HOROSCOPE

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Oct. 20): This solar return, your heart will be satisfied. It will also yearn, sparkle, pound from marathon-esque exertion. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 11, 14, 33 and 28.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Everyone knows when it’s not working, but few have the guts to call it out. You, on the other hand, have many options.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’ll do whatever it takes to make a project great. Is there a point in which the extra work actually makes things worse instead of better? Yes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): The writing will be on the wall, for anyone who has those special sort of glasses that can see such things. Much depends on how much you want to know.

CANCER (June 22-July 22): Bounce the conversational ball. You want to know more about a person, but you also want this person to know you, and you’ll make sure things are balanced.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here’s a friendship test: If it’s important to you, it’s important to your friend. Generally speaking, if they don’t take your side today, it will raise questions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There’s a saying about throwing out the first pancake of the batch, but life doesn’t always follow this rule. Today, your first try will turn out astoundingly beautiful results.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): To some extent time will be elastic to you, and you’ll be strong enough to play with it, slow it with your mind, cling to it as it passes and hold on tight to the very best moments.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Don’t sell it if it’s already sold. It could harm the deal. You know this and live this and you’ll teach the less experienced through your example.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sometimes the star of the evening is invisible — the cook in the back of the restaurant, the one who made the room gleam before everyone got there.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): As writer Robert Orben suggested, “Most people would like to be delivered by temptation but would like it to keep in touch.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may know what makes you happy. You may also be wrong. Experiment and you’ll find out surprising things about yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The best thing you can do for your future is to commit an anonymous, selfless act of generosity now. Your powers of observation are all the way turned up.