If your tendency is to overextend yourself, you're not alone. And yesterday's Pluto alignment might have further exacerbated the situation. Just know that you're already enough. You don't need to impress anyone or strive for more. Love yourself "as is." With the lunar change, trade unnecessary efforts for self-compassion.

ARIES (March 21-April 19). If you have the privilege of knowing someone very young, the under 8 set will be especially wise and wonderful teachers today. (Though their methods are unorthodox to say the least.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Spend more time with people who live the way you want to live. This isn't always possible in your immediate environment, but you can make it happen in your mind through reading and study.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). Friction is the enemy of connection. Movement doesn't help either. To glue two pieces together, you have to hold them still in one place long enough for the bond to set. People are like this, too. They bond in the still, silent pauses.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). For one as sensitive as you, it's hard to imagine how some people have zero empathy. Whether you want to or not, you vividly sense the feelings of others. In fact, today you won't know where theirs end and yours begin.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your message is genuine. You may decide to use different words to be better understood. The wise use their education of language to communicate well, while the foolish use their literary education to alienate and impress.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Read the room. If this isn't a good audience for you, find a different one. It's harder to feel good about what you have to offer when you're around people who don't know enough to give it the value it deserves.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). The main difference between the gambling that's called business, and the business that's called gambling is the odds. Today, all the business you do will come with some degree of risk, but not all of it will qualify as a gamble.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). There are questions you thought you answered years ago that have somehow re-seeded themselves and sprouted into a hardier variety. You can't come to terms with this in a day, but start digging and eventually you'll root it out.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Whether your opinion happens to be in line with the majority or the minority doesn't really matter. What matters is that it feels right to you and that you're not too worried about who else agrees.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). No one can tell a wildflower where to grow. It can pop right through pavement if it wants. Something in you is similarly unstoppable. It may not be the season yet, but it's curled up, gathering strength, waiting for the right time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You've seen too much of life to have a strictly sunny outlook. You know the shadow is there, and you're not afraid to peer into the dark. But you don't let the darkness seduce you either. You'll train your mind to move toward the light.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). This thing pitting you against you has to last a lifetime. As with any long-term relationship, sometimes it will be a real slog. Drop the adversarial stance and commit to being a better more forgiving and supportive friend to yourself.

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY (Nov. 13). This big project to which you've devoted yourself will never be finished; it has a life of its own now. But it will pay out big dividends time and again this year, and this allows you to help your loved ones and create a lot of fun, too. Also of note: a certificate you earn, romance in hot summer nights and a family addition. Capricorn and Gemini adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 34, 7, 18, 3 and 45.

ASTROLOGICAL QUESTION: "How can I have more self-discipline? I'm a Taurus, and very stuck in my ways. There's something I'm doing now that I really have to break myself of."

Current science supports the idea that people have a fixed amount of self-discipline at their disposal. Stress and environmental factors can wear away at a person's reserves of self-discipline, weakening the resolve to accomplish goals and change habits. Here's the good news: Once a habit has been established, a person no longer needs to dip into the willpower reserves to maintain the action. It becomes automatic, therefore requiring no self-discipline at all. In other words, once you turn an action into a habit, it will be easier for you to do your new habit than to not do it. Many say 21 days makes a habit. And while the science behind that is debatable, it's certainly enough time that you don't have to think about the healthier behavior so much. Personally, I like to establish new habits on the new moon and hope that by the next new moon the habit will be ingrained. Best wishes; I know you can do it!

CELEBRITY PROFILES: From "Sex and the City," to "The Good Wife" to his recent series "Gone," Chris Noth enthralls with the brooding, magnetic presence Scorpio is famous for. Noth is the owner of a swanky Manhattan bar cleverly called The Cutting Room, though his own days of acting in scenes that end up on the cutting room floor are long gone. Incidentally, Scorpio is the sign of cutting and surgery.

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