HOROSCOPE

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 12): Welcome to your year of exceptional timing. In love, games and social fun, your impulse will align with opportunity. Pisces and Virgo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 40, 21, 10 and 30.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Somewhere along this timeline, you’re going to decide to stop forcing yourself to do other people’s version of fun and stick to the version that’s all your own. Why not now? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When hearts break, they don’t heal all at once. In William Shakespeare’s “Othello,” Iago says, “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” You may still feel it. GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Your life flows best when you recognize what you need and you give yourself those essentials plus a pinch more for luck.

CANCER (June 22-July 22): Setting yourself up to succeed will involve recognizing what and how much you can do and seeking help for tasks that go beyond those limits.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’ll step into a teaching position today. The education will go beyond you when you choose your pupils well. Who is likely to pay it forward?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The one you think of as a hero didn’t aim for the role but landed there quite by accident. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Physical, mental and emotional self-care is rooted in many practices that unfortunately don’t seem like fun at the outset but are nurturing of your best self.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): When the situation calls for small talk, there’s no getting out of it, so you might as well use it for the opportunity it is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Part of doing the right thing is doing it at the right time. Arguably, part of what makes it the right thing is that it’s right in a certain moment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Ever heard of “compassion fatigue”? It’s the sort of burnout that comes to those who care for and help everyone but themselves, to the extent that they become undernourished. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you are to devote yourself entirely to your challenge, you’ll need to put on blinders of a sort, to keep yourself from looking back or sideways. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Even in the closest of families, things get tricky around money. It’s best avoided today. This Greek proverb will steer you well: “Eat and drink with your relatives; do business with strangers.”