LEO
Leo, you heal from loss when you finally stop avoiding it. Distractions are always available, and you use them as a way to avoid facing your grief. When you’re out with friends, making plans, liking posts, swiping through dating apps, or taking pictures of your partner at dinner, anything and everything to maintain a facade that makes everything look and feel like everything is fine when it’s not. It’s not even a blanket for the whole world, this defense is primarily personal to you, but you can’t deal with grief unless you allow yourself to feel it first. You should stop using makeup or puffy eyes as an excuse not to let yourself cry. No matter what you’ve lost, whether it’s a person, a dream, a home, a belief system, or a feeling, it’s okay to feel sorry for yourself.
AQUARIUS
There are few times when it’s appropriate to say this, Aquarius, but you’re too awake for your own good. You haven’t recovered from your loss because you’ve told yourself that you don’t deserve to be sad. You are so concerned about looking after your own right, wrapped up in this phase of grief that you have built up, consumed by the guilt you feel because you are not focused on all the good that is happening in your life that you have just created a whirlwind that is prolonging your healing process. You can have all the ideas in the world and still need five minutes to think of something yourself. You can cry about separation in the middle of a natural disaster. Don’t feel embarrassed about being passed over for a promotion while others are job hunting. You can hold space for all the complex problems in this world and still wish someone hadn’t sent a hurtful text. There is room for overlap.
TAURUS
Taurus, you will heal this week because you finally stopped trying. Despite your sincere efforts, and unparalleled stubbornness, you cannot control your own emotions. You can control how you react to them, how you show yourself kindness and patience, but there is no magic wand or fingers to get you through grief, sadly. The pressure you were putting on yourself just made the situation worse. Stop giving yourself the old “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” adage and allow yourself a day or two to shake off your old sweats and just feel the feelings. There is a difference between taking a day or two to reset and serious depression symptoms. You can slow down, you can eat Ben and Jerry’s and it might help you more than always insisting on passing. Lower your bar, celebrate the small wins, and allow yourself the time and space needed to recover.
VIRGO
Virgo, you turn a corner when you leave the sanctuaries you create for your sorrow and start looking for new things to fill the emptiness you feel. It’s true that some things in life can’t be changed, and we should never try to change them, but you can get so attached to the details of what you’ve lost and let it make you completely ignore all the other wonderful things in this world that could help you heal. Some things can definitely be changed. You’re the type to hang around at work, the apartment, or any other specific thing you include in your inner monologue and refuse to revise at your peril. Remember, you are good at more than one thing, if you can make a first plan, you can make a backup plan, and life has more in store for you than this one disappointment.
