Today's Birthday Horoscope — August 23, 2026
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
Your Year of the Open Hand. This is the year your care stops trying to fix and starts trying to free, and the difference shows up in your face before you even notice the change. In spring, you say the exact right thing to someone who needed it, and you say it lightly, with no string attached to how they take it. By midsummer, a relationship you'd been managing softens into something easier the moment you loosen your grip. I love how this year teaches you the lightest touch holds the most. The people you love begin telling you that talking to you feels different now, roomier, kinder. Trust the words that arrive on their own, and let the rest go unfinished. The year ahead rewards the care that asks for nothing back.
Open the hand and the love stays.
Born Today
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Also Born August 23
- Giuseppe Meazza — Italian footballer and manager (died 1979), born 1910
- Malvina Reynolds — American singer-songwriter and activist (died 1978), born 1900
- John Sherman Cooper — American captain, lawyer, and politician, 2nd United States Ambassador to East Germany (died 1991), born 1901
- Constant Lambert — English composer and conductor (died 1951), born 1905
- Igor Troubetzkoy — Russian aristocrat and race car driver (died 2008), born 1912
- Ernst Krenek — Austrian-American composer and educator (died 1991), born 1900
- Ogden L. Mills — American captain, lawyer, and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937), born 1884
- Arnold Toynbee — English economist and historian (died 1883)<ref></ref>, born 1852
- Eugene Lanceray — Russian painter and sculptor (died 1946), born 1875
- Clímaco Calderón — Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia (died 1913), born 1852
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