Do you get the feeling that the cosmos is trying to tell you something about the way your emotional life is developing? Perhaps it isn't. Perhaps all those odd little developments, which seem as if they're all pointing towards the same conclusion, are just coincidences. Perhaps those signs, signals and suggestions are intended for someone else... or are to be interpreted as advisory comments, not emphatic orders. Perhaps. And perhaps, if you keep ignoring the more subtle hints, the universe will have to start shouting!
You carry such a weight on your shoulders yet you handle it with such poise and grace. Even if you complain, you only express a small fraction of the disgruntlement that you feel. You hold so much together, you are solid as a rock, you are splendid and you are strong. Or at least most of the time that's what you are like. Once in a while, things aren't so easy and the cracks start to show. Sometimes you can patch them over, sometimes you have to open them up a little and do a structural repair. But that's nothing to fear now. Trust this and go ahead.
Success and failure are, like deep love and intense hatred, two sides of one dangerously overvalued coin. Whichever way up it lands when you flip it, there's a constant danger it will suddenly turn over again. And, when you try to spend such a coin, even if you proffer it the preferred way up, you soon discover it rarely buys what you need. Success is more often envied than admired, love is more often abused than rewarded. Be more moderate in your heart and in your judgement of your status and you'll be better off.
You really don't have to put up with a situation you find impossible or unbearable. There may be no way to wave a magic wand and make everything wonderful, but there is, nonetheless, an important element in your love life over which you have plenty of choice. It is almost as if you feel offended or upset by the fact that you face a particular problem. It makes you feel inclined not to try or to bother. 'If that can go wrong,' you argue, 'so can everything else.' Not so. You do have power you can use. Now is the time to exploit it.
What's happening behind your back? What's going on just out of your sight? What secret conversations might be happening in places where you can't overhear them? And what would it matter, even if any of this were actually going on at all, which it isn't. Your time is too precious to waste worrying about circumstances you can't control or ways in which other people's agendas may not be as clear or as faultless as you might wish. Even if a situation is 'less than ideal', it is less 'less than ideal' than you fear.
Right. Wrong. Two little words. So easy to say. So easy to defend. So easy, too, to arrogantly, inappropriately apply. We all want to be right. Only those of us with terrible problems of self-esteem, see ourselves as wrong. And if that is the case, we are wrong to see ourselves as wrong. Likewise, many overly assertive folk are wrong to see themselves as right. Now, with all that in mind, let us look at the rights and wrongs of a situation in your personal life. Don't attribute blame. Don't judge. Just be as loving as you can!
Is there someone, somewhere, who is better than you? How about someone who deserves more? Is there a real reason for you to have to settle for second-best? I'm asking these questions only in an attempt to provoke a reaction. You may not have all the wealth in the world or all the power but that's just due to a temporary quirk in the cosmic distribution system. Whilst you can't just go out and claim what has not yet been delivered to you, you can at least hold your head high and trust that it will only be a matter of time.
Very few things can ever really happen in just one way, at just one time. Even life's supposedly unrepeatable experiences and opportunities have a way of coming back round sooner or later. That doesn't mean that we should take anyone or anything for granted; we should always seize the moment. We should never be lethargic or blase. Yet nor should we worry if something seems to be slipping from our grasp. Either it needs to be let go of or you will find yourself able to catch hold of it again when the time is right.
Other people don't quite see the world in the way that you see it. That's not because you are wrong and they are right, rather to the contrary. You have an ability to notice nuance that seems to fly right over the heads of other observers. You can read situations deftly and accurately. You can detect, from a small clue, some piece of information that is likely to prove highly significant. These abilities will stand you in good stead; just don't expect all your expectations to be immediately understood.
When you close your eyes, you can see anything you want to see. Why then, when you open them, can't you be anything you want to be? What keeps you in your place? What stifles your creativity? What limits your power? What suppresses your potential? Over the course of the time, you may gain a much greater insight into the reason for a difficulty. You should also become enthused with an inspiring new vision. Don't assume that your exciting hope is something that can never come to pass. It can... and it will.
Vegetarians are often teased by meat-eaters who say, 'How do you know that plants don't have feelings too?' And, there's no answer to this. We don't know any such thing. Trees and flowers may well have emotions, even opinions and, as sensitive human beings, we should surely make an effort to be as responsive as possible. But then, there comes a point where we all have to draw a line for the sake of our sanity. When you draw that line in your life now, make sure that those who matter most to you are on the right side of it.
Your trouble is, you are too generous. You give away too much of your time, sympathy and even your money. All that is understandable. Laudable even. There is never, though, any good reason to give away your power. Already, lately, you have begun to reclaim some of the authority and respect you deserve. Soon, you will rediscover a sense of being much more 'in control'. Though responsibility comes alongside this, so too, does strength and energy. A marked overdue improvement in your emotional life is coming.
You carry such a weight on your shoulders yet you handle it with such poise and grace. Even if you complain, you only express a small fraction of the disgruntlement that you feel. You hold so much together, you are solid as a rock, you are splendid and you are strong. Or at least most of the time that's what you are like. Once in a while, things aren't so easy and the cracks start to show. Sometimes you can patch them over, sometimes you have to open them up a little and do a structural repair. But that's nothing to fear now. Trust this and go ahead.
Success and failure are, like deep love and intense hatred, two sides of one dangerously overvalued coin. Whichever way up it lands when you flip it, there's a constant danger it will suddenly turn over again. And, when you try to spend such a coin, even if you proffer it the preferred way up, you soon discover it rarely buys what you need. Success is more often envied than admired, love is more often abused than rewarded. Be more moderate in your heart and in your judgement of your status and you'll be better off.
You really don't have to put up with a situation you find impossible or unbearable. There may be no way to wave a magic wand and make everything wonderful, but there is, nonetheless, an important element in your love life over which you have plenty of choice. It is almost as if you feel offended or upset by the fact that you face a particular problem. It makes you feel inclined not to try or to bother. 'If that can go wrong,' you argue, 'so can everything else.' Not so. You do have power you can use. Now is the time to exploit it.
What's happening behind your back? What's going on just out of your sight? What secret conversations might be happening in places where you can't overhear them? And what would it matter, even if any of this were actually going on at all, which it isn't. Your time is too precious to waste worrying about circumstances you can't control or ways in which other people's agendas may not be as clear or as faultless as you might wish. Even if a situation is 'less than ideal', it is less 'less than ideal' than you fear.
Right. Wrong. Two little words. So easy to say. So easy to defend. So easy, too, to arrogantly, inappropriately apply. We all want to be right. Only those of us with terrible problems of self-esteem, see ourselves as wrong. And if that is the case, we are wrong to see ourselves as wrong. Likewise, many overly assertive folk are wrong to see themselves as right. Now, with all that in mind, let us look at the rights and wrongs of a situation in your personal life. Don't attribute blame. Don't judge. Just be as loving as you can!
Is there someone, somewhere, who is better than you? How about someone who deserves more? Is there a real reason for you to have to settle for second-best? I'm asking these questions only in an attempt to provoke a reaction. You may not have all the wealth in the world or all the power but that's just due to a temporary quirk in the cosmic distribution system. Whilst you can't just go out and claim what has not yet been delivered to you, you can at least hold your head high and trust that it will only be a matter of time.
Very few things can ever really happen in just one way, at just one time. Even life's supposedly unrepeatable experiences and opportunities have a way of coming back round sooner or later. That doesn't mean that we should take anyone or anything for granted; we should always seize the moment. We should never be lethargic or blase. Yet nor should we worry if something seems to be slipping from our grasp. Either it needs to be let go of or you will find yourself able to catch hold of it again when the time is right.
Other people don't quite see the world in the way that you see it. That's not because you are wrong and they are right, rather to the contrary. You have an ability to notice nuance that seems to fly right over the heads of other observers. You can read situations deftly and accurately. You can detect, from a small clue, some piece of information that is likely to prove highly significant. These abilities will stand you in good stead; just don't expect all your expectations to be immediately understood.
When you close your eyes, you can see anything you want to see. Why then, when you open them, can't you be anything you want to be? What keeps you in your place? What stifles your creativity? What limits your power? What suppresses your potential? Over the course of the time, you may gain a much greater insight into the reason for a difficulty. You should also become enthused with an inspiring new vision. Don't assume that your exciting hope is something that can never come to pass. It can... and it will.
Vegetarians are often teased by meat-eaters who say, 'How do you know that plants don't have feelings too?' And, there's no answer to this. We don't know any such thing. Trees and flowers may well have emotions, even opinions and, as sensitive human beings, we should surely make an effort to be as responsive as possible. But then, there comes a point where we all have to draw a line for the sake of our sanity. When you draw that line in your life now, make sure that those who matter most to you are on the right side of it.
Your trouble is, you are too generous. You give away too much of your time, sympathy and even your money. All that is understandable. Laudable even. There is never, though, any good reason to give away your power. Already, lately, you have begun to reclaim some of the authority and respect you deserve. Soon, you will rediscover a sense of being much more 'in control'. Though responsibility comes alongside this, so too, does strength and energy. A marked overdue improvement in your emotional life is coming.
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