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Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of February 6

Laura Dern, an Aquarius. Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photos Getty

The week kicks off Sunday afternoon with a full moon in regal Leo. It’s likely to be a particularly tempestuous one: Under this moon, long-simmering feelings will demand to be expressed and unspoken desires won’t go ignored any longer. Don’t try to suppress your strong emotions. Right now, your need to express yourself, to be understood, outweighs your desire to be seen as “good.” Then, on Saturday morning, Mercury enters brainy, idealistic Aquarius, and new possibilities open up almost immediately. You won’t be trapped by convention, stifled by the way things have always been. This is a golden opportunity for you to experiment, to put your wildest ideas into practice, to dare to want more for yourself and the people you love.

Weekly Horoscope Aries

Aries Weekly Horoscope

You probably don’t think of yourself as an especially patient person. You’d rather take action than stop and think, would sooner tackle a problem head on than sit around arguing about strategy. There’s nothing wrong with this; your instincts are strong, and you’re right to trust them. Just remember that when you do slow down, your musings are exciting, generative, even fun. This week, give yourself time and space to dream up ideas without immediately trying to put them into motion, to enjoy the pleasures of brainstorming.

Weekly Horoscope Taurus

Taurus Weekly Horoscope

These days, it’s hard not to slide into total negativity, to despair of anything good ever happening again. You know, intellectually, that this can’t be true, but that’s hardly the point. This is about how you feel. Right now, you need a win, no matter how small, and so this week your task is to set about making that happen. Give yourself a goal that you know you can reach, cross a few items off your to-do list, call a friend who always makes you feel valued. Bigger wins are on the way. For now, keep your morale up with the small victories.

Weekly Horoscope Gemini

Gemini Weekly Horoscope

It’s both a gift and a curse to be as good as you are at adapting, at reading a room and adjusting to fit. It’s nice to make other people more comfortable, but sometimes you end up bending over backward, contorting yourself into positions that become painful when you try to hold them for too long. So, this week, don’t play the chameleon no matter how unnatural it may feel. Practice saying, “That won’t work for me,” or “I don’t think so,” or, very simply, “No.”

Weekly Horoscope Cancer

Cancer Weekly Horoscope

You find great joy in lifting up the people you love, celebrating their accomplishments, telling them, again and again, how wonderful you think they are. You’re much more modest when it comes to yourself. It strikes you as embarrassing, even indecent, to advertise your own achievements, so you downplay them instead. You wait and hope someone will come along and sing your praises. The trouble is, of course, that it doesn’t always happen. So, this week, stop quietly hoping for recognition and start asking for it. You’re allowed to be proud of yourself.

Weekly Horoscope Leo

Leo Weekly Horoscope

You’re dealing with tension this week between the side of you that wants to go big — to make grand statements and big promises, trusting that you can figure out the execution along the way — and the side that prefers to underpromise and overdeliver. It’s obvious to say that the best path lies somewhere in the middle, but in this case, it’s true. Overconfidence won’t make all your problems disappear, but then neither will making yourself small. Be brave enough to say what you want in the future and wise enough to know what you’re capable of at any given moment.

Weekly Horoscope Virgo

Virgo Weekly Horoscope

Some people love a blank slate, thrill at seeing limitless opportunities stretching out before them. For you, though, all that emptiness is more likely to feel stressful. You benefit from having a foundation to build on, a question to answer, even a provocation to react to. This week, though, if you want things to start happening for you, you can’t wait around for other people to make the first move or for the universe to give you an assignment. You’ll have to step into that wide-open future on your own. You can do it.

Weekly Horoscope Libra

Libra Weekly Horoscope

Lately, you’ve felt like your brain is receiving far more information than you can process. Whether due to overwork or relationship drama or anxiety over the state of the world, your thoughts have been muddled; you’ve been going in circles mentally. You feel a sense of duty to remember every fact, news item, piece of gossip you come across because you know all of it matters to someone. This week, though, relieve yourself of this burden. You do not have to do everything or even pay attention to everything. You can’t. It’s enough to focus on what matters to you.

Weekly Horoscope Scorpio

Scorpio Weekly Horoscope

You’re not a conformist by nature, but sometimes you wish you were. You imagine if your personality were less complicated, less contradictory, then everything would be easier. Relationships would be less trouble to navigate. Career opportunities would open up. If you could just be “normal,” be the same as other people, then you could shake the quiet, nagging sense that there’s something wrong with you. This week, it’s time to stop telling yourself that story. If life is tough right now, that’s because the world is chaotic and life is difficult, including for the people who seem normal and happy. Simply do your best; you’re not the problem.

Weekly Horoscope Sagittarius

Sagittarius Weekly Horoscope

You’ve been feeling unappreciated recently. More than usual. As if the people at work don’t value your contributions, as if potential romantic partners can’t see how great you are, or as if even your friends wouldn’t miss you if you moved out of town. When you’re in this kind of mood, it’s easy to think that you need to dramatically alter your personality, become brighter, cooler, more interesting, but that isn’t the solution. Trying to change yourself to be more palatable to others will make you feel only worse about yourself. Follow your own path and trust that it’ll bring you where you need to go in the end.

Weekly Horoscope Capricorn

Capricorn Weekly Horoscope

Sometimes the strategies you’ve become most comfortable with lose their effectiveness. Even if they worked well for you in the past — helping you to thrive, reach major goals, practically move mountains — at a certain point, it becomes clear they no longer do. This week, the best thing you can do is give yourself permission to move on. Think of it not as a defeat but as a beginning. You’re free to grow and evolve, to test out new ways of being — ones that might be better, more rewarding, more authentic. The world is changing all the time, so let yourself change along with it.

Weekly Horoscope Aquarius

Aquarius Weekly Horoscope

More than most, you have a tendency to downplay your own growth and achievements. Not because you’re trying to be modest or coy. No, it’s because when you spend your time thinking about lofty topics or far-off futures or the infinite cosmos, then everything in your own life pales in significance. While there’s value in having that kind of perspective, of knowing how small you are in the grand scheme of things, it’s also important to give yourself credit for how hard you’ve worked and how far you’ve come.

Weekly Horoscope Pisces

Pisces Weekly Horoscope

There are times when you fear the intensity of your own appetites. You worry that it’s dangerous to want anything too much, that you’re leaving yourself open to heartbreak and chaos. But while it can be useful to examine your desires with a critical eye (sometimes what we want most in the moment will cause only trouble in the long run), there’s nothing inherently wrong with wanting. You’re allowed to yearn, to dream, to hope for what you don’t have yet. You don’t have to settle for complacency.

Read the weekly horoscopes for the week of January 30. The weekly horoscopes for the week of February 13 will be online next Sunday.

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Madame Clairevoyant: Horoscopes for the Week of February 6