Some of you have short little fuses that go off when things don‘t go your way, like pew, pew, pew, little shots to your ego that make it difficult to get through your day without gritting your teeth. Some of you will hunker down and figure out ways to do a better job while others will wallow in self-pity hoping it makes them feel better about who they are. Needless to say, the go getter Aries are the ones who are going to have the better week, especially since there‘s nothing going on in the sky until the weekend. Earlier in the week you‘re all feeling rather insecure about your capabilities both at work and on the home front, you feel threatened in some way by others who can do a better job than you. By the end of the week however some of you have succumbed to those feelings and are brooding about how you can cheat to gain the upper hand, while others of you have achieved a sense of pride by working harder. The overall result is that some of you will have a brilliant weekend of basking in the glow of your accomplishments, and comingling with the new moon in Aquarius in a harmonious way, whereas the brooders will simply feel the new moon as another onset of monthly failure. You have the power to choose your destiny this week, use it wisely. Ascendant: Choose your adventure.

It feels like massive preparations are underway this week with the wheels turning and ears burning and smoke coming out of that pretty little head of yours. Whatever plans you‘ve got cooking behind those eyes, there‘s passion and determination behind it. Some of your well laid plans are the ones that start out as sexy little secrets, fantasies you keep to yourself, or build on over the course of days. Sure, you‘re going to pay attention to work this week too, yeah, yeah, bore me with something else, but the real entertainment for you this week is the tantalizing ideas brewing in your mind. Astrologically there isn‘t much going on, but Mercury in Capricorn is making you the master of your own art, where Mars in Scorpio is giving you a strong Alpha energy you can‘t shake. Earlier in the week you‘re like the Cheshire cat with a big grin on your face, you‘re not one to share your fantasies with coworkers so people wonder what the heck is up with you. By the end of the week and into the weekend you‘re set on your plans, and with the new moon on Sunday you‘re ready to put things in motion. Resistance from the people your fantasy involves may be your downfall in this instance, so beware that even the best laid plans have flaws. Ascendant: Big wheels keep on turning!

When there‘s a fork in the road you‘re always more apt to choose the easy way out, rather than going down the hard road which is often longer, but more rewarding in the end. Sometimes your life resembles a game of Snakes & Ladders, where you climb and climb towards your goals and then when you‘re about to get somewhere you encounter a snake and it‘s back to square one for you. While the game is always afoot in your world, you find this week that you‘re not winning as many arguments or facing as many battles with the intelligent grace you usually possess. This week you stumble through interactions with others, likely because that Mercury in Capricorn energy is making you question what you think you know about the people around you. Mars in Scorpio isn‘t helping, turning you temperamental when it comes to things like your personal power. You feel like your foundations have been shaken up a little, and getting used to the way things are hasn‘t been easy for you. The weekend has you taking the edge off with friends, forgiving your own shortcomings and knowing that better times are on the way.Ascendant: Things can only get better from here.

When you can‘t even trust yourself, you can‘t trust anyone else. You‘re ready to go into super turtle shell mode and shut out most of the world, except the people you have to work with. Even then, at work you‘ll do what Adam Sandler did in that movie Click, where you go on autopilot around people, surviving the motions but not being there in any mental capacity. This won‘t be easy if your job requires a lot of thinking, but if it‘s like ninety percent of positions out there, the work should be autonomous and easy to do. This will leave you to evenings of enjoying your own bed and hot cocoa and all the other creature comforts you need in order to feel like a functioning human. Earlier in the week you‘re questioning your own motives, wondering why you do the things you do to yourself, but towards the end of the week you‘re feeling like the Groundhog who came out of its hole on Tuesday, and you‘re hoping if you poke your head out over the weekend that you‘ll see some sunshine in your life. People do want to believe in you, they want to include you, you have to want to include yourself in the world around you. That‘s how life happens, you live it.Ascendant: When you can‘t trust you, trust nobody.

If you thought life was going to get easier in February, think again. You‘re once again dealing with people who see the outer you as reflection of your inner self, which isn‘t true at all. People like making assumptions about Leos all the time, they think they‘re angry, overbearing, and arrogant, which might be the case if they‘re showcasing their confidence, leadership and assertive sides, but it‘s like one person says tomato, another says tomato. Confidence can be arrogance, and overbearing can be leadership and anger can be assertion. Those that don‘t know the real you don‘t know that on the inside you‘re compassionate, strong willed and you don‘t take shit from nobody. It‘s okay this week if you lose your shit and start telling someone off, they probably deserve it for stereotyping the person you are instead of learning things about you. It‘s frustrating that people like this still exist in today‘s society, but you can‘t always like everyone you encounter and as the saying goes, you can‘t please everyone either. Earlier in the week you‘re feeling the onset of persecution, being wrongly judged and by Wednesday you‘re ready to give this person a piece of your mind. It might have some impact within your circle, but the others who know you will come to your aid, so whoever is starting this pissing contest is going to lose. By the end of the week and into the weekend you‘ve had it with the way people treat you and you‘re cutting off those who don‘t serve a purpose in your life anymore. Ascendant: Sometimes you have to let go.

If you thought the methodical approach would work, you‘re wrong. This week you have to take a direct and swift approach because if you take your time, someone else is going to shift gears and turn your life upside down in an instant. I mean yes, there is always a time and place for the slow and steady approach, but when you‘re involved in a race whereby you‘re the tortoise and someone else is the hare, you have to up your game and stop stalling. See the information for what it is, see the goal and the finish line, and force yourself to get there. The only person who is better than you is you, and you‘ve got plenty of reasons to believe in yourself. Earlier in the week you‘re feeling outdone by others, which is something you‘re not used to, on the one hand you feel proud, but on the other you worry where this will take you. By midweek there‘s some jealousy happening, you‘re worried that if you don‘t take more initiative, you‘ll lose out on something and someone else will take it from you. By the end of the week and into the weekend you‘re still concerned that you‘re losing the overall battle, but that there‘s a long way to go in the war. Ascendant: Sometimes life is a battlefield.

If there was some indication this month that you‘re spreading yourself too thin, Venus in Capricorn is it. You want to showcase your practical side, and prove to everyone that you can do what you set out to do, tackle all the tasks and manage all the projects. The problem is, when you sign up to do everything sometimes you forget to do the essential things for yourself. Self-care is just as important as being there for everyone and agreeing to do the work you feel everyone is expecting from you. Remember that you signed up for the work, so these are in some ways self-imposed expectations. Also look at the things you‘ve agreed to do, are they optional, can you forgo some of those things in order to focus on down time, meditation, night out with friends and some laughs? Maybe you can lessen the load on your shoulders a little and realize that even if you let one person down all you‘re doing is transferring the work to another person, you‘re giving someone else an opportunity to showcase their skills, their worth, and their expertise. You don‘t have to be the one to do it all. By the end of the weekend when the new moon hits you‘ll see what it is you need to give up in order to move forward and be happy. Ascendant: You can‘t do it all.

When you start something you don‘t want to stop until it‘s finished. In some ways this is a fantastic trait that allows you to complete projects, but in some ways it‘s a hindrance because you can‘t do too many things at once. It lessens your ability to multitask which for some workforces is a requirement. You may be asked to wear a lot of different hats this week, and you might not like all of them, you may also believe some of them don‘t fit in with your philosophies of life, or who you are as an individual, but the truth is, if the hat fits you have to wear it, and if it‘s a skill you possess, it‘s okay to use it. Sometimes we can‘t always focus on the things we want, sometimes we have to do the things we don‘t want so that when the time comes and we‘ve done all the grunt work in the world, the reward that comes is that much sweeter. I mean unless you‘ve been the garbage man, how can you ever be grateful once you‘re the manager? Those who have never worked their way up will never understand. This weekend when the new moon hits, you‘ll feel thankful that you have work to do, some of us aren‘t so lucky in this way. Ascendant: Work your way up, do the shitty things you don‘t want to do.

Anger isn‘t usually something you feel all the time but this week you‘re seething with red hot, touchy, temperamental, look-at-me-the-wrong-way-and-I‘ll-decimate-you anger. I want to blame Mars in Scorpio because that‘s really dialing down into not wasting your time in life, or letting days pass you by without accomplishing anything. It could however be related to Saturn because this year you‘ll be learning lessons essential to your intellectual development. Saturn is the father of the planets, often giving you the kick in the pants you need when the going gets tough. This week is a tough one for you, with people usurping and undermining you, saying things behind your back and otherwise unleashing the fiery dragon that lives inside you. There‘s no point in trying to fight it or deny it, when you get angry it shows all over your face, and you have to work hard at calming yourself down. You‘re prone to standing on soap boxes and ranting, getting wasted and dancing on tables until someone grabs you and takes you home. You‘re a stunt puller and you know it, which is why you had best leave your baggage at the door when you go to work and when you‘re done you can do whatever crazy things you feel are necessary. Ascendant: I hear breaking things helps, as long as they are things that belong to you.

Sometimes it‘s easier to set the bar low and not expect a lot from yourself. Other times, doing that leaves you with this stagnant, restless energy that demands to find an outlet. Unless you‘ve set the bar just high enough that you can reach it but you can‘t master it, that‘s where you‘ll feel the most balance. Admittedly this week you‘re messing around with that bar. Some of you want to lower it because sometimes expectations fall short no matter what you‘re doing with yourself. Others of you want to raise it because in order to stop feeling the doldrums and laziness you‘ve had you need to get yourself in gear. That‘s always hard when there aren‘t a lot of planets influencing you, Venus and Mercury are both in Capricorn, which almost cancel each other out. You definitely don‘t need more Capricorn energies adding to the ones you were born with, that‘s likely the culprit however for trying to find the perfect balance. Mars in Scorpio offers up some interesting energies that will make you angry with yourself for either expecting too much or too little of yourself. In terms of big planets, Uranus in Aries is also hitting you smack dab in the heart chakra because it wants you to realize that nobody is perfect, and nothing is set in stone. Even if you come up with a new plan for the next ten years of your life it will ultimately not turn out exactly the way you expected. Life is funny like that. Ascendant: Do you expect too much or too little?

Being that eccentric one at work is sometimes a blessing and a curse. On the one hand people want to know how you maintain your individuality, and how you can be so confident all the time about being different. On the other hand, you don‘t feel you have a choice but to be different from everyone else, and it‘s not a matter of handling it and trying to be an individual on purpose but simply being that way to begin with and dealing with how normal people react to you that becomes the real challenge. Some people like to embrace you with open arms as that breath of fresh air in a world of clones, whereas others can‘t understand why you don‘t want to dress up and party at a crowded private night club with a bunch of other posers and hipsters. You don‘t do trends or fitting in, or social situations that require you to be more of an adult than you ever wanted to be. But you grin and bear most of this week, from the workplace drama to the time spent with friends afterwards, to the weekend of deciding on your next adventure. Whatever it is you choose, know that the new moon on Sunday will help set it all in motion. All you have to do is let it in and stop caring about what other people think.Ascendant: What you think of yourself matters most.

Avoiding reality is like an Olympic sport for you, one in which you‘d gain a gold medal if it were an actual thing. You‘re on a bit of a shopping binge this week, wanting to get outside of your usual space and browse, spend, and overall fill your world with goodies nobody else has the time or patient to get. Great news is, malls are a little dead, so you‘ve got a lot of attention from the sales clerks happening. If you‘re stuck in the office, you‘re likely to make a brilliant excuse so you can leave your desk, or leave work early altogether. You may find yourself around little people this week, helping them with looking their best and putting their best feet forward. You don‘t usually feel the need to be halfway in your cave and halfway out but this week the energies are really gearing towards Capricorn, Aquarius and Scorpio, which gives you foresight into the future, and helps you ground yourself in what you‘re doing. You don‘t have to analyze to be able to be effective, you just have to listen, offer suggestions and hope that other people like the way you think. Over the weekend you‘re reflecting on things in life and enjoying a book, movie or video game by yourself. Ascendant: You‘re halfway there.