As the tumultuous year 2024 draws to a close, we look ahead to the new year and another chance to get it right.
New Year’s resolutions have their roots in ancient Mesopotamia, when some 4,000 years ago the Babylonians began celebrating the new year (which for them fell in March and coincided with a religious holiday known as Akitu) with vows to the gods to pay off their debts and return what he had. loaned to them.
If they honored their commitments, they would be favored by these deities in the coming year.
If not? Not so much.
In 46 BC, the traitor-born Julius Caesar established January 1 as the official start of the new year. January had a certain significance to the Romans, being named for Janus, the two-faced god who resided at the gate of time and transition.
These ancients believed that Janus, by the nature of his dual visions, looked back to what had been and forward to the future. To honor HIMthey offered sacrifices and promised to behave better in the coming year.
As we have lost touch with ritual, instead of making a vow to the gods, modern man has taken to making decisions for self-improvement – and the results, my boys, are grim. While up to 52% of Americans will make a resolution, only 5% will consider it.
As New York divorce recovery coach Leah Marie Mazur points out with her viral fk it list, sometimes breaking behaviors or putting a moratorium on trends is more critical than starting a fitness plan. Mazur declares: “I’m only saying yes to things that will bring me closer to where I want to be and what I want to move forward with.”
In that spirit, we bring you an easy-to-implement and must-use list of New Year’s resolutions for each zodiac sign.
Commit to strengthening yourself
As the first fire-breathing sign in the zodiac, your MO is often Aries, quick-tempered and more. However, by practicing a little delayed gratification, you will gain a better understanding of your desire.
How can you keep your desires beyond conquest? If you take a long walk instead of a short run, wait until your first date to f–k, or sign up for an online class instead of doing a quick internet search, it would be wise to you play the long game when it comes down to it. to pleasure.
A slow burn will keep you warm longer than a quick fix.
Forgive an enemy
forgive a single person whose name is in your grudge garden, Taurus. You must not do this publicly or let the offender know that you have given up your resentment.
Just think about them, the damage they have caused, and make a firm decision to stop your punishments or punishment fantasies. As a sign of wealth and worth, I assure you that nothing can make you richer than letting go.
Leave your phone at home
With an inquisitive mind and a silver tongue, you are the prescient messenger of the zodiac and the deceptive interloper, Gemini. By connecting worlds and connecting dots, give your beautiful mind a chance to do its magic and restore its inventory by leaving your phone at home at least one day a week.
Take a walk without a goal or agenda and marvel at what pops into your mind and crosses your path.
Stop imagining the punishment
In the words of Seneca (probably addressed to a Cancer), “There are more things … that can frighten us than oppress us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
As a sign of deep feeling and boundless imagination, it’s easy for you to prejudge negative outcomes—whether out of fear and anxiety or a desire to control your reaction to an uncontrollable world.
In either case, you undermine your power when you fail to believe that a best-case scenario is not only possible, but possible. You are the master of your mind, Cancer, and the captain of your life – consider that the winds to come are here to carry you onward and forward.
Become a mentor
You have a reputation for acting as the sun that rules you, Leo – a deadly, impressive, benevolent star around which all things grow and all life revolves.
The best and truest part of that metaphorical equation is your ability to inspire vitality in others. The word “mentor” comes from Homer’s Odyssey, where Athena, the goddess of wisdom, appears to Telemachus in the guise of his family friend Mentor.
As Gregory Nagy, a professor of classics at Harvard University, says, “A mentor is someone who instills a heroic mindset in someone.”
I can think of no other sign better able to convince others of their abilities than you, Leo. And I can think of no victory as sweet as the sincere uplifting of another person.
Take care of your temple
You don’t need to work to deserve love, Virgo, and your worth isn’t tied to what you can offer. Your innate variability can function as an adaptive power or a sacrificial tendency.
By resolutely caring for others, you lose your responsibility to yourself. This year, instead of trying, inspire; instead of lending, you take. Let your life be a kind of compass of care and your well-being the high altar of your efforts.
Be ugly
There is no sign as civilized as you, Libra. A bringer of beauty and an avoider of horror, you bring gentleness to a brutal world. And yet, suppressing your animal nature and mastering it are not the same thing.
Balance is not the absence of conflict, but its resolution. You fear the consequences of hard truths and raw emotions, worried that not letting it go means losing control. Fair (no pun intended) enough, but if you don’t allow yourself the gift of ugly catharsis, you’ll never know true release or absolute acceptance.
Tell someone a secret
You are the sign of extremes, Scorpio, of death blows and no return, able to stand in the dark and confront the shadow chambers of the human heart. However, by being the keeper of secrets more often than the giver, you keep yourself tied to a power dynamic that doesn’t allow for true intimacy.
Fun fact: “confess” comes from the Latin “to admit, or a confession of faith.” In this sense, the beliefs you share are tantamount to accepting your belief in another person. Start small with an embarrassing childhood anecdote and build up existential dread and long-buried shame.
Be a diplomat, not a dictator
Bless you Sagittarius, you are a truth seeker and a great thinker, but often your lofty messages get lost in tactless delivery. We need you to speak out and shoot your dk arrows of hope into the high heavens – but you need to stick the landing with a touch, more gentleness and much more acceptance.
A little less swinging Yang and a little more flexible, feminine Yin, if you will.
You have the vision, honey, but you’ll have to make believers before you have builders.
Honor your rest
You go hard, Capricorn, sometimes trying to earn money, climb a mountain and prove to yourself your indomitability. Rest is not a reward—it is, in fact, an essential part of the process of creating, uplifting, living, and restoring.
There is a popular saying (probably written by a Capricorn) that says, “If you rest, you rot.” What this jargon fails to understand is that decay is the trash of creation, and every single thing in nature falls silent and still – it follows suit.
Make a plan, kid
Space, as a final boundary and a restorative concept, is important to you, Aquarius. Yours is an interesting hand to deal with, as you’re an air sign that craves solitude, but also rules the 11th house of community.
Often this makes you feel alone in a crowd, caring about everyone in an abstract way while failing to connect with anyone in a tangible connection. As a cure and a precept, may I suggest that you make at least one personal plan per week?
Get down from your tinfoil tower, spend an hour or two without distraction, make eye contact, speak openly, and take the stairs, feeling later with another human being and closer to the true version of yourself.
Practice saying ‘no’
As variable water, you can talk about all kinds of containers and contamination, Pisces.
There is an emphasis on surrender and sacrifice for those born under these stars – but also a call to define and protect your own personhood. Don’t waver, don’t settle, and start small by saying “no” at least once a day.
Astrologer Reda Wigle researches and reports irreverently on planetary configurations and their effect on each zodiac sign. Her horoscopes integrate history, poetry, pop culture and personal experience. To book a reading, visit her website.
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