Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Cancer season.
Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The body has been sending you the same message for months, and you have been answering it with everything except what it is actually asking for. The tight shoulder wants rest, not a harder workout. The shallow sleep wants earlier evenings, not a later bedtime. The persistent headache wants water and quiet, not another pill to push through. You have become expert at translating physical signals into their opposites, as if the discomfort were a problem to solve rather than information to receive. The year ahead asks you to stop negotiating with what your body already knows it needs. The conversation you have been avoiding is not with another person. It is with the part of yourself that has been trying to get your attention since last winter, and it will not be put off much longer.