The Rumblr’s in-house astrologer, Madame Clairevoyant, presents her latest dispatch from the stars:
Aries: This week, whatever’s going on, whatever wild feelings are ruling your thoughts, try to do the slow strange work of opening yourself up a little, of letting people in. Try to show the people you love most what it’s like inside your head, in the weird corners of your heart, on quiet afternoons of your kitchen. It’s a week for openings, a week for a vulnerable and expanding kind of love, for sharing the world that you live in, even when it’s weird, even when it’s cold outside, even when your house is a mess.
Taurus: This is week to take chances, it’s a week to make changes, it’s a week to make the moves that make your heart beat faster and your eyes get wide with eagerness or with fear. Try to name the things that you want more than anything else in this world, try to reach out for them, try to follow them to all the weird bright faraway places that they’ll take you. Don’t let your dreams scare you, but let them make you work, let them make you sweat, let them make you alive.
Gemini: This week, unexpectedly and out of nowhere, after strange days and days of rain, you’ll maybe feel something in your heart opening, warming, blossoming like a field of wildflowers, growing sweet and gentle and green. It’s not the season for new growth, it’s not the season for this kind of sudden expansive joy, but try to trust it, try to live inside of it for as long as it lasts. Let this feeling make you feel safe in your world and safe in your skin, for now. Let it make you kind to the people you know.
Cancer: This is a week for walking all the way across your town, it’s a week for driving all the way across your state, for keeping your body moving, for keeping your brain awake and alive. This is not a week to sit still and it’s not a week for staying inside: it’s a week for shaking the dust out of yourself, for shaking out the memories that live quietly in your body, for shaking out the feelings that hide in the folds of your clothes. Everything will be clearer when you’re moving, everything will make more sense.
Leo: This week is for staying warm while the world gets cold around you, for turning on the heat or lighting a fire in your fireplace or sealing up the cracks in your windows and watching it get cold around you outside. It’s a week for turning inwards, just a little, for keeping a warm bright space inside yourself. Try to relish the clean cold outside, try to love and nurture your own sweet glowing warmth, try to invite the neighbors in to your house, sometimes. Listen to songs about quiet autumn kinds of love.
Virgo: This week is for is for shifting and changing small, solid things in the world you live in, for working steadily, for waiting until you’ve built a whole world that feels safe, that feels right. It is a week for hanging shelves and baking bread and mending clothes and telling stories to your friends and to yourself. It’s a week for using your hands and your brain and your laugh. It’s a week for working hard and keeping your feet on solid ground while you dream of better futures and better worlds.
Libra: This is a week for memory, it’s a week for honoring your history and calling your grandparents. This is a week for digging things back up, for visiting your self as it used to exist, for reading your old diaries or letters or stories or emails, for remembering the dreams you used to have. The past won’t leave you alone, this week, and this is not a bad thing. Just try to be ready for it, try to listen to what your ghosts can tell you, try to keep your bearings in the solid world.
Scorpio: This is a week for making your world beautiful and bright and good; it’s a week for you to do what you can to make your world into a place where you can live. It’s a week for decorating your house or for painting the walls or hanging curtains. It’s a week for listening to Motown while you move your furniture around and around and around until it’s right. Paint your nails or buy yourself a new pair of pants or clean your windows and watch how warm and sweet your kitchen and bathroom and world look in this sunlight.
Sagittarius: This week, work on doing the projects you’ve been putting off. Resole your boots or darn the hole in your sweater, fix that one wobbly chair in your kitchen, fix the leak in your bathtub. Take good gentle care of your body. Take good gentle care of the friendships that keep you whole and alive. Work on patching things up, this week, in your body and your house and your world. Work on letting your scars heal as fully and finally as they can. Do all the things you can to leave this week stronger than you were.
Capricorn: This week, watch for the small quiet signs that new things are moving toward you, new phases, new cycles, whole new ways of living and moving through your world. Keep your eyes open to all the bright newness and let the possibilities surprise you, let them shake you up, let them glow and sparkle in your thoughts as you sit at work, as you ride the bus, as you make dinner. Be ready for the air around you to change; be ready for the ground underneath you to shift. Let your dreams grow wild and let yourself hope for the best and strangest things.
Aquarius: Try, this week, to go a little easy on yourself. Try to be gentle, try not to doubt the way your skin feels in the cold, try not to doubt the way your heart beats. Try not to let your bad feelings consume you; don’t let them turn your limbs to stone. Just focus on the small things that makes it good to live. Eat ice cream in bed or listen to sad songs in the kitchen or drive out to the woods just to walk or drive out to the coast, just to feel small next to the ocean.
Pisces: This week, try hard to get outside of yourself, a little bit, outside of the normal pathways your thoughts move on. Try to listen to different voices, try to dream in different colors. This is a week for exploration and a week for new worlds. It’s a week for looking at the streets of your town from different angles, or for staying up late and seeing the sky change, or for looking for things you don’t know, or for thinking brave thoughts. If you can keep up, if you can be bold, this week will show you joy. It will show you magic.
Today’s image was made specially for Madame Clairevoyant by Jen May.