10/19/16

Today’s Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars would like to remind you that life and happiness is actually a very simple equation.  The problems arise when you introduce variables that inevitably mess up the math and give us all the wrong answers.  

Some of these variables are unavoidable.  The things life throws at you, big or small will disrupt things for a bit, but if you take care to keep them separate from the main equation, you can work them back out of the formula.  People are generally good at the small things and not so great when the math gets confusing with the big things.  We get lost in the numbers and our simple, beautiful refined theory starts to look like one of those massive chalkboards covered with alien looking characters trying to describe quantum physics.

The same thing happens when we let ego, fear, insecurities, and biases into our equations.  We start gumming it up with numbers that have no business there and soon we can’t even figure out what the original idea was.  There are also a lot of other bad mathematicians out there. Then when you start letting others that don’t have your best interests at heart mess around with your math it can really gum up the works.

The problem is that very few of us are good at math, and we end up trying to come up with formulas for things that are nearly impossible to express mathematically, and certainly not within our limited knowledge of numbers.  We insert all kinds of things that don’t even belong there and then we are surprised when one day we look at our lives and it is an incomprehensible mess.  

Both sides of the equation have balance out, and that never seems to be the case with life, but it can be.  You just have to look at your equation and start working out the parts that shouldn’t be there.  If you’re having trouble doing that, ask for help from the people you can trust with your chalkboard and see if they see something you’re missing.  Sometimes the best thing is a new set of  eyes on it.  Again though,  don’t let anyone that you don’t trust at your work, or they will make it a point to change numbers on you while you aren’t looking.  These people are working on their own equations, and that math is nothing you want any part of.

The stars wish you luck.  They know it is hard working through all the algebra and calculus you have accumulated up on that board through the years without even noticing.  That’s the point though.  Life should be simple, like 2 + 2 = 4, so once you get it back to basics you won’t need to know all the advanced stuff.  Part of the math of life is keeping it to what you understand.  

Once you get into territory where the numbers are over your head you are lost.