Overview for 2009
The energetic influences of this year are supporting us in stepping up to the plate in a new way. With the winds of inspiration at our
backs and a renewed faith in ourselves, we are being asked to face daunting challenges with an open heart. It's not so much what we meet but how we meet
it that determines our success. This year it will be easier to choose love over fear. The primary reason for this is the jump forward in evolution that
was made by the collective consciousness with the choice of Barack Obama as president of the US. This extraordinary event symbolized the passage of
humanity from the young souled value system into mature souled consciousness (see article). We aren't going back to the old ways as that era is over: the
playground rules have changed and it's a new day. Our relationship to all things and the value we place on those relationships, is ascending while the
"success at all costs" model is descending into eventual extinction. This progression does not occur overnight. However, 2009 is the first time that we
get to experience the flavor of this new quality of being en masse.
We will be inspired this year to become the solution to our problems by connecting with our deepest compassion, having faith in our basic goodness
and imagining the impossible as possible.
Although the year has a softer focus to it, there is still hard work to be done. There are structures to overhaul and systems to replace. In the same
way that a bad cut needs to be cleaned up before it can heal, more dysfunctional systems will need to fail. No one can predict just how long our economic
recovery will take, but healing will take place if we have the trust and faith to make it through this painful but necessary triage. As our vision of what
we want to see as a better world crystallizes, most of us will be willing to roll up our sleeves and pitch in.
Themes
- Clarity
- Taking responsibility
- Service, compassion and forgiveness
- Restoration of faith, trust, and generosity
- Adjustment to a new set of values
- Redefining security, prosperity, power, consumption
- Bridging divides through negotiation
Globally, we are now playing with a new set of values that places inclusion, decency and respect for what serves the common good over the
corruption and greed of the few. Our collective voice is saying that we have had enough. In many cases, the corruption is systemic and will take time to
clean up. Simply throwing money at a problem will no longer work as a solution because change will need to come from the inside out. Expect to see a more
mature, diverse standard of leadership replacing corrupted cabals within corporations and governments worldwide. Any nation, terrorist group or government
that refuses to play by these more mature set rules and continues to resort to violence, may still cause plenty of trouble but will be considered playground
thugs: finding themselves even more marginalized in the global theater.
At the personal level, we will be feeling a call to service and asking ourselves "What can I do to help make things better?" Are there
some small sacrifices to be made? This call will be coupled with a willingness to take more responsibility for what we have created and want to create in
the future. We will want to up our game in the area of relationships, finance, health and personal growth. Things that have been tolerated in ourselves
and in others will no longer do. To move forward we will need to forgive ourselves and others for whatever keeps us negatively tethered to the past:
old hurts, disappointments, guilts, bitterness. This is key to our success in receiving the blessings available to us in such an inspirational year.
Overleaves for 2009
- Priest Role
- Server Casting
- Acceptance Goal
- Observation Mode sliding to Perseverance, Caution
- Pragmatist Attitude
- Stubbornness Obstacle sliding to Impatience, Martyrdom
- Emotional Centering
- Security, Freedom, Exchange Needs
- Water and Air Elements
Opportunities for: creating win-win solutions, raising the ethical bar, experiencing what divinely unites us.
Challenges: Impulsive behavior, zeal, doubt, resistance to change.
A high tide raises all boats. We are truly all in this together and not going it alone. Our power this year comes directly from each other and our shared
goals for a more humane world.
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