Mercury and Neptune move out of a tense arrangement, and the moon breaks free of two heavy oppositions, lending a feeling of sunshine parting the dark clouds. It's fitting for the national holiday celebrated on June 4: Audacity to Hope Day. Lean into the generative spirit that dares to believe better is possible, that solves, joins and endures, that leaps in faith and flies.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Hope is a lever. There is always a way to make it work, to adjust or flip it. "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." — Archimedes

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You are the product of generations who hoped to survive savage conditions, to thrive through cruelty and turmoil and to beat impossible odds. Though you endure and advance, in a sense you have already arrived. You are hope embodied.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Hope is intrinsic. It's just part of the deal. It's sown into the simplest interactions and integrated into the profoundly life-changing ones as well. So you don't have to conjure hope, only remember its existence in existence itself.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Your signmate Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison before negotiating an end to apartheid and institutionalized racist laws, knew something about hope. "May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." — Nelson Mandela

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Hope has many disguises, and for you they are often quite whimsical. Sometimes it arrives as laughter at the worst possible moment, or the urge to clean a room, answer a message, plant tomatoes, buy new boots or learn three guitar chords after midnight.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Hope loves evidence, but it can also survive on rumor. A single good conversation, one sweet kiss, the smell of bread from a nearby kitchen, and suddenly the whole nervous system starts voting in favor of the future again.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Hope is often mistaken for naivety by people who confuse cynicism with intelligence. It actually requires enormous imagination to believe broken things can regain function, beauty can return and people can surprise and delight each other.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Hope floats. It's like the impenetrable beach ball that can bob in a swimming pool or an ocean, that can ride in on any average tide or surf a tidal wave. Its properties have it hovering above the deepest dangers, buoying the heaviest hearts.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Hope is relentlessly durable. People drag it through wars, divorces, blackouts, funerals and tax season, and somehow it never dings, dents or gets dusty. You cannot run out, so use as much of it as you can in as many ways as you can think to.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Hope has been a subject of pondering for many great minds. Einstein believed hope came in the form of a powerful punctuation mark. "Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." — Albert Einstein

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Hope is a bridge built by people who never got to cross it themselves. Every road, recipe, protest song and library book carries the fingerprints of someone who believed the future should contain more chances than the past did.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Hope behaves like ivy. Give it one crack in the wall and soon it's climbing everywhere, curling around rusted gates, abandoned factories and exhausted hearts, insisting on beauty where practicality alone would have bulldozed the entire scene long ago.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (June 4). In your Year of Hope Embodied, you will fulfill the wishes of your ancestors by living with joy, choosing what you love and taking advantage of your many freedoms. It doesn't always seem that simple, but sometimes it really is! That's when you take pictures and celebrate to the hilt. More highlights: Loving proclamations, exciting and lucrative new business and mastery of a game. Capricorn and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 5, 21, 24, 4 and 6.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Angelina Jolie possesses that Gemini shapeshifter quality in abundance. Early wild-child rebel, then UN ambassador energy, then director/writer, then mythic beauty icon, then grounded mother of six. Gemini often resists becoming one thing forever. The superstar was born when the sun and Mercury were both in brilliant Gemini, auspiciously trined with Pluto and her moon opposes Pluto — aspects that speak to Jolie's intensity.

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