The Quote You Need To Read This Week, Based On Your Zodiac Sign
Aries
Not giving up on yourself — not giving into your worst impulses — doesn’t always look like winning an invisible war, but rather, putting your hands up and finally asking yourself, what do I need to change here? It’s finally surrendering to the strength within that has been trying to tell you that you’re off track. It’s finally learning to work with yourself, to follow your own guidance. To listen, to hear, to respond. To love yourself in the most basic ways. To understand that your lack of constant momentum is not a defect within you, but a guide so strong, even your strongest attempts cannot overpower its wisdom. It is coming into the knowing that there is something within the quiet that needs to be heard.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Taurus
You cannot force what is not working. You will not bloom where you cannot deepen your roots, where you feel unsettled within yourself, within the life you are trying to build. You cannot force anything to be right, you have to listen. Listen to how you’re responded to, to how you fit. Your environment will be one of the single most important elements of your life’s journey, and it’s your job to plant yourself somewhere you can actually expand, you can actually connect, you can most easily step into the person you really want to be.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Gemini
You are allowed to outgrow the life you thought you wanted. You are under no obligation to stay in places you no longer want to be, even if those places exist only in your mind and heart. You’re allowed to move on. You’re allowed to evolve. You’re allowed to change. You’re allowed to become who you actually are.
Molly Burford, Moments To Hold Close
Cancer
It is a sacred thing to be sensitive, to feel deeply and let those emotions weld you into the wholest parts of who you are. To be willing to open up the deepest internal aspects of yourself, and to bring yourself to a new awareness each time. It is a sacred thing to embrace the parts of you that make you most human, that make you most honest and raw. It is a sacred thing to be able to feel a whole may just move through. Don’t ever let anyone take that away.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Leo
Some tough news:
Some people will give up on you. They’re going to doubt you and dismiss you and misunderstand you. There are going to be people who consider you to be too much or not enough or nothing at all. These are not your people.
Some good news:
There are people who are going to fight for you and with you. They will believe in you and speak up for you and be able to translate your heart. There will be people who consider you to be overflowing with goodness or a wallflower they feel so lucky they decided to water. These are your people.
Molly Burford, Moments To Hold Close
Virgo
If you are going to judge yourself by anything, do it by how bravely you weathered emotional storms. Do it by how many imperfect hearts you’ve loved, you’ve seen nothing but goodness within. Do it by how many times you’ve laughed until you’ve cried, how many times you’ve been the best kind of friend. Do it by how many times you’ve faced your fears and got up again despite it all. If you’re going to judge yourself, don’t do it by what you had to do in order to get by, don’t sum yourself up by what you did to heal. You are so much more than what you’ve survived.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Libra
Choosing peace isn’t always so gentle at the beginning. Sometimes, it’s screaming out all of the pain that you’ve tucked so deep within yourself, as thought you could hide it out of existence. Sometimes, it is finally setting a boundary. Sometimes, it is saying no. Sometimes, it is uprooting from everything you’ve ever known and beginning again where your soul finally feels free. No, choosing peace isn’t always so kind at the onset. Sometimes, it’s a hurricane that finally waters the deepest gardens of your soul.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Scorpio
You will learn how to peace your own peace. You will learn what battles are worth fighting for, and which aren’t. You will learn how to hear your own intrusive thoughts and not believe them. You will learn how to confront a challenge and not assume your own failure, but instead try — actually try. You will learn that things do not improve surreptitiously but as the result of practice. It doesn’t get easier, but you become more resilient. You become more willing. You become better at bringing yourself back to your center and trying again.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Sagittarius
You are not obligated to stay anywhere that you feel like a fraction of what you are. You don’t need to stay anywhere where you don’t feel loved. Treasured. Celebrated. You are allowed to walk away. You are allowed to walk away from people and situations that drain your energy, wear down your spirit, and leave you questioning your worth. You get to decide. You get to decide which people and places will be blessed with your presence. You get to decide who may feel your glow and who must live with your absence. You are not so firmly planted anywhere that you may not leave when you feel you don’t belong there any longer.
Parm K.C., you will feel whole again
Capricorn
It is the courage with which you are willing to identify your shortcomings and name your failures and attempt to rise beyond them that will define the edges of your heart an depth of your soul. It is not whether or not you have ever made a wrong turn, but whether or not you were willing to find your way back to the path.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
Aquarius
Let go of your attachment to the old you. Appreciate that you are not defined by who you used to be, what you used to think, and how others used to perceive you. Within our lifetime, we are a thousand different people. We are constantly evolving and who you are today may have nothing in common with your past self. If you cling to the old pieces of yourself, you will never reach the potential of who you’re meant to be. That frozen feeling that so many of us have — the one whose root cause is so hard to identify — it comes from the grip we have on our past. You must grieve and then let go of your past self to step into what’s meant for you.
Parm K.C., you will feel whole again
Pisces
It takes a lot of heart to be who you are. It takes a lot of courage to show your truest self to the world and be okay with not being received by everyone, with not being seen. It takes a lot of self-trust to stop adapting to tides that come and go, but to stand firmly in who you know you are. It takes a lot, and it matters a lot, because our self-concept is the foundation of every single experience you have while alive. It is the filter through which you come to know it all. When you are firm within your truth, you may lose some approval, but what will you gain? That is immeasurable. Infinite. That is what it has always been about.
Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year