Weekly horoscopes for the week of July 19 by the cup

On Wednesday evening, the loving planet Venus enters the sign of Virgo Earth, and grandiose and extravagant gestures lose their charm. Instead, you’ll find beauty and intimacy in small, practical gestures, just showing off for each other. Then Thursday morning, the sun enters the bright and confident Leo. This is the time to express yourself, to be seen and appreciated, to find true happiness in generosity. Finally, on Friday night, a full moon in Aquarius lights up your wild individuality, but it also reminds you that you are not alone. There is a place in this world for you, just as you are: unique and entirely yourself.

Moving forward is a way to feel useful in this world, as if your ideas and energy are not wasted. But remember that is not the only way to live a precious life. You don’t have to innovate, move forward, create all the time. You don’t always have to know what’s coming next. This week gives you the opportunity to take a break, at least for a while. You can take a break before moving forward, trying to wish yourself another place. There is abundance where you are. Sometimes it is enough to to be.

It’s hard to cope with the fact that you can’t control other people. You can’t tell them what to do or how to feel, you can’t force anyone to be nicer, more competent, more generous. Still, it’s tempting to keep trying, always hoping that sheer determination will move mountains. This week you have better things to do than try to change someone else. There are people who will never give you what you aspire to, but there are others who will. Turn to those who nourish and support you, who can offer you the reliable love you need.

Your mind is so quick and sharp, and sometimes it seems like everyone can barely keep up. Life develops gradually and change takes much longer than you would like; you are constantly struggling against a tempo that keeps dragging you down. This week, do your best not to compete with the pace of the world but to match it. If you are asked to take things slowly, try to do so. If the news comes less often than you want it to be, let it be. You have your job to do, and it will take as long as it takes. The goal right now is not to do everything quickly, but to do it right.

It is rare that you truly understand your emotions as you go through them. The growth is almost impossible to recognize except in retrospect. But this week could be one of the times when you can actually perceive that you are learning, while it is still happening. You can feel yourself working on something important, solving a puzzle, leveling up. The change may be small, the transition minor in the grand scheme of your life, but try to enjoy it anyway: this awareness of becoming wiser, your heart bigger, your vision clearer.

You understand better than anyone that you don’t need any excuse to love yourself. You also don’t need justification to seek the attention and admiration of others. It can be hard to remember this in a culture where so many people never get what they need. But this week, you can cut through all the noise to get back to the truth: your own capacity for love is vast. You can love those around you with total generosity and still have a lot for yourself. You don’t need to ration your softness and warmth. You have enough to share, and enough to keep.

This week, you might be in desperate need of a little magic: something to clarify the future and make the present less chaotic, something to calm the storms in your head. You may want to think big, demonstrate your power to the world and to yourself in a dramatic way. But it’s worth starting a little smaller. First, try to tidy up the physical space around you: sweep the floor or put away your books or clean the windows to let in light. There is an astonishing beauty in what seems ordinary at first glance.

Sometimes you feel like you’re hungry for a support that never comes. Even when you make your needs known, even when you express your wants, everyone else is too distracted, too careless, too wrapped up in their own issues to provide the care you need. Ultimately, you will be loved and encouraged as you wish. And for now, while you are still waiting, don’t let that stop you from living. This week will give you the courage you need to keep going, to keep trying, to maintain a brilliant and unstoppable faith in yourself.

You may feel like you are always fighting for crumbs with the people around you, constantly locked in a battle for every little bit of attention, affection, good news. There never seems to be enough happiness in the world, never even enough fun for everyone. But this week, you can reconsider the role of competition in your life. Success doesn’t have to be zero-sum. At present, it is possible to transform rivalry into solidarity, even into friendship. It is possible to find comfort and affection alongside others. The stress of antagonism can turn into the joyful magic of collaboration.

There is a lot of pressure on you to play, to look good, to live up to the expectations of others. You try very hard to be as strong, kind, or funny as they want. But it is possible that the ideas of others about you weigh too much, overwhelm you until you can barely move. This week, as always, you have the right to act the way you want, to be sharper or stranger or softer than anyone thinks. None of them decide how you are going to live. Only you can do it.

For so long you’ve been playing defense, focused on self-protection. Even as you build friendships and community, even as you fight for a better world alongside people you love deeply, there is a part of you that is wary, closed, aware of all the dangers that litter the landscape. . It is not a stupid approach; many of your fears are in fact well founded. But at least for now, it helps to let our guard down. You will be rewarded for your openness, your daring, your honesty – for facing life with all your heart, courageous and unashamed.

Your imagination is filled with grandiose and wonderful scenes; you have a real talent for imagining daring projects, imagining new worlds. The hardest part is not having big ideas, but making them come true in our ordinary and difficult reality. It may seem like your bold plans require equally bold action, but this week don’t sneeze at the small steps that must also be taken. There is beauty in the everyday and immeasurable value in small acts that accumulate slowly, steadily. By taking small steps, you are not giving up on your crazy dreams, but you are building the foundations for them.

People sometimes talk about self-confidence as if it is an innate trait that you have or not. Really, however, it can be developed and maintained. He comes and goes. It lives in you, but it also reacts to your surroundings, to the people around you, to the way others mirror your image to you. If your self-confidence has been faltering lately, if you’ve felt less bright, less courageous, that doesn’t mean you’ll never believe in yourself again. This week the world will show you the best and bravest version of yourself, and you can be confident again.

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