Why do the best ideas come to mind as soon as the lights are switched off? Astrology has a kind of cute naming of the patterns already known to the people: the email that got redelivered 10 times, the call that plays on a loop, the urge to work out next week, 1 a.m. It is not the diagnosis, but it can be oddly a good reflection especially of the indications and the positions that have always continued to run mental simulations when everyone was long since off.
The problem of overthinking in real life is usually confused with rumination and worry, which are other kinds of negative repetitive thoughts. Rumination is prone to chewing what has already occurred; worry points to what might. No matter the outcome, the mind can begin to consider the bed, the silence or even a single text message as an invitation to continue going.
1. Virgo placements which are unable to stop editing reality
Virgo energy is known to follow details, seek patterns and also perform quality control in the mind all the time. What may become an entire internal audit is a mere decision, since the brain continues to seek out the purist, most right path ahead. The same attention which causes planning, organizing, and troubleshooting to be natural can cause done to seem too suspicious.
This is where one will re-read an email tone, rhythm, and unwanted subtext, and re-read it again. It can also rephrase a comment made days ago and attempt to find the word that went astray. The gimmick lies in the fact that it typically begins as competence up to the point when it turns into pressure. When the brain determines that being perfect means being safe, turning off can be as much like forgetting something precious.
2. Placements of cancer between the lines
Cancer placements are prone to thinking emotionally and through reminiscence than rationally. Traditional astrology has this energy under the Moon, and it is attuned to changes of mood, pauses, facial expressions, and the something-off feeling other people may fail to notice at all. The mind will continue to scan to reassure: Is everything alright? Was there some meaning to that silence? Was that joke actually a jab?
Emotional processing can be more vocal at night when the distractions decrease. Psychiatrist of Harvard University Michelle Drerup, PsyD, DBSM explains the way that stressful thoughts trigger the alarm system within our body: “Stressful thoughts cause our bodies to respond in much the same way and our fight or flight is the system that responds. Such a cycle may render sensitivity less about intuition, more like insomnia.
3. Gemini tabs that are overloaded with mental tabs
Gemini placements are created to be curious, connected, and in rapid-fire thinking. The negative is the momentum of the mind: the discussion is never finished, and always splits into other possibilities, punch lines that could have worked better, and questions that should have been asked. The process of overthinking, in this case, can be about the communication process of what was said, what was meant, and what it was possible to misunderstand.
This position may even feel as though it is replaying its own social existence. There is an easy accessibility to multiple sides simultaneously, and this leeway can degenerate into analysis paralysis when the decision must be made. Gemini energy never wants to avoid, but to be relieved, to have something loud enough to drown out the buzzing.
4. Placements of Libra in the fairness calculator
The reason behind overthinking in Libra placements is because balance is important- and because consequences are important. A straightforward decision may be burdensome when the mind considers the comfort of all the people, all the possible meanings and the risk of having people down. The societal consciousness is actual: Libra energy can sense the tension sooner than any other person mentions it.
However, having to weigh out the options may cause every day life to become one of endless comparison. Instead of “What do I want?” the mind may be tempted to “What is the most non-disruptive alternative? That can serve to keep decisions alive long after their expiry date particularly in relations and group dynamics.
5. Places of Scorpios which explore what is not being said
Placements of Scorpios are inclined to privately and intensely think over. This energy does not stand on the superficial description and seeks motives, contradictions and undertexts. When something does not seem right, one is free to dig and dig until the story seems to be complete.
The driver is always safe with certainty: knowing the truth, knowing the turn, not to get betrayed. The depth is a strong social radar, and it may reduce ambiguous situations to full-fledged investigations as well. When one is convinced that he or she should resolve something to the brain, a circumstance, or an emotion, letting it go may seem like abandoning a case.
6. Capricorn placements make ten steps in advance
Capricorn placements tend to obsess over the future: schedules, future, duties and the consequences of the domino falling wrong. The mind is capable of playing the soundtrack of endless productivity pushing the mind to do the next task whilst the one being undertaken is not completed. It may pass as serene on the surface yet inside it may be a long-term prediction that never ceases to revise.
This placement can be particularly noisy during the nighttime hours since the requirements of tomorrow finally get a chance to assert themselves. According to Drerup, the manifestation of the racing thoughts in many individuals is during times when the environmental distraction is usually minimal. In the case of Capricorn energy, that silence can turn out to be an encounter with all unachievable projects.
Overthinking is not necessarily a vice and it plays out like a guard mechanism to most of the persons. The problem begins with the loop of the reflex which robs the present of sleep, ease, or attention.
Once the pattern seems stuck, the most effective shift is usually the change of the thought process of solving and the conditions that sustain the pattern. It may involve such methods as journaling, relaxation exercises, placing barriers between screens and sleep, little cues that indicate to the brain that it is no longer on duty.
