Your Weekly Horoscope Will Turn Up the Heat & Toxicity in Your Love Life

Your horoscope for the week of December 8 to 14 promises big developments in your love life (or at least your desires). You know how retrogrades always bring back resurgent exes and unresolved tensions? If not, you’re about to remember.

Right now, both mental Mercury and aggressive Mars are retrograde, forcing us to slam on the breaks and look backward before we can look forward. On the early morning December 12, Venus in Aquarius will form an opposition with Mars retrograde in Leo, creating a push and pull between your desires, aspirations, and most importantly, your pride. You may feel torn between your primal instincts and your romantic dreams, forcing you to choose between what you want and what you truly need. Expect drama and excitement in your love, life, and career in the lead up to and away from it.

If questions remain unanswered and complications are still lingering, an opportunity to talk it through arrives just one day later. On December 13, Mercury retrograde will sextile Venus in Aquarius, allowing us to return to the real issues with renewed clarity. Something from the past may resurface, providing additional answers that are relevant to the situation at hand. The energy will be particularly unpredictable around this time, as a moon-Uranus conjunction in Taurus could pave the way for erratic mood swings. Anything could happen.

How the planets will affect your zodiac sign this week

Here’s what you can expect from the upcoming week, according to your sun and/or rising sign (and seriously, you’re missing out if you don’t read these horoscopes for your rising sign):