Pisces Weekly Horoscope

WEEK OF January 16 – 2 2, 2023

Who do you want on Team Pisces this year? There may be a few casting changes starting Wednesday, January 18. As social Mercury snaps out of a retrograde that began on December 29, it powers forward through Capricorn, energizing your collaboration zone until February 11. Despite your sign’s artistic eye, it’s been hard to detect people’s true colors over the past few weeks. Great intentions aside, they may have lacked the time and space to participate. No more waiting around, Pisces. This forward momentum puts your eyes on the future. Who can you bring in for round one of developments? You can test the waters with a short-term project (always advisable anyway), then see, in real time, who is qualified to be part of your supergroup.

This Friday, January 20, the Sun nestles into Aquarius and your twelfth house of healing, divine inspiration and escape. If you’ve had zero chill in your life since 2023 began, this news should be music to your ears. All the better if you can slip off to a beachy destination for restorative “mermaid time” or hit the slopes if you prefer frozen tundra. But not if it involves stressful trip-planning and maneuvering! The four weeks leading up to Pisces season are the sunset of your annual solar cycle. You won’t have the energy to search all over town to for a pet sitter who you trust with your Labradoodle. This quiet, contemplative time is more about releasing the past than rushing into anything new. But you could certainly begin—or sink back into—a restorative practice such as yoga, meditation, or regular sessions with your therapist. Creative projects can also be healing, especially if you’re making art for art’s sake.

Are you still hanging on to some baggage, like resentment, grudges—or quite literally bags of old clothes that need to be hauled to the thrift store? You’ll feel ready to let go of a few more things starting this Saturday, January 21 when the year’s only new moon in Aquarius lands in that same twelfth house of healing, surrender and release. Every object holds a charge, Pisces, even the ones you have binned on the high-high shelves in your kitchen or garage. Fling open the lids and see what’s in each one. Then, give your calendar the same discerning treatment. This new moon may illuminate ways that you’ve been pleasing others at your own expense. Enough of that! Graciously bow out of plans that don’t feed your soul and replace them with activities that revive your spirits.

Get ready to hop to a new beat this Sunday, when the lunar Year of the Water Rabbit begins. It’s a familiar rhythm, in fact, since the Rabbit is associated with Pisces and your ruling planet Neptune in the Eastern zodiac. Your creative and esoteric gifts are ripe for sharing now—yes, even with people who scoffed at your intuition last year. (Forgive them, Fish, they needed time to catch up to your level of enlightenment.) In 2023, you may pick a creative project or spiritual practice that got sidelined months (or years!) ago. Music, meditation and making magic are themes for the next twelve months. So very…you!

The local scene starts buzzing on Sunday, too, as community organizer Uranus wakes up from a five-month retrograde that began last August 24. Neighborhood venues that you’ve passed without a second glance could suddenly lure you in with their offerings: a monthly special at the dance studio, volunteer shifts at the food co-op, a board position opening in the block or building association. With the “disruptor” planet helming this operative, you’ll enjoy shaking things up with your presence. Let Uranus call forth your visionary leadership. Wherever you go, you’ll bring the spirit of authenticity AND expansion—how lucky for any organization that’s been stuck in a rut!

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