8/2/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want to remind you that there are some very simple formulas for life that we constantly forget about.

When you are doing well, help others, when you are down, ask for help. Some of us are naturally givers, and some takers, but ideally we should all be equal parts both. Giving makes us feel better about ourselves, so it's a win for all involved.

Life is hard enough, don't make it harder by adding unnecessary problems and drama. If there's ever a place to simplify your life, it's here. Don't make the trouble life hands you worse, that's just defeating yourself.

Don't punish yourself for your mistakes, learn from them. Guilt and insecurities hold us back like an anchor, and we tend to be much harder on ourselves than we should. Then we erode our self confidence and we stop trying. Instead, accept the fact that you messed up, figure out why, and just try to do better.

Doing good things makes you feel better about yourself and builds your confidence. The stars wonder why people have such a fascination with things that are bad for them. Even doing the simplest things to make your or someone else's life a tiny bit better gives you a sense of accomplishment and self worth. You should want that.

Give your love and energy to the people that deserve it. Some people are very damaged, or maybe they are just assholes. Either way, unless you are their parents, you're not obligated to fix them. If someone is abusive, or manipulative, or is incapable of giving back anything but the bare minimum, let them go. If they are truly trying to change, support and encourage them, but many times they are not trying, they are fooling themselves, and you in the process. Don't let sociopaths drag you down, there are a lot more of them out there than you think. Fill your life with people that care about your well-being and happiness, not those trying to drain it.

Life is a marathon, not a sprint. Life is long, and full of ups and downs and blind curves. There will be joy and wonder, pain and sorrow. Thankfully, for the most part, life spreads it out over many decades. We tend to look for patterns, so we will hit a bad spell and then start looking for signs of more bad things to come. We bog down. There are just as many good things, more in fact, so don't linger too long in the valleys when you get there, start climbing back up the peaks. There is a long road behind you, and a long one in front of you, why stay any longer on the bad patch you're on now than you have to?

The stars want to remind you that you usually know better, so why put obstacles in front of yourself blocking you from happiness? Why make things worse when you could make them better? That's often a conscious choice, so why choose failure?

The stars want you to be happy, but they can't make you happy, only you can do that.

So do that.