I have my work cut out for me today. Why? Here’s my horoscope:"If you’ve been wondering when you’ll meet that life-changing person, today offers the best chance of the month. Get out and be friendly. Someone has been waiting to meet you, too."

Wow! This opens up a vast realm of possibility. How might my life be changed? Who is this person? How will I know them? Will they know me? I’ll have to be on my toes, really observant, so as not to miss this moment, this life-changing person.

Now, truth be told I only put a small stock in my horoscope. I simply find it fun to read every morning. But I do like the idea that we meet people who change our lives all the time. People who inspire us. Those that challenge us. Others who fill us with great hope and those that make us commit to more fully live out our values in the world. Sometimes these are famous people we hear speaking who call us in some way to rise to the best of who we are. But most often those life-changing people are regular, every day people living extraordinary lives with courage and humility and deep sense of connection to others. They are parents, grandparents, children, teachers or friends. They change our lives by their commitment to traveling life’s journey with us through thick and thin, through joy and sorrow. They encourage and uplift, dry tears and share our laughter.They teach us by their example and accept us with grace.

The advice of my horoscope still stands. It is still a good idea to ‘get out there and be friendly.’ Someone is waiting to meet us…and we, them. It is in those chance meetings that we can once again form those relationships that will change our lives and make them stronger…..one person at a time. This is not a once a month experience but the gift that is offered to us each day. It’s good advice that doesn’t come from an ability to read the stars. It comes from an ability to read the human heart.

"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a
vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a
series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
— Samuel Johnson