SCORPIO HOROSCOPE

You’re apt to be short-tempered around demanding bosses and persnickety clients (which is OK), but this might spill over to friends, colleagues, and the barista taking your coffee order. Everyone’s working your last nerve these days. What’s going on is that you can sense that change is afoot, but you don’t know what it is yet and it’s driving you nuts. It’s like having a name on the tip of your tongue with a bunch of people calling out what they think it is. They’re trying to help, but it only makes matters worse. Thankfully you’ll experience relief when Jupiter enters Cancer on June 6th.

The annual Sun/Neptune conjunction always makes you nervous. It's kind of like how ancient civilizations used to forgive debts or free prisoners once every seven years. This impulse towards clemency floods your horoscope and makes you do something that you wouldn't normally do. This year you might try embracing it instead of resisting it. Yes, part of you feels like you're letting culprits off the hook, however another part of you recognizes that people don't become better people if you don't get give them a second chance. It's good to remember that everything born into Time comes with an expiration date – and that includes grudges.

This is a purging time for you. Not only will you be rejecting things you once believed in, but you’ll be unbuckling yourself from the hopes and wishes that held you hostage. You need to see that you have paid your dues. No more working hard to impress those who can’t be impressed or waiting outside closed doors with no one on the other side. People either recognize your merit or you’ll move on. This also includes those who can’t give you what you need emotionally. Let them go because they’re getting in the way of meeting those like-minded (and like-hearted people) who truly understand you.

For weeks you’ve been trying to figure out what was wrong with your approach. If you weren’t making things harder for yourself then it felt like you had developed a knack for choosing paths that lead to dead-ends. Thankfully Ruling Planet Mars coming out of retrograde on February 23d helped to orient you, but you’ll find that it’s the Sun/Mars trine on March 8th that shows you the way forward. You can expect this energy (and your momentum) to increase over the next few weeks. This all comes together on April 4th when you finally accomplish what you had set out to do last September.

Beware girlfriends in need. The same goes for sisters, neighbors, and in-laws for as long as Venus is retrograding through Aries and Pisces. You have some potentially treacherous planetary aspects over the next few weeks, and you don't want to take the fall for somebody else's folly. Maybe this person wants you to tell her husband that she was at your house (when she wasn't) or she might come to you for a loan on top of the one you already gave her. Just say no. This way you will avoid any fiascos where your good intentions might pave the way to a hellish situation.

Last September, you were just a stone's throw away from a long-sought-after prize or elusive goal. It should have been yours, but then you were somehow overtaken by a series of unforeseen circumstances that were beyond your control and demanded your immediate and undivided attention. You probably assumed that your moment had passed, but you will learn on February 23rd that retrograde planets have a peculiar magic all their own. Astonishingly enough, it appears as if that prize or goal is still available. It may be impossible to believe, but you'll see for yourself when the Sun trines Mars on March 8th.

Scorpios are like volcanoes. You can lie dormant for long periods and then suddenly erupt. It's something you might want to warn loved ones and friends about ahead of the Full Moon in Leo on February 12th. Whether it's the result of a build-up in pressure or a final indignity that's too much to bear doesn't matter. What matters is that you have had enough. Afterwards, you'll feel much better; however, it may take others a while to feel safe approaching you again. Signal to them when you feel ready, and enjoy the relief that only a catharsis can bring until then.

Bullies aren't always bad. Sometimes they make us stronger through their intimidation. It's something you'll understand when Ruling Planet Mars trines Saturn on February 9th. This is when you stop being afraid of someone who's made your life miserable. If anything, you may now feel sorry for them. This realization isn't borne from sympathy; it comes from recognizing that this person gets their power from you, and if you stop fueling it with your fear, then they have nothing to draw on. The answer seems simple—like in a fairy tale—but oftentimes, fairy tales carry truths that we can only recognize when the time is right.

Uranus, planet of revolution and change, comes out of retrograde on January 30th. This is going to flip the game board that originally got flipped back in September. This could reinstate a relationship that you believed to be over, put you back in contact with a client whom you thought you had said goodbye to, or reawaken sleeping dogs you assumed were comfortably napping. The eeriest thing about all of this is the way that people will act as if nothing has changed. In truth, everything has changed, but you're going to need three weeks to figure out the what, the where, and the how.

They say that home is where the heart is, but nowadays, it's also the source of bills and headaches. Chances are you've been dealing with things going awry for months, but on January 21st, you'll discover the root of what's wrong. Your bank account won't like the news – and you do have the option of a quick-fix solution – but being a Scorpio, you won't sleep at night until you take care of matters once and for all. That's because your home is like family – be it condo or house – and you never scrimp when it comes to the care of something you love.