This week, a cluster of celestial bodies will make for especially volatile emotions and transitions as we make our way closer to the weekend. By Wednesday, a full Moon will directly oppose the Sun, Venus, Jupiter, and Uranus. Oppositions already indicate challenges and a need for recalibration, and this week, oppositions run rampant.
While these can be intimidating astrological occurrences, they also provide a tremendous opportunity for personal growth. A small shift in perspective from cynical dread to cautious gratitude can make all the difference in the world. Indeed, our own actions will be the only thing that determines whether these starry alignments are positive or negative.
How will your sign fare this week?
Choose Your Sign
Sometimes, relationships have to get a little rocky before they get better. If you approach this situation in the right way, you can both walk away from this stronger and wiser than you started. This week, it’s all the more imperative that you choose your words carefully. Fully consider the words of others before responding. Slow and steady wins this race, Aries.
As tempting as it might be to go into full-on defense mode, you’re liable to burn far more bridges with this approach. Then, once these feelings inevitably subside — and indeed, they certainly will — you’ll be stuck with more emotional and mental work than you would have had otherwise. Try to view this as a learning opportunity, not a cosmic punishment.
You have a particularly auspicious cosmic alignment this week, Taurus. Your ruling planet, Venus, is in a powerful conjunction with Jupiter, suggesting good fortune and prosperity. Midweek, this celestial combination faces off with a full Moon close to your star sign. While oppositions can sometimes mean strife, the stars suggest it will end up as a positive.
As someone who doesn’t readily jump at the opportunity for change, these transitions might make you feel more uncomfortable than excited at first. Give yourself some breathing room to sit with these new emotions before brushing them off as unworthy of your pursuits. The cosmos promise to offer quite the reward if you’re able to learn how to do so.
When we invest our emotional and mental energy into others, we run the risk of them depleting those finite resources before we’re able to use them for ourselves. It’s a natural consequence of an overwhelmingly good-intentioned endeavor. But unfortunately, the universe doesn’t give brownie points just because you had a nice thought.
This week, circumstances will arise that drive this point home. The only person you can fully trust with your valuable resources is yourself. And even then, none of us are immune to bearing the brunt of our mistakes or misunderstandings. But one thing is for certain: it’s considerably easier to achieve inner peace when you’re the one in charge of your emotions.
It’s high time you stop staring into the rearview mirror, Cancer. You won’t be able to change what’s already happened in the past no matter how hard you try. The only semblance of control you have over this situation has to do with the things that are yet to come. These facets of life certainly won’t be popping up on the road behind you.
On the contrary, they’ll be front and center in your forward-facing field of vision. The longer you keep your eyes locked on the past, the more likely it is that these arrivals will jar you off course. Don’t let what happened to you in weeks, months, or years prior be for naught. Use this experience to your advantage to navigate forward more deftly.
The stars are asking you an important question this week: is it more important to you to have other people like you or for you to like yourself? Try to ignore the knee-jerk reaction of your ego to settle on the former without a second thought. Sure, public adoration is nice. But you aren’t going to sleep and waking up with the general public every day.
No other relationship in this universe will be as raw and honest as the one we have with ourselves. Don’t be so quick to dismiss it for the sake of others. Getting other people to like us is the emotional equivalent of cheap, instant gratification. Learning to love ourselves is a deep, long-lasting reward that pays itself back in droves.
When someone shows you who they are, you’d be wise to listen, Virgo. The longer you ignore what they’re trying to tell you, even subconsciously, the less innocence you have in this situation. While your willingness to stick this relationship out through the tough times is admirable to a point, the stars suggest you might’ve passed that point a while ago.
As difficult as it might be to accept, it’s time to present the relationship in question with an ultimatum: change, or we change. If they’re worth keeping around, they’ll be willing to have a conversation with you to discuss how to improve your connection. If they don’t show a willingness to do that, then would you even want them around in the first place?
Although this isn’t always the case, more often than not, there is a direct correlation between how difficult a challenge was and how satisfying the reward is on the other side. The tougher the obstacle, the greater the joy of overcoming it. The harder the conflict, the sweeter the reconnection feels. As the old adage goes: no pain, no gain, Libra.
Luckily, your cosmic alignment suggests that you have one such situation on the horizon. An unexpected transition will make you unsteady on your foot. But in the end, it’s looking like this situation will turn out to be a net positive. In the meantime, try not to succumb to the stress of these chaotic ups and downs. Things are closer to leveling out than you think.
The problem you’ve been chewing on for weeks now hasn’t seemed to shrink in size at all, which means it’s time to consider whether the solution is as hard to find as you think. Or, could there be a possibility that you know the right answer, you’re just unhappy with what it is. Rest assured, Scorpio: sticking your head in the sand over it won’t change your reality.
Swallowing a difficult truth in life is, well, challenging. But having to do so isn’t a sign that you’ve made some grave mistake, and this obstacle is your penance for that. Sometimes, this is how the cosmos teach us our most valuable lessons. Thank the universe for the experience, and move on. You aren’t lesser for this. In fact, the opposite is true, Scorpio.
Your cosmic alignment suggests emotions will be running high this week, but don’t batten down the hatches just yet. Just because things get a little intense doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be negative. Indeed, we can only experience the highest of highs by opening ourselves up to the possibility that the opposite extreme will occur instead.
Keep your heart and eyes open to what’s in front of you this week, Sag. Now’s the time to be hyper-aware of both your internal and external surroundings. Consider your words more carefully. Pay closer attention to what other people are saying to you. There is some magic to be found this week, but you have to be looking for it to see it.
The fact that you would slip into a state of almost dissociative productivity isn’t all that surprising, given how hard you’ve been working and for how long. But not everyone is stuck in the same routine as you, Cap. Consequently, what might seem like harmless efficiency from your perspective could come across as aloofness or callousness to others.
There will always be a million reasons why you’re too busy to focus on the people around you. However, there won’t always be a million opportunities to do so. Try zooming out and looking at the larger picture this week, Cap. Yes, working hard is important. But it’s arguably no less important than maintaining strong, healthy connections with the people in your life.
That “I don’t care” personality you’ve been practicing for years now might be a suitable quick-fix solution, but it’s not going to make these problems go away for good. Because despite what your stubborn ego might try to tell you, this situation has affected you emotionally. And that’s okay. In fact, it would be more concerning if it didn’t.
Thus, it’s high time you started treating yourself like someone who is going through a difficult emotional period. Rather than zooming through your week and using distractions to separate your conscious and subconscious minds even further, try to lean into the discomfort a bit. The only way you’ll untangle this emotional knot is by getting a good, hard look at it.
The stars indicate good fortune is waiting for you on the horizon, Pisces. A particularly potent alignment between Venus, Uranus, Jupiter, and solar conjunction in opposition to the full Moon makes an auspicious trine with your ruling planet, Neptune. In plain English? There is ample change in the air, but it’s a metamorphosis you will ultimately benefit from.
Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you’ll feel totally comfortable the whole time. On the contrary, there might be more than one circumstance this week that makes you wonder if these changes really were for the better. Have faith in the universe to reveal its intentions to you in due time. Great things are happening even if it doesn’t always feel like it.