Today’s Horoscope
All signs:
The stars want to tell you to keep your sense of humor. Life is so serious so much of the time. There are enough terrible things in this world to keep you miserable and feeling like everything is dire.
And maybe it is.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t laugh. You should laugh and smile and dance and still find joy wherever you can. Of course, there is a time to be solemn and respectful, but people have different ideas of when that time is and just what constitutes respect.
Humor has a deeper purpose than just giving us a giggle now and then. In the worst of times, when some things are too terrible to even comprehend, humor helps us take away some of the power it has over us. There are times in the middle of a tragedy or stressful situation that we find the uncontrollable urge to laugh out loud. It is inappropriate, and we feel guilty or ashamed, but it is a natural reaction at times.
It is because humor helps us handle the times when if we didn’t laugh, we would cry. Sometimes both go hand in hand. Laughter may not really be the best medicine, but it helps more than it hurts.
Laughter is also a powerful weapon. Satire points out the absurdity in life with humor rather than hatred. It makes social commentary palatable. When despots are in power, or hate filled people try to intimidate you, mocking them and laughing at them is one of the most powerful weapons in our arsenal. It strips them of their power and control, and deflates them.
As with most things, everyone’s sense of humor is different, so what might be funny to some is offensive to others. Try to keep in mind that most people who seem like they are just being offensive for the sake of it might just be trying to cope with whatever is going on right now. Perhaps their method of coping with horror is to make it manageable by taking its power away.
The stars want you to enjoy the laughs when you can get them, because they know that sometimes they are too infrequent indeed, and that’s no laughing matter.
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