ARIES (March 21-April 20) Love relationships will now expand to include rare home alliances, family discussions or shared business ventures. Many Aries natives will this week allow long-term friends or relatives to participate more fully in their private lives.

With all the presents that come due each December, no one’s going to complain if you set an upper limit of $20 for certain gifts.

Well, not to your face, anyway.

And with some serious sleuthing at great discount stores like Loehmann’s, Marshalls and Ross, it’s not likely they’ll be able to tell the difference.

This Christmas season, Sarah Kelly, Salve Regina University’s community service coordinator, had the important job of decorating the Christmas tree in Miley Hall’s lobby. It is not garland or a star on top that makes this tree so special. It is the 250 tags, adorned with the names of needy children, that hang from its branches.

Even before Tasha Taylor completed her education at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., three years ago, she was determined to be a social worker.

She had watched her mother heroically raise six children after losing a business in her 40s, and Taylor wanted to help welfare recipients rebuild their lives the way her mother had.

As I sat in the third row, hearing the magnificent and enchanting voice of one of my biggest role models, it was hard to imagine a day that went perfectly according to plan. But like my role model said, “When it looks like the sun won’t shine anymore…God put a rainbow in the clouds.