2/28/2016

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

Today you should stop trying to predict the future. Strange advice, coming from a horoscope, but it's sound. I'm referring to the mental chess game you play in your head whenever you think about what you need or want to do; or when you imagine what life will be like a week, a year or decades from now.

Some of us are so adept at talking ourselves out of things. Big or little, we play a scenario out in our heads and arrive at what we think is a perfectly reasonable picture of the outcome. Then we don't do it, using our convoluted predictions as an excuse.

Something as simple as going to the movies or grabbing a bite to eat. We imagine the traffic on the way, trying to find a parking space, whether the meal or film will be worth the effort, the supervillain that might appear out of nowhere and take us hostage. You know, probable outcomes.

Then we don't do it, and we congratulate ourselves for avoiding all the hassle and annoyance. In reality though, we have cheated ourselves out of another one of life's little experiences. A lot of us tend to overthink things, and when we do, we tend to think of the negative. Not that it's not a good thing to assess what can go wrong, but often when we weigh the pros and cons, we focus on the cons.

We don't just do it with the small things. We will sometimes get lost in thought about our entire life trajectory, and in our minds eye our future seldom seems great. We will zero in on some tiny thing and magnify it until future us seems burdened by a hundred chains and afflictions, holding us back and telling us it might not be worthwhile.

Point is, that's not the future we're seeing. That is our fears and insecurities manifesting themselves once again. Holding us back. As usual, they are hiding in different guises, but they are doing the same old things.

The stars are magical. Well, it's not really magic, but it looks like magic to us, so let's just call it that. They can see the future. They want us to know that when you can truly see the future, it's almost never as bad as you think it is. The good outweighs the bad, and by a very large margin. Most of the time we are fooled by the illusion we create. In reality, the bad moments are only that, brief moments. We hold onto them though, and drag them along with us and they seem like an eternity. We can't just wade through them and let them go, we need to prolong them and relive them over and over. Then we base our predictions on that perception, not on what is real.

We need to stop creating a world where all the outcomes seem dark and predictable and pointless.

The future is written in the stars, and the stars are shining with a brilliance greater than anything else in the universe by a very large margin, so trust me when I tell you that your future is very bright indeed.

Aries:

Who cares if you didn't get the Hot Wheels racing set you wanted when you were eight? Let it go, already.