Your emotions are buoyed this week by an unknown force. In some ways you feel like the magic and energy you‘ve been experiencing throughout July is waning a bit as the summer dwindles, and we begin shifting into another new season. You know the time for play is coming to its end, and there‘s some melancholy associated with that. Early in the week you‘re feeling pedantic, needing to work a lot harder to accomplish your goals. There‘s that sense that if you don‘t work now you‘ll suffer later, so the pressure is on to get things done. By mid-week you‘re feeling the itch for the weekend to arrive already, and you want to let loose a little bit and live a little. You‘re still focused on tasks at hand but less so because your mind is wandering. By the end of the week you‘re shoved back into that work mode, mostly because it seems you‘re handed some last minute deadlines and in order to enjoy the weekend you have to get things done. It‘s mostly a getting stuff done week, so much so that you don‘t even notice the big shift from Cancer to Leo in the sky because you‘re buried under a pile of work. Ascendant: Stuck in get stuff done mode.

Why does the magic have to end? Why does the romance always have to fizzle? Why do you always end up having lonely moments where you‘re not sure what people think of you? I think we all go through these emotions at one time or another, you have the pleasure of doing it while also trying to keep that smile on your face for the day job, or the relatives, or whomever you encounter throughout your week. Earlier in the week you‘re feeling very woe is me, very much like nobody cares about how hard you work, the things you do, there‘s no recognition or rewards for it, and you‘re just a pawn being moved around a chess set in life. By mid-week you‘re feeling like grabbing the spotlight and being the center of everyone‘s life, showing off a little and doing what you can to get people‘s attention. By the end of the week you‘re not feeling lonely anymore, but like you want to take the bull by the horns and live life to the fullest. Your energy is restored! Ascendant: Taking charge!

You‘re having one of those weeks where you don‘t want to deal with people. You‘re a little sick of all the faces you have to show to the world in various situations and circumstances and you‘re tired of all the game playing. You know that others play games as much as you do, but you‘re better at them and you always win and it‘s the lack of challenges that has got you down lately. You wish things wouldn‘t be the same old, same old, and you‘ve tried so many things in life, different ways of doing things, different ways to live. You‘re done with experimenting and you‘d really like to lie down in a field or on the beach, throw a towel over your head and relax. Early in the week you‘re feeling disillusioned, like why should you ever bother with the people around you, the work in front of you, what is the point of this? By mid-week that hasn‘t shifted so much as become a braying alarm in your mind telling you to run, run, run! Get out, change things, don‘t let yourself get stagnant and don‘t be type cast! Don‘t let yourself be another number! By the end of the week we‘ve successfully shifted into Leo, and you‘re feeling like it‘s not the work you dislike, but the situation, and your creativity takes over finding ways to make things more interesting. Ascendant: Brainstorming.

You‘ve moved into auto pilot mode this week because sometimes going through the motions is better than feeling the way you feel. It‘s been an emotional month for you, with almost too much sensory exposure and not enough alone time for yourself. You find that if you don‘t recharge your batteries every now and again you end up resembling those wind up dolls with only a few prerecorded lines to say. And nobody likes an overwhelmed, overloaded cancer who doesn‘t have the emotional depth and nurturing/healing words of wisdom for everyone to soak up. We need our cancers to be healed themselves so they can teach the rest of us how to take care of ourselves half as well as they do. Earlier in the week you‘ll be running through those motions, doing what people need you to do but not what you want to do. By mid-week you may have a break down and need to take a day off work for yourself. You need a personal day at some point this week. By end of week you‘re back to the grind but hopefully with renewed energy. If you don‘t take that personal/sick day you‘re going to feel so run down by Friday that all you‘ll do all weekend is sleep. Ascendant: Replenish those energies.

You feel like a period of epic growth is coming your way, a time when you‘ll figure out yourself and will want to pour yourself into new projects with ease and exuberance after suffering a period of stagnation and instability. You‘re feeling more capable and optimistic about the future, and are willing to do what it takes to hit the goals you set out for yourself a long time ago. If you feel any qualms about the moves you want to make in your life, now is the time to iron those out, or you‘ll jump but not far enough to hit the target and falling back to where you‘ve been is going to feel like hitting rock bottom a second time. Early in the week you‘re making the shifts and changes needed to achieve your goals. By mid-week you‘re taking the necessary strides to make those goals a reality, and by the end of the week you‘ve achieved your desired results. There‘s a sense of accomplishment for some and a sense of bitterness for others depending on the outcomes. Sometimes even though you reach a goal it‘s not what you thought it would be. Be sure it‘s what you want. Ascendant: Be certain of yourself.

You‘re just unsure this week of what direction you want your life to go in. For someone who is always so determined, clear minded and strong you don‘t often waver on your overall goals in life, however because of the skills you possess in a wide variety of industries and hobbies, you‘re constantly being given offers that seem tempting and could change or alter the course of your entire life. Some of these offers seem benign, but for you any small change is a big one in your life and you have to consider all of the consequences and ramifications of making even the tiniest change in your well-guarded routine. Early in the week you‘re in full analyzation mode, wanting to make sure that what you‘re doing with your life is what you want. This kind of pulls the focus off of people as you have a knack for being able to step outside yourself and look at your world objectively. By the middle of the week you‘re feeling that there‘s need for change, but not rapid or sudden change, it has to be gradual so you can get used to the idea before it happens all at once. You also have some accolades you want to make before you take on anything new in your life, because there are certain things you don‘t want to change. By the end of the week you‘ve made up your mind and you‘re willing to try a few new things. Ascendant: Give something new a chance.

There‘s something to be said about not wasting the magic that life can create. Even though summer is dwindling down and seasons are changing, sometimes you have to seize the day and let the magic flow through you. It‘s one of those times when having opportunities that don‘t involve the usual grind of work, responsibilities, errands, etc. you should take it. This could be an impromptu beach day with the kids and a friend and their kids. It could mean taking a drive out somewhere to pick up something you‘ve been looking for, for a long time. Or you could just put the "gone fishing" sign on the door and head out for the great unknown. Early in the week you‘re feeling the itch of being able to get away for magical things to happen in your life. By mid-week that itch has only grown and some of you will be taking the plunge and taking the time off work to catch the perfect glimpse of a moose on the side of the road on the way to the cabin or lake. By the end of the week you‘re about ready to relax, view those long sunsets, and sit in the peace of nature around you. Ascendant: Enjoy all the little moments.

Sometimes you don‘t know what‘s wrong with people and you really can‘t care about them anymore. There‘s only so much guidance and criticism you can give a person before it‘s time to give them the heave ho from your life. You‘re in a place where you want to give a lot of people the heave ho and you realize that‘s probably harsh of you, but you‘ve just hit a point where you‘re not upset about it, just fed up with the way other people choose to live their lives. Early in the week you‘re a lot of grr and you refuse to really talk to people or tell them what‘s up with you. You‘re in that, even if I tell you to do it the right way you‘re still going to do it wrong mode, and so you just let the people around you screw up without bothering to warn them. By mid-week you‘ve incurred some extra work as a result of not stopping people from doing the stupid thing they were going to do and by the end of the week you‘re digging yourself out of the colossal mess you‘ve created for yourself. You conclusion is that stupid people need you, because how would they function without you? Ascendant: No seriously, what would anyone do without you?

You like the lack of competition, when there‘s something that you can have that nobody else can have, and when it‘s exactly the thing you want and it‘s within reach and all you have to do is stretch your fingers up to get it. You like not having to worry about someone else snatching that thing away from you and having to once again wait for your next opportunity to have the things you want in life. This is largely because you don‘t always go for the thing you really want. You often settle for something less, something you think you should want, something that‘s easier to get because you‘re not ambitious, or motivated enough to fight for the bigger things. Early in the week you‘re feeling like the coast is clear and you can make a beeline for this goal, which is great because you feel confident, and able, and like nothing is going to stop you. By mid-week you have a little setback with some doubt, or an obstacle being in your way but your resolve hasn‘t waned at all. By the end of the week you‘ve come many steps closer to getting what you want, and you might even have achieved what you want if it was something you were working on for a while. Keep your confidence up this week, because you‘ll need it. Ascendant: Go for it.

You‘re feeling inspired and creative this week, like a lightning rod has hit you and given you some superhuman ability to be inspired, motivated and to take initiative. You‘re flying through projects with speed and agility this week, able to keep a calm focus about your work that impresses your boss and even your co-workers. You‘re making some very good allies in the work force this week that may have been strained in previous encounters. Early in the week you‘re like the energizer bunny and nobody can keep up with the level of productivity and forward thinking you‘re doing. This is one of those levels that you prefer because it makes you feel amazing to be so good at what you do that you knock everyone‘s socks off. By mid-week you‘re taking things up another notch, which is making some people feel like they have to give you an award for all the hard work and making others who don‘t work half as hard as you feeling like chumps for not being as good as you. Your spirits are high as you end out the week on an epic achievement, getting praise and pats on the back for a job well done. You‘re tired, but at least you have a day on the weekend to rest and relax before getting back at it the following week. Ascendant: Who said slow and steady wins the race?

This is one those blah work weeks where you wish you could be out enjoying the sun and fun like some people but you got stuck with the short stick and now you‘re working. Even then, if you did manage to get out there, you‘re still the one stuck doing all the work, making the plan, and then getting sand stuck in your shoes and so on. You‘re having all of the bad luck this weekend and getting all of the stupid tasks you don‘t want to get. People tend to be seeing you as more of a servant, chauffeur, babysitter, sanitation worker, than what your actual job is. And while your job might not be all that glamorous to begin with it‘s still the thing you‘re good at, and you wish people would use you for the skills you‘re good at instead of all the other things that don‘t really make you who you are. Early in the week you‘re feeling taxed and underappreciated, wanting to know why you have to deal with this stuff and why can‘t someone else do it? By midweek you‘re feeling a little better, but only marginally. End of the week you‘re ready to toss yourself in the trash because you feel like nobody understands your worth. Ascendant: Ungrateful people . . .

You want to have one of those epic bad weeks where your emotions get the best of you and you sit in your room and cry about how messed up the world is, but the problem with that is that you can‘t. So you‘re having a bad week but it could be worse because you could be refusing to leave your bed, and at the very least you‘re still getting up and running errands, going to work, taking care of the kids, whatever you normally have to do during your week even though you‘d rather wonder why dreams can‘t come true and why you always feel like reality is the worst thing the Earth could have invented, and why can‘t you just sleep and dream forever? Early in the week you‘re a sloth, doing the bare minimum of what is necessary to get you through the day. You sleep more, get up late, and just cannot get infused with motivation. By mid-week you‘ve slipped back into a healthy routine and you‘re feeling a little better about how things are, but you still drift off into daydreams and fantasties and you still want the opportunity to enact your dreams, and you‘re not sure when those days are going to come. By the end of the week you‘re making some very realistic plans to have some very fantastical fun (I hope you‘re going to Vegas) and that‘s where you land throughout your weekend. (It‘s only money right?) Have fun! Ascendant: Time to plan the magic.