HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, May 6, 2021: You are warm, charming and sociable. You are also eloquent and persuasive! As your new year begins, you’re entering a year of learning and teaching. This is why you will expand your world through reading, studying and travel. However, you also might train or teach others as well. Whatever you learn now will boost your success for the coming year!

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Today you have strong feelings about your finances and your belongings. You might want to explore new uses for something you own. You will certainly feel attached to what you own. (“My precious!”) You also might be excited about a moneymaking idea. If shopping, you’ll want to buy pretty things.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your relationships with others are intense today. In fact, you might be surprised at how emotionally intense they are! Possibly, you will attract someone to you who is also emotionally intense, and this leads to a new romance. This will be a memorable day for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some of you will be involved in a passionate, secret love affair today. Many of you will be involved in something that is secretive. Whatever is happening, it’s as if this situation, or another person, has a magical hold over you. (Pretty heady stuff.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your relations with a friend or a member of a group will be powerful today. In fact, for some of you, a friend will become a lover. Whatever the case, your involvement with others might be life-changing or transformative in some way. It will be a learning experience.

LEO (July 23-Aug 22): Some of you might develop a deep crush on a boss or a member of authority today. No matter how hard you try to shake it, you can’t. You admire this person because of his or her power, knowledge or influence. Meanwhile, others will be asked for their creative advice on something.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept 22): You might fall in love with someone who is “different” today. Others will passionately want to travel somewhere, especially someplace beautiful. Or perhaps you will delight in seeing art exhibits because your appreciation of beauty is heightened.

LIBRA (Sept 23-Oct 22): Your physical passions are strong today. (It’s a memorable day for some couples.) However, you will feel just as passionate about financial matters, especially regarding shared property or the wealth of someone else — perhaps even envy.

SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21): Today you will attract someone strong and powerful to you. (“Hi Darth.”) You might want to express your feelings to this person. You also might have deep, profound insights into the relationship. Or a new relationship might flourish that is almost magical.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22-Dec 21): Today you might have strong ideas about how to improve your health or possibly how to introduce reforms and improvements to your job. Either way, these ideas are important to you. You intend to follow through on them because you want to do things in a better way.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22-Jan 19): This is a passionate day for romance, definitely. Actually, it’s a passionate day for all aspects of your world. You have strong feelings about children, the arts and sports, as well as strong feelings about demanding your own freedom and independence. (Wow.)

QUARIUS (Jan 20-Feb 18): Family discussions will be intense today. In all likelihood, you will come up with improvements on how to make your home more beautiful. You might even come up with ways to improve family relationships. People are more ready to express their affection for each other today.

PISCES (Feb 19-March 20): This is a powerful day because something will happen that makes you truly appreciate your surroundings. You appreciate who you are and where you are. You also appreciate the people in your life. It’s so easy to get lost in what you want in the future and fail to appreciate what you have right now.

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