VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sep. 22) -- Once you solve a particular financial situation that's been aggravating you for a while, the solution is likely to stick. What you may not recognize is that while you were busy adding up numbers or making a strategy, you were really making a decision about yourself. Said another way, the decision may have involved your personal worth, while you were thinking about your economic value. I recognize you've very likely been through a particularly agonizing experience of self-doubt the past few weeks, and you have an interest in making sure you don't go down that particular spiral again, because it leads nowhere. Well, at least it led you to realizing that it goes nowhere. The second reward is that the most dependable form of self-reliance you have comes in the form of recognizing a good idea when you think it, and then personally witnessing the value of acting on it.