HOROSCOPES

Happy birthday. What you learn about people in the next six weeks will enhance your relationships ever after. Balancing work and play will be challenging now because all you want to do is play. October brings a more industrious mood. Big profits rain down in December. January features a new relationship. Pisces and Sagittarius people adore you.

ARIES ( March 21-April 19): Wishing you were someone other than who you are is a form of self-rejection that can only hold you back today. It’s better to spend your time working with your strengths and playing to your talents.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is the kind of day in which older Taurus people lament the innocent, aimless, meandering youth that’s behind them, while younger ones fantasize about the freedoms of adult life.

GEMINI ( May 21- June 21): Wanting to be your best is an admirable desire, and yet there is a point at which constant improvement may be a form of self-rejection. Take a break from improving, and like yourself “as is.”

CANCER (June 22-July 22): There’s a fine line between the heavy load that builds your muscles and the one that injures you. Let the good people around you help you out and keep you from taking on too much.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re not in a mood to conform, but doing one thing that everyone else is doing will put you on a treadmill of social expectation. Remember that this is not a trap. You can step off and do your own thing at any moment.

VIRGO ( Aug. 23- Sept. 22): Just because someone asks you for answers doesn’t mean you have to provide them. In fact, you could be doing someone a disservice by answering their question and robbing them of one of life’s mysteries.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): The human mind loves a pattern. The first step in a new direction seems illogical to the onlookers and may be met with protest. But keep on the path, and everyone will start to deal with the new pattern.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Everyone has different social tolerances.

Some people are likely to speak more candidly in groups, and this may be uncomfortable. But it’s better than a closed-off environment where no one grows.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As disgruntled as you may be in dealing with red tape and bureaucracy, it would be an even bigger ordeal to start a country. So if you can manage to laugh it off, do so as often as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You need more pleasure in your life. These days your tastes are unpredictable even to you, so be sure to try the different and unlikely options available to you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Maybe you’re just being picky, but when it comes to romantic relationships, you’d like to know the real person and not the person that person thinks you want to see.

PISCES ( Feb. 19- March 20): The answers are not upstairs in the attic of your mind. So don’t even bother climbing up there. The answers are easily observed in the world around you, though you’ll have to slow down to bear witness.