Sagittarius

sagittarius1Louise’s tarotscope: You can be quite judgmental toward yourself, often putting yourself under pressure to be EVERYTHING. Sometimes, you can even slip into being a bad gossip about yourself! Start January with a really committed sense of being a better friend to you. I often talk about our inner chatter, where we speak to and about ourselves more unkindly than anyone in our lives. In starting to listen a little bit more to your own chatter in your head—a big mush of everything whizzing around, voices telling us we can’t do things, our intuitive sense, daydreams—I want you to identify the few things that are quite negative. Things that we repeat to ourselves such as “I can’t,” or “I’m not cool enough,” are what I call “old stories.” One great thing about inner dialogue is that it’s yours, so you can negotiate with the voice saying you can’t, and ask it why. Consider changing it to something you can work with. Whenever I’m working with Sagittarius, I’m always urging you to feel your feelings! Say you simply shift from “I can’t do that” to, “I feel like I can’t do that.” Right then, you open up a space for a but—your feelings can create a space for you to think differently.

Be more gentle with yourself this January to relieve some pressure, and recognize that the panic switch that activates in our heads when we’re feeling stressed is, energy-wise, characteristic of Sag’s fire element. Water puts out fire, so the thing that will relieve pressure when we’re overwhelmed is compassion. At moments of high stress, pile a bit more love onto yourself to calm it down. It’s not easy to do that, and we shouldn’t be standing in front of the mirror every day, saying, “I am happy!” when we don’t feel happy. Just noticing we’re feeling under pressure is OK. Experiment with stretching out your inner dialogue—interrupt the thinking that you can’t do something with “What if?” From 2015 to 2016, be as open and expansive as possible to change of cycles as you move into January.

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Dylan’s advice: January is all about clearing the skies of your life so you can go on into 2016 in the chillest possible manner. The most fundamental way to pare down your anxieties and prepare yourself for incoming opportunities and luck is to cleanse the energy of your personal space, which is likely your bedroom. There are lots of different ways to do that, including burning incense or smudge sticks; rearranging your room to comply with feng shui principles; or applying rose, basil, peppermint, or lavender oils around the corners of your room, which is said to protect against tension. Perhaps it’s as simple and secular as plain old spring cleaning your room a little early, and being able to rid yourself of the physical clutter that is nagging you. If you treat whatever method you choose as a ritual, it will provide you with a block of time in which you can begin to navigate your thoughts from feeling restrictive and scary to telling yourself, “I’m accomplishing one thing right now that will set me up for this year.” Open up your private space by clearing out those piles of papers that make you feel anxious, or ridding your room of negative-thinking habits with a purifying burning of incense.