Free Will Astrology: September 2 through 8

AQUARIUS [January 20–February 18] I love the new neighborhood I just moved to. It's insanely eclectic. Modern, suburban-like homes with impeccable emerald-green lawns stand right next door to bedraggled 1950s-style ranch houses with unfinished plywood for garage doors and high brown weeds blanketing the front yards. A rusty mustard-yellow 1977 Cadillac Seville sporting a McCain-Palin bumper sticker is parked on the street next to a shiny 2007 Volvo with a sticker that advises, "Be the change you want to see in the world." Aging rednecks with fishing gear scattered in the driveway live next door to hipster musicians who blast psychedelic folk songs from their garage rehearsal space. I urge you to hang out in places like this in the coming weeks—where diversity rules, where the pigeonholes are exploded, where variety is not just the spice of life but the main course.

PISCES [February 19–March 20] The month of August brought you some peculiar advances. You got a reward that didn't mean as much to you as it might have had you received it earlier. You outgrew an enigma that had puzzled and frustrated you forever. And you finally wriggled free of a shadowy game that you had been attached to long after it lost its power to educate you. As curious as these wistful breakthroughs have been, they are the prologue to what's headed your way. Get ready to solve a problem you didn't even know you loved.

Homework: Subtly (or not-so-subtly) brag about a talent or ability that few people know you have. Tout one of your underappreciated charms. Report results to FreeWillAstrology.com.