8/30/18

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want you to understand that it is very rare to truly see yourself as you really are.

You can never see yourself from anything but your own perspective, and that perspective is always skewed. You are always looking out from within, even when you're looking in a mirror. Even a three way mirror doesn't afford you the same viewpoint as any other person sees you. Our voice doesn't even sound like our own when we hear it played back to us.

We all have an image in our head of who we are, and that image is shaped by all our insecurities, our ego, our individual sense of beauty and fashion, of right and wrong. It can change on a dime, too. We will bop along thinking we are the same person we were five or ten years ago, and then one day we are shocked when there is someone in their 30’s or 40’s or older staring back from the mirror.

Who we think we are informs other's opinions also. People pick up on confidence or feelings of inferiority. Their attitude towards us is affected by our mood, by our joy or misery. Strangers can make snap judgments on who we are in the instant they meet us. That's not really fair, but how much in life is fair?

So a big part of how we see ourselves is knowing who we are, and being someone that makes us happy. Inner strength and beauty, confidence and security, comes from learning to know and trust who and what you are. The tricky thing is, unless you're a delusional narcissist, part of how you see yourself must come from others.

There are many people we are saddled with in life, whether by circumstance or conscious decision, who take their fears and insecurities and rage out on us. They judge us, mock us, abuse us and tell us we're ugly and wrong, just to make themselves feel better or in control. They project who they are onto us, and their self hatred manifests into insults and knife twists aimed at us because they can't stand to admit those things in themselves.

That's why to be truly healthy and to see ourselves as close to the reality of what we are, we need to have people in our lives that see us see really are, and accept us that way. The people closest to us help inform who we are, so choose those people wisely.

The stars also want to tell us that we often judge ourselves much more harshly than others do. We should give ourselves a break. The stars can see you from a perspective like none other. They see you across the millennia, throughout all time, from a trillion different angles and distances. You are made up of atoms born within them billions of years ago, so they know you on an atomic scale. They see you from inside and out simultaneously, and they know who you are and what you're capable of, and they are in awe.

See yourself the way the stars see you, and smile and swell with pride at everything you are and everything you can be.

Then go be you.