Astrologer and Cut columnist Claire Comstock-Gay reads the stars as Madame Clairevoyant.
Kiernan Shipka, a Scorpio.
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This morning, the Cancer moon — aided by Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus — gives you courage and sensitivity in equal parts. You don’t need to suppress your more difficult feelings in order to get through the day, or put on a tough front to impress others; rather, you can be honest about what’s really going on, knowing that you’re strong enough to handle it. Then in early afternoon, the moon enters Leo, making the later part of the day a good time to ask for what you really want — the more grandiose and ambitious, the better.
Most of the time, you try not to rely too heavily on inspiration: If you sat around waiting for the perfect idea to come into your head, you’d never get anything done. You’d rather put your faith in your own energy and willpower. At the same time, though, it’s important to stay open to it anyway, just in case. If you keep an open mind today, and even let yourself daydream a bit, you might have the sorts of big ideas and surprising revelations that clarify your path forward, that make everything fall into place.
While you understand that good communication requires effort, sometimes it feels like it requires too much of it. Lately, you feel like you’re constantly on the back foot, having to justify every word you say and explain every joke you make; you wish people understood you a bit better. So today might be a good day to branch out a bit, taking a chance on people outside your usual circles. You might meet people who understand you a bit more readily, without having to work so hard at it.
You don’t think of yourself as the sort of person who needs clear, well-defined plans all the time — for the most part, you’re comfortable playing things by ear and seizing unexpected opportunities when they arise. Your more organized friends might not understand this about you; your willingness to act without a plan sometimes stresses them out, makes them think that you’re much more chaotic or less motivated than you really are. But today, don’t worry about what everyone else thinks. There’s no reason to try to become more of a planner just to satisfy others.
In general, you try to keep your feelings to yourself; you don’t want to be dramatic, making your emotions everyone else’s problem. But today, all your feelings might be right on the surface — and the harder you try to bury them, the more uncomfortable you’ll be. Don’t waste your energy trying to seem small and inoffensive and normal: You’ve got emotions, and you’re allowed to act on them. You don’t need to do anything wild and dramatic, you just need an outlet, however small, for whatever you’re feeling.
Sometimes, life is unavoidably busy; other times, you end up making it more hectic than it needs to be by taking on more work or social obligations than you can comfortably handle. Today, do your best not to take on any more than you absolutely need to. In order for your creativity to thrive, you need time to sit around and daydream. You might worry that you’re being lazy or wasting your time, but try not to: Spending some time doing nothing can be an important part of the process.
You can often sense right away whether or not you’ll like somebody new; you know what qualities you like in a person, and which ones irritate you, and you don’t see the point in wasting time on people you already know just aren’t for you. Today, though, you might be surprised to form genuine, meaningful connections with people who haven’t made the best first impression. So for now, try to keep an open mind: That doesn’t mean ignoring your gut, just leaving space for people to prove that they’re more interesting than you thought.
It’s easy to assume that everyone else is judging you for the things you’re most insecure about. If you worry that you’re indecisive or lazy, you feel sure that everyone else sees you that way, too. If you feel like your life is going nowhere, you imagine that everyone else must see you as someone with no dreams or ambitions. Today, though, that probably couldn’t be further from the truth. Right now, others are likely seeing the best in you, rather than the worst — as long as you treat them well, your supposed flaws won’t even register.
A natural skeptic, you aren’t easy to impress. You know that people can exaggerate, appear much more competent or interesting than they really are; if people want your good opinion, they’ll have to prove themselves first. Sometimes, though, this attitude ends up causing you to miss out on potentially meaningful connections. While you don’t need to overcorrect to the point of becoming totally gullible, a bit more openness to people probably wouldn’t hurt. Today, especially, giving others the benefit of the doubt could lead to great things.
Today, you might seem to overreact to relatively small things: Benign comments from others could provoke an outsized reaction from you, or your own minor mistakes could seriously shake your confidence. It could be easy to beat yourself up for not being able to control your emotions or keep a better sense of perspective — but instead, try to view your feelings with compassion and curiosity. You can learn a lot about yourself, and get a better sense of what you need or what might currently be missing from your life, by paying attention to what sets you off.
Sometimes, you find yourself in conversations where nobody’s actually listening to anyone else — everyone is distracted by their own thoughts, or worrying about how they’re coming across, or busy formulating responses to what they imagine the other person is going to say. It’s normal to do this sometimes; genuinely listening to others sounds so simple, but it can be hard work. Even so, today, make an effort. If you stop getting ahead of yourself and assuming that you already know what people think, you might be positively surprised.
In general, you try to assess your plans and ideas logically — once feelings enter the picture, things get confusing. Today, though, you find that you can’t stop wanting something, even if you know that it’s not, objectively speaking, the “best” option; or else you’ll feel an inexplicable aversion to something that everyone else seems to love. Trust your instincts, whether or not you can justify why you feel this way. Chances are, you’re picking up on something real, even if you can’t yet explain it.
Sometimes, you wish you could be a bit less dreamy and a bit more practical. It’s not that you don’t value your imaginative side, just that you get the impression that others don’t. You’re realistic enough to understand that you have to live in the real world, and you imagine that it would be easier if you could be less idealistic. Today, though, don’t disregard your creativity. Right now, especially, it could be more useful than all the pragmatism in the world.
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