Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Gemini season.
Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, though these are things which cannot inspire envy.
Viktor E. Frankl
A compliment that landed wrong often contains something true that you were not ready to hear about yourself. The person who said it saw something real, but they named it in a way that felt like being caught at something you thought was private. What stings is not that they were wrong, but that they were right about a part of you that you have been watching develop without announcing it to anyone else. The year ahead asks you to separate what was true in what they said from the way they said it, and to stop letting their phrasing keep you from claiming what they actually saw. Some observations about who you are becoming will always arrive in the wrong voice first, spoken by someone who noticed before you were ready to be noticed.