Be Prepared…

Jan 10

Be Flexibly Prepared

Welcome back and Welcome 2023!!

This year is starting off slowly and I am enjoying the lackadaisical nature of it all. With Mercury and Mars still in retrograde we have had a lot of forced rest and quite a bit of resistance when being forced to move forward and stick to a “normal” schedule. Examples that come to mind were the gigantic weather related delays and the airlines whose entire systems broke down. Hell, just look at how laborious the Speaker vote was in the House of Congress! The government should really hire an astrologer…

I’m here to tell you that a slow start is a good thing, a necessary thing. Trust that the things will get done if you give them space to breathe and wiggle around a bit. Which brings me to my latest mantra, a spin on the old boyscout saying: Be flexibly prepared.

Surprise, surprise, I like to plan things. I like to know things. It makes me feel safe to be in control. But, over the last six months especially, I’ve been forced to recognize that you can’t always prepare in the long term. You sometimes can’t even prepare in the short term! But you can prepare to be flexible.

I wrapped up a lot of big things last year and had a spectacular year. Now I am so excited to have a lot of new projects in their infancy. As a goal oriented Aries, my initial reaction is to go go go!! Ingest as much information as I possibly can and plan big and far and huger than ever before!

But that will only hit me with roadblocks and setbacks. If I were to make any decisions right now they would be made in haste, because the truth is, I just don’t know enough yet. So instead, I am reminding myself that this is the foundational time. This is the part of the process that requires some dreaming and scheming, NOT a ton of preparation. The only thing I’m preparing to be is flexibile.