daily horoscope – Page 3 – Nate Craddock, Astrologian

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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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?