“The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little,” wrote the spiritual activist Thomas Merton.
Judging from your current astrological omens, I suspect that’s a warning you should heed. The time has come for you to consider the possibility that you aren’t thinking big enough . . . that you need to actively rebel against the voices telling you to sit back and accept your comfortable limitations. In a sense, the cosmos is giving you a poetic license to ask for more.
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2009.