11/15/16

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want you to know that love is supposed to be hard sometimes. They're not talking about romantic love, although that is too.

If you devote your life to love rather than hate, you are in for some tough times. People seem to take the offer of unconditional love as a dare.

You don't have to specifically love your enemies.  If there is someone that stands for everything you are against, and they are reprehensible and irredeemable, well you should fight them with all you have.

But is anyone totally irredeemable? That might be a discussion for another day, but if someone is capable of redemption, it is safe to say that you won't save anyone's soul with hate.

There are people that are not your enemy per se, but they will tax you and vex you and they will push you to the edge with their rhetoric and deeds. No one is saying you have to love them, but if they have any good qualities that go along with the bad, maybe you should.

Maybe giving up on people at the drop of the hat is not good for anyone. Certainly it is not going to help the people you write off. Your hatred will just make them feel that they are justified in their lousy behavior. It will make them feel that no one does care about them or whether or not they sink or swim.

All you will do is reinforce their insecurities and low self esteem, and signal to them that they are as bad as they feel about themselves. That will not give them any incentive to better themselves and they will continue in their downward spiral.

“So what?” you might find yourself saying, “they deserve whatever misery they find. It serves them right.”

Well, maybe they don't deserve all that misery. Perhaps they have had some bad breaks. Maybe they are less fortunate than you, and never had anyone show them love. Or maybe the only person that ever did make them feel loved is gone. They might be reeling, and a little kindness might make all the difference in the world. You don't know.

The point the stars want to make is that hating these people rather than loving them is never going to make the world a better place. Hating them is never going to help them, so in hating people that disagree with you, you are making your own life worse.

You are ensuring that these people never see your point of view. You are ensuring that these people never stop fighting against you to make the world into a place that frustrates and infuriates you.

Your hate is only coming back to you multiplied, and at that point it is not your “enemies” that are causing your misery, it is you.

So yes, the stars realize that love is hard.  Loving in the face of hatred, especially self hatred, is exhausting sometimes. Showing love when love is the farthest thing from your mind can be the hardest thing you might ever have to do.

So yes, love is so, so hard sometimes.

The stars also want to remind you that everything worthwhile usually is.