Aries: Sometimes you can feel the world spinning underneath you and sometimes you can’t, but either way, it’s always in motion. This month is about learning new ways to keep moving forward when the earth starts to shift. Think of what it feels like to swim in the ocean. Think of what it feels like to walk on a moving bus. Think of the music that plays in your head all day long. Think of this month like you’re moving, like you’re dancing, like you’re light on your feet.
Taurus: This month, you can find what you’re looking for, and if you don’t know what you’re looking for, you’ll find what you need. There will be days of bright joy, there will be days of warmth all through your brain, there will be days of clear shining calm. So much of the world would tell you that you don’t deserve joy, and even when you know how wrong this is, it’s worth repeating to yourself. Sometimes your heart hungers for magic, and you deserve this too.
Gemini: What would it feel like to feel sure of your own face? What would it feel like to feel sure of your own name? What would it feel like to move through the world, certain of your place in it, certain of who you are? It’s easy to feel lost in questions, easy to feel distracted, but asking these questions can change you. Asking these questions is worth your sweet time. Every single second, even when it doesn’t feel like it, you’re doing the work of living. You’re moving forward. You’re doing what you need.
Cancer: This month is for listening to the music in your hands, in your skin, in your heart. There’s music that pumps through your veins and music that sings in your voice, and sometimes just listening is the best thing to do. Not everything has to be put into words. There are different ways to live in time, some of them easy, some of them strange. There are months for following maps, and there are months for feeling your way, and there are months just to stand outside and trust the vibrating earth.
Leo: This month is for honoring the ways you’ve changed and the things you’ve learned. Think of how many ways you’ve become strong. Think of all the different ways you’ve learned how to love. Think of your life all full of storms and surprises. The world might make you feel small, this month. If you let it, this can be such a gift. There are trees and clouds and faces you’ve never seen before. There’s a world of bright goodness still waiting to show itself to you.
Virgo: The world around you is full of strangeness and it’s full of power and it’s full of riddles. There are so many things in the world reaching out to you, so many things calling your name, that you could forget the sound of your own voice, if you aren’t careful. This month is for making your own choices, even in a world so full of water, so full of sound, so full of other people. Don’t let anyone else tell you who you are, not even the mountains.
Libra: There are so many stories in this world, and there are so many voices, and you don’t need to trust them all. You don’t always need to listen. You don’t owe the whole world your attention, and you don’t owe anyone your best love. This is a month to make space for your whole self, all your love and your rage and your strangeness. There are trees in the forest living quietly. There are fish in the sea that we’ve never seen before. The world is wide open. Don’t let anyone tell you what to do.
Scorpio: This month is a good time to begin something new, if you can, even if it makes your legs feel soft, even if it makes your thoughts wobble and shake, even if it makes your vision feel blurry. There’s space for you to move right now, and your heart is ready for growth. And it might snow outside and it might rain, and still there are things in this world worth being afraid of, but you’re alive and your heart is beating, and there’s so much you can do if you try.
Sagittarius: There’s so much power inside you, so much bright electric energy. Don’t keep it stored away inside of you. Don’t let it curdle. Don’t let it shrivel into nothing. This month is for learning to use your magic. It isn’t easy, but it is yours. Use your muscles. Use your voice. The more you use them, the wilder they’ll get. You can find the space you want; you can build the life you need. You’re stronger than you think, even in this strange heavy world.
Capricorn: This month will be calm for you; this month will be gentle. You can stretch out into this month, you can relax, you can sit down for a moment to let your whirling thoughts rest. Treat the world with as much kindness as you can find. Treat yourself with sweetness, like you’ve never known anything else. It’s easier and it’s harder than you think, slowing yourself down like this. It’s easier and it’s harder than you think, learning again and again to live these quiet moments.
Aquarius: When there are so many bright days in the future, it can be hard to be patient. When there’s a whole sweet life stretching out in front of you, it’s hard to keep living. It’s hard to remember that you’re a person with a body that needs to be fed. Try to keep moving. Try to get enough sleep. There’s so much goodness ahead of you, a sweet green world, a house full of love, and all you have to do is keep moving, keep waiting. You’re doing things right.
Pisces: There are things that can only be seen through darkness–certain feelings, certain dreams, certain questions. It might look dark outside this month, but that doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Watch the stars move overhead. Watch the moon glow blue and strange. Watch where your thoughts go when the night gets so soft and dense. Watch your heart fill up with a strange golden joy. There’s so much light that you can’t see during the day. There’s so much brightness in your heart. Let yourself glow, this month.
You don’t always need to listen. You don’t owe the whole world your attention, and you don’t owe anyone your best love. This is a month to make space for your whole self, all your love and your rage and your strangeness.
Wow, I really needed to hear that this month. (Boy oh boy could I vent even more than usual this month about men who seem to feel like they’re owed my constant attention as a woman, and that I should always listen to them and do all the emotional labor when they can’t be bothered to exert the tiniest effort in return.)
Libras, man, Yup.
Ugh, sometimes I am so “idk” about astrology, but I am SUCH a Libra sometimes. Like I’m always so willing to be there to listen to people and give them the emotional responses they need, but lately I’m becoming more and more aware of how I put up with not getting the same in return. It’s very frustrating. (Especially since even when I try NOT to do the emotional labor, I feel guilty for not being there for someone who is never there for me!)
You know just last weekend I had a … thing? argument? with a roommate (euphemism), I’m trying to remember the details but my brain is determined not to. Anyways, I made a point to NOT chase him down to explain myself because I’d already MADE my point and he was mad we didn’t agree, so instead I just left the house to do my errands and ended up getting really down about how tired I am of this happening.
Also have you read Samantha Irby? She has written about how her Crohn’s flareups basically stopped after she stopped dating men. Ugh.
I’m not sure if all of this means I need to get my chart read, or stop arguing with my dude. It just feels like we have very different ideas about what “being in a relationship” means.
“There will be days of bright joy, there will be days of warmth all through your brain, there will be days of clear shining calm.”
Oh god, I hope so, I hope so, I hope so. None yet but there’s 19 days left.
Yah so far all’s I got is emotional panic and lots of phlegm.
Yeah so far Feb 2016 has been an absolute shitshow, but I’m leaving this weekend for a long vacation and I’m really hoping this is when the magic will find me. Or where I’ll find the magic.
“Think of this month like you’re moving”
Pfft. I’m moving NEXT month. Shows what you know.
Actually this whole thing was pretty accurate, since I’m currently getting ready to move, looking for a new job in a new city, and feel kind of stuck between the two with no permanent base at the moment.
This month is a good time to begin something new, if you can, even if it makes your legs feel soft, even if it makes your thoughts wobble and shake, even if it makes your vision feel blurry.
Well. Sounds like I really should start that therapy I have been thinking about.
Er, yup. This and my PCP screening for depression at my physical yesterday and being like, “You should probably be getting some help with this as it’s not normal to feel this sad this often this long” and handing me a list of phone numbers, and seeing a little girl in the grocery store who looked just the way I did when I was a child, same hair and nose and bulging forehead and all, and she was so curious and assertive and interested in everything…it’s like the world is trying to tell me something.
We WILL try therapy! And if it doesn’t work we will try another person, rather than giving up! We can do it!
Yes we can! And we will wave pompoms of encouragement at each other while we try! *hugs if you want ’em*
Thanks! *hugs back, if you want them*
Sometimes your heart hungers for magic, and you deserve this too.
*Puts head down on desk, weeps.*
There’s so much light that you can’t see during the day.
Wrecked, ruined, bury my sad dark heart here where I died. (I’m trying to glow!)
“There are so many stories in this world, and there are so many voices, and you don’t need to trust them all.”
This was… oddly accurate, and exactly what I needed to hear re various identity crises? Thank you.
“This is a month to make space for your whole self, all your love and your rage and your strangeness. There are trees in the forest living quietly. There are fish in the sea that we’ve never seen before.”
HOW DID YOU SAY THE THING IN WORDS AND MY BRAIN GOT IT.
Every single second, even when it doesn’t feel like it, you’re doing the work of living. You’re moving forward. You’re doing what you need.
On a day when I’m feeling nothing but stagnant, this is what I needed.
Same! I was going to post that quote, it made me cry and is exactly what I needed to hear today. Pretty sure there’s actual sorcery going on with these (and they are perfection).
And it might snow outside and it might rain, and still there are things in this world worth being afraid of, but you’re alive and your heart is beating, and there’s so much you can do if you try.
OK, FINE! i’ll get some shit done *heaves self off couch*
(i really did just pull myself out of a long fallow period last night. not easy, not fun, but it didn’t kill me.)
Because I am math-oriented and not language-oriented, I had to look up the definition of “fallow”.
plowed and harrowed but left unsown for a period in order to restore its fertility as part of a crop rotation.. I love the idea of being fallow – left alone for a time in order to come back more awesome and ready to kick ass. May we all have fallow periods.
May have just teared up over your comment here. May have.
What would it feel like to feel sure of your own face? What would it feel like to feel sure of your own name? What would it feel like to move through the world, certain of your place in it, certain of who you are?
no you’re crying over your horoscope (brb printing it out and taping it to my lab computer)
Same, fellow Gemini, same. Just as soon as I get my eyes dry.
What *would* that feel like? I so want to know.
Sending Gemini Hugs to all of us today. This one got me. And it was all I needed to hear too.
There’s so much goodness ahead of you, a sweet green world, a house full of love, and all you have to do is keep moving, keep waiting. You’re doing things right.
Dust…yeah, it’s dust in my office that is making me tear up, that’s totally it…
I know. In the midst of the winter grays, this is exactly right.
oh gosh. another libra that needed exactly this, this morning. thank you.
I’m not crying over mine, nope.
“Sometimes you can feel the world spinning underneath you and sometimes you can’t, but either way, it’s always in motion. This month is about learning new ways to keep moving forward when the earth starts to shift.”
Oh god, this feels so relevant. Am I allowed to keep moving forward? Is it really ok? Sometimes it feels like you’re supposed to just fall down and let the earth open and swallow you up.
I’m also finding these words very relevant. Moving forward, moving past, moving on…
What really gets me about is that it takes about moving like a dance, a thing you can enjoy, not just the lumbering zombie walk I feel caught in on somedays, where you move but you don’t live.
I wish you all the best in your moving foward RamekinRamekin.
Thank you, asofthenorth. Wishing you the best as well. May we both find some peace and lightness and the ability to stay on our feet.
“Not everything has to be put into words.”
ARE YOU SURE. I DUNNO, CONTINUALLY YELLING W/O CONTEMPLATION ALWAYS WORKS.
….*quietly drags meditation pillow out of closet*
I weirdly like that these come out partway into the month. Both January and February really validated how I feel/felt about the month. I’m not going to lie, the validation feels pretty darn good.
I don’t even believe in astrology so how so you know the deepest secrets of my dumb taurus heart, horoscope lady? What emotional sorcery is this?
“You’re stronger than you think, even in this strange heavy world.”
man…I really needed that
Seriously. It’s exactly the reassurance I needed lying here in bed feeling ashamed I had to leave work early (due to illness but still). These are great.
“This month is a good time to begin something new, if you can, even if it makes your legs feel soft, even if it makes your thoughts wobble and shake, even if it makes your vision feel blurry.”
I don’t usually comment, but I just had to come here to say that this is startling resonant today of all days in February, as I just this morning signed up to do a yoga teacher training, a thing I never thought I would have the bravery, or strength, or support to do. Thank you, thank you, Madame Clairvoyant, for being the shout of affirmation from the universe.
I haven’t even read mine yet, but I just wanted to quickly say thank you for this post!! I wrote down the January one in my journal and like to look at it when things go to shambles and I’ve been waiting for February’s <3
“Every single second, even when it doesn’t feel like it, you’re doing the work of living. You’re moving forward. You’re doing what you need.”
I needed to hear this today. Thank you Madame Clairevoyant.
“Every single second, even when it doesn’t feel like it, you’re doing the work of living. You’re moving forward. You’re doing what you need.”
“What would it feel like to feel sure of your own name?”
I don’t know why I’m always so excited to click on something that always gutpunches me so hard, but there it is.
This month will be calm for you; this month will be gentle. You can stretch out into this month, you can relax, you can sit down for a moment to let your whirling thoughts rest.
Apparently I’m not actually a Capricorn. /woman with baby and full-time job that will end in a few months and thus also job searching and applications and AAAAHHHHHHHHH
(It’s a lovely thought, still.)
ETA: I’m on the cusp of Sagittarius, though, and this: You can find the space you want; you can build the life you need. You’re stronger than you think, even in this strange heavy world is VERY close to home. I desperately hope it’s true.
Yeah, I’m still dealing with post-breakup mess, underemployment, job-searching, looking for permanent housing so I can stop couch-surfing, and reciting parts of “Sept. 1, 1939” to myself over and over again:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
and also
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
I miss feeling loved alone, and also calm, safe, and like everything is not turning swiftly to shit. 🙁
🙁 ****internet hugs*****
I got some bad news yesterday and
This month is about learning new ways to keep moving forward when the earth starts to shift.
BOY is it ever.
“It’s easier and it’s harder than you think, slowing yourself down like this. It’s easier and it’s harder than you think, learning again and again to live these quiet moments.”
My grad school admissions decisions are rolling in this month and I think I need to find a way to make myself allow quiet moments. And also stop checking GradCafe every 15 minutes.
Ooof. How did you know what I needed to hear?
“You’re doing things right.”
N I C E
“all your love and your rage and your strangeness”
check, check and check, I have all those things. I shall go dig out some space for them.
My life has taken a turn recently where this:
“There are so many stories in this world, and there are so many voices, and you don’t need to trust them all. You don’t always need to listen. You don’t owe the whole world your attention, and you don’t owe anyone your best love. This is a month to make space for your whole self, all your love and your rage and your strangeness. ”
is so extremely relevant. I appreciate the reminder; the art and gentle strength of it. I need that right now while I try to sort through things.
Are you me? That is pretty much my relationship with my guy friend down to the online screeds. And this isn't just like, one guy, this is GUYS. One of my happily married friends asked if I was dating anyone the other day and I said "I don't care if I never see another penis in my whole, entire life".
“This month will be calm for you; this month will be gentle.”
LIES. I’m studying for the bar exam, this is impossible.
🙁 ****internet hugs*****
Madame Clairevoyant may be the first astrologer ever who doesn’t hate Virgos, and I love her for it.