10/16/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want to celebrate women. The stars watched humanity from its infancy, and they know we would be nowhere without women. In the beginning, the gods were women, nurturing, where birth began. They were the life givers, the goddesses of spring, the matriarchs of creation.

But soon came the gods of war, the destructors, the eaters of souls and bringers of death. Where women create life men take it.

And the women, along with those fertile gods, were regulated to the back of the line, subjugated to toil as second class citizens while the patriarchy took hold. Treated as property, with no rights and no freedom and no place in society but behind a man.

It has only been in the last century or so that women have regained some of their stature, but there is a long way to go. The stars are sickened by what they see, and by how many men still treat women with contempt or indifference.

They cannot understand why this is so, because they profess to love women, yet they still seek to keep them down, to control and intimidate them. They use them, and hurt them, and lash out at them, and dominate them, all to aleve their own insecurities and shortcomings.

They see it as strength, when really it is a glaring weakness. They are scared little children, many of these creatures that call themselves men. They not only hold women back, but like all frightened souls, they hold themselves and the entire human race back.

They are too petty and confused and myopic to understand that when they damage women, they damage mothers and wives, the very people that shape and mold humanity.

Sociopaths run the world, and the world is run by men, and the stars weep because that is a recipe for self destruction.

And that's what the long and troubled history of mankind has been since woman went from being revered to being feared. Men will find out when it is too late that the harder you try to control something and hold it down, the more it power you give it, and the bigger it will blow up in your face.

The stars eagerly await the day the sleeping giant awakens and the women of the world stand up and take back what is theirs. The stars know that they will do so not with violence, but with grace and strength and the kindness that makes them the only ones worthy of bringing life into the world.

No wonder tiny and inconsequential men are terrified and intimidated by them.

10/15/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars see how life treats us sometimes. They watch as it randomly takes everything we have. They see how it haphazardly slams us to the ground with no warning. The stars watch as we helplessly flail and just try to stay afloat when all hope seems lost and it can't get any worse.

And then for good measure, it manages to get worse.

The stars watch as we get our hearts broken time and time again, and they see us struggle with the fact that we often never find a satisfactory reason as to why. We do everything right, and the people who love us leave us anyway, sometimes in the cruelest way possible.

They see us take care of ourselves and our loved ones, only to have disease or horrid circumstance strike us down. They watch us strive for greatness and to try to make the world better, only to have it met with indifference or scorn.

They see our love go unrequited, our prayers go unanswered, our reasons for living struck down methodically, one by one. We often glibly repeat the mantra that life is not fair, but the reality of that is soul crushing at times. We are in control of very little in life, yet the things we can control are immense.

The stars also see that we still find some reason to go on if we look for it. The stars know that even with all this weight of everyday living, that we can still decide to keep going. We can learn to let go of failure and heartache, loss and bereavement. We can persevere and discover new magic and a new path out of the darkness.

Billions of us do it everyday.

Billions.

The stars know that you can too, and they marvel at us and take pride in us. Even with all that, even though we are devastated and dismantled, and have the cruelest tricks of fate visited upon us time and again, still our ragged hearts beat on.

And that is how we balance the scales against wicked chance and debilitating chaos, and find the strength to return ourselves once again to the light, and to the waiting arms of love. 

10/13/17 Friday Bonus

Today's Horoscope Friday Bonus

All signs:

The stars want to tell you that they're so proud of you making it through another week. They saw all that awesome stuff you managed to pull off, and they commend you on the efforts that didn't quite pan out. You'll get ‘em next time!

So take this weekend off, if you can. The stars will make sure that everything is still here when you get back. You can't hold the world up by yourself all the time.

Let it go for a bit, and catch your breath. Let the world turn without you for a change. It hasn't stopped yet. 

10/13/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars know that other people can exasperate you at times. They know that the world sometimes seems like it's full of people sent to make your life harder. They know that the rest of the human race can sometimes seem obtuse and incapable of understanding even the simplest logic.

They know that others seem hell bent on doing the wrong thing or taking the worst option.

But the stars want you to remember that everyone is just out there trying to survive and figure it all out themselves. They all have their own set of problems and obstacles, their own damaged psyche twisted and warped by malicious and well meaning people alike.

So give them a break now and then. The stars want you to remember that more often than not , you're the fly in the ointment from their vantage point as well.

We are all of us fellow travelers, weaving our way through the senseless pain and mediocrity of life, trying to navigate with a faulty map and a refracted view of the heavens. 

10/12/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want you to know that you can be what you want to be, as long as you believe in it. If you have conviction, and you stick to your principles, people will respect you.

If you are faking it, or have any self doubts, everyone will see through it in an instant. That's why integrity and self esteem are so important. That's why believing in yourself and being true to who you are matters. That's why self examination and endless scrutiny of your role models and the knowledge informing your decisions is crucial. That's why comprehension and independent thinking are necessary to give you the foundation and nerve to stand for what you know.

It takes work and time and trial and error to figure out how the world works and where you fit in it, but once you do, you decide your own fate. You can conquer the world. You can fit in anywhere and hold court with anyone. Or you can simply live free in the knowledge that nobody controls you, nobody intimidates you, nobody runs your life. You stand or fall by your own accord.

That ability lies within reach for any of us.

The stars want you to know that you have that option, because if you don't take it, someone else will. As always, the choice is yours.

Choose wisely.

10/11/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars are tired. That's okay, everyone gets tired from time to time. It's allowed. Sometimes we push ourselves, even when we feel like we're overwhelmed or running on empty. At times you have no choice, there are things they need to get done, and people that need you to do them.

The stars are constantly amazed at how far we can push ourselves when we have to. They marvel at the vast reserves of energy and strength we possess. They see how we keep grinding, and come through for those who need us. We are capable of amazing things.

They are also shocked at how so many of us don't take the time to thank the people that do so much for us. It's a sad fact of life that when people are always there for us, we begin to take them for granted. Sometimes we even grow to resent them. We start to feel bad because we see ourselves as a burden, and it's easier to resent them for some vague reason than to just admit we need some help now and then. We start to compare ourselves to them and we feel inadequate, and we end up taking that out on the people trying to help us. We make it harder on them.

That is your ego chafing. The people that love you help you because that's what they do. They don't expect praise or rewards, but when you treat them like servants or take them for granted, or try to spite them, they can come to regret spending so much time and energy on you. For all their effort, they end up feeling used or mistreated.

The stars are tired, but they are still here to tell you that you better take a little time and effort to let the people you count on know that you recognize it. Make sure you're treating them well. It's the least you can do. Maybe someday you'll be the one that's there for them, and you can repay them that way. In the meantime, thank them and appreciate them now, because nothing's guaranteed.

Thank them now, or they may not be there for you next time. You'll long for the times they were so weary, yet somehow they still propped you up, still moved you forward, when they could have just as easily called it a day.

Now the stars are going to get a well deserved rest, but don't worry. They'll hear you if you need them, and they'll come running, as always, shining their light down on you. Just don't make them regret it, or one day you could find yourself lost under a dark sky, with no one left to help you navigate home. Even stars have their limits.

10/10/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars are sad that we all lose our innocence at some point. Life chips away at it from an early age. You find that there's no such thing as Santa Claus, or that your parents are the tooth fairy. You learn television characters aren't real and life is full of bumps and bruises.

Some people lose their innocence in big ways when they are young. Their parents split up, or die. They grow up in a household of abuse or addiction. They have to deal with childhood illnesses.

Our teenage years take a heavy toll on our innocence. We learn about heartbreak and popularity and bullies and failure. Few of us make it to our 20’s with our innocence intact. It's probably not healthy to get that far and still be shielded from the real world.

At any rate, many of us that lose our innocence spend a large part of our lives trying to get it back. That's not possible. You can't unring a bell. You are never going to be able to return to that place where everything seemed easy and safe and warm.

That's okay, though. The stars want you to know that you can still hold onto the things that make life wonderful and magical. The fact that you are so far away from that innocent and naive person you were just makes those moments all the more special.

More importantly, you can use those memories and longing for simplicity to provide it for your children, and let them live in blissful ignorance for awhile longer. Perhaps that's why we have children, a selfish desire to be as close as we can to that deliriously happy state, before we learned how cruel and twisted things can be at times. It's why it hurts so deeply when we see our children struggle with even the simplest setbacks. We know where life is taking them.

The stars want to remind you, no matter how much you ache for that lost simpler time and feeling of security, it was never meant to last. It was only temporary, because the stars know what lies ahead. They knew you needed to experience that feeling for as long as you could so you had something to ground you and tether you to the world once you grew up and got down to the business of being a person.

So keep those memories safe, but let them just be that, fond memories. Now you have things to do, and maybe someday we will work it all out, and life can be simple again, and we can all find our way back to that innocence we crave so much.