12/31/16

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

So 2016 is ending. Maybe you had a great year. The stars hope so.

But the stars know that many of you had a rough year.  Some of you lost loved ones. Some of you lost your job, had a falling out with friends and families, especially during these polarizing times.  Economic troubles have affected many of you, regardless of the fact that the rich just seem to get richer. Many of your heroes have died. Many of you are worried about the direction the country, and the world, is taking. Still more are seeing the planet break down, and the environment collapsing.

The stars wish that they could tell you that things will change in 2017. They don't think that's a wise idea. The stars are not giving you the easy way out this time.

Since the dawn of civilization the stars have marked off time for us. They told us when to plant and harvest. They told us when to celebrate or sacrifice. They told us the time, the day, the seasons, and conveyed the secrets of life and the future and helped us decide.

So they know that an arbitrary trip around the sun is not going to matter much.

You made this mess, and you have to clean it up. That will take work, and resolve, and sacrifice and blood, sweat and tears. The stars know we are perfectly capable.

They love you, and they are rooting for you, and they want you to succeed, but they can only be there for you to provide help and to encourage. We have to do all the heavy lifting.

All of it.

That's how we learn and that's how we grow, and the stars want us to learn and grow, if nothing else.

We are all children of the stars, and in 2017, let's make our parents proud, and in doing so, find pride in ourselves.

Let's be better, individually and as a whole.

Let's correct our mistakes, get stronger from our pitfalls, and try not to mess up in the first place.

Let's strive to fulfill our potential, and be inclusive of everyone. We are so much stronger when we all work together.

The simple truth that the stars have been telling us since day one is that it's all within our grasp. All our dreams, all our visions of a better world, all the love and contentment we ever wanted… it's all there, just waiting for us to figure out that we're the only ones keeping us from it.

Let 2017 be the year that we all realize that our cage doors have been open all along, and we walk out into the sun and into freedom and make the stars happy that they backed us from the beginning.