Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for January 2016

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Aries: The world is full of voices, and it’s full of songs, and it’s full of different shades of silence. The world holds messages that you can’t see with your eyes, and it holds truths you can’t speak with your own voice. There are so many things you can learn if you just listen, this month. If you’re still enough, you can hear the earth move. If you’re still enough, you can hear the songs that live in your own body. If you’re still enough, the whole world can seem new.

Taurus: This is a month for feeling the soreness in your legs. This is a month for feeling the ache in your heart. These things feel almost like pain but they’re not, not quite. You’re just getting stronger and you’re getting wiser and you’re learning, over and over again, who you are and what you need. This isn’t easy. Take a bath, if you need to. Take a nap, if you need to. Close your eyes, and open them again, and watch the world come into focus.

Gemini: This month is for seeing in your dreams what you can’t yet see with your eyes; it’s for knowing in your skin what you can’t yet think in your brain. The future is full of shadows and strangeness. Some days might feel like nothing comes easy, not even the truths that you already hold inside you, but you don’t have to know what’s coming next before you act. Every moment you live can show you how to keep living. Each move you make will open doors.

Cancer: This is a month for making noise; it’s a month for getting loud enough that you can hear your own self again. There are different ways of doing this. Sometimes it takes practice, and sometimes it takes time to feel right. Just remember that your vocal range is wider than you think. Spend your days speaking and shouting and singing. There is music that lives in your stomach and music that lives in your bones. You hold magic inside you that you haven’t even seen yet.

Leo: This is a month for imagining possibilities, it’s for opening windows, it’s for letting yourself float and drift and dream. Try to get outside this month, even if it’s cold out, even if it’s gray. There’s so much in the world that wants to make you small, but your heart isn’t small. It’s full of blood and love and thunder. It can lift you up, it can move through space and time, it can surprise everyone, even you, if you let it.

Virgo: There are months when you’re not getting what you need, and there are months when you are, and it can be hard to tell the difference unless you really look. It’s okay if you don’t remember what you want. It’s okay if you don’t yet even know. There’s a big sky outside and a whole world of full of light. This is just a month for giving yourself the space to wonder, for giving yourself the space to think. It’s a month for loving yourself and for getting enough sleep.

Libra: Underneath every bad thing that’s ever happened, underneath every doubt and every sorrow, there’s still something in you that shines, something in you as hot as the sun and as bright as snow. This is a month for remembering that. It’s a month for nurturing the feelings inside you that you like the best. It’s a month for listening to the songs that make your heart beat. This is a month for looking in the mirror until you love your own face.

Scorpio: It’s fun and it’s good and it’s right, sometimes, to treat your own life like an adventure. And it is an adventure, but it’s not only that. This is a month for taking your own life seriously. It’s a month to feel need, to feel desire, to love other people beyond what you think your body can even hold. This vulnerability won’t kill you and it won’t last forever. Try to embrace the strange sweetness of it. Try to see what it can show you.

Sagittarius: It might feel like you have more choices than you know what to do with, this month. It might feel like the whole world could just float away. When the wind starts to blow and your dreams start to spin, try to slow down. Try to remind yourself of what’s real. Go outside and feel your feet on the ground and the air on your face. Touch something green. Touch your own skin. You won’t get lost. You’re solid and you’re here. You won’t forget yourself.

Capricorn: Your days might feel strange and your nights might feel long, but this month can bring you peace if you need it. These are days for looking to the earth and the sea and the moon. These are days for walking through your town until you’ve traced a path back home. These are days for calling someone you love and talking about nothing at all. You don’t have to look to the future, right now. The days will keep getting longer and all you need to do is live.

Aquarius: This month will be full of a bright magic; this month will feel like gold. This month, the world can give you answers to the questions you’ve been asking and it can light up the darkest parts of your thoughts. Try to trust this energy inside you. It can show you a way forward and it can give you what you need. Let yourself enjoy these days of possibility and motion. You’re strong and you’re wild and you know the way forward.

Pisces: Try not to be afraid, this month, when your life starts moving very fast, when your life starts to bloom in the middle of this strange winter. Try not to doubt the good things that are coming to you. It’s easy to forget your own hard work, easy to forget how long and how hard you’ve been trying. Feel the earth underneath you. You deserve days full of kindness and light. Watch the sky change above your head. You deserve every bright thing.

Madame Clairevoyant (a.k.a. Claire Comstock-Gay) writes fiction and horoscopes and works with teenagers during the day. You can find more of her writing here.

Jen May is an artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Her website is somewhat regularly updated with new work.


60 Comments

  1. pretty_monster +32

    It’s a month to feel need, to feel desire, to love other people beyond what you think your body can even hold. This vulnerability won’t kill you and it won’t last forever.

    *pulls shell more tightly closed*

    Try to embrace the strange sweetness of it. Try to see what it can show you.

    i’ll keep an eye out but it’ll be a side-eye, just so ya know.

    1. helvetica547 +8

      This Scorpio felt a twinge in her heart reading this thing as well.
      Madame Clairevoyant is too spot-on.

      1. oneclockworklemon +5

        Eleven days in and I’m very resentfully aware of what she’s talking about as it applies to my own life. DISLIKE

        1. aurorabirdialis +2

          I recommend finding an artistic medium you can very explosively apply these feelings to, in a very visceral and vivid sort of way. I’m no Scorpio, but I do have a very, very, very emotional, waterlogged birthchart in general (Cancer moon, Mercury, Venus AND ascendant) and my best paintings have come from being very, very emotional about something and angrily/tearfully vomiting it onto a canvas. It makes it easier to handle said emotions if they’re right there for you to see and analyze.

      2. Strophoria +4

        Scorpios + vulnerability= grrrrrrrr

        Or maybe more like a toddler going NO I DON’T WANNA!

          1. Strophoria +1

            We’re alright, when we’re not outright horrible. I got out Scorpio’d by another of my kind recently and it was a real lightbulb moment. But you’re a Gem, you know what it’s like to have people have a weirdly negative idea of your sign.

          2. aurorabirdialis +1

            I have been Scorpio’d, but didn’t hold it against the other Scorpios I knew. I guess I had a solid enough foundation of good experiences that I just chalked it up to that one particular individual being a shithead. Though, to be fair, I have had enough bad experiences with Virgos that I sometimes struggle to not go “…oh” when I meet one now. (I’m sorry, nice Virgos! I know you’re not all terrible!) 

            I have been told numerous times “You’re the only Gemini I don’t hate.” To be fair, I also regularly get told that I don’t “read” as a Gemini. Sun in Gemini, but moon, Mercury, Venus and ascendant all in Cancer. Most people read me as a crab.

          3. Strophoria +1

            Yeah, there’s just that nasty stereotype that you shouldn’t date Scorpios. But we’re actually mostly fine! Most signs are mostly fine, but I guess niceness looks similar to other niceness, whereas nastiness can really bring out the unique qualities of people. With such a Cancerian chart I’m not surprised you don’t get pegged as a Gem that often, they’re fairly opposite signs. FWIW I’ve always had very pleasant geminis in my life, but I also don’t hang out with that many air signs in general.

          4. aurorabirdialis +1

            I think “nice” has a spectrum, but it’s not quite as wide. Like niceness is varying flavors of being considerate, of being patient, of being understanding, etc, etc. Nastiness is…well, people keep getting creative. Like Tolstoy said, all happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. I think niceness/nastiness is probably similar.

            I also don’t hang out with that many fellow air signs. Not on purpose, I just tend to end up with a lot of water signs.

  2. aurorabirdialis +8

    This month is for seeing in your dreams what you can’t yet see with your eyes

    oh man. I love this. I love this a lot.

    1. wickedtongue +1

      this gemini has dreamed twice about traveling to southeast asia and maybe to turkey. too accurate.

      1. aurorabirdialis +1

        I’ve had very, very vivid, intense dreams a few nights running now. I’m not sure if it’s the melatonin or the fact that I’m spending my days painting or what, but I’ve had some dreams of faraway places that were…very real. And lovely.

  3. sednarea51 +11

    “You’re just getting stronger and you’re getting wiser and you’re learning, over and over again, who you are and what you need.”
    Oh. ::squeezes eyes shut tightly, opens them again:: Oh.

  4. danelleorange +24

    “Try not to doubt the good things that are coming to you. It’s easy to forget your own hard work, easy to forget how long and how hard you’ve been trying.”

    Madam Clarievoyant never fails to make me feel like crying.

  5. diaryofamadeditor +2

    Aires is just freaky, because I’m going on a silent retreat at the end of this month. Madame Clairevoyant indeed.

  6. Amanda +20

    “This is a month for looking in the mirror until you love your own face.”

    NO IT’S FINE I WASN’T OPPOSED TO CRYING OR ANYTHING IT’S ALL GOOD

    Oh MAN. Thank you.

    1. ohdear +3

      I just.

      So badly needed to read all of this after a weekend of marinating in post-breakup feelings of unworthiness.

  7. fleurdelivre87 +14

    “There’s so much in the world that wants to make you small, but your heart isn’t small. It’s full of blood and love and thunder.”
    Right in the (Leo) feels, as always.

    1. aurorabirdialis +8

      My BFF is a Leo, and let me tell you, they don’t make any cats that aren’t captains of heart-ships as big as the ocean itself. <3

    2. Mrs_Olinski +4

      Ahhh I needed this too today. I don’t always feel like a Leo but this really captures my heart of late

      1. deenuhh +2

        I don’t always feel like a leo either, I think it probably has to do with being on the cusp of cancer/leo but yeah, this speaks to me.

  8. friendofdaja +9

    “Try not to be afraid, this month, when your life starts moving very fast, when your life starts to bloom in the middle of this strange winter. Try not to doubt the good things that are coming to you.”

    This made my heart beat a little faster, because I’ve been going crazy hoping for those good things coming.

    1. MuseKray +1

      Same here. It feels like after five years of trying to make things happen, they are finally happening.

  9. Scared_Vagina +21

    “This is a month for feeling the soreness in your legs.”

    HOW DID YOU KNOW that yesterday was leg day at the gym? Clearly my hamstrings are ruled by the firmament.

  10. Katiezog +6

    I really needed that Pisces reading. I AM LISTING MY HOUSE THIS WEEK!!! I am so happy/scared/nervous. The best part is that once the house is sold I am free to live in a new city with the love of my life. My life really is blooming.

  11. megling +4

    Having just got a new internship that will lead to a dream job that I feel horrifyingly unqualified for (I’m totally qualified I just feel like 19 year old unrepentant fuck up) and not knowing how to thank my lovely boss who is such a cheerleader for me and wants me to work with her RIGHT NOW but understands my wanting to finish my degree…this Pisces needed this horoscope. A ridiculous amount.

  12. stirringsofconsciousness +6

    I will remember this for my Cancer six-month-old as she gets louder and louder. She’s just using her voice!

  13. kitten_mittens +12

    I am not one to put any particular stock in horoscopes, but isn’t it such a fun wink from the universe whenever yours is spot on? That Taurus one is just 100% my life right now! Bravo, Madame.

  14. ipomoea +10

    “It’s a month for loving yourself and for getting enough sleep.”

    Which is exactly what I’ve been dedicating this month to. Less booze more books 2016.

    1. smiavs +2

      Yeah, this Virgo’s been suffering from insomnia. Does this mean there’s an end in sight? 🙂

  15. headlessfashion +4

    “You won’t get lost. You’re solid and you’re here. You won’t forget yourself.”

    *Oh*. My little archer heart needed to hear this, so badly. I love these, even when they make me teary!

  16. ultra-anon +4

    Along with my own — which, looking back, was creepy-accurate for December — I like to read my son’s. He is four and also autistic and also Pisces. We’re going to be starting several new things soon, good things, I hope, but still.

    “You deserve days full of kindness and light. Watch the sky change above your head. You deserve every bright thing.”

    I… just have severe winter allergies and am not crying at all.

  17. cunninglarenarde +4

    (Gemini) This cuts deep. Right now I feel so lost. I’m in the middle of deciding big work, geographic, romantic, and life path changes and have no idea where I’m going or what I’m doing. I have no idea if the things I hope for are even possible. I have no idea if the love I have risked so much for will pay off or if I will be left alone.

    I’m so scared by this not knowing that I feel paralyzed and trapped. I really needed to hear that “[I] don’t have to know what’s coming next before [I] act.” It might be time to take a leap of faith again. I can trust myself to land (and pack a parachute, just in case.)

    Thank you, so so much.

  18. biblioll +10

    “The days will keep getting longer and all you need to do is live.”

    Thank you for this, so much. Such a useful mantra to get me through the remainder of this winter.

  19. whollyword +3

    I am a Capricorn who broke up with a Virgo about two weeks ago, over our relationship not being able to accommodate both our needs, but still loving each other SO MUCH, and … yeah. You’ve got both our numbers. And thank you for the permission not to think about the future. The future is frankly terrifying me right now.

    1. smiavs +1

      I’m a Virgo who grew up with two Capricorns, (my mother and sister shared the same birthday; dad’s an Aquarius, but my parents divorced when I was small) and it’s definitely an interesting dynamic, the Capricorn/Virgo relationship, be it romantic or familial. Happy belated/early birthday, though. 🙂

  20. alula_auburn +6

    ” Spend your days speaking and shouting and singing. There is music that lives in your stomach and music that lives in your bones. You hold magic inside you that you haven’t even seen yet.”

    This made my heart hurt, but maybe in a good way.

  21. ashurredly +2

    I’m such a disgruntled Libra. Like, yeah, I keep looking in the mirror but I’m so sick of my own face. Ugh.

    (Beautifully written, probably advice I need, just not the advice I want. Yes, I know.)

  22. enafucoy +3

    “You’re strong and you’re wild and you know the way forward.”

    I needed this reminder.