Today’s Oracle takes us to the Taurus weekly of March 19, 2004
You need to get through an emotional bog and you’ll be fine. This one comes stamped with the “what am I doing with my life” DNA marker. This may in fact be a crisis of rather large proportions right now; I would not be surprised if you were dealing with a sense of failure and sacrifice that you suddenly realise is rather old. For many reasons, you are getting the point this time around. But you must squarely address the question of sacrifice. Why is it such an important concept? Whose idea is it? I assure you — it’s nothing original. But to get beyond it, you need to be vigilant about what you believe.
(The Daily Oracle is a random selection from one of 10,000 Eric Francis horoscopes. New horoscopes by Eric are published weekly plus twice a month in Planet Waves Astrology News and Planet Waves Light. The Oracle itself is a divination tool available to subscribers to either of these services.)
Susyc (not Q), here’s a voice for you, “I Love you. You’re perfect in all your ways. Please, continue to lavish this existence with your blessed being.” If I could Love you anymore than I already do I’d probably implode on myself, and that would be a mess!
Take care cat, we’re here to push this one through…
Love ya,
Jere
Dear Amanda,
Well. I sure hope the picture of those beautiful tulips, I believe, and hyacinths that you posted brought you out of the bog like they did for me today. hugs, to all
I have had to actively fight with myself, my voices, about their content and the beliefs underlying them. Sometimes the thoughts were about me, horrible thoughts pointing out why I deserve only evil in this world. Other thoughts predicted evil in the world or evil happening to close loved ones. I had to scream at those voices sometimes and present evidence to show why they were so wrong. It surprises me now how powerless I used to feel over those voices. Now it’s easier –I don’t hear them so much and when I do it’s more a matter of gently turning away most times than fighting. I have to listen more closely now for limiting thoughts; thoughts that tell me I must sacrifice self-expression to work, family, partner …thoughts that tell me I can’t have a room of my own. All I have to do to have that room of my own is what it takes.
I’m figuring out Amanda, that an essential component of coping is beginning to see and accept the learning curve as a continuum — that there is no destination per se, where life knits together and definitive goals are reached. I pulled up the OSHO tarot card *Traveling* yesterday. One line worth mentioning from the commentary was: “He or She knows that the journey is the goal, the pilgrimage itself is the sacred place.” That one is hard to flow with, when a day such as today feels so “boggy.”
Luckily I am blessed to be able to take some time out today to work with familiarizing myself with foggy, boggy mercury rx — totally hear you on those “negative thought loops”! Not nice. Essential to challenge them with something upbeat like: “This too will pass” knowing, as astrologers do day in and day out, this to be the case. The compassionate journey of reaching out to others that I’ve been navigating down of late needed a pit stop so badly today! It helps make the pilgrimage much less………*grim*; to slow down and honour the recharging of the batteries for another round.
All the very best today for “unsticking” yourself and going with the breathing and the balancing. I’m right alongside you, without a doubt.
yes, shebear, i’m having one of those days, too. woke up to the dreaded negative thought-loops weighing me down in bed. every time i think i’m getting better at mindfulness with those, they pop up again.
guess i’ll just keep breathing…
i think part of the sticky part for me is figuring out that balance between giving myself the gentle space to simply be where i’m at without judgment, yet without giving energy ad focus to the loops and the frustration they breed by trying to change them. or feeling guilty about all of it.
yeah, still facing the learning curve, here.
So true Amanda, *so* true. Like on days like today. For me anyways.
Tips on keeping oneself on an even keel would be greatly appreciated. Especially from yourself Eric as you seem to have learned to ground yourself in true confidence and abundant strength, all the while maintaining that generous Aquarian moon……i recall reading that you had that aspect somewhere so I hope I’m right on that count?
I was wondering how you manage it all just this very morning, even before dropping in……
Spread the emotional intelligence around wavers. I think I’m managing and learning all the while, but the collective support (my mars, true node, vesta, hebe, quaoar on my M/C, ixion and juno — all in community minded libra — demand it so, being worked over by saturn!) all goes to make this girl function on all cylinders if she gets to plug in to her support and feel the gathered wisdom of the many………
😉
“You need to get through an emotional bog and you’ll be fine.”
haha. easier said than done some days.