ARIES (March 21–April 19): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: Discipline your inner flame. Use your radiance constructively. Your theme is controlled fire. AUGUST: Release yourself from dwelling on what's amiss or off-kilter. Find the inspiration to focus on what's right and good. SEPTEMBER: Pay your dues with joy and gratitude. Work hard in service to your beautiful dreams. OCTOBER: You can undo your attractions to "gratifications" that aren't really very gratifying. NOVEMBER: Your allies can become even better allies. Ask them for more. DECEMBER: Be alert for unrecognized value and hidden resources.

TAURUS (April 20–May 20): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. July: If you choose to play one of life's trickier games, you'll have to get trickier yourself. August: Shedding irrelevant theories and unlearning old approaches will pave the way for creative breakthroughs. September: Begin working on a new product or project that will last a long time. October: Maybe you don't need that emotional crutch as much as you thought you did. November: Explore the intense, perplexing, interesting feelings until you're cleansed and healed. December: Join forces with a new ally and/or deepen an existing alliance.

GEMINI (May 21–June 20): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: It's time to take fuller advantage of a resource you've been neglecting or underestimating. AUGUST: For a limited time only, two plus two equals five. Capitalize on that fact by temporarily becoming a two-plus-two-equals-five type of person. SEPTEMBER: It's time and you're ready to discover new keys to fostering interesting intimacy and robust collaboration. OCTOBER: The boundaries are shifting on the map of the heart. That'll be a good thing as long as you acknowledge it and embrace it. NOVEMBER: If you do what you fear, you'll gain unprecedented power over the fear. DECEMBER: What's the one thing you can't live without? Refine and deepen your relationship to it.

CANCER (June 21–July 22): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: Acquire a new personal symbol that thrills your mind, evokes rich new feelings, and educates your soul. AUGUST: Reconfigure the way you attract money into your life. SEPTEMBER: Book learning is less important that streetwise research. Lower education is more useful than higher education. Be a rogue scholar of life's accidental poetry. OCTOBER: Your assignment is to ask for more help than you normally do. It's time to aggressively build up your support. NOVEMBER: Creativity is your superpower. Reinvent any part of your life that needs a bolt of imaginative ingenuity. DECEMBER: Love and care for what you imagine to be your flaws and liabilities.

LEO (July 23–Aug 22): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: Transform something that's semi-ugly into something that's useful and winsome. AUGUST: Go to the top of the world and seek a big vision of who you must become. SEPTEMBER: Your instinct for worthy and constructive adventures is impeccable. Trust it. OCTOBER: Be alert for a new teacher with a capacity to teach you precisely what you need to learn. NOVEMBER: Your mind might deceive you, but your body and soul won't. DECEMBER: Fresh hungers and budding fascinations should alert you to the fact that deep in the genius part of your soul, your master plan is changing.

VIRGO (Aug 23–Sept 22): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: I'd love to see you phase out wishy-washy wishes that keep you distracted from your burning, churning desires. AUGUST: A story that began years ago begins again. Be proactive about changing the themes you'd rather not repeat. SEPTEMBER: Get seriously and daringly creative about living in a more expansive world. OCTOBER: Acquire a new tool or skill that will enable you to carry out your mission more effectively. NOVEMBER: Unanticipated plot twists can help heal old dilemmas about intimacy. DECEMBER: Come up with sound plans to eliminate bad stress and welcome good stress.

LIBRA (Sept 23–Oct 22): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: Say this prayer every day: "The less I have to prove and the fewer people I have to impress, the smarter I'll be." AUGUST: Escape an unnecessary limitation. Break an obsolete rule. Ignore an inessential tradition. SEPTEMBER: What kind of "badness" might give your goodness more power? OCTOBER: You're stronger and freer than you thought you were. Use your untapped power. NOVEMBER: Narrowing your focus and paring down your options will serve you beautifully. DECEMBER: Replace what's fake with the Real Thing.

SCORPIO (Oct 23–Nov 21): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: Stretch yourself—freelance, moonlight, diversify, and expand. AUGUST: Power over other people isn't the ultimate aphrodisiac, power over yourself is. SEPTEMBER: Ask the big question, and be ready to act expeditiously when you get the big answer. OCTOBER: I think you can arrange for the surge to arrive in manageable installments. Seriously. NOVEMBER: Dare to break barren rules that are obstructing small miracles and cathartic breakthroughs. DECEMBER: Don't wait around hoping to be given what you need. Instead, go after it. Create it yourself, if necessary.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22–Dec 21): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: Can you infuse dark places with your intense light without dimming your intense light? Yes! AUGUST: It's time for an archetypal Sagittarian jaunt, quest, or pilgrimage. SEPTEMBER: The world around you needs your practical idealism. Be a role model who catalyzes good changes. OCTOBER: Seek out new allies and connections that can help you with your future goals. NOVEMBER: Be open to new and unexpected ideas so as to get the emotional healing you long for. DECEMBER: Shed old, worn-out self-images. Reinvent yourself. Get to know your depths better.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22–Jan 19): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: You have a special capacity to feel at peace with your body, to not wish it were different from what it naturally is. AUGUST: You can finally solve a riddle you've been trying to solve for a long time. SEPTEMBER: Make your imagination work and play twice as hard. Crack open seemingly closed possibilities. OCTOBER: Time to move up at least one rung on the ladder of success. NOVEMBER: Make yourself more receptive to blessings and help you have overlooked or ignored. DECEMBER: You'll learn most from what you leave behind—so leave behind as much as possible.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20–Feb 18): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: I'll cry one tear for you, and then I'll cheer. AUGUST: Plant seeds in places that hadn't previously been on your radar. SEPTEMBER: You may seem to take a wrong turn, but it'll take you where you need to go. OCTOBER: Open your mind and heart as wide as you can. NOVEMBER: I bet you'll gain a new power, higher rank, or greater privilege. DECEMBER: Send out feelers to new arrivals who may be potential helpers.

PISCES (Feb 19–March 20): Here are your short and sweet horoscopes for the coming months. JULY: Your creative powers are at a peak. AUGUST: Wean yourself from pretend feelings and artificial motivations and inauthentic communications. SEPTEMBER: If you want to have greater impact and more influence, you can. Make it happen! OCTOBER: Love is weird but good; love stings but sings. Trust the odd journey it takes you on. NOVEMBER: If you cultivate an appreciation for paradox, your paradoxical goals will succeed. DECEMBER: Set firm deadlines. Have fun disciplining yourself.

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