TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Sept. 10). You'll outperform yourself this year and meet someone new this month–a person who makes you want to stretch your muscles, flex your power and be your best. October brings a trade-off you are willing to make. December is sweetly romantic. You'll be teaching someone an important lesson in January. Pisces and Capricorn people adore you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You'll be given a very minor bonus. This is like a child being offered a sticker at the end of the doctor's visit. It's a small gesture, but it's well-earned and so well-received.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You suspect that something very improbable is nonetheless quite true. Maybe there are no real facts -- only matters that can be confirmed to a greater or lesser degree by observational data.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Allow people to go deeply into their own thought processes, and your interactions will be richer. Conversations will be opportunities. Do not interrupt and you will get the true story.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). To a degree, you can influence others to feel good or bad about themselves. It will feel as though you have power over them, when in fact you need their agreement and cooperation in order to produce a result.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). How are you going to have more fun? You mistakenly think that this is about buying a concert ticket in advance or planning a trip. But it's really about slowing down long enough to let things crack you up.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The one who really loves you will give you a deep level of concentration. This person will listen and watch you carefully because he or she really wants to understand who you are.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). Your work will require you to do things that you are not entirely comfortable doing. Pretend like you love this challenge, and maybe you'll start to feel as though this is true.

ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). You'll make your life special -- not by climbing Mt. Everest or by doing anything spectacularly outlandish, but by taking great care in applying imagination and style to the absolutely ordinary events of the day.

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). You've said it to yourself a million times already: Attitude is everything. And you'll drill it in a million times more. You can't stress this enough to yourself and those in your keeping.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Take the time to admire those close to you for their funny ways and the unusual and beautiful contributions they make to your life. You will feel so happy to walk the earth with these people.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It will be easy for you to get to work and finish everything that needs to be accomplished -- so easy that it may feel like you're playing the part of a person who is working but not actually doing the work.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You will probably need to show people how to treat you and tell them what you want. You are not so easily defined, which is why a certain someone is having a difficult time understanding where you fit into his or her world.

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