Happy birthday. Your popularity has perks in August. Environmental changes will balance relationships, and formerly feuding loved ones find a mutually pleasing manner of coexistence. In September, be professionally strategic. Use the resources around you to escape, surprise or conquer the opponent (and/or your fear). Cancer and Sagittarius people adore you.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Many are sharing. You won’t agree with it all, and you’re in just the mood to speak up, too. Don’t give an interesting opinion; give an opinion in an interesting way.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Don’t just exceed expectations; explode them. Your unique twist will make all the difference. Give what’s unexpected, and you’ll create more than results; you’ll create memories.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Slow down and build rapport with the people around you. True, you don’t have any time to waste. However, stopping to talk won’t be a waste at all. A shared moment will enrich the passage of time.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): The feelings exchanged in an interaction are more important than any other thing being exchanged. Place the utmost consideration on the tone and mood of your interactions, and the rest will work itself out in the next three days.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This simple truth will be represented in today’s events: The friendlier and easier to get along with a person is, the more likely it is that this person will be attractive to others and chosen as a friend or sweetheart.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You will give your love and support, and that is better than gold. Anyone who thinks gold would be better is too young or emotionally undeveloped to be blamed for his wrongheadedness.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): You’ll notice that certain friends want you to themselves and are quite upset when you show favoritism or even just attention to others. This is an immature response, and yet it has real repercussions and must be dealt with carefully.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Are Facebook invitations as good as paper invitations? Is it enough to send a “thank you” via text? Just know that you will be judged for the way you answer such technological etiquette questions.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Usually you are highly motivated, but even when you’re not, you’ll push on through. That’s what sets you apart from the people who don’t succeed nearly as well.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What a partner sometimes fails to understand is that you don’t always want your problem solved immediately. You want to be listened to and understood. And if this leads to solutions, you’ve won on all counts.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You may feel like making an extra effort to bring a certain person into your world. Be careful not to set an expectation you won’t want to continue.Stick with people who like you for you, not for what you do.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Tis the good reader who makes the good book.” Similarly, what happens today occurs because of the mental energy you bring to your surroundings and the people in them.
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