Your Weekly Horoscopes by Madame Clairevoyant: November 23–29
On Thursday night, Saturn ends its five-month retrograde and starts moving forward again in Pisces. While the planet of discipline and responsibility was retrograde, there’s a good chance that you recognized ways you were cutting corners, avoiding your problems, or relaxing your boundaries; now, it’s time to use that knowledge to make any necessary changes to your life. Then on Saturday afternoon, Mercury retrograde also ends. If communication has felt strained lately, it’s likely to get easier now; if your thoughts have been muddled, you’ll find some clarity. Mercury retrograde is an ideal time to reflect on your life, habits, and relationships; now that it’s over, you can put those new insights into practice.
Aries Weekly Horoscope
With all of your energy, you tend to get bored quickly. Some people seem happy enough just to sit around thinking, but you’re happiest when you’re in action — it hardly matters what you’re doing, as long as you’re doing something. But this week, try to stop rushing around so much, filling your life with busywork, random activities, and unfulfilling social engagements. If you can slow down and spend some time with your feelings — even the weird ones, the ones you aren’t proud of — you’ll come out stronger and more centered on the other side.
Taurus Weekly Horoscope
You have plenty of friends and a vibrant social life — but, nevertheless, there are still times when you feel a bit out of place. You get the sense that nobody else sees the world the way you do — that your friends might tolerate your quirks, but they don’t really get you. It can make you feel like you need to hide your real personality in order to be loved. But this week, that might be the worst approach you can take — you deserve to be appreciated for your authentic self, and nobody can do that if you won’t let them see who you really are.
Gemini Weekly Horoscope
No matter how badly you want something, you generally try not to get your hopes up. Rather than single-mindedly pursuing a particular goal that you might never achieve, it seems smarter to stay flexible, open to whatever opportunities might come your way. Sometimes, this attitude serves you well, but other times, it just allows you to hedge your bets and avoid taking any real risks. This week, you’ll be happiest if you actually honor your ambitions: Things might not work out, but you owe it to yourself to try.
Cancer Weekly Horoscope
As much as possible, you try to protect the people you love from pain and heartache, from stressful situations, even from minor, everyday unpleasantness. You know that life can’t be all sunshine, all the time, but still you do your best to minimize the hard parts. At a certain point, though, this drive to defend those you care about can take over your life, leaving you no time to pursue other goals. The people in your life are stronger than you give them credit for; they won’t fall apart if you take some time for yourself.
Leo Weekly Horoscope
Sometimes, you worry that you’re too demanding, that you want too much from life. While other people seem happy enough with what they have, able to find satisfaction in the small things, you feel like you’re always exhausting yourself as you strive to build a more exciting or glamorous or just purposeful life. There’s nothing wrong with having big dreams, with refusing to settle for mediocrity — just remember that even the most fulfilling life will have its bland moments, so you might as well try to embrace them.
Virgo Weekly Horoscope
Every so often, your social obligations start to feel overwhelming. The people around you make so many demands on your time, and even if they do it out of love, it can still get to be too much. This week, remember that you don’t have to go along with what others want from you. You’re allowed to put limits on what you’re willing to give, to protect your alone time, to simply say no. In other words, you’re allowed to play an active role in shaping your relationships, ensuring that they meet your needs.
Libra Weekly Horoscope
When you’re not sure how to deal with a problem, it’s tempting to put it off until later, trusting — or just hoping — that inspiration will come, that things will get easier, or that the problem will quietly fade away. But there’s a difference between strategically waiting for the right moment and just procrastinating. The longer you avoid an issue, the more intimidating it begins to seem. So this week, stop waiting and simply do something. You might not manage to solve everything, but taking action will restore your confidence and drive.
Scorpio Weekly Horoscope
Intellectually, you understand that making mistakes helps you grow, that overcoming challenges makes you stronger. Yet while you constantly seem to be going through difficult experiences, it can be hard to see evidence of anything good coming from it. This week, though, you might begin to see real proof of the ways you’ve grown. You’ll catch glimpses of a stronger, wiser, more confident version of yourself. And if you’re noticing positive changes in yourself, you can trust that the people around you see them, too.
Sagittarius Weekly Horoscope
Lately, you’ve felt haunted by the thought that you haven’t lived up to your potential — that if you had only tried harder, or shown a bit more courage, you’d be living a happier life today. But while it’s true that life would be different if you’d made other choices, that doesn’t necessarily mean it would be better. And in any case, dwelling on what might have been isn’t particularly relevant or useful. The fact is that you didn’t take any of those other paths, and you’re not living any of those other lives — you’re living this one, and if you’re not happy, you can still change it.
Capricorn Weekly Horoscope
While some people seem happy to take risks on their wildest, most out-of-the-box schemes, you’re generally a bit more cautious. It’s not that you don’t have big dreams of your own, just that you’re not interested in investing your time in projects that seem destined to fail. This week, though, try to have a little more faith in yourself. If you preemptively discard your most creative ideas by telling yourself that they’re too unconventional, then they really will be destined to fail. But if you take your ideas a bit more seriously, and if you’re brave enough to at least try, you never know what might come of it.
Aquarius Weekly Horoscope
In general, you find abstract concepts more interesting than concrete ones; mulling over complex theories tends to be more rewarding than dealing with real-world details. Sometimes, though, you get so caught up in your lofty, big-picture ideas that you lose sight of what’s right in front of you. This week, try to make things a bit simpler for yourself. Instead of trying to come up with impressive theories about the world, focus on small, tangible actions. Brilliant insights and complex plans are nice, but just living in the moment and putting one foot in front of the other can be enough right now.
Pisces Weekly Horoscope
Plenty of your problems can reasonably be blamed on the people around you: If others had given you the support you needed, if they’d been less selfish and more understanding, then everything might have turned out differently. But although life hasn’t been fair to you, dwelling on it this week will only leave you feeling stuck. Focus on using what you have, rather than lamenting what you lack. You’re talented and smart, and you deserve to move forward and put your strengths to good use.
Read the weekly horoscopes for the week of November 16th. The weekly horoscopes for the week of November 30th will be online next Sunday.
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