You're doing everything right. The morning routine is locked in. You're journaling, meditating, using the right face oils, buying the ethically sourced sage. You've got the therapist, the supplements, the boundary scripts saved in your notes app. You're performing wellness like it's a fucking Olympic sport. And you're still exhausted. Here's why: Self-care got colonized. What started as a radical actBlack feminists and activists insisting that rest is resistance in a system

You know that feeling when you can't figure out why you keep doing things that hurt you? When one part of you wants love and another part sabotages every good thing that comes your way? Your birth chart may be revealing exactly where those internal conflicts are occurring.

That crushing weight of obligation you feel? It's just you being "responsible." That guilt eating at you? It's your conscience working properly. That paralysis when you try to assert yourself? You're just being "considerate." You may not see it, but someone may have weaponized your own psychological blueprint against you. Let's strip away the mystical fluff and use astrology as a diagnostic tool, a language for naming the manipulation tactics your nervous system recognizes bu