Born Today?
A reading for your birthday. Libra season.
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices available to us, and when the story no longer works we have to renegotiate it.
Joan Didion
Your Year of the Story You Choose Now. This is the year the old narrative about being the one who absorbs, who mediates, who keeps the peace at personal cost gets quietly retired, and a more accurate story takes its place. The skill you taught yourself without anyone asking, the one you built in the in-between hours because it called to you, becomes a clear and central thing this year. A door opens in late winter around something you made on your own terms. By spring, the balance you have always extended to others you begin extending to yourself with the same steady grace. Someone who watches you closely finally says the thing you have been half-hoping to hear, and it lands. This is the year you hold the middle and count yourself in it.