GUESSING

Do you absolutely know for sure what you are doing? Of course not. You are a human, not a robot. The best you can ever hope to do is hazard a guess as to the true nature of your situation. Invariably, you are going to be a little confused. Now various doubts and dilemmas are beginning to emerge. You are not as sure of yourself as once you were. That does not mean, though, that you are doing anything wrong. It's healthy to recognise that you don't have (and can never get) ALL the answers! The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

Why do we let things get to us? Why do we suddenly find ourselves feeling vulnerable or volatile? Why can't we be imperious and impervious, too high, too lofty, too self-possessed and too intrinsically wise to know or care whether a situation is ridiculous, unreasonable or unfair? Because every bit as much as we are adults, we are still children. Within us all there are squabbling toddlers and sulky adolescents. Life's challenge for you now, is to rise above an inappropriate impulse and manifest a greater form of wisdom.There are so many things we could worry about. So many things we could be apprehensive of. Just think about what could go wrong at any moment in your world. Given the vast number of possible potential disasters, it is faintly miraculous that you worry about so few of those dismal eventualities. Can't you be more imaginative and come up with some additional causes for concern? I'm sure you could but why would you bother? You don't need yet another anxiety-evoking issue  - and you don't have to have one!  Cheer up!The rulebook is being rewritten as we speak. The story line is changing. The tale is being told from another perspective. Don't get left behind. Yesterday's priorities are irrelevant today. So are several of yesterday's problems. We are all, though, creatures of habit. We find it easier to carry on doing what we've always done, than to start doing something new. Catch yourself, the next time you start following an old entrenched habit-pattern. You really do have an amazing chance to change the future for the better.We see someone who is in a position that is more uncomfortable than our own and we think, 'I wouldn't want to trade places with them.' Generally, though, we come across people who seem to be bemoaning their lot for no good reason. We think, 'You call those problems? Many people would be glad if that were the only difficulty that they faced.' But it is all relative. What none of us can quantify is how much a difficulty or a challenge represents to anyone else. Try to make a greater allowance for someone else's sensitivity. There is a great mystery unfolding before your eyes. Don your deerstalker hat and start looking for clues. Make sure that you don't start playing the role of Dr Watson or the bumbling chief inspector. These characters are traditionally unable to perceive anything other than the obvious. Their unimaginative attitude is unhelpful. You need to be optimistic about your ability to form a more subtle, accurate appraisal. Think positively and inventively. Explore the inspiring options. You are going to crack this case!But there are some who say that all this compromises the power , the power to make it what you want it to be.to be a firm believer in the process of cause and effect. Whenever something happens, something else happens because of it. You feel that nothing happens in isolation. Everything happens for a reason. I'm not saying that this is right... or wrong. I'm just pointing out that it's the way you tend to think. You look for explanations - and though you often find them, sometimes, you just become ever more baffled. Something that makes no sense is happening now. Just accept it and relax.  People love to tell one another what to do. It's not just authoritarians or power-crazed megalomaniacs that enjoy this. Even the humblest among us have a tendency to criticise one another, or to deliver advice in strong terms. To some extent we all do it because others 'invite us to do it'. As much as we like giving orders, we secretly like being given them. It can be comforting to feel you don't have to think for yourself. Comforting but not clever. Only you can decide what's appropriate now. You have more choices than you yet realise. Children have emotions that come naturally to them - and others that they have to develop, From the age of seven or so onwards, they deliberately start experimenting with sorrow and happiness, becoming more upset than they need to be about some matters and more excited than can possibly be justified about others. It's part of the process by which they explore their own potential for feeling. And of course all adults are still children at heart. Right now, if something is too much, make less of it!.  So much has happened in the last few days, that you must be wondering how you will cope if life continues to put you under so much pressure. There's so much to take care of, think about, focus on and deal with. Complicated decisions must be made. Difficult propositions must be thoroughly understood. It's tiring and tiresome, yet it's also inevitable and essential. The good news? You have already made the hardest choice of all. Implementing it will yet prove surprisingly easy - as you will discover over the next few days.But be careful what you wish for lest you get it.' Why should that be a problem? Well, sometimes our wishes are not wise. We wish for what we think we can have, not what we truly want. Or we pour too much heart and soul into some idle passing fancy. We carelessly think, 'Oh, I wish I could have that.' And it just so happens that a guardian angel is passing by at that moment. Even though it has failed to honour your last, more serious request, it hears this one. And it grants it. All your wishes won't come true soon, but some will.