Cancers may not get everything they want today, but they still can get what they need. If you’ve been wrestling with a personal problem and seek someone to talk to, you could find yourself listening to their problems instead. At first, this can seem discouraging. Still — listening to your own advice to a friend can make you realize that you knew the answers you needed all along.

Today’s Soul Advice: We are tiny trickles of water carving our own individual paths through the stone, but we are also sometimes the river forging through the canyon. Be independent. Carve your story. But also help the many other streams to forge through the canyon, too — and watch for when the time may come for you to lead the way.