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A reading for your birthday. Pisces season.
When we say pleasure is the goal of life, we mean not the pleasures of the debauched and the dull, but freedom from bodily pain and mental anguish.
Epicurus
Your Year of the Long Knowing. This is the year the thing you understood before you could prove it finally gets to stand in the open, recognized for what it always was. You have circled certain truths for a long time, patient in the way only you can be patient, and this year the circling ends. In April, a conversation confirms what you already held quietly. By midsummer, a decision that once felt impossible becomes the obvious one, and you make it without apology. The understanding you arrived at the slow way turns out to be the one other people needed, too, and watching them find it alongside you is one of the year's quiet pleasures. The relief of arriving is real. Let it be.