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Aries | Taurus | Gemini | Cancer | Leo | Virgo | Libra | Scorpio | Sagittarius | Capricorn | Aquarius | Pisces
This week may feel rough: you are being confronted with consequences that you don't particularly like and maybe didn't even see coming. Within this, you have the opportunity to recognize what's important to you and to take a stand for what you need and believe in. That said, the choices you make in this situation are unlikely to feel resolved or tidy. Do your best to be kind to yourself and others as you navigate this rocky road, Aries.
Anxieties may be making themselves known this week. It is unwise to ignore them. Not because they have a great deal of wisdom about them, but because your mental and spiritual health are important to tend to, especially when you feel out of whack, Taurus. Don't force yourself to be OK with something you're not OK with. You are entitled to your emotions and it's important that you figure out what you need to do in order to show up in honest and sustainable ways this week.
Having a fear of things going wrong is totally normal, but it's not the same as having intuition or certainty that things will go wrong. This week, your assignment is to practice being grounded in the here and now. This will help your mental and emotional health, and it will support you in navigating through the uncertain. Having the skill set to differentiate between your emotions, instincts and information that you have collected will take you a very long way, Twin Star.
This is a good time for collaboration. Whether you need your emotions to collaborate with your head, your intentions to collaborate with your actions, or you're looking for an external collaboration with other people, projects or movements, actively working with the parts within yourself or with other people will take you a long way this week, Moonchild.
If you're feeling burnt out, it's important to honour that, Leo. If you push yourself to start something new before you're ready, it will put undue stress on you and the beginnings you are trying to foster. Consider what a healthy pace might look like in your current situation and even in how you're processing your emotions this week. If you navigate in a self-appropriate way, you will find yourself both feeling and doing much better.
Whether you are dealing with a personal situation or the stress of world events, this week you are likely to be experiencing some grief. While it is not particularly fun, there is value in feeling your feelings, Virgo. Give yourself a gift of being present for whatever is most active in your heart. Processing your emotions in a healthy way lays the foundation to being honest with yourself and others.
When frustrations come knocking on your door, it feels bad. There's no way around it. This week, the ways you navigate frustrations are not only important to your immediate situation, but also to your coping mechanisms in general. Strive to be mindful about how you approach your concerns: your assumptions, motivations and beliefs are integral to who you are, not only what you do, Libra.
You are not meant to give up, but you are having feelings and it's important you leave room for yourself to actually feel them. As you know, feelings are not facts—but also you have a tendency to feel things very deeply. This can easily compel you to centre your biggest and loudest emotions in ways that derail you. Do your best to nurture yourself to cope with challenges this week, Scorpio. First attend to your feelings and then figure out what needs doing.
You have been carrying a heavy load; it's OK if you need to put it down for a while, Sagittarius. The emotional part of any endeavour, be it personal or professional, can catch you by surprise and slow you down. It may be tempting to think of this as a negative thing, but it absolutely isn't. Creating space to feel your feelings so that you can glean the wisdom they offer is not just a helpful skill, but an act of self-love and kindness that is absolutely worth whatever delays it may create.
It's no secret that you like stability and order, but this isn't the time for you to focus on being in control or predicting what will come next. Instead, learn to work without assurances. Sometimes you need to do what is right because you believe it is right and not because you are certain of what it will get you, Capricorn. Be brave enough to risk being wrong if that's what it takes to follow your heart this week.
The more that you have, the more that you want, the more risk you take on, and potentially the more you have to lose. This shouldn't stop you from yearning for more or attaining your dreams! Grappling with fear of success is an important part of life. Whether or not it makes sense or follows a linear path of what you would expect, support yourself through the growing pains that you are encountering this week, Aquarius.
There's a lot that you can learn about yourself by thinking about your ego. What is a healthy amount of entitlement, or a sense of entitlement that is too small or too big? How is a healthy and well-balanced ego necessary in order to assert yourself? And who does it serve if you keep yourself small—or if you take more than your share? Get to know this important part of yourself better this week and it will empower you to rise to the occasion, Pisces.
Jessica Lanyadoo is the host of the twice weekly Astrology + Advice show, Ghost of a Podcast, and the author of Astrology For Real Relationships.