15/01/26

Tonight at 22:20 PT, Mercury forms a square with Chiron, stirring old stories, tender memories, and the places where words once failed us. This aspect asks us to look at how we speak to ourselves, and which narratives we’ve outgrown.

With Mercury squaring Chiron, personal narratives and mental patterns come into focus. A birth chart reading today helps uncover the stories you’ve inherited, the wounds you’ve learned through, and the authentic voice that’s ready to emerge beyond them.

I found myself reflecting on how often we’re taught to believe we need a fairy tale to feel safe. A perfect narrative. A promise that love, success, or happiness will arrive and finally make everything feel warm and whole.

But life has shown me something different. I don’t need a fairy tale to keep me warm. I’ve learned to choose presence instead, the quiet, sometimes messy reality of being here, now, breathing through what actually is.

There were moments in my life when fantasy felt easier than truth. When imagining a future felt safer than inhabiting the present. And yet, those moments never truly held me the way reality eventually did.

Mercury square Chiron brings awareness to the stories we tell ourselves to avoid pain, and gently asks if those stories still serve us. Sometimes they once protected us. Sometimes they no longer fit.

I’ve noticed that presence requires courage.

Reality asks us to feel fully, without filters. But it also offers something no fantasy can: grounding, intimacy, and truth.

Maybe the real fairy tale isn’t about perfection or rescue. Maybe it’s about choosing to stay. Choosing to feel. Choosing to meet life exactly where it is.

Healing doesn’t always sound poetic. Sometimes it sounds like honest self-talk, clearer boundaries, and quieter expectations. And yet, that honesty creates its own kind of magic.

Tonight feels like an invitation to rewrite the story, not into something prettier, but into something truer. And maybe that truth is the warmth we’ve been seeking all along.