This is the most productive day of the week. The Virgo moon acts as a manager of quality control, enlisting the support of Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn along the way. Powers of focus are augmented, and you can't beat the prevailing work ethic. "Nothing succeeds like success." — Alexandre Dumas

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Good news! Elaborate problems will not need elaborate solutions. Simple solutions applied repeatedly to multiple layers will do. Amazing progress will be made with one effective measure repeated hundreds of times.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). You don't expect people to read your mind, but it would be nice if they would at least tune into the tone you're using or retain a few words of what you say. Oblivious people may just need to be awakened.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Your identity is not a cultural narrative. You may enact aspects of a type; try them on as one would a costume. They're not your real clothes. No single person entirely fits a stereotype, though many fill out aspects of it.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Who doesn't love a bouncy ball? You smack it on the ground, and then you're never quite sure what kind of chase will come next. The equivalent of a bouncy ball will be hiding inside one of your tasks of the day.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Being first on the scene will give you multiple advantages. For starters, the silence before the action will be magical. Then it's like the opening credits roll of a movie, rich in foreshadowing with plenty of clues about what's to come.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). The things that go right don't have nearly the scientific value as the ones that go wrong. That's where the excitement, fun and learning come from. There's nothing that cannot be embraced in this whole day.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You can own the day and still move through negative emotions. Negativity isn't a bane to overcome; rather, it's part of life to process and use. Shade gives the picture dimension.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). It will be impossible to dedicate yourself to solving a problem without accidentally solving something for yourself in the process. Everything you give will also be a gift to you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Loving people can still harbor secret blame for one another for less-than-ideal outcomes. Though it's true that some of the problems are no fault of your own; it doesn't change what needs to be done about it now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). If you knew that your whole purpose in an endeavor was to lay a launching pad for the next person's rocket, would you still put in the work? Of course, you would, just as your predecessor did for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You see what's around you and glimpses of something a little farther — enough to tease you into journeying on. Pack fortifications. The distance is more distant than it looks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). If it feels like you're stuck in a spot, then it's only because you are. The good thing is that you noticed. Also, there are about ten easy ways to get out of this and hundreds of more hard ways. You're one phone call away from freedom.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 8). A different kind of life is shaping up for you in 2021 and an agreement will change to better fit new circumstances. It will be so exciting to be asked to do the very thing you enjoy most. Your talent sings and grows. Family needs something new from you, and you'll love what you have to learn in order to provide it. Aquarius and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 38, 17, 1 and 49.

COSMIC QUESTION: "I should have married my ex-boyfriend, a Libra I left a decade ago. When I see him and his happy family, gorgeous wife and two adorable children, I am plagued with regret. I'm single. The relationship I broke up with him for lasted less than a year and was with someone terrible. I think about my ex every night and stalk his wife's social media pages. Any advice for a very regretful Sagittarius?"

Regret is a prison cage you make for yourself to punish yourself for past wrongs. It is arguable whether this sort of penal system works in any form, since a detained prisoner is in no position to learn the tools for reform. You can't learn from your mistakes from a cage of regret. The key that imprisons you self-blame. Turn that key the other way and set yourself free.

What if you are not to blame? What if you were not ready for that relationship at that time? What if there were other factors at a play that you're forgetting about now? Could you take a leap of faith in your ability to choose what's right for you? Could you look back at the one who made those decisions 10 years ago and say, "She had her reasons..." and leave it at that? More on this tomorrow.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Nicki Minaj embodies her fire sign nature at every turn. The passionate Sagittarius has told of being a young girl who created fantasy characters and alter egos to escape the turmoil of her childhood reality. Sagittarius is the sign of adventurers. When escape isn't possible, a rich fantasy life will do! Minaj was born when the sun, Mercury, Venus, Uranus and Neptune were all in the passionate, fiery sign of Sagittarius.

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