Today’s Oracle takes us to the TAURUS – Monthly of Jun 20, 2007
You seem to be hesitating, or creeping around the edges of a romantic situation or creative endeavor without entirely understanding why. You need to live through this one, but I can take an educated guess that the moral of the story will be reassessing why you are so self-critical; indeed, admitting to yourself that this is so. If you can feel this basic condition, you’ll be able to understand how it is that you are so easily paralyzed when it comes time to take certain kinds of chances in life. You may be sad that this quality has cost you so many opportunities, yet the greater loss has been approaching what could be physical and emotional experience from an intellectual perspective. This quality, commonly called “being in your head,” is so natural to you that you may not even notice, though I trust that at times you may be fully aware of the tendency. Yet note, it is only experience — not analysis — that will teach you to liberate yourself.
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I’m going to have this oracle framed. I never connected the idea of being in your head all the time with being self-critical. Brilliant.
“Yet note, it is only experience — not analysis — that will teach you to liberate yourself.”
I feel I am “in my head” almost all of my waking hours. Being in my head during sleep is natural and exciting(dreams), but being in my head after and before sleep can be oppressive to say the least. I always thought that more analysis (analyzing what I just analyzed) would eventually bring me to an understanding. I need to be more in the moment, experiencing the now and not worrying about the why, what, when, how. I will use this advice and stop thinking so critically of everything and nothing and start experiencing, NOW. Can’t have any genuine experiences on this damn computer though….goodbye & thanks