Aries: There are things in this world that you can’t control. There are questions whose answers you can’t yet know. There are loads too heavy for your arms to hold. And sometimes the best thing to do is work to be wiser, stronger, more able to meet each day. And sometimes the best thing to do is to to sit near the water, quiet, and feel the earth alive under your feet. Sometimes the best thing to do is just keep loving your own self until you begin to believe it.
Taurus: The world is full of people who will tell you what you deserve and what you don’t. The world is full of these people, who will speak powerfully, convincingly, with cruelty or with love or with both. They’re all wrong, is the thing, but it can be so hard to see this. It can be so hard to keep your own mind clear. Think about your dreams about flying. Think about your knowledge of your own skin. You’re as vast and as strong as the sky. Don’t forget this.
Gemini: Sometimes it can be difficult to be honest with yourself and with the people in your life, but it isn’t impossible. It’s never impossible, but it sometimes takes practice and it sometimes takes strength and it sometimes takes love like you’ve never seen before. Practice sitting in a quiet place on a quiet evening. Practice looking at your own thoughts like they’re part of the night, like they’re as strange as the stars, like they’re as warm as the blue sky. It takes practice, holding your joy close. Practice.
Cancer: If you can’t have the thing you thought you wanted most, then what will you do? If the world doesn’t show you the magic you wanted, how will you move through your days? This is not about pessimism, and it’s not about disappointment, and it’s not about giving up. This month is for finding possibilities you never knew. This month is for watching your future open up, strange and golden in front of you. The world is full of more goodness than you know yet.
Leo: Some months are for dazzling the world with your brightest self, and some months, it’s okay to step back. It’s okay to spend your days quietly, in a warm clean house. You don’t always need to perform, and you don’t need to prove your own worth, and you don’t need to hold up the whole weight of the world, though you can if you want to try. Your time is precious, your time is golden. Don’t let anyone else tell you how to spend it.
Virgo: This is a month for walking, it’s a month for wondering, it’s a month for watching the skies above you change. Think of your sorrows, think of your struggles. What are they for? What are they doing, so warm and alive inside your heart? I don’t mean to say that everything happens for a reason. What I mean to say is there is a truth inside you as bright as the moon. There’s a power inside you as hot as the earth’s core.
Libra: You have the tools to make your world right again, even if you don’t yet know what they look like. There is magic already inside of you, magic that’s always been there, magic that grows stronger every day. This is a month for remembering how to use it. There’s so much ahead, and there’s so much you can do. Start asking questions of yourself. Start asking questions of the world. Let your dreams grow wild. Let your love grow unruly and bright.
Scorpio: Sometimes you can’t quite see the truth. Sometimes you lie to yourself about what you really need. We all do this; it’s nothing terrible. Still, this month, try to sit with your strange feelings, even when they feel too large to hold. Look at their colors. Listen to the way that they sing. What is your own heart telling you? You can know what to do if you’re willing to really look. You can find a way home. You can find a way to be free.
Sagittarius: The world, as it exists now, was not made for someone like you, and still here you are. Think about how strange this is. The temperatures are rising and the nights are long and still, here you are. There are buds on the trees that will turn into sticky green leaves, and you’ll get to see it. There are stars in the night that can guide you as they move. The world is not normal and still, here you are, and still, your heart beats.
Capricorn: Sometimes it feels best to fill your days with work. Sometimes it feels good, and sometimes it is good, to bear the heaviest load you can. Just remember, this month, that no one is built to survive on selflessness alone. You don’t have to do everything for yourself, and you don’t have to do everything on your own. Think of the forests and the seas and the lights of the city, quiet and yellow and sweet. There’s a whole world full of light, and some of it is for you.
Aquarius: This month, try to enjoy the feeling of being in motion. You’re not stuck; you’re moving in rhythm with the world. There’s so much to see, so many faces, so many trees, so much life. There are so many ways to keep changing, and there are so many textures inside your own thoughts. It can make you feel small, sometimes, to remember how big and how wild this world is. This is not a bad thing. Keep your heart open.
Pisces: This month, you’re going to be powerful and your vision is going to be clear. This month, the balance of the world is going to be in your favor. You can look your doubts in the face, even when you’re afraid. You can speak your heaviest truths and they will not break you. You can move, and keep moving, and you won’t get lost. It’s a rare month that will show you such clarity and such joy. The sun is going to shine. Enjoy this.
Yes yes. Both my sun and rising sign are right on – a clean warm house and a lot of walks is PRECISELY the ticket for the coming month. Thank you
That’s me too! Yes and yes.
Oh my goodness. LEO. That is a million times what I needed to hear.
Leo buddies. I needed it too. I have been feeling tremendous guilt that the weather is so nice and there’s so much going on within walking distance and I’m spending it watching 30 Rock all weekend.
Me too, my friend. My home is clean and pages have been colored and many episodes of Leverage have been watched and that is ok.
SAME. These next six weeks are going to be exhausting and I need it to be okay that I just want to go home and go to bed early.
Sometimes it can be difficult to be honest with yourself and with the people in your life, but it isn’t impossible. It’s never impossible, but it sometimes takes practice and it sometimes takes strength and it sometimes takes love like you’ve never seen before.
Well now I’m crying at my desk
I don’t know how to be honest with myself, sometimes.
The last few months have been rough, I’ve been lethargic and missing my magic. This morning, I decided to get that back and this horoscope is making me feel so much more assured and capable of doing that (I’m a Libra).
Hard same.
I wonder if winter just sucks for Libras.
I DESPISE winter, but my magic season isn’t coming around until September at the earliest.
Oh man that Libra. Thank you! *toddles off to work on her spells*
Ouch the Scorpio one is ouch and you don’t know me I don’t know what you’re talking about I’ve never had a strange feeling in my life only rage and bitterness and vengeance. Honestly.
“You’re as vast and strong as the sky.” I really needed to hear this and am also crying a bit! EVERY MONTH, Y’ALL.
Seriously, though. Every month! I am in love with everything about Sagittarius, but especially this bit:
There are buds on the trees that will turn into sticky green leaves, and you’ll get to see it.
Now who can I commission to turn this into some visual art so I can gaze lovingly at it all the time?
I had someone on Etsy turn my favorite Gillian Welch lyrics into one of those graphic word art posters and it came out really well.
You can move, and keep moving, and you won’t get lost. It’s a rare month that will show you such clarity and such joy. The sun is going to shine.
oh please oh please oh please be true I need this
*breaks down at my desk*
same.
[Libra]
But my dreams are already growing wild and I think they are choking out the flowers?
Or maybe the dreams are the flowers… then… what are all these other things??
I so hope Cancer’s is right. “This month is for finding possibilities you never knew. This month is for watching your future open up, strange and golden in front of you. The world is full of more goodness than you know yet.”
man I’m still stuck in the first half, petulantly insisting that clearly it MUST be about pessimism, disillusionment, & disappointment.
but I hope all those good things do come to pass.
Yeah … it hadn’t completely occurred to me that I can’t have the magic I wanted so that part kind of punched me in the face.
This terrifies me, I want new possibilities to be a good thing but I’m aggressively insistent on planning my whole life out and I don’t know what to do when things fall through and I have to make new plans.
I got my period today so every single one of these made me cry.
SAME.
As a Cancer/Leo cusper, I guess I can say that I’m not going to be doing anything in March.
hahaha RIGHT? Cancer here and I’m like “oh god no. Beautifully put but….can I catch a break?”
I love these horoscopes so much, but…why do they always come out in the middle of the month?
I know! I love mine this month (Pisces) and I wish I could have luxuriated in that feeling for ALL of March, not just half! 🙂
Yeah, I have a love/hate relationship with the timing on these. Because I want to think about them all of March! But also, Autostraddle’s horoscopes come out near the beginning of the month and I love those too and I think all of them at once would kill my poor heart and brain.
I was going to anxiously demand to know how my graduate school interviews are going to turn out, but then I checked Libra and I’m glad I did.
This is super relevant to my life right now, and exactly what I needed to read (I’m a Cancer!)
These always feel like releasing a breath I didn’t know I was holding.
[Aries] “There are loads too heavy for your arms to hold. And sometimes the best thing to do is work to be wiser, stronger, more able to meet each day. And sometimes the best thing to do is to to sit near the water, quiet, and feel the earth alive under your feet.”
Well damn, my urge to be outdoors and with nature has been, in fact, pretty strong lately. This explains it nicely.
Oh good, because the night I had planned was ugly sobbing at my kitchen table eating a cake I made for someone else’s celebration all along. (It actually kinda was, but this accelerated things.)
man, I haven’t been commenting here much lately, but the Virgo horoscope actually made me feel really good today. thanks for that.
I can’t overstate how much I appreciate the fact that Madame Clairevoyant (unlike pretty much every astrologer I’ve ever read/encountered) is actually doesn’t seem to hate Virgos, and that I found supportive horoscopes in the equally supportive environment of The Toast. It warms my little anal-retentive Virgo heart.
Poor Virgos. I wonder if there’s a correlation between signs most attracted to astrology and signs that typically clash with Virgo? I can’t see a nice mellow Taurus astrologer hating Virgos, for instance.
Could be. Most horoscopes I read tend to be along the lines of “you’re awful to everyone and everyone’s awful to you, so try to be less awful and maybe awful things won’t happen to you, but they probably will because you’re awful.” Not in so many words, exactly, but astrologers never seem to like us much. 🙁
Still, this month, try to sit with your strange feelings, even when they feel too large to hold.
So that summarizes about 15 years worth of therapy right there.
Look at their colors. Listen to the way that they sing. What is your own heart telling you?
Oof.
You can know what to do if you’re willing to really look. You can find a way home. You can find a way to be free.
Double oof.
I really hope so.
Thanks! I needed that today.
I’m late here but woooboy did I need to hear “you don’t need to hold up the whole weight of the world”
Sagittarius is the one that speaks the most to me today. I’ll be a Sagittarius this month.
Practice looking at your own thoughts like they’re part of the night, like they’re as strange as the stars, like they’re as warm as the blue sky. It takes practice, holding your joy close. Practice.
*sobbing* WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME, MADAME CLAIRVOYANT
Oh goodness…. as a Cancer with a Scorpio partner, this is all ringing so very true