9/4/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars know that Labor Day is kind of the unofficial end of summer. Kids go back to school, there are more cooler rainy days than sun soaked ones, and sometimes this can get you a little depressed.

That's normal, but the stars want to tell you not to let it get you down. Every season has something to offer. Fall has all the colors and the crisp evenings. Even in the dead of winter, there is Christmas, the beauty of the falling snow, blanketing the ground and providing its own quiet world. Although the cold may chase you inside, the company of friends and family brings you warmth.

Then we are back to spring, and rebirth and the world turns green again. No matter if we like summer best, every season brings so much to your life. Each has its good and bad points, just like everything else in life, and if you don't like a particular season, make the best of it and it will pass soon enough. If nothing else, winter will make you feel all that more alive when summer comes again, like it always will.

So goes life, and we change with the seasons, and you shouldn't want it any other way.

9/3/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

This Labor Day weekend, the stars want to remind you that the work you do sabotaging and destroying yourself is usually harder than the work it would take to make your life a success. Plus, the wages are much worse.

Most of the time, you really have to work at making your life a mess. True, there are people that traumatize you or abuse you or just don't raise you well or provide you with good role models or the tools to cope. That's tragic, but after they do their job, a lot of people just end up taking over the business. They end up doing all the work to impede their own progress, shame and guilt themselves into self hatred, and completely ruin their lives and the lives of the people they love.

The thing is, it's a wide and varied job market out there, and there are a lot of good perks that come along with working on self improvement and positive change. You'll find it might be hard going at first, but there's so much room for advancement and fulfillment.

So you can work on making your life harder, or you can work on making it better, it's that simple. So quit your job if it's keeping you from being happy and making you hate yourself, and get into the business of being who you would really like to be. You're going to be working either way, so why not choose the job that makes you happy? 

9/1/17

Today’s Horoscope

All Signs:

The stars know that not all your dreams are going to come true, but they want you to know that you can get pretty damn close if you try.

The stars implore you to never stop trying, because often the only thing standing in your way is yourself. So aim high, and go the distance, and instead of believing that there’s no point in trying, you may discover that there is indeed some very important points, not the least of which is happiness. And the stars only want you to be happy.

Now go figure out what you want and start trying.

8/31/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want to tell you to be wary of resentment. Resentment is insidious, and can invade your life and ruin your happiness.

There are things that it makes perfect sense to resent. Sometimes we are treated badly and we become bitter about it. We can come to resent the unfairness in society or our political system. We can resent the way others take advantage of us, or use us as a doormat. As in many areas, there are plenty of bad situations to go around.

The thing is, you can soon find resentment creeping in where it doesn't belong. We fall in love and are deliriously happy, but soon we start to realize that commitment is a trade off. You give up a little bit of freedom for security. We are happy to do it at first, because when we were lonely all we wanted was someone to love us. Now we start resenting someone because we feel dependent or stifled. If we're not careful we will find that we've pushed them away, simply because we resented the fact that we needed them.

We can resent our siblings or parents for the way others treat them or you. Perceived favoritism or jealousy over achievements can breed resentment towards people that haven't done anything except exist and try to live their lives. A sister that gets a good job or a brother that gets a degree, and your petty mind turns your own disappointment in yourself into resentment when you should be happy for them. Or your parents get divorced, and one of them finds new love, and you take it as a personal affront and resentment grows because they want to be happy.

We even resent loved ones when they pass on. We are indignant, and feel betrayed by their death and let it sully the memory of all the good they brought to our lives.

There are a multitude of reasons why resentment infects your life, usually because other people aren't living their lives on your terms. We don't even see how unfair it is while we place blame and scorn where it doesn't belong.

Often when we find ourselves being argumentative it's because we are feeling resentment. The thing about resentment is that we know it's not valid most of the time, so we mask our real feelings and pick an unfair fight we often can't win, which only breeds more resentment.

So the stars want you examine your feelings, and where you find resentment, make sure it's justified. You just might find that you are tricking yourself into going down the path to self sabotage yet again, and that you should truly resent.

8/30/18

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want you to understand that it is very rare to truly see yourself as you really are.

You can never see yourself from anything but your own perspective, and that perspective is always skewed. You are always looking out from within, even when you're looking in a mirror. Even a three way mirror doesn't afford you the same viewpoint as any other person sees you. Our voice doesn't even sound like our own when we hear it played back to us.

We all have an image in our head of who we are, and that image is shaped by all our insecurities, our ego, our individual sense of beauty and fashion, of right and wrong. It can change on a dime, too. We will bop along thinking we are the same person we were five or ten years ago, and then one day we are shocked when there is someone in their 30’s or 40’s or older staring back from the mirror.

Who we think we are informs other's opinions also. People pick up on confidence or feelings of inferiority. Their attitude towards us is affected by our mood, by our joy or misery. Strangers can make snap judgments on who we are in the instant they meet us. That's not really fair, but how much in life is fair?

So a big part of how we see ourselves is knowing who we are, and being someone that makes us happy. Inner strength and beauty, confidence and security, comes from learning to know and trust who and what you are. The tricky thing is, unless you're a delusional narcissist, part of how you see yourself must come from others.

There are many people we are saddled with in life, whether by circumstance or conscious decision, who take their fears and insecurities and rage out on us. They judge us, mock us, abuse us and tell us we're ugly and wrong, just to make themselves feel better or in control. They project who they are onto us, and their self hatred manifests into insults and knife twists aimed at us because they can't stand to admit those things in themselves.

That's why to be truly healthy and to see ourselves as close to the reality of what we are, we need to have people in our lives that see us see really are, and accept us that way. The people closest to us help inform who we are, so choose those people wisely.

The stars also want to tell us that we often judge ourselves much more harshly than others do. We should give ourselves a break. The stars can see you from a perspective like none other. They see you across the millennia, throughout all time, from a trillion different angles and distances. You are made up of atoms born within them billions of years ago, so they know you on an atomic scale. They see you from inside and out simultaneously, and they know who you are and what you're capable of, and they are in awe.

See yourself the way the stars see you, and smile and swell with pride at everything you are and everything you can be.

Then go be you.

8/29/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:
The stars want you to remember that you are loved.
Your life is populated by the people that care about you and love you uniquely for all that you are. They love you for the same qualities on display for all to see, and for the special things only they see from their perspective. They love you for the things that you do and the way you make them feel. They love you for the kindness you've shown them, and the awe you inspire, and the courage you give them. They love you for your understanding and strength and the secrets you keep.
They also love you in spite of your shortcomings. We all have them. They love you, even when you didn't hear them when they needed you to hear. They love you, despite the argument you had, or the things said in anger. They love you, even though your romance didn't last, or you let them down or disappointed them. They love you, regardless of the times you couldn't love yourself.
And yes, sometimes it's not the same people that love you through your entire life. Sometimes they leave us, because of inevitable death that will claim us all one day. But their love lives on inside you, and in turn makes you capable of loving others because they taught you how. Love is energy, and like energy, can neither be created or destroyed, only transferred.
Maybe they are just gone because life has a way of putting us together and pulling us apart. We move, we grow, we change, and some of the people that love you fade from your life. Even though they are not in our lives, rest assured that they remember the love you shared, just as you do. It remains.
Even when some of the people that love you are no longer in your life, take solace that they did love you, and that means others will also. You are capable of being loved, and that means you will never truly be alone.
So the stars want you to realize that as your day goes on, and all the little things seem to conspire to drag you down like they sometimes do, that you are loved, and that's bigger than anything trying to hold you back.

8/28/17

Today's Horoscope

All signs:

The stars want you to know that you'll never know what you'll want from life if you don't know what life has to offer. Too often we stop looking for new ideas and experiences once we become “responsible” adults. Work, relationships, kids, all kinds of things get in the way of our wild tangents and wanderlust.

That's a shame, because there's always time to explore new things and put yourself in the middle of new situations. Life is a journey, whether or not you're taking advantage of that fact. There is a part of us that craves a comfortable, easily recognizable safe place, a quiet place where everything makes sense and you know where you have a roof over your head and where your next meal is coming from. That's something we are taught to strive for.

Often though, when we arrive at that place we are left feeling incomplete, like we are missing out on something we can't even name. We feel like there must be more out there, and there is. There is always more out there.

So the stars tell you to never stop exploring. Never stop trying new things. Even things within your own life, like your career, your hobbies, your relationships, your home town. You don't need to travel to the ends of the earth to obtain enlightenment.

You might have gone to school and gotten a degree, but most every career path offers a multitude of different branches and ways to grow and change and challenge yourself.

Maybe you have very strong opinions on a multitude of subjects, but those opinions only carry so much weight if you simply stop at a place and make your mind up without exploring more of the alternatives. Your opinions should sometimes morph and change with new information or a new perspective, and if that hasn't happened lately, you might be mired in complacency.

Maybe you hate the gym, but exercise comes in all forms. You might discover that hiking brings you to a place that offers peace along with the workout. Maybe running sparks some competitive streak in you that racing against others or just yourself brings you a feeling of accomplishment that war missing. Maybe swimming puts you in touch with your aquatic origins from the dim and distant past and brings you solace with muscle toning.

Perhaps you will take up a music instrument, or pick up a paintbrush or a lump of clay, or just start typing and find a voice you didn't know existed. You won't know if you have a talent if you don't give it an outlet.

The point is, you won't know what you want and what makes you truly happy without experiencing as much as you can, and finding out what all your options are in the first place.

The stars also want you to keep in mind that there is no guarantee that the experience is not going to be bad, but even then you can glean something from it. That's the risk, but most of the time it's nothing earth shattering, and you'll recover quickly.  Just as important as finding the things that fulfill us is figuring out the things that don't.

Whatever the outcome, just do it and learn more about what the world has to offer. It will be good for you, and good for the people around you.

The stars wish you luck on your journey.