Horoscopes: Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024

ARIES (March 21-April 19). You can find a kinship with people regardless of how well your interests and beliefs match up. Ultimately, you want peace, so you seek commonality and prioritize humanity above your own ego gratification.       

TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Recycling will be a theme, and there’s almost nothing you can’t refresh with your creativity and care. From packaging to relationships, possessions to projects, you’ll delight in and benefit from efficiency.       

GEMINI (May 21-June 21). No one is born with skills. They take work to develop. You learn quickly now and could pick them up like jacks — first one at a time, and then two and three at a time as the skills fit together and build on one another.       

CANCER (June 22-July 22). As much as you admire someone, be careful not to mistake their skills for natural talent. Whatever you want to do, if you put in the time and effort, you can learn how to do it. Figure out what’s worth learning.       

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Your best and most unique opportunities will be wrapped inside the very thing you’ve labeled a flaw. Solve a problem for yourself and you could potentially be solving it for many others.       

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). Instantaneous transformations happen in fairy tales and movies. In reality, the change either builds over time or has always been waiting inside for the right moment to burst forth, with wings.       

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Repetition triggers a craving for novelty. Maybe you won’t even mind if it comes in the form of conflict. Where there’s friction, there’s sparks — embers with the potential to light up your world.       

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Things don’t need to be perfect to be right. You celebrate harmony when it happens, and when it doesn’t, you celebrate that, too, for all stories need some degree of conflict. It is what sharpens and grows us.       

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). There is no status among puzzle pieces. No individual piece is superior or lacking; each is needed to complete the picture. Puzzles (and life) abide by principles of fit, where there is no “better” or “worse,” only more or less fitting.       

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). People will pitch you with their ideas about what they think you might find fun or useful. Though a bid may not coincide with your needs, listen past the particulars to what is actually being offered — namely their interest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). Even though people are not always as accommodating as you’d like, you don’t expect anyone to behave differently on your behalf. You’ll learn people’s systems and work within them, nudging things in your desired direction.       

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You don’t have to know how a thing works to believe that it does. Because your mind is open, you can be impressionable, gullible even, but both are better than cynicism, which darkens the world with its limited vision.       

TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Jan. 2). In the playlist of life, you’ll get a little control over which song comes next, and a lot of control over how you’ll dance to it. This year dances you in many ways: wildly, precisely, lyrically, sometimes with great skill and other times with total surrender to the beat. More highlights: You’ll participate in the building of structures physical, systematic, emotional, intellectual and more. Libra and Taurus adore you. Your lucky numbers are: 2, 1, 17, 15, and 42.