Don't Look Back

"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber

If you’ve experienced emotional turmoil in recent weeks, or had sudden confrontations with old issues, you’re not alone. Shadowy, often unnoticed obstacles on our paths to spiritual growth are rearing up in our faces, demanding attention. Interpersonal issues we comfortably forgot on the back burner are suddenly smoking up the kitchen. We can’t bury our heads in the sand anymore.

Astrologically as a planetary community – and intimately within our personal microcosmic orbits – we’ve entered a time of taking stock, reassessing, clearing, and creating anew. We have been set on an energetic path of tremendous opportunity to remake our lives, begin living our dreams, and become healthier in mind, body, and spirit than ever before.

With my Reiki clients, I am seeing this commonality of purpose again and again – a globally shared call to confront everything we’ve taken for granted, determining what belongs with us today, or what is a relic from the past. This is true for relationships, finances, jobs and career, home, lifestyle, and health.

As we evolve collectively and individually, all the dark corners and forgotten rooms are being flooded with light. Rather than being afraid of what we see, we should bless our newfound clarity to look afresh at the progress we've made and understand what is still leading where we want to go.

For one client, old fear-based perceptions from a rocky beginning years earlier shackled his ability to proceed with confidence in a new job assignment he really wanted. Despite his successes, he had habituated a belief that he wasn’t capable or would be regarded with suspicion – a dangerous pattern he had to release before he could stand in his current power and energize his goals with confidence.

Other clients were suddenly coming face-to-face with painful reminders that past relationships were coloring the expectations for life with their current partners. Until old hurt and disappointment were drained from their hearts, there were no openings for new blessings to enter. It was vital to ask – were they living in the now as they discovered love with their current partners – or were they subconsciously attempting to give a happier ending to past love affairs?

Whatever doesn’t resonate with your current vibration is not true for you today. Using the emotional/intuitive brain in the heart chakra, you are being called to conduct a full-scale life review.

I’m working with several clients heading into uncharted waters – developing entrepreneurial businesses, leaving corporate America, changing careers, going back to school, relocating. People are becoming allergic to foods and medications they once tolerated. Health conditions are undergoing radical shifts. Our tastes are changing. This is not coincidental.

I recently received the insight to release a business relationship I had clung to long after it was beneficial. It was a starting point, not an ending point. It was time to lovingly separate and create space for new associations that are a good fit today. It was hard, and I wavered until the unhealthiness of the mismatched situation hit me like a baseball bat.

Other personal skirmishes involved body image. I’m not static and trapped in time. I’m supposed to be different in my forties than in my twenties. Cleaning out closets stuffed with tiny clothes I hadn’t fit into for years, and buying a beautiful wardrobe I could actually wear, was a celebration of who I am right this minute. It was more than boxing up donations and going shopping. It was a concrete way of acknowledging a new stage of beauty, loving my body at any size, moving forward with power and style.

The message from the Universe is this: Stop living in the past. That’s not who you are, where you are, or where you’re going. Love the moment. Clean your closets. Say goodbye and release situations and relationships that have run their course. Embrace with all your heart the ones coming with you into the future. Make life great.