Horoscopes: Monday, April 8, 2019

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You can take hundreds of steps and wind up just where you started if the path is a circle. Progress isn’t just about taking steps. Alignment of actions is as important as action itself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Question: How many people have to call someone “great” before that someone has achieved greatness? Answer: one. The rules of greatness are that everyone gets to choose and abide by their own criteria.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There are many ways you tell your personal story. Much depends on who’s asking. Right now, you’re telling it to yourself in an effort to figure out why you left a place and how to get back there.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll be setting a goal. The proper scale will matter. It should be high enough that you’re not sure how you’re going to get there and low enough that it accommodates the reality of your situation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Getting one important thing accomplished today will make you feel like a star. Getting halfway through five things will make you feel unaccomplished. Success depends on narrowing the focus.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Just as everything you own needs its place, everything you want to do needs a time slot. If you don’t say when, the answer may as well be “never.” Even a distant date stamp is better than none at all.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). You know why you care about a thing, but you’re not sure why everyone else should. This is worth giving some thought, as you won’t get the support you need until you help others understand what you’re doing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Social skills are about making people feel comfortable, starting with yourself. Uncomfortable situations will happen. This is an excellent time to plan for them so you’ll have the things that might make you feel better.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Do you shake hands or go in for a hug? How do you sign off on the email? What do you say at the end of the phone call? These and other negotiations of intimacy will be an interesting part of your day.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). What’s waiting to be discovered in this day is truly fascinating, though you wouldn’t know it by the way information is presented to you. You’ll have to look past that to get to the gold.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Lots of people know what you can’t do, what’s unlikely and all the ways that things are wrong. And yet, you know otherwise. You’re seeing, feeling and knowing in your bones what’s possible, and you can do it, too.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t let the day, or even one hour of it, become an unwitting contract with passivity. There’s something dear at stake here: your confidence. You’ll gain more with every ounce of gumption you show.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (April 8). This solar return energizes you -- or, more aptly, inspires you to choose the lifestyle options that will raise your energy continually throughout the year. Letting go of past pain allows you to observe your experiences clearly and make the intelligent choices that will run more money and love through your life. Libra and Sagittarius adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 3, 20, 1, 11 and 18.