Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: February 16–22
On Tuesday morning, the sun leaves brainy and rebellious Aquarius to enter wise, mystical Pisces. It’s time now to let compassion take the lead: Decisions based on self-interest aren’t likely to pan out the way you hope, and progress toward your personal goals may be frustratingly slow. But if you put your energy into caring for the people around you, it’ll come back to benefit you, too. If you try to find happiness in isolation, it’ll be tenuous at best; working with other people will allow you to find joy that’s much more durable and real.
Aries Weekly Horoscope
If you’re going to take on a new project, you don’t see any point in doing it halfway — you want to go all-in. You want to work hard, live fully, and hold nothing back. Just remember that nobody, not even you, can operate at maximum capacity all the time. Life is cyclical, and so are your energy levels — you need time to rest and recover. If you’re struggling to get everything done this week, consider that you might be asking too much of yourself. Don’t hesitate to take your foot off the gas and find time to recharge.
Taurus Weekly Horoscope
When you’re setting goals, you try to be realistic about what you can accomplish. It’s easy to come up with a wild dream, but before you personally invest in one, you want to know you have at least a chance at succeeding. But this week, be careful that your pragmatism isn’t holding you back. Maybe you don’t yet have the opportunity or skills that you’ll need, but that doesn’t mean you can’t develop them. Your limitations are real, but they aren’t unalterable: Don’t underestimate your ability to find or create the tools you’ll need.
Gemini Weekly Horoscope
You probably don’t think of yourself as someone who others should look up to — you’re not a role model, you’re just figuring out life as you go. But this week, remember that by living authentically, taking necessary risks, or standing up for yourself, you make it easier for others to do the same. Your actions can motivate the people around you, can make the world seem bigger and more hospitable — so be bold and don’t underestimate your potential for influence.
Cancer Weekly Horoscope
Part of you envies your adventurous friends — they seem totally fearless, able to throw themselves into unpredictable situations without worrying about what the outcome will be. You, on the other hand, are all too aware that your actions have consequences. You’re tuned in to all the possible dangers, and you do your best to minimize your risk. But this week, try not to get so caught up in the imaginary worst-case scenarios that you forget to account for the possible best-case scenarios. Don’t make big choices based on fear alone; account for the possibility that things will go your way.
Leo Weekly Horoscope
Sometimes it feels like you’re constantly battling your bad habits, trying to find some semblance of control over your life. But while it’s valuable to grow and change, it becomes unhelpful when you start to see yourself — or at least, the personality traits you don’t like — as your enemy. This week, try to be a little kinder to yourself. You don’t need to be punished for being imperfect, or somehow “defeat” the more difficult parts of yourself. If you accept that you’re good enough as you are, it might get easier to simply let some of the bad habits go.
Virgo Weekly Horoscope
Normally, you’re good at respecting your limits. While some people might be willing to suffer in inequitable or unsatisfying relationships, you’re honest about what you’re able and willing to give to others, and clear about what you expect in return. This week, however, it might be a bit harder than usual to maintain your boundaries: You start to wonder whether you’re being selfish, whether you should be sharing more or demanding less. It’s not a bad thing to reevaluate every once in a while; just make sure you’re doing it for yourself, not under pressure from someone else.
Libra Weekly Horoscope
It can sometimes feel like there’s a “right” and “wrong” way to be a friend — and when you think about it too much, you fear that you’re doing it wrong. You worry that you’re not active or generous enough, that you aren’t doing enough to preempt what the people around you need — or, conversely, that you’re too needy. This week, your challenge is to put all of that out of your head. Relationships aren’t a game you can win — the point is simply to show up in your community as you are.
Scorpio Weekly Horoscope
Your more optimistic friends sometimes strike you as ill-equipped to deal with reality. In your view, a bit of cynicism is healthy; the lower your expectations, the higher the chances are that you’ll be pleasantly surprised. But while bracing for bad things to happen can seem like it’ll protect you from heartbreak, it won’t make you fulfilled. This week, carve out some time to plan for the things that bring you joy. You deserve some fun to balance out the hard times.
Sagittarius Weekly Horoscope
Lately, you’ve felt a lot of pressure to focus on how you appear to others: You want to seem tough enough that nobody will mess with you, or capable enough that your colleagues will take you seriously. But while it’s valuable to remember that you share this world with other people, it can be stressful to place too much importance on how they perceive you. This week, focus less on everyone around you, and more on how you feel inside. Right now, as long as you know who you are, it hardly matters what anybody else sees.
Capricorn Weekly Horoscope
Most of the time, your ambitious nature motivates you to scale ever greater heights — but occasionally, it only makes you feel inadequate. As soon as you reach one milestone, you start looking to the next; you hardly give yourself any time to actually savor your success. For now, take a break from all that striving. Try to enjoy the life you’re actually living, without thinking about how it could be bigger and better. There will be plenty of time for climbing upward, so make sure you’re not missing out on the beauty all around you.
Aquarius Weekly Horoscope
You’ve been frustrated by all of the uncertainty in your life lately. It’s not that you’re afraid of thorny questions — you just want to have faith that there are answers waiting for you up ahead. As it is, though, you worry that life will continue to be this confusing forever. This week, things are unlikely to become any more clear, but you might find that you can tolerate the ambiguity a bit better. Instead of finding it stressful that the future is unwritten, try to see it as a source of hope.
Pisces Weekly Horoscope
There are times when you look around and feel like you’re in the wrong life — as though, over the years, each little decision you made brought you further and further from the path you were supposed to be on. But this week, it might be possible to find your way back to a sense of belonging — whether by shifting your perspective or by making tangible changes. Maybe life didn’t turn out the way you thought it would, but you can find joy and purpose anyway.
Read the weekly horoscopes for the week of February 9th. The weekly horoscopes for the week of February 23rd will be online next Sunday.
Buy Claire Comstock-Gay’s book, Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars, here.
Related