Today’s Oracle takes us to the Virgo monthly for Dec. 1, 2005
You are the master of the niche; the highly specialized role with which nobody can compete, and few can imagine is possible, yet what many need. There is a catch, though. What having a singular place in the world does is withhold from you many benefits of relating to others as a sport. And there is much to be said for healthy competition, team playing, and a bit of rough and tumble for its own sake. You can do quite well for yourself in a state of isolation, but it’s way, way too easy for you to lose touch with the larger reality of life around you. Therefore you must be content to be different, and to assess your effectiveness in a way that is fair, and be willing to do so without making too many comparisons. As you well know, comparisons bring you down, but that’s only because they are inaccurate measures of anything even worth considering. You stand on your own merits, and you always have.
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I lovelovelove that this is your takeaway from the niche dilemma: ” Therefore you must be content to be different, and to assess your effectiveness in a way that is fair, and be willing to do so without making too many comparisons.”
So many, fearful of the intensity of truly empowered difference, would have us ground ourselves in “normal” people such that we’d be fed that comparison by default, thereby consistently undermining the difference that we came here to embody.
Again, a powerful Ericle.