Published January 6, 2013
Happy New Year! I believe it’s going to be a
wonderful year and we will finally see the results of the work that we have
been doing for decades. Don’t look for too many changes in January though, this
month we’re setting the foundation for what is to come. This is a time for
intention, balance, consideration, alignment and integration. We’re creating
the boundaries for our path; the action and movement will come later. Although
we want to jump out of the starting gate as soon as we think the wheels are
beginning to turn, to get away from what has been limiting us but that’s like
taking a trip without knowing where you want to go, or how you are going to get
there and whether there is enough gas in the car to even get started.
January’s energies will feel relatively calm
after the activity of the past three months. With the Uranus/Pluto square, the
eclipse in November and December’s activity, we need some time to regroup and
that is what we will find in January. Rather than feeling like nothing is
happening, it’s more like watching ducks gliding across the water. On the
surface it looks like they’re just floating along but under the surface, their
little feet are pedaling fast. The surface may look and feel calm right now but
there’s a lot happening under the surface for all of us.
It’s time for us to get serious about what we
want to do now, starting with looking at where we are present in our lives.
What are we focused on — where we have been or where we are going? Where is our
energy flowing, in the past or in the present moment? How are we moving energy,
through intention or wishful thinking? Intention is a conscious, directed and
powerful focus on what we want to manifest in our life. With wishful thinking
we hope things will turn out OK but feel out of control, powerless and off
balance. We are powerful, divine beings whose human experience is a mirror of
our ability to know ourselves as masters of energy. We can move energy but we
have to set intentions for it to move in the direction we want it to. And we
have to consider our energy budget.
We each have an energy budget which determines
how much energy we have to create our reality. The amount of energy we can use,
although the supply is unlimited, depends on where we are present, or where our
focus is. Whatever that is, whether it is on this week’s problems, next week’s
commitments, regrets from the past or fears about the future, that is where we
are present and that is where our energy is going. And when our energy is going
in many different directions, without focus or intention, our energy budget
gets depleted rapidly.
