* Barbara Stabiner

I'd like to be writing about something uplifting or maybe telling a funny story to put a little laughter in everyone's day, but that's not what's happening. As I go about my daily work, trying to help and be of service to others, the discussions with my clients continue to contain many heavy issues.
I hope that some of you are having good times, feeling fun, prosperity, perfect health and lots of love. For most, that's definitely not what's happening!!

We've been going through some heavy life's tests lately, for the purpose of experiencing and knowing what stays and what has to be let go of. Having an identity crisis? Feeling a loss of confidence? Fearing wrong decisions and constantly second-guessing what you are thinking and doing? These are not trivial things.

The events in your life serve as triggers. They are designed to teach, to encourage soul searching and going within. The reason is to help you be truly conscience about what you want your life to be, to examine your objectives, and really see what is working and what isn't.
So, the difficulties come from the outer world and the solutions, insights and power come from within or the inner self. One does reflect the other with the internal life being the center of it all..

The time of destruction and regeneration may not be entirely pleasant. In fact, it has been downright awful for a lot of people. The more tightly you hold onto something or someone that has run it's course, the more resistant you are about letting go and the more difficult your experience will seem. The more you allow the past to fade.....and that is as recent as an hour ago, the more you open to the future and allow it to be born. If you can do this, the potential for positive change is very great. Look to the Tower in the Tarot or the story of the Phoenix as powerful archetypes that are worth contemplating.

As the chaos escalates, your amazing intuitive abilities will become more important than ever before. Pay attention to "hunches" and those split second choices/decisions that guide you in whatever challenges you may be facing. YOU are not powerless in any situation when you remember to rely on what you know how to do. With use, the ability only gets stronger and stronger.

A friend passed along a quote from Mark Twain that I find insightful:

"It's ain't what you don"t know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure
that just ain't so."