Daily Horoscope Tuesday, August 9

You are in a planning mood and are very clearheaded and able to view all the alternative paths. Go ahead and make those decisions. You can see the road ahead and will make the right choices. Continual discovery, persistent search and continual change will keep you on the move and growing. You will help your company make beneficial changes that will enable money-saving ideas to go into effect. Work and career should be a primary focus during this time. You will benefit from analytical insights, getting to the heart of things--penetrating. This is a time of new thoughts and sudden insights and to get an unexpected boost in the way you think, speak or write. Communications are accented and you may find all kinds of opportunities opening to you now.

Your intuition is on target today--you are able to find the real cause of a problem and make some positive changes. Breakthrough flashes of insight with tremendous originality and independence are typical. You are an aggressive prime mover, a starter, able to initiate and get things moving. Your mind cuts right through all the window dressing and gets right down to the basics. Before anyone knows it, you have the heart of the matter out front for everyone to see. You would make a great investigator, either in scientific research or undercover work. Your ability to get to the point is all but phenomenal. You can talk and put into words areas of the emotional that others would not go near. Sports activities with your friends prove enjoyable this evening.

Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation is concerned. You are very practical and will find many things get accomplished quickly. You aim to have a place for everything and everything in its place--and anything that gets in the way may get on your nerves. Things may not go as quickly as you would like today and this can be frustrating. Pace yourself so that your emotions do not get the best of you. Health and work goals take on a greater importance for you now. This afternoon may be a perfect time to schedule in some golf, hand ball, tennis or any other type of competitive sport. This form of exercise will release much tension and relieve any anxieties that may have built up during the day.

New ways to communicate or an easy manner will make conversations and interactions go well. You find yourself more talkative and patient than at other times. A dialogue with an older person may take place. Taking care of business is a major theme where your emotional orientation is concerned. You want to get things accomplished and you are capable of success. It is important to have your space neat and organized and you work on that part of the day. This neat area in which you like to work helps you to enjoy less stress. Stay aware of how you feel in order to halt excessive stress buildup. This is a very successful day. An evaluation of your finances now will give you an idea of where you can expand your scope of professional activities.

You can really get your thoughts and ideas across to others. Your good communication skills will not fail you. Others may disagree with what you say but this just challenges you to pull out a few statistics or facts that will back up your views. It will not take long to sway others to your point of view. After gaining respect for your knowledge or expertise, you can communicate your ideas and concepts to a listening, interested audience. Exhibiting your knowledge, through perhaps advertisement or in writing a book, you will find a great deal of positive feedback. Making your mark on the world has special significance for you. Achievement, ambition and authority take on greater importance. Administering to people becomes central to your lifestyle.

It may be hard to organize or persevere. Everything may seem to be falling apart. We can all go through confusing days and you may gain a sense of being organized by taking time to sort out the priorities. Do not try to do everything at once and delegate jobs whenever possible. Do not force things--be patient. Your negotiation skills come into play later today when you may want to add to or subtract from some project. You may find yourself serving to guide someone younger than you later today. You prefer the forest to the trees and the common to the uncommon. You are at home in ideas of man's essential unity. You will act as a minister to others, like it or not. A peace of mind is something you really enjoy this evening.

Secrets, conspiracies and the hidden links that unite all things take on greater importance in your life now. Digging into the past for hints about the present and future uncovers a lot of answers to the questions that will not go away. This is a very lucky day for making plans or decisions and finding your way through just about any problem you may discover. You feel successful and able to handle difficult situations today. Good advice from a guide or older person may be available. Relationships; whether partnerships, personal or the social scene in general, are very important during this time and can have a very decided influence on your career and workplace. You may find that a more impersonal attitude is the key. This is a good day.

Taking care of business and getting things accomplished is the major concentration for the day. Your mind is full of practical ideas, especially related to your job or skills. You always come up with new ideas and practical thoughts. This is not the best time to spend money but it is the best time to make you known. You are at your best, physically and mentally and anything you set out to do will work in your favor. You are never funnier, wittier or more at your mental best than when in a group or lost in a deep conversation with a partner. Your interests this evening are in communicating with friends. You are craving more excitement in your life and you may get what you seek if you throw a curve into an existing relationship.

You have a great deal of psychological talent. You are able to sense and feel in the more abstract mental areas and to bring far-out ideas down to earth. You are always at the leading edge of social understanding. You have a great sense of compassion and a real understanding of others. Deep and penetrating analysis, particularly with a group or in relation to your situation, may be in order. Others could seek you out for your psychological insight. This could be a time to make changes in your environment. Your intense and probing mind has no trouble getting to the heart of any question this day. Woe to anyone who tries to argue with you or hide things from you. You have a natural mind for research, detective work and any undercover operations.

You may be discovering new and different reasons or ways to enjoy and appreciate life today. A kind of mini-revolution may find you altering your value system, allowing you to like new things. There could also be some insight into love and compassion. A natural transformation of your values, the way you appreciate and love yourself and others is taking place. You may cease to waste time and money acquiring that which is worthless and may develop an eye for that which is lasting and worthwhile. This could be a time of challenge from a career standpoint. You may find yourself spending more interest and energy at home and with the family and having less shine on the job. This home life may lay the foundation for greater confidence at work.

Very emotional, you have strong likes and dislikes and do not mind expressing your opinion from time to time. You tend to find your own way, which often runs counter to what everyone else is doing. Yet, with all these frustrations, many people will come to you in order to learn and eliminate all that clutters their own life. You seem to be able to eliminate the clutter in your life quite easily today. Your solutions to life's problems may even ignore your own needs or feelings. You are creative when it comes to partnerships or loves and will establish unusual and different relationships. The attention this evening may be toward a loved one and communication abilities. There are opportunities to understand and be understood today.

There is the possibility of new visions or sudden insights into your self-image or into the way you want to accomplish your dreams. There may be some question into religion--and you take time to reshape and renew your way of life--during which your imagination is at full tilt. When one part of our life opens up, it seems other avenues open up as well. This just could be a time of good fortune when things open up in a very natural way for you. Situations are almost custom-made and it is easy to see the path to take. There are plenty of opportunities and you may find yourself wanting and able to do almost everything. Interesting things are happening in your life and this may encourage you to spend excessively. Spend some time in thought.