This week is filled with good news and new beginnings, starting with Wednesday’s Pisces new moon. Like all new moons, this one marks a fresh start — and this one, happening in one of the wisest and most compassionate signs in the zodiac, is an opportunity to stop acting in self-interest, and instead connect with your empathy and generosity. Then on Friday morning, a new astrological year begins as the sun moves into Aries. The next month is an ideal time for taking initiative and starting new things; even if you don’t have a plan in place yet, you can still take the first step. Finally on Friday afternoon, you can breathe a sigh of relief as Mercury retrograde ends, communication is less fraught, and your own thinking gets clearer again.
Aries Weekly Horoscope
The opportunities that come your way this week might at first seem small — so small as to be hardly worth pursuing. But the dramatic moments aren’t the only ones that count, and in the long run, some of your small actions might end up being the most meaningful. Although you might feel pressure to make more of your life, to be louder or to take bigger swings, remember that there’s no rush. Be patient with yourself; trust in your ability to start small and grow.
Taurus Weekly Horoscope
If you’ve felt isolated from your community lately, or just a bit out of step, it might now be time to reconnect. The key is to do so on your terms: If someone expects you to compromise on your values in order to fit in, or if they demonstrate that they don’t respect the things that make you unique, you don’t need to bend over backwards to please them. It’s better now to be present as your real, authentic self, and to trust that your friends — most of them, anyway — will get it.
Gemini Weekly Horoscope
You don’t always like to set major long-term goals — you don’t know where you’ll be tomorrow, let alone five or ten years from now, so you try to focus on what’s right in front of you. This week, though, is a good time to think bigger than that. Consider what you’d like your future to look like, and start making plans for how to get there. There’s always the possibility that you’ll change your mind and pivot to something new entirely — but that doesn’t mean your time spent working toward big goals is wasted.
Cancer Weekly Horoscope
It’s easy to convince yourself, lately, that you’re stuck, and there’s no hope of changing your life — all you can do is figure out how to accept it. But that’s probably not quite true — the world is constantly moving and evolving, and you have the capacity to grow right along with it. This week, especially, it’s important that you at least let yourself try to make a change. If you assume that everything is written in stone, then nothing will ever get any better. Allow yourself to dream, to make moves, to experiment, and suddenly anything becomes possible.
Leo Weekly Horoscope
You try to come across as fearless and self-assured, and sometimes, you really feel that way. But just because you try not to let others see your insecurities, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist; you face your share of self-doubt, just like anybody else. It can feel like the best response is to pretend that your fears don’t exist, imagining that if you ignore them, they’ll have no power over you. This week, though, you’ll be stronger if you acknowledge your insecurities but keep moving forward in spite of them.
Virgo Weekly Horoscope
This week, you might meet someone who ends up being important in your life later on — someone who understands you on a deep level, someone who can offer the support and compassion you’ve been missing, someone who will open doors and make your life more interesting. But that doesn’t mean sparks will fly right away — the connections you make right now might seem quiet and unremarkable in the beginning. They’ll need time to grow and develop, so be patient with new people rather than rushing to judgment.
Libra Weekly Horoscope
Shedding bad habits, or picking up good ones to replace them, isn’t easy. Even if you truly want to make a change, inertia can be a powerful force, and it can feel so much simpler to give up and go back to the way you’re used to doing things. This week, though, is an ideal time to make changes to your daily routines. Even if you’ve failed before, that doesn’t mean it’s useless to try again: This time around, it might finally stick.
Scorpio Weekly Horoscope
You don’t tend to prioritize fun in your life — forced to choose, you’d opt for a meaningful experience over a pleasant one, a stormy and passionate relationship over one that simply makes you feel good. But there’s only so much intensity a person can take — eventually, you need comfort; you need to remember how to enjoy yourself. This week, remember that not everything needs to be heavy and profound. While it’s important to be serious when the situation calls for it, remember that you deserve some lightheartedness, too.
Sagittarius Weekly Horoscope
Lately, it’s been easy to make decisions based on fear. You can’t help but imagine all kinds of worst-case scenarios, and you worry that you’d be foolish not to be ready for each one of them. Really, though, that kind of thinking probably only serves more to make you anxious than to meaningfully protect you. While it’s smart to prepare for the possibility that things might go wrong, it’s unhelpful to focus only on the potential negatives. Make plans based on what you want, too, not just what you’re afraid of.
Capricorn Weekly Horoscope
Sometimes, communication is so difficult that it hardly seems worth your time. Maybe the people around you are at fault — they’re not listening, or they’re nitpicking every word you say — or maybe the problem lies with you, as you struggle to find the right words to express what you mean. Either way, it can make you want to stop trying. But this week, give it another shot. People are all different from one another, which can make it hard to forge a genuine understanding, but if you recommit to making the effort, you’ll be glad you did.
Aquarius Weekly Horoscope
Some people seem constantly to be scrambling for more money and more resources — far beyond what they actually need. But you try not to get greedy; while you want to be reasonably comfortable, you’d generally rather have interesting or meaningful experiences than lots of material stuff. This week, take some time to check in with yourself and make sure you’re still on the right track. If you’ve gotten caught up in chasing things you don’t really need — or, conversely, if you’ve been lacking things you do — this is the time for a reset.
Pisces Weekly Horoscope
You feel a responsibility to care for your community, to help your friends to the extent that you’re able. When the people around you are happy, it’s easier for you to be happy, too. But sometimes, without quite realizing what you’re doing, you end up taking everyone else’s problems onto your shoulders — and then feeling like you’ve done something wrong when you fail to solve them all. This week, remember that you don’t have to be everything to everyone, and ask yourself how you want to spend your time, not how you think you “should.”
Read the weekly horoscopes for the week of March 8th. The weekly horoscopes or the week of March 23rd will be online next Sunday.
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