Aquarius January 20 - February 18
Thought for the Day: Neptune will play a big role in today's proceedings by joining with the sun in a conjunction as it does once a year. It's a good time to meditate for clarity and pursue your ideals with fervour.

Astro.com Forecast: Happy birthday! Today the Sun returns to the position it was in when you were born. As would seem appropriate with this transit, today is a day of new beginnings, and the influences you feel today will affect the entire year to come. However, this does not mean that the whole year will be disappointing if today doesn't work out exactly as planned. You are receiving a new impulse from the energy center within you, as symbolized by the Sun. Therefore any new venture that you start at this time will ride the crest of this new energy and will very likely come to an acceptable conclusion. Whatever you do or begin today will bear the stamp of your individuality more than anything else. This is the day to assert yourself anew.

Rob Brezsny's Forecast: Happy Valentine Daze, Aquarius! During this lover's holiday, I'm praying for you to have mind-boggling communions with smart-mouthed, quick-thinking virtuosos who are at least as brilliant as you. To be frank, I don't care whether or not these communions are with attractive members of your favorite gender. In accordance with the promises of your current astrological omens, I just want to see you stimulated to the point of spiritual and intellectual rapture by kaleidoscopic give-and-take sessions.

Toronto Star forecast: Some things just can't be controlled, but if you can learn how to tolerate a certain problematic situation with a sense of humour, your quality of life will be greatly enriched.

The Onion forecast: Your perfectionist streak will consume you this week when you attempt to posit the world's single most precise chaos theory.

My own: Astro is interesting, Rob may be high, the Toronto Star has a platitude generator and since a child’s drawing of what they think chaos theory looks like might resemble my house and I just vacuumed, the Onion is as usual right on target.

For now I will be a mucus trooper and head on off to work. Cheers!