"The Akan concept of Sankofa is represented by a bird looking backward while moving forward. The message is "Go back and get it." You must retrieve wisdom from the past to move into the future. Forgetting where you came from doesn't liberate you; it orphans you. I encourage you to make Sankofa a prime meditation, Aries. The shape of your becoming must include the shape of your origin."
"The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to engage in STRATEGIC FORGETTING. It's the art of deliberately unlearning what you were taught about who you should be, what you should want, and how you should spend your precious life. Fact: Fanatical brand loyalty to yourself can be an act of self-sabotage. I suggest you fire yourself from your own expectations. Clock out from the job of being who you were yesterday. It's liberation time!"
"We should all risk asking supposedly wrong questions. Doing so reminds us that truth and discovery often hide in the compost pile of our mistaken notions. A wrong question can help us shed tired assumptions, expose invisible taboos, and lure new insights out of hiding. By leaning into the awkward, we invite surprise, which may be a rich source of genuine learning."
Aries is urged to practice Sankofa, retrieving wisdom from the past and integrating origins to move into the future, because forgetting origins does not liberate but orphans. Taurus will benefit from strategic forgetting: deliberately unlearning taught identities, desires, and life prescriptions, firing oneself from past expectations and roles to gain liberation. Gemini is encouraged to risk asking supposedly wrong questions to shed assumptions, expose taboos, and invite surprise and new insights; a series of provocative "What if" questions is offered. Cancer references Octavia Butler's obsessions about destination and method, followed by a critic's praise.
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