July 24 Zodiac Birthday Signs – Ambitious, practical, and responsible, you are an idealistic Leo with a sympathetic and courageous heart. As a positive thinker with organizational and planning skills, you make good use of your wide knowledge. Being security- conscious, you like to set a solid foundation and build from there. Usually you are happier being active or working, rather than just Wasting your energies in the pursuit of evanescent pleasure.

Since you are particularly drawn to people who are clever or interesting, you are liable to make contacts based on shared interests or the search for knowledge or wisdom. Education usually plays an important role in your advancement, whether early or later on in life. This may include self-directed study on a particular subject that inspires you. By using your refined common sense and cultivating your intuitive gifts, you often become an advisor to those around you.

Imaginative and full of money-making ideas, you have a good understanding of current trends and enjoy being creative while making money. In your eagerness to succeed, however, guard against being too critical, stubborn, or aggressive by learning to give and take, and by mastering the subtle art of negotiation.

When you are age twenty-nine, your progressed Sun moves into Virgo, commencing a thirty-year period of increasing emphasis on your work, practical efficiency, and productivity. You may start to draw more pleasure from being of service and doing your job well. Another turning point occurs at the age of fifty-nine, when your progressed Sun moves into Libra, stimulating you to be more diplomatic and placing more emphasis on relationships, balance, and harmonious surroundings.

WORK & VOCATION

Pride and a strong sense of responsibility ensure that you want to do your job well. You make an excellent manager, executive, or leader and are likely to be resourceful. Being a good organizer and strategist, you can excel in commerce, particularly working in partnerships or in cooperative efforts. You could do equally well in promotion and advertising. Your fine mind may attract you to education, philosophy, religion, or psychology. With your strong sense of the dramatic, occupations such as actor, writer, or politician may provide a platform for your strong opinions.

Famous people who share your birthday include French author Alexandre Dumas, Zelda Fitzgerald (wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald), and TV actress Linda Carter.

Numerology

With a number 24 birthday, you may dislike routine; however, you are hardworking, with practical abilities and sound judgment. The emotional sensitivity of the number 24 birthday suggests that you need to establish stability and order. Faithful and fair, though sometimes undemonstrative, you are inclined to believe that actions speak louder than words. With this pragmatic approach to life, you develop a good business sense and an ability to overcome obstacles and succeed. As a number 24 individual, you may have to overcome a tendency to be stubborn or fixed in your ideas. The subinfluence of the number 7 month indicates that you like to observe things carefully before you make up your mind. Since you are sensitive to structure and can easily create an efficient system, your creativity and practical skills prove beneficial.

Positive: energy, idealist, practical skills, strong determination, honest, frank, fair, generous, love of home, active, energetic

Negative: materialistic, too economical, instability, ruthless, dislikes routine, lazy, unfaithful, unstable, stubborn

Love & Relationships

Intuitive and shrewd, you are drawn to unusual relationships or to people who can inspire you to gain wider knowledge. Although for you home and family are important, an urge for freedom and independence suggests that an underlying restlessness and desire to accomplish may challenge your inclination to stay in one place for too long. You are usually attracted to those who know more than you do. Dramatic in your self-expression, you will always have a youthful and fun side to your personality.

YOUR SPECIAL SOMEONE

You might find just the right partner among those born on the following days.

Love & friendship: Jan. 3, 4, 14, 20, 24, Feb. 2, 12, 18, 22, Mar. 10, 16, 20, 29, 30, Apr. 8, 14, 18, 27, 28, May 6, 12, 16, 25, 26, 31, June 4, 10, 14, 23, 24, 29, July 2, 8, 12, 21, 22, 27, Aug. 6, 10, 19, 20, 25, Sept. 4, 8, 17, 18, 23, Oct. 2, 6, 15, 16, 21, 30, Nov. 4, 13, 14, 19, 28, 30, Dec. 2, 11, 12, 17, 26, 28, 30

Beneficial: Jan. 4, 8, 21, Feb. 2, 6, 19, Mar. 4, 17, 28, Apr. 2, 15, 16, May 13, 24, June 11, 22, July 9, 20, Aug. 7, 18, 31, Sept. 5, 16, 29, Oct. 3, 14, 27, Nov. 1, 12, 25, Dec. 10, 23

Challenging: Jan. 7, 10, 15, 31, Feb. 5, 8, 13, 29, Mar. 3, 6, 11, 27, Apr. 1, 4, 9, 25, May 2, 7, 23, June 5, 21, July 3, 19, Aug. 1, 17, Sept. 15, Oct. 13, Nov. 11, Dec. 9

Soul mates: Mar. 31, Apr. 29, May 27, June 25, July 23, Aug. 21, Sept. 19, Oct. 17, 29, Nov. 15, 27, Dec. 13, 25