Horoscopes by Holiday

Happy birthday. You'll change simple and small behaviors and get incommensurately favorable results. It turns out that your healthy choices don't affect only you. As you do the things that help you command good energy, you'll improve your career, family and social ties in the process.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): You didn't have to do any special conscious thinking to raise yourself to this level of human development, and you can't think your way into, or out of, the next phase either. So just relax! Breakthroughs will happen naturally.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Make an agreement with life. For the next 24 hours you'll give it your all and expect nothing in return. You'll be an enthusiastic servant to the fates and the spirit of goodness itself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You're just not in the mood to compromise. Some would call it stubborn. The bottom line is that you really want your way, and you'll dig your heels in about it, too. Anyone wanting to negotiate would be better off trying in a few days.

CANCER (June 22-July 22): Two people stand in the same place: One of them is lost; the other is home. The shift from lost to found is one of accepting a place and getting to know it instead of rejecting it as somewhere other than where you're supposed to be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you believe that there are some people you were meant to know? The fates aren't efficient social directors these days, so you're going to have to take it into your own hands. Mingle.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Your imagination and creativity are exceptionally strong today, and you can point them in the direction of fleshing out a task in a way that only you can. You'll make yourself indispensable.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): If an actor were to play you in the movie version of your story, what defining characteristics and behaviors do you think would be the focus for this current period? A bit of objectivity will help you see how you can be more powerful in your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Your brain fills in blanks constantly throughout the day, so much faster than you're even aware of. Create habits of mind to stay positive. Here's a good one: "I'm happy because ..."

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The world is full of egomaniacs, and you feel a personal responsibility to counter that with selflessness. Check your motives, though. If you're yielding to others so that they'll approve of you, you're not really helping anyone.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you deprive yourself of what you want, you'll be all the more attracted to what's on the "restricted" list. Your best bet will be a strategy of distraction. What totally different thing might you do to interrupt this pattern?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Relationships get complicated. Love gets messy. Romance disappoints. You wonder if it's worth the hype. Pull away to gain perspective -- a positive and restorative choice. The turn is coming. Love is worth the effort.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Just because someone is happy with what you are doing doesn't make it right for you. People's approval can be fickle, impermanent and certainly nothing to base your sense of self on.

Food on 08/16/2017

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