Let me be clear: anxiety isn’t new. It didn’t come with TikTok, inflation, or your coworker (let’s call her Karen) who insists on replying-all to every email. Anxiety has always been part of the human experience. It’s older than your therapist, older than Freud, and definitely older than the DSM.
But while modern psychology offers us diagnoses and prescriptions, astrology and mythology hand us something even juicier: symbols, stories, and patterns that actually mean something. Because anxiety, my friends, isn’t just a medical inconvenience. It’s often a soul-level signal that the unconscious is trying to get a word in edgewise.
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