Holiday Mathis

The Uranus reversal begins a backward journey that will carry through early January 2021. Our surprises are about to get more baffling, random, disparate and mysterious. This is also very thrilling, as it provides the sort of work that requires making sense of the nonsense. Life is a puzzle, the solving of which will be extremely satisfying.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Stay away from the “I did it, and so can you” type of messaging today because it’s overly simplistic and does not account for the myriad of ways that people are so different from one another.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). The reality of a situation is much better than you’re thinking it is. You just have to ask different questions of it. A person coming from a different place in life will help you frame things another way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Any mistakes in the work will actually be mistakes of planning. The more time you spend thinking ahead and setting yourself up for a win, the better your day will go.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your natural responses cannot be correct or incorrect. They just are. The behavior you choose after you feel a certain way can be very much wrong or right. You’ll choose carefully tonight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). While it’s natural to sometimes feel bad, sad, worried or angry, those who stay in these states indefinitely will have a negative consequence on your well-being. When you’re choosing your company, consider tone.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It turns out that the period of time when you felt like you were meandering was actually a long and deliberate planning stage for what’s going on with you today.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). When you are in an observant, receptive and artistic mood, “always,” “never” and other extremes of language fall away. You revel in life’s many colors and shades beyond black and white.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You’ve known things to be more work than anticipated, but today’s thing is ridiculous. Devote yourself when it’s adding up to something that will matter. This isn’t. Get out of it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re still figuring out what can and cannot be done and which tasks fall neatly under your jurisdiction. It might be worth it to take on something that’s not your responsibility, even though you won’t get credit.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There was a time when you stretched yourself to fit a role. And then, slowly, steadily, you grew to fit the title. You’re about to repeat this process with a new challenge.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Your attitude is the perfect match to get any job done, but especially the ones that have to do with extending your powers of empathy to figure out how best to help the situation along.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You won’t go wrong when you aim for tangible, quantifiable outcomes. A coach can help you along. Unambiguous feedback isn’t for everyone — only for the tough, like you.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Aug. 15). You’ve always been the star of your show, but now you’ll also be the star of the arena you’ve been trying to shine in. You’ll dominate the tasks, win the competitions and take over the leadership where appropriate. All this, plus you’ll receive adoring attention from those you love to be around. What could be better? Aries and Cancer adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 1, 11, 37, 41 and 13.

ASTROLOGICAL QUESTION: (Part Three) An Aquarian reader recently shared her special relationship with numbers. Intrigued, I asked her to intuit a number series for myself and other readers. You can read parts one and two of this question in the archives from earlier this week.

Strong Aquarius writes: “I’ve had a very hard time in my relationship with my current boyfriend. He has had a long meth addiction, and we have struggled with this. Every time I’m ready to give up on him, his number shows constantly. Sometimes it upsets me, because I want to let him go (in my head), and it’s like the numbers are asking me to hold on and not to give up. It’s upsetting because it feels like a war between my head and my heart, and I don’t like to be told what to do. But I feel like the numbers are telling me what I should do! Numbers can’t be bent. They are solid and secure. It feels so good to talk about this!”

Number sequence, intuited by Aquarian reader: 2 3 4 7 10 12 14 15 17 18 19 21 22 24 25 28 31 37 39 43 44 72 80 27

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Among the many Jennifer Lawrence projects slated for release soon is the much-anticipated true crime drama “Mob Girl” based on the experiences of mob-boss wife Arlyne Brickman, who became an FBI informant. Lawrence is a versatile Leo born when the sun and Venus were both in the sign of entertainment and three heavy-hitting outside planets were in the sign of goal-getting, business-minded Capricorn.

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