Daily Weather, 2.26.21
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Aries: We often think of happiness as a matter of accumulation or gathering our favorite things around us. But what about the pleasure of giving? Compassion is not some far-away skill to be studied with your mind. It is presence. It is responding from your deepest, quietest place. And to be useful to another, if only with your silent attention, is a gift that goes both ways. See the emptiness of giver, receiver and gift this month. Find a way to dissolve through.
Taurus: Consider how you are being supported during this time. Are there networks you can talk to or people to call to pick you up in a crisis? There is support also in those you can make things with, whose ideas bolster and lifts your up. These connections will be especially prominent this month, especially where you don’t feel comfort relying on others. What do you do to deserve the care of others? Nothing. Find a way to keep it so.
Gemini: “It’s not meant to be a strife,” Björk sings on “Undo” “It’s not meant to be a struggle uphill”. She’s right and this especially applies to you, dear Gemini. You are more and more focused on climbing up your individual mountain and the climb yields better results when you follow a flow instead of muscling through. We are taught to see our vocational paths as only hard work but what if it could be easy, a pleasurable listening? Try it for yourself.
Cancer: In “Eros the Bittersweet,” Anne Carson makes a connection between desire and knowing: “Both mind and wooer reach out from what is known and actual to something different, possibly better, desired. Something else. Think about what that feels like”. I encourage you to heed this last sentence. Let your studies this month have the taste of eros: reaching, insatiable, physically felt. Search for what you feel you do not know until it becomes a part of you too.
Leo: Whatever touches you this month sinks to the very bottom, dear Leo. While not the best for temporary flings, it can be quite useful in healing deeper wounds. Give yourself plenty of space to explore the dark and be judicious about who you let witness your process. Be on the lookout for the resources these trusted others can give you. The more you let your deeper feelings wash over you, the less burden you have to carry alone.
Virgo: What’s in the air that makes everyone else seem so charming? No matter: relish in the beauty of all you meet, trusting that what you see mirrors what’s already in you. It may take some time to adjust to the porousness of the next month, but simply ask a trusted other for their help in that area. The joy of partnership of all forms is currently cresting for you. Even if one is going poorly, you have the power to let bygones be bygones. Relish all the people you can be.
Libra: We tend to see work as a place of frantic activity , thanks in part to our capitalist system of exploitation. But there’s a way to enter activity with a clear and open mind so you’re not just going through the motions but they’re going through you. Can you find wisdom in washing the dishes and shopping for groceries? Can you let your body feel good just by breathing? Trust the simple things this month and your ability to accomplish.
Scorpio: Indulge in flings, dear Scorpio. Flirt. Let your charm out and watch it be returned. But know that just because a relationship doesn’t last a long time or is just talk doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect you. On the contrary, pay attention to the people you feel you’re supposed to know even if you’ve just met them. You have the potential to experience real, psychic meetings as well as a deeper growth. These people are just mirrors. What will you create with the results?
Sagittarius: What emotion do you feel entering your home or private space? Joy? Dread? Anxiety? Now’s the time to do what you can to bring luxury and beauty to your domestic sphere. Buy nice linens. Hang up art. Create protection rituals. Create a space that lets everyone who enter know that they are moving through somewhere sacred. Do the same with the part of you that no one sees.
Capricorn: In her poem, “Songs of Johannes,” Mina Loy writes of “[talking] till there were no more tongues/ To talk with”. Though words are clunky, poor approximations for our internal experience, they certainly aren’t nothing. Give yourself over the vivifying effect of good conversation. Let yourself be open to new ideas and find conversation partners who match your openness. The key word here is listening. That’s what allows the meeting to dissolve separation
Aquarius: What is your relationship to your resources, dear Aquarius? Do you wish you had more? Do you feel guilty for what you do have? I would encourage generosity with both yourself and others. Give to mutual aid funds and black people in need. But also give yourself the benefit of the doubt. Let yourself make mistakes and do things just for the heck of it. Treat your (ethical) desire with reverence. Practice reminding yourself you deserve everything you desire.
Pisces: Turn the charm up, dear Pisces, and see where it goes. I am more than confident that you will use your blessings well this month, that is, with altruism and mutual benefit. Dress yourself up. Wear lingerie under your clothes, or, better yet, a lacy bra as a top. Don’t doubt your allure and glamour. Use it to invite the right people closer and help you lose track of where you end and others begin.
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