4 Zodiacs With A Harrowing Challenge Around The Corner (And How They Can Prepare For It)

PISCES

Your challenge, Pisces, is that the value you bring to the table won’t be appreciated in your current setting. It’s beyond challenging to hold onto your of self-esteem when the people around you are mistaking your Picasso for a toddler’s finger painting, but the way you prepare for it is by maintaining a sense of perspective. Somethings just don’t go together, like a Michelin star and a fast-food drive through, or a ballerina in bowling shoes. Your task is either to rearrange your present circumstances to create that perfect match, or find a way to sell everyone on your vision. Whether it’s the McBeef Wellington or the Pas de 7-10 Split, you have to market it to the world. It will take even more elbow grease and finesse than you realize, and is bound to fail more than a handful of times, but it only has to land once to be a success. Practice makes perfect, Pisces. See this one, through. You’ll thank me for it.

CAPRICORN

Everything is about to pile up at once, Capricorn. Home, work, romance, health, finances. It’s all going to require an overhaul at once, and your to-do list will become anything but manageable. The first step in getting everything under control is to admit it can’t happen all at once. You’re going to have to triage the situation and figure out what can sit on the back burner and what needs to be addressed immediately. Then you’ll have to channel all your time, attention, and effort into a single task, without letting that looming list send you spiraling into a figurative coma of analysis paralysis. Take out the trash. Pay a bill. Eat a meal. One. Thing. At. A. Time. When that’s done, you move on to the next thing, and on and on until slowly but surely your life starts falling back into order. It’s a combination of Glennon Doyle’s mantra “we can do hard things” and an acknowledgment that you are one person who can do one thing well at a time.

CANCER

Sometimes the harrowing challenge is just coping with change, Cancer. Our jobs change, our bodies change, our friends get into serious relationships and so do we, and there’s less time for gossip over bottles of wine, and more time figuring out how we’re ever going to afford a mortgage let alone save for retirement, and we’re left wondering how and when everything got so complicated. The answer is, as short and sweet as it sounds, a little bit every day. But we don’t feel it until it’s accumulated to such a degree that we look in the mirror, or at our calendar, or at the flashing light in the car telling us we were supposed to get an oil change six months ago, that we crumble under the weight of it all. You prepare for it by learning to be flexible and nimble in the short term, so that you don’t get so attached to anything in the long term that you can no longer adapt to the necessary changes life requires of everyone.

SCORPIO

Your harrowing life challenge is being asked to take a step back, Scorpio. So often we want life to be this linear thing where we are constantly progressing at a consistent pace, but that’s rarely how it ever works out. Sometimes we need to make a lateral move, or take a demotion before we reach the role we’re really after. Sometimes we encounter a breakup, or several, an ended engagement, or a divorce, before we find our life partner. Sometimes we exhaust our savings before we are able to find the financial security we’re dreaming of. It’s not a game of Mario or Donkey Kong where each level gets progressively more complex and difficult. Sometimes we go from a Level 1 difficulty straight to Level 99 and then down to a Level 17. Some of it’s the luck of the draw, some of its our own planning and choice making, but there is no challenge we can’t face if we’re willing to embrace that uncertainty.