Daily Horoscope for Aries

Horoscope Cast for Tuesday, December 18th, 2018

by daniel "bud" dowd

Daily Horoscope for Aries Summary

The focus of the current chart lies with Neptune at present. It's not as an intense of a chart as we've had in recent past, but it is the sort of thing that can hit you in the feels if you're not careful.

As we near Christmas time, you think of gift-giving. If you have kids, they're probably going to tell you what they want. They might tell you a lot. We kind of culturally brand into kids minds during this time "You get to ask for stuff, and you're probably going to get it". Obviously, there's going to be variation on this from family to family, but at the baseline, this is how little kids and Christmas operate in American society.

This process of wishing builds within it expectation. Expectation ultimately brings with it two outcomes - you get what you were expecting, or you don't. If you're a little kid, and you talk for two months straight about how you want Santa to bring you a bike, and on Christmas morning, there's a bike there, you're on top of the world. And if on Christmas morning, there's no bike there, you're like "This is some straight bullshit!"

Parents fear the latter, which is why a lot of time you see people breaking their backs or overextending their finances just to avoid their kids ending up in aforementioned scenario #2. If you're shrewd around the holidays, outsiders will look down on you. Again, this is a societal thing - we're all supposed to subscribe to this. In the end though, is caving and just supplying your kids with every single whim in their best interests? Is it in yours? Isn't this what Willy Wonka's all about?

Anyways, to get back to the chart, think of what I've said above. Right now, we're "the little kids". We want stuff. All of us want something, we might want it a little, we might want it a lot. Some of the stuff we want requires some good fortune, and a little bit of assistance from the Big Guy - "the parent". But the Big Guy doesn't adhere to societal standards established by people, he runs on the universe's standards. If something isn't part of the plan, it isn't going to go down.

We think of things in short-sighted terms - we're people, we have these limited life spans and time is the ultimate commodity. But sometimes that bike you don't get now is money invested towards something better down the line. When you only look at the present, you only give yourself possibilities rooted in what you can presently see.

So as you go through the day, keep this in the back of your mind when it comes to your wants. They can be vibrant, they can be rich, and they might drive you to accomplish things. But your happiness doesn't have to be dependent on them being fulfilled. There's other ways to find joy and satisfaction in the world around you. Don't paint yourself into a corner to this end. Open your mind up to possibilities. If you do get what you want, enjoy the mountaintop. But if you don't, keep looking for a different road up there - don't let it bring you crashing down to earth. The successful people today will keep trying something - the ones who falter are the ones who accept only one outcome. Best of luck.

Programming note: Next week will be a summary-only scope from Bud for Christmas.

Bud

The Daily Horoscope for Aries

On one hand, you might not feel as intense about getting out of difficult situations as you have recently. On the other, this energy still pushes you in that direction. This is natural; no one wants to deal with restrictions. At the same time, when you do find yourself confined, you might be more likely today to resort to a general malaise. You shouldn't let situations knock you out though. Find ways to get back on your feet again. In your favor, you should be pretty well-equipped to get others to help you out, even if it might mean asking for favors to do so.