Virgo Horoscope: Choosing Your Response

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January 9, 2015
Choosing Your Response
Virgo Daily Horoscope

You may be more sensitive than usual today to off-hand remarks made by your loved ones and colleagues, as well as people you encounter as you go about your daily routine. Because you are likely feeling suggestible, criticism meant only as a recommendation or honestly intended as helpful guidance can wound you deeply. The simplest way to quell this susceptibility to others' analysis of your choices may be to assess each piece of criticism you receive logically. You may notice as the day wears on that you can accept both constructive praise and veiled condemnation without becoming emotionally affected by it. However, if your critics irk you today, you may work and play more comfortably on your own.

When we consider the criticism we receive thoughtfully rather than reacting to it emotionally, we are able to judge its relative merit using reason and logic. We can determine which of those people offering unsolicited commentary are doing so because they wish to help us grow as individuals and which have less honorable intentions. Whereas once we might have only considered criticism's potential to hurt us, we are now empowered to examine its underlying message for flashes of wisdom that can add value to our experience. Even when the judgments we receive are intended to awaken doubt within us, we can simply choose to disregard them as they offer us nothing in the way of useful guidance. Your sensitivity will not impede your purposes today when you are logical in your assessments of perceived slights.

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