Call your specific talent into play in preparation for this Neptune retrograde. If you don't know what your specific talent is, consider this an invitation to investigate. Chances are, your friends know. Start there. "Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

ARIES (March 21-April 19). What's the objective? Call it out, and then direct your power there at least three times today and for 50 minutes at a time. This will be a magic quick-start recipe for you, especially if done before sunset.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Helping those in need isn't optional to you, as there is something inside that simply must commit to the task. Furthermore, as far as your family is concerned you're a regular superhero.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). For modern humans, the pains of life are emotional and existential as often as they are physical. For you there will be a wonderful mix — just enough stimuli to spur you to a romantic, brilliant, existential idea.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It is usually experience, and not genetics, that makes a person ruthless. A kindhearted person makes the ruthless nervous, as they will find the kindness beautiful and therefore threatening.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your idea is still hovering between the realms of here and not here. You can sense it on the other side of a membrane, wondering about you as much as you are wondering about it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Is your dream improbable? So what? So are you. That this iteration of you came to be at all was against the odds, beyond your comprehension. Considering how very lucky you've been, you might want to push that a little further.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Do you know the depth of what you have loved? Few can claim that knowledge, but if you strive for it even a little this day, you'll be richer for the reach.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There's an impulsiveness to the day. You have many friends, and you should call on one who is particularly knowledgeable before you make the move you are contemplating.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You want to help: Carry the groceries; hear out the problem; connect the people who should know one another. Whatever the deal, you want to contribute. You're versatile. You'll find a way.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your fortune will follow this dictum: Stacks and stacks of near misses and then suddenly a hit. How wonderful it will feel, this victory you have so diligently earned!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You know what you have to do if you're going to walk your talk: Wean yourself off the distraction that's been taking so much of your attention and giving so little back to you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The dramas on television are exciting and rapid-fire representations of lives that no one lives. Contrastingly, real life has minimal plot and extraordinary beauty, which you'll enjoy today.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (June 12). What is love? It's beyond explanation, so don't even try. But one feature is that love gives more than it takes. You'll feel enlarged by everything you deliver in love, and others will be bigger for everything they give in the same spirit. You'll slip into a happy financial zone in July. September brings domestic improvement. Aries and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 22, 13, 39 and 1.

FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: Did you ever notice how the best actors can convey deep and complicated emotions with incredible restraint and subtlety? A glance is a tell. A smoldering look flickers across the face for a nanosecond, but it lands in the back of our animal brains and the animal in us knows what it means. Attention flows to certain things and doesn't flow to others, and the trail of that attention is a journey and a story.

This is the small, intense power that's packed into this week.

It's one pinch of hot chili powder that changes the dish.

It's a spark that lights up the brush.

It's the smoldering look that changes everything for generations.

Neptune goes retrograde and will remain as such until mid-November. The introspection and insight implied with this transit will be more useful to those inclined to search the deeper recesses of the soul. In the weeks to come, the clueless will gain clues. The oblivious will tune in. The self-aware will gain even more knowledge and wisdom.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Among the most impactful personal diaries written in this world, "The Diary of a Young Girl" chronicles the days of Anne Frank, who lost her life in a concentration camp during World War II. To the end, Frank believed in the inherent goodness of people, even as evil and prejudice was all around her. A Gemini with Mercury and Jupiter in Gemini as well, even death couldn't keep Frank from communicating her story.

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