If it’s your birthday

You have been pushed to change many ways in the past year, and now suddenly you’re ready. Or perhaps you’re meeting the world in a place where you and the people around you are available for something different to happen, something new that’s never happened before. Envision your boldest and most beautiful ideals every day. You share a birthday with David Tennant, Rosa Clemente and America Ferrera. APRIL 20-MAY 20 Even if you’re facing practical or spiritual challenges, you can handle them with confidence and in stride. The thing to do is to stay in the present, rather than projecting into the future. The future is a resource, a reservoir of potential you can tap into any time you want, a little at a time. MAY 21-JUNE 20 Your life may seem needlessly complicated, though you would do well to see the simplicity at the core of all of your concerns. You’ll need to change your viewpoint for that to happen, gradually rather than all at once. Shift your perspective on a daily basis, or even hourly. JUNE 21-JULY 22 If you’re facing some insurmountable obstacle, try to take a look at your life from the outside in. Imagine how others see you — your friends, for example. Speaking of friends, you might go out of your way to seek their opinions in real life, not just your imagination. They know things you do not. JULY 23-AUG. 22 You will need to measure your energy over the coming week or two, and take care to work at a slow, steady burn — or else you will burn out. Start with prioritizing, and using a schedule. Make sure you take the big tasks in increments rather than “finals week” method. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 You need to keep your energy flowing: your ideas, your body, your projects, your artwork, your sexual desire. Clear obstacles, and build some momentum, and make sure you never make a conscious effort to shut down any one aspect of yourself. You need balance amid all of this. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 You will need to go with the flow in a relationship situation. You don’t have any control — but then, it’s not really about you, it’s about someone else — and moreover, it’s about the environment that surrounds us all. Something moves today, and you will need to move gently with it. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 Many changes are happening at work; you would only count them as bad if you’re in a place where you think you must resist progress. I don’t think you are — more likely, you’ve had it up to here with too much too fast. Remember to slow down, and to cool down, regularly. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 You have no need to cloak any of your financial aspirations in darkness, or to assume you have any off-color motives. Let yourself be driven by your desire to make money, and ensure at every step that your choices align with your deepest values and spiritual principles. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 Keep your eye on the ball. It’s the element of your life that’s moving the most swiftly. It’s connected to your desire nature: what you want the most, or feel that you need. Cleanse yourself of any guilt, and allow your desire to come through at full strength and full clarity. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 You must trust your motives. If you don’t trust them at the moment, go through a process of evaluating what’s driving you, perhaps with someone you consider older and wiser than yourself lending an ear. You must do this objectively and, at the moment, you’re anything but. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 Keep your focus inward rather than outward. There’s way too much going on in the world surrounding you that has nothing to do with you: it only seems to. Therefore, stick to what you know for sure is really about you: your inner life, what you express, and what you learn.