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Week Ahead Stars for Sunday, July 30th BIRTHDAY SUNDAY: A Venus-Uranus link on your birthday this year means you don't have to do what everyone else is doing - in fact you are likely to accomplish more if you do the opposite.

You don’t expect to find a restored Garry oak meadow on an urban lot, but that’s just what you’ll discover at this home in south Oak Bay.

Stretching across roughly 1,207 kilometres, Europe’s highest mountain range, the Alps, arcs across eight countries, from the Mediterranean coast of France to the eastern fringes in Austria and Slovenia.

BIRTHDAY SATURDAY: A life-changing decision you took a few months ago will have to be changed again in the light of new information. It may have been the right thing to do at the time but your circumstances are different now.

Dear Dr. Roach: My mother had the measles. She also had mumps and German measles. She stayed home for a few days, used up a box of tissues and went back to school a week later.

BIRTHDAY FRIDAY: There will be occasions when it seems as if the universe is pushing you in a direction you don't want to go, but it's actually the direction you most need to go.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Utah man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who later walked into the couple’s blood-splattered room that he did it because she laughed at him, the FBI said in documents released Thursday.

BIRTHDAY THURSDAY: The Sun and Mars unite on your birthday this year to endow you with total self-belief. You don't have to be shy about what it is you want from life and you don't have to be subtle about how you get it.

Dear Helen: My tomato plants are once again repeating a problem I’ve had with them over the past three years. They grow in fine health until early July, when the leaves on some of the plants begin curling up.

BIRTHDAY WEDNESDAY: By all means be ambitious and by all means be assertive but don't step over that fine line that divides passion from aggression. You know how to make enemies already - what you need now is to make a few high-placed new friends.