Saturday 15 June 2013

 Maybe we can repress certain instincts but it is very hard to subjugate them entirely. You now know what you ought to avoid. Yet a part of your heart is not at all interested in convenient compromise. It wants the ultimate... the best. It knows too that there is a chance of getting this. Sooner or later, you will find yourself pushing at the limits you have recently tried to impose upon yourself. That's appropriate really for you now need the strength to trust your deepest emotional impulses and affiliations. 'At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.' So said the ancient spiritual teacher Lao Tzu. 
Once a bridge has been put across a river, it's easy to get to the other side. Prior to that, it's difficult. You need a boat. Or at least a raft. Or you would have to swim. Even if you are trying to build a bridge, you can expect a long drawn-out process. It is as if you are now being told all about a result that may be attainable but someone is forgetting to mention the time, effort and energy that success will require. Is this because they want this result more than you do? By all means be generous this week but be realistic too!
 Don't rev your engine if you're at a red light. It eats fuel, pollutes the air, upsets neighbours, scares pedestrians and... well, I don't need to go on. It's not, I'm sure, something you'd dream of doing. But somewhere in your emotional life now, it seems nothing will shift. Yet you're in a hurry to make important progress. You can't help experiencing restlessness, but you can refrain from turning that energy into a kind of infectious nervousness. Hold a vision of success calmly in your mind and you'll fulfil that dream.
Despite the fact that you are right about most things, most of the time, others do not always agree. Usually, of course, this is because they are just plain wrong. Perhaps this is the case now. But perhaps not. To be safe, maybe you should consider the other side of a certain story. There may be something you have overlooked. It is possible that either someone is now being unreasonable and foolishly argumentative - or they have a point you sorely need to be aware of. An ability to listen could prove most rewarding.
 Where there's trouble in your emotional life now it may stem, at least in part, from the sheer pace at which your life is potentially changing for the better. You are almost spoilt for choice in some ways. It is, though, all well and good for me to sit here telling you that you are lucky to have your current problem. I'm sure it doesn't seem that way to you. So here's a helpful promise. Soon you'll have a solution you can be proud of. You just have to open your mind to an idea to which you are currently unreasonably opposed.
It's not so much that you want to pour a quart into a pint pot, more that you want to extract from the pot more than it actually contains. Can that be done? Only if the content is a concentrate. If, somehow, you can make more of it just by adding something that is easily obtained, that tall order soon shrinks. Don't shy away from a challenge. Don't hide your head in the sand and pretend that you can't see what you can see... but you don't want to look at. Recognise your responsibility and you will find a way to fulfil it.
 Do you have a date with fate? Perhaps so, but it is only one of many meetings that you have already had and that you will continue to have in the future. Don't look on it so much as a serious showdown as a chance to talk, over tea and biscuits, about various possible future options. Yes, something is now being closed off, but only so that something else, much better and brighter, can be opened up. Look on your limitation or your cause for concern, as a kind, friendly invitation to let something new and wonderful into your world

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