Cancer (June 21-July 22)
You’d rather not bureaucratize when you could socialize — and boy can you socialize when you set aside all that awkward brooding and on-my-terms-only-ness — but it’s just not the time for delightful pursuits. Finish your paperwork, birthday crab, before it finishes you.

Famous Canadian Cancers Born This Week:
Robert Borden (Canada’s $100 man, June 26)
Dan Aykroyd (actor, July 1, pictured)
Pamela Anderson (model, actress, July 1)
Jarome Iginla (hockey player, July 1)
Bret Hart (wrestler, July 2)
Charles Tupper (prime minister for a mighty two months, July 2)

Leo (July 23-Aug 22)
When you’re out, you’re out, Leo. And, boy, are you ever out. Luckily the weather is more suitable than last time you totally fucked up and almost had to live under the Gardiner in February.

Virgo (Aug 23-Sept 22)
You have special dispensation to be waffly and cautious this week, Virgo, as summer’s official launch rolls in both slowly and on a note of anticlimax. That’s OK — such circumstances are really Virgo’s time to shine. Enjoy some lazy days “researching” and “contemplating” and “learning” before making any actual gutsy steps.

Libra (Sept 23-Oct 22)
There’s a little lesson waiting around the corner for Libra this week about fairness: it doesn’t exist, and it’s not up to you anyway. This will become easier to digest when you decide to simply start skimming from the café till yourself.

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21)
Others are playing at Scorpio’s game right now — riddling around, mystery-ing about, enigma-ing left and right. You can handle it, though, because you don’t really care about other people.

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21)
Things you’d just as soon not attend to — you know, your parents, your health, your parents’ health — are distracting you from what seemed, upon initial thought, to be brilliant new directions in which to point your attention. Like white wine spritzers and teenage girls on the beach. Oh well, I guess your parents’ oncologist will understand.

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19)
Meticulousness pays off this week — and thank god, since you’re a Capricorn. Leaving behind all the self-doubt will help you coast for a while on work you’ve stockpiled for months, but then again, if you left that behind, you’d be an empty, identity-less shell of a human.

Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 19)
You can tell yourself you’re making progress, sure — but it will all be a total illusion while you bide your time under the full emotional imprisonment of others. This water-treading time is in your best interests, though, as your likelihood of falling into financial peril right now is remarkably high. Hang in there and wait it out, cool?

Pisces (Feb 20-March 20)
Pisces is swimming out of the usual safe little fishbowl and into new and daring territory this week. Though this means great potential for success, it also means turning your back on those who have been your most ardent supporters. Which is really OK, because they were keeping you happy with your truly mediocre subsistence.

Aries (March 21-April 19)
Creativity flourishes for Aries this week, whether it’s a new way of peeling an apple into the shape of a duck, or simply rearranging the magnetic poetry. It’s really nice that you surround yourself with friends who indulge your “calling” as an artist.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Being right and righteous fall lower on your agenda this week when you realize that you’re simply not going to get invited anywhere this summer if you keep up your usual shenanigans. Take comfort in being secretly right all the time while kicking back and enjoying someone else’s girlfriend’s dad’s cottage, then!

Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Stay flexible, clever Gemini. Just because you thought the year had peaked when you got all that attention on your birthday doesn’t mean you should feel complacent, satisfied or even safe. What comes at you next will come out of nowhere — and though it will likely also take you nowhere, this really isn’t going to be a problem until you start getting all those visits from the collection service.