Today's Horoscope
All signs:
The stars want you to understand that sanity is very narrowly defined, and like everything else, it is relative. Different cultures view vastly different behaviors as normal that we deem illegal or crazy. Travel a decade or two into the past and some of the things that seem perfectly normal today were outlandish or amoral. Some religious sects even today regard perfectly normal things as insanity or the work of Satan, which most people think itself is insane.
There is an evolutionary tendency in most people to define the norm and stick to it. We fear appearing different, or standing out. To get along, go along, our brain tells us. This advice was helpful millenia ago, when we were part of a tribe, struggling to maintain our niche in the ecosystem, but the stars have already warned you about tribes.
Nearly everyone who leaves their mark on the world has been viewed as crazy at one point or another. Being special means being different, and you should not be afraid of that. But that's not what this horoscope is about.
The flipside of this is that we tend to view anyone who thinks differently than us as crazy. We sometimes feel like the whole world has gone mad, and as far as our brains are concerned, we are right. We need to remember that it's all relative, not just for their sake, but for ours. It is frustrating and alienating to jump to that extreme every time someone reacts the opposite way we expect them to.
The stars want to remind you that other people see things from different perspectives, it's the nature of reality. It should be one of our strengths as a species, but instead, it is tearing us apart. We don't always have to agree, but we shouldn't just dismiss everyone else as insane.
That is insanity.
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