Horoscopes: Friday, Dec. 2, 2022

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You’re not expecting anyone to take care of you or behave differently because you’re there. Even so, your presence changes things. Your influence is powerful even if you don’t do anything other than just show up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). If you have to be brave, generous or heroic you will be. But big calls to action rarely happen. Opportunities are more often small and invisible to anyone who’s not looking for them. You’ll do common things with uncommon grace.

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). You’re good on your own, but you’re way better when you involve others. Test your ideas out on your core group of trusted cohorts. If you don’t have such a group, don’t worry — you’ll make many new friends in the weeks to come.

CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll put yourself out there and learn who doesn’t agree. This is good information. From the ancients: “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere.” — Ali ibn-Abi-Talib

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). People influence your experience with their attitudes and behaviors. You could be in the same place with different people, and it wouldn’t be the same at all. In a sense, your environment will be as lovely as the people who populate it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Vanity serves a positive purpose. It keeps you doing the things you tell yourself you’ll do. So, if vanity has you in its clutches, at least you can count on your pride to energize you to do the work to fulfill your own wishes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Very occasionally, life rolls over and lets you control it. It will happen again, but not for a while. Right now, life is taking off like a shot. It’s all you can do to hold onto the mane and try to sync with the gallop.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Among the best gifts you could hope for is the gift of a single purpose. When you devote yourself to one idea, everything else lines up. You want something, you’ll work hard for it and you will have it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). A well-timed silence will be magic. If you can accompany it with heartfelt emotion and your expressive face, you’ll deliver a more complex communication than words could relay.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Movement is defined by stillness. Matter is defined by the space around it. Music is shaped by the silence. And today you will be experienced by others for what you don’t do. Your restraint is in itself an astounding act.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Who you are in the group is different from who you are alone, which is the way of humans. Make efforts to be around likable people. A group will change you and you will change a group, and it will all happen simultaneously.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You’re not content with the information on the surface. You sense there’s something more to know and you’ll dig for it. People like helping you because you bring energy to interactions, which keeps things interesting.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 2). You’ve a talent for connecting with people from other cultures, or creatures from other species. As you communicate through shared instinct you’ll create a spirit of progress, adventure and goodwill. More highlights: a remarkable healing, a winning public performance and an idea of yours that catches on in the professional realm. Aries and Leo adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 7, 21, 14, 4 and 33.