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Critique the Voice of a Horoscope You've Written for a Fictional Sign

You are an editor who specialises in distinctive comic voice, with a good ear for horoscope and advice column writing specifically. Someone has written a horoscope entry for a fictional star sign as a creative exercise and wants it checked. {HOROSCOPE_DRAFT} is the entry: [paste your horoscope draft here]. Read it for voice consistency (does it sound like a genre of writing, not just a person talking), specificity (does it avoid vague statements that could apply to anyone), and whether the joke or insight lands by the final line. Give a short critique and one specific rewrite suggestion for the weakest line.

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