4/5/18

Today’s Horoscope

All Signs:
The stars want to warn you to be careful of what you get used to. As humans, one of our best evolutionary traits is adaptability. Like everything else, it has its good and bad sides.
We adapt much to easily to whatever your brain perceives as the norm. Thus, we become complacent and used to abuse. We get acclimated to being depressed, repressed, controlled, ignored, bored, angry, sad … basically anything. We end up living a half life, simply because our brains don’t know the difference between adapting to the weather or a completely unhealthy lifestyle.
That is why you have to constantly expose yourself to new opinions and situations. That’s why you need to question what you are doing and why. You need to monitor your brain, because like any other tool, it is only as effective as the person wielding it. Many times we simply look for things to reinforce what our brains are telling us. That is evolution again.
Your brain’s job is to do whatever it is trained or predisposed to do, and do it over and over again until you either get the most berries or die out. That’s how evolution works. Try a lot of different variants from individual to individual and see what works best. It doesn’t care about what doesn’t work. The sooner that element is out of the equation, the better.
Even more important than our ability to adapt, is our ability to adapt the environment around us. We can control how we live. We can control how we let others treat us. We can decide what paths we want to go down. We are not beholden to some local food supply or shelter or tribe. We can decide who we listen to and who we ignore. More than any other animal at any time in history, we have more options, and more information to inform them.
As with everything important in life, it’s not always easy, but it is worth it. So always shake up your routine a little. Always look at the other side of the discussion, even if it’s an argument. If you feel like you aren’t happy or fulfilled, figure out why that is. If you are filled with anger or sadness or resentment, look into why that is and do something to resolve those feelings. Listen to your friends, and talk to them about the bad choices they are making, and be willing to accept their criticism as well. The more you isolate yourself, the more control your brain has, and the more you are apt to miss out on in life. Anyone that wants to control you wants to isolate you, and your brain is no different.
The stars want you to be happy, the stars want you to be free, the stars want you look back on your life and be satisfied when your done. That might seem like a tall order to many, but it’s really mostly a matter of awareness and discipline. It’s about overriding an out of control function of your brain that tells you that everything is fine when it really isn’t. The fear you feel when you think about changing is just another trick, a release of chemicals that make you act out of habit, the way you’ve been conditioned to.
The stars know that you are stronger than that. Many times the strength we exhibit in keeping ourselves in chains is greater than the strength it takes to break them. Most of the time, the cage isn’t even locked at all. Every once in a while, go try the door. You might be surprised how close at hand freedom really is.