Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Gemini season.
I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there 's a pair of us—don't tell! They 'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson
The small irritation you have been carrying is not really about what the other person did or failed to do. It is about the fact that you asked a real question and got back a performance instead of an answer. You wanted to know something true about how they see the situation, and they gave you the version they thought you wanted to hear. What started as disappointment has settled into something sharper because it keeps happening, and now you find yourself watching for it in other conversations too. The pattern reveals itself everywhere once you start looking: the careful responses, the deflections disguised as enthusiasm, the way people talk around the thing instead of toward it. The year ahead will ask you to decide whether you keep asking the real questions anyway, knowing most people will answer the ones they wish you had asked instead.