If it’s your birthday

You have your way of doing relationships, which may seem to contradict the rules and laws laid down by your family or some institution. Yet you have more in common with traditional values than it seems, which helps you persist with your truly original experiments in relating. You get to define your own notion of commitment, though commit you must. You share a birthday with Brigitte Bardot, Ben E. King, and Janeane Garofalo. MARCH 21-APRIL 19 You’ll need to take charge today, potentially in a professional situation. You may be surprised by the willingness others have to help you ensure that the right thing happens. Proceed in a spirit of bold collaboration rather than absolute authority. The most important people are on your side. APRIL 20-MAY 20 The reward of the task at hand can be nothing other than a job well done. If you distract yourself with ideas of financial gain or professional advancement, you’ll have less likelihood of doing the job properly. So take yourself out of it and let the work be its own reward, and its own proof. MAY 21-JUNE 20 There seems to be a negotiation process going on, though you’ll think of it differently if you notice that you’re trying to make a deal with the past. You can skip that if you recognize that not everything you were taught (or witnessed) as a young person was true. Some of it was plain wrong. JUNE 21-JULY 22 Some things are more easily said in writing, though it will take you a little time to find the right words and the right way to say them. Do what professional writers do, which is rethink, rewrite and then rethink. After a while, you’ll figure out what you’re trying to say, and you’ll say it well. JULY 23-AUG. 22 Make sure that you’re caught up in all your important business matters. That includes reckoning what you owe people and what they might owe you, and doing what you can to clear the accounts. This may work as a metaphor on the emotional level as well. Focus on keeping your promises. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 You might make a decision today for one reason, and then find out that it has an entirely different basis. Before you have any regrets or remorse, consider the situation from several other points of view. In any event, don’t let yourself be pressured. Really make up your own mind. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 Keep one ear on public sources of information (particularly the social media type) and one ear listening closely to your intuition and dreams. They’re likely to provide complementary information, which will only make sense once you put the two together. You are the one who must make the connection. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 You are one of those people who are happiest when you give it your all: that is, when you devote yourself totally to the people you’re serving, or to your friends. You have so much mojo flowing right now, that’s the thing to do. Everyone will benefit. You’re onto something amazing. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 Today’s electrifying astrology has a special message for you: work for social justice. That doesn’t mean quitting your job and building houses in the Caribbean. It means doing whatever you can, wherever you can, to make the world a better place. You will have at least one opportunity per hour. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 Much of happiness really does come down to the choice between love and fear. The reason this seems so difficult is because relatively few people try, and therefore have not figured out the difference. If you experiment, you’ll see that you get different results with different approaches. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 Much of your success is rooted in your desire to do the right thing. That’s the message to send, by example, and by bringing others into whatever mission, project or enterprise you’re working on. Focus on what is necessary, then go out of your way to make it fun and engaging.