Astrologer and Cut columnist Claire Comstock-Gay reads the stars as Madame Clairevoyant.
Reba McEntire, an Aries.
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The optimistic Sagittarius moon brings good energy your way today — particularly in the morning, as it picks up support from Pluto and Saturn. You’ll have the good judgment you need to make solid decisions about your own life — especially when it comes to pressing issues — and to give good advice to your friends. Crucially, though, you’ll find time to enjoy yourself, too. You can take your life seriously without becoming somber or humorless.
The last thing you want is a boring life — and so often, the “right” choices, or at least the ones everyone else keeps encouraging you to make, are the ones that lead to the most dull and uninspiring. It’s enough to make you want to lean hard in the opposite direction, making choices you know will be ultimately bad for you, but exciting along the way. But today, stop assuming it has to be one or the other. Living your life in an interesting, unconventional way doesn’t mean you can’t take care of yourself, too.
Doing the right thing is often inconvenient; chasing your deepest desires can be scary. So it can be tempting to settle for an option that’s not quite right, or that you’re not genuinely excited about, but that’s simpler and less disruptive to your life. It’s easy to come up with all sorts of arguments to convince yourself that this second-best path is actually just as good — but today, try to be honest with yourself. If you’re avoiding doing what you know is right solely because you’re afraid, then now is the time to muster up your courage and push on anyway.
There will always be some people you just won’t get along with, simply because your personalities aren’t a good match. When you’re around them, you feel stressed or insecure, and you can tell that you’re not coming across well. Part of you might take this as a challenge — you imagine that if you just try hard enough, you can make anyone like and appreciate you. But today, remember that you don’t have to dedicate all that energy to people who only make you feel worse about yourself. You’re allowed to prioritize the friends who actually like you.
Lately, you might worry that you don’t know where you’re headed; the present feels unclear, and the future seems even murkier. But today, you have a chance to get some confidence back; the key is to focus on small tasks and manageable challenges. At first, this might feel a bit underwhelming — you imagine that you “should” have a grand vision for your life, that your every move should be part of a bigger master plan. But trust that the small stuff will add up, and that you’re headed in the right direction, even if you can’t quite feel it yet.
Sometimes, being brave is exhilarating; even if you’re afraid in the moment, you can also sense that you’re doing the right thing, and that you’ll be glad to have followed through on your principles. Other times, though, it’s just stressful — though you know, in the abstract, that you’re acting in an honorable way, you still wish you didn’t have to put yourself on the line. Today, the important thing is that you behave courageously, whether or not it feels easy right now — you won’t regret it.
If you want genuine intimacy, you need to be willing to make yourself vulnerable — and sometimes, that feels like too much to ask. Part of you would rather keep everyone at a safe remove, even if that means that your connections to others will be a bit shallower, a bit less trusting, than they might be otherwise. Today, though, that’s likely to feel unsatisfying: You need more depth from your relationships, and if that means you need to risk getting hurt, it might be worth it anyway.
You might feel a bit lonely lately — maybe because you haven’t been spending enough time with the people you love, or maybe because you get the sense that even when your friends are with you, they aren’t actually listening, that they don’t really get you. Your first impulse right now might be to stop speaking up at all — what’s the point, if you aren’t getting through to anyone? — but in reality, the best way to break through any misunderstanding is to share more, not less.
In general, you try to take care of important tasks right away — you understand that putting them off only tends to create more work for you in the end. But still, you’re only human, and you can’t help but procrastinate sometimes. If you’ve been avoiding certain tasks — whether because they’re intimidating, or just because they seem boring — now is the time to finally take care of them. As unappealing as the work itself might seem, you’ll feel lighter on the other side.
Sometimes, you get the unsettling sense that you’re failing to live up to your potential. It’s not that you’re not trying, or even that you haven’t had your share of big victories — it’s just that something feels missing. Today, consider that the problem might be that you’ve put too much effort into meeting other people’s expectations, and too little attention to using your own unique talents, chasing your own dreams. For now, ignore what anyone else thinks you should be doing or achieving, and focus on what would make you feel a sense of accomplishment.
It’s easy to convince yourself that the bad things in your life are inevitable — particularly if you’ve tried, unsuccessfully, to change them. You tell yourself that you did your best, but it didn’t work, and now all you can do is accept some baseline level of discontent. Today, though, could be a good time to try again. Just because your last attempt didn’t pan out, that doesn’t mean your next one won’t: Nothing is inevitable, at least not as long as you refuse to give up.
Today, you’ll feel incredibly pessimistic. If life is generally going well, you’ll tell yourself that it can’t last; if it’s going poorly, you’ll tell yourself that things will probably just keep getting worse from here. So when you sense that you’re about to start spiraling, it might help to ask your friends for some outside perspective. While some of your worries might be valid, others are probably overblown, and other people might help you to tell the difference when you can’t.
Sometimes when you’re having a bad day, you imagine that a bit of external validation would make you feel better about everything. If only the people around you were a bit more encouraging, you’d be more confident; if they were a bit more generous with their affections, everything would feel less stressful. Today, though, even if you get the reassurance you’ve been yearning for, it won’t make as much of a difference as you thought. What you need isn’t for others to be nice to you; rather, it’s being kind to yourself that’ll make all the difference.
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