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A reading for your birthday. Leo season.
To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person.
Erich Fromm
Your Year of the Unfinished Leap. This is the year the thing you began before you were sure about it starts to show its shape, and the shape is good. You moved forward without armor, without the polished version of yourself ready to present, and that particular kind of courage is what the year rewards. By late spring, a beginning you almost argued yourself out of proves its worth in a way you did not predict and could not have planned. A relationship deepens into something that asks more of you and gives more back, the way the real ones always do. The pride you feel in September is the clean kind, the kind that comes from having stayed when staying was not the easiest choice. You went in without a guarantee. The year meets you there.