Your daily horoscope: August 20, 2024

HOROSCOPES IF TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY

Because you have such a big personality you attract people who feed off your confidence and life force. This year though you would be wise to limit how much you give of yourself, so you have enough left in the tank to fuel your own ambitions.

ARIES (March 21 – April 20):

If you attempt to push loved ones in directions they don’t want to go they will dig in their heels and refuse to move. The way to win them round to your way of thinking is to inspire them with a vision of a great future together.

TAURUS (April 21 – May 21):

The fact that you have received no thanks at all for helping someone in need must not be allowed to cloud your thinking or change your approach. You did not put yourself out to earn applause, you did it because it was the right thing to do.

GEMINI (May 22 – June 21):

There are downsides to your current celebrity status and one of them is that people are watching you wherever you go and whatever you do. Make an effort to duck out of the limelight today, so you can act with a little more freedom.

CANCER (June 22 – July 23):

Do you have a philosophy of life? If not, you would be wise to start thinking about what drives you and how you can use that drive to help make the world a better place. Put aside some time today to meditate on the meaning of life.

LEO (July 24 – Aug. 23):

The sun is coming to the end of its stay in your sign but that does not mean you should slow down or abandon what you are working on. In fact the opposite is true: make a superhuman effort to finish that important project you recently started.

VIRGO (Aug. 24 – Sept. 23):

By all means go your own way and do your own thing today but don’t go overboard and start behaving outrageously as that will inevitably turn people against you. You will have a lot more freedom to act when the sun enters your sign on Thursday.

Missed one of your horoscopes? Here are the most recent days’ forecasts:

Some kind of creative endeavour needs to be completed before the sun changes signs on the 22nd. After that date you will have a lot less room for manoeuvre and certainly won’t be able to do as you please. A great many people are depending on you.

LIBRA (Sept. 24 – Oct. 23):

If you keep pushing at a door that has been shut to you in the past it will eventually swing wide open. The cosmic picture is changing and in a matter of days you could find yourself on the brink of a major breakthrough. Be ready for it.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24 – Nov. 22):

Even people who have known you for years seem determined to misunderstand what you are telling them. It may be frustrating but it isn’t the end of the world, so stay calm and wait until their brain fog has passed, because that’s all it is.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 – Dec. 21):

A financial issue of some kind needs to be dealt with before the sun changes signs on Thursday. You may not be worrying about it now but you will certainly be worrying about it later on when you incur losses that could have been avoided.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 – Jan. 20):

You may be an ideas person by nature but you need to accept that other people’s minds don’t always work along the same mental grooves as your own. Partners and colleagues are entitled to disagree with you and you must not take it personally.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 – Feb. 19):

If you use your imagination today you can easily conjure up an image of where you would most like to be and what you would most like to be doing before the end of the year. Hold that vision in your head and work toward a major transformation.