Willpower

Libra Horoscope for week of October 7, 2010




"Dear Rob: A professional astrologer who read my chart told me that I have no willpower and that there is basically nothing I can do to change that. Any suggestions? I'm feeling helpless and passive at a time when I could really benefit from standing up for myself. - Listless Libra." Dear Libra: What the supposedly professional astrologer told you is totally inaccurate. No one's chart, ever, in the history of the world, indicates that they have no willpower. Astrology doesn't speak in such stupid ways. Besides that, you and the Libran tribe will soon have an excellent window of opportunity to bolster your willpower. The fun begins now and lasts until at least November 18. Get ready!


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"Definitions of willpower on the Web:


•self-control: the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior


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It's funny to me that the word 'willpower' should come up in my horoscope during my birthday week.  After all, isn't life about one's power to accomplish what their innermost desires are?  I have seen plenty of people who are living a lie, a soft modification of what is expected from those around them.....all those messages from people that may not even be here any longer.  We carry them around inside of us like a festering postule, waiting for the correct situation to explode it's poison all throughout our systems.

The times I have exerted my greatest willpower over my life was in direct conflict with someone standing in my way.  A parent, a spouse, an employer, a stranger.  It is my experience that something inside of me rings clear and loud then I find myself gathering boxes and going to yet the next place to place my head upon a pillow.

Sometimes willpower for me has meant actual self preservation.  Sometimes it was to protect someone else.  Women often think of willpower in connection to dieting, controlling what goes into their mouth so they never vary from the expected picture of some stranger  on Madison Ave. , that has deemed what beauty actually looks like.

As I have gotten older the concept of willpower, strength, beauty, and character have all changed.  I do not know what someone will choose to do based on what they look like......but I will learn what they are about by what they choose to do. 

Raising a child involves a lot of will and struggles until one day the parent realizes they are fighting the wrong person.  I have led a life full of example and will and it is my job to allow my children to know that their will is right for them.  I catch myself often wondering why I am reacting to something my son wants to do.  It isn't cause his will is wrong, but that my fear kicks in.  I tell him,  I'm afraid you 'll get hurt.  Oh that quick handsome grin meets me and he assures me, like most youthful people that it is quite safe.  He is usually right, he is safe but I have seen the swiftness of lessons dealt in a manner of seconds, things changing forever.  An outside will warping what everyone thought they had control over.

These days my willpower is to know and remember why I fought in the first place.  To hold onto how my beliefs came to be to begin with.  It is a very unique path that was laid out for me early on.  I very often had a will that defied reason based on so many things I couldnt even begin to explain to anyone including myself.  These days I know my willpower is tempered with time, and experience, and reason, and yes, a touch of fear. 

I hope the days to come show my will to be true and remain focused....that I continue to guide those around me without ego or malice....and that I am allowed to find peace and comfort once again.