Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Gemini season.
One day," you said to me, "I saw the sunset forty-four times!"And a little later you added:"You know-- one loves the sunet, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The words that were never said can hold more weight in your life than the ones that were, and sometimes a single missing sentence carries the entire shape of what went wrong between two people. You have been living around the edges of something someone should have said to you but did not, and the silence has become its own kind of conversation that plays in the background of other conversations. The thing about an apology that was never offered is that it teaches you to listen for what is not there, and once you learn that listening, you hear the missing pieces everywhere. The year ahead asks you to notice how much space you have been keeping clear for words that are not coming, and what you might do with that space if you stopped waiting for someone else to fill it.