Horoscopes by Holiday by Holiday Mathis

Many will gather around the Stonehenge monument this summer solstice in a marvelous melding of modern and ancient civilization. How will you personally celebrate the sun into Cancer? With reverence or revelry? Whichever tone you choose, it will be most auspicious to express gratitude to the life-giving, light-giving sun.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). When you're not at work, you're still working. You're doing what you need to do to keep this lifestyle rolling along. Don't let anyone waste your time by talking about nothing, or it will set you back.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You're not likely to get to your destination in an orderly, linear fashion. It may seem that every direction you take leads to a detour, and that's just the way it is — nothing personal. Persevere and you'll get there.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Family politics will play out. Maybe you tried to avoid getting involved, but there is something important at stake. You can smooth the way. Figure out what each person needs. Facilitate a winning outcome.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Should you bend the rules when it's a clear case of "no harm, no foul"? Probably. Not every issue is clear cut. You can probably find a way to be ethical and savvy at the same time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Sometimes it's easier for you to respond to other people's wants than it is to declare your own. But this is your turn and you need to take it. Say what you desire and let others help you.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (JUNE 20). The morale of a group depends on you. Be proud of your work. Keep track of your successes and post them where everyone can see. Summer brings celebration of family and friends. There's special luck for sports and games in October. A sweetheart dotes on you. You deepen your commitment in December. Aries and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 30, 10, 44 and 17.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You will benefit from developing your strategic mind. You will see complex situations as a game and become interested in how you can progress toward the prize. You have skill right from the start.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You are already doing the work of two people, but this can't continue too much longer before you stagnate or burn out. So find your other "person" and teach him or her how to do this work, too.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). You'll be sweating it out. Is it labor or leisure? It's anyone's guess and it doesn't matter to you at all.

You're doing what you do because you have to in order to feel fulfilled, happy and alive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Following your mind's analysis of where you should go and what you should do next will be a long and arduous process. But following your heart's impulse will bring you happiness immediately.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your old memory and a new idea will collide in your mind. Both are equally true, but only one can win at this match if you are to move forward. So choose the side that makes you feel better and commit to it completely.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Get clear in relationships by communicating. You have no idea what another person's expectations are unless you ask. In fact, the other person might not even realize what he wants until you bring it up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Make "no apologies" your creed. You've been giving in too often lately and for minor, unintentional and harmless errors that may not have been your fault. Build your confidence. Refrain from saying "sorry" for three days.

ASTROLOGICAL QUESTIONS: "Do you have any advice for a 25-year-old Pisces who just started dating a musician on his way to becoming famous? We were only dating for four months when his record label sent him out on the road to promote a new album. Now he's appearing in videos and playing for thousands of people and I'm not sure how I can compete with all of the attention he's getting from everyone else. Though he says that he really cares about me and wants us to be together, this whole thing is making me feel very insecure."

I've been in a similar position and I admire your candor — life with a musician is not for the faint of heart. That said, you need to snap out of this insecure mood and fast. Pisces are easily swept into the hubbub of fame and can be hurt in the process if they are not aware of the realities of this line of business. What you need to do now is to go deeper into your own interests and ambitions. Remember who you are. Devote yourself fully to realizing your own goals. Get grounded and date your musician boyfriend as you would any other "normal" guy.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Academy Award-winning Nicole Kidman has undergone many changes in the last few years, adapting to her life as the wife of a country music superstar, moving to the south and mothering an infant. Then again, versatile Gemini shines the brightest in the midst of transition. With Mercury in Cancer, motherhood will bring Kidman to new depths of emotion and make possible her greatest work.

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