Get ready to tie up loose ends and dive headfirst into major introspection because a lunar eclipse is fast approaching. This week’s eclipse sits right on the cusp of Virgo and Libra, the last and first signs of the Zodiac, respectively. The celestial alignment’s placement heightens its power, increasing the palpability of life’s ending chapters.
Shortly after the eclipse, the still-full Moon will swing down toward Makemake in retrograde. As we venture further into the week, the cosmos calls us to consider how we can translate Monday’s eclipse-fueled reflections into tangible, meaningful action.
How will your sign fare this week?
Choose Your Sign
Despite how it might feel in the moment, you are at the helm of your life’s ship, Aries. You can veer toward a different course if you want to. This doesn’t necessarily have to be physical, either. A change in direction could also indicate a shift in tone, communication style, perception, or all three. You aren’t as stuck as you might think.
By the week’s end, a tense square will occur between your ruling planet, Mars, and a waning gibbous Moon in your 3rd House of Communication and 6th House of Health. During this time, make sure you pay close attention to the words you choose. Avoiding the likelihood of misinterpretation will save you major headaches down the road.
Losing unhealthy parts of ourselves can be a painful process, no matter how positive this change might seem on paper. Give yourself time to grieve the person you once were, Taurus. That person was important. They had value. Change doesn’t inherently mean something negative. Your past self wasn’t a failure because you’re evolving into someone new.
Of course, this doesn’t always soothe the sting of loss the way we’d like. Try keeping your eyes locked on the bigger picture. It’s okay to be sad now. But allow yourself room to be excited for what’s to come. There is a light at the end of this tunnel. Keep faith that the heartache you’re experiencing now won’t be for naught.
There’s a difference between pushing against life’s natural ebb and flow out of courage and doing so out of spite. Indeed, there are more productive ways to express displeasure than stomping your feet and crossing your arms. Rebel when necessary, certainly. But don’t set fires that only you will be responsible for putting out later.
Use these negative feelings as a magnifying glass into your psyche. Try sitting with and carefully documenting your discomfort before the blurring rationale of your neutral mind kicks in. You might be surprised at what kind of clarity you can find within these uncomfortable emotions. If you find that you’re looking for trouble where there wasn’t any, it might be time to find out why.
The longer we content ourselves with sitting on the backburner of life, the more difficult—and, to some, more shocking—it is to move ourselves closer to the front. Some people might take this as a personal affront to themselves. Perhaps you’ve internalized these assumptions as fact. The stars encourage you to seek more stable guidance this week.
More often than not, this stability can be found in how we treat others. Our internal dialogues can quickly color a situation out of our favor. Instead, try looking at your current situation as if it were someone else’s. What sort of empathetic musings might you extend to them? What might it feel like to extend this same grace to yourself?
Forgiveness rarely benefits the other party more than it does oneself, Leo. As much as your pride would like to focus on the idea of this grace somehow letting the person who wronged you off scot-free, the stars urge you to shift your perspective. You aren’t showing weakness or deference to someone else by forgiving them. You’re doing yourself a favor.
The grudges you’ve clung to so tightly affect you and you alone. No one else feels the weight of these burdens like you do. Doesn’t that defeat the purpose of holding them in the first place? If anything, suffering even more undue pain from this situation should be the affront your pride detests. It’s time to let this one go.
When unsolvable conundrums appear in our lives like yours, the solution is often easier to spot than we acknowledge. Usually, the problem is rooted in the fact that we don’t like the solution. Your intuition is trying to tell you something important, Virgo. How much longer are you going to ignore its call?Â
Kicking the metaphorical can further down the road will not make dealing with these issues any easier. Digging your heels in will only waste precious time. Midweek, an opportunity to tune into your subconscious messaging will present itself to you. The stars urge you not to let this chance pass you by.
We often perceive success and prosperity as an additive process. Our society has convinced us that if we gain enough money, fame, or other types of pomp and frills, we’ll finally obtain a level of greatness that feeds our soul and nourishes our spirit. In reality, this type of good fortune is often a game of subtraction. What can we release to get to the next level of prosperity?
Take some time this week to consider the ideas, habits, or responsibilities that are no longer serving you in a meaningful way. Maybe the path you thought you should be on six months ago is no longer headed in the right direction. Facing these truths can be difficult at first, but isn’t it even harder to know you’re willingly moving away from the achievements you seek?
Establishing any kind of family or community has its ups and downs, Scorpio. This won’t be a linear process. As such, don’t let a few days, weeks, or even a month or two of backward motion discourage you. For as much regression as you think you’re experiencing now, it’s impossible to fully appreciate the potential of progression waiting for you on the other side.
What’s important now is not to hide from this discomfort. Use it as a bouncing board to propel you forward. Life’s toughest lessons are often the most valuable teachers, and your current situation is no exception. What are you afraid of? How does that correlate to what’s important to you? Accept this knowledge, and use it as a light to guide your path forward.
Direct communication doesn’t need to be aggressive, and aggressive communication isn’t always direct. As tempting as it might be to express your emotions through a sharp tongue, the stars urge you to tread carefully. The satisfaction you feel from sharing your honest thoughts will likely dissipate faster than the consequences of the words you chose.
There is a way to avoid this conflict without flailing your arms and hoping for the best. A positive trine between your ruling planet, Jupiter, and a full Moon early in the week will provide much-needed insight into your subconscious. Finding the root cause of your pain before you act on it is a good way to prevent unnecessary stress.
We only have so much control over our external environments. We can’t dictate how people will act, what they’ll say, or what cards the hands of fate will draw for us on any given day. However, the power we have over our closest, innermost environments is far more significant. Rather than dwelling on the things you cannot change, try focusing on what you can.
More often than not, greater stability within ourselves begets greater stability elsewhere. While it might seem like these monumental conflicts or tasks require matching action and energy, this is merely a byproduct of our anxiety. Slow and steady wins the race, no matter how antsy we might feel along the way.
Your sheer creative power is admirable, but it can quickly become unruly if you’re not careful. The stars urge you to focus this energy on something or someone specific. Prioritize your goals, then create a game plan from there. You’ll likely be far happier with the results of a dedicated, concrete effort than with a chaotic hodge-podge of action.
Give yourself space to introspect and evaluate what’s most important to you early in the week. Consider how you might use your financial, emotional, and mental resources for the most important endeavors. In the same vein, consider how doling these resources out among several less significant goals is stunting your overall progress.
Be careful not to let your tendency to escape reality convince you that things are better than they really are. Of course, avoiding a problem is easier than facing it head-on. This ease does not correlate to efficiency or suggest you’re making the right decision. Eventually, the delayed discomfort will make its way back to you.Â
While the stars aren’t suggesting you fall down a rabbit hole of despair this week, they do suggest you keep your feet firmly planted in reality — no matter how painful that reality might be. Your future self will be grateful you didn’t put off these problems for them to deal with. And despite how it feels right now, you’ll feel better for getting this over with, too.