Every Sunday, Claire Comstock-Gay reads the stars as Madame Clairevoyant and shares the weekly horoscope for each zodiac sign.
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On Tuesday, a new moon in Cancer functions as an emotional reset. Life’s been busy lately; you’ve been learning new things and having valuable experiences, and all of that gets tiring. Big feelings may finally catch up to you — rather than rushing to do anything about them, just take some time to process them. Then on Saturday, harmonious energy between wild Uranus and powerful Pluto could signal big-picture transformation, so do your best to be open to adventure, surprise, and radical change.
This week, virtually everything you try will feel impossible if you attempt to go it alone. There’s too much going on for any one person to keep track of it all, and by trying to succeed without help, you’ll just end up digging a hole for yourself. If you’re aiming for a big personal goal, find people who are traveling in the same direction and support one another. If you’re trying to improve the world around you, look for the people who share your dreams and figure out what you can build together.
You’re growing and changing all the time, but sometimes your ideas about yourself remain stuck in the past. You may fixate on flaws you addressed a long time ago or worry that old mistakes continue to define you. This week, try to take a step back and view your life with more perspective. You’ve evolved and learned and become a wiser, more courageous person over time; that doesn’t erase the past, but it matters. And you deserve to give yourself a bit more credit for it.
Simply thinking about your problems isn’t typically enough to make anything happen: You could have the wisest perspective and the sharpest insights in the world, but if you’re not willing to actually do anything with them, they’ll be of limited use. This week, just don’t make the opposite mistake and discount the value of your ideas. Before you can change your life, you need to be able to imagine that a different kind of existence is possible for you. For now, if all you have energy for is dreaming, that can still be enough.
Sometimes it feels as though you’re not really “allowed” to question things if you don’t have answers of your own to suggest. You don’t want to seem like you’re being negative just for the sake of it, so you often hold your tongue until you can come up with a positive suggestion. But this week, give yourself space to raise any doubts you may have, even if you don’t yet have any better ideas to offer. You have valuable insights to share, so don’t hold back.
It’s frustrating when people gripe about their problems without actually doing anything about them. You wouldn’t mind the complaining if it were paired with action; the air of helplessness is what’s so exasperating. But this week, try to remember you can’t force anyone to take action or to listen to your advice; the more you try, the more irritated you’ll get. So focus on living your own life to the fullest. If you’re lucky, the example you set will slowly begin to convince others that they can transform their lives too.
It can be intensely irritating when others encourage you to look for the silver linings in events that seem, at least to you, to be flat-out bad. Searching around for the bright spots feels like a pointless distraction; you would rather put your energy into fixing the problem than into reframing your thinking. This week, just make sure you haven’t become so pessimistic that you’re unable to recognize the exciting possibilities still in front of you. Even in situations without many (or any) redeeming qualities, you still have choices, so make the most of them.
Some people think it should be easy to let go of bad habits once you realize they’re harming you. In reality, however, it isn’t so simple. It can be strangely hard to act rationally, to do the things you know would be good for you; all your tangled-up emotions and insecurities can make it feel practically impossible to do the things you “should.” This week, though, it may get a bit easier to simply do what needs to be done. The key is to stop thinking so hard about it and just act.
This week, your intuition is likely to be stronger than ever. You can sense what others are thinking, even when they don’t say a word, and you can figure out the right thing to say in almost any situation. It would be easy to let your perceptiveness make you arrogant, convincing you that you’re somehow better or more thoughtful than everyone else. But try to stay humble. You don’t know everything, and if you make a point of actually listening to the people around you, they may share valuable insights you hadn’t even considered.
The people around you can sometimes seem stubbornly, maddeningly resistant to any kind of change. Even if you know it would be good for them — even if, deep down, they know it would be good for them — they still dig in their heels. This week, the best thing you can do is be patient without giving up on them. If you can keep believing they’re capable of change and consistently offer them opportunities to make different choices, they’ll eventually take you up on it, no matter how many times they refuse.
The stronger your ideals and the more you care about being a good person, the easier it is to feel you’re falling short. No matter how much you do for others, you’re constantly aware that you could be doing more; the more you strive to live ethically, the more your occasional lapses hurt. The important thing is not to become paralyzed by shame or the fear of being imperfect. This week, remind yourself that mistakes are part of the process. You can’t avoid them entirely; you can only address them with grace.
Though you’re certainly not a follower, you’re not necessarily interested in being a leader, either. You’ve got plenty to do as it is; the last thing you want is to have to manage other people’s lives, too. But this week, there’s a good chance people will be looking to you for guidance because they value your independence, your creativity, your integrity. Don’t feel the need to get involved in everyone else’s problems if that’s not what you want. For now, especially, simply leading by example may be enough.
It’s not possible to keep all your options open indefinitely: Eventually, you have to make a choice, otherwise you risk missing out on all of them. But you may not be ready to make lasting decisions just yet. You need more time to explore, to test out various possibilities, to envision all the potential futures in front of you. It may be tempting to scramble to decide right away, simply because you’re tired of everything feeling so up in the air. But just because you have to make up your mind eventually, that doesn’t mean you need to rush to do it right now.
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