We live in an age where titles are thrown around everywhere and everyone writes "I am this, I am that" on their business cards. Social media bios look almost like a competency festival.

However, a question naturally comes to mind: Can we truly back up what we say with real substance?

When you stand in front of the mirror one day and say aloud, "I am an astrologer" or "I am a yoga teacher," how does that sound echo in your ears and body? Does somewhere deep inside you vibrate and embrace those words, or do you feel crushed under the weight of that sentence?

A person must first believe in what they say, and that statement needs to feel right inside them before anything else. Otherwise, the words coming out of the mouth remain nothing more than empty phrases blowing in the wind.

Knowing what kind of seed we plant in someone's mind when connecting with them carries a huge responsibility, unless, of course, our goal is to spread envy, hatred, or negativity around us.

What emotion feeds us when we speak? Do we genuinely want to offer guidance, or are we just pouring out our own internal toxicity?

One of the greatest challenges in today's world is that people do not know how to stay silent. There are so many people who mistake silence for weakness or ignorance.

Yet, knowing when to stay silent is a masterpiece of wisdom.

A wise person chooses to remain silent and say "I don't know" when they lack knowledge or when they realize that what they say might leave a negative impact on the other person.

In the past, the people who read my astrological chart unfortunately did not know how to stay silent. They planted the dark and toxic seeds of thought they carried within themselves directly into my mind.

Those seeds grew so much inside me that they turned into saplings, and eventually into huge trees...

Their roots went so deep into my mind that pulling them out cost me a great deal in the end. I paid a heavy price.

"You will never be able to earn your own money."

There were people who said this sentence, and even went much further with statements that you could call pure disrespect.

Our mind has such a mechanism that whatever we focus on and enlarge, it makes visible in our lives.

Even though I secretly wanted the exact opposite and worked tirelessly, because of these limiting beliefs running in the background of my mind, I kept facing events and results that confirmed this negative idea.

Today, I can see very clearly that the real cause behind this was feeling unworthy of good things, carrying a sense of valuelessness, and underpricing my own efforts.

While you work extremely hard and accept very little, after a while you look around and notice something:

People with no effort at all, without creating any real value, demand 10 to 20 times more than what seems fair, living in immense wealth and comfort.

Seeing this can make a person feel an even deeper loss of faith.

No matter how special or valuable your work is, unless you believe in it yourself and show your worth clearly, people will never understand it on their own.

In fact, those astrologers who "play God" by making such absolute, destructive, and fate-altering judgments about other people's lives are, in my opinion, simply unhappy with their own lives.

A person who is at peace with themselves and feels complete in their own life regardless of their profession does not try to manipulate others.

If they do this work professionally, they become a thousand times more careful not to plant negative seeds in people's minds.

Unlike those who made limiting predictions for me, another astrologer a true guide who did their job with care looked at my chart and said something completely different:

"Step outside the line. Defend your ideas, write, draw, speak."

Yes, right now, I am doing exactly that.

I am writing. I am speaking.

This is what true guidance looks like.

A chart is not a chain that tells us "what will happen" or what disasters will fall upon us; it is a mirror showing the sleeping giant of potential within us.

I look at where I am today.

Everything they told me "you cannot do, you cannot earn from" has become my new profession and my playground.

I took risks. I founded my own company. I became the boss of my own business.

I broke free from people's limiting words and from the crowds who cannot tolerate the success of others due to their own unhappiness, and I brought my own ideas to life.

Becoming the boss of your own life is, unfortunately, something very few people in this world dare to do.

In the end, those challenging curves and harsh angles in our chart can turn into the greatest sources of income and areas of transformation in our lives.

As long as we have the courage to pull out those old toxic seeds planted in our minds.

Because the sky can draw a roadmap for us.

However, the feet to walk that path and the courage to tear up that map and open a new trail belong entirely to us.

The pen is always in our hands.

And my final words to you reading this:

"Astrology can be one of the tools that make your life easier. But what will direct the planets is your own free will."

With love,

Elif