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player ready...Today’s Birthday (04/16/12). Plan the year ahead now, as the Moon transits Pisces. List the ways you love to spend your time, and find ways to do them more often. Put out the welcome mat for personal transformation, and open the door when it comes knocking. Discover spontaneity for pleasant surprises.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Planning and research fits. Fine-tune your domestic scene. Whittle down your list, and the pressure lets up. Mercury enters your sign for three weeks of sharper intellectual ease.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — Your friends want you to come out and play. Don’t get distracted from a deadline, but it is possible to have it all. Compromise. You’re smart enough to work it out.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — Consider new opportunities for the next few days. There’s a test. Mercury enters Aries for about three weeks, affecting Gemini’s self-expression, short travel and family.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is an 8 — Your luck is shifting for the better. Don’t launch until you’re ready, but sketches take life. Mercury enters Aries for a period of talk and action at home.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Business heats up to a pleasantly profitable sizzle. Your environment sparks your creativity. Spread it around. Let a loved one teach you.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — Get into imaginative teamwork with experts and partners. Use a system that you know works. Pay bills first. Service is key for the forseeable future.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — The excellent work you’ve been doing reflects well on you. The impossible is beginning to look easy. Dreams do come true. Be gracious to a hot head. Stay calm.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Focus on what’s important. Work quickly and carefully. The coming days portend communication and action around joint resources, ends and beginnings. You’re lucky in love.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 5 — Figure out how to make beautiful, marvelous things happen. Words and action come together around higher studies, theology, philosophy and travel.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — You can concentrate much easier today and tomorrow. Doing what you love is rewarding in many ways now, and your career picks up steam.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Why not throw a spontaneous dinner party to celebrate getting taxes done? You’re entering a phase of talk and action in community groups. Use your local resources.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — You can create things you didn’t think possible before. You are drawn to discussion about meditation retreats, health and wellness, or revealing hidden talents.