LIBRA (September 22-October 23)
You’re increasingly being drawn into a position of leadership, and, like many before you, you may be noticing that this can be a lonely place. If you discover that, you might pause and direct your leadership toward bringing people together. The world is awash with bosses, board members, directors, executive directors, chairmen, big chiefs, bigger chiefs, and even bigger chiefs. Look where it’s getting us. Rare to find are those who are tuned into human needs and responding to the absurd fear level on the planet. Commit yourself to being a reassuring presence. Devote yourself to holding space for people to be themselves, which means being different. If you’re in a position of authority, be conscious of fairness and respect; err on the side of those with disadvantages. This is the perfect remedy to any mood or feeling that you are left out or that the world is in some way being unfair to you. That may or may not be true, though even if you’re feeling it, that’s true enough. Respond with empathy, compassion, and mercy. If any such scenario is happening in your household or family of origin, you will indeed need to rise above past conditioning and forgive prior transgressions. But you have no need or duty to subject yourself to any further crisis or pain.
This article appears in July 2017 Issue.
There are times when the Libra horoscope is positively eerie in its accuracy, and that’s AFTER having had the same thoughts and awareness, and prior to reading it. So exact, that it does not seem to be a Barnum Effect.
But it is. What was needed at the time of the reading was the reminder to strive to not live in crises, and pain. But “forgive?” To forgive would be to be consumed by the pain, and not a Phoenix rising from the ashes kind of release, but plain old pain. Forgiveness requires a suspension of self. When the very essence of self is teetering, who could afford such sacrifice.