HOROSCOPE

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 18): You’ll gain from becoming more involved in your community. Aquarius and Scorpio adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 25, 40, 12 and 39.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): There will come a day when people don’t have to deal with the things you’re dealing with now. You’ll look back in amazement.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t struggle with your choices. There is nothing for you in vacillation or fickleness. You’re not indecisive. You’re just thorough.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Just because you know the same word definitions doesn’t mean you speak the same language. Slow down; stay aware of the other person.

CANCER (June 22-July 22): One person is offended by something that is no big deal to the next person. To fulfill today’s purposes, toe a straight line down the acceptable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Machines are broken when they can’t do the thing they were built to do. People aren’t like that. You can’t assume the brokenness of a living thing, because you don’t know what it was built to do.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There doesn’t have to be agreement, similarity or a confluence of interests for things to work between people. Those things are a luxury.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): The small works can’t be tended to in broad strokes. Too much would get missed. The large works require a mix of both broad strokes and attention to detail.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): You have a way of loving another person that is purely for your own joy. Then you have an entirely different way of showing your love that matches how the other person would prefer to receive it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Attraction is the trigger that inspires you to flex your muscles of imagination. Wanting makes you resourceful. Needing makes you determined.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In days of old, one had to go door to door to make connections. Now the doors are email addresses and the knock is a good subject line.

Such things are worth spending time on to get right. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Longing is, to many, an uncomfortable version of love. Then there are those who actually prefer it, though they may not realize or admit this isso.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): People can walk your path with you, but they can’t walk it for you. They can do a lot of other things for you, and you should totally make sure that they do today, as success will depend on deft delegation.