With Pluto squaring Venus and Neptune squaring Mars, it’s important to remember that just because we can say something, just because we want something now, doesn’t mean we should go for it. Aries is great at shooting their shot, but isn’t always prepared for what comes after the game is won. Set your sights a little farther in preparation for the week ahead so that when temptation knocks, you’ll have something to measure it against.
Everyone knows that an Aries birthday lasts all month, and for troopers who have had not one but two solar returns in the midst of a pandemic, a month-long birthday is well-deserved. Celebration, of course, is a whole other story. Aries is a sign that loves to share their joy and their pleasure and is well-equipped to find a way to do that, no matter what tries to tamp down their flame. You’re encouraged, dear Aries, to bring your hot energy into the week following the Aries new moon — your moon. You’ll find that the more you tune in to what matters, the more time you’ll have for it. Your word is gold and what you speak sparks with life, becomes real and possible.
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It’s easy enough to say, in a moment of humbleness, that you have all that you need and a whole other thing to truly believe it. Waves of gratitude, opportunities to peer behind the veil of daily life and see your life for all that it is, are as beautiful as they are rare — an eagle perching where you rest your eyes. But, just because these feelings aren’t easy to access doesn’t mean you can’t help them along. Start by making space for them. Sweep away the cobweb remnants of old ideas of what you should be doing and what you should have to your name. Shoulds are a pervasive clutter. What feels good today, what feels right? Can you make space for more of it, more often?
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The common saying is “practice what you preach,” which, generally, you’re very good at doing. But, sometimes, things don’t happen in that order. Sometimes, our faith gets a little fuzzy and the world we believe in stops making sense to us. In those instances, you might find yourself having to act toward what you want to believe in before your heart’s all the way there. A practice of building your own new vision and belief system through new encounters, a kind of stumbling forward. There are people out there who would balk at this process of discovery and cling to a way of being with which they no longer resonate. But you, dear Gemini, are not one of those people.
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The relationships we nourish take energy. If we’re not careful, they can take up so much energy, they become our job. Even if our ideal self is independent, accomplished, and open to new experiences, our lived experience can quickly become one centered around others. Not only are we communal animals, we’re raised to believe that solitude is failure. We’re driven, consciously or not, to fight off the threat of that failure, showing up for others at a cost to ourselves. Trouble is, no one benefits when you run yourself down because there’s no water in any empty cup. Let yourself regenerate, let your offering come from a place of abundance, not fear.
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Just because your work takes up a huge portion of your time, doesn’t mean it has to define you. There are people who love what they do, there are people who loved something up until it became their job, and there are people who keep what they love and what they do for money separate. Each and every one of those people has a choice in how they feel about it. Devoting your time to something changes your relationship to it. What’s familiar can fade into the background and become rote. Leo, even if you can’t change your circumstance, you can break the spell. Start by noticing each time you’re given the opportunity to choose and how often you’re tempted to act like you didn’t have a choice.
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Of course you’re highly perceptive. How could you be anything but, when you’re practically programmed to assess all the details in any given situation and process them, archiving whatever’s relevant for future reference and research? But, being gifted with a keen sense of perception can be a blessing and a curse. For one, you notice anything that’s slightly off, anything that could be improved. For another, you are equipped with everything you need to get in your own way. What if, this week, you gave your perceptive powers free rein instead of distracting them with needless re-edits and self-criticism? What are you afraid to see beyond yourself?
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Maybe there’s still people out there who have only one definition of home and it’s a town they’ve never left. That rom-com idea is lovely, but it’s far from the experience most of us have, especially those of us who have had to move all our lives: away from family, against small-minded small towns, and toward work or lovers or anything that promised us a sense of belonging. Home can be a complicated, ever evolving thing, and still be valid. Home can be what you feel in someone’s arms, and also what you long for when you’re in them. This week, when homesickness arises, ask yourself what home means to you now, not what it meant when you were someone else.
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It’s true that Scorpio, as a sign, is often misunderstood. Their reputable tails are no match for their tender hearts. While you do your best to hide it, the misunderstandings and assumptions don’t go unnoticed. It’s only human to get hurt. Hurt is a valid feeling but it’s troublesome too, because hurt floods our reasoning. You’ll find that it hurts double when you work double time over-explaining yourself and trying to teach someone how to see you. Sometimes, someone’s failure to be accountable to you has nothing to do with you. Sometimes you’re better off showing yourself why you deserve to be treated differently than convincing someone else with your good deeds.
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Wild how fear of loss can really get in the way enjoying something, huh? Easy enough, intellectually, to admit that change is a constant and nothing is forever. Much harder to regard what brings us pleasure and joy with the same detachment. Especially not when feigning detachment results in us withholding some vital part of ourselves. Of course, it’s neither one extreme nor the other, neither intellectual distance nor clingy obsession, that allows us to have the full experience we yearn for. Finding middle ground is hard, but it’s doable. This week, do your best to make choices based on how you feel in the moment, not how you expect you’ll feel later. Feeling good now can be good enough.
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Perhaps it’s a necessary arrangement that what makes us feel challenged and alive is also what contributes to our feelings of isolation. If we take it all at face value, it’s easy to come away feeling like the universe wants us to choose between feeling loved and feeling free, between feeling the safety of the pack and the loneliness of an open road. Deep down, you know that these feelings have their own cycle. That feeling secure is what prompts you to take more risks, that risk-taking feels good when you bring your rewards home to someone. Whatever part of the cycle you’re in — forging ahead or fortifying — it’s a necessary part, and it will enrich you if you let it.
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You know how Annie Lennox sings “No more I love yous, language is leaving me”? Well this week is the complete opposite of that, Aquarius. Language is returning to you like the rays of the sun, breaking through a long dark night. Language, the ability to express yourself without doubting if you mean it, without fearing you’ll regret it later, is knocking on your head and hoping to catch a ride to the town of complete sentences and meaningful exchanges. Let it in and carry it around, Aquarius; let it marinate. Let it take you around like a tour guide, reminding you of the name of that tree you always pass, asking you to smell the air. Everything is a sign, but you’ve got to translate it.
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It’s natural to feel left out sometimes, Pisces. Especially in this moment when social gatherings are limited and those we love have to enforce difficult boundaries. It’s only natural to feel a little hopeless when the ongoing calamities of human existence are not ameliorated by waves of distracting pleasant company. Longing for community, for the pleasure of acquaintance, and the bubbly feeling of stumbling into a like mind is valid longing because these things are the cream of daily life. Just don’t let that longing distract you from what you have. It’s tempting to resent what we depend on. Remind yourself that what surrounds you was something you chose for a reason.
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