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CAT
Today you're a velvet sledgehammer. When you talk, you hammer in your points, and when I speak, you respond with heavy, methodical pounding. A real conversation requires some give and take, doesn't it? It's easy to let gravity take over and simply let that square-edge hunk of lead take me down to a depth I never knew existed. What is one to do? The world is learning that the best defense is a good trampoline.
DIAMOND RING
Today you'll find yourself on the outside looking into your comfort zone. Scary, isn't it? Run up and rattle the locked doors and entreat the invisible gatekeeper with an existential howl: Let me in!! Please let me in!! If this is sounding a bit like Wuthering Heights, think again. There is nothing gothic about your situation. You are not a ghost inhabiting your own body. You are simply a person, forced by circumstances and a certain temporary weakness (one you've let happen to yourself), who is going through a rough patch. Call it disequilibrium. Call it "off your game." Call it anything you want. You need first aid for the heart. Don't even think chicken soup. There is no time for palliatives or half measures.
SATIN GLOVE
Before you get too self-congratulatory, think of your interconnectedness with others, to others. Do not merely observe them. Think of how they perceive the world. Try to understand their point of view. Reject or accept what you see - it really doesn't matter. What matters is the act of seeing. You are unconsciously causing pain somewhere, perhaps this will help you understand how and where, and if it is deliberate. If you are deliberately causing someone to suffer, remember the law of cause and effect. You will reap what you sow. Nothing revelatory about this - that's true. But, it's good to remember.
DEAD FISH
The only thing you can really change is your own attitude. You know this, but the mental discipline required to withhold pleasure from yourself, or to change self-gratifying habits is something you're not to eager to develop. And, why would you want to, anyway? The path of least resistance is attractive for a reason. If you feel miserable, simply find a way to blame something or someone else. You think I'm joking? Think again.
ROSE OR BEAUTIFUL FLOWER
Appearances deceive. You've known this for a long time, but it hasn't meant much until now. Today is a day to question. Probe, scratch, claw, dog, uncover new layers. Perhaps such curiosity and/or skepticism is not practical. Perhaps it is what you need in order to take yourself out of the superficiality that has begun to paralyze your higher-order reasoning. On the other hand, why not go along with the deception? Fantasy makes you feel alive.
SHOVEL
You may wish to express your feelings in your own idiosyncratic way today (as usual), and that is fine for you. At least you think it is. You're not thinking of your audience, are you? All you care about right now is the sense of relief you have after you've expressed yourself. You're not in trouble yet. You might be, though, if you require people to parrot back your own words or to demand that they express themselves in the way you want to hear. Funny how that works, isn't it? You're suddenly deaf to everything except to what you want to hear. Your best friend thinks you're a master manipulator. Your second-best friend thinks your behavior is fundamentally coercive. Is that good? Yeah, why not? Narcissists sleep well at night.
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