Horoscopes

Aries (March 21-April 19): The spirit of adventure is rather obviously alive in you. You’ll raise eyebrows and get other kinds of attention from people who wish they had the guts to take on life the way you do today! Taurus (April 20-May 20): You don’t get to choose your family, your colleagues or your neighbors. When you can be friends with someone who also happens to be a person you didn’t choose, it really feels like the universe is on your side. Gemini (May 21-June 21): You’ll make something interesting happen socially, something that no one was expecting. Because of you, the other person feels empowered to take a risk. This is getting good. Cancer (June 22-July 22): If one person is calling all of the shots, no matter how brilliant this person may be, the situation will not be as stable as a scene with a few diverse leaders who can balance one another. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): There is magic in your writing. You can really use it today in a number of possible directions. Writing things down can make them more real, easier to let go of or harder to forget. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You can’t be completely known, because you’re not one definitive way. Different environments and people pull out new sides of you. Today it will feel like you’re deciding who to be with every little choice you make. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): No one likes to be criticized, but right now you really want to know you’ve been seen, that others are trying to understand what you do. If they have a critical opinion, it will ultimately inform and help you. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): The events you’ll deal in today may only be important to the players involved. Outsiders wouldn’t understand. There’s a good feeling attached to knowing you are on the inside. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There will be a great level of complexity to your dealings. There will be rules to follow, stated and unspoken. The more sensitive you are to the latter kind, the less you’ll have to abide by the former kind. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You may not be in the mood to “be yourself” today, and if you want to be someone else for a while instead, you’ll find a way to do this playfully and ethically. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Destroying someone’s illusions is just as damaging as destroying personal property. To respect a person is to respect the mythology that the person lives within. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): There’s pleasure in work and work in pleasure. Right now it will be easier for you to extract the joy from difficult endeavors than it will for you to take the difficulty out of joyful endeavors. Patrick Henry delivered an address to the Virginia Provincial Convention in which he is said to have declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death!” Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, having reached the Pacific coast, began their journey back east. The first installment of “The Perils of Pauline,” the legendary silent film serial starring Pearl White, premiered in the greater New York City area. The first Japanese-Americans evacuated by the U.S. Army during World War II arrived at the internment camp in Manzanar, California. Pakistan became an Islamic republic. America’s first two-person space mission took place as Gemini 3 blasted off with astronauts Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young aboard for a nearly 5-hour flight. Before sentencing a group of Watergate break-in defendants, Chief U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica read aloud a letter he’d received from James W. McCord President Ronald Reagan first proposed developing technology to intercept incoming enemy missiles _ an idea that came to be known as the Strategic Defense Initiative. Dr. Barney Clark, recipient of a Jarvik permanent artificial heart, died at the University of Utah Medical Center after 112days with the device. Aeroflot Flight 593, an Airbus A310, crashed in Siberia with the loss of all 75people on board; it turned out that a pilot’s teenage son who was allowed to sit at the controls had accidentally disengaged the autopilot, causing the jetliner to go out of control. Russia’s orbiting Mir space station ended its 15-year odyssey with a planned fiery plunge into the South Pacific.