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Your horoscope this week: February 28, 2021
With the full moon in Virgo right behind us, it is not unlikely that we are still feeling all those full moon feelings. The full moons have a great reputation and this was no exception. In fact, in addition to all we can think about astrologically filled moons, February 26 marked the beginning of the Lunar New Year or, Tết, the year of the ox. Although it is not particularly graceful to map the lessons of the ox in Westernized astrology, it is useful to recognize how a moon that witnesses celebrations in its name and receives offerings is a spiritually potent celestial body. To understand how a full moon in Virgo can specifically affect you, it is useful to find out where it lands on your natal chart and what other planets it can represent. For something a little more flexible, it is worth reading your particular rising sign! Aries Sun and Aries RisingThe week after the full moon shows you alternating between the obligations you did and the dream projects you just want to return to. The muddy waters of the Pisces season certainly do not help much, casting a sweet light on any dream space, be it a bed, an easel or the arms of a lover who has not yet shown him his humanity. Sometimes the best way to show your commitments and the people with whom you have made them is by honoring your need for a dream space. If you’re feeling stressed, take the time specifically to imagine – just you and your daydreams right in the middle of the day.Illustration by Stefhany LozanoTaurus Sun & Taurus RisingYou don’t need to get pleasure, you can just like some people drink water when they’re thirsty . Sure, we all know that you have a reputation for leaning heavily to shine and recline, but you tend to combine indulgences with a heavy dose of impossibly high standards for yourself, like a workhorse with a velvet bridle. . This week, if you’re trying to justify what brings you rest, giving a quick account of your hours and gaining power, resist! Believe that you have earned enough to win a night on the couch – or even a day! Instead of examining your productivity, focus on what you produce when money is not the driving force. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoGemini Sun & Gemini RisingIt is not bad to want what is familiar, to bury yourself in bed with an animal and end the day. The week after the full moon will make you anxious for comforts and familiar places, even if the form they take has less to do with the environment and more with the people who help you feel at home. These impulses may seem a little against your ambitions this month, your plan to put yourself out there and open some new doors for you. In reality, you will find that taking some risks, or even some risks, and exposing yourself emotionally is much less frightening when you are doing it from a place where you feel safe and supported – even if you do. what you are doing is writing arguments from your strong blanket! Illustration by Stefhany LozanoCancer Sun & Cancer Rising Almost nobody practices what they preach 100 percent of the time. Especially when they feel vulnerable or when circumstances encourage anything but. It is unattainable to feel confident about different parts of yourself when everything around you wants you to believe the opposite – even if you are part of so-called radical circles. In fact, being part of communities that preach a kind of ethos, but rarely exhibit this belief in practice, is even more disorienting. It is difficult to know why we are uneasy when people around us say they are investing in our comfort … and yet. You forgive the people you respect, don’t you, for your moments of weakness? Shouldn’t your practice of respecting yourself and your growth include the same kind of grace and relativity? Illustration by Stefhany LozanoLeo Sun & Leo RisingWhen you’re used to extremes, it’s hard to get out of them. It is easier to say that you are tired of the way a situation makes you feel and more difficult to explain the fact that you continue to choose the situation. What if this week, instead of figuring out whether you want to jump down the rock – or never swim again – you take the time to sit soberly with what this kind of decision-making does for you? What attracts you to connections or commitments that bring out equal parts of self-protective avoidance and modest attachment? You don’t have to come to conclusions, and you certainly don’t have to run away from them. What is important is to try your best to see your emotional world as a system and start to recognize that it is a system of which you are an active part. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoVirgo Sun and Virgo RisingThe week after the full moon in your sign can find you strive to maintain the balance between what you do at work and what you do to feel part of your community – assuming there is some separation there . If they are the same, consider the fact that the people who said “do what you love” were not “productive” doing what they claimed to “love” during a global crisis. Of course, you must keep all the balls in the air – you always find a way – but at what cost? When you are done juggling and have time to reflect, consider the following: although self-satisfaction is a feeling worth pursuing, it is fleeting. Do a little less, rest that does not include other people, open up for a peaceful day. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoLibra Sun & Libra RisingWhen we feel insecure or uncomfortable, it is difficult to keep things in order. Dates, plans, the contracts we make with other people, the fine print start to get confused. One mistake could be the universe giving you an easy way out, or it could be a complete stroke of luck. The important thing is to recognize that we make more mistakes when we don’t feel strong. And it’s hard not to be disappointed. Disappointment is a valid feeling and if you listen carefully, you can learn a lot about yourself. Disappointment is proof, for example, that you have expectations and attachments, which are signs of self-love. Disappointment can teach you what you want for yourself, and if you don’t despise or reject it, it can teach others what you need to feel respected and cared for. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoScorpio Sun & Scorpio RisingHope from us can just chat. It is a feeling, yes, but it is also a practice. You build it slowly and try your best to fix it on something that can stand the test of time. Sometimes, hope doesn’t look like what you expected, so you have to leave room for the possibility that a number of things can nurture hope in you. This week, when you yearn for that great feeling that there is something good on the horizon, some benevolent strength that can take you from here to there, try to remember what helped you access that feeling as a child. For example, you may have drawn a lot and imagined your future with the images you made. It would be good for you, then, to give the child within you some free time to draw. Whatever comes closest to these first practices of hope is more than good enough for now. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoSagittarius Sun & Sagittarius RisingMaybe, as long as you can remember, you’ve been in the frenzy of “pretend until you get it”. Even if, truth be told, you pretended very little. In fact, despite your persistent fear of never matching, you have trained yourself well enough to not only match, but to outdo many of your colleagues. What is it, then, that keeps you from feeling that you have earned your place? Could there be anything comforting about continuing to see yourself as less equipped or qualified? This week you will have many opportunities to reach your maximum capacity in whatever position you are in. Take the challenge, Sagittarius. You will find that the more you allow yourself to feel that you are in the right place, the more certain that place will be. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoCapricorn Sun & Capricorn RisingIt seems that what worked for you before just isn’t going well today. Of course, just by sheer determination, you can and will get to the end of any track you’re running on before changing to a track that looks surprisingly similar. But aren’t you tired? Don’t you want to find another way of doing things, one that doesn’t make you feel physically and emotionally destroyed? Of course you do! And I’m sure that if you were here, I would say something like, “If I could, I would say”. Well, what if there were some things that you didn’t know you could do? What if, to improve what looks familiar, you need to be a little uncomfortable? You are never too old to learn something new, dear Capricorn, and you are certainly far from finishing your classes. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoAquarius Sun & Aquarius RisingIn which Ashanti was right: dreams are real and all you need to do is just believe. The first step is both the most difficult and the simplest part – the one where you recognize what you want and give yourself permission to want. Of course there is magic in it, how could there not be? Even more so if you write and give a name. A name brings something to life and repeating it makes it enchanting. This week, when you feel a vision knocking on your mind’s door, let it in. Get to know her and her needs. What would it take for this vision to come to life? Why not now? Nowadays, you will find that you have more time than you know how to use. You can spend it practically, wisely or by doing magic. Illustration by Stefhany LozanoPisces Sun & Pisces RisingI promise you that I’m not trying to sound like anyone’s dad, but wouldn’t you feel a little better if you cleaned your room? Well, maybe not your literal room (although it can’t hurt), but the rooms you call yours, the rooms you make with other people and the rooms you live in when you work and create. Maybe it’s time to sort things out and label them for good measure. Feeling free and unimpeded may have led you on this path, but the feelings you developed along the way are what kept you here and oppressed you. Why not call it what it is and fix things? You will feel better when you can see the ground below you and recognize the shape of things. You will feel better when the air has space to pass you, even if it means storing some things for a different season or giving them away completely.Illustration by Stefhany LozanoHow do you see it? How about a little more kindness R29, right here? Obsessed with Astrology? Thanks, TikTok – & COVIDO which means the Full Moon in Virgo? The Great Earth trine will change everything