18/01/2025

Cosmic Musings

You know those family photos that hang on the wall? I found myself staring at one today, feeling particularly reflective as the Moon prepares to enter Libra tonight at 19:33 PM. There's something about these moments of cosmic shift that really brings relationships into focus, especially those complicated family ones that seem to change shape as years pass.

There's this cousin of mine who used to be my whole world during childhood summers. We shared every secret, every dream, and that unshakeable belief that we'd always be best friends. But now our relationship has evolved into something different – a collection of polite updates and carefully curated life highlights, delivered through occasional texts and obligatory holiday calls.

It's not that the love isn't there anymore. Rather, it's transformed as we've both grown into different people, shaped by different cities, different dreams, and different daily realities. While distance created the initial gap, it's our individual growth that's been quietly widening it, teaching me that maybe growing apart isn't a failure of relationship, but a natural evolution of two people becoming more fully themselves.

As the Libra Moon approaches tonight, it brings a gentle reminder that seeking harmony doesn't always mean maintaining the same closeness we once had. Sometimes it means finding peace with the natural ebb and flow of relationships, acknowledging that love can exist even in the spaces between our increasingly separate lives. These family bonds might stretch into new shapes, but they're still there, woven into the fabric of who we are, even as we become who we're meant to be.