Horoscopes

Aries (March 21-April 19): Nothing gets in the way today unless you let it. With this philosophy, you won’t cast yourself in the role of the victim. Why would you? You’re able and you can always make a different choice.

Taurus (April 20-May 20): You’ll get to building a beautiful and different kind of world, maybe only with one other person, but it still counts. It only takes one other person to create a society with you.

Gemini (May 21-June 21): You long ago came to terms with the unfair nature of life. You’ll be reminded how some have been endowed with traits or circumstances that give them an advantage from birth, and you’ll do something to help the balance today.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): Extending compassion to yourself can be a difficult thing to do. It’s tempting to try to find out why this is so. But then again, maybe the reason doesn’t matter. Override it. Help yourself out. Forgive and love yourself.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): The art of the seating chart isn’t just for big parties and events. If there’s a way to arrange your life so as to place and group people elegantly, then you certainly will find it.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If you don’t get what you want right away, consider yourself lucky. This is where the real gold comes — in having to reach down deep into your own resources and build something out of them to make your situation work.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): There was a time you thought it best to strictly follow the rules; you were young and this kept you safe. But if you continued in this way, you’d miss out on a great deal of life. Afford yourself some slack.

Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You came into your convictions over time, slowly forming and testing a belief system that made sense to you at many levels. In many ways you’re still assembling it, but what you’ve got already is certainly worthy of your defense.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s possible that trying to be better counts as actually being better, but it’s also possible that accepting yourself more fully is a faster route to your transformation.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The more people involved in your vision, the harder it will be to keep it cohesive, but that’s OK for now. Pick one or two guiding principles and see what happens.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s not a correct way to look at things, but optimism does net different results than pessimism.

You do not feel that your interests are at stake, and this allows you to feel effortlessly generous with others. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): There’s comfort in playing the old games you used to play, and yet there are new games, too. So while you may visit the glory days of the past, you won’t stay there. Today’s birthday (Dec. 26): You don’t wait for experience to come to you, you make it happen and therefore what unfolds gets “so you” stamped all over it in the best kind of way. Also featured: a family expansion matched by your capacity for love and duty; a legal situation rectified; and traveling in a group toward a foreign victory. Scorpio and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 35, 40, 10 and 44.