8/1/17

Today's Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want you to think about old friends you might have fallen out of contact with. Some people you outgrow, some people you realize are no good for you, and you might make a conscious effort to move away from them. That's okay, that's a healthy thing.

There are other people, though, whom you were close to, that somehow drifted away. Perhaps you were both consumed by other things in your life at the same moment, perhaps you moved or one of you got married, or there was a misunderstanding.

Whatever the reason, you now find yourself estranged from someone that you used to be close to and to whom you used to share a connection. You find yourself in situations where your first instinct is to think about them and how they would enjoy something you are seeing or doing at that moment. Your find yourself wondering what they would say about some problem or situation you are facing.

Yet for some reason, our ego, or pride, or more often our fear of rejection stops us from reaching out to rekindle a friendship that never should have ended.

So the stars want you to get over that. Life is too short to just ignore the people in your life that mattered and loved you and only wanted the best for you. Call them, text them, find them on Facebook, whatever you need to do to reconnect to something good in your life.

You'll find that although there may be a few seconds of awkwardness at first, that true friends pick up right where they left off. Even the best friendships take some effort at times.

When it comes to real friends, that effort is always worth it.

7/31/17

Today's Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want to take this opportunity to remind you that there are going to be instances that you are going to have to face dark times on your own. They also want to tell you that you shouldn't worry. The stars know you are more than capable of handling it.

We all rely on outside help and support at times, and we should be thankful we have it. Sometimes that help is not available when we need it, and it is then that we instead have to rely on ourselves. We should be someone we can believe in. We have gotten this far, and granted, we always have help from those who love us, but we are the ones doing the heavy lifting. Don't do all that work and end up with nothing to show for it. Every problem we work through, every tragedy we survive, every time we think it's all just too much, yet wake up the next day and get out of bed anyway is a triumph.

There are gifts hidden in even the worst aspects of life, and it is your job to recognize them and celebrate them, and pat yourself on the back when you conquer them. Let every struggle you go through teach you that you are stronger than you think. Mark each victory and hold onto it, and know that you can rely on yourself the next time adversity rears its head.

Sometimes the clouds obscure the stars and they aren't there to guide you. Ancient mariners sometimes looked up to the stars to plot their way, but the stars were hidden. They did not drop their anchor and give up. They stayed the course they knew, and they had faith they would get to their destination, and that they wouldn't sail off the edge of the world.

They knew the sun would rise in the morning, and the clouds would eventually part, and the stars would once again appear to help them on their way.

7/28/17

Today's Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want to remind you to have a little perspective. The stars in sky have the luxury of seeing the universe from all angles, across the whole light spectrum. We do not.

No one sees the world exactly as you do, and you cannot see things exactly the way others do. That means that oftentimes there is no definitive “right” answer. What works for some doesn't always work for everyone.

Everyone's circumstances are different, each of us has a unique upbringing and a unique set of needs, and complicated thought process shaped by those factors, as well as many others.

So if you go through life assuming that you are always right, and everyone else is doing everything wrong, you are setting yourself up for a lonely, bitter experience. The only way to avoid that is keep your mind open and try to envision things on a greater scale from multiple viewpoints. Instead of assuming someone is stupid or crazy for thinking they way they do, try to understand why they think that way.  Once you do that, you might find that there is a perfectly valid reason for them to think or act like they do, and you might even learn something that makes your life better or easier.

So the stars want to tell you that instead of berating or dismissing someone for their way of thinking, try to empathize and understand why they think that way.

That is how we gain perspective.

7/26/17

Today's Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want to remind you to keep your mind open to new things. People tend to experience arrested development when it comes to a lot of things. They believe that their music was the best and new music is horrible. They decide that they hate certain foods when they are young and never try them again. They think their generation was the best, and younger people are ruining the world.

They fight progress, simply because it seems different.

Well, your parents thought the same thing of your generation. And their parents before them. Instead of stalling your own personal growth and simply criticizing what you don't understand, try to use the extra time you've had on this planet to grow, and perhaps help younger generations make things better.

The stars also want you to go try new foods and retry the foods you disliked as a kid. Your tastes change as you get older, and you might find that you've been depriving yourself of some things you will really enjoy.

Don't fear or resist change, because change is the only constant there is. You will find yourself swimming against the current and going nowhere.

7/24/17

Today’s Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want you to know that they look down on the earth and see everyone and everything.  The problems you have are usually dwarfed by many of the things they see.  They don’t tell you this to try to shame you or invalidate your problems, your pain and struggle is valid.  You have every right to bemoan your circumstance and the whims of cruel fate from time to time.  

They tell you this simply because most of the time the solution to our problems is not an easy one or a quick fix.  This means we have a lot of free time in between the steps we take to solve the problems in our lives. Often we spend that free time worrying about our problems needlessly, and being frustrated and impatient.

You don’t need to be a star in the heavens to find other people with problems of their own.  They are in your life, in your hometown.  You pass them on the street everyday, you see them on the news.   You probably see impassioned pleas from people everyday trying to get people to help other people, or animals, or your community.  

Instead of spending your free time worrying, donate a bit of it to helping to solve other people’s problems if you can.  That can mean volunteering, donating goods or money, fostering or feeding rescue pets, manning phone lines, or even just picking up trash on your daily walk.  Everything you do that helps means you’re not hurting the world.

It will also make the time go faster in between the steps you are taking to solve your own problems, and perhaps you will get some help back in those areas from the people you are helping.  If nothing else, you will be doing something positive, and although the stars don’t believe in some cosmic positive energy storage tank that influences the universe, positive actions and thoughts lead to more positive thinking and action in your own life, and sometimes in those around you.

You can make the world a better place, or you can make the world more difficult for you and the next person, that choice is yours.  But if you choose to spend your time fixating on your problems in a nonproductive, negative funk while ignoring the rest of the world, the stars have a hard time feeling bad for you.  

No matter how you try to spin it, in the end you often get out of this life what you put into it.

7/23/17

Today's Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want to remind you to tell the people you love that you love them once in awhile.

It doesn't even have to be some earnest declaration of love, just a quick “I love you” before you hang up the phone or they leave your house. You can love a lot of different people in a lot of different ways, so let your friends and family know it. It can make a little or a lot of difference.

Maybe you have a problem saying it. Maybe you think it will lose its significance if you say it too often, or you don't feel comfortable expressing it. Fix that. It's not healthy.

And if you know someone that doesn't like hearing you say it? It makes them resentful or they feel they don't deserve it? Then love them all the more, because they are the ones that really need to hear it.

7/21/17

Today's Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars want to let you know that maybe there is no point. Perhaps there are no great answers.

So what?

It's Friday, so just let the search for answers go for a couple of days and just go out and find a little bit of joy and maybe make someone else smile while you're at it.

Maybe that's the point after all.