If it’s your birthday

MYou are going through quite a time in your life, and you may be wondering when things are going to calm down a little. You will need to keep rising above the challenges, and handling them on an ever-higher, more enlightened level. Keep your energy light, and the light will flow through you. Draw strength from surrender, and get back to work. You share a birthday with Beverly Cleary, Herbie Hancock and Saoirse Ronan. APRIL 20-MAY 20 Venus in your own sign and Mars in your fellow Earth sign Capricorn continue to hold a harmonious aspect. Neptune is also in the picture, adding the water element, which means flow. Choose to use this for harmony and creativity and you will multiply the good vibes by the hour. MAY 21-JUNE 20 When responding to authority figures or challenges where you must take charge, be sure to respond from your mind rather than your emotions. This will not be easy, especially if your integrity is somehow put on the line. Remember that people drag around all the unfinished business of the past with them. JUNE 21-JULY 22 You will need to handle professional matters carefully today. There’s a chaos factor in operation that could work for you or against you. This is a little like sailing. How you position your craft in relationship to the wind and current determines whether you speed along, or capsize. JULY 23-AUG. 22 When you entertain an actual spiritual thought, it’s not necessarily love and light. It could come in the form of something that shakes your reality, that makes you ask some profound question, or prods you into awakening. It looks like one of those three things happens today. AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 You’re continuing to work out a complex matter where an agreement is concerned, though you cannot push the river. Pay close attention to how people say they feel, and then listen carefully for clues about how they really feel beyond that. Keep the conversation open and transparent. SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 A close partner may be going through something that you don’t understand, or that does not make sense in the context of how you know them. People are full of surprises, which keeps life interesting. You can serve as a stabilizing force, but don’t try to change the direction of events. OCT. 23-NOV. 21 One of the reasons sex is frightening is that love brings up everything unlike itself. It can be perplexing when, after you’ve had a beautiful experience, some odd or negative feelings come up. You just need to let them flow up and out, and not cling to them. NOV. 22-DEC. 21 The creative process is not just messy sometimes; it has to be, or it’s not really creative. You are having a breakthrough of some kind, and that may require getting paint on things, or messing up your room or studio, and fully surrendering to the journey of making something new. DEC. 22-JAN. 19 Currently there’s an unusual conjunction of two “minor” planets in your sign — amid much other activity. This can be having the effect of driving you to a rare form of service, doing something you must do, including for one other person. Proceed with joy and devotion in your heart. JAN. 20-FEB. 18 How you feel about yourself affects the flow of money in your life. We’re in a mentally and emotionally tense moment right now, and you may not be able to make heads or tails of your situation. You must be patient, and take as little action as you can. Rather, pause, listen and feel. FEB. 19-MARCH 20 The Moon in your sign will be going over a cluster of planets over the next two days, and certain matters may seem to go from bad to worse. However, in the end, this is a matter where the truth actually makes a difference, and that will take a few days to fully emerge into daylight.