  | | Balanced Optimism | Cancer Horoscope April 30, 2020 You may feel optimistic today, which could put you in a generous mood. Consider thinking about ways to share your good fortune with others. Though this optimistic outlook is a wonderful gift, you might also devote some attention to looking at your life from a more rational viewpoint. Instead of getting carried away by whims, you can learn to temper your desires by being realistic. A good way to do this is to closely examine your impulses before acting on them and ask yourself questions about whether following through on these impulses is best for you in the long run. By first examining the possibilities and potential consequences of acting on any whims you might have today, you can avoid making hasty decisions that you might regret later.
When we choose to balance our impulses with rational thought, we can more easily consider the consequences of our actions and make wiser decisions. Acting impulsively can be tempting but may not always be the best move for us. If we can put our emotions aside momentarily and use the power of our rational thoughts to examine situations more closely, we can usually devise a solution that will satisfy our emotional and practical needs. We can then avoid unpleasant consequences and create a more balanced decision-making process. By making an effort to balance your whims with rational thinking today, you can use your optimism to its best potential. |
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 | | Acknowledging Our Pain |
by Madisyn Taylor Some people seem called to help others, often from very early on in their childhoods, responding to the needs of family members, strangers, or animals with a selflessness that is impressive. Often, these people appear to have very few needs of their own, and the focus of their lives is on rescuing, helping, and healing others. While there are a few people who are truly able to sustain this completely giving lifestyle, the vast majority has needs that lie beneath the surface, unmet and often unseen. In these cases, their motivation to help others may be an extension of a deep desire to heal a wounded part of themselves that is starving for the kind of love and attention they dole out to those around them on a daily basis. For any number of reasons, they are unable to give themselves the love they need and so they give it to others. This does not mean that they are not meant to be helping others, but it does mean that they would do well to turn some of that helping energy within.
One problem with the rescuer model is that the individual can get stuck in the role, always living in crisis mode at the expense of inner peace and personal growth. Until the person resolves their own inner dramas, they play them out in their relationships with others, drawn to those who need them and often unable to acknowledge their own needs or get them met. In the worst-case scenario, they enable the other person's dilemma by not knowing when to stop playing the rescuer and allow the person to figure it out on their own. However, if the rescuer finds the strength to turn within and face the needy aspects of their own psyche, he or she can become a model of empowerment and a true source of healing in the world.
Some signs that you or someone you love may need to rescue the rescuer within are inner burnout from overgiving; underlying resentment; an inability to admit to having needs of one's own; and an unwillingness to be vulnerable. Help comes when we allow ourselves to admit we need it, acknowledging our humanity and our wholeness by acknowledging our pain. The understanding we gain in the process will naturally inform and inspire our ability to help those in need to do the same. |
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| | Tap into Your Intuition | Cancer Horoscope April 29, 2020 You could be more in tune to your intuition today, and this could make it easier for you to listen to your inner voice's judgment. Realizing that your feelings can give you just as much, if not more, information than your rational mind might help you make decisions based on what is truly right for you on a visceral level rather than what you think may be the best choice. Learning to listen to your intuition more closely could allow you to tap into this font of wisdom more successfully. When faced with a decision today you can close your eyes and simply ask yourself what is the best course of action. You may find that the answer comes to you in the form of a whispering voice, image, or physical sensation and that this insight can lead you to do what is really right for you.
Finding a way to access our intuition enables us to make choices that affect our lives in the most positive way. So often our minds are filled with logical arguments and rationalizations for or against a certain action. Quieting ourselves enough to listen to or feel our instincts, however, is a way to enter into our subconscious and find out what we desire from within the greater depths of our being. If we follow this guidance, we will almost certainly do what we really should do rather than what we think we should. By heeding your inner voice today you will truly act with your own best interests in mind. |
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 | | Wisdom Of The Owl |
by Madisyn Taylor For as long as humankind has recognized animals as teachers, wise men and women have recognized traits worthy of respect in both wild and domestic creatures. The cultural and spiritual significance of certain animals transcends geographical boundaries, unifying disparate peoples. Not so the majestic and mysterious owl, which has over many millennia served as the focal point of numerous contradictory beliefs. Though owls have been regarded with awe and fascination, they have also inadvertently served as agents of fear. Since owls are nocturnal, human-owl encounters tended to occur at night and likely when the bird was swooping silently down to earth to grapple with prey. Yet even as some shied away from the owl, calling it an agent of darkness, others recognized the depths of awareness in beautiful owl's eyes.
In the classical Greek tradition, an owl could often be found perched on the shoulder of Athena, goddess of wisdom, while owls could ward off bad luck in Roman lore. It is in Native American mythos, however, that the owl attains its own unique identity. Owls are patient messengers, bringers of information and the holders of wisdom, and they are capable of seeing the unseen. With their keen eyesight, they can glance into the soul to discern meaning and motive, and they are totems of truth. Unlike our distant forebears, we may never encounter an owl in the wild, but we can nonetheless internalize the wisdom of the owl by attuning ourselves to its most venerable qualities. Fully integrating the medicine of the owl into spiritual existence is a matter of considering how we might open ourselves more fully to the wisdom that can be found in the larger universe.
Should you find your efforts blocked as you commune with the owl, remember that it was not always revered as an icon of wisdom. This denizen of the nighttime has overcome many prejudices in its long association with humankind. To reveal those hidden elements of the self that impact your life for better or for worse, you must often make your way through the darkest parts of your soul as if you yourself are the nocturnal hunter. There is indeed darkness both inside the self and outside the self, but like the owl you can transcend it by drawing nourishment from the insights you receive when you penetrate it. |
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