Original Advice
“Your independence can block real intimacy: Going it alone feels safer, but it also keeps you from being truly seen. If you only trust yourself, you never practice trusting others. Courage includes letting someone carry a corner.”
Independence Is Not Intimacy
You call it independence. It is armor. You outrun closeness, then wonder why no one meets you. Going it alone keeps you efficient, invincible, and untouched. You delegate nothing, reveal nothing, trust no one, then mistake loneliness for strength. If no one sees you sweat, no one sees you. Courage is not silence; courage is letting another hand steady the load.
Control has been your compass: move first, decide fast, need nothing. It kept you alive in rooms that rewarded hardness. But intimacy is not impressed by your heroics. It wants your listening, your slowness, your unedited needs. Trust grows where you risk being disappointed and stay anyway. Practice dependence in small bites. Let someone carry a corner. Watch what survives contact.
Cosmic Context
As a Mars-ruled firstborn of the zodiac, you initiate. Aim that raw courage at opening the door and waiting, not barricading it.
Action
──────Ask for help carrying your bags today.
✨ You are allowed to be held without losing your edge. ✨