Tete-a-Tete|You’ve Got Chops|Mar 28, 2025

Daily Love & Life Advice – Your Guide to Navigating Relationships

A Buddhist proverb says, “Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” That core concept emphasizes living in the present by diligently focusing on the mundane tasks presently before you.

There’s a need for change or an opportunity to create change in order to transform a situation. Perhaps the effort is applied to follow a dream, embrace a new healthier self, or shift your identity to break out of a comfortable rut. Either way, it’s the resolve to succeed that drives the perseverance to improve. You may be honing a talent, developing skills, or focusing on a craft. Hard work to increase your material wealth may include a side gig, investments, savings, or self-employment.

However, if you can’t seem to get out of a groove motivated by grievance, you may be too narrowly focused on the mistakes of others to realize your own pettiness. On the other hand, criticism could very well be valid if you or others have a habit of cutting corners, pretending to have knowledge, or lacking the skills to produce anything beyond poor quality.

If you find yourself a part of the unemployed, socially disadvantaged, or disenfranchised, the focus may be on rising costs or mounting bills, especially if an emergency threatens your stability or stash of cash. For some, job security is at stake or a medical issue proves to be more serious than you thought. In the final analysis, what you reap or what ends up on the chopping block could rest on a Virgo.

Read your March Astro-Tarotscope here.

Image:Harvesters, Julien Dupre

Deck: John Bauer Tarot, Lo Scarabeo, Torino

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