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How to Make It Through the Holidays: Pisces

22 Thursday Dec 2011

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There's a pair of fish in the picture, like the Pisces symbol, right? Perugini c1870 {{PD-Art}}

No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. This is the final installment; scroll back through time for the other 11 signs–and have a wonderful holiday!

Pisces  Some people just don’t get  you, Pisces; you are in touch with the Cosmos, linked to the great All-That-Is, you hear angels singing all year round–so in a way, the holiday season is just your internal world made external, all bright lights, sparkle, and delicious somethings, now much more easily sharable with those you love. So why would you of the diaphanous clothing, gentle humming, and creative holiday centerpiece bug anyone? Because Pisces hears angels singing all year round, and so pays attention to that beyond-nether region, rather than the sister-in-law who’s asking that you mash those potatoes. Nobody likes to feel they’re being looked through, and yet that’s the impression darling Pisces gives to everyone with whom he or she interacts–and during a time when nerves are frazzled anyway, dear Pisces, head in the clouds, seems to be blithely dancing on the very last one. Pisces is highly attentive to her or his surroundings, it’s just that Pisces ‘sees’ all the layers, and so loses focus on the here-and-now–and that can win some complaints as others struggle to, as they see it from a strictly material standpoint, pick up the slack. Often as not, Pisces ends up at some point in tears, suffering under the recriminations of the more materially-focused and literal-minded, feeling unappreciated and misunderstood–and they are. The answer to others’ idea that Pisces isn’t useful is this: Pisces is a magnificent resource that the rest of us just don’t know how to interact with to everyone’s benefit. The holiday season is ripe for use of each individual’s gifts; aside from the obvious creative abilities that can be employed myriad ways, Pisces can be given a task, really any task, while he or she gives their real contribution to the holiday gathering: being sensitive to the atmosphere and interactions affecting each individual, so that Pisces knows before that person does who’s hungry, tired, needs time alone, needs help, or who’s coming down with what, can steer someone in the direction they need, and can link the persons who can assist each other. Pisces embodies the Universal connections we all share; Pisces hears the music, and can share it with us, if we’ll only let them. Your Nemesis this holiday season: Aries, Aquarius, or Virgo/ Your secret angel: Scorpio/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Cancer

How to Make It Through the Holidays: Aquarius

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

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This year have a little fun with everyone else, Aquarius. Hanneman c1630 {{PD-Art}}

No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the final installment tomorrow.

Aquarius  What’s your holiday philosophy? The truth is, I don’t want to know, and neither does anybody else. When you wax grandiloquent after a couple of eggnogs on the subject of  ‘What Purpose Communal Celebration Serves Within the Social Survival Matrix,’ the other signs would like to strangle you with holiday garland, while any other Aquarii in the room compete with their own pet philosophies. The holidays are not the time to display your brain, unless you’re a Zombie and it’s scrambled with eggs for a festive post-party brunch; neither is it the time to gift everyone with your latest invention–no matter how clever or needed, it’s still all about you, and that’s what draws pushing and shoving matches your way: when every holiday function you’re involved with, every event, accessory, dish and doo-dad leads right back to your desire to show just how unusual and gifted you are. Is that fair to say? Probably not–you’re as kind, loving, and holiday-inspired as any of us–but this is the perception, as all anybody sees is your ‘Ah-ha!’ moment at the great reveal of Aquarius’ latest idea or innovation. ‘They’ don’t see the work you do; they only see an individual who wants to be viewed and applauded as unique. At holiday time resentment of Aquarius rises as AQ seems to put her or his own interests and objectives ahead of the group–the operative word is ‘seems.’ Aquarius, even when pursuing individual objectives, is always thinking of the group; the group just isn’t always aware of this. So how do you bring resentment down and popularity up? By doing less for the group and more with the group. One of the biggest problems is that when people gather to make preparations or distribute responsibility, Aquarius is already at work on something, and nowhere to be found–and it makes AQ seem selfish, standoffish, and ‘too good for,’ as for the more simple-minded, absence equals rejection–and that’s where the cold remarks, one upsmanship, and feigned indifference to Aquarian achievements originates. So, Aquarius, show up to paint ornaments, string popcorn and cranberries, and decorate the tree with everybody else, help set up the card tables and rented chairs before the big meal, and in front of everyone offer to clean the bathroom–and then do it. No one will ever think you’re a snob again 😉 Your Nemesis this holiday season: Pisces, Capricorn, or Leo/ Your secret angel: Libra/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Gemini

How to Make It Through the Holidays: Capricorn

20 Tuesday Dec 2011

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Life with the stoic goat can be lonely at times Ochard pre-1870 {{PD-Art}}

No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming week.

Capricorn  You are tired of people telling you that you take things too seriously; the ‘temporary’ nature of the holidays makes it even worse. You have a hard time getting into decorating, wrapping presents, and anything fun, simply because you’re hyper-aware of how you’ll just have to spend time cleaning up and then what will you have? A new blender (a second one, which you didn’t ask for, and which you must now clean and find a use for) and an over-flowing trash barrel. Are you a Scrooge? Yes, yes you are, a holiday one; though you’re very generous with those you love, and in the name of a good cause, when it comes to seeing the reason for holiday cheer, you’re clueless. You can suck the happy right out of the room with the way you keep careful track of every receipt and penny spent, object to making more than one kind of cookie, and want to hand people their gifts as soon as you buy them, in the bag they came in (minus the receipt!)To call you a ‘No Frills’ kind of person would be a gross understatement, and the label itself encapsulates exactly what’s wrong with you over the holidays. To your credit, you know others see the season differently than you do–but really, do they have to point it our every time you turn around? You may be telling yourself you’d be more inclined to celebrate if people weren’t always trying to force you to, but we both know that’d be a lie 😦 How to make your holiday happier? No use telling you to loosen up; people have been telling you that since you were two. Instead, I want you to schedule some fun. If there’s anything Capricorn understands it’s time allotments; and don’t just schedule fun, schedule some time to sleep, organize, and fuss with those receipts, and be strict with yourself (oh, Cappy like!)Don’t allow periods to overlap, and when you’ve scheduled twelve minutes for caroling, damnit, show up and throw yourself into it, tambourine and all! One thing Capricorn is crystal clear on is dedicating her- or himself to the task at hand. This approach will make you more popular, and you never know, you may discover that you like planning holiday cheer. Your Nemesis this holiday season: Sagittarius, Aquarius, or Cancer/ Your secret angel: Virgo/ Your personal elf or cherub: Taurus

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How to Make It Through the Holidays: Sagittarius

19 Monday Dec 2011

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You won't have to be quite that defensive, Sagittarius! French 1450 {{PD-Art}}

No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming week.

Sagittarius  The holidays mean two things to you, Sag: getting out and about, and socializing at every turn. You’re famous for running a litany of errands, for your amazing stamina, for chit-chatting, schmoozing, and exchanging holiday cheer with everyone you meet, and for being the one who is willing to hop in the car and drive 18 hours to see the folks or flying half-way around the world so you have a snowy (or tropical, or new and exciting) holiday atmosphere. It’s go go go for you, and always with a social twist, so that two kinds of criticism come your way at holiday time: from those who feel dragged along with you, and who just want to sit still for a minute and enjoy the scenery, and from those who want to employ your amazing energy and dynamism for their own purposes, and find that you are often nowhere to be seen, so not ‘usable.’ There’s something about you that makes others feel swept up in the Sag proclivity for perpetual motion; lesser Beings can feel exhausted and disregarded in your presence, simply because your boundless energy seems to have no end and focuses your vision firmly on the horizon–which means those nearby get trampled like the SRO crowd at a South American soccer match when you see something in the distance worth heading toward. And that’s not to mention the way some not-so-industrious others want to tap into your Fiery productive streak and harness it for their own ends. How to deal with this? First, consider how much you might miss by always heading hither and yon; though your inclination is to believe that what’s worth pursuing is ‘out there,’ the truth is you might not realize how many tastes, sights, and experiences you might be missing by not spending more time around home base. Second, those who want to use you envy your carefree-even-when-burdened, footloose demeanor, and, as human nature would have it, mistakenly believe that if you have excess (as they see it) energy to roam the globe, you should share it with them. Here the solution is, rather than taking off equipped with your and their to-do list, and resenting them all the way home, you must eschew your refuge in passive resistance (your favorite defense) and set clear boundaries. Resentment really is your go-to reaction, and it feeds that fatigue you feel after a few weeks of non-stop effort and interaction; rather than accepting assignments with a ‘tude, you might consider turning them down as you announce you’ll just be sticking around for the afternoon, baking some cookies, bundling up and sitting in the clear cold on the porch swing, then taking a little nap–nothing says ‘I do what I want’ like actually doing it 🙂 Your Nemesis this holiday season: Scorpio, Capricorn, or Gemini/ Your secret angel: Leo/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Aries

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How to Make It Through the Holidays: Scorpio

17 Saturday Dec 2011

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See? You can dress up anything to look a little more Scoprio friendly--don't ask me what the centerpiece is. 'A Black Cat Table' from 'The Book of Hallowe'en' 1919 by Ruth Edna Kelley {{PD}}

No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming week.

Scorpio  Why do you begin brooding at dawn on November 2nd? Just ’cause the Dead have had their Day and won’t walk among the living for another year is no reason to pout; the holiday season seems to be all cheer and candy canes, but a current of pressure from obligations, expectations, and being trapped in the same house as all those people you fled at 18 runs below the surface like lava through Hades–there Scorp, I knew that’d bring a smile to that punim! It’s really not your time of year, in so many ways; people just rub you wrong, and the next stranger who comes up to you and says, ‘Smile! It can’t be that bad!’ while maddening holiday music plays in an over lit and overheated store may not walk away in one piece. It’s all you can do to put up with such garish seasonal displays, so when it’s your own family and friends who’re acting so . . . shallow, and nagging you for being a ‘downer,’ what’s a moody loner to do? Crawling into a cave (probably) isn’t an option, but taking a little time for your own personal kind of pick-me-up is. You might like to approach it by going off for a bit of morbid Christmas fun, sinking into any of dozens of Christmas-themed horror movies, or ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas,’ perhaps, or ‘The Comfort of Strangers,’ ‘Let The Right One In,’ anything with Vincent Price, catching up on ‘American Horror Story,’ reading Stephen King, Patricia Highsmith, Ian McEwan, Poe, or Larson’s ‘Dragon Tattoo’ series, to name a few possibilities–because really, a good, creepy tale will ease you out of ‘The Veil’ season and into that time of year we’re most likely to reflect on our lives and what we have to celebrate. You might also join the party by transforming an old tradition into a new one: how about changing the Christmas afternoon drop-in of friends and family to a candle-lit evening cocktail party–same guests, just with muted lights and music that takes the twinkle down a notch and makes it more intense, and more elegant, with ‘daring’ or more exotic food–something with unusual mushrooms, and perhaps a touch of holiday absinthe, if I know Scorpio. This might also be courtin’ time for you; you can play Pluto or Persephone to your opposite number, whether this is pursuit of a new relationship or renewal of an old one. For you, being happy during the holidays has a lot to do with not abandoning your need for a hint of darkness and for some time alone, or in intimate company–and it doesn’t hurt to honor the urge to transform some group occasion that you normally find trying into something a little more copacetic for Scorpionic sensibilities, with your best opportunity perhaps coming at the New Year, where we see old Father Time born anew as l’enfant 2012, ’cause you’re all about killing the old, and resurrecting it in a new form. Your Nemesis this holiday season: Libra, Sagittarius, or Taurus/ Your secret angel: Cancer/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Pisces

How to Make It Through the Holidays: Libra

15 Thursday Dec 2011

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No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming weeks.

Libra  Why is it that half way through the season your graciousness is met with snubs or, worse, rudeness?  After all, you’ve been knocking yourself out creating the just-right holiday atmosphere filled with the just-right mix of people–don’t they know what good taste you have? Of course they do, and it never occurs to you, loving and fair as you are, that others just might feel a teensy bit judged. The late Linda Goodman called your smile one that could “melt a chocolate bar at forty paces” but the thing to remember is, some of us are diabetic, and some of us don’t like the heat, that’s why we’re not in the kitchen. And that brings us to this: Libra, you make everything look so damn easy! and that’s just irritating. You don’t realize that to others, the constant smile and insistence that it’s ‘No trouble at all’ seems like bragging, and again, a little bit of criticism, as in ‘I do it better than you ever could.’ Do you have a delicious aesthetic sense that creates a wonderful experience for others? You do, no doubt. Do you know how to loosen up instead of meeting everything like a protocol droid? No, you really don’t. As with some of the other signs, the way to avoid nastiness this holiday season may be to let them see you sweat, just a little (or should I say ‘glow’?) Establishing that you are indeed made of flesh and bone means you’re much less likely to be the target of someone else’s passive-aggression when they bring their flat little banana bread to the buffet table and the only place to set it is right next to your 3 foot tall marzipan covered replica of Santa’s village. So see? You win anyway. Your Nemesis this holiday season: Virgo, Scorpio, or Aries/ Your secret angel: Gemini/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Aquarius

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How to Make It Through the Holidays: Virgo

13 Tuesday Dec 2011

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Illustrating at least part of the spirit of Virgo 'The Harvesters' by Brueghel {{PD-art}}

No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming weeks.

Virgo  You are so thorough, so attentive to detail, that trying to attain perfection just comes naturally–which is why people begin to respond so negatively when it comes to your 2,000th ‘suggestion’ for a better holiday. It’s not that your ideas aren’t good, it’s that once the party has started nobody much wants to fuss over whether everyone is using coasters and those charms to identify their glasses and are they wiping their feet before they come in it’s raining out and oh gosh let’s just make sure everyone takes their shoes off and maybe we ought to have a timer for the bathroom because Stu has been in their 5 and 1/2 minutes or maybe we should have a sign-up sheet . . . see where I’m going here? Micro-management does not a holiday atmosphere make. In order to protect yourself from the criticism you almost inevitably attract at some point this time of year, you might want to make a pact with yourself: before the party or gathering, obsess away; during the party or gathering, act like a Pisces 🙂  Your Nemesis this holiday season: Leo, Libra, or a real Pisces/ Your secret angel: Taurus/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Capricorn

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How to Make It Through the Holidays: Leo

13 Tuesday Dec 2011

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No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming weeks.

Leo  You sparkle at the holidays; is that your fault? No, it isn’t, and the truth is, it’s just too bad that others think you’re showing off. How, then, can you get along better with people at this most special time of year? Just don’t be so fabulous, for one thing, and for another, don’t breeze into a room and come across as if others are there to do your bidding (Aries, are you listening?) Most of the unpleasantness that comes at you this time of year centers in others’ perceptions that you gad about like royalty and don’t do any actual work–but nothing could be further from the truth–you can’t help it if you’re well-organized, know precisely what needs to be done, and that you look perfectly manicured at all times, giving the impression that you’ve never washed a dish in your life. When you follow your own inclinations you behave as if holiday season is party season 24/7–and that means you put on your party face all the time, hiding the fact that you’ve been hard at work, and engendering a lot of resentment in the process. Let other people know you’re human, and it’ll go a long way toward winning their support. It may sound contrary, but instead of your usual and very generous attempts to present others with a dazzling and fully prepared holiday, sparkling with gold and silver holiday sizzle, you might want to let them in on the prep you usually do out of their sight–ask them to help wrap gifts or make your famous pies, and do it in casual attire and a minimum of make-up or hair product–it’s not a competition, after all–save your big, bedazzled persona for the actual gathering–they’ll love you for it, and be awed by the transformation from normal, attractive person to stunner–and getting that glorious reaction is what it’s all about, isn’t it? Your Nemesis this holiday season: Cancer, Virgo, or Aquarius/ Your secret angel: Aries/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Sagittarius

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How to Make It Through the Holidays: Cancer

08 Thursday Dec 2011

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No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming weeks.

Cancer  Your idea of the perfect holiday is cocoon-like: everyone you love, enwombed with plenty of delicious things to eat and drink, and a constant togetherness that synchronizes breathing, cycles, and heartbeats. So what spoils your holiday? It starts well enough, with everyone eager to gather, visions of the endless sugar-plums you’ll lovingly prepare and feed them dancing in their heads; but then people begin to show a pesky independence that features differences in opinion and doing whatever they want, even leaving! The hurt inflicted on you over the holiday is likely one of two kinds: a feeling that your efforts aren’t appreciated, and a lack of co-operation by others. You’ve got to admit that your expectations, whatever form they take, may be just a tish unreasonable; you’re basically out to create a single, multi-headed organism out of family and friends, and it hurts that they resist and even show they have minds of their own. Everything as usual may result in sudden disappearances, cell phones of those MIA off or ‘forgotten’, and 4 hour trips to the grocery (and by that I mean bar or other haven) by individuals who feel smothered. How then can you show your love, without the inevitable rejection? In this case, it takes a slight modification on your part: instead of coming on like a full-service Santa, choose a few specific things you want to be picture-perfect: the turkey, the hour around the tree handing out presents, the afternoon of carols and eggnog and snacks–and let everything else go. You’ll win all the accolades you could want and the true devotion you’ve always longed for, and there won’t be a thing for others to condemn–and isn’t that what you’ve been aiming for all along, a lovely and loving holiday to remember? Your Nemesis this holiday season: Gemini, Leo, or Capricorn/ Your secret angel: Pisces/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Scorpio

 

How to Make It Through the Holidays: Gemini

06 Tuesday Dec 2011

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No matter what you do or don’t celebrate, it’s the holiday season–there’s no way to avoid it. In the newsletter I shared a few tongue-in-cheek suggestions for how to survive this annual time of family, food, fights, fun, fruitcake, and all those other ‘f’ words, and I’ll be sharing a little advice for each sign, one at a time. Your Nemesis, listed at the end of the sign, suggests who might be out to sabotage or just give you a hard time, while your angel is the sign energy you can call on in others for assistance, and your personal elf or cherub is the sign energy that will cheer you up and work behind the scenes to make your holiday special. Watch for the rest of the signs during the coming weeks.

Gemini  It’s all light-hearted banter with you, isn’t it, until someone loses a figurative eye as your barbs get pointier and pointier from holiday tension?  You network, you schedule, you flirt and cajole and fast talk others into so many overlapping commitments that when they finally turn on you, wanting to know what you’re going to contribute, you feel betrayed–after all, you’ve done all the assigning and scheduling and deciding and thinking and worrying, and gosh, that’s exhausting, it’s the hardest part of the holiday, the planning! You’ve invited criticism, and in an effort to make it up to others you may agree to sell your first born or to make the entire holiday dinner at both your parents’ house and your in-laws’ house. Over-committing is your problem, whether you’re doing it for others or doing it to yourself. It’s very simple: don’t put yourself in charge of everybody’s to-do list. But let’s be fair, Gemini, you often find yourself the target of gossip, innuendo, and catty remarks, not because of anything you’ve done, but because others are jealous of your social butterfly ways, and that can make the holidays trying as  you must deal with two-faced interactions and undermining by those who are less appealing, and know it. The remedy for this may be twofold: grow a thick skin, and don’t hold back a thing when it comes to showing off your sparkling and engaging personality. Why? Because nothing bugs your frenemies like seeing you at the top of your game, and at the center of the social whirl, right where you belong. Your Nemesis this holiday season: Taurus, Cancer, or Sagittarius/ Your secret angel: Aquarius/ Your own personal elf or cherub: Libra

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