Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Aries season.
The tongue I love is not my mother-tongue but I speak it as if it were. I do not come from where I sound as if I come from.
Derek Walcott
Your Year of the Clean Ask. This is the year you stop translating yourself before you speak, the year the question you actually mean comes out the way you actually mean it. A boundary you have been softening for someone else's comfort gets said plainly in June, and the relief is immediate, physical, unmistakable. A project stalls until you name what it needs out loud, and then it moves. Someone in your life has been waiting for you to ask the direct thing, and when you finally do, the answer is better than the careful version you had been angling toward. The no you give this year is a complete sentence, and the ask you make is exactly as large as the situation calls for. No translation required. You arrive in your own voice, and the year opens accordingly.