Today's Horoscope
All signs:
Every one of us has a love story. Many different ones, in fact. We fall in love with people, yes, but we fall in love with so much more.
We can be in love with our pets, with ideas, with places, with songs and movies and TV shows, with inanimate objects. We can become obsessive, protective, and consumed with just about anything in our lives at some point.
We are so complex and so varied that there is no shortage of passion, and things to occupy it. We fret about whether our dog or cat is happy and healthy and buy it treats whenever we go to the store. We spend whatever time we can painting or writing or sculpting or playing music because we couldn't imagine not doing it. We wash and wax our car every weekend, we camp out to be first in line to a concert or movie, we work long hours at our dream job. We dote lovingly over the things that bring us satisfaction and happiness, and we do love them.
But that's not our love story.
There is the love of our lives, the one person we were meant to be with. The one person for whom we forsake all others. We spend our lives searching for a partner, someone we can trust and bond with, someone we can count on and share all life has to offer.
And yes, there can wind up being several, because we fool ourselves and people change, and we just aren't very good at choosing a life partner. We are not meant to be alone, the fact that falling in love is so intense and the chemical reactions involved are so overwhelming illustrates that.
We can be in love with our children, too. And our parents and siblings and friends. Love has a million definitions within us all.
Yet none of these is our love story.
Our love story is with ourselves. And as we learn with all the others, love stories don't always run smoothly, and they don't always have happy endings. We tend to put more effort into loving just about everything else in our lives than we do in loving ourselves.
Perhaps we don't think we are worthy of love, after all, we truly know all our secrets. Especially the ones that we can't even vocalize if we wanted to. The fleeting thoughts that shame us, the irrational anger or attraction we feel that disturbs us. The things we let slip away, the times we gave too much of ourselves away. A lifetime of things we can't begin to reconcile or even admit.
So we go on, treating our one true love badly. Blaming ourselves, ashamed of our true natures, fearing what we might really be. Abusing ourselves, or even worse, neglecting ourselves in an attempt to deny what we already know. Letting fear and doubts keep us from our love.
The stars want us to understand that until you figure out just who you are and embrace it, you cannot truly love yourself. Your love story will never start if you don't even know your lover, and it certainly won't end well.
More importantly, all those other people and things you love will ultimately feel hollow and unfulfilling. Whomever you love will always see that void, that conflict within you, and it might sabotage all the other love stories in your life.
Everyone of us has a love story, and it is with ourselves, and only we can destroy it, or make it a love for the ages. It will dictate everything you try to accomplish, everything you try to be. It truly is the love of your life.
The stars need you to know that it all starts there.
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