Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Taurus season.
...because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The small rules you follow to get through a difficult day are different from the ones you would ever explain to another person. When something hurts or overwhelms, you have your own quiet ways of landing back inside your own life. Maybe you eat the same lunch for a week, or take the long way home, or save certain songs for certain moods. These are the strategies that belong only to you, and they work precisely because no one else knows about them. The year ahead is the one that asks you to trust these quiet methods more than you have been willing to trust them. What you do when no one is watching has been keeping you steady all along. The birds that sing after everything goes quiet are not performing for an audience.