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Scorpio is a water sign. Water signs are most prone to depression because they are very emotionally sensitive. Water is an element that is all about looking at the deeper emotional and subconscious currents in life that control our waking actions and behaviors.
We hide our light in the shadows. We become so entrenched with the shadow that we begin to think it’s who we are.
What is the limiting factor in your life? What is the main reason why you can’t live the lifestyle you want?
Thank you for loving us when we weren’t so lovable. Thank you for being patient with us as we grow, as we heal.
You may not have children, whether that be by choice or by circumstance, but there are little ones who you can still give your love, hugs, and joy to.
He died, and the way he saw me died, too. And I was left only with my reflection, only with my own unforgiving camera angles. Only with myself.
Jealousy The green-eyed monster. We’ve all had moments of feeling jealousy in our lives. It’s just one facet of the great range of human emotions that we all cycle through over time.
I search for my muse in the eyes of strangers and in the corners of cities, wondering which way my story will go.
I was just trying to get my degree, I rationalized. I could figure out the rest later. Deep inside, I had a feeling it wasn’t what I was meant to be doing.
The problem with these sorts of relationships is that they are totally emotionally based and do not involve any logic.
Go out and talk to random strangers in the street. Perform random acts of kindness just because you can. Pick up a book and read because you want to.
When I saw the self-addressed stamped envelope from the Florida Review, I could tell by the thinness of its contents that they’d accepted my story. The editor said it will appear in their summer issue and they’ll pay me $90. After six months and a dozen rejections, this story finally got accepted.
From November 24th and for the remainder of the year, we will all be impacted by the Venus and Jupiter conjunction in the sign of Sagittarius.
Moving on from someone you love is hard and strange and can sometimes take much longer than we’d like. But if there is one thing I do know, it’s that moving on is for everyone.
Look for the love that carries your heart and cradles to your soul. Look for the love that guides you and holds you and heals you.
I feel like you’re the one I’ve been searching for. Like I found someone I’ve been missing but forgot about.
What is it about me that screams “tempting, but not worth your time”? Why am I the only one who is always left behind?
ARIES: Make eye contact. Have deep conversations. Be clear about your intentions.
I hope you have the courage to keep loving deeply in a world that sometimes fails to do so.
Remember, people will not remember what you did or what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.
What better way to celebrate the holidays than remind ourselves how flimsy life can be?
According to Napoleon Hill, “The number one reason people fail is because they listen to their friends, family and neighbors.”
By tuning into the past, by constantly reliving a bad moment, you’re choosing to burrow yourself in a dark cave with no intention of finding a way out.
Take time for yourself to decompress and reflect on everything going on in your life. A lot of the time we get so caught up in everything that we sweep everything under the rug until it resurfaces again.
For a few years in the midst of the Great Depression, a criminal syndicate operated out of Philadelphia that combined a toxic mix of black magic, fatal arsenic poisonings, insurance scams, and unhappy marriages.
There are two mantras that I read mid-way through 2019 that led to the second half of the year being unrecognisable from the first.
I hope you trust that you’re more than capable of surviving the storm and you’ll blossom from the trial and tribulation.
It’s that time of year again: gifts abound, families and friends reunite, and we all begin to contemplate the ways in which we might be able to give back to our communities.
I wanted you to see me when you looked at me, instead of just a reflection of yourself. A tangible representation of what you created. A living, breathing, flawed human woman.
There’s a song for when you’re single and hoping not to get hurt again. A song for when you’re missing a loved one you lost. And a song for when you’re hoping a certain someone finally kisses you this December.
Even when you feel like you’ve taken steps toward healing, when you feel like you have your baggage under control, when you feel like you’ve put your trauma behind you, there are still going to be moments when your past comes back to haunt you.
SCORPIO: You’re sick and tired of getting walked over, getting underestimated, getting used.
I would recommend smudging your home with sage regularly, especially during the full moon and new moon to clear energy.
According to the Holmes-Rahe Stress inventory, moving is one of the most stressful life events a person can experience.
A part of me will always be the girl sitting on the floor, waiting for him to hug me and tell me we are going to be okay.
I will smile when I remember that I forgot about you. I will smile because my heart will be at peace.
The problem is, you never realize an almost is an almost at the time. In the moment, you think you’re building a relationship. You think you’re going to become an official couple soon.
Now’s the time for reinvention. Now’s the time to wake up to the possibility that life is meant to be lived.
