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Healthy and unhealthy ways the moon signs cope with their emotions/problems

Aries

Unhealthy: They turn their emotions into anger until it drains them and they feel nothing. They explode around the ones they love about stupid stuff because they refuse to address the real problem. They fight them, they fight feeling that certain emotion until it turns into feeling nothingness.

Healthy: They fight the problem that is causing them to feel that way head-on and try to solve it as fast as possible. They calm themselves instead of bursting in the heat of the moment and try to talk to their loved ones after they decide whether whatever they have to say is something worth discussing.

Taurus

Unhealthy: They distract themselves with possessions or their work. They lock themselves in their comfort zone and refuse to talk about anything. They indulge in their bad habits to forget about it. They are also prone to ignoring it to the point that everybody around them knows what’s wrong and they would still act like nothing is wrong because of fear of losing whatever shred of comfort they have left.

Healthy: They take time to themselves to relax and understand the problem and where it’s coming from. They try to solve it with whatever way they can, they don’t stop until it’s solved or until they feel better about it. They don’t settle for less than feeling at peace even if it means stepping out of their comfortable surroundings to achieve that.

Gemini

Unhealthy: They criticize and bottle them up. They don’t accept the fact that they’re hurt therefore they do not try to know who or whatever is hurting them. They ignore their emotions, act like they don’t exist which sometimes makes them act cruel.

Healthy: They search and analyze the problem. They use their resources to find a solution. They work on accepting their emotions and the fact that there are some things that do not have logical explanations. They share their experiences with their friends and sometimes ask them for help too.

Cancer

Unhealthy: They hide them, they don’t talk about them until their emotions are eating away at them. They drown themselves in self pity to the point that it’s the only thing they feel. They don’t try to understand them. They regret every choice they made yet they do not try to do better.

Healthy: They actually let themselves feel the emotion, so they can know what it is and where it comes from. They find the reason as to why they feel that way and cut it from the root. Knowing why gives them some sort of closure. They embrace what they can’t change and grow past it.

Leo

Unhealthy: They avoid their feelings by burying them using anything that gives them a rush of power. They let themselves go, they keep giving and giving even when the receiver breaks everything that they give. They turn all their negative emotions into hate and direct it at themselves. They become everything they hate about themselves.

Healthy: They try to understand the reason behind whatever it is they’re feeling. They try to control their choices and decisions in hopes that they will feel better, when that doesn’t work they direct themselves towards whatever the cause is and controlling or stopping it. They try to seek help from those they trust and they don’t beat themselves up for feeling the way they do.

Virgo

Unhealthy: They criticize and analyze themselves for not being able to fix the problem. They run from it. In the way that they look for other things to fix. It becomes a routine sometimes even an obsession they need to fix things so they can feel helpful. They will take time for everyone and everything but never for themselves.

Healthy: They help themselves for once. They don’t give up too quickly on themselves. They validate their emotions and not just look at them as these things that are inconvenient to them. Sometimes they ask for help from trusted people or they agree on taking offered help and sometimes when things are too much they allow themselves a break.

Libra

Unhealthy: They degrade their views on the problem and it becomes a need to mold themselves into whatever would please the people surrounding them so they could feel accepted. They are not fair to themselves, do not trust themselves enough. Their need for acceptance become intenser because of the idea that if they are accepted by people everything will be okay.

Healthy: They weigh the good and bad of the situation, their feelings. They treat themselves fairly and see their own problems as real ones and they let themselves invest in them. They ask their loved ones for advice but they would also reach a middle ground after figuring out what they want. They understand that they need to be accepted by themselves and they work towards that.

Scorpio

Unhealthy: They bury them, deeper than the ocean. They become self destructive. They can become quite vengeful and jealous too. They keep falling into the same loop or so that’s how it feels. They hide everything so well because of their paranoia of it being used to hurt them. They’re afraid and they hate that so they act like they’re emotionless.

Healthy: They let their emotions wash over them. They become one with how they feel and let the emotion whether good or bad transform them, they always come out of them different, grown, healed somehow. They find the problem and search for anything that they are yet to know about it. They cut the person off and/or get rid of them problem it’s that simple.

Sagittarius

Unhealthy: They avoid their problems and feelings, they run. They go to new places, meet new people and once what they’re running from catches up they get up and leave. They lie to themselves, to everyone around them cause, they don’t wanna talk about it. They’re so afraid of their emotions because, they’re afraid of anything that they do not understand.

Healthy: They face their problems head on and only seek help with them when they are 1000% sure that they need it. They don’t run from their feelings they try to understand them and when they don’t they try to embrace them, they still don’t act on them most of the time but at the same time they don’t run away either when people try to open up about things.

Capricorn

Unhealthy: They build a fortress around their emotions and lock it inside. They act cruel and cold, they allow themselves to carry other peoples emotional burdens but they never acknowledge theirs, they forget how to let people in, instead they push them outside. They are that person that nobody knows anything about. They carry al their burdens alone, struggle in silence.

Healthy: They understand that they do not have to do all of it alone. They open up a window to that fortress, later a door. They let themselves hurt so they can learn and heal, they don’t shoves it all aside. They will share some of their burdens with the ones they loved/trusted ones they will also let themselves be taken care of from time to time without beating themselves about it.

Aquarius

Unhealthy: They become way too detached. They distract themselves with anything they can. They can be irresponsible and way too analytic. They don’t give themselves the space to feel anything, they break their feelings down and try to understand them. They ignore every emotion that has ever crossed them to the point that they never learn how to deal with them.

Healthy: They still would rather not talk about emotions but they let themselves acknowledge them, feel them. They don’t brush off every hurt they feel and don’t over analyze and beat themselves up for it. They still feel uncomfortable because of what they don’t understand but they’re not that afraid to start trusting certain people after a while.

Pisces

Unhealthy: They become escapists. They indulge in whatever makes them feel like they’re somewhere or someone else to the point of addiction. They become so sucked into their own reality where they are the only victim that it becomes difficult for them to see things the way they are, they hurt the people around them by blaming them even if it’s not their fault.

Healthy: They address their bad habits and take responsibility for their actions. They cut off problems and bad influences from their life. They own up to their choices and don’t escape from them. They cherish themselves enough to give themselves time to heal without needing to get back to old habits. They use their lessons to help others find their way.