4/4/16

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

Billions of years ago, an unfathomable length of time, the universe exploded into being. Atoms formed from particles, dust clouds that spanned light years coalesced into rudimentary stars and galaxies. Stars imploded and exploded, forming all the elements, and countless solar systems and civilizations were forged and lost, trillions of objects and knowledge and visions we could never conceive of were erased from the physical world eons before we gained consciousness. All that terrible beauty, all that grandeur and savagery, destiny and chance, improbable and unimaginable, but briefly existing in a glorious moment we can't wrap our heads around.

And all of it gone, laid waste by time and gravity and physics we don't understand, scattered to the ends of the universe to become us. All of us, made up of particles and atoms from a past we can never know, formed from the residue of supernovae and kings and beggars alike, messiahs and despots, fire and rain.

All the machinations from the moment the universe began, through the emergence of life, from your ancestors and the single cells that joined and merged their DNA, over and over for billions of years to make you.

The stars saw most of it, and even though some are long gone, their light still comes to us as ghosts, to light your way in the night, bringing their information that we may never decode.

They want you to know this, and not because they want you to be humble, or to know your place, or to keep you in control. They want you to know all that went into you and the astronomical odds you overcame to simply be here, and to ask you if you think you should be taking yourselves so lightly. They want to ask you if you should be spending that time holding yourself back and putting yourself down. They want to remind you that so many of them gave their entire beings so we would one day have the chance to open our eyes upon this world, to walk astride it and do great things, not to live as slaves or dogs on a leash. Not to be minimized by others or ourselves. Not to be bowed and beaten, or to be stifled or crippled with doubt or ennui.

They want you to understand that all of those machinations, whether by chance or destiny, was just to get you into the universe. We are the culmination of the entire cosmos so far. The rest is all up to you, and it's your right to be proud, and all your accomplishments are yours. You are playing with house money, so be whatever you want to be. And though you may have help along the way, it's you that has always been doing the heavy lifting, so don't ever let anyone take your accomplishments away from you. Realize that everything you are is because of you, all the good and all the bad, all the wins and all the failures. This is your time, the only time you get. If you get knocked down, get back up and forge ahead. Don't parcel off credit or blame, own it and make the opportunity the universe gave you count, before you are pried apart and scattered throughout the stars to become something else as beautiful and frightening and special as you once were.