Horoscopes: Virgo

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By all rights, being born under Mercury's most potent sign would make it easy for you to get to the essence of what you want to say. Yet often it's more difficult than that. Your ideas get mixed up with your emotions, and therefore lost in the sauce. That, however, is the simpler equation to solve. The more complex one is the influence that other people have on you. It's easy for you to get lost in their notions of what's supposedly true for you, or what's true in general. The first thing to do is to notice this influence. It's not so easy and it takes willingness and perceptiveness. Lately your relationships seem to come with a kind of haze that can fog over your relationship with yourself. It's possible to address this in a peaceful and productive way. The thing required is a commitment to being clear with yourself. You cannot escape having feelings, nor do you want to; though it will help if you observe your feelings and notice how they change. You will benefit from a balance of reasoning, intuition, and instinct. Check in with all three. Notice when you're feeling fear. Notice when you want something, or someone, and you're not admitting that fact. Here's a clue: When you feel like you might be betraying someone, you're most likely to be honoring your own will.