When the Universe gives us a message

How a Horoscope Cheered Me Up

Intuitively I’ve often felt that family, and one very good friend, believe that I became a better version of myself when I met my husband.

Granted, my husband is a wonderful person.  I love him so much.  But my life did not just snap into a beautiful place when he showed up.

My suspicion was realized when a family member was talking about me and commented, “And then you met Dave” in the context of once I met my husband my life was all unicorns and rainbows.  Um, no.

No one can make us happy, give us peace, or a sense of purpose.

Of course, my husband touches my life in many beautiful ways.  He’s just not responsible for me working my bum off to release my limiting self-beliefs.

This person thought it was all about finding a nice man and that was doubly annoying.  Wow.  He made an assumption based on a lot of nothing and certainly not the truth.

Assumptions are annoying but common.  I wasn’t really sharing much about all the work I’d done so he made a sweeping assumption.

It even took me a while to share some of my transformative experiences with the very man who is credited with changing my life.  Years ago, what I was opening to was private.  It was unusual for me.  I was just beginning to nurture a small seedling of my spirituality and I didn’t want anyone stomping on it.  So I kept my weirdly wonderful experiences to myself.

Eventually, I tried more than once to share with my family member where my limiting beliefs started and how they had informed my choices.  But my experiences involved the people we love.  And this is not the kind of work everyone wants to do, or to hear about, regardless of the positive outcome.  It’s a choice.  I chose to take the rosy filter off and to take a look.  I couldn’t avoid it any longer.  Some have chosen differently.

Instead of burying the truth I concentrated on looking at my challenges and the possibilities that existed as I worked through them.

There were new positive habits, ideas and expansive perspectives to consider.  I pulled away from anyone who tended to be sarcastic or diminished me or was negative about life.  And I made better choices for myself and over time my life shifted in better and better ways.

A week after the family member’s comment, I’m reading the local entertainment paper.  I rarely look at horoscopes but decide to read my husband’s for fun.

Then I start to read my horoscope out loud and it was just how I felt.  We both laughed at how surprisingly on-target it was.  I giggled so much that tears were streaming down my face.  Here is how a horoscope cheered me up.

How a Horoscope Cheered Me UpThe world will never fully know or appreciate the nature of your heroic journey.  Even the people who love you the most will only ever understand a portion of your epic quest to become your best self.  That’s why it’s important for you to be generous in giving yourself credit for all you have accomplished up until now and will accomplish in the future.  Take time to marvel at the majesty and miracle of the life you have created for yourself.  Celebrate the struggles you’ve weathered and the liberations you’ve initiated…

Thank you Universe, it’s just what I needed.

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