keep moving.

I'm choosing to believe this fabricated magic from Madame Clairevoyant this year.

Libra: This week you can feel so present in your own skin. You can feel your feet on the ground, you can feel the air on your face, you can hear the song of the world in your ears. You can feel peace if you need peace, you can feel strength if you need strength, you can come into your own. You can find yourself in storms, you can find yourself in mountains, you can find yourself in sweet foggy air. Try to be gentle with the people you care about. Try to be tender with your own self.

(Words by Madame Clairevoyant and illustration by Jen May)

"Libra: This week, when the weather is bad, or when your boss or your roommate or your parents drive you so wild, or when everything you’re working on feels tiring or difficult or dull, work on protecting the bright parts of yourself, every weird thought, every burst of color, every bit of wild joy in your heart. Guard the things that make you special and the ones that that make you strange; let the sun reflect off of your weird angles and let it light up your days."

--Madame Clairevoyant

(Image by Jen May.)

This Year.

Libra: This year’s going to be bright and fast and really great for you, full of friendship and good news and hard work. Feel this as the gift that it is and still, don’t forget to let yourself be dreamy. Make time to laze around alone, and to go on long rambling walks, and to sit under trees or swim in the ocean or let strange spinning thoughts grow inside you. Make time for beautiful things, make time for the weirdest parts of yourself. This year, spend time with babies or spend time with animals. This year, practice being very tender.

-- Madame Clairevoyant

I'm going to work hard to make this one come true.

Libra

This week, you’re maybe going to feel a little fragile, like you’re soft, like you’re bending, like you’re barely even solid, like one hard word could crack you right in half. Don’t try to make yourself unbreakable, don’t try to replace your softness with stone or steel. Just do what helps you live, do what helps you get through the day, do whatever you can to remember how good it is to spend your days in very small ways, sometimes. Listen to songs in other languages, listen to songs without words.

--  Madame Clairevoyant

Libra

Just for now, just for this week, forget all your maps and forget all your plans and forget every detailed drawing you’ve made of the future, forget the picture of the life you’re supposed to have. It’s not about throwing yourself into chaos, it’s not about getting rid of your plans for good, just that this is a week for softness, it’s a week for feeling sweet and hazy, it’s a week for unwinding, a little, for loosening up the parts of you that are too stressed, too serious, to look at the mountains or watch the sky or go to the movies in the afternoon.

-- Madame Clairevoyant 
 "I am not a real astrologer or a real writer, and so it’s strange and great that people actually read these..."

It is exactly why I read these!! I'm living by this one this week.

Libra

This is a week for going to the beach and going to the pool and taking long warm baths. This is a week for living like your whole body is water. It’s a week for staring into oceans and lakes and faucets, for watching water swirl down the drain. This week, let your thoughts go clear, let your dreams go blue, let them all fill with salt, let them flow down mountains, let them flow to the sea. It’s a week for being loose, it’s a week for being in motion, it’s a week for being wiser and weirder than you can be on solid ground.

-- Madame Clairevoyant

I don't do horoscopes, but...

...i LOVE these from Madame Clairevoyant...

Libra: This week is going to be about looking at everything that takes up space in your life and everything that takes up space in your head, all your dresses and books and feelings and memories, and sorting through them. This week is about holding tight to the things you’re going to bring with you and the things you’re going to leave behind and the things that will float, ghostlike and dreamy, on through your life, wherever you go, watching you, holding you up. Clean your room and clean your kitchen and listen to country songs.

Amen.

From The Rumpus
Image by Jen May