Sifting

This is not the time for one of your makeshift, just-in-the-nick-of-time, band-aid-style quick-fixes, Gemini. In case you haven’t noticed, time is accelerating (or at least our experience of it)… which means that any temporary scotch-tape-and-paper-clip solution will hold out for an even shorter duration before you’ll find yourself back in the same boat, needing to really address the situation. That’s why I’m instructing you not to bother wasting too much effort on repairing any bits of your life that are already on their last legs. Sooner rather than later, you’re going to have to replace the whole thing anyway. Why invest in something with a neon-flashing expiration date? Be more creative than that. Any reluctance on your part to start from scratch is obviously largely motivated by fear… and of course you’d likely be scared to skip right past the small short-sighted tweaks, and into the lair of the Vast Unknown where lives launch off into wild detours on a spark of philosophic inspiration. But, ooh, the freedom! The adventure! The sights and sounds and smells of somewhere radically different from where you’ve been spending so many of your most recent days, filling your creative mind with fresh stimuli! So start headin’ for the big scary far-off thing now, even if it’ll take you a while to get there. It’s surely an improvement over beating a nearly dead horse, hoping to squeeze another few weeks out of him before he collapses, way past his prime.

Watch your nerves, Gemini. At moments like this, when the vibe out in the world is full of both physical excitation and boundary-pushing concept-generation, your internal wiring has a tendency to conduct excessive amounts of electricity (though, yes, I understand it can feel quite euphoric)… with a heightened potential to burn you out, if not careful. (Such a ‘burnout’ basically consists of first overloading yourself with a virtual mania of nonstop mental activity, then crashing from its apex to an exhaustion permeated with paralyzing worry.) Every small development in your life, at least from the more realistic perspective outside your own head, is not as transcendently monumental as it might presently seem. Every looming question need not be answered with complete black-or-white assuredness now, lest you make the ‘wrong’ move and wreck everything for years to come. There is no doubt, of course, that you really are monumentally transcending the prior version of you… that these looming questions ultimately do have black-and-white, right-or-wrong answers (specifically ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ for you, that is). Only, your relative success at navigating this realignment is not a factor of racking your brain, in an increasingly nutty frenzy, until you confidently decide upon your next step. (Overthinking may actually get in your way.) In the short term, you’ll know where to head by spontaneously following, on a lark, those people who seem so pumped up about what they’re doing that their infectious enthusiasm catches you in its spell. Meanwhile, be ready with your deep-breathing, drinking-lots-of-water, eating-regular-meals techniques, should you lapse into a momentary frying of nerves. Your mind alone can’t save you.