Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
In the pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.
Lao Tzu
The habits that once kept you safe can become the same habits that keep you small, and the line between the two is not always clear until you are standing on the wrong side of it. What started as a reasonable way to manage an uncertain situation has grown into something that manages you instead, and the thing you once did to create space now fills all the space there is. You know this habit the way you know the shape of your own room in the dark, but knowing it and knowing when it stopped serving you are different kinds of knowing. The year ahead asks you to notice the moment when reaching for the familiar response feels more like a reflex than a choice. This is the year you learn that sometimes the most caring thing you can do is to stop doing the thing you have always done to care.