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Oracle of Ybor: I’ve been experiencing anhedonia lately
Dear Oracle, I’ve been experiencing anhedonia lately. What can I do to move through it?—Winter in Spring Cards: Full Moon, Six of Wands (reversed), Three of Cups, Queen of Swords Dear Winter, A confession: I’d never seen the word “anhedonia” until you wrote it. Looking it up, I saw that it is the mirror of “hedonism,” a lack of pleasure in life and a lack of desire to even look for it, possibly believing that searching for joy is a pointless pastime.
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