HOROSCOPES BY HOLIDAY

Happy birthday. You’ve set your mind to maximum enjoyment and minimum stress, and that’s how you’ll go into this new year. November brings a special friendship. Family happenings keep December adventurous. You’ll be promoted in January and start saving extra money for a long-term goal. An important deal will close in March. Pisces and Scorpio people adore you.

ARIES ( March 21- April 19): Humor is your best defense system today. Apply it to perpetuate a certain frame of mind, to avoid falling into the emotional abyss called “deadly serious” or to state the truth in a less threatening way.

TAURUS ( April 20- May 20): Enjoy yourself. That’s a novel idea these days as you work so hard to fulfill all of your commitments and responsibilities. What if you made a commitment to fun? Too decadent? Try it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Your life is like a full cup. There’s so much in it right now that it has to be carried very carefully and steadily. Don’t rush to make a fast move in any direction. When in doubt, stillness is the answer.

CANCER (June 22-July 22): You’re a creative force. The best way to stifle a creative force is to give it lots of rules and guidelines and requirements. If someone is making you feel less than free to create, that person is not the right partner for you.

LEO ( July 23- Aug. 22): You don’t always understand poetry. In fact, it often seems impossible to understand. But there will be something that makes perfect sense precisely because it speaks to you poetically today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If only one person is to blame, there’s no fight. When the argument goes on and on, it’s a sure sign that the blame is shared, and so it’s only right that the fight, which today will feel quite like a dance, should be balanced, as well.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You may find it difficult to stay present and do what makes you happy right now when you are more aware than ever that you’re going to spend the rest of your life in the future. Planning is the order of the day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Those things that are meant to distract us from what pulls us down are important, if only for the function they serve. You’ll think about this as someone shares a seemingly superfluous detail with you. It matters.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your love is not blind as love tends to be, and you even may worry that it’s a little too filled with vision today. You see up close intimately, and you see a distant future, too.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Be open to all of the suggestions, even the ones from people who aren’t normally wise, helpful or even sensible. Some of the best words will come from the mouths of babes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your popularity depends on diplomacy. Not saying everything you know, pretending you don’t know, slanting your talk in a favorable direction — you’ll be good at this.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Operating in society can be downright challenging. You may get the chance to show your stellar manners by having to put up with (or more likely ignore) other people’s bad manners.