WEEK OF August 7 - 1 3, 2023
Your kindheartedness usually colors your communication, Pisces, but the volatile skies on Wednesday, August 9, could bring you to the brink of a meltdown. A stressful square between the dramatic Leo Sun in your sixth house of productivity and organization and disruptor Uranus in your communication court could overload your circuits and cause you to crash and burn. Before it gets that far, recognize the warning signs and slow your roll. Stop multitasking and putting out fires that don’t belong to you. You have plenty of energy and are on a quest to get the situation in hand. But are you assessing it realistically? Start figuring out which tasks you can bump down on your priority list, which you can outsource and which you can collaborate on. Or here’s a novel concept: Which can you forget about altogether? Now try looking at your own role in this extreme busyness. Do you think you have something to prove, Pisces? If that’s the case, think again! Don’t be afraid to renegotiate some deliverables and deadlines…and to reveal yourself to be a mere mortal. You’re heading for burnout if you insist on playing superhero. Do as much as you can, as well as you can. Then when you’re about to run out of steam, tap the brakes. If you have to pass on an assignment your heart wasn’t into to begin with, so be it!
And don your inspector goggles, Fish. This week, you have a blessed opportunity to audit a few important areas of your life. And the bonus is that anything you find lacking can quickly be improved. Begin with this crucial question: Does the structure of your life support your happiness? For example, do you have enough time outside of work for other essential pursuits such as health, love and self-care? Don’t shy away from the unvarnished truth. Before you can make a change, you need to get real about where you’re coming up short in the satisfaction department. There’s no hurry to find a solution to the problem you discover, Pisces. Especially if you’re tempted to use a quickie lifehack. With the Sun and Venus retrograde moving closer and closer together, the answer could involve deleting draining commitments from your calendar.
This weekend, the Sun and backpedaling Venus align, as they do every 18 months, forming an inferior conjunction. Venus vanishes from our view for a short spell and shifts from an evening star to a morning star. While you count down the days to her reappearance on August 18, sift through the emotions that led you to keep spinning your wheels. Does guilt play a part? Or do you have a misplaced sense of duty? It may take a while for you to home in on these issues and set yourself free.
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If you’re back in the office a few days a week and are still loving your WFH time, talk to your boss about making it a permanent arrangement rather than a temporary, transitional schedule. And if you’ve fallen off the wellness wagon recently, don’t beat yourself up. Just climb back on with a personal trainer, a package of Pilates classes or a new streaming workout. But bear in mind that Venus is a big proponent of pleasure. Skip the brutal “you can rest when you’re dead” modalities and find exercise that actually feels good!
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