If it’s your birthday

You are born close to the cusp, just as the Sun changes signs. This gives you a “life on the edge,” where nothing is predictable, and yet a life where you have extraordinary freedom. And these days especially, your options are as open as your mind is. You can explore all the possibilities you can envision. Open your heart and you will discover your liberation. You share a birthday with Joe Cocker, Gina Ravera, and Louis Theroux. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 You felt some of the changes that are coming a good bit before your friends and loved ones did, but you were right. You know that movement is inevitable, and you seem willing to be the primary agent of progress in your own life. Most people are freaked out by change; you have an advantage. JULY 23-AUG. 22 What is your idea of soul food? What feeds you, spiritually? It may be actual food, prepared by your hands, in your kitchen, and I suggest you start there. Yet please take this a few steps further: what art, music, companionship or experiences in nature sustain you the most? Please imbibe. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 The Sun is about to enter the region of your solar chart where you emerge as a visible, bold presence in the world. You’ll probably never read that in any description of Virgo, but you’ll read it here. Use your mind and your excellent communication skills, lead the people and get the job done. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 You must not take it personally if someone has an issue with you. You’re a sensitive person, much more than you prefer to let on. And as such, it can really get under your skin when someone says something hurtful. Don’t take it on. How others feel is their responsibility, not yours. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 Take care when dealing with your family, or with housemates. You may be irritable, and you may be experiencing some old anger. Most of all, you may find people provocative or irritating. So you will need to give them, and you, a lot of space, and not engage in negativity if you can avoid it. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 If you’re finding it hard to concentrate at work, invent a way to get the work done and move on to something more fun. I know it’s not easy, with the warmer weather arriving and your body craving a mountaintop or a big lake where you can skip stones. Get there ASAP. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 Your chart says you need to be more spontaneous. That does not mean spontaneously thinking of something, and then thinking of something else. Rather, it means having an idea, and then getting some experience to see whether you like doing that thing; then keeping the experiment going. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 Mars will be in your sign for a while, meaning for months. So you will get to know this creature well. Mars represents all forms of desire, self-assertion, aggression, anger, conflict and, most of all, demonstrating to the world that you exist. You might want to take a martial arts class. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 When the Sun moves into Gemini, you should be feeling a bit more at home in the world. That will be especially true if you put some love into the four walls you inhabit. It’s not too late for spring cleaning, which would rightly include finally washing the curtains, and one new set of sheets.