Thursday, 8 August 2013

 'Cleanliness,' so they tell us, 'is next to godliness.' But it is perfectly possible to go through a kind of hell in a hygienic environment. It is possible too, to experience heaven in the midst of a mess. Cleanliness is an aid to inspiration but it is not, on its own, a guarantee of it. Your life right now is full of things that look as if they ought to be providing much fulfilment. Somehow, though, you keep encountering reasons why an arrangement or an agreement is not 'clean' or simple. 
In the game of Monopoly, there's a 'Get out of jail free' card. How strange, given that this board game is supposed to emulate the transactions and exchanges of daily life. None of us can really claim such an exemption. Even the rich and powerful can't stay above the law forever. Who, now, is using you as their ace in the hole? Ought they not to be taking responsibility for their own decisions? How will they learn if they never take the consequences of their choices? It may not be wise to be too forgiving now.
Even when people are trying to withhold information from one another, they inadvertently drop hints and give clues. If these are not picked up, it is usually because the other person doesn't really want to know the truth. We all have a tendency to deceive ourselves. We see what we want to see - or what we feel we ought to see. Yet it would be very helpful for you now, to see at least a little more of what someone else might prefer you not to see.
Some people are nervous about seeing psychics. They fear that anyone who has such a supernatural power may be able to get right into their head and extract information that is deeply personal and private. If anyone actually has such an ability, it is more likely to be a psychologist than a psychic. You certainly don't need esoteric skills to gain a clearer picture of a confusing situation now. You simply need to read some signs and signals and to think about what these may convey about someone else's motivation.
Humility is a wonderful character trait. Both those who were born naturally blessed with it and those who have diligently learned to cultivate this refined art, should feel justly proud of their praiseworthy ability! Or, should they? Folk who boast about how modest they are, can't really be that modest, can they? But then, there are times when a policy of self-restraint is not particularly profitable. Being polite won't get you very far today. Being gently, but firmly pushy might yet make a world of difference.
You are returning to a frame of mind that you had all but forgotten. Over a difficult decade, you have spent a lot of time questioning yourself and doubting beliefs. For a while, recently, you began to regain your old equilibrium. Now, once more, you are not so sure, a magnificent sense of closure and completion will come to an area of your life that has long been uncomfortably open-ended. Current misgivings are the last ones you will have to overcome for some while.
Think how peacefully you could pass your time in a rocking chair, with a stack of good books to dip into. Or if only you could clone yourself. One version could earn the money, another could do the shopping and a third could be free to respond to all the emotional and domestic demands you face. Such solutions, sadly, are a bit too far-fetched. You can expect an environment that is anything but quiet - but at least you can rest assured that what's happening is right.
Awkward silences at social visits could be filled with conversations about how the travelling had been - and about the best way to get home.
We feel good when we achieve what we have set out to accomplish. Indeed, we can derive so much satisfaction from this that it hardly occurs to us to stop and wonder whether any of it really needed to happen at all. Conversely, we feel fed-up when our plans go awry and it is scant comfort to realise that many of those plans were based on false assumptions and had been afforded an inappropriately high level of priority. Ask yourself what's important . To do what you said you would do? Or to do what really needs doing?
And now, it is almost as if you are starting again, afresh. You are back where you were once before some while ago. Or at least, that seems the case. Key factors suggest that the resemblance is slightly more than superficial. You are being granted a second shot at an important target. Now, if you draw on experience, you can fix whatever didn't work last time. Don't worry too much about how any of this has happened. Be grateful for your opportunity to make things work better this time round.

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