LITTLE ROCK — Happy birthday. You’ll like the new characters that come into your life this year, and you’ll be happy for their influence on your story. People will give you things in October. Some gifts will be straight up wonderful, and others will be mixed blessings. December sends you on an adventurous vacation. August brings a windfall. Gemini and Scorpio people adore you.
ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’ll have some ambivalence about going through with the event you set up earlier in the week. You can interpret this as a sign that you’ve changed since then.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Ask for what you’ve long wanted.There’s no reason you shouldn’t be given the royal treatment, except that no one will know it’s what you expect unless you ask for it.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21): Friends are proud to know you. Plus, your life might be more exciting than theirs at the moment, which means they’ll share - probably more than you would have liked - on your behalf.
CANCER (June 22-July 22): Maybe gravity is caused by gravitons, but no one has seen a graviton, so who knows? Similarly, a loved one’s downer mood has no traceable source, so don’t take it personally.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The circumstances around you will confirm your opinion of how things should be, and so your mood will be light - until they don’t confirm them anymore. Then your mood will be busy.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Those with nutty, irrational beliefs are often willing to go the distance to justify them. That could influence you to go another route today: open-minded and explaining nothing.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): What matters is not what you talk about, but how you flesh out your topics with a personal connection. Bringing more of yourself to superficial relationships will deepen them.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): If you surprise a horse, you chance receiving a swift kick to the sternum. With a gentle approach and a reassuring pat, you can show a horse that you come in peace. People are the same today, so proceed with caution.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Melding your personality to suit those around you will be counterproductive Today, fitting in is a near impossible feat. Instead, create your own niche.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your creative mind is abuzz.You’ll allow yourself to wander to some extent, but you know it’s only a matter of time before you must rein yourself in and get some work done.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Contradictions are a natural part of who you are.You needn’t defend your clashing opinions. So what if they are incongruent? So are a lot of the more sophisticated aspects of life.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Complainers abound. Some of them are quite humorous in their apt descriptions of what’s wrong. But you most admire the ones who don’t talk about the conditions and just experience them.
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