The workload grows, and so will our capacity to handle it under the Virgo full moon. This influence favors all efforts to improve health, establish better habits and honor your body as the temple and vehicle you'll be riding into the future. It's also a cosmic signal to spend the next two weeks wrapping up projects and clearing the way for new adventure.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). There's no joy in working for external approval. Even if you were to get the approval, the validation would be too superficial to conjure up any real satisfaction. For deeply satisfying results, do it for you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you're not seeing the situation as a game, how will you play to win? Plan several moves in advance. A temporary move backward can lead to a giant leap forward.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Everyone has different tolerances. You regularly take on work that others can't deal with, and there is also someone who would take the jobs you don't want. All you have to do is ask.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). No one (including you) knows all of you, though many will want to know more today as the reserved mood you're in casts a fog of mystery wherever you go.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). If someone gets frustrated with you over something unimportant, it's either not about that at all or not unimportant. Either way, you'll meet frustration with patience, kindness and listening and defuse the whole situation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). What you are doing must enrich people's lives, or you won't care to do it. The creativity and high standard of quality you bring to each endeavor will be essential to your success.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). For you, romance isn't so much a feeling you have about another person as it is a way of life. Your affection attracts beauty, and your beauty attracts affection.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Anyone who is informing you by telling you how to feel is not informing you. This applies to matters of news, gossip, interpersonal communication, art, commerce and more.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Whether your efforts are good enough to win, to be popular, to please — this is not the point. The point is in making these efforts consistently and wholeheartedly until you finish what you started.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You will choose your best response to events from a range of possibilities. From a calm and centered place, you will have many more options than the person who is emotionally entwined in what's going on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). True love shouldn't be stressful. It should relax you — make you healthier even. Love is healing. Amorous feelings have a mysterious way of adjusting your chemistry to support your immune system.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Avoid hearing or giving excuses; explanations will be equally unlucky today. On the other hand, it will be extremely lucky to acknowledge a less-than-optimal reality and describe how you're going to make it right.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (March 12). There will be more demands on you to be creative this year, which is what you wanted, though it does take a minute to get used to. You'll adjust your lifestyle to accommodate what's required of you over the next six weeks. Love is your touchstone and comfort in June, your fun and excitement in August. Cancer and Capricorn adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 9, 30, 28, 5 and 12.

FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: The Virgo full moon is a self-help luminary focused on the productive habits that will contribute to our health and well-being. This luminous orb in the sign of practical magic comes complete with good, sensible ideas and the energy and guts to apply them. Avoid the tendency to watch how other people are taking care of themselves at this time. Comparison would only squander the opportunity here. By minding your own business and your own body, you could make some serious headway in the next two weeks toward improving your overall vitality.

The next planetary move is Mercury's zip into Aries, which starts a fresh cycle for the messenger planet. Besides communication, Mercury also rules daily matters of commerce. What will become immediately apparent is our need for novelty in our interactions and dealings. We're ready to join the future differently. There's a boldness and youthfulness implied in this position of Aries. Following the lead of the younger generation will be a theme.

March 17 brings St. Patrick's Day and also a square of the Pisces sun and Saturn. The festivities may change in tone from a jovial intent to a realization about the many privileges, gifts and responsibilities involved in being a part of a group.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Electric, versatile and ever-glamorous diva Liza Minnelli was born when the sun was in vulnerable, theatrical Pisces and the moon in Cancer, the sign of mothers. It took great courage for Minnelli to follow in her mother's footsteps, being so intimately acquainted with the perils of show business, but her having Mercury and Venus in explosive, energetic Aries shows she has endless wells of bravery.

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