HOROSCOPE

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 21): You’ll build yourself, forming strength through repeated actions. Libra and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 1, 18, 3, 30 and 45.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ve been thinking of your problem as though it were an uphill slog, but this is more of a gravitational process. Enjoy the slide.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In a tight group that functions well, it’s easy to lose track of who gave and got what. This is how it should be and how it will be today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): The time to give a good long think as to what the rules should be is before the game begins. What you establish now will make all the difference. CANCER (June 22-July 22): You’ll expend emotional labor. You’ll give gifts, and you’re overflowing with other ways to help people. So, the thing to watch out for is need.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re a leader in some way. Do you know it fully? You’ll get clues about this today that you can apply in the weeks to come to help bring the group forward.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It’s a strange but true fact of reality that as hard as you’re working to forward the agenda you believe is so correct, there’s another faction working just as hard at an opposite “correct” agenda.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): Though experience can make a person wise, it doesn’t always. And there are those who are inexperienced and yet, inexplicably, very wise. An open and curious mind is the key component of wisdom.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): The nutrients gotten from eating with loved ones goes far beyond actual vitamins, proteins and the like. The shared ritual, the conversation and the animal bond of eating together fortify the soul.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Note that people with a lot of skin in the game will go into the playing arena ready to take offense at whatever the opposition has to dish, even if that dish is congeniality and sportsmanship.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s good salesmanship to close the deal. It’s great salesmanship to build such a strong case that the customer is the one closing it. The second type is who you’ll be today. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Maybe the aim is impossible to achieve, but that doesn’t make the tasks that lead up to it any less worthwhile, especially if the thing also happens to be a pleasure to work on. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You learn from people who aren’t afraid of confrontation. It doesn’t always have to end in conflict. Take notes as they head right into the heart of it and work something out.