A Time for Reflection, New Year 2011

As 2010 comes to an end, we are reminded that there are still a couple more lessons we need to learn before we can finally welcome the 2011 New Year.

This past December has been a bit of a roller coaster with some good times mixed with some challenges. That's to be expected of any month, but there's a good chance that these challenges seemed more, well, challenging this month than usual.

Keep in mind that this is the Universe's version of tough love. Your ability to look these challenges in the face and take them on, one-by-one, doesn't just make it easier for you to deal with problems later; it also makes the good times that much better.

It is time to toughen up and to learn discipline. It might help to think of your approach to problems as a muscle in your body. The more time you spend stretching and training and building your muscle, the more useful and functional it will be. How you deal with problems requires the same sort of training. The more challenges you successfully tackle, the easier they become. Your experience and resolve to face challenges head-on will help you develop an internal resilience, and the test that presents itself will make you stronger and hammer home the life skills the Universe has planned for you right now.

More specifically, you can expect delays, setbacks and possibly accidents. The accidents, if they happen, will result from frustrations that distract you, and this lack of focus could result in accidents.

The best way to deal with these energies is to hone all of your attention - at least to the extent possible - on one particular project. Show discipline and initiative with respect to this project, and you'll increase your odds of skating through this planetary alignment with as few unwanted side effects as possible.

On a more pleasant note, life is just being life and all that you face -- no matter how difficult or unsettling will be just a passing phase.

Fully appreciate and benefit from the lessons the Universe has thrown at you lately, it will help to fully understand just what your strengths and weaknesses are...

Have a happy and pleasant year in 2011!