LIBRA

LIBRA UNTIL 2008

Is it possible to be compassionate and truthful at the same time?

If, for example you have a financial problem , and you have to raise the prices of your services or lower quality to increase profit, even though you've vowed not to do so or it may not be in the best interest of others, what do you do?

One way is to create war and to make the whole thing so hostile so you can defend against your own improper ability to set up rules and boundaries nthe first place and then blame the other people for it.

Or you can quietly sit down and negotiate and offer a compromise. Or if you feel some of those old resentments coming up because you feel you are being totally taken advantage of or drained or somehow getting screwed, instead of getting furious and causing a major war, it would be wise to sit down with yourself and see how and in what ways you may have participated in the situation by NOT setting up proper rules and boundaries in the first place.

It's not always your fault.

Sometimes you don't see it coming. Sometimes you don't realize how people are playing you. But even more important, sometimes, very often you don't realize how you are playing people. And you do play people like crazy. All I'm saying is, you can't play people like xylophones and then get mad at them.

If you are really honest with yourself you will see that all relationships are the results of tacit understandings between the participants. And right now with Pluto in your solar third house, if you are honest, really honest not just about the wrongs others have done to you but how you have willingly albeit unconsciously participated and colluded with them, you will be a lot happier.

Your relationships will be a lot more successful and you will be able to take greater responsibility for your own life and for the situations in which you are finding yourself.

Iit's usually easier for you to mask everything, put another face on and talk around a subject until everybody else eis blue in the face.

Just be as real as you can be.

We all hide the real dirt from ourselves. We're all too full of guilt and anxiety to be looking head on into the eye of reality all the time, but your urge to make your statement, creatively, sexually or emotionally is enormous.

If you are frustrated from making that statement you will be angry and bitter and will tend to displace all that anger and bitterness onto all the wrong people and a million and one side issues.

Learn to listen to yourself, because everything that comes out of your mouth began as a thought. But not the thought you think you were thinking. It comes from way down at the base of your mind. Something deep, primitive, urgent, raw.

By the time it surfaces, buy the time you're ready to speak about it, it's something quite different.

And you have to learn how to understand that what you are saying isn't really at all the core issue.

End of lesson for now.

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