Letting Go

I am not liking this. Things are coming up that I thought I released long ago. Challenges are intense. It is overwhelming. What am I to do?

Year Of The Fire Horse

We are three months into a very different year. The fire horse is going at extraordinary speed. For many of us, the demands on our time are coming swiftly and insistently and cannot always be met. The world around us seems to change radically every day. News bombards us. The escalation of violence is frightening and is touching many parts of the world. We respond to one situation and immediately there is another to deal with.

For us to ride the fire horse a new orientation is necessary. We must accept that the world has changed dramatically. We often do not know where we are or what is to come, however we sense that we had better ride the horse or things will move without us and we could be left behind.

Some have said that our task is to harness the energy of the fire horse and ride it through the year. How can we do this? We must be fully present to what is happening now. (That is not easy to do with the chaos that surrounds us.) We then must discern what it is we want to do this year. We should think big and have a laser focus, as we will be doing it in a chaotic and challenging environment.

Lightness Of Being

Lightness of being may seem contrary to the year of the fire horse. It is not. Think of riding a galloping horse. Lightness is necessary to maintain speed and position on the horse. Heaviness only slows us down. Fire burns anything in its way including what no longer serves us. The fire horse, most likely, only needs a light touch to direct it. Speed is limited by density or hesitation.

The things coming at us now may have a purpose. To help us let go of our “baggage” so that we can ride the fire horse. Baggage meaning many things – old issues or worries from our past, things that slow us down to our disadvantage, holding on to old ideas or perceptions that are no longer relevant to the world today or elements of our lives that no longer serve a positive purpose.

This state of things is very uncomfortable. There is a swift, burning horse we must ride, the world is unrecognizable and seems out of control, we have lost our orientation to the world we live in, uncertainty abounds and who knows where we are heading. We just have to jump on the fire horse and see where it is going. Lightness serves us, making us faster, flexible and able to correct quickly if we need to.