HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY
TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 11): The firsts in life are always the most memorable — for instance, the first kiss or the first time you drive alone. You’ll be surprised and delighted by what sort of firsts come up this year. Other highlights include an award given by your peers, a meaningful dance or artful expression, and a far-flung gathering. Leo and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 17, 9, 22, 29 and 15.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Understand more, fear less. It’s not really a goal; it’s just the natural result when you lead with your curious mind and follow up with your courteous ways.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The good thing about envy is that it gives people a window into their potential that they may not have seen before. We tend to be envious of the things that we have in us to accomplish.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You’ll run into another one of love’s paradoxes: You want someone to put your happiness first, but this can happen only when you put another’s first. It works out best when two people can be made happy by the same sorts of things.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): Sometimes it feels like you against the world when it’s really only you against a few things that didn’t go immediately right. After you take a breath and adjust your attitude, try again; the world will get on your side.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your style isn’t just how you dress or what you own; it’s much deeper than that. It’s a mood, a tone, a way of moving about the world. Your outside is changing to reflect the new style emerging in you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Beauty exists in the mind. It’s only an idea, but it’s a contagious one. You’ll see beauty and enhance it with the quality of your attention. Then others who didn’t see it before will see it, too.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): It’s once again time to get rid of some superfluous things. This is becoming easier for you because the benefits are so rewarding. Eliminate what you don’t need so that what you do need will become clear.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Do research before you take out your wallet. You will either save a bundle or wind up spending about the same but feeling much better about it because you investigated other options.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sorrow is impermanent, and faith is essential. Think back to the younger you. Wouldn’t you rush back and share the message if you could? Your efforts are not in vain, and neither are your dreams.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s one thing to get attention and another thing to hold it. The same goes for power, love, money and any number of possessions. Attaining tends to be easier than maintaining.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You assume responsibility for the fulfillment of your loved one’s needs. Whether this should be the case is another discussion, though unquestionably, you’re made stronger by your caring efforts.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When does self-care become self-indulgence? The difference between what feels good and what is good for you is known by your higher mind. Hint: Self-care counts toward health; self-indulgence subtracts from it.
FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: On the same day that Venus goes direct, Mercury goes retrograde, as though to create a cosmic balance. On the theme of balance, a few words about this tenuous state.
There may appear to be things on this plane of existence that balance themselves naturally, but usually that only happens after there’s an incident or some kind of scuffle in which the boundaries become known and then everything settles where it can more or less comfortably exist.
In other words, naturally occurring balance may be a myth. Things only appear balanced because we happen to be looking at them at a time when they are balancing. Before the balance, there was chaos — explosion, collision, falling — and when the balance gets tipped again, things will return to the chaotic state.
Balance takes strength. Balance can look as if it is the result of a process, but balance is actually a process itself, in that it is continual work.
If you feel as if you’re struggling more than others to achieve balance, you’re probably not. You just aren’t seeing their struggles, while you’re intimately involved in your own. After some struggle, you may hit a patch of effortlessness. It’s because you’ve become strong. Your struggles made you strong. Savor the moment of beauty, and know that there will be more struggle ahead, as it must be. This is the vigor of life.