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2009 – A Year of Extremes

Expect the unexpected, more now than ever. Numerology allows us to reduce 2009 to the master number energy 11, so this year is an opportunity for us all to experience and learn to cope with extremes. This will manifest across all four planes of existence:

Physical – we had a cold winter, and we are having a hot summer. I should think we will have a very wet time as well very soon. The US looks like it's having very unseasonal weather in parts. The economy is down and then there’s a sign of improvement, and then down we go again. There is no resolution in sight on the economy I am afraid.

Mental – new ideas and innovations are flying around, but the danger is that many will be not very original and utterly impractical. All endeavours now must be fixed in reality or they will come to nothing. It is essential now to follow our interests and apply ourselves practically. Hair brained schemes will come undone.

Emotional – take care with your heart folks. This is a time of heightened emotions, of love and of hate. Try to find a middle path, even if all those around you seem to be failing in this. Pause before you act and before you react.

Spiritual – the heightened earth and psychic energies and the intense connections we are making to them are likely to give sensitive souls, such as you and me, a hard time. Breathe.

With all aspects of life remember the saying ‘like the night, it must pass’. Decisions need to be thought about as well as ‘felt’, in order that you attain balance. Balance will deliver you the right decision.

Parliament – Just another Club

It is an unwritten rule of life that if you collect more than a handful of men together in one place they will look to form a society or a club. They will then instigate rules and procedures and probably introduce some fancy dress and arcane language. It’s all about them belonging to something and excluding others. Often they will look to exclude opinionated individuals, children and women. You can see this in action in the UK Houses of Parliament. It’s a boys club, run for the benefit of the members. All the political parties are responsible for the current mess because they are all members of the club. A few token eccentrics are tolerated because if they don’t cause too much trouble.

The problem with all these clubs (especially Parliament) is that their members wind up being completely divorced from reality. To the uninterested, football supporters are a ridiculous bunch of people. Coloured scarves and match tickets costing nearly £100 are surely crazy when the supporters can’t afford to tax the car or feed the family. To the outsider this is insane, yet a whole industry has sprung up to allow the football supporter to justify his actions. The same goes for Parliament. All MP’s, by virtue of their membership, become utterly removed from the real world. And until that fact changes, there will be no change. The club – in whatever disguise it appears - seeks to perpetuate itself, nothing else. The club stifles the only thing that has ever created change and improvement – human ingenuity. The club uses the facade of rules, regulations, protocols, procedures, standards and box ticking to beat your humanity out of you. Conformity becomes everything, new ideas are shunned and new roads abandoned. The dominance of a club, organisation, committee, quango, society, or party spells death and destruction for all concerned. Think that’s an over-reaction.? Just look at what’s happened with the death of poor Baby Peter. A club (Haringey Council) can assess its performance by every known measure, yet no one can see what’s happening before their very eyes. That’s what always happens when clubs rule the day. The club, in whatever form it appears, is anti-life, anti-growth, and anti-progress.

Look around the world. How many clubs can you spot?

Your Way Forward

When you sometimes look around and see a world that you don’t like very much, celebrate that realisation. We are a long way from creating Heaven on Earth and that will only happen once we decide to make it so. And the first step is to see the way things really are.

We must stop expecting MP’s to save us, stop expecting Obama to save us, and stop expecting our husband or wife to save us. They can’t do it, even if they wanted to. Only we can save ourselves – and the secret is that we have access to all the information we will ever need. But first, we have to delete the noise from our mind. The TV and the radio are sometimes entertaining and educational, but more often than not it is simply someone else’s opinion being pumped into your consciousness. Same goes for magazines, newspapers. Mostly opinion, rarely fact. News takes up 1% of the airwaves, the rest made up by comment.

What the media will never ever tell you is that you are unique. You are wonderful and amazing and beautiful because there is no else like you. You can use your uniqueness to make a difference in this world, by living your life your way, without measure or comparison to others and without approval from any other living soul. It is good enough to be who you are. Of course, there’s always a need for development and growth, but of a personal nature, following your interests and enhancing your talents and skills.

Changing the world begins with recognising the innate talents that you have and working with them. It means following the small still voice inside, following your heart and allowing your feelings to be your guide. It starts with the man in the mirror. Now who said that?

That's all for now, get in touch with any comments or suggestions for future issues, or if you need any guidance, direction or help along your road.

Best Wishes

Richard