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

Your anxiety is a "low vibration." Your anger means you're "not healed." Your sadness proves you're "not manifesting correctly." Your pain is a personal failure to transcend.

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