Happy birthday. You'll accomplish much by thinking positively and strategically and then acting on what you plan. You really do need a mentor to keep you on track. Seek qualified candidates now and by March you'll be on a plan you can stick to. You'll be celebrating major success milestones in April and August.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Of course you have more power than you are exercising, but you wisely weigh the consequences of each action. True influence isn't about what you can get people to do; it's about what you can inspire them to want to do.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The absence of a person can be a presence -- a presence so strong it dominates the room, the talk and feeling of the day. This is how humans can transcend the apparent laws of space and time.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): You'll be the one with the cool news soon enough. Today you'll get a chance to practice reacting to the cool news of others. In a way, you're modeling the reaction you'd like to get when it's your turn to be the messenger.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): Setting yourself up for success will be a matter of casting the right people in the right roles of your life. You need someone to impress, someone to learn from and someone to cheer you on.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You'll talk on a number of broad topics and make people laugh, too. But your secret to relating to people is not in expressing yourself exceptionally well; rather, it is in observing exceptionally well.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): If it's true that the external circumstances exist to balance and harmonize what's going on inside you, you should be able to change your interior world through a rearrangement of your environment.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): It is your desire to be a delight to others. You won't have to do much to achieve this -- maybe slightly more than your usual self-care and making an effort to put yourself in their presence. That's it!
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): "How my achievements mock me!" said one character in a Shakespeare play. It's also the sentiment of everyone who's ever done something remarkable and been daunted by the prospect of repeating it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Because you know yourself well, you will see the world with greater accuracy. You can take your strengths and failings out of the equation and try for an unbiased view.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Plant your affection and something will grow. Maybe it won't be what you expected. Every location is different, and some ground is more fertile than other ground. But something will come of it.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): To think deeply into seemingly shallow things is the tendency shared by poets and storytellers, mystics, inventors, designers and pied pipers of all sorts. Caution: Some frivolous wastes of time really are just that. Be discerning.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You can't learn what you already know. This is why you might have to kick around some of the beliefs and stories inside your head to see how sound they really are. Believing in untrue things can prevent future learning.
Food on 01/24/2018