HOROSCOPES

Today’s Birthday: You’ll have many admirers this year, and one will be particularly affectionate. A new friend encourages your desire to improve and learn, and by January a transformation will be complete. February brings the end of a cycle of training. Financial reward comes in March. May tests your conviction. Aquarius and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are 1, 20, 8, 27 and 11. Aries (March 21-April 19). You combat human weakness by taking responsibility when others won’t. Taurus (April 20-May 20). It’s important to see all of the different talents and purposes in the world as valuable, and none more valuable than the other. Gemini (May 21-June 21). You’ll choose your friendships carefully. Your choices aren’t based on status or utility, but on who a person is. Cancer (June 22-July 22). You’ve made it through the trial-and-error process and are now at the sweetest part of a project. Everything will come together easily because you’ve already done the work. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22). Part of growing up (which you can do at any age) is not reacting immaturely to things that are unsettling or just plain icky. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22).

People are nice to you for various reasons, some having to do with you and others having nothing at all to do with you. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your successes and failures are not based solely on your own actions. There are many other variables at work. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You are still a part of the material world, but the majority of people who ever existed are not. You may feel the urge to call on them for spiritual help, and they just may answer your call. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Wanting one thing, you become embroiled in the acquisition of the opposite thing. How does this happen? It’s an opposition at work. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). As you consider throwing yourself into a dicey situation, acknowledge the fear welling up in your belly. It has kept you safe all these years, so it can’t be all bad. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have mixed feelings, but you’ll express them in a way that helps others understand with crystal clarity. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20). Fill your head with inspiring thoughts before noon, or worry will get too much real estate in your mind.