I’m the first one to admit that I thought I was missing some vital point.
I couldn’t see it – or feel it – no matter how hard I tried.
It was all over my instagram feed
Sweet ’16
So much discussion about 2015 serving up it’s fair share of difficulties and how 2016 was shaping up to provide more ease, flow and general sweetness.
Well I certainly agree with the first part. I did experience a rather large dose of lessons to be learnt during 2015 – mostly to do with my sense of home and learning to find stability within – when it didn’t exist in my physical world.
But only a few weeks before the end of 2015, at a catchup with my blogging sisters, the inevitable question came up..
“What are you calling in for 2016?
What is your guiding word?”
As we went around the circle I felt a mild sense of panic as I searched for my answer and found a sense of nothing – I wasn’t finished with 2015 just yet – there was so much to contemplate – and I just felt as though I didn’t have the heart to relive it all at that point let alone work out what 2016 would bring for me.
Timing was the first lesson I needed to accept – and I did as I told everyone I still felt attached to my 2015 word CONNECT – for I needed to really connect with what had transpired and connect in to what messages had been served up for me.
Fast forward to that gentle lull between Christmas and New Year where I felt the world literally stopped and I had all the time and space in this world to just contemplate – which I did.
Me, my journal and the mountains – reflecting on 2015
And amongst all my contemplation – I felt – I knew – that 2016 was going to dish up some pretty big challenges – there would be some storms to weather – and all those things served up to me in 2015 would reappear to give me a chance to approach them with a new perspective. The storms would rise again – but I could anchor in to all that I learnt in 2015 – and this would help me stay afloat and make it through.
So you can see my disconnect from the notion of Sweet ’16.
My word for 2016 was evident as I read over my many pages of journalling in the mountains…
ANCHOR
and as always my first reaction was “that can’t be it!” But it keeps popping up all over the place – so it is here to stay.
But what about the Sweet ’16 element – that still pops up on a daily basis?
After doing my own readings for the energy of 2016 and reading a few of my favourite energy forecasts as well – I couldn’t deny that there were many challenges ahead for me – and I could feel the fear rise.
And here is where the magic presented itself…
2016 would provide me continual opportunity to hit the Sweet Spot. Whether literally or figuritively, 2016 will provide(as defined by google) “an optimum point or combination of factors or qualities” or aim challenges at “the point or area on a bat(me) at which it makes most effective contact with the ball (challenge)”.
And why?
So I can most effectively deal with these lessons – sink into, understand, appreciate and transcend my fear.
For this is my purpose – my sweet spot.
2017 – is an entirely different story – but let’s leave that for then. For now I am on the path the Universe has laid out for me – and while the road ahead may be bumpy, it is paved with my acceptance and trust that I am exactly where I am meant to be.
