re not. All you need to do is reach out to people you care about, and who you know care about you. That may seem like a stretch, though it’s not as far as it may seem — only as far as your phone, or maybe even the next room. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 Stay close to your friends this week, and don’t let the bumps and grinds of modern life get to you, as much as you can avoid that. Stick with the people who openly remind you that they care about you, and who have a track record of backing that up with actions and with deep feelings over time.