Today’s Oracle takes us to the Cancer weekly for Oct. 28, 2008.
Achievement has not come easily for you in recent years, though having extremely idealistic goals certainly has. The polarity between the two states of being has at times been painful to stretch yourself across. You have surely made an effort, and you have been patient; this has taught you something crucial, which is temperance. You have wracked your spirit on many debates over the ethics of your choices, and have often tried to live as if you were spiritual rather than simply real. Deep in there you have questioned whether you are a good enough person to deserve success. Has it occurred to you that so much that you’ve been trying to work out was not your own personal material but rather the legacy of the parent who tried to cast their shadow over you?
That shadow seemed like light; it was veiled in terms like ‘growth’ and ‘mystical’ and even ‘cosmic’, or maybe it just seemed like normal circumstance. It may have simply been someone’s religious trip that was endured by someone in a time before you lived; God knows there are plenty of them in our DNA. The message of Pluto’s entry into Capricorn is that it’s time for you to define accomplishment on your own terms. You set your own objectives and you determine the extent to which you need to go to make something happen in the world. Yet the more compelling point is this. Success is not doing what is expected of you. Often it is about specifically giving up those expectations, and taking up the responsibility and the privilege of independence.
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Dearest Eric, have been away this weekend, so have only read this now. It is truly amazing and so very very helpful. Thank you so much.