Nothing deepens pleasure like meaning. When we connect the superficial sensory information with a story or belief, this mental path intensifies our joy. In preparation for tomorrow's rare second new moon in Cancer, recognize the feelings you keep coming back to like a comfortable home, and the meaning you ascribe to them.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). The excitement of a new prospect will only slightly surpass the amount of trepidation you feel over the matter, and that's enough. Later, you'll be able to say that it was attraction, not fear, that drove you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Your knowledge of words and symbols will lead you to analyze a situation and comprehend it so well that you'll be a point of reference for others. You'll contribute significantly to team decisions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Someone relays an idea. Someone very different relays the same idea. The idea won't be accepted equally from these two sources. Bias is always in effect. Who says a thing will matter a great deal.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). It feels like there is a continual war of opposites going on today. If anyone can bring this together into a cohesive, functioning whole, you are just the agent of unity to do it.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your primary intention is to help others. Because of this, everything else will make space for you. You make the scene tolerable for you, and everyone else benefits.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Greatness doesn't happen overnight. Be content with minor gains; they are the ones that will matter in the end. Major gains are nothing but a collection of minor gains.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You prefer everything to be peaceful, and you have very little tolerance for drama. High-intensity emotions seem like an indulgence. Even so, you'll find yourself fascinated by the strong feelings of the day.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). When you add kindness, you don't know what's going to happen next, but you do know that you won't regret it. Your compassionate energy radiates, and it's just what is needed in the situation and the world.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). With so much going on, your mind will toggle between being engaged, distracted, engaged, etc. Finally, you'll have a heavenly stretch of time to ponder what you are and what you might be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You'll require more from yourself, and you'll deliver on that, too. It's not easy to be you, but at the end of the day, when your head hits the pillow, you'll know that the world is a little better for your hand in it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). A joyful life is a custom job. No one recipe will work for everyone. In fact, if you were to do someone else's joy-program it would bore you at best. Create your own adventure.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The thing that makes you call an activity "work" is that it's at least a little harder than doing nothing at all. However much effort it takes, it can also be exceedingly pleasant. That's how it will go down today at least.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (July 19). Your confidence and charisma surge as you rise to invigorating challenges. The motor that drives your actions are your own interesting goals. You find yourself in amazing, adventurous situations and it's all because of the way you see your future. Healthy changes favorably affect your personal life and relationships. Virgo and Pisces adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 6, 30, 22, 10 and 4.

FORECAST FOR THE WEEK AHEAD: In the early days of biology, many scientists believed that all beings developed from miniature versions of themselves, and these "seed germs" were the same in microscopic form as they were in forms full-grown. The radical transformations of some creatures, and the ability of certain creatures to reproduce in various ways, including asexually, could not be explained with this theory, which eventually had to give way to ideas of generation more varied and plausible.

There are many ways in which we, as individuals, grow in spirit. Sometimes, we do stay about the same as we simply grow bigger until our soul and personality fill out the space in a way that feels more "full-sized." But more often than not, the spiritual aspects of our being thrive in more unusual, varied and transformative ways. Often we don't grow so much as change. At this late stage of the Cancer solar journey, we get a rare second new moon in Cancer. It's a fresh start and another chance to take on a new spiritual form. Be who you want to be.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: The lead guitarist for Queen, Brian May, composed "We Will Rock You" — and rock us he did. Then this Cancer became an astrophysicist and published his doctoral thesis on zodiacal light. May was born when the sun, Mercury and Venus were in soulful Cancer. His moon, Saturn and Pluto are in entertaining Leo and natal Mars is in intellectual Gemini.

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