February 2019 Horoscopes: What the Stars Have in Store for Your Love Life and Career

#SelfCare

If deep-seated feelings of self-doubt have been ravaging you since the start of the decade, stirring up an unending barrage of psychological demons, now is the time you can turn from incessant self-reflection to curative self-care. You are an extroverted sign and have been spending too much time mired in your thoughts. Instead of constantly dwelling on your faults, if you allow your true strength and generosity to glow and envelop those around you, your confidence and sense of self will make a big-time comeback.

#InwardApproval

For the past decade, you may have been trying to get validation from those around you. Unfortunately, your need for social approval only acted as a magnet for users and fawners who fed off your desire for acceptance. At the same time, genuinely trustworthy people may have distanced themselves from you, as the vultures surrounding you manipulated them away. It is time to seek your truth from within, and find a sense of purpose mainly from yourself. And when you do, truly worthy people will flock to your side.

#FixUpYourFriendships

Chasing fantastical career dreams that always somehow remained just out of grasp has been sucking up a huge amount of your time and focus ever since 2011. You may not have had a moment to responsibly cultivate your friendships, resulting in a non-stop revolving door in your social scene. During the next seven years, you will be given the chance to repair broken confidences and bring long-lost pals back into your fold. You may even take on the role as the glue that holds your social group together, due to your genuine ability to take any drama that unfolds and make it all better.

#BackToReality

Since the start of the decade, you may have been seduced by the exotic: far-off travel, ideas, learning, foreign lovers, or spiritual pursuits may have taken your focus from more workaday things like career and setting a firm grounding for yourself and your future. As a result, misguided choices may have slowed you down on your career path. Starting this month, it is time to right the course after so many years of upheaval and neglect. You will be able to mend your working life and bounce back to success.

#RenewedFaith

Being one of the most generous, sunny signs out there, also makes you a target for shady people. You have been a walking bull's eye, being taken advantage of by those you trusted the most, who may have also manipulated others against you, in their own quest for power and esteem. This may have left you cynical, guarded and emotionally isolated, but it is time to rebuild your faith in humanity by seeking out that which can nourish your soul by getting out into the flow of the unknown universe once more. You may still meet the occasional vampire, who sucks your goodwill dry and gives nothing in return, but their bite will no longer bring such cutting pain as it once did, allowing you to quickly drop them and move on.

#SettingBoundaries

Pie-in-the-sky fairytale dreams of finding the most perfect partner may have brought you nothing but pain. You may have allowed the wrong partner into your life and melded with them in totality, simply because they met certain social criteria, without living up to the requisite private criteria, such as treating you with trust and consideration. Alternatively, you may have set such a high bar that you were met with nothing but disappointment in potential partners. It is time to face reality. Set firm boundaries on how you want to be treated, and do not give your partner endless slack, simply so you can portray yourself as the perfect couple to the world. If single, if you seek love based on decency, caring and understanding, instead of a list of flawless standards, you will be able to build a grounded, healing relationship.

#FindingTrueLove

Sometimes it is easy to get lost in the day-to-day realities that suck up all the time in a day. For almost a decade, you may have been burying your head in the sand of work, chores or caregiving in order to escape the harsher realities of a volatile love life. Perhaps, you could never find a reliable partner who stuck around or you are involved with an irresponsible mate. Now is the time to stop avoidance, and deal with your romantic life head on. You deserve a caring partner, who will protect you, not destabilize you.You have the chance of making true love a reality as long as you do the soul searching and stop giving the wrong ones a chance.

#ItAllWorksOut

If you have felt crushed under a tsunami of chores and duties ever since 2011, help is on the way, but you need to ask for it. Your sign has a strong need to be in complete control, and normally this brings you a sense of peace and safety. Lately, however, you need to oversee every little detail, causing only anxiety and overwork. Whether at the workplace, volunteer assignments or family caregiving, you do not need to do it all, all the time, especially when you are surrounded by others clamouring to give you a hand. Once you relax into allowing others to pitch in, you will regain your sense of equilibrium and peace.

#RediscoveringRomance

If your home life has been more of a viper's den then a cooing, cozy love nest, it may be time to seek out a healthier situation. If you are single and living with meddling roommates or relatives, get out into the dating scene. Over the next seven years, your chances are high to meet someone who will heal whatever wounds or scars of dysfunction you may have. If in a relationship, you should consider whether this is what you want for the rest of your life. It is never too late to search for someone who will treat you with honesty and transparency. If you are estranged from a child, reach out to reestablish contact. Apologize and tell the truth; you can slowly and steadily mend your bond.

#HomeImprovement

Capricorns enjoy order and stability, especially at home. In recent years, however, your domestic situation could have been anything but – constant relocations, moving in or out with romantic partners, rebellious children, irresponsible roommates, insubordinate relatives: you may have faced all or one in the recent years. It is time to restore a sense of peace and calm in your place of residence. Maybe you need to move out and live on your own for a while, or create a "me" space somewhere in your house, where you can relax and recharge. The most important thing, however, is to try to stop making all the decisions and controlling everything and everyone. Be honest and open, and let those you live with be part of the decision-making process in the homestead.

#GotYourVoiceBack

If you feel like you have been drowning in the primordial soup of your inner-psyche, you can at least now call out for a life raft. You are normally an extremely boundary-pushing, extroverted sign, but for too long, you have been locking yourself away with your inner thoughts, leading to anxiety and dramatic outbursts, instead of responsible communication. That all changes now, as you will be able to express yourself with an honest wisdom, impressing all those around you. The upcoming years will also allow you to bury the hatchet with estranged friends, siblings and neighbors – so start reaching out to make peace mid-month.

#DollarsAndSense

Your lofty, idealistic life ambitions have been making it hard to earn a grounded, realistic salary. You have many dreams of making the world a better place through humanitarianism or art, but the first thing you need to sort out is yourself, and most especially, your finances. Even though your career trajectory has been rising meteorically over the past few years, your wages have not. All that is set to change over the course of the next seven years, when you will be able to negotiate an honest wage for honest day's work.