Happy birthday. Your appreciation for what you already have leads to augmented fortunes this solar return. You treat others with such tenderness through 2017 that relationships will develop an unparalleled depth of feeling. There's a professional advancement in February. A financial upswing begins in May.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Some of the most influential people of your life aren't the type to readily give advice. They just live exemplary lives, certain aspects of which you would love to emulate -- and today, you will.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Smart people seek wisdom, and wise people seek intelligence. Certainly there will be plentiful examples of one without the other today, but not from (well-rounded and deliberate) you.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You've been there. You've been the source of the long sigh followed by "If only." But now you're too busy making things happen for yourself for such sighing. You need to be around people who are the same way.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): "Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man." There's lots of advice out there today, mostly unhelpful, much of it impractical.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Though it's sometimes fun to touch on mystical topics, what matters today is who you are now and how that's working with the other person's need of you.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): No one knows why, but even hungry livestock sometimes need to be prodded to the pasture. One never knows what might be distracting another person. Kindness is called for.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): The person with the least need of a situation has the most cheerful, relaxed attitude toward it. From this mood, a person can see and attract more opportunity. Today provides one more example of the benefits of detachment.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): There is but one way to draw a straight line between two points. But if the line is crooked it can follow an infinite number of different paths. Go directly. Get there the easy, simple way.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): All things turn into fire in the end -- otherwise known as "the beginning," because fire is also the birth mother of all things. Wherever you are in your creative process, it's a good and necessary part of the cycle.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There should be a name for the particular type of anxiety that accompanies technical difficulties. Software errors, password fails, Wi-Fi issues ... quickly let it go. You'll come up with astoundingly creative solutions.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don't let work take an out-sized role on your sense of self. You're not defined by your work any more than you're defined by what you own, who you know, or any other single element of your life.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Maybe it's impossible to tame that ocean of feeling inside you, but you'll be incredibly powerful when moments of calm do come over you. Through self-possessed, patient politeness you'll get exactly what you want.
Food on 11/23/2016