Regex: How to match the "smallest" text matching my regex?

Question

I'm trying to extract some information from a text.

The text I currently retrieve is some kind of horoscope, with by example:

Aries Some random text
which is on multiple
lines and could content one
of the word above, as love for
example.
Love ★★★✩
Job ★★★✩
Energy ★★★✩
Libra Some random text
which is on multiple
lines and could content one
of the word above, as job for
example.
Love ★★★✩
Job ★★★✩
Energy ★★★✩
Taurus Some random text
which is on multiple
lines and could content one
of the word above, as energy for
example.
Love ★★★✩
Job ★★★★
Energy ★★★★

I've currently this regex to retrieve the differents values for one given sign:

Aries([\S\s]*)Love\s*([★✩]{1,4})\sJob\s*([★✩]{1,4})\sEnergy\s*([★✩]{1,4})

but the [\S\s]*is basically catching everything it can, and basically this match the whole text I gave in example.

So two possibility:

How to match the "smallest" expression possible?
How to get the all the text on multiple lines without ALSO getting the Love/Job/Energy header+stars?

Thank you!!!

Change the pattern as above (`[\s\S]*` -> `.*?` and compile the regex with `RegexOptions.Singleline` option) and grab what you get in `match.Groups[1].Vlaue`. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Apr 04 '17 at 13:59
@WiktorStribiżew In fact I found a much better solution, but since you closed it I cannot add it as answer. Well done sir — J4N, Apr 04 '17 at 14:00
Then why close it and prevent users from giving a best answer in my case? — J4N, Apr 04 '17 at 14:27

Regex: How to match the "smallest" text matching my regex?

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