Scorpio

When someone says something nice about you and it feels wrong in your mouth, the wrongness is not about their words. It is about how tightly you have been holding the story of what you deserve to hear. The compliment arrives like a key turning in a lock you did not know was there, and suddenly you are aware of how long you have been guarding against exactly this kind of recognition. The discomfort is not the compliment failing to land. The discomfort is the compliment landing perfectly, in a place you have spent years learning not to expect it.