Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Aries season.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I am awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
The body that wakes up tired after eight hours of sleep is telling you something different than the body that cannot fall asleep until three in the morning. Both are messages, not malfunctions, and the year opening asks you to stop fixing the symptom long enough to hear what is actually being said. The headache that arrives every Tuesday, the shoulder that tightens during certain conversations, the appetite that disappears when you sit down to the work you thought you wanted — these are not problems to solve but data to collect. Your body has been taking notes on the life you have been living, and some of those notes contradict the story you tell yourself about what you need. The year ahead will teach you to read your own handwriting. What feels like rebellion might be the most honest thing you have said in months.