HOROSCOPE

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (May 17): Devote yourself to making and marketing your reputation. Gemini and Aquarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 50, 12, 5, 18 and 48.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Being a good judge of character is part talent and part skill. You’ve always had a sense about who to pursue, tolerate or avoid.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): There’s something relaxing about maintenance appointments such as routine doctor or dentist visits or an automobile oil change.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You’ll be aware of how the rules change as you move in and out of the concentric circles that span the realms between intimacy and distance. CANCER (June 22-July 22): We may walk the same earthly plane, but there’s a vastly different internal reality inside each person. You’ll be extremely effective with this knowledge at the core of today’s interactions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You thrive on knowing a diverse set of people, and today will bring proof that you’re much better for the wide variety of interests.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When the action doesn’t go to plan, you’ll quickly come up with a new one. There’s something to save or affect here. Believe in yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): If you know that something is right but you don’t know why it’s right, then you’ll make the correct choice, but you won’t be able to convince others to make it, too.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Time all to yourself seems like an impractical indulgence when it should seem more like what it actually is. You’re happier and more loving once you’ve tended to your tranquility needs.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You’re going places,” said the casting director to the actor, “just not with us.” You may meet really talented and appealing people whom you don’t quite know how to “cast” in your life yet.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Wanting to be a part of a different scene is a waste of the one you’re in. This one is good! Trust that there are plenty of opportunities to be excellent from exactly where you are.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Valuable things become even more so when they are shared, while insubstantial things are diminished when too many people get their hands on them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Irish proverb “Praise youth and it will prosper,” was a novel idea when it first came about. Culture has shifted. Many claim children are now praised to a perilous degree.