7/23/13

Small Dark Jewel

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I was six years old when my parents told me that 
there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me." So said 
the Leo science fiction writer Greg Egan in his story "Learning to Be Me." 
Let's pretend that you, too, have a small dark jewel inside your skull 
that's learning to be you. It's a good metaphor for what I believe has been 
happening all these years: You have been gradually mastering the art of 
being the best Leo you can be. It hasn't been easy. You weren't born 
knowing how to be your beautiful, radiant, courageous self, but have had 
to work hard to activate your potentials. Now you're moving into an 
especially critical phase of the process: a time when you have the chance 
to learn how to love yourself with greater ingenuity.