The sun meets Mars for a tete-a-tete, infusing our sense of well-being with bright rays of energy and confidence. Since Mars has entered Leo, bold showmanship isn't only appropriate, it's required. Whether selling our unique talent, making a stand or taking a plan from strategy to action, all are encouraged by this brief fling of individuality with risk.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You're socially gifted. You can walk into any room and strike up a conversation with anybody on -- and this is the surprising part -- any topic, even one you know very little about. You're a master listener.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). During moments in between the action, you find yourself dreaming about someone. Consider that maybe it's not so much the person himself (or herself) that has intoxicated you, but the way this person makes you feel.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). What's broken is mended by making amends. This is especially true when you don't feel you are at all to blame. Start the process by considering what part, however small it might be, you can take responsibility for.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). Go ahead and quietly volunteer to help someone. You won't get burned out by selfless service -- it will energize you. It's the things you do for compensation (financial, social or psychological) that may be draining.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You're clearing your emotional slate so that you'll be ready to take your love to a higher octave. Write a long letter about your feelings about a past hurt. Then later, destroy the pages. The hurt disappears.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (JUNE 4). When you're hot, you're hot. You'll be chased and courted this year. You're not playing hard to get; rather, you have plenty outside of love to occupy your attention, so you actually are hard to get. This translates into financial opportunity in August. Family healings happen in September. Sagittarius and Aquarius are your avid supporters. Your lucky numbers are: 50, 2, 6, 49 and 14.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your sensory awareness is turned up. The smell of the newspaper, the feel of a warm cup in your hand -- it's an invitation to engage the world. It's like life itself is asking you to dance.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Rolling with the tides might be considered passive, but it sure will open more opportunity for you than trying to force yourself in the opposite direction of the current. Stop rowing. Relax and see where life takes you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your awareness has shifted and now your schedule is following suit. Your idea of what an average day entails will soon be radically different from what it was last week.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Steer clear of that person who wants to sit down and talk about a relationship. It is doing, not talking, that will alter your feelings about a relationship. The only talk that needs to happen is you stating your bottom line.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You're molding a young mind -- your own. New pursuits and studies awaken a child inside you, eager to make sense of the information. Expose yourself to only the best teachers.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Friends and family may feel that you're abandoning them when you trot off to your various activities alone. However, that feeling will pass. The growth of your independent spirit will be lasting.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You're working on being grateful for what loved ones bring to your life. This is made more complicated by the one who drives you crazy with his or her self-centeredness. Eventually, tolerance leads to happiness.

ASTROLOGICAL TOPICS: Whether saving elephants in Namibia or building schools in Tanzania, fly first class by sun sign and the hot new way to travel -- by concept. LEO: Life is grand, and it's grander from atop the Eiffel Tower. You'll take Paris or Rome quite simply because grand places stimulate your own natural largesse. Cutting-edge Leo travel concept: connoisseurship travel. A night in Beverly Hills or jetting to N.Y.C. for shopping -- both serve a similar purpose: to share your innate sense of abundance with those you love. What to wear: regional bling. What to bring: an extra suitcase for the goods. Who to bring: Aries, Libra. VIRGO: Your ideal trip is both physically and spiritually rejuvenating. Repeat after me: breaks are necessary. But here's a bonus: a feel-good factor. What more could a Virgo want? Cutting-edge Virgo travel concept: "Voluntourism." And the new breed of "voluntouring" rewards your serviceable attitude with luxury pampering. Plant banana trees, lounge in the hammock, sightsee -- all in a day's work. What to wear: resort khakis. What to bring: gifts for the locals. Who to bring: Taurus, Aries.

CELEBRITY PROFILES: Once, Gemini Angelina Jolie was as mercurial as they come -- when she was a young woman of varied whims, husbands and oddities. Now that she's a mom, will that change? Born with Venus in Cancer, there's joy in motherhood, but she immutably wears the sign of experimentation and change. Angelina's life continues morphing in experimental directions this year.

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