Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Gemini season.
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass, Autobiographies
Your body has been sending you the same message for months, but you keep answering a different question than the one it is asking. The tight shoulders are not asking for a better pillow. The restless sleep is not asking for a new routine. The headache that arrives at three in the afternoon is not asking for more water. What your body is actually asking is whether you are willing to stop doing the thing that requires you to override what you already know. The conversation you keep having in your head about what you should do next has been missing the point. Your body already voted. It has been voting the same way every day, and the message is not subtle once you stop translating it into something more convenient. The year ahead asks whether you are ready to let your body's answer become your actual answer.