FOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010 by Holiday Mathis on Creators.com

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FOR RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2010

The day after a full moon can sometimes feel like the day after a raucous party. A cleanup effort will be in order. There are abandoned bottles and plates, forgotten sweaters, someone's lost cell phone and sometimes stray people, too. They all should be handled, either metaphorically or actually, as a part of today's agenda.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your scene may seem, by all outward appearances, exactly the same as it was yesterday. But if you experience a greater measure of peace around your situation, it is in fact not the same at all. It is healing and much improved.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Even the best of friends sometimes fight. But you always have the option of either taking issue with another person's choices or letting it go. For today, you won't regret adopting a "live and let live" policy.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You have excellent taste, and you will gladly share your recommendations. You are also sensitive to the different preferences of others and will tailor your opinions to your specific audience.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Romance, fame, riches — the promise of these words is different in theory than in reality. You'll enjoy the reality more when you accept the ways in which it is different from the dream.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). There's someone who gives you such a visceral charge that you'll feel like you can actually see the electronic particles dancing in the air around this person. Arrange to be around this person more often.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You'll be inspired to confess your feelings. Do this in as restrained a manner as possible. Hints and innuendo are more fun than real information. You'll draw others in closer instead of scaring them away.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Your attention is so sweet that others can't help but crave it. When they don't get it, they go to extreme measures to bring you back around. That's the chief reason people around you are behaving so strangely today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You'll feel things deeply and speak from your passion. Your words fly out faster than your brain can process them. This will produce interesting results now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). There is no reason to change what's working great. Continue in the same way until it stops producing results. Resolve to work through any restlessness you may encounter along the way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There are two kinds of citizens: those who do what's right because they might get caught and those who do what's right because it's who they are.

Realize which type you are dealing with.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Usually, you strongly consider your audience before you speak. But your opinion will be so strong on a certain issue that you will be driven to state it exactly as you feel it, regardless of who may hear.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Sometimes you have to pull back your love and effort in order for others to understand your contribution. In other words, today your work will be best noticed when you do not do it.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (August 25). The work you do is important. You'll open the minds and hearts of others. You concentrate your creativity and manifest it in a form that will surprise and delight those around you. A sweet connection happens in the next 10 weeks. November brings a happy shift in your professional life. Social opportunity abounds in May. Aries and Leo people adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 20, 15, 33 and 18.

AUGUST 25 CELEBRATION, OPICONSIVIA FESTIVAL: In the early days of the Virgo solar transit, the tributes to the earth-sign goddess in her many forms begin. August and September are filled with harvest celebrations from various cultures around the globe, and this day marks the annual Opiconsivia festival of the ancient Romans. To those who know her well, the goddess Opiconsivia is called by her nickname "Ops," which brings to mind all sorts of lovely word associations like "opulence," "optimism" and "opportunity," all connected with the bounty and goodness available. "Ops" was celebrated by the Romans as the queen of bounty and goodness — the Earth Mother, the Great Mother of the Gods and the Great Goddess. On Aug. 25, the ancient Romans would tribute the Goddess by getting physically close to the earth — hugging it, if you will, by lying or sitting on the ground in an effort to feel the pulse of the Great Mother beating inside her. Today's trine between the sun and Pluto will encourage us to be thankful for the bounty that flows through our lives today, and will nudge our imaginations and creativity in a direction that will bring about new opportunities.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: "Gossip Girl's" Blake Lively has the lovely qualities of Virgo five times over, as her sun, moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars are all housed in this highly capable sign. Her astrological chart shows her to be health conscious, nurturing, helpful and efficient. Jupiter in Aries suggests that she also has a feisty side, which she displays in the superhero flick "Green Lantern."

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