Aries – Have you ever watched your skin heal itself when it’s cut? The shallower, the faster. Deeper cuts have to be taken care of, with band-aids, with water, with pressure. Careful not to get an infection. Careful to keep it covered so it doesn’t open again. There’s cuts you’ll experience that aren’t physical so you don’t know how to protect them and a single word can be like salt in the wound all over again.
Taurus – Your origin story can’t be deciphered or traced back to any roots, and you don’t need it to be. Knowing where you came from is one thing but eventually you have to outgrow age old assumptions and decide where you want to grow. Not all plants can grow in the same environment. Bloom where you have room.
Gemini – Summer is starting to show its face some days, but the rain is still overpowering. There’s been flash flood warnings for days and I’m more concerned with how the flowers are handling the news. Their petals aren’t strong enough to support the downpour.
Cancer – You’re always keeping your head down and eyes trained on your feet, making sure you don’t trip over anything or over yourself. Sometimes it’s okay to stumble and it’s okay to make the wrong turn because it takes you toward something even better.
Leo – Tell me about the last time you felt outside of yourself. Now tell me about the last time you laughed so hard your rib cage was sore the entire next day. It’s easier to remember the former, harder still to remember the latter. We’re all programmed to let the negativity sit and sing inside our chest until it lulls the beating of our heart to sleep, when all it wants to do is race.
Virgo – Time always seems to be everybody’s biggest enemy. It’s the one constant we have but we fight against it like we're terrified of the meaningless routine. If we all spent a little more time saying what we need to say instead of worrying over things we can’t control, maybe we wouldn’t be so afraid.
Libra – There’s a running theme I’ve noticed as I’ve grown up. Usually it’s the people we trust and care for the most that hurt and disappoint us the worst. This used to make me want to distance myself from anybody until I realized that it means sometimes I can be the one doing the hurting too. Eventually you have to grow up and stop blaming the world for your problems.
Scorpio – I don’t even have advice or words anymore because even this fucking rain couldn’t wash the feel of you off my skin. It’s like a bug zapper and every time you’re within radius I jolt back to life but I don’t feel anything as soon as you walk out of the room. I’m tired of empty words.
Sagittarius – Well you can make anything twisted sound pretty if you know how to write. This wasteland can sound like a paradise even if there’s a ring of fire circling the whole Goddamn thing. Falling apart can be art if it’s put to music. Even my feelings turn into something to point at if I hide behind metaphors.
Capricorn – Everything is suffocating and I just need a place where I can breathe again and you always were that for me. But when you’re gone, I swear to God it’s like having the wind knocked out of me. There’s no poetry. This isn’t art. This hurts like hell.
Aquarius – I need this weather to make up its mind because I’m tired of five minutes of sunshine followed by a week of thunderstorms. It’s not even worth the rainbows. I don’t know when I turned into the tide, but the sky is the filled with the moon and its controlling all of my mood swings.
Pisces – Why do I always have to be the positive one? When do I get to stay quiet for a week without having somebody threaten to take me in again? My words didn’t come with a receipt. I can’t return them. I can’t take them back. I can’t trade them in even when these don’t fit me anymore.
