If it’s your birthday

To access your potential, you must do something with it. Waiting will not work. Hoping will not help. Experimenting with an idea, whether a notion you have about your life, or something specific you want to do, will open up the tap of your creative energy, and one experiment will lead to the next. There’s just one condition: you agree to change and grow. You share a birthday with John Muir, Helen Prejean, and Patti LuPone. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 Today and for the next few days, you must use your power judiciously. If you have to challenge an authority figure, do so gently, and make sure you know what you’re talking about. Make suggestions rather than demands. Gently ask questions and gather facts -- there is no rush. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 Chiron is now in your opposite sign Aries, so all the rules of relationships have changed. The focus on your intimate partnerships must be healing or nothing at all. This will begin with your paying attention to your inner needs, and not making anyone else responsible for them. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 You need a break from your routine. Almost anything will do, though it’ll help, at least, to get away from your regular neighborhoods. Go as far from home as you conveniently can, and try to get near some water: a beach, a river or a reservoir will do. This will open your mind to new possibilities. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 You must dare to be creative, and to express your ideas. It’s easy to sit on them, and imagine you have plenty of time; but the true cultivation of expression comes with the process of letting things out, experiencing the response, and then trying something new. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 Be careful of slowly building frustration. Vent your feelings before they take over your whole mind, and do so gently. There are many constructive ways to use the energy that you have available; however, you’ll only discover and develop them if you allow your feelings to flow. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 There seems to be some pressure you’re dealing with, and you need to address the aspect of this situation that’s purely in your own mind and feelings. Guide yourself back into the confines of your inner world the moment you start to get carried away by seeming externals. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 You get to be you, no matter what anyone thinks. In fact, you don’t have a choice. The only question is whether you have fun or not. It may seem that you have viewpoints different from others; actually, what you really have is a better canvas to paint on, and a big blank book to write in.