{"id":1176653,"date":"2025-12-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/?p=1176653"},"modified":"2025-12-17T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T16:32:47","slug":"3-zodiac-signs-that-need-to-be-a-little-bit-more-selfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/kelly-peacock\/2025\/12\/3-zodiac-signs-that-need-to-be-a-little-bit-more-selfish\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Zodiac Signs That Need To Be A Little Bit More Selfish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cancer\">Cancer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You have an incredibly nurturing nature, and although your empathy and sensitivity is your strength, it is also your weakness. Why? Because you don&#8217;t know how to put yourself, <em>your<\/em> needs, and <em>your<\/em> emotions first. You need to start focusing on yourself and how you can foster more self-care and self-love. You so badly want to be in an emotionally fulfilling, loving relationship, but you can&#8217;t get that until you develop one with yourself first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"virgo\">Virgo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You are incredibly self-aware, so you already know that you need to focus more on yourself and less on what people think of you. You&#8217;re way too hard on yourself for everything you do or don&#8217;t do, and never feel as if you&#8217;re good enough. You put too much pressure on yourself to live up to other&#8217;s expectations and needs&#8230;but what about you? What do <em>you <\/em>want for your life in 2026? How can you become more confident? How can you strengthen the connection you have with yourself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"libra\">Libra<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Admit it, Libra, you find it important to please others and give all your love to them before you&#8217;d ever give it to yourself. By being so agreeable, you neglect yourself and your needs and are conflict-avoidant&#8211;and that&#8217;s unhealthy. You need to put yourself, your desires, your feelings, and your needs first for once. In 2026, spend time alone and <em>prioritize<\/em> that solitude. Self-love and self-care are so much more important than the love you give to others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you become more confident? How can you strengthen the connection you have with yourself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149317691,"featured_media":1176654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"thoughtcatalog_call_to_action":"","tc_post_redirect":"","thoughtcatalog_is_sponsored_content":"0","footnotes":""},"categories":[433445943],"tags":[],"anchortext":[],"posttemplate":[],"adcampaign":[],"coauthors":[603201716],"class_list":["post-1176653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astrology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-12-15-Couple-Laughing-Piggyback-In-Falling-Snow-New-Years-Eve-Celebration-Ritual.jpg","author_meta":null,"photo_credit":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149317691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176655,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176653\/revisions\/1176655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1176654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176653"},{"taxonomy":"anchortext","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/anchortext?post=1176653"},{"taxonomy":"posttemplate","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posttemplate?post=1176653"},{"taxonomy":"adcampaign","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adcampaign?post=1176653"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcatalog.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1176653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}