A Big Year
Over Christmas I saw a post on Facebook which suggested staying up to see the New Year in just for the pleasure of saying good riddance to 2016. It seems that 2016 upset a lot of sensitivities in a lot of people. Unfortunately for those people 2017 seems unlikely to tidy things up and allow everyone to get back to business as usual. In fact most things I read and listen to suggests that things are going to continue in the unsettled/crazy mode that seems to have taken hold.
The Christmas period and early New Year have seen a series of highly charged energetic events, with gamma rays, solar rays and every other type of ray you can think of disturbing the earth's field. Earthquake spotters have been spoiled for choice and so if you have found your emotions a little raw at times then go easy on yourself.
Beneath the headlines, there are serious global political maneuverings which are far more involved than the name calling headlines spewed out by the mass media. Wikileaks announced that 2017 was going to see a series of disclosures which would make 2016 seem a quiet year
Talking of disclosure there is a lot of attention on Antarctica, and apparently Putin is to be the next to sign the visitors book on that lump of ice, alongside recent visitors, John Kerry, the Pope and Obama to name but a few. Buzz Aldrin didn't like what he saw down there and don't be surprised to see some interesting headlines emerging. Cliff High of Halfpasthuman.com uses predictive linguistics to emphasise the attention falling on Antarctica and says the word to describe what emerges is the "Discovery." The Discovery will, according to Cliff High, cast a considerable shadow over all world religions.
Before all that we have to negotiate the Trump inauguration which, if he survives, is rumoured to be followed swiftly by some pretty wild financial turbulence as the long awaited global reset gathers pace.
Whatever actually unfolds in 2017 remember that you are the one in control of how you respond to external events. 2016 upset a lot of people, but ask yourself what really changed in your direct experience? Did the world really become more xenophobic, sexist or racist? Or did those sentiments just come out of the shadows. And, perhaps more importantly, can those sentiments survive in the light?
Those choices are simply expressions of fear and ironically their obvious exposure gives us all a greater opportunity to love. My bet is that there are more people prepared to love than hate, and the way 2017 looks to be shaping up I think we are going to find out!
Love
Bill