After an intense few days, life might get a bit easier — or at least more fun — as the Aquarius sun harmonizes with lucky Jupiter. It’s a good time to take big bets on yourself. You might worry that you haven’t yet “earned” the payoff you’re after, or that the conditions aren’t ideal, but if you wait for everything to line up perfectly, you’ll end up waiting forever. Take action anyway — confidence (and even a bit of audacity) will carry you farther than you think.

You’ve got mental energy to spare today, and the best way to use it is to ask questions. Whether you’re digging into topics that interest you or simply learning more about your friends’ lives, letting your curiosity guide you can open doors and forge new friendships. Don’t worry about posing silly questions, or ones that you think you should already know the answer to — nobody has life completely figured out, no matter how much they try to appear that way.

For the most part, you’re not shy about standing up for yourself. You’ve learned that you can’t always count on others to take your needs into consideration — they can make unreasonable demands, and you need to be ready to dig in your heels and say no. Today, just be careful that you’re not automatically refusing every challenge that comes your way. Big opportunities could land in your lap, and while it might seem easier to turn them down, it’ll be more rewarding in the long run if you say yes.

Sometimes, it seems like the more self-assurance you display, the more they hope for you to fail; the more you love yourself, the more they try to tear you down. It gets discouraging, and can make you want to hide your confidence. But today, the best thing you can do is believe in yourself. If you stop worrying about what everyone else thinks, you’ll feel much freer — and you may find that they respond more warmly than you dared hope.

You might be hesitant, lately, to put too much faith in your intuition. Maybe you badly misjudged a situation recently, or maybe you’ve just witnessed others making foolish choices. It seems safer to ignore your gut and trust the facts instead. But, important as it is to listen to reason, that doesn’t mean you need to ignore your instincts entirely. Life doesn’t always flow according to logic: Pay attention to the reality of the situation, but when your gut sends you a message, listen to it.

You care deeply about making a good impression on others — not only because it’s satisfying to be thought well of, but also because you understand that it affects how people treat you. Sometimes, though, you become so caught up in how you’re perceived that it gets in the way of making genuine connections. Today, take a break from worrying about whether anyone else likes you or thinks you’re cool. Simply showing up as your unfiltered self is the best thing you can do to build the relationships you want.

You tend to be hesitant to accept praise unless you believe you’ve genuinely earned it, and you’re not likely to leap at new opportunities unless you’re confident you can do a good job. Sometimes this protects you from overextending yourself, but right now, modesty is likely to hold you back. Instead of sticking to the things you already know you do well, take on projects that will push you. Stepping even just a step or two outside your comfort zone will be exhilarating today.

It’s easy enough to be generous when your life is going reasonably well. But when you feel insecure, or you worry there simply isn’t enough to go around, it becomes harder to share what you have. Today, try to put your fear to the side and give what you can to the people around you. It’ll strengthen your social bonds, and lead to unexpected opportunities. Most of all, generosity will simply feel good right now.

You try not to rely too much on others. The less you need from the people around you, the less vulnerable you are to their opinions and judgment, and the less it hurts when they let you down. Today, though, try not to assume that everyone else will inevitably disappoint you. People are imperfect, but that doesn’t mean they don’t care about you; they make mistakes, but then they try to make it up to you. If you’re brave enough to let your guard down a bit, it’ll change your life for the better.

You understand that there are people who will never agree with you, no matter how valid your opinion or how cleverly you make your case. Instead of wasting your time in endless debates, you’d rather move on with your life. Today, though, don’t be too quick to assume that the people around you will never understand you. If you take the time to listen and honestly share how you feel, some of them will be more open-minded than you expected. Not everyone will agree, but give them a chance and you might be surprised.

You have a tendency to overthink simple tasks. Instead of simply going out and doing it, you want to investigate all the potential outcomes, determine how this task will — or won’t — affect your long-term goals, examine whether there is some other, better way you should be spending your time. This level of detailed analysis can occasionally be useful, but today, it’s probably more information than you need. Don’t stress yourself out trying to optimize every moment of your life — it’ll only slow you down in the long run.

While you’re more receptive to unconventional ideas than most people, you can sometimes be surprisingly risk averse when it comes to practical matters. The more orderly and predictable your daily life is, the more mental space you have to dream, and you worry that acting spontaneously will only disrupt that. Today, though, don’t tamp down your natural enthusiasm for life. If you give yourself space to act without thinking too hard, to freely express yourself, you’ll be glad you did.

When you’re looking to expand your horizons and invite change into your life, sometimes the best strategy is to say yes to every invitation, jump at every opportunity, leave nothing on the table. But today, the opposite might be true. In order to make room for new things and people, you first have to clear away everything that’s no longer working for you, hard as it may be. Spending less time and energy on the things that don’t excite you will create space for the new adventures you’ve been longing for.

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