Horoscopes
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Emotionally intertwined, you seem to feel someone’s pain, joy, interest, apathy and more. And what about what you go through? Is it mutually felt? Consider the balance of the relationship.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). It’s a time for maximum preparedness. Everyone is capable of more than you think, especially you. Stretch yourself, and expect that your competition is also out there stretching.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’ve heard the same words from different places. Parents, teachers, leaders, mentors... from each source, the meaning changed a little, but it points to the same thing. Take action.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Attempts to make others feel comfortable will grease the social wheels. People care what you think of them more than you might guess. Simply making the effort to get in sync with others will do the trick.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Finding the right perspective will be tricky. There is much to take in. The closer you look, the less you see. A wide-angle lens will show you more but removes you from the action. Let intuition guide you to your ideal vantage point.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Share your feelings with enthusiasm. Your boldness lets others know who you are. They trust you when they understand you better. And your confidence inspires others to be forthright.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). It is difficult to carry items up a ladder. It is much safer to set things down and secure your climb in hopes things will still be there on the way back down.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’re not worried about what they think of you because you sense their minds are elsewhere. This will come as a liberation and an invitation to do as you please.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You hate to think of yourself as complicated, but there’s no getting around it: All humans are. Any time you spend figuring out your particular needs will save you from wasting time on what cannot fulfill you.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Write it down; write all of it down. These are details you won’t want to miss. Later, you’ll be using these notes to organize your life into the calendars and checklists that keep you on track.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You’re uncomfortable as the center of attention, but try not to deflect praise. A secret part of you needs the admiration and will absorb it to use as fuel for your work to come.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). In some instances, keeping the sacredness of your inner life to yourself is healthy for a relationship, and sometimes it’s not. Caring enough to cautiously consider what is best to share is, in itself, a sign of love.
In 1605, the “Gunpowder Plot” failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to cast a vote for President Ulysses S. Grant. (Anthony was convicted by a judge and fined $100, but she never paid the penalty.)
In 1912, Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president, defeating Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and Socialist Eugene V. Debs.
In 1935, Parker Brothers began marketing the board game “Monopoly.”
In 2003, President George W. Bush signed a bill outlawing the procedure known by its critics as “partial-birth abortion”; less than an hour later, a federal judge in Nebraska issued a temporary restraining order against the ban. (In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.) In 2006, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal to hang for crimes against humanity. In 2007, Hollywood writers began a three-month strike, forcing late-night talk shows to immediately start airing reruns. In 2009, a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood Army post in Texas left 13 people dead; Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death. (No execution date has been set.)