HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY

Happy birthday. Finally, a worthy application for your big personality: You’ll stand out amongst less animated folk and be singled out as someone with the vitality to lead the group. Your kind works of the past will boomerang back in February. ARIES (March 21-April 19): Andy Warhol discovered new ways to use silk-screening. Duchamp discovered the high art in found objects. You’ll hit on your own discovery today to put your “voice” in the world. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The fastest way to gain the approval of others is not to need it or care about it in the least. An organic process will take you there. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): It’s flattering when someone is so impressed with you that the person wants to show you off. Don’t let all that parading around take the life out of your smile or turn your wave automatic. CANCER (June 22-July 22): You won’t have to get too creative to do your work in the best way possible. The normal methods will do. Efficiency will count for more than anything, and keep you within the budget, too. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Once you tell someone where you are going, there will be no turning back. Go on and mention what you plan to do, and you’re as good as launched. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Life has brought you to many a crossroads, but this time is different. It appears to be more of a dead end. You’ll have to cut through on foot for a while to get to the next obvious path. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Sometimes when you endeavor to re-cut it, re-shape it and keep whittling away at it until it’s right, it becomes too small to be workable. Don’t be afraid to start over. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Play around with formats that are entirely new.You may just find that you’re able to put your entire self into it and create something that is so perfectly “your thing.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As long as you don’t let it stop you, frustration is actually a very useful emotion. It’s better than self-delusion — that’s for sure. Frustration has a simple message: What you’re doing isn’t working. Now go find what will. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Things are getting better, and part of the reason is you, so go ahead and take the credit. Do it quickly and you’ll be relatively inconspicuous enough so as not to inspire jealousy. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The new project is packed with potential. It’s safe, appropriate, even necessary to apply your fervor. A touch of madness will take this from “exciting” to “brilliant.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you take up too much room with your kindness and efforts to make the other person happy, there will no space left for reciprocation. Back off and let the other person come forward.