Editorial Video-Blog, for June 2021

Hello Everyone,

If you feel like you’ve been in the center of a giant mixing bowl for the last year and a half or so, with the contents turning and twisting all around you, and that those contents have finally come to rest, mixed up in a way that is both familiar and unfamiliar at the same time, you are not alone. 

I was at ground-zero when Hurricane Charlie arrived in Port Charlotte, Florida.  That hurricane ripped through the community in less than 45 minutes, and left little more than rubble behind.  A few buildings were left untouched.  Some buildings were totally gone, some had their structure gone, but their contents remained intact.  Many homes were obliterated.  Most lost roofs. People came out of their barely standing homes, gazing dazedly at the rubble that was their town an hour earlier. 

The energy in our world right now, feels a lot like that to me.  It feels like we are experiencing the aftermath of a terrible storm.

It amazed me, after Charlie, how the whole community pulled together to help rebuild.  After those first few moments of dazed confusion and emotional upset, human nature asserted itself and the powerful energy of dozens of people focused as one began to rebuild and move forward, over time, taking this small town to a new and better place.  A lot of clean up was needed.  Some things simply could not be salvaged and had to be cleared away.  Other, often unexpected things, were found intact and they became the foundation for new growth.  Of course, some people left, to find new and better opportunities for themselves elsewhere.  But for every one who left, two new people arrived, seeing opportunity here. Many stayed, some finding new lines of work, new relationships.  Everyone went through a major life change.  Some recovered quickly, some took years to get over their losses.  But all eventually recovered, and even grew from the experience.  So, the town was rebuilt, to new standards and dreams, and it grew.  It is still growing today.

I shared my experience of Hurricane Charlie with you, to give you hope and belief in a better future for all of us.  We all need that right now.  We are indeed, moving through the aftermath of a major storm, and whether or not you fully realize it yet, you, along with everyone else in the world, are recovering from that storm.  You are no longer in the center of the mixing bowl wondering when it is going to stop.  The storm has stopped.  Now it’s up to you to assess the situation, to size up your life, to determine where you want to be, what you want to be doing, with whom you want to be doing it. 

Change can sometimes feel like loss, if we try to hold onto the people, and the things, that cannot come again in this life.  But when we embrace change as the vehicle to help us move into the future of our dreams, it no longer feels like loss, it feels instead like growth, and brings excitement and anticipation with it.  When we embrace the latter feeling, the Universe brings us what we want and need to fulfill those dreams.  It moves us forward to true healing and helps us take the next step in our own growth.  Self-responsibility is the first key.  Unity of the world community is the second.

Keep a diary this month.  If you recall what was happening in your life last month, start that diary on May 13^th, and continue it through June 24^th. If not, just start it right now. Your diary is very, very important because during this time of stillness after the storm, it will give you coming attractions…a movie trailer of sorts, that will supply great insight into the next six months of your life. 

It is during the next six months that you’re going to be making some of the most important decisions of your life.  It will help to get a little preview of what those decisions might entail by keeping your diary.  What should you put in it?  Anything, be it emotional, physical, something you dream about, or think about, that is out of the norm for you.  If it stands out as different and unique in some way – put it in your diary.

If you want or need help moving through life’s changes and challenges right now, check out my reading special for this month.  It will help. 

And all of you Dad’s out there, have a very Happy Father’s Day.  It truly is your kind of strength, support and guidance we are needing right now, in society as well as in our family’s.  You surely deserve respect, recognition and love for all you do, and have done.

Love and Light,

Sandy Anastasi