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When you’re feeling anxious or uncertain, the best thing to do is seek equilibrium, not theories. This week, you may be tempted to confuse your feelings with your situation, which can lead to shadowboxing ghosts and projecting your thoughts and fears onto others. Do your best to find your centre and better understand what’s motivating your emotions before you leap to conclusions and act in ways that create more problems than they solve.
This is a powerful week for you to mobilize in the direction of what you want to create in the world or in your life, Scorpio. Put yourself out there, make plans, explore possibilities, and collaborate with possibility. This is a time for growth and change, but as this occurs, some people or even parts of yourself are going to resist. This is just part of the process of growing and is not to be avoided. Allow room for things to ebb and flow.
Big changes are afoot and it’s bound to be pretty rattling. You are meant to show up for all of it, and the best way to do that is by practicing healthy boundaries within your own psyche. Where you allow your thoughts to linger has a huge impact on your feelings and your actions. Instead of striving to avoid your fears, explore them so that you can learn from the past and apply its lessons in your present.
It’s way too easy to focus on what you don’t know or to struggle against your fears and frustrations. This week, your best move is quite the opposite—it’s to find your Yes. Seek the parts of you and places in your life where you are excited, where you feel affirmed, and where there is creative potential. In doing so, you will not only feel better but options and possibilities will open up to you so that you can more easily do better, Capricorn.
As you change, you’re likely to bump up against grief. This is not fun; it’s also not an indication that you’re doing something wrong. Explore what is true for you without needing it to be linear, Aquarius. In other words, allow yourself to be a vulnerable human with tender emotions even if they contradict what you know logically to be true. It’s important to remember that it is your openness and humanity that makes you powerful.
It’s really hard to hear the voice of your intuition when you are battling yourself, Pisces. This week, your frustrations are valid and real, but that doesn’t make them productive. Do your best to identify where the patterns are in the frustrations you’re experiencing. Your patterns are your own, even if your situation is out of your control. When you find the pattern, you can better access the lesson to be learned, your agency, and your own instincts.
While this is a good time for you to move forward in efforts to make things happen, you’ve got to do so with respect for your nervous system, Aries. If you’ve been pushing yourself too hard or are just feeling tapped, give yourself the gift of adapting your pace to meet your needs. Faster is not always better, especially when it comes at your own expense. Explore what’s right for you this week—even when it takes you outside of your comfort zone.
If you keep on looking outside of yourself for answers, you’ll not only feel bad but you will miss out on the opportunity for growth that this week's astrology presents. Do your best to consider how you have contributed to your current situation. If you’re dealing with problems, is there anything that you’re getting out of these problems? Or that you were up until recently? Finding your own contribution is not meant to be an avenue for guilt—instead, it’s for the self-awareness that can help empower you for your next step.
Things are changing deeply and meaningfully in your life and you may feel like a chicken with its head cut off, running in circles without clear direction. The key to navigating this transition with grace is to let go of your attachment to how you think you’re supposed to feel, how things are supposed to go, and even how other people are meant to behave. Motivate yourself through clarity of intention instead of outdated ideas, shoulds, and other fear-based impulses.
When you centre your emotional truth instead of your strongest reactions, it can make you feel more awkward—that’s because the truth can be vulnerable. Embrace your vulnerabilities this week as you nurture the people and things that mean the most to you, Moonchild. It’s more important that you show up with a full and open heart than it is you avoid feeling your sensitivities.
It is wise to keep a big-picture perspective in your relationships this week. You may find that power struggles, maybe even passive-aggressive ones, are triggered between you and another person. In the moment, you may want to react in ways that preserve your pride or set the record straight, but if you are considering things from a big-picture perspective, it may be better to let things go, Leo.
If your anxieties are loud—and sometimes they are very, very loud—then it’s not possible to accurately hear the subtle voice of your intuition. This week, it’s important that you do your best to get grounded because in doing so you can endeavour to understand your stressors instead of just reacting to them by shutting down or obsessing. It’s important that you remember that it’s how you handle upsets that define you, not your problems themselves, Virgo.
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