By Claire Comstock-Gay, astrologer and Cut columnist. She has written weekly horoscopes for more than ten years and is the author of ‘Madame Clairevoyant’s Guide to the Stars.’

Uzo Aduba, an Aquarius. Photo-Illustration: by The Cut; Getty Images

With the Virgo moon in tension with Pluto, Mars, and the sun — all in Aquarius — life might feel a bit off-kilter today. You might not be able to identify exactly what’s bothering you, you just know that *something *isn’t as it should be. Finding someone else to blame for your stress and discomfort might seem to bring a bit of momentary relief, but it won’t help you get to the root causes, and will damage relationships with people that might otherwise support you. So try to focus on your own actions, and on what’s actually in your power to change.

It might seem lately that people are willfully misunderstanding you, that they’re trying to slow you down, make you doubt yourself, or get under your skin. But while their behavior might be irritating, it’s probably not malicious; the things that are self-evident to *you *won’t be equally obvious to everyone around you. Most people you encounter today will be acting in good faith, so try to give them the benefit of the doubt where you can.

Today, you might get the frustrating sense that nobody else is paying any attention to you. You could be doing the best work in the world, could have a life-altering stroke of genius, but everyone would be too wrapped up in their own affairs even to notice. Part of you wants to grab everyone’s attention, to do something that’ll force them to recognize you — but this is probably a waste of your energy. Chasing external validation will make you feel worse in the end; focus on what matters to you, and trust that you’ll be noticed eventually.

You might be feeling a bit fragile today; you’re stressed and tired and you’d like to be treated with a bit of extra care. Admitting it, though, might be a challenge: You worry that sharing your real needs with others would make you look weak, or that asking for extra compassion would come across as selfish. But right now, there’s no point in pretending to be tougher or more confident than you really feel — it probably won’t really convince others anyway, so you might as well be honest.

You know — at least on an intellectual level — that you can’t let yourself break down over every tragedy you hear about, or make it your mission to right every injustice in the world. As much as you might *want *to, you’re only one person, and in order to function in your daily life, you need to put up some emotional walls. Today, though, it might be hard to keep those boundaries in place: Everything seems to hit a nerve, and you can’t simply force yourself not to care. So if caring less isn’t an option, you can at least do your best to channel your feelings into useful action.

The more stressed you’ve been lately, and the more emotional you have pent up, the quicker you’ll be to pick fights today, even — maybe especially — with the people closest to you. You might imagine that a heated argument will clear the air, help you release some of your frustration, and make you feel better. But things are unlikely to work that way in reality; minor disagreements could quickly balloon into massive dramas. Do your best to keep the peace, or you could get more pushback than you bargained for.

You and your friends might share similar mindsets and values — but even if you want the same things out of life, you might disagree on how* *to go about getting them. You might want to play things by ear, while your friends think it’s important to plan far ahead; they might want to make a grand gesture, while you think it’s wiser to take a steadier, more sustainable approach. Today, these disagreements about process might seem to threaten the foundation of your relationship — but try to remember that others can do things differently than you do, and it doesn’t mean either of you is wrong.

Although you try to make decisions based on what’s truly best for you, not what would be most impressive (or just most acceptable) to the people around you, it’s easier said than done. You’re constantly aware of others’ eyes on you; you know that your actions will be noticed and judged, and you want to put your best foot forward. It’s only natural to care about what your friends and community think of you, just be careful not to take things too far today. Sometimes, going against the grain is the best thing you can do.

Sometimes, it just feels embarrassing to have strong emotions. You wish that you could keep a cool head, reacting to problems logically and analytically rather than letting your feelings get the better of you. Today, it might be tempting to ignore your emotions — you imagine that if you simply pretend to be coldly rational, it’ll become reality. But really, your feelings provide valuable information, and by suppressing them, you’ll only be hurting yourself. Don’t imagine that you need to immediately act on every passing mood, but don’t ignore your emotions, either.

What you want most, today, is certainty about your path forward. If you knew for sure you were doing the right thing, you’d be willing to throw yourself into your work, to take any risks necessary. But right now, you’re unlikely to find the total clarity you want. Everything is more muddled than that; there are lots of possible next steps, but none is clearly the best one. You probably won’t manage to get rid of all of your doubts, so all you can do is get started anyway, and trust that the answers will come.

It’s reasonable to expect others to follow through and be consistent — you’re not asking for anything outrageous, you just want your friends to stick to their word. But even though you’re perfectly justified in wanting this, people can be messy and imperfect; they state an opinion and then, moments later, contradict themselves, or they claim to feel one way, then act in a way that calls those feelings into question. Frustrating as their inconsistency is, try to be generous: They’re figuring life out as they go, and they’re doing the best they can.

It can be easy to imagine that all big life changes are necessarily for the worse. The status quo may be far from ideal, but at least you know what to expect by now; while taking a risk on something new *might *improve your life, it seems much more likely that it’ll only cause you to lose any good things you have. Today, though, try not to operate from a place of fear. Change may bring turmoil and uncertainty, but once the dust settles, you may discover that you’re better off.

Without realizing it, you sometimes give so much compassion and understanding to the people around you that you have none left for yourself. You make excuses for your others’ imperfect behavior, while holding yourself to impossible standards; you recognize that your friends’ flaws don’t make them any less worthy of love, yet you imagine that yours somehow mean you’re undeserving of happiness. Today, try to be a bit gentler with yourself, or to expect a bit more from the people around you — one way or another, to find a better balance.

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Your Daily Horoscope by Madame Clairevoyant: Feb. 3, 2026