After The Year of Radical Letting Go, Hurry Up and Be Yourself in 2008

In numerology, 2007 (2+7=9) was a '9' year - a year of completion and release and letting go of old patterns, self-concepts, belief systems, habits, relationships, or anything that was inauthentic , or kept us untrue to ourselves. 2008, by contrast, is a '1' year (2+8=10=1+0=1) and it signifies 'new beginnings and fresh starts'.

I can feel the newly birthed energies of 2008 swirling upward and outward in fresh new formations and a new perk of excitement in the air. Fresh and new are the themes for 2008. Hallelujah... not a moment too soon.

2007 tore through my life like a tornado and swept up to the surface and out the door anything that wasn't absolutely, positively in alignment with my path. There was a force at work that was on a mission for truth and it wasn't stopping until it had cleared the decks. Every old pattern that bore an 'expired' label was being rushed up and out. That included relationships.

Looking back, I can see that it was the year of the grand sweep -- grand preparation for the year to come. The grand sweep was difficult at times and painful but I have gratitude, gratitude, gratitude for it all. It was necessary. It was time. My soul was calling for it all, of that I am sure. The grand sweep brought me face to face with personal truths and dips into old wounds I thought were healed, sudden endings, defeats, detours, opportunities that were really 'emperors with no clothes', egoic blunders (yes, of course, it's ego blunders. But egoic sounds like I've been lanced by my own excess which is kind of how it feels), and repeated experiences designed to burn out of me old patterns of responding to life with disappointment and frustration. The relationships I thought would survive, left. The relationships I thought would leave, stayed. In the midst of all this radical letting go came the gift of liberated energy and liberated opportunities. Partnerships that left were replaced with new ones. Opportunities began to pop like popcorn, new possibilities were blooming all over the place. And what began to grow in me was more trust. Trust in God and the universe. Trust in myself. Trust in my own instincts and intuitions. Trust in the ability to listen to myself and glean my own answers.

I would also say it was the year of learning greater self-acceptance, self-forgiveness, patience, balance, and respect for grief and loss. In the midst of the emotional rota-rooter of 2007, came an awareness of my non super-woman status. It is not as if I did not know this but experiencing it so much in a moment to moment way all year put it front and center in my awareness. Change and loss has its own timetable of integration - even when it is a good thing. Even when it is bringing you more and more to honoring yourself. There comes the time of settling and sorting and adjustment, or re-directing one's ship, of licking wounds and feeling sorry for yourself then rallying anew happy to free of what is no longer right for you, of understanding what pieces of the puzzle get put back together, which ones no longer fit you and which ones can be dropped.

Sitting here with the experience of hindsight, I can say that the lessons have been fast, furious, deep and many: Breathe. Trust. Have gratitude. Cultivate a habit of saying 'Yes! Thank you!' to everything that happens, no matter what. It is the energy of 'all is well, all is in perfect Divine order' you want to encode in the cells of your being more and more. Flow in the direction the river is going, follow the energy where it leads you. Stop forcing a path where there is not meant to be one. You are meant to have ease. If something's not working, drop it like a hot potato. That may mean dropping the pattern of forcing forcing forcing it to happen happen happen your way. If you are being hurried along, allow the hurrying. There is magic in it since you are probably being hurried up to be yourself. There is no time to be wasted in the inauthentic, in what is not you, in what you don't want or choose anymore. Have what you love. Say Yes to who you are. Know that everything that happens to you, you have called for - for your healing and transformation. Be kinder to yourself in the midst of it all. Judge not, especially not yourself. Love yourself as you are, exactly, right now. Free yourself to do what your heart calls to you to do -- be who you are and have what you love.

2008 is a lush new magnificent landscape of infinite possibility. What will you create, creator? What new beginnings? What extraordinary unfoldings will you choose to call in? What miraculous manifestations? What you speak is seeking you! Choose to create --in thought, word, feeling and action -- with consciousness and delight. Invite the universe - as your friend - to partner with you for the highest good of all. Be flexible and open...and willing to believe that what the universe brings you will be even more miraculous and joyful than you can imagine! Yes! Yes! Yes! Love! Love! Love!


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