12/15/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:
The stars want to warn you that although you might be selfless and caring, your brain often is not. Your brain’s job is to get you whatever you train it to make it think you need. It is a mass of chemicals and electricity that has a few base functions that affect everything else it does. Everything you do is because somewhere your brain is getting you something it thinks you need. There are very few truly selfless acts.
Perhaps you've trained your brain into releasing endorphins when you do unselfish and loving things, and that's good. Your brain gets what it wants and you get to help others. Helping others simply makes you happy, and that's a very fair trade off.
You need to be aware of your motivations though. Sometimes we try to help others, but our brain has a sinister motive. Maybe you are helping because your brain thinks there's a chance of a sexual or romantic reward, when the person you're helping isn't even ready the something like that. You may end up getting what you think you want, but you will hurt them more on the long run and sabotage any relationship you think you will gain. You might think that you're helping when you're simply enabling.
Sometimes we use unselfish behavior and the fact that we helped someone to justify our own bad behavior. We deserve a reward, so we eat a high calorie meal when we're trying to lose weight. We have a drink because we deserve it, even though alcohol is affecting our life and we're trying to slow down. We ignore other responsibilities because we think we should get a break, but it will only taint our good deeds and leave you worse off in the end.
The brain is clever and resourceful, and will work nonstop to get you the things it thinks you need. It will even keep you in the dark about what's going on, destroying you because it thinks it's helping. Your brain only knows what you tell it, so be aware and be careful of how you present yourself and the world to it.
All this does not mean that the stars want you to be selfish, or stop helping people. The stars want you to keep doing good things, just examine why you do them and how it effects your own life. You're not helping anyone if you're only hurting yourself in the long run.

12/13/17

Today’s Horoscope

All Signs:
The stars are busy today, creating elements and solar systems and such, a giving life to a trillion planets, but they just want to tell you that it’s never as bad as it seems. Even though that old axiom is so often proven right, we still tend to think that this will be the time it will fail.
Don’t plan for failure. Don’t be afraid to be happy. Don’t let fear keep you from expecting the best out of life.
Life is full of little victories and small moments of joy. Don’t let fear of the unknown keep you from enjoying them to the fullest. Embrace happiness, and don’t make your happiness dependant on things that are almost completely out of your control or don’t have a direct effect on you in the first place.
We are human, so we tend to make some things bigger and grander than they really are and give them power over us, all the time diminishing the things we should be focusing on.
The stars have to go now, but trust them. Trust your fellow man. Trust yourself.
And just be happy.

12/12/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:
The stars need to remind you that there's always going to be disappointment and bad news. They can't lie, they have to warn you about the crushing defeats and the long, cold nights spent afraid and full of apprehension and worry. They wouldn't feel right about not being honest and letting you know that there will be times when you might think that all hope is lost.
But so what? You can wallow in that misery, and you can let the fear paralyze you and overshadow all the joy in life. You could, but you can look it in the eye and defy it. You can stand up to it, and hold your ideals and your dreams close to your heart, and refuse to let it bury you.
There are some tough lessons in your future, the stars see it, but it's not as bad as you think. At least it won't be, if you only have faith, and you get up off your knees and find that resolve that's always gotten you through before.
It's darkest just before the dawn, that's true. The darkness is so complete, and so overpowering at times. It holds you down, and it suffocates you, and it tries to fill every tiny bit of you until there's no light left.
The stars know that part of it, they do.
The stars will never leave you in that darkness for long, they will burn through it, searing the landscape with light and warmth and the energy only they can bring. So the stars know about the fear and the worry and the dark.
But then… The dawn.

12/11/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:
The stars notice that some people don't seem to like the holiday season. They gripe about everything, from commercialism, annoyance at Christmas songs, decorations being put out too early, you name it.
Although some of their points could be justified, ultimately some people just like to complain. The world has made them cynical, or they may have developed some misanthropic tendencies, or maybe they just like busting people's chops. Maybe they are just afraid to be happy because it hasn't worked out well for them in the past.
Don't let those people ruin your fun. The stars always preach about how much good there is in the world, and that's true, but we seem to get that good doled out to us on a very infrequent basis. So if one of those good things for you is the holidays, enjoy it to the fullest.
Play your songs and decorate your home and wear some ugly sweater. Be as sappy and dorky as you like watching Christmas specials from your youth. Celebrate your religious traditions, or buy too much consumer goods, the choice is yours. No one has the right to make you feel bad about it.
Also, keep in mind that often those people that like to be all “bah, humbug” about the holidays sometimes have underlying reasons. Maybe they are alone for the holidays. Maybe they have unpleasant memories about them. Maybe they just got old and forgot how to have fun. So give them a break too. People didn't even give up on Scrooge, and he found his Christmas spirit before it was too late. There are no ghosts coming to save them, so maybe a little kindness and sympathy on your part might make a difference.
The holidays are supposed to be about peace and love and goodwill and all that, so remember to keep that part of it in sight, too. The stars want you to enjoy this holiday time, because life is short and you don't get too many chances where the whole world is trying to be merry. You're foolish if you waste it.

12/9/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:
The stars want you to know what your reward is for a lot of the stuff you do. They want to tell you what wonderful things you can expect for being noble and true. What glorious prize you get for compassion, understanding, empathy, charity, unconditional love, selflessness, and being there for others. They want to list the amazing gifts you will receive and how you will get paid back in full for being that one special person everyone can count on for support and that unique and beautiful thing you possess by the grace of God.
You most likely will get nothing. The people you help will be too damaged or selfish to give the same things back to you. They will see you as a giver, and thus feel justified in only taking, because that's how they think it is supposed to work.
No, you will most likely never get back any of the things you give away. Most people won't even recognize what it is. So does that mean you'll end up with nothing?
The stars want you to know that's never the case. Sometimes we are just as bad at not recognizing gifts. You will have made a difference in people's lives. You will have given them a little something that maybe they can cling to when you're no longer there and they don't want to go on. That alone should give you the gift of knowing you matter, and you are capable of loving and caring and being true to who you are.
And that should bring you peace, and peace is something very few people in this world ever have the opportunity to experience. That is your gift, the solace of knowing you do the right thing, not because you expect compensation from the people you help, but because that's just what you do. Being able to live with yourself and love who you are. It's much more rare than you think.
That is your gift.

12/8/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:
You might sometimes feel like you try to do the right thing, only to be punished for it. The stars know that the world is full of people too damaged to appreciate love or what it takes to put others first, so our love goes wasted. We try to reach them, but there are times when we just can't.
It can break your heart to do so much for people and to have it only bring you scorn and pain.
What you have to understand is that even though some people might never truly understand the gifts you give them, others can see it. Only by being true to who you are and staying the course are you going to find people that do appreciate all you bring to the world, and who will cherish you for it.
When you give love and selflessness to the world, you're not only doing it to help and to heal others, you are doing it to help and to heal yourself, whether you know it or not.
And that's how the world gets better and that's how you find happiness.

12/5/17

Today's Horoscope All signs: The stars want to remind you that there's a lot of love in the world if you just take a moment to look. There's joy and happiness everywhere; an ocean of it, in fact. An ocean of love that somehow many of us manage to not see. Even in the face of injustice and misery, in spite of every evil and sadistic plan some might have in place, goodness blooms. You simply need to want to see it, and you will. Every single moment, billions of oppressed and downtrodden people find a reason to smile and share a laugh. Each second, somewhere there are people in agony and distress, and still they are kind, and they get that kindness back. The world is full of people, bereft and heartbroken, crushed beneath the wheel and struggling against the odds. Yet they still find some reason to believe, and they go on, and they do it without losing their love and empathy and their humanity. They care for their children and families and friends, and they help when they can, and they somehow manage to put others first despite what they are living with. They refuse to accept that there's nothing good left. They refuse to give in and stop living just because part of their world has crumbled. They will not make the world worse for others because someone or something made it worse for them. And they find laughter and happiness, and they pass it on, and that's why there's an ocean of love in the world. Because why would we ever choose to live without one?