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Daily Horoscopes — 24 July 2018

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Peacemaking Venus in Virgo faces off against numbing Neptune in Pisces, and the odds are stacked in Neptune’s favor, meaning we all might end up a little more jaded than we bargained for today. Meanwhile, a waxing Capricorn Moon does her level best to create a nurturing container to add some structure to whatever earthy chaos Uranus is fomenting.

Aries

A distant relative becomes an unexpected hero as they offer advice for a situation that’s erupted with a neighbor’s kids—and most likely, it has something to do with “make sure you’re picking fights that are yours to pick.” Meanwhile, you’ve been doing without and tightening the belt, but pay attention to the way the work you’re called to do in this world puts a fence for the chaos to roam around in safely.

Taurus

A neighbor or sibling comes to collect today, but fortunately, you’ve been planning for it all along. Don’t neglect to pay them precisely what you owe, even if you don’t especially like them, because you’ll receive a blessed infusion of structuring energy later on today that reins in the chaos. Right now, you can take all the grounded relief you can get.

Gemini

Your wallet is in your partner’s pocket today, but they are utilizing the bounty that you have generated in order to construct a fantastic container around the life that you have built with them, beautifying and ordering it in ways that it may take you some time to appreciate. Accept the way that their optimistic presence succors the chaos of your inner hurricane.

Cancer

Today you may need to reach out to ask a neighbor or sibling for help, but they help only begrudgingly and with plenty of invective about you having gotten yourself into this situation in the first place. Consider instead the way that you can help them first and be ready to lean on shared goals as a means of inviting them to see eye to eye with you.

Leo

If you thought your temptation to indulge in a little bit of prodigality was bad yesterday, today it gets even worse as ample opportunities to bankroll your public image present themselves. Why not instead adorn yourself with the gift of the company you keep, which is available to you more than you can imagine, who are better ornaments than anything you can impulse buy on Amazon?

Virgo

Tough love from a friend hits home today, and every good intention you’ve had to get your house in order seems to be called into question.
This prompts you to reconsider the ways in which you have been complacent with things as they are—and your insistence on changing them. But their words are not so much about your true self as about the way they perceive you, and the wisdom here is to know the difference.

Libra

Your words today toward a trusted soul-friend are full of bombast and boldness. Don’t be alarmed when such dynamism puts them off, but instead, listen to how their response is calling you to be a more compassionate communicator during this season of disillusionment. Whatever sediment is stirred up will fertilize their growth as much as yours.

Scorpio

Listen carefully to whatever it is that a relative has to say about your proclivity towards dynamic partnerships, because their wizened perspective might contribute an important element to assist you in handling the vagrant energies that are even now shaking up your very concept of what a “partnership” is to begin with—and to which you’ve been oblivious.

Sagittarius

The wild new underlings who have found their way to your care have big dreams and a big impact on your career. Pay attention to the way that your superiors and collaborators offer feedback on your own leadership style, because applying their insight will prove to give those who work for you the structure they need in order to minimize damage and maximize growth.

Capricorn

As good as you are as building containers for the unpredictable wildernesses of life to grow and flourish in, you’ll need a little extra help to make it happen this time around—and fortunately, you have it, as a friendly collaborator joins forces with you to put stakes in the garden for your vines to grow upward instead of everywhere.

Aquarius

Today you’re reminded that laughter truly is the best medicine for some ailments as you reach out for help bearing a load that may not have been yours to bear in the first place. Whatever the case, allow this sudden moment of joy to salve the pain of disillusionment as you continue in this present season of having old beliefs, values, and burdens dissolved.

Pisces

Whatever new work is coming to being meets with more than a little constructive criticism as you present it to a collaborator, whose present concern for presentation shunts the expansiveness of the vision driving the project at hand. As much as you might like to excuse yourself and needlessly apologize for what you’ve done, you’ll find the unexpected strength to say precisely what needs to be said in order to defend your work.

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Daily Horoscopes — 23 July 2018

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The Moon is in a critical deadlock between Venus and Neptune—she can’t make bridge the gap between what a penned in Venus wants, who is mired in the details and zhuzhing everything to death and what Neptune wants as she continues her blasé and meandering trip through the Fishes of Disintegration. The beauty of your dreams can’t manifest—the vision risks evaporating into a cloud of contemplation.

Aries

Today you’ll find yourself feeling far away from home as your heart is pulled towards parts unknown while caught in a stalemate between competing desires: on one hand, you wish to find beauty amid the crushing ordinariness of the day to day factors that have tied you down, but on the other, this motion of the heart towards distance reawakens a latent sense of wanting to fade away—just for a season!—to let some of this tension you carry in your body untangle its choking tendrils from around you.

Taurus

Beware of a stressful situation that emerges when the needs of a neighbor butt up against your own dogged intention to work hard at leisure; you might find that the demands that they make become onerous when you give them the benefit of a doubt one too many times. Don’t fall asleep to asking what’s in it for you, just because you’re feeling especially easy to get along with, lest you bite off a little more than you can chew in terms of how you handle the requests of others.

Gemini

A question catches you off guard: how do you need to collaborate with someone financially to attain the lofty ideals you have set for yourself? This particular juicy tension has to do with the way your propensity to live large might be the very same iron bars that block your way. Such a tension often serves as a reality check, especially when your imagined version of who you are and where you’re headed doesn’t necessarily line up with the way things are. Embrace the juiciness of this moment: what does it teach you?

Cancer

Don’t be afraid to reach out for help when you feel yourself slipping today. The enormity of life’s diffuse and dynamic powers causes you to begin to shut down, too full to manage—in fact, this fullness might overflow into flagging physical energy or even sickness, and it will be all you can do in order to reach out your hand. But if you do (and you should), friends and family stand ready to help, though perhaps not without a shade of gentle admonishment for letting yourself get into this mess in the first place.

Leo

No, you cannot blow your bank account on that luxury brand you want so desperately in order to further cement your status as a self-made mogul. Because what happens when that desire passes? “There is nothing new under the sun,” and the real power you have under all that mane is to be fully possessed of yourself without the need to perform anything. Does what you want to buy actually make you a brighter, more brilliant person? Discretion is the better part of valor.

Virgo

An old friend stops by your home to ask a favor that, perhaps, was never theirs to ask. The situation catches you at the crossroads of keeping the boundaries you’ve meticulously erected around your person intact and the need to practice hospitality as a means of transcendence. On one hand, who are you to judge a person’s life over the cost of a loaf of bread? But on the other hand, are you doing yourself any favors by allowing this person to take advantage of your good nature?

Libra

Word comes to you of an opportunity to escape into a new and exciting role, but the excitement might get the better of you as you are looking for ways to get out of the situation you’ve been languishing in, perhaps a bit more precipitously than is good for you. In fact, your current sufferings may be not quite so burdensome as you have allowed yourself to believe—the first step to consider, before taking action, is whether your present challenges are worth the effort that shifting into this new role will require.

Scorpio

A surprise boon makes its way to you, but as always, “not all that glitters is gold.” You may think this sudden gift to be heaven-sent, but you’ll find it caught between your unrealistic expectations about what is yours to play with and the reality of the way other people’s joy seems to box you into a corner. Now, if you can hold this gift with an open hand, you’ll be able to help many more souls than just yours—and your own soul will be the better for it.

Sagittarius

A public standoff between a friend and a person from your past who doesn’t quite know where their own boundaries end and others’ begin threatens to derail you and asks you to make a tough call between your present comrades and your past commitments. Sometimes water is thicker than blood, but sometimes, those we think are our friends prove to be nothing but a drag on our energy. Whatever choice you make, make it with uncharacteristic caution, for the sake of your sanity.

Capricorn

Someone dear to you is in need today, caught between their need to escape into joy and their present reality of having fallen asleep in their workaday wash. They are distant, too, so helping them requires you to reach out your hand further than you thought you might ever need to stretch It, but consider the joy and the honor that will come from raising them to new heights of freedom. Cry with full voice: “awake, o sleeper—arise from the dead, and shine!”

Aquarius

The sufferings of a friend find their way to your compassionate ear. You want to come to their aid immediately, basin and towel in hand, but you haven’t had a realistic view of your own resources for some time, that is, what is actually in your power to do. Before charging in, beware of what might happen if you run out of steam mid-action, lest you make their situation worse by leaving it finally unresolved, and create a pickle for yourself in the process.

Pisces

Be on the lookout for creative tension to emerge between an expansive opportunity to invent a new way forward in your career and the hum-drum demands for precision and poise that such opportunities carry with them. It will require more of you than you may be ready for, because you’ve been sleepwalking for the past few years, and to walk down the path less traveled by will require you to be fully present to all your gifts as well as all your sufferings. What caused you to fall asleep in the first place?

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Daily Horoscopes — 22 July 2018

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Aries

An unexpected collaboration in your workaday grind threatens to grind your gears, but it proves to be a more fecund partnership than your beliefs about the people at your side would lead you to believe possible if you extend the helping hand that the situation demands. All the same, the opportunities that arise out of hopeful speculation with this newfound collaborator might take quite a bit of input from your end to fan into flame. Don’t be afraid to dig down deep, because in pulling up others, you’ll elevate yourself, too.

Taurus

Winning words conjure a new collaboration with a friend which proves to be a pleasure—once you can get past the amount of effort required to make the new work come to life. Then again, you’re no stranger to labor, are you? In fact you especially revel in it today. Do beware, however, of leaning overmuch on your newfound partnership for the burst of energy you need in order to push through, for you may find that they end up being the very Jenga piece that makes the whole endeavor collapse under its own weight.

Gemini

Though your creations sometimes threaten to be your very undoing, you’ll find today that they work in close harmony with a little bit of diligence to generate new rungs on the ladder of upward mobility. Or is it downward mobility that you’re after? The last year has been teaching you that in order to ascend you must first do the dogged work of descent, and a little bit of faith in the immortal diamond you’ve found in your own bright abyss is what you need to create the motion you’ve so desperately sought.

Cancer

Your attention is drawn to the fate of your happiness today as you ponder the question of what simple enjoyments must die in order for you to embrace true joy. Allow the measured, meticulous words of friends and family to spur your horizons of what constitutes a life worth living to expand ever so gently, so subtly, so cautiously that naught is left but for there to be life, and the joy you find as you allow false fancies to die off with be the very force that pulls you into the future.

Leo

What do your parents think of the partnerships you’ve made, and for that matter, what sort of legacy are those partnerships leaving? Do you consider them more precious than gold or a crack in your bold and brassy armor? Do not be afraid to sever the ties that bind if they have hamstrung you, but should they end up having incredible return-on-investment, sever instead the ties that would bind you from surrendering yourself fully and unreservedly to them, to the fires of love.

Virgo

Those who have taught you have been your greatest treasure throughout your life, and now, an opportunity arises to use your piercing insight to teach something to those who have come before you, in such a way that your relationship with them is no longer student to teacher but is now peer to peer, friend to friend, neighbor to neighbor. Do not expect it to come easily, though, but trust that the words will not fail you when it comes time to speak truth. You’ve always known precisely what to say, anyway.

Libra

Despite your desire to take a step back from the burbling din of public life, you’re met with the reminder that you must pay the bills today. And yet, there’s no reason work can’t be fun, if you let it be so, and if you find pleasure in the collaborations that emerge when you open yourself to partnering with others to make their vision a reality too—whether you’re living your dream life as a creative executive or whether you’re just a sandwich slinger, don’t underestimate the ability you have to make something beautiful anywhere you go.

Scorpio

Don’t be caught by surprise when a partner approaches you with every design to get down to brass tacks when it comes to your money, because your bent towards big spending creates has certainly made your credit card statements swell too. Feeling the pinch? Here’s your way out—as painful as it sounds, let your partner’s eagle-eyed scrutiny be the boon that helps you get your financial house in order. They’re just trying to help; what can it hurt to let them?

Sagittarius

Despite “don’t fence me in!” being your life’s motto, you’ve felt penned in and pinned down for some time now and today, a helpful but exacting friend reminds you of the wisdom of suckering and training tomato plants: if you want to pendulous and prize-winning produce, you can’t just put out shoots and vines anywhere you want. In like manner, you have never made anything happen by planning escape routes whenever a little bit of hard work has come your way. Pruning is good for you; let it happen, Beefsteak.

Capricorn

When’s the last time you called your mom? Today’s not the day to forget where you’ve come from when you see the way that your parents raised you has contributed, in no small way, to your ability to frame up and build the kind of life that you want for yourself. A little gratitude goes a long way, and don’t be surprised if a call home or to your chosen family to say “thank you” generates new, rich ways of relating to those who have come before you and set you on your journey.

Aquarius

Work has been a drag for a little bit now, and it’s only fair that you might find yourself pining for an escape. If the opportunity comes along to do get out of dodge for even a day, take it—and go far. If you try to stay close, you’ll just find your mind spiraling the drain of all the things you’ll have to do when you get back. And for once you won’t be as liable to blow the budget as a simple sensibility seems to bind your wallet shut. Just go along for the ride when it comes.

Pisces

A heady conversation with someone close to you causes you to reflect on the ways that the last few months have caused you to become more deeply yourself in ways that your conversation partner may be utterly unaware of. How can you communicate that in ways they’ll understand? Even though you miss each other in this particular exchange, their pointed questions and exacting commentary has its own strange beauty that punts you into the depths of gratitude.

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Daily Horoscopes – 21 July 2018

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My friend Jo Gleason put out a challenge on twitter for astrologers to write a daily horoscope column for 30 days, so I took her up on it—and I actually decided to start it a day before Leo season starts! I’m pumped to share these with you, and I hope that, whether they’re accurate or not, they prove to be useful food for your journey.

NB: Remember to read from your rising sign.

ARIES

The ever-present demands of your roots stymie a duty to put forth some new work into the world with a peculiar demand on your energy that you hadn’t quite anticipated. Allow yourself the grace to orient your outflow of energy in such a way that it contributes to going deeper with your existing creative commitments rather than insisting on always leading the charge. Such obstacles can’t be avoided, but they might prove to be the richest grist for the mill should you choose to embrace them.

TAURUS

Synergistic work with a treasured Other becomes the ground for mundane tensions as creative ecstasy dissipates into the very un-sexy questions about “well, who’s going to pay for it?” Indeed, you’re asked: who is the executive producer behind the Great Work you’ve set out to manifest today? And who’s writing the checks? As expansive and beautiful as your idea may be, the challenge arises from the fact that, at the end of the day, you have to eat.

GEMINI

For as much as you desire to enervate social circuitry with your effervescent presence, today demands that you attend to the amount you have to give. Your own ability to spark connection flags as your emotional—or financial—powers get caught up in the deep demands and deathly drudgery of the situations and structures you create for yourself, including the social ones. The challenge is not to be boxed in by the limitations of your own intentions but rather to leverage what already exists to strengthen existing connections to others and to yourself.

CANCER

Maintaining your shell becomes the point where the gears grind as a desire to dive deeper into your experience of joy brings you face-to-face with the awkward agreements that you’ve gotten yourself into through words spoken hastily. You’ve made a big promise, but have you written a check that you can’t cash? Lest you be exposed, consider carefully what it is that you have the ability to follow through on; that said, your heart was in the right place.

LEO

A friend has their eye on you and are your biggest asset, despite your insistence to the contrary. Meanwhile, your desire to set your own course may well hamstring you from accepting the gift they have to offer. Not every friend is a gift-bearing Greek, and you are asked today to consider deeply just how much those in orbit around you have contributed to the outrageous life you’ve lived so far, for your legacy is just as much their doing as it is your own.

VIRGO

The faithful ally is the one who sees you heading towards a cliff and grabs you by the scruff of your neck to stop you from plummeting into the abyss of your own making. Count yourself lucky when words come your way that might make you bristle: they are for your own good. You’ll let the voice of reason get a word in edgewise as you consider escape routes from situations that have been long in your own making, for it’s never been like you to charge headlong into unknown territory without all the facts. Do this and shine.

LIBRA

How do people see you? Whatever the answer, that answer is the handiest tool on your belt today as the question of public perception and where you’re headed in this one wild life pings off of your sometimes too-idealistic desire to see a world restored to beauty. It is, after all, your reputation that precedes you, and today is the day to whet the blade of peace for the great work that lies ahead, even when that great work becomes the source of your greatest disappointment. Peace is ever a process.

SCORPIO

There is always something to be learned in the vicissitudes that jolt us out of the deep-soul diving that has become as comfortable to you as an old recliner, and today that lesson might just be that you can’t do this alone. Pay attention to the way that your own desire to expand your heart by plunging your own depths butts up against the scintillating challenges posed by the people orbiting you and their various needs, for in meeting others in the space of tension you may find yourself with newfound cause to molt and grow.

SAGITTARIUS

Grief is the price we pay for love, and the invoice comes in today in deep and subtle ways as you realize how the demands of the people who count on you have shaped your behaviors and choices in ways not always authentic to who you are. Yet there is a deep joy in the griefs that love demands from us, and paying those debts can only make your heart grow larger, like the nights that now grow imperceptibly longer, opening the frontier for your dreams to carry you into new ways of loving.

CAPRICORN

For some holy and maddening reason, duty is your ideal, and today your very treasured Other might very well come up against the responsibilities you have to them. This tension might prove electric if you allow it to become the ground for duty to link arms with ideal once again in supporting your treasured Other in getting to wherever it is they dream of going but do be cautious of how much of their dream is yours to manage (lest you appropriate that dream for yourself at the expense of your own).

AQUARIUS

Do you allow your treasured Other to be part of raising whatever holy mischief you have generated for yourself, whether kids or otherwise? Your sense of diligence and obligation comes to bear in your career as the task in front of you requires a deep dive, leaving you unable to attend to other responsibilities, which can feel quite deathly to you. You’ve let nothing slide; duty has called you in a different direction. That being the case, help your Other help you; they’ve been wanting an opportunity to shine, so let them!

PISCES

A nascent dream to escape into some kind of creative fugue state will never come to be so long as you have your duty to home and to your extant partnerships pinning you down, and neither will an impulse to cross into parts unknown and adopt internationally—whether habits, customs, languages, or children—make you more comfortable with where you are. What resplendent grace does the gritty sacrament of the present moment have to offer you?

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The Sun-Saturn Opposition of 2018

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Once every year, the Sun opposes Saturn. This is, perhaps, one of the most intense possible aspects that we experience during the year’s cycle, simply because it is a conflict between giants. So, I want to suss out the story a bit; I’ve also written brief scopes for each of the rising signs too, as part of a warm-up to writing a daily column every day during Leo season later this year!

Oppositions are, as a rule, destructive; without any kind of intervention, they are always a deadlock, a stalemate, a blowout. Feelings get hurt and assumptions get shattered. Such is the nature of the aspect. Let’s look at the chart for the opposition that’s occupying all of our minds. It perfects (in Lexington) on Wednesday morning at 9:21am, which is about when I’ll be walking into work.

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I actually have a somewhat pressing conversation that I need to have with someone in a sixth house position about a fifth house matter and honestly I may need to wait for this aspect to start separating before I talk to them. Why? The Sun is transiting the back end of my fifth house and is coming up on my sixth cusp. I am in a sixth house year. The conversation I need to have is going to be somewhat touchy, and I really don’t want the energy of that opposition spoiling it. If there were any aspects from benefics touching either planet, I could be a little less tense about it, but there aren’t any aspects from the benefics (Jupiter or Venus) that are intervening to ameliorate the situation. We would see that if Venus were translating light from one planet to the other, or if Jupiter was collecting light from a Rx Saturn and the Sun.

Now, the Sun is applying to Saturn and Saturn to the Sun, since Saturn is Rx here. So both parties are moving toward each other to the point of engagement, yet the Sun is not on his own turf while Saturn is. The Sun is also representing the agenda of the Moon here, which is antithetical to Saturn’s purposes. This is because the Sun is placed in Cancer at the moment of the opposition. Saturn sees this touchy-feely Sun coming at him and shuts off completely.

He owes the Sun *nothing*. He will not hear what the Sun has to say. Whatever interests are represented by the Sun—since Leo is rising in this chart, it would be the interests of the individual approaching a situation—will be flat denied. Saturn has everything he needs where he is, being in Capricorn, though he is moving backwards and so there is a sense to which he is meeting the Sun for the express purpose of being able to say “no” to the Sun’s interests and intents.

But there’s a part two to this story that needs to be brought into consideration: the *very* next thing that happens is the conjunction of the Moon with Saturn, later in the day (11:33pm in Lexington).

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This is an interesting turn of events, because the Moon is approaching Saturn from Saturn’s home turf of Capricorn, that is, the Moon is representing Saturn’s interests as she seeks counsel from him, and Saturn has an obligation to be irenic toward her. This is a change of the story if we’re focusing not on what the Sun was trying to accomplish, but rather what the Moon was trying to accomplish all along. The Sun was representing her interests and doing kind of a bad job at it, so she has to go into “enemy territory” and take care of business herself. Here’s the chart for the Moon-Saturn conjunction (which will be great to watch in real time if the weather cooperates!)

I’m not going to go into too much detail here, but as a rule, whatever conflict emerges at the time of the opposition will see some kind of resolution as the Moon brings her counsel to Saturn in his own turf. It’s not going to be all sunshine and rainbows (we’re still talking Saturn here), but when there is this kind of reception, we see things go quite a bit more smoothly. Imagine if this were the chart of a relationship question: we would be able to give quite a positive report in this instance.

All that said, here are the horoscopes for this opposition for each of the rising signs! I had a blast writing these. You can read for your sun sign, but it’s always best to read for your ascendant (also known as your rising sign).

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Aries: Things go off the rails when you fail to see eye to eye with an otherwise reliable creative collaborator; they’re completely under the thumb of their responsibilities and aren’t in a position to take on any new endeavors, regardless of how exciting or close to your soul they seem to you. Brace for impact.

Taurus: Emotions run high as a visit with family erupts into an all-out brawl when your folks can’t quite understand how your horizons have expanded as you’ve come into your own. The cosmos is screaming at you for you to learn how to set some boundaries and, perhaps, to set some boundaries with family. Stay the course, steady Taurus: this isn’t the first fight you’ve had with them and it won’t be the last.

Gemini: Today’s not the day to be doing any negotiating with credit card companies, bill collectors, or the tax man. Any attempt to communicate, negotiate, or asking for an extension on a late bill will meet swift and terrible denial, and your emotional appeals will fall on stopped ears. How’d you get yourself in this situation in the first place? Present the facts and make a plan if you want any shot of being heard.

Cancer: Tempers might flare today as your earnest appeal to a trusted partner for assistance, financial or otherwise, meets with flat rejection. It’s not that they can’t help, it’s that… they don’t want to help. They see your emotional appeal coming a mile away and would much rather deal with the facts of the situation and pay only the dues that they owe, no more and no less. They’re not going to do your emotional labor for you. The story will change once you’re able to see things from their perspective later today.

Leo: Today is a day to take a nap and retreat, dear Leo. As much as you want to shine brightly, you’ll find yourself tempted to put far too much of yourself out there in order to attract people to your radiant causes—which cause is you!—yet you’ll just end up hamstringing yourself, inviting nothing but torpor and headache at the end of the day. Save your strength; it’ll serve you better soon.

Virgo: Friends come calling to take you away for a time of rest, rejuvenation, and retreat, but as desperately as you dream of a time to focus on yourself, your responsibilities will hear nothing of it and continue to call you back to work—doubly so if you have children or if you work with them. Game the system by learning to find respite and retreat along the way—perhaps a story hour might be the best thing for you.

Libra: Your hopes for a promising transition in your career come tumbling down to earth when the tension between your inner vision and your outer realities erupts to the surface. “The way it’s always been” draws a hard line around “the way things could be,” and you’re faced with the need to rebound and regroup after catching your breath from an unexpected impact. For femme folk especially, the glass ceiling seems to be bulletproof today.

Scorpio: A brilliant, expansive vision of your life’s work “as it should be” has been echoing in your heart, yet as you begin to share that vision with others, you’ll quickly find that the folks you are sharing this vision with are quite content for everything to stay the same, thank-you-very-much—especially if those folks happen to be blood relatives. “Beware of casting your pearls before swine,” even though the swine in question have all your best interests in mind—but it’s their version of your best interest all the same.

Sagittarius: A distant association comes calling today with a poorly veiled attempt to take advantage of your natural generosity by getting something out of you, financial or otherwise. They have no intention for an equitable exchange, and they’ve gotten used to your willingness to help out—but, for once, the word “no” might well escape your lips for the first time in too long! Be gentle as you send them on their way; you’ll find your boundaries around your resources unusually easy to maintain today.

Capricorn: Don’t be surprised if a precipitous conflict erupts in a close partnership or covenanted collaboration today about your level of investment in the relationship. It’s been brewing for some time, but you’ll find that you’re fully in control of your reaction to what’s emerging the dynamic tension between you two (they, much less so). You’ll be speaking in facts and figures; they’ll be speaking in feelings and gestures. Let it lie; no agreement will be reached today. Hope is not lost; a third party steps in to intervene later on to translate your partner’s needs for you.

Aquarius: As much as you’d desperately like to attend to the ever-growing pileup of responsibilities that your dutiful soul has seemed to accumulate for yourself, nothing will get done today because your very body seems to be screaming for respite. There is a deep magic in not trying so hard, because to do so will only turn up the volume of whatever “I’m worthless” tape is in your internal tape deck today. Retreat and rest demands to win today, and it must, dear Aquarius. The gentle attentiveness you will need to do your part in healing yourself and healing the world will arrive soon enough.

Pisces: Allow yourself to be surprised by an ability to say “no” to the demands of pleasure that you’ve gotten yourself tangled up with. Securing your inner world through self-medication only goes so far; today, your duty is to name what it is you really want and to let that hope be your guiding star, as opposed to falling asleep—once again—to the harsh light of reality.

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