How can you keep your heart from ever breaking? Never give it. This is also the way to a loveless life. How can you shield yourself from financial risk? Don't take any. This is also how to ensure you won't ever get lucky. This week, Saturn retrogrades back into Pisces, Mercury enters Virgo, and Uranus goes retrograde. The cosmic culmination is one of thoughtful prevention, which includes embracing the inevitable. Without risk, there is no reward.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). Your life vision will start to feel more concrete and actionable this week. It's not about coming up with fantasies anymore; they're turning into plans. People around you will provide scaffolding to your process to hold things up while you do the building. They won't do it for you, but they'll bring stability, structure and encouragement to your scene.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Strangers note your charisma, though your close circle has grown accustomed to it. It's fine because you don't usually need or want loved ones to give you any more attention than they naturally would. But by midweek, you'll crave an audience, some acknowledgement, a witness to your sparkle. With a little distance, they can see you anew.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You'll see someone try to charm or flatter their way through something that really requires effort. It won't work on you. Your honesty isn't meant to be harsh, just helpful. Then again there are those around you who can't take even the slightest hint of it. Avoid them, and give your energy to those who are likely to appreciate what the truth does to situations.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). The most meaningful or impactful thing about your week won't be the excitement, surprise or recognition. It will be the fact that you show up the same way you always do. You keep the rhythm. You hold the structure. Whether you're showing up to an event or a nonevent, your consistency is holding something important together. You'll hold together a plan, a household or the emotional equilibrium in general.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Subtle exchanges will mean more than the loudest applause. It's easy to miss casual moments of praise or support when you're used to the spotlight, but the type of acknowledgement coming this week will feel deeply earned. It reinforces the idea that you don't need more — you need real.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Your attention to detail has effects you'll never fully know, so it's lucky that the ones you do see give you satisfaction, and maybe even a whiff of superiority, which you've earned. After all, only a superior person would care enough to tend to both the broad strokes and the granular work that holds it all together.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You'll be trusted to read between the lines. Rather than getting caught in the drama or judging too quickly, you'll observe with your eyes and heart wide open. You'll take note of the messy truths and move through it all with that sharp emotional intelligence of yours. It's a week for discernment, not idealism.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Boredom is powerlessness. It's not the absence of stimulation; it's the absence of agency. Being stuck, being pinned in a moment that doesn't reflect you, can't be changed and must be endured. This week, there's a change, an exit or a new opening into a source of interest and potential joy — in other words, freedom.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). This week, your emotional state (particularly whether you feel content or overwhelmed) will depend less on what's actually happening and more on what you expected to happen. When expectations are set too high, stress and disappointment are inevitable. Instead, you're flexible, realistic and thus satisfied and in control.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You're determined to make a change. One of the most challenging parts is just beginning. You don't have to know where to start. Just start. An outside perspective makes this easier. If you're open to asking a teacher, friend or stranger, you'll get the helpful bird's-eye view of your patterns.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You've been strong in ways no one sees, but you know, and this gives you the confidence to do what others don't even try for. For instance, you take social risks, knowing that most people who look friendly actually are, and even the neutral-seeming ones can surprise you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). The job of the day isn't always transcendence. Sometimes it's just getting through. You can spiral into the metaphysical later when you have the space or the calling for that. But for this week, your best bet is to keep it simple — less thinking, more pushing forward from laugh to laugh, breath to breath, bite to bite, scene to scene.

THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS: Love defines your year — not declarations of love but real, tangible effort from people who mean to support, celebrate and intertwine their lives and intentions with you. You'll also love your work, especially a new area of interest, the mastery of which will sneak up on you. Projects get increasingly involved until they become entire ecosystems, and you'll love who these worlds attract. Together you'll build something remarkable. More highlights: Your intuition sharpens. Games become portals. You'll win something you didn't know was a competition.

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