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By Claire Comstock-Gay, astrologer and Cut columnist. She has written weekly horoscopes for more than ten years and is the author of 'Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars.'
Olivia Rodrigo, a Pisces. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Photo: Getty Images
This week begins on the heels of last Saturday’s full moon in Virgo, and you’re likely still experiencing the fallout from any outbursts, conflicts, or emotional revelations it brought. Through the rest of the week, the moon wanes as it moves through Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio. Use this time to process any changes going on in your life. With both the sun and Mercury in dreamy Pisces, you’re especially wise and intuitive now. You have the clarity to see where you’ve gone wrong in the past, and what you can do to fix it. The challenge is to be brave enough to take action. In the meantime, find the weekly horoscope for each zodiac sign, below.
Aries Weekly Horoscope
If your energy levels are lower than usual this week, you’ll probably be tempted to muscle through it, to try to force yourself to stay motivated and productive. Taking your foot off the gas feels like failure. But that simply isn’t true. Ebbs and flows in productivity are natural and inevitable. The more you try to fight them, the more you’ll wear yourself out. If you need to rest, slow down, be lazy for a while, go for it. Your spirit and vigor will eventually pick back up no matter what you do now, but it’ll be a lot more pleasant for you in the meantime if you heed your body’s natural rhythms.
Taurus Weekly Horoscope
Constantly appraising the world with a critical eye gets exhausting and discouraging. When you look closely for people’s failings, hypocrisies, or ulterior motives, you’ll almost always find them. Sometimes you want to take a break, to close your eyes to the shortcomings and see only the good instead. So this week, let yourself approach people in a spirit of generosity. Be careful not to ignore any major red flags, of course, but otherwise, give others the benefit of the doubt. If you give people a chance to be their best selves with you, they’ll probably take it.
Gemini Weekly Horoscope
You’ve been thinking a lot about the future — both our collective future and your own. You want some reassurance that life won’t be this hard forever, that at some point joy and ease will return. It’s hard to find reason to hope, but this week, what you need most isn’t evidence that it’ll all be okay. Instead, what you need is resolve. Have faith in the universe, in the people around you, in your own capacity for courage and love. Change is always possible. Act like it.
Cancer Weekly Horoscope
Your wild side often goes undetected by others; sometimes you forget it’s there yourself. While you’re brave and adventurous, you aren’t usually reckless. In order for you to be daring and spontaneous, you need first to trust that the ground beneath your feet is steady. You’re willing to try anything, but only if you know you have a safe place to land. This week, focus on finding, or maintaining, the solid relationships or the supportive community you can rely on. It might not feel thrilling right now, but it’ll allow you to take big, beautiful risks in the future.
Leo Weekly Horoscope
If you’re going to bother doing a thing, you want to do it right. No shortcuts or half-measures for you — you’re going all in. Sometimes, this means that you’re single-minded in your ambitions and will do whatever it takes to get what you want. Other times, it means you’ll drop everything to help others, sharing your last dollar, moving heaven and earth to take care of the people around you. Though grand gestures are noble, they tend not to be sustainable in the long run. This week, don’t try to be a hero — that’s probably not what’s needed — just try to do your part.
Virgo Weekly Horoscope
You’ve been experiencing some guilt lately for not being faster and more efficient. In your own household and in the bigger world, there’s so much work that needs to be done, and you regret that you aren’t able to take on more than you already do. This week, though, push back against that feeling when it arises. If anything, this is a time to do less, to move slower,even stand still. This is how you open up mental space where you can reflect and dream. In those moments, you remember what really matters to you, and what kind of person you want to be.
Libra Weekly Horoscope
Recently, you’ve felt stretched to your absolute limit. Every bit of your time, energy, and emotional bandwidth is spoken for. You’ve had no wiggle room, no opportunity to daydream, no ability to take a day (or even afternoon) to yourself. Some of this, of course, is outside of your control. Family obligations and demanding bosses aren’t easy to say “no” to. Still, if you can find a way to put some slack back into your day, then do it. You’ll be more productive with adequate time to rest and relax. Even if this weren’t true, it wouldn’t matter. You aren’t a machine. You’re a human being, and you deserve to be treated with care.
Scorpio Weekly Horoscope
You aren’t the sort of person to run from tough conversations. You’re willing to directly address the thornie*st issues, and occasionally you even relish conflict. Where others might avoid the people they dislike or disagree with, you aren’t afraid to confront them. This week, though, walking away from arguments might be the smartest move. There are people you’ll never be able to bring onto your side, who will never be convinced to treat you (or others) better, who will only ever waste your time. Sometimes arguing is worthwhile. Right now, save your energy for the people you love.
Sagittarius Weekly Horoscope
Some people seem to make life harder for themselves on purpose, but not you. You aren’t lazy, you’re just not going to do unnecessary work for its own sake. You’ll happily take the path of least resistance. The trouble is that, sometimes, forgoing the challenge does you a disservice. Building up strength and skills steadily, or taking new relationships slowly, might not be the most thrilling, but right now, it’s the best way to proceed. This week, the most important thing you can do is to make sure your foundation is solid. If repairs are in order, it isn’t too late.
Capricorn Weekly Horoscope
You’re happiest when plans are firm and language is precise, the rules well-defined. Vague promises don’t satisfy you; you want specifics. Anecdotes aren’t enough; you need to see the evidence. Sometimes, though, hard data isn’t available, or it doesn’t capture the full story. This week, especially, you may have to deal with more ambiguity than you’d like. Don’t ignore your feelings just because they’re inconvenient or don’t match up with what everyone else is saying. Trust the numbers, but trust your intuition, too.
Aquarius Weekly Horoscope
Right now, you might be feeling burdened, tied down — maybe by your job, or your possessions, or your responsibilities to loved ones. Maybe you’re sick of your own personality, wishing your life — or you — could be suddenly, dramatically different. There’s a part of you that wants to start from scratch, to make a sudden career change, run away to a new city where nobody knows you. But in this moment, throwing away everything you’ve worked for is likely to lead to loneliness and disappointment. Running away from your life won’t bring you a sense of freedom, but asserting your independence in the day-to-day might.
Pisces Weekly Horoscope
It can be challenging for you to appreciate new beginnings, because for a new chapter to start, another has to end. And lately, you’ve been focused on the endings, on all that you’ve lost in the past year — friends, faith, opportunities. It isn’t wrong to grieve. In order to move forward, it’s necessary. But this week, finally, it will again be possible tolook toward to the future with hope and excitement. Life has been difficult, almost unbearably so, but you can sense something beautiful on the horizon.
Read theweekly horoscopesfor the week of February 18. Theweekly horoscopes for the week of March 3 will be online next Sunday.
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