This week's AstroBarry
These sound more appropriate to my crappy weekend than to the week ahead...especially since the people I have been having Teh Drama with aren't in my vicinity right now. Okay, one of them I am not having drama with so much as I'm caught in the middle between the two who are. Whee.
I should probably explain this: Person A screwed me over in favor of a man, my friend Person B was furious on my behalf and told Person A off. Now A & B hate each other for life and I'm in the middle, thinking how stupid I was to unleash Person B on A just because A doesn't listen to me worth crap and I thought it might make more impact to come from someone that A (used to) like.
I ended up doing this- which is to say, saying Very Nasty Hurtful Things I DID NOT WANT TO SAY. The person I said them to seemed to think it was okay in the end and that things were all better now, but I doubt it. Especially since said person tends to forget or block out anything she doesn't want to hear.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): While you might prefer to think of yourself as confidently portraying the role of Mr./Ms. Nice Guy/Girl, you'll only come across as 'authentic' (or at least 'convincing') if you're holding no under-the-surface hopes, yearnings, resentments or other strong opinions. But if you think for one minute, Taurus, that, during such an astrologically charged week as this one, you'll be able to pull one over on 'em (or, just as likely, on yourself), you've got another thing coming. When the air between you and a certain someone feels thick or dense, what you're experiencing is a buildup of possibilities—the possibility that you two will finally come together or that everything will blow up in your face, that you'll never get what you were hoping for or that it'll far surpass your wildest dreams, that you're ready to bury the hatchet at last or that you won't ever be able to. And as long as relevant emotions (on either side or both) aren't being fully voiced, the semi-manifested psychological reality will just hover there: heavy, under-explored, ripe. Well, we all know what happens to ripe fruit if it doesn't get plucked from the tree and enjoyed at its peak; it falls to the ground and rots in the dirt, no matter how promising it once was. If that last melodramatic sentence wasn't enough to inspire brave admissions, tough questions, humble displays of vulnerability, and/or heartfelt conversations of varying sorts, then I don't know what is. Take advantage of what's right in front of you, and acknowledge the increasing intensity. However it goes, it's worth at least owning your complicated emotions.
And this was definitely the case. I knew I should keep my mouth shut on the issue, and I didn't. (Heck, I enlisted help to join in the yelling, hence the feuding going on now.)
SCORPIO (October 23-November 21): Compromise? Sacrifice? Conciliatory gestures? Feh. The long and short of it this week, Scorpio, is that you may suddenly realize you're not so willing to 'see it from their perspective' or 'suck up your pride' after all. In a continuation of last week's horoscope but with added planetary oomph, you're unlikely to take kindly to others' attempts to shut you up, reason you out of your firm position, or cast you as the drama-loving troublemaker (even if you are). Presuming you've given them a fair shot to argue their case, to show you the errors in your thinking and/or explain why they've got a much solider grip on the situation… you may face no other choice than to walk away, if and only if you're being pressured to go against your cherished belief system in order to prove 'loyalty' (or whatever). That's right, I'm granting you the astrologer's permission to leave it all behind (and a certain person or two with it)—once you've put in the time and due diligence to talk it through. Sometimes, we think we've hit a brick wall… but, in fact, it's merely a case of both sides pussyfooting around the one difficult topic that'd open the whole discussion up. In such situations, it really is a matter of sucking up one's pride and broaching unpleasant conversations, just to find the secret doorway in that supposedly impenetrable brick wall. (Is there something still not being said? Answer truthfully.) But sometimes, an impasse is just that: impassable; a way with no through outlet; a deadlock; the end. Is that where you are? It's a judgment call that's ultimatelyyours to make.
I can't help but think that at some point in the future, I will have to abandon the person I am angry at (I'll just say that she behaved in such a way as to show that her loyalties are not with me as soon as a man comes into the picture). I don't want to have to do that, but odds are she won't improve her behavior even after I was brutally honest.
Ugh.
Incidentally, Person B is a Sag...
A potent Pluto-charged full moon in your sign, Sagittarius, is enough to bring out a rawer, more unfiltered version of your already-not-exactly-subtle personality… which will appeal even more strongly to those folks already fawning at your bandwagon, while repelling even more strongly the ones who didn't like you that much to begin with. You won't find many lukewarm responses to the emergence of your 'truer colors' (except from people good at withholding their judgments), but at least you'll know—perhaps more than you have in a good long while—exactly where you stand. When communing one-on-one with your main squeeze or any other important figure in your life, you'll be blessed in providing just the right words (no matter how uncharacteristic or momentarily sharp) to let 'em know you're a solid companion and friend. Of course, when trying a similar sort of exchange with someone who's not truly on your wavelength, those same words could hit 'em as intensely self-righteous, uninteresting or downright grating. In both cases (and for your best good, no less), you may be prone to sharing more intimate personal details than you ordinarily would. Not surprisingly, such disclosures will draw you that much closer (in a way that won't freak you out) to those that matter… while leaving the others to snottily wonder, 'Why are you sharing this with me?' Observe these varying reactions. They'll show you something profound about who feels which way about you when you're not trying to tone down the truth of who you are.
And that's EXACTLY what happened.
