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Working with new beginnings (part 1)

As January is the start of a new year, it's an excellent time for new beginnings. What project have you imagined starting, but have held off for one reason or another? Numerologically, now is the time to initiate your projects, especially as they relate to the needs of your heart.

If you're reading this in January, you may also feel compelled to review your life before moving on, or make major life changes. You may feel introspective in light of any intentions or resolutions that you've made. Perhaps, you simply have a few changes that you would like to integrate into your life now.

Reviewing your life is a powerful and healing process to undertake and you may wish to look to your Core Numbers to aid you in this process. They can help you to see where you've been fully listening to your heart, and where you might want to bring focus and energy to. Perhaps, you're not letting the world see where you shine? Perhaps, you can help others to shine! Find a way to work with the areas of your life that you may have neglected in the past, and you can begin to heal your heart. Your life will then begin to unfold in new and exciting ways.

It can also be powerful to work with your dreams, especially when you are pondering changes in your life. 2012 is a great time to tap into your dreams, as the Numerological theme for the year involves understanding the mystery of our lives. Working with dreams really can help you to learn about, and work with, the symbolism and imagery bubbling up from deep within your own heart and psyche.

However, if you haven’t worked with dreams before then the Tarot is a simple, fun and powerful tool to begin working with symbols and images. Utilizing the card that is related to any of your Core Numbers, especially your Life Path, can help you to learn more about your own personal story. The symbolism on each card is stirring, unique and powerful. In the next post, I'll post the cards and the Life Path they correlate to.

As you work with your Life Path Tarot card, the images on the card may reflect ideas you have about changes that you'd like to make, or even parts of dreams that you've been having. Spend enough with the card to learn how it fits into your life. Have fun with it. Draw it. Dance it. Act it out. Do whatever you need to do to express how the card makes you feel. See where the energy, and theme, of the card is in your life.

Find ways to work with what you've learned by working with your Tarot card, Life Path and other numbers to help guide you in any new beginnings that you've been planning. Don't be afraid to ask for help, or even lend a hand to others who are starting their own new beginnings.

Welcoming 2012 (part 1)

You’ll likely welcome the coming new year with a few resolutions, as there may be some life changes you’d like to make. However, you’ll more likely stay committed to your resolutions with a solid strategy and outside support. One of the biggest issues for most people is thinking of a goal without anticipating potential obstacles, or making a detailed plan about what will be required to reach your goal. We don't think about what we'll need to do on a day-to-day basis to stay on track and stay motivated. Steve Levinson Ph.D., author of “Following Through”, simply says, “We fail because we don't follow through!”

Fortunately, Numerology offers support for staying true to your goals. A strong Numerological theme for 2012 involves learning more about ourselves, often through opportunities and transitions, which are aligned with the needs of your heart. By paying attention to your heart, and its innate inner wisdom, you'll have the ability to reshape your life. As your heart is connected to your path in life, you may wish to look to your Life Path and begin to see where it fits (or doesn't yet) into your life now. Aligning your goals to your Life Path can give you a better chance at success!

Curiosity is also a strong theme within the year. Be open to looking at your life as a mystery. Be curious. Learn to trust your intuition. Pay attention to gut instincts and feelings. Notice the flavor of your dreams. What does life want for you? What do you feel drawn to explore? What do you feel guided toward? What has your heart been calling for?

Throughout the year, situations may arise which enable you to structure your life in ways you’ve barely imagined. Again, look to find ways to align to your Life Path! Ideally, as opportunities develop, rather than holding back, you’ll be able to accept them as a chance to step deeper into the life you desire.

In order to take full advantage of your opportunities, you may need to let go of non-supportive habits, relationships or situations. This may involve taking chances and opening new doors. Or, it could be about simply trying to embrace your intuition and heart’s wisdom in ways you haven’t before. Following your heart, and it’s intuitive wisdom, can help you to thrive.

Before you make your resolutions, you should take time to do a life review. While your resolutions can be about eliminating certain things, you may wish to evaluate your life in terms of the things you would actually like to bring in. This is not necessarily about material goods, but about listening to the needs, desire and wisdom of your heart, and trusting your intuition. What does your heart need to feel balanced and safe? What has it been yearning for? What risks feel attainable?

Making changes for 2012

The coming New Year offers an opportunity for you to not only make resolutions, but to review your past and perhaps step away from situations which no longer support you. Certain habits, people or activities may not be appropriate for your overall mental, spiritual or emotional health. It might be difficult to distance yourself from the things and people that may seem integral to your life, but if their presence is doing more harm than good, you need to be willing to let go.

Whatever you need to let go of, the process is not necessarily an easy one. However, letting go can help you to heal and build the life you really want. Letting go can create space in your life for something new to unfold. Letting go can help you to step past restrictions and constraints, which hold you back and prevent you from making desired changes.

You may wish to hold some type of observance or practice, which others can take part in as well, to help you release and let go of harmful or unhealthy situations, habits or relationships from your life. As part of a New Year celebration, you could gather and talk about the things which you’re trying to let go of. Together, you can guide and support one another. Having a group of people behind you can help you to feel supported and honored. Feeling supported can help you to have a better chance of sticking to your desired changes and resolutions.

To add a sense of sacredness and specialness to your observation you can light candles and have a roaring fire. According to many traditions, fire represents purification and cleansing. With the fireplace, in addition to talking about your issues, you can write them down and safely burn them in the fire. Placing your issues into the fire represents a willingness on your part to do what’s necessary to let go. Being willing to let go means that you’ll consciously live your life in a way that supports your desired changes. For instance, you might decide to let go of unhealthy eating habits, and this might involve clearing out your cupboards and donating the foods that no longer support you.

Numerologically, 2012 offers the opportunity to learn more about ourselves and our lives, and find greater meaning in life. Curiosity is a strong theme within the year. Be willing and open to looking at your life as a mystery. What does life want for you? What do you feel drawn to uncover?

Working with the fire practice can help you to explore your life and make room for new opportunities and new learning. This is not necessarily about going back to school, but simply finding ways to allow your life to have specialness, deeper meaning and importance, which often comes through listening to your heart. Utilizing the fire, you can open to the true call of your heart. What is it calling for? Now is the time to listen and act on it.

Throughout the year you can light a candle each night to support the changes you wish to make within your life. You may wish to set aside a special time each day to sit in silence before the candle. You can use this quiet time to reflect and meditate. It can be a chance to deepen your connection to your heart. You can also journal the thoughts and ideas that come to you in silence.

Reviewing Changes with Insight from your Life Path

You can look to your Life Path to help guide you in your questions around change, personal fulfillment, fear, curiosity and accomplishment.

Your Life Path is a good place to look when you are feeling a little stuck or confused when evaluating personal changes. I've provided a list of some great questions to consider, especially when you're looking to create or bring about major change in your life.

Life Path questions:

• Who has encouraged my progression along my Life Path?
• Where have I limited my own progress on my Life Path?
• Where do I need the most support on my Life Path?
• How has my Life Path helped me to make past changes?
• How have you inspired others through your living of your Life Path?

When pondering the above questions, it may help you to better focus on those areas of your personality that have matured, and those that can still mature and grow. After all, you know your own strengths and weaknesses.

Another good step to take is to find time to sit down and record thoughts about your Life Path. How do you feel about it's importance in your life? Spend as much time as you can and write down everything that comes into your mind. After you have answered the questions, you'll need to set them aside and come back to them later. You'll want to have enough time and space to compassionately review your responses. The review process isn't about criticizing yourself in any way. It's simply about being a compassionate observer of your past and present. You may wish to record your answers in a journal, and periodically review past answers to these questions. You may be amazed at how your answers change, or develop, over time. You may also see how certain strengths shine through for you in times when you want to tackle a major challenge.

When answering the questions above, you should try to simply write about whatever comes to mind, without thinking about or analyzing your responses. You may want to consider writing about personal traits, abilities and attitudes that have helped you to live up to your Life Path. You may also want to write about those traits that may have hindered or obstructed your pursuit of your Life Path. After you have reviewed your answers you may feel exhilarated, as you come to realize that you have accomplished far more than you ordinarily think about. You have found ways to believe in yourself and to be accountable. Perhaps, you can share your experiences and learning with others, as acting as a mentor can help to encourage others to pursue their own Life Path.

Rainer Maria Rilke

...I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search right now for answers, which could not be given you, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday, in the far future, you will gradually, without ever noticing it, live your way into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Quote ~ John Eldredge

There is a secret set within each of our hearts. It often goes unnoticed, we rarely can put words to it, and yet it guides us throughout the days of our lives. This secret remains hidden for the most part in our deepest selves. It is simply the desire for life as it was meant to be. Isn't there a life you have been searching for all your days? You may not always be aware of your search, and there are times when you seem to have abandoned looking altogether. But again and again it returns to us, this yearning that cries out for the life we prize. It is elusive, to be sure. It seems to come and go at will. Seasons may pass until it surfaces again. And though it seems to taunt us, and may at times cause us great pain, we know when it returns that it is priceless. For if we could recover this desire, unearth it from beneath all other distractions, and embrace it as our deepest treasure, we would discover the secret of our existence. ~ Desire (1-2), John Eldredge

How to Go for Something With All Your Heart

[From Oprah.com -- By James B. Meigs]

"Today everything is "extreme," adrenaline is the sought-after high, and risk—especially the risk of serious injury—is celebrated as an end in itself. Yet if you talk to rock climbers, surfers, explorers, and the like, they don't mention adrenaline rushes. And aside from a bit of black humor, they usually don't say much about the risks they face.

What they do talk about—to the extent that one can find words for these things—is the much deeper, almost spiritual role that these pursuits have in their lives."

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/How-to-Live-Adventurously-Live-More-Fully#ixzz1UlqHvVJf

Quote ~ Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. ~ Abraham Lincoln

Waiting For Opportunity

What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you develop the strength of your personality, and build a self-image with which you are able to live / with your self-respect alive and growing. ~ Maxwell Maltz


The above quote speaks about having both the ability to act, and the ability to step out of your comfort zone. You might not necessarily step all the way out of your fear, but you’ll be able to take advantage of your opportunity as you push open your own doorways. We all have moments when we realize that if we don’t take action, nobody else will.

What are you acting on right now? It doesn’t have to be world changing, only something that helps you to take a step toward being the you, that you want to be. It might seem like a small thing right now, but you might look back and smile at the courage and tenacity that helped you to stand firm, and make a decision that helped your life to unfold along a new path.

We’re almost at the halfway point for the year. 2011 is a year that requires us to be practical, but also calls for us to listen to our hearts. Are you listening? Are you living your life in a meaningful and purposeful way? Numerologically, 2011 can provide time for you to more deeply evaluate where you are in all areas of your life. Are you opening the doors to progress that present themselves to you? Are you seeking out new challenges?

Although, it may be important to take a rational and balanced view of your aspirations, it’s also important to look within and ask yourself about how you are meeting the needs of your heart. Again, are you listening to your heart? You heart is simply calling for changes that can help you to push past obstacles, and into new opportunities. Are you ready?


Good questions to ask at this time:

• How might my heart be offering important wisdom and guidance?
• What have I been waiting to start in my life?
• What has my heart been calling for?
• What have I been afraid or unable to step into?

Numerology of April 4th

Monday, April 4th provides an opportunity for triple 4’s to come into all of our lives. I’ve written about working with reappearing numbers (specifically numbers like 111 and 444) that regularly reappear in your life. See here and here. If you've been seeing 444's in your life, then today can be an especially invigorating and powerful day for you. Although, it can provide opportunities for finding personal balance for everyone.

Numerologically, the 4 is a strong counterbalance to the dynamic and creative energy of the 1. The number 4 generally relates to being centering, grounded, down-to-earth, reliable and structured. In the Tarot, the Emperor is the 4th card and it can represent authority, discipline and reason. If you're familiar with the Tarot, you may wish to reflect on it, especially on the 4th.

Consider a brief example of the contrasting personalities that these numbers can influence, but realize that there are of course many circumstances, themes and energies at play within all of our lives. The individual with a strong 1 dynamic is willing to get up early, go out and do all the chores and finish the shopping for dinner. The individual with the strong 4 dynamic is still willing to do those things, but recognizes that someone needs to do the cleaning, cook the food and pay the bills. People living under the influence of the number 1 can be more outward directed, while those living under the number 4 can be more inward and centered.

In order to better understand the power and influence of these numbers in your own life, you may wish to review your Core Numbers to get a better understanding of your own Numeroligical makeup. Specifically, you will wish to focus on your Life Path as the challenges and opportunities that are currently showing up can be helping, or hindering, you to answer its call.

April 4th can provide you the opportunity to look at your life in a balanced, simple and practical way. What have you been holding off? Which areas of your life lack balance and support? Is there an important dream that is calling to be fulfilled? The dynamics of the 4 can help you to focus on answering these questions, and allow you to look at how you might continue working toward accomplishing your goals in a realistic, focused and balanced way.

Allow yourself to ask the questions above, but don't feel pressured into completely answering them yet. It may take time for your full answers to unfold. You may have many more questions of your own. You might also be feeling as if it's challenging to make certain changes in your life, but with patience and dedication you can begin taking small steps. You can “dream”, but you also need to keep your feet on the ground and live in the life that you have built.

Now is the time to evaluate how you can become more involved, active and engaged in your life, both inwardly and outwardly. Your evaluation can be best focused on activities and pursuits that allow you to feel that your life has meaning and value. Be aware of the practicalities and logistics, as you think about your life and the changes you might like to make. This may not be the time for jumping from A to Z, but rather finding a way to navigate from A to B, to C, and eventually to Z. Your desires are important, but so is finding a way to fulfill your daily needs and obligations.

At this time, you may feel like the weight of the world is on your shoulders, so it may be necessary to find ways to delegate some of your responsibilities. It may be time to look for ways to seek for assistance from others. Finding outside help and support can allow you to focus on your central priorities. You may also need to find a way to bring better balance into your life by finding a better split between your outer and inner life. Developing a personal practice, such as journaling or meditation, can help you to develop a deeper inner life and help you to feel more grounded, and help to reduce any stress or burden that you may feel.

Good questions to contemplate today:

• What achievements have I been holding off?
• How can I be a guide or teacher to others?
• Where can I find support from others?
• What is my road map for the future?
• What brings peace into my life? (How can I have more of it?)
• Do I feel grounded and centered?
• How can I ask for the help that I need?
• What am I willing to do to develop an inner life?