Somewhere between Tristan and Isolde and Joshua and Tanya Lee, the cloyingly perfect boho love story from eHarmony, we somehow thought that love makes sense. Well, I hate to say it, but it doesn’t. If anything, love makes very little sense at all. Sometimes it’s just a series of rationalizations that self-assemble around hormones, neuro-receptor sites and neuro-peptides, while at others it is an inexplicable and ineffable knowing that you have just encountered another part of yourself that takes you deeper into the mystery of being than anyone might have ever imagined.

In my own life, it reminds me of a time when I was living in Olympia, Washington and had a brief fling with a waitress who worked at the same restaurant that I did. She was a mother of two boys that lived in a small logging town called, “Tenino” and she loved to line dance to Alan Jackson. I couldn’t think of anyone less similar to me and yet, when we were together, in the deepest parts of our connecting, she set my heart ablaze with unexpected and unexplained love and joy. It was nearly too much for my rational mind to understand. Like most people who have not learned to surrender to the experience of a love that doesn’t look the way it should, I ran the other way. Libra, this month, for you, I would highly recommend that you hold your ground and follow the bliss no matter what it looks like or where it takes you. The way to tell if it is simply a flush of Dopamine or some other deeper channel, is if you are not caught up in the rush. The less it makes sense, the more right it is.

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