If it’s your birthday
The essence of your career is service, not success. One does not preclude the other, though this is a matter of priorities. You have efficient means of doing the most good with the least resources, aspects of which are your talent for leadership and your knack for efficiency. You have more influence than you think, and the time has come to use it. You share a birthday with Dolores Huerta, Steven Seagal, and Rachel Corrie. MAY 21-JUNE 20 The asteroid Pallas Athene comes to your sign for about two months every five years, and it’s happening now. The essence of Pallas is strategy, which suggests that, at the moment, you have a gift for planning for the future. Make it a pencil-sketch, but include all of your favorite ideas. JUNE 21-JULY 22 Hold off on enacting professional plans until early next week. Crucial information is coming over the weekend, and you’ll not want to proceed without it. It may come in the form of both an idea and a way of making it happen that’s been cloaked until now. Till then, keep gathering clues. JULY 23-AUG. 22 Everything balances on love. Nothing else will work; that’s good news. This ranges from treating others as you want to be treated, to making sure your priorities are balanced with those of relationship partners. Focus your desire on what you know is actually available. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 Though it may be tempting, you must not rush an important financial decision. Mercury retrograde still has five more days to go, and the end is the most informative and revealing time. Sunday’s New Moon in the same sector of your chart reminds you to let the future happen in its own time. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 Don’t take it the wrong way if a relationship partner seems determined to find their own path in life, having nothing to do with you. People must go through these phases where their growth is not dependent upon the conditions or structure of a relationship. Give them space and go with the flow. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 Make the decision you want regardless of what you believe your friends or family may think. Your life is, in truth, none of their business, and their opinions are irrelevant. You might seek the wise counsel of someone you trust deeply, though this is not any kind of committee matter. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’re soon headed for a kind of creative outburst. You may not be in a position to bingewrite a record album or Off-Broadway show, but this week you can use your time wisely and stuff enough ideas into your notebook to last you three years. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 You can now see the events of the past week or so in some context. What was everyone thinking? Did the world go mad? How did you handle your response to what so inelegantly burst into your life? The chances are you did a lot better than you’re giving yourself credit for. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 Right now the action in your chart is focused on your house of writing and communications. Not everyone can squeeze more than an Instagram post out of their mind, but you certainly can. This rare energy will last for another week. Do not waste a single day. And do NOT post to the internet. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 Be cool about money. Do not panic; do not waste when you can conserve. Hold off on all purchases except things like groceries and your MetroCard. Between Friday and Monday, business ideas will cascade out of your mind. You will be ahead of the curve, which is the golden egg of marketing.