September 9, 2003

This is an excellent time to be proactive in your communications. Pay bills early, and send packages now instead of waiting. Mercury will go retrograde on Thursday, so today and tomorrow are ideal for executing important matters. Have those last-minute conversations to get across key information, and take notes, or tape-record everything.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re developing your own signature style at work. A trade secret revealed will help lead you down the road to riches. When you add your own twist to the traditional method, you’ve got a surefire winner.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Cleverness is your thing today. You mastermind a plan to get more money for your projects. The office is abuzz with news of your coup. A Libra colleague is on your wide. Shop around long enough to get exactly what you want.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’re up for a promotion. A friend seems to have only a superficial interest in what is going on. Accept that this person is going through his or her own thing and can’t be of much support to you right now.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). The right partner makes your project a success. You see eye-to-eye with Virgo and Taurus. Putting in the extra hours is worth it. Love tip: A shared interest makes someone new want to be with you constantly.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Although you are in the middle of change, focusing on what’s good in the people around you helps you feel stabilized. Good health is due in part to a satisfying love affair. Avoid criticism by refusing to be judgmental.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (September 9). Concentrate your efforts this year, and you make it to the winner’s circle. Through September, lucky contacts are attracted to you because you keep your eye on the ball. Libra and Leo loves are lucky, as are December investments. Family problems are solved with diplomacy. Don’t be stubborn, and it all works out for a lovely reunion in January. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 29, 31, 22 and 9.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). A regular MacGyver, you forge an ingenious new way of getting the job done. A break from tradition shocks supervisors, but they quickly see things your way. Witty anecdotes this afternoon leave everyone in stitches.

LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.23). You will shine when the stress is on if you only take time to be organized. An intriguing acquaintance quickly becomes a friend. The day ends on a high note, so don’t drink caffeine in the evening, or you could get too wound up to sleep.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your vision is far-reaching today, so think big. Goal setting may include extending education, long-distance travel of expansion of business territory. When you share tonight’s creative projects, they turn out even better.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Dynamism is your astrological gift today. Wheel and deal your way past challenges, make sales like crazy and get the most entertaining people on your side. Pisces figures prominently.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Make an agreement before the day is through. Contracts and verbal arrangements made over the next 24 hours are also productive and lasting. An expert opinion changes your mind.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Showmanship helps you get information across. Unemployed folks find they’re perfectly suited for work close to home. Love tip: Arrange for an amorous encounter outside your regular schedule.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t sweat it f you’re stuck without a whole lot to do this afternoon. Use the time to get personal stuff organized for the week. A generous gesture is featured tonight. Your lucky love sign is amorous Scorpio.

ASTROLOGICAL QUESTIONS: "My ex-husband and I have been divorced since 1992. We have remained good friends and are still close. I keep my distance, though, because he was an alcoholic when I divorced him. He stopped drinking about a year go. He very much wants to be together again. It would be so wonderful, but what are the chances of us being together and staying together for our golden years? His birthday is March 20, 194, and mine is Feb. 24, 1945."

I think you should go for it. Yours is a relationship that can certainly serve both of you well in your golden years. But this time around, you won’t be as dependent on him for emotional support, having learned your lesson. He’s a sensitive Pisces with plenty of planetary influence in that emotional sigh, and he drinks to anesthetize himself from the intensity of feeling he’s prone to. I wish I could tell you that he won’t drink again, but I can’t. What I can tell you is to take precautions, join groups and learn all you can about people who live with alcoholics. By being strong in your own right without trying to control him one bit, you can help him be strong.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Macaulay Culkin had a tough yet profitable childhood. Now, at 22, Culkin is in the perfect position to restart his acting career and his love life after a rocky adolescence. Virgos are comfortable with money, but it’s not the motivating force. They need work that drives them to excel. Culkin delves into a meaty role this year. He could find love yet again this year with a co-star from a new indie drama or thriller.

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