“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” Ellen Goodman
Happy New Year— it’s 2013! 2013 is a ‘6’ year numerologically. ‘6’ is the number of ‘The Gift,’ of harmonious relationships, healing, balance, creativity, money made from your own efforts and accurate self-value based on proper self-assessment. During ‘6’ years, balance and co-operation are the keys to living an authentic life and achieving long lasting goals. Opportunities are laid out like an ‘eat all you want’ buffet and there is an overabundance of luck. Additionally, there is help from the most unexpected people and places. 2013 is also the Chinese Year of the Snake. Snake years are powerful years, known for increased intuition, wealth, transformation and formidable insights leading to dramatic leaps in one’s social and financial positions.
Just as at the end of last year, your message for the beginning of this life phase comes in the form of an affirmation that will guide you in navigating your new terrain of possibilities and opportunities. Print it out and read it often to remind you of your mission.
For All of Us:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain
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“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise—with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.” Abraham Lincoln, December 1, 1862 in a Message to Congress
THE EMPEROR (March 21 – April 20) “The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” Thucydides
THE EMPRESS (April 21 – May 20) “Any task can be accomplished if it’s broken down into manageable parts.” Universal Truth
THE LOVERS (May 21 – June 20) “After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years (a sunk cost if ever there was one), people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.” Marshall Goldsmith
THE CHARIOT (June 21 – July 20) “Fear is energy. Energy is innocent; it’s what you do with it that determines the outcome.” Reverend Aldridge
THE SUN (July 21 – August 22) “Never confuse someone else’s inability to do something with its inability to be done.” Steve Maraboli
THE HERMIT (August 23 – September 22) “Those who can’t see it for themselves, can’t see it for you, either.” Les Brown
JUSTICE (September 23 – October 22) “No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.” Friedrich Nietzsche
THE MAGICIAN (October 23 – November 21) “You can’t solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.” Albert Einstein
THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE (November 22 – December 21) “The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.” Joseph Campbell
THE WORLD (December 22 – January 19) “Do what you do and do it good.” Q
THE STAR (January 20 – February 19) “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight; it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Mark Twain
THE MOON (February 20 – March 20) “We do not truly serve the world if we give to others but neglect our own truth and our own needs. It’s only when our own needs are fully met that we can generously and whole-heartedly give of ourselves. It’s not selfish to look after ourselves—it’s essential.” Pearl S. Buck