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As well as being an American holiday, today is also designated for random acts of kindness, which is appropriate for the final day of the Aquarian sun. Aquarius is the sign of philanthropy, and kindness is among the best ways to promote human interest. Take this opportunity to fortify the human family in some small way.

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Mercury retrogrades through an emotional landscape, triggering memories. When was the last time you felt this? What does that picture remind you of? And here comes a scent that brings you immediately back to another time. It's as though now and way back are laced together with the cosmic rays, and can you be healed by those rays, too.

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After Valentine's Day, it's honest self-reflection that drives a mature person to wonder about the nature of a relationship. Do you care about someone because who they are means something important to you, or because the way you fit together serves you well? Likely it's both, but should the two really be so lumped together under the umbrella ...Read more

This day of hearts lifts the impediments to love and in their place puts two lunar trines, cosmic smoke-and-mirror enhancements to pull off love's delicious illusions. The first involves the communication planet in empathetic Pisces, the next a late-night water sign tryst between the smoldering Scorpio moon and Neptune, the planet of dreams.

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The good news and the bad news are the same under this Scorpio moon opposition: Fear doesn't go away. It will always be there to protect you or lie to you, stop you from failing and also succeeding. In other words, fear will just keep doing its job. So, you keep doing yours, which has to do with learning when to heed, embrace or ignore fear.

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When you're gracious enough to work around a difficult person -- to tolerate quirks, skip over obstacles and co-exist without friction -- it's maturity at work, though it might also be a missed opportunity. What would happen if you engaged instead? The Libra moon will help. After all, there must be something to learn here.

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In "The Cynic's Word Book," Ambrose Bierce wrote that "a person of low taste" is "more interested in himself than in me." It's funny because it's true, particularly as the moon shifts to aesthetic Libra. We long to be elevated by those who believe our ideas are special, and we're really on to something with how we're showing up in the world.

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Words can indeed wound or comfort, motivate or thwart. Even the thick-skinned, even the ones who don't listen well, who don't speak a common language or who aren't in the room can feel words. Because words are just sounds to articulate a feeling and an intention. Mercury pulls across the sky from the moon, elongating the echoes.

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The witty conceptual artist John Baldessari had a popular piece called "Teaching a Plant the Alphabet," in which he held up flashcards to unimpressed foliage. The master suggested: "When I think I'm teaching, I'm probably not. When I don't think I'm teaching, I probably am." Under the instructive Virgo moon, model the behavior you want to ...Read more

Rejection is a pretty substantial fear in the human psyche, right up there with the biggest baddies. And yet, now that 5,000 years from our prehistoric lifestyle, rejection seldom ends fatally. We have to teach ourselves that it's really OK not to have everyone's acceptance all the time. In that teaching: liberation, Leo moon style.

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There is gold at the intersection of these four things: what you love, what you're good at, what the world needs and what you're paid for. Finding that intersection isn't completely easy; there won't be traffic lights or signage installed yet. You have to do it yourself. Get busy! The Leo full moon will cheer you all the way on.

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Neptune's angle gives us a rumination moon. Worries about one's status in the group are natural and primal. Unfortunately, these sorts of worries are not, generally speaking, performance enhancing. Better to focus on finding something to like in others. That sort of mindset usually sets off a very attractive set of behaviors.

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Just because you pay too much for something (or wait too long, care too deeply, want to hard) doesn't mean that when you get it, it will be right. In fact, it's more often true that once there's this kind of trouble, the trouble keeps coming. Don't worry. If you didn't choose the easy way the first time around, you'll get another chance at ...Read more

Those with famous faces wear sunglasses and hats to avoid being recognized in public, though the disguise sometimes makes blending in even more difficult. The lunar opposition to Jupiter reinforces the idea: The cover can attract more attention than what's being covered. Nothing hides as well as naturalness and honesty in plain view.

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Mercury in Pisces comes with a gentle warning not to let moods overtake you. Yes, we can stumble into moods. We can also produce them by arranging sets of circumstances that are under our control. Take the time to put yourself in the mood you think will work best for the situation, because destiny is often determined by our attitudes.

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The arrangement of Venus and Pluto casts a ceremonial profundity over crowds gathering at Gobbler's Knob for the appearance of Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages, Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary. "Silly things cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people." -- Jane Austen

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The Taurus moon is excellent for getting you in touch with your appetites. Something to keep in mind: There really is no fixed future, only potential futures that are more or less likely to happen depending on one key factor -- your attention. Use the powerful force of your mind's eye to focus on what you wish for yourself and the world.

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Thoughts on a moon causing a ruckus: The opposite of knowing what's right for you isn't knowing what's wrong for you, it's uncertainty. Wrongness is easy and obvious. You just avoid it. But something that's a little right and a little wrong in spots -- that's the kind of thing that needs to be sorted out and decided so it doesn't waste your ...Read more

Hurt doesn't last. Even if the condition that caused a pain response turns out to be permanent, pain fades, new things come in, attention shifts. This is the message of hope brought to you courtesy of a sweet lunar trine between the impulsive Aries moon and mars in the transient sign of Sagittarius.

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The looming doubt before us, however brawny and fearsome it may seem, is but a vaporous obstacle. This fiery Aries moon burns it off. It puts a hustle to the march, lights a flame to the flirtation, gives a shove onto the dancefloor of life, and we'll blast right through the illusion of limitations.

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