Today's Horoscope
All signs:
Today you will be aggravated or disappointed. It can’t be helped. The world will never live up to your expectations, no matter how low you set the bar. The problem with people is that they are very unpredictable, and that’s to be expected, but we all seemed shocked when it happens. Everyone is crazy, and that’s an issue right there, because they aren’t really crazy, they just think differently than you. Okay, a few are batshit crazy, but not most people. Most people are unpredictable because they have no clue who they are or what they want themselves. Many of us are just driven by whatever we feel right now, with no thought to how that will affect ourselves and others, and whether there’s even a valid reason to want to do it in the first place. We seem to become more and more impulsive and selfish all the time, ready to drive ourselves off a cliff and into misery.
I’m not sure why that is, but it’s not good. For ourselves, for our loved ones, for the world in general. So if you spend your life worrying about the impact your words will have on others, and trying to think about what consequences your actions might bring, you will get run over by the rest of the world that doesn’t do any of that work.
The smarter and more caring you are, the unhappier you will be whenever life points it out to you. The more caring and smart you are, the more you realize that most of the world is not. The more caring and smart you are, the more you will be loved by others, and then resented by those same people. The more consistent you are in your life, the more others will revile you for it because it magnifies the haphazard way they careen through life, and how confused they get when they burn their fingers yet again.
Being the caring soul you are, you might start worrying that you are to blame. That you are somehow responsible for these people’s misery, that you feel unwanted or alone because they take their inability to cope with the world and act like human beings out on you. It can really upset you, and get you down at times.
But there is hope. Life is a rich pageant, which is a kind way of saying it is an absurd freak parade, and once you stop expecting it to make sense, the happier you will be. You won’t always be right, and you won’t always be wrong, but that’s not what’s important here. It never was. Admitting you’re wrong when you’re wrong is important, and knowing when you’re right and not letting others make you feel bad for it is equally important. If you go through life never realizing when you’re wrong, or never understanding that your self worth is not based on others always agreeing with you, you are going to be unhappy most of the time.
To that end, don’t surround yourself with people that just agree with you all the time. People do that, and they do it for a multitude of reasons. Because of their own insecurities, or because they are part of a weird symbiotic relationship with you where you both enable each other’s bullshit. Because they want to fit in, because they have no opinions of their own, because they want something from you. There are a million reasons why people will tell you what you want to hear, and you will wind up living in an echo chamber, where you never grow, where you never live outside your own stunted reality.
You have to become adept at looking at your own motives, as well as the motives of others, and if you do that you will begin to understand just how absurd life really is. Once you understand that, you are free. Free from fear, free from doubt, and free from having to run and hide the minute someone else challenges your outlook or opinion. Free from changing your own ideals just so someone else will like you, and joining in the pack when the mob forms. Life is a constant search for people that believe in the same things you believe. We can lose sight of the fact that it doesn’t mean we want shallow people that simply tell us what we want to hear. We should want people with the same ideals and values, that challenge themselves, and challenge you when they feel it’s warranted. When they do challenge you, they should be prepared to listen, just like you should.
You will often find yourselves in arguments with people that refuse to acknowledge your point, and respond directly to your questions, and that is not something you want in your life. Those people have no answer, and refuse to change their minds, so they just ignore what they don’t like and repeat what they want to believe. There is no growth or resolution to be had, only unhappiness and misery as you beat your head against a wall.
The stars know all about this. They are all different, and tug at each other across vast distances, but they all basically perform the same function. They have their disagreements, but they do not let it get in the way of running the universe in it’s beautiful and intricate dance. They do not shun, they do not exclude, they do not run and hide. They don’t have to. They know who they are, and they proudly show us all, blazing across a billion light years of space in their hard won confidence and certainty.
We should do the same. Know who you are, respect the people that have done the work themselves, and just shake your head and feel a little bad for the others, charging their way through the cosmos with no orbit, and no firm place in it.
Pisces:
The “All You Can Eat” buffet is not a challenge.
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