Aries: Every single day that you wake up, every single day that you’re here and alive on this strange wild earth, you call on immeasurable courage. There are nightmares that you face and there are battles that you fight. Sometimes they are bigger and sometimes they are smaller, and sometimes you’re bright and funny and wild enough that nobody can see, but they’re there, and they’re real, and you’re braver than you even think. Give yourself a little credit, this month. Give yourself a little rest.
Taurus: It can be hard, sometimes, to feel like you’re even allowed to dream, in such a hard strange world, but try not to suppress your thoughts of a future full of light. Try not to suppress all your desires. You don’t have to be satisfied with a world full of cruelty or a world that isn’t enough. There is this whole bright world that we live in together, this whole world in motion, and it needs you to dream the things only you can dream, to do the things only you can do.
Gemini: There are things that you can forget, and there are things that will stay with you until they’re ready to leave. There are things that are yours to carry, and things that are yours to let go of. There are trees that keep their leaves all winter and there are trees that drop them, every year. There is world full of sun and rain and mountains and dirt, and you don’t have to do everything on your own. You’re not the only person in this world and you’re not alone.
Cancer: Sometimes the world gets to be too bitter, sometimes the world gets to be too much. Sometimes the inside of your own head can feel like a cave, like the bottom of the ocean, like a strange cold planet. Try to remember, this month, the times that it feels like home. Try to remember the times that your mind is just a mind, inside a human being who is a human being, just trying to move through this world, just trying to live. All of these are okay, all are good, all are you.
Leo: It’s not always easy to leap into action–the world is so big and your head is so full, and it’s hard to know which dreams you can trust, which visions are truth. Keep moving with courage. Keep moving with your eyes open to the tangles and the sweetness all around you. The world is bigger and smaller than you think. There are so many different roads that will lead you to so many different places. There are so many roads that will all lead you home.
Virgo: It might be hard to see your place in the world, this month. It might be hard to see your own face in the mirror. It might be hard, knowing who you are, knowing where to go, knowing how to live. This month is going to ask for courage from you, in quiet ways. You are kind and you’re strong and your heart is open, and these are the things that matter right now. These are the things that will lead you through dark places. These are the things that will keep you warm.
Libra: The world is full of warmth and yellow light and pine trees and kind hearts, and the world is full of wrong things, large and small. Cruel things, noisy and silent. And all of these things exist together, and all of these things exist right now, and it isn’t your job to do the arithmetic of adding them all together and looking for a total. It isn’t your job to find a solution. There are wrong things and cruel things that you’re healing from, and this counts, and it matters, and it is work, too.
Scorpio: The paths through this world are tangled and varied. There are so many ways to be kind and there are so many ways to be cruel and it’s hard sometimes to know which is which, just by looking. Sometimes the best path is the easy one and sometimes it’s the hard one, and the only way to know is to keep your eyes open. The only way to know is to try. Remember, this month, that there’s always time to change your mind. There’s always time to turn around.
Sagittarius: This is a month for grappling with your strength, with your power, with your desire. You can have anything you want, but knowing what you want is a challenge you could spend your whole life figuring out. You don’t need to know right now. You don’t need to predict the future. Desire won’t kill you, and neither will the bright sparkling unpredictability of the world. This is just a month for moving. It’s a month for opening doors. It’s a week for stoking the fire in your dreams.
Capricorn: It can be get so exhausting, being brave. It can tire you out, saving your own life over and over again. It can tire you out, surprising yourself with your own toughness. There’s no answer, this month, but to keep moving. There’s no answer but the clouds and the trees and the sound of sweet voices out on the street. There’s no answer but to try to treat yourself with kindness. Get enough air. Get enough sleep. Get enough air. Things don’t make sense but they’ll be okay.
Aquarius: Sometimes the world feels off its axis, and sometimes your limbs feel heavy as stone. Sometimes you can get so tangled up in slow days your bright wild desires feel like a burden, like a pain, like they could eat a hole right through your stomach. This is a month for remembering that your desires are a gift. Your desires are a strength. They can move you. They can teach you how to live. There is magic that has always been inside you, and it’s in you even now.
Pisces: There is wisdom to be found in other people, this month. There are truths to be found outside of yourself. Our own thoughts are expansive and wild but they aren’t infinite. Our own bodies contain worlds, but they don’t contain everything. There are still things to learn and still things to see. There are still things that can surprise you with their beauty, with their strangeness, with their clear golden songs. You’re still growing, even when you can’t feel it, and this is right, and this is good.
I love these. I’m not quite sure how mine (libra) really fits for me right now, but it’s almost a poetic little meditation prompting me to figure out what’s up.
ahhhhhh Capricorn yes too real right now, how did you knowwwww 🙁
*nods*
It will be okay. Not well. Not gravy. But okay. I do not know what okay will look like, but I know it will be okay, because the alternative is actually living in a Beckett novel.
*offers fist-bump of let’s-get-through-this commiseration, if you’d like one*
*returns fist-bump sympathetically* Thank you friend. We got this, and it will be okay.
And all of these things exist together, and all of these things exist right now, and it isn’t your job to do the arithmetic of adding them all together and looking for a total. It isn’t your job to find a solution.
Oh.
exactly this.
Essentially what my therapist said to me this morning.
Sagittarians on the cusp of Capricorn MEET UP HERE.
(Just me, then?)
Nope it’s me too! And both of these are insanely apt right now.
Solstice babies represent!
Yes! 12/21 here, happy soon-birthday to you! I am Going Through Some Things right now and I read this one and loved it and now want to learn everything about my horoscope. What does the cusp mean?! HOW SHOULD I BE?
Cap on the cusp of Sag, does that count? 12/22
Actually teared up whoa whoa whoa. *fans eyes*
Thank you.
“There is world full of sun and rain and mountains and dirt, and you don’t have to do everything on your own”
Aww, that makes a nice change from ‘you’re a bit shallow and you’ll never be truly good at anything’.
I don’t care if they’re entirely made up, I needed this today and I thank you while I cry a little into my morning tea.
These are the realest, most helpful horoscopes ever written since astrology was invented and I don’t mind admitting I teared up a little too.
I only ever read horoscopes as entertainment, except for these. These get at me, somehow, in under my defenses. Libra here and … yeah. oof.
Hello yes I’m a libra and I want to know what technology you’re using to read my mind, thanks!
Whew. Pisces/Aries cusp here and woo boy am I crying. It’s a good cry, but holy wow.
Me, too! Love your (Carolina?) wren pic, by the way.
anyone else all choked-up and heart-racing at a coffeeshop? no? just me, then?
Aquarius: too real, this month. Thank you (I think??)
Another Aquarius here, and I agree.
Aries with a bunch of Cancer in my chart trying to buy a home and let my life settle in and figure out where my relationship is going. Said relationship is with a Gemini with a bunch of Virgo in his chart who is new to this whole serious relationship thing and how compromise works. So, y’know. OOF on both those combos.
(Am I the only one who likes horoscopes way better when they look at their ascendant sign etc too? I’m the shittiest Aries so it makes it feel more interesting to me to look at other stuff in my chart and try to tie it together.)
I have much Virgo in my chart (and am technically one-heh, technical Virgo- now that all the signs have slipped) and yes. And yes.
See the shift made me a Pisces, which No, so I tend to ignore it, because I am the least Pisces human alive. Whereas I was always like “man idk I mean some of this Aries stuff is exactly correct but I’m too much of a pragmatic feelingsy homebody for all this firebrand shit” so adding Cancer to it was sort of… ah, okay.
🙂 My Dad and his mom and one of my half-brothers are all Crabs, and it’s my moon sign, and it is (or was, in my grandmother’s case) very hard to get any of us out of the kitchen. That great line from someone’s Tumblr about “Women belong in the kitchen, men belong in the kitchen, everyone belongs in the kitchen, kitchen has food” could be our family motto.
Where do you get a whole chart? I don’t know much, only enough to know I’m Cancer, but I’m while not a cusp baby, I’m a June baby, and I’ve never resonated 100% with Cancer, and am always so curious what other things I might contain?
https://alabe.com/freechart/ is my go-to.
Okay that site was amazing, thank you. I’m the worst Pisces ever, and apparently all the rest of my chart totally contradicts the Sun Sign section. It’s always frustrating to read horoscopes based on sun signs, so actually relating to the non-Pisces parts of my chart was pretty awesome.
Yep same! I’m a terrible Aries and the rest of my chart is like, water and earth signs, so I find it really interesting to relate the non-Aries bits to that.
YES thank you! According to this I’m a Cancer with Capricorn Rising?? Which sounds like the WORST combo ever, but y’know it explains a few things. 😛
I am also not very good at being an Aries, so I feel you. My moon is in Taurus and my rising sign is Virgo, so I always read those two as well for the full picture and I feel like it does a much better job.
I read mine (Aries) and I burst into tears at my desk. I am fighting all the time, and I am so so so very tired.
(((((hugs)))))
((Hugs back)) thank you
Well I’m a Taurus and thanks for making me WEEP.
Just last night my dirtbag brain kept me awake til 3 in the morning going over all the ways in which I have no plan or ambition, or at least don’t feel as though what I want is at all important or attainable.
So, um, thanks for the Taurus one I guess.
As a Taurus facing the cruel whims of the academic job market, thank you.
heyyyyyy slow burn on the Pisces one today. At first I was like “meh, sure, that’s a thing” but now, rereading it and thinking about how my seasonal sh*t is creeping back and I have been off for a while. It’s just nice to be reminded to take it easy because I am still growing even if I feel stunted, damnit.
There are so many different roads that will lead you to so many different places. There are so many roads that will all lead you home.
Reminds me of something someone said to me a very long, long time ago: “Any road can get you to where you want to be, as long as you make the right turns.”
Stop being relevant, thing I don’t believe in…
LOL // appreciated
I woke up crying this morning; it happens sometimes, when I dream and realize that my life doesn’t fit the norm, and that I should be ashamed of that. This horoscope (Capricorn) made me cry again, but in a good way.
There are things in each of these that I needed to read today. Thank you!
/weeps into tea
You not only nailed me but my kids, too.
I mean how many Libras ARE there here
it seems like a lot/the appropriate amount
<3
i was just wondering this.
where have you all been hiding? (who else is a straggly virgo cusper?)
another libra here freakin’ out over “it isn’t your job to do the arithmetic of adding them all together and looking for a total.”
my partner is a libra. the scales. they are real.
Being on the cusp of making some big decisions in the next few months, Sagittarius is spot on. Damn.
There are articles on the Toast I expect to bring tears to my eyes. The horoscopes were NOT ONE OF THEM. Cancer. Oof.
Cancer here too. How did it knooooowwwww I’m having the crappiest month? While dealing with how to make this new city feel like home? Especially while visiting family during the holidays and not wanting to leave? :-/
How did they know I was suffering from cave-mind??
I think we need a Cancer support group here. I feel like printing out this horoscope and sticking it to my screen.
Remember, this month, that there’s always time to change your mind. There’s always time to turn around.
to real. TOO REAL.
(thank you)
I don’t know if this was how it was intended, but I read them all straight through and it was such a comforting and soothing piece of prose. (My own horoscope didn’t seem to fit except for the “Get enough air. Get enough sleep.” refrain, because I always need fresh air and sleep.)
These are always so lovely, but this one especially was exactly what I needed to hear today/this month. Thank you.
Aries on the Taurus Cusp. Wrote in my pocket notebook about recovering from 6 months of going hard on nothing but adrenaline to get through #hardtimes and the last 3 months of just being a void of a person, and starting to feel like I can grow again. Read my horoscope(s) and it is almost verbatim what I wrote to pick myself up. THANKS NOURISHING HOROSCOPES. I FEEL YOU TODAY.
Well, really glad to see I’m not the only one who cried because of this. I’m going to carry those words in my pocket this month.
These are so gentle and lovely and very comforting.
Crying my face off. Like I am in the process of dying through weeping.
My partner of five years and the father of my child has suggested he might be leaving me, after a year in therapy of trying to navigate my overwhelming desires and his lack of them. He feels the distance between us, stated last night that he realizes it lies with him, and he’s just not sure he cares about changing it. But he won’t be absolute about it, is still thinking about it, just letting me wallow in total rejection and misery and grief while I mentally figure out how to pack for my two year old and I to go move in with my parents because I have no means of supporting myself and her. I am a ghost in my own house. Which is really his house, because I have basically nothing but a couple of steamer trunks full of opera scores and sheet music, a large case of essential oils, and a piano that got destroyed in our move that are really mine.
To save my own life I couldn’t have scraped up hope or joy or strength or anything at the moment. But that Aquarius horoscope is miraculously beautiful. Just… thank you. Thank fucking god something can teach me how to live, because I am doing a fucking terrible job of it left to my own devices.
All I can say is…Jesus, that sucks. And good luck with all the things.
I’m so sorry. If good vibes from an internet stranger would make you feel any small fraction better, I would like to send them.
Ditto. Any virtual hugs you wish to accept, please consider them offered.
I’m so sorry. I wish you comfort and emotional safety and a break from all the pain and responsibility.
(I feel like Capricorn’s has something to offer you, too: There’s no answer but to try to treat yourself with kindness. Get enough air. Get enough sleep. Get enough air. Things don’t make sense but they’ll be okay. )
I have nothing to offer but all the good wishes in the world and my utmost respect for you as a mother and a woman for having to deal with this heartache.
I think Virgo has a lot to offer as well:
It might be hard to see your place in the world, this month. It might be hard to see your own face in the mirror. It might be hard, knowing who you are, knowing where to go, knowing how to live. This month is going to ask for courage from you, in quiet ways. You are kind and you’re strong and your heart is open, and these are the things that matter right now. These are the things that will lead you through dark places. These are the things that will keep you warm.
Thanks for this. I’m a Taurus hurtling wayyyy too fast towards a major career change–it’s going well, but a few times last week I got really bent up about what right I had to pursue my dream job when people are hurting and dying.
I can pursue my dreams and still make the world a better place; I’m smart and strong and contain enough multitudes to do that, I think.
Aries with a ton of Capricorn in my chart here. I love how the two fit together here. “Give yourself a little credit. Give yourself a little rest. Get enough air. Get enough sleep.” Yes.
I’m a Virgo and I thought I was doing fine. Does this horoscope know something about something upcoming that I don’t? Because I think I’m mostly all right right now.
You don’t have to be satisfied with a world full of cruelty or a world that isn’t enough.
NO, I think you’ll find YOU are crying at my desk.
yes. i think you will find that you are correct.
No, you’re crying. Shut up.
This Capricorn is crying. I’ve been going through a divorce from an alcoholic while single parenting our 8 year old. I’m still breathing. I’m still moving.
for the past few months I kept coming back and checking if there was a new post. Checked today, so incredibly grateful for these words. Crying and laughing all at once, thank you.
-Aries
“There is this whole bright world that we live in together, this whole world in motion, and it needs you to dream the things only you can dream, to do the things only you can do.”
Fuck me, I really needed this.
"There is this whole bright world that we live in together, this whole world in motion, and it needs you to dream the things only you can dream, to do the things only you can do."
Fuck me, I really needed this.
my friend i have been reading these for over a year and are so excited every month. who knew horoscopes could be so poetic!
Thank you so much – I just legitimately got a little teary. Your horoscopes are such a gift, and I appreciate them so much. I hope you’re well.