It is easier to give than to receive and if you are doing too much giving and not enough receiving. You need to change this.
When we are willing and open to receiving it is the time when life offers us the gifts that are there for the taking. So often we think that we have no issue with receiving that we want to receive. But in truth we cannot.
To receive we have to be willing to stop giving for a while and to learn to simply receive what is offered. We don’t have to earn it or trade for it. We have to be willing to create a space for another person to be able to come forward and fill it for us. It takes guts. It requires trust and it puts the focus in us, which can often feel uncomfortable. Yet it is a gift to others when we let them give to us.
What are you blocking? What won/t you take? What won/t you ask for? You need to ask yourself why you‘re doing this and what you are scared of. Are you willing to let someone know what is really is that you want? It doesn’t matter how much we receive if it isn’t what we value. Let yourself have what you really want.
Maybe you need to spent time working out what you want to receive from a relationship and life in general. Sometimes the first step is trust that is really is safe for you to be honest about what you want. Do this now and then set about letting people now what this is. Then enjoy receiving it. Remember you deserve it.
Control
It is time to look at the issue of control in your love life. Controlling behavior involves us making an effort to rule and direct how others think and feel as well what they do. Although we have a hundred justifications for why we are being so controlling we actually do it to make ourselves feel safe.
As children we had no control over what happened to us. It things were painful, difficult or frightening we were at the mercy of adults around us. As we grew to be adults, we responded to this by finding ways of controlling ourselves and others. But being in a loving relationship means that we can’t control things in the way that we can when we are alone. It reminds us of our childhood pain and we react to it by desperately trying to control our partners and they us. Pay attention to how you interfere in your partner’s life and they in yours. How they dress , eat or run their lives is none of your business and vice versa. You are only responsible for yourself and for dealing with the way that their behavior and choices affect you . Most important of all, believe that you can feel safe without trying to control everything around you. A sense of safety comes from inside, not outside of yourself .
Now is the time to look at the way you relate to others. Do you bully or sulk to get what you want? Do you get sick. Complain or act helpless without realizing or admitting how manipulative this is? Do you always think that your way is the best or is the only way? These are always of attempting to control.
Accept that you have no power over the others and that you can only control yourself . Step back and let others be who and what they are. Their choices are their own. If they pull away, let them go, even though it may cause you pain. If they treat you badly, you can’t make them change. Real love will only come toy from someone who is with you because they want to be, who treats you well because they want to.
If you are single and looking for love but not succeeding you need to realize that you are in control of this. It’s easy to blame fate or bad luck but in fact you are picking people exactly it won’t work or because they are unavailable. Or, you are rejecting perfectly suitable partners on trumped up reasoning. Doing this keeps you out of relationships, which is simply a way to stay in control. So start to behave towards others with generosity and to respect who they are. It this way you will draw love to you, not through control, but through giving love yourself.
Healing
Take comfort from the fact that whatever you are going through will leave you in a better, stronger place than before.
Healing can be calm and peaceful, or it can be turbulent and intense. Often when healing is taking place things can get worse before they get better. If this is happening see it as a cleansing. You have to clear things out in order to move on. Sometimes we have to keep revisiting a painful experience until we finally get to its core, learn the lesson in it and then, and only then, we are able to leave it behind for good.
When we are in the process of healing around relationships, we often find that our health suffers. Are you having recurrent back problems or a series of minor ailments?
There are the ways in which the body expresses its pain. Use them to draw your attention to your underlying emotional state. What do you need to heal? What do you need to grieve? It is important to support yourself at this time. Avoid extra pressure and go easy on yourself. Lower your expectations and most importantly, stop criticizing yourself.
We find the experiences we need to heal our wounds from the past. You may not want to be dealing with this right now, but life gives us what we need, before it gives us what we want. Know that your relationships can only benefit from this healing.
You may be healing yourself now in this relationship or healing old hurts to bring you on to the right relationship. You may be healing the relationship itself. Be positive and optimistic while acknowledging your pain. Healing can really hurt. But you can handle it. Try to work with this rather than pushing against it. Give it the time it requires. You’re worth it. Remember that if you don’t heal it now. You‘ll only be back in the same place, some time soon.
The only way out is through, and healing is a sign that you are coming through.
Negativity
If you are being negative towards your relationship or the potential for a relationship this is for you. It maybe that you have been disappointed recently, or that something is giving you a lot of difficulty. Negativity feeds on itself and then grows. It is time to turn away from being negative. If you don’t want what you have, then let it go. But don’t continue with this negativity. If you do want to keep your relationship or the possibility of a relationship, then stop being so negative and start being positive.
Focus on what is right. Focus on what you like, on what makes you happy. Focus on your partner’s strength and your own. When we turn from the negative to the positive we have hope and we develop greater appreciation for what we do have. This combination is the first step towards a brighter future.
Being negative is easy. It’s lazy and it’s cowardly. Which isn’t to say that we should ignore things when they are wrong. By all means admit the problem but take a positive approach to it. When we are negative we can simply sit around and complain. To give this up requires effort and so does your future.
This also draws your attention to the negative energy around you. What is dragging you down? Do you need to alter your home or work environment or reconsider those that you have close contact with? You can always improve the energy around you by “clearing” in any way possible. Clear out clutter, reorganize your environment, clean things up, throw open windows, change your habits, freshen anything that seems to need freshening, and don’t lapse into laziness. Fresh energy is waiting for you and is much more rewarding.
Boundaries
A boundary is a limit which is defined at its farthest point. You can reach it but you are not to go beyond it.
We see physical boundaries all around us: the wall that divides our property from our neighbor’s; the no entry sigh on a one way street. The there are the less physical boundaries such as the law that we live by and the promises we make and keep. Because the boundary marks the farthest point, crossing a boundary always has a consequence. We break the law, we get arrested. We break our promises, people stop trusting us. It works in reverse too. When others break our boundaries they get a reaction from us.
We all need boundaries in our love lives. We need to define where we begin and end. We need to set limits and make them known to ourselves and others. We need to be clear about what we find acceptable, what we will live with and what we will not tolerate. And we need to mean it.
You need to stop and look at you boundaries. Have you set yourself a boundary where you will only get involved with someone available? Are you sticking to it? Or are you letting someone treat you badly, putting up with dishonesty, cruelty or just subtle manipulation? Try looking at it from the outside. What would you think if a friend was being treated in this way?
In order for a boundary to be real you must be clear about the consequences of breaking it. If you say you are going to leave, you need to mean it – or you need to face the consequence, which may be to stay in the relationship and be bitter and withdrawn indefinitely. The consequence is what really happens, not what you say will happen. Without a consequence there is no boundary.
Setting boundaries and really sticking to them is challenging. It means getting clear about your bottom line. It means not getting caught up in what others think you should want or accept. You need to treat others with respect but you don’t need to accept what is unacceptable as part of this. Ironically those around us are much more comfortable when we make and keep clear boundaries because then they know where they are with us.
Value yourself and know that you are entitled to your boundaries.
Patience
Patience is an art form. It is the ability to stay in the present. To wait for what you want in a state of acceptance, trust and belief. Accepting that there is a time schedule that you are not in control of, often with no certainty of the outcome. Patience reminds us of our humanity. Just be with everything exactly as it is now. You don’t have to do anything.
Patience has a lot of similarities to trust, except here we are focusing on timing and process, rather than on reassurance about the outcome. How patient are you? How easy do you find it to allow feelings and events to unfold at their own natural pace? How good are you being in the present? For that moment, just focus right now, not the future.
When we force event we can easily damage the end result. A good loaf needs time for dough to rise, a butterfly needs to go through the process of being a caterpillar and chrysalis. Without patience for other people’s timing and process, as well as our own, we push forward towards our goal but we miss the pleasure and benefits of the journey. We don’t allow the foundations to set before we expect them to carry the weight of the building.
Slow down. Accept that things are how they are, each of you is who you are. You are meant to be exactly where you are right now. Whether it’s financially, geographically, emotionally or attitudinally. If you have a goal, then make a plan and act upon it, but ensure that you aloe the appropriate time necessary. If it unfolds at a different pace or things are not where you want them to be – have patience.
Discover and learn the lesson of being in the present. Patience pays.
Unfinished business
It means you need to finish whatever it is that remains unfinished, in order to establish a new relationship or for your current relationship to prosper.
Unfinished business is old business. It may be years old or from yesterday or last week. We didn’t deal with something in a satisfactory manner at the time, often without realizing it. Then we brush it under the carpet, or to the back of our minds, and carry on as if it doesn’t exist. The trouble with this is that then we never will fully move on. Unfinished business takes up our attention and energy in a way that we are not aware of. It interferes with life now, in unseen ways. It’s similar to putting the handset down by the side of the phone instead of breaking the connection properly, freeing the line for new calls.
If we don’t finish something properly it prevents us from starting something else, afresh. It’s like leaving your rubbish to pile up in the kitchen and then stepping around it, pretending it’s not there. The longer you leave it, the better you get at pretending it’s not there but the smellier it becomes. And the more of it that you pile up, the harder it is to move freely around your kitchen. Eventually it contaminates everything without you realizing it.
Unfinished business damages relationships. What haven’t you dealt with? What needs to be said that you are avoiding saying? What old resentments, hurts, wishes or dreams are you sitting on, which you need to pull out, dust off and deal with? In your relationship is there something which you have both brushed under the carpet which actually really matters? Face it and you will both benefit from your bravery.
This also includes unfinished business from previous relationships. Otherwise it will interfere with your current one or with a making of a new one. Who do you need to apologize to? Who are you still mad at? Who are you still in love with, or hate with? What haven’t you really grieved or let go of? Now is the time to deal with it.
You don’t necessarily have to involve the other person for you to finish something off properly. You can do this alone. For example, write a letter including everything you want to say and then when you have finished, burn it ceremonially. Do it again and again until it feels finished. You have to do what it takes and face what needs to faced, because only then will you be free.
Break-up
It signifies endings. It may be that the relationship is literally ending. This can mean divorce or separation. If your relationship is ending, it asks you to trust the process and know that there is light t the end of the tunnel. This is happening for the best, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now. Accept the pain and it will slowly diminish. You can handle this.
This can also mark a break –through in the relationship where it dies in its current form and is reborn anew. Usually this will involve some form of separation, however temporary. Endings mark the need to move on, to let the relationship to die, whether it is to be reborn in a new form or not. Due to the continual cycles of life and death, some form of rebirth will always follow an ending, so trust this process and go with it. You will find the partner who is right for you, whether it is this person or someone new.
It may be that a break up with a third party is necessary for the success of the relationship. Who are you over-involved with, outside the romantic context? It is time you left home or let go of your best friend or old boyfriend? You need to allow space for you true, primary, romantic relationship to develop. If you are hoping to establish a new relationship, know that there is someone that you need to separate from before you will find your new partner. Let go of any attachment to an old relationship or ex-partner. End your desire or fantasy for a new relationship to develop with someone specific, who you have your eye on. Cut your ties and free yourself, so that life can lead you to the right relationship, rather to the one that you think you want.
One door opens, when another one closes. Now you have to close the door, or accept its closing, and trust that another one will open. It really will. Moving on is a part of life. Be brave.
It is only when we dare to leave that we are free to stay on our own terms or free to find something new.
Spiritual connection
Remember that the spirits around you want to remind you that you are more than just flesh and blood. You have an inner essence which needs attending to.
It asks you to go a little deeper. To develop, renew or strengthen your connection to your role in this world.
We are all intimately connected on a cosmic level. Look up at the sky. Know that the universe and the galaxies stretch far out and around us. Look into a flower or your finger nail and know that this scale works in the other directions too. Within each detail there is greater detail.
We are existing in a chain of awareness and energy. All perfectly held in our place, in our particular existence. Right now everything is exactly as it should be. And then we move on and things change and that is right too. Know that you are protected and that you are no alone. Angels hover constantly around you waiting to help. Yet they must be requested to help us before they can interfere. Those who come before us, who watch over us and guide us, so let the guidance in. Find the best balance between the physical and spiritual world which works foe y.
Often we neglect our connection with a more powerful force than ourselves, as we all try to play God in our own lives. Let your spirituality guide your relationships. Follow your instincts to do what needs to be done, at each moment in time.
Light a candle and look into the flame. The light signifies the energy in each of us and the world around us . Offer up your thanks for anything that you appreciate and invite the spirits into your love life. They are waiting for you call.
Let go
You are presented with one of the biggest challenges in relationships and in life itself. But the reward you reap will be in proportion to the effort expended. It’s simple – let go. What if it wasn’t up to you? What if you couldn’t control others, yourself, the outcome, today, tomorrow, forever?
This isn’t calling for you to be passive or to stop caring. It’s telling you to take a back seat. It’s not telling you to leave the relationship, or to stop trying to establish a new one, but it is telling you to let it be what it really is. Get your nose out of everyone else’s business. Let them look after their own lives and you look after yours. Stop trying to make the world fit wit your desires. Let it be what it is as it is.
Let fate and destiny bring you what they will. Sit down, breathe, take sometime out of time off and let life just happen for once. If you are trying to convince, educate, pressurize or manipulate your partner, or someone new, into giving you what you want, now is the time to stop. If you are pushing the same way – stop. Who would you be if you just let go? Who knows what experiences and opportunities you are missing out on, while being so busy and holding on so tightly, trying to manipulate everything and everyone so intensely.
Watch what happens when you begin to let go. It will all work out exactly as it’s meant to and better than it will with you trying to control it. Have faith that life will support you and bring you what you need. Let the fear that you won’t get what you want surface, and deal with that instead of avoiding it. You’ll never be able to swim to a new shore if you won’t let go of the driftwood you are holding on to so tightly.
Swim, let go, let the tide direct you, let the water of life support your weight. It’s safe to let go. Do it now.
Change of fortune.
It is a profound moment. You can relax and celebrate. This signifies that things are about to improve significantly. If you have been struggling with difficulties then the struggle will soon be over. Good times are ahead. Peace and harmony are close at hand and the break-through that you have been hoping for will present itself.
If life is good and you relationship is good, be happy in the knowledge that it’s going to get even better. Change of fortune marks a significant step forward, so dream your dreams and know that they will soon arrive.
If you are hoping to find a new relationship trust that you will. If things have been difficult, know that it’s going to get much easier. This signifies improvement wherever you are in the romantic scheme of things. It promises you that the future is really bright.
This is a good time to prepare yourself for what lies ahead. What do you put off through wasting time worrying about the future? Feel free to get on with it no. What changes would you make if you knew that you couldn’t lose? Get active. This encourages you to change your own fortune as well as reassuring you that good fortune lies ahead. Take advantage of this moment. Admit what it is that you really want to say or to do. Follow your heart, be brave, be adventurous and know that you are supported. The time is right.
Don’t forget your responsibilities, show respect for others and stay honest. As long as you follow these three rules, the time is right to jump. You are fortunate.
Anger
This brings your attention to the anger present in your relationship or interfering with the establishment of new relationships. This will not surprise you if you are already aware of your anger. But if you are not aware of being angry, this tells you that you are. You need to deal with it. Knowing about it isn’t enough and complaining about it won’t help.
First of all, get clear what it is that you are angry about. Write it out in a piece of paper, talk it through with someone, or do whatever works for you , until you are sire you know what you are really angry about.
It may seem like you are reacting to one thing when actually you are angry about something completely unconnected. Check this out with yourself. We often pick the easy topics to focus our anger on because we feel that we can’t justify our anger over the issue that’s most important to us. Often, focusing on the real issue makes us feel too vulnerable.
Remember all anger is always both justified and valid. Other people don’t have to agree with us but we can get angry over anything. Anger is a feeling. You can’t choose not to have it. It’s either there or it isn’t. If you deny it because you think it’s unacceptable, you are only hiding it, not stopping it. It will go underground and fester and damage a relationship anyway. So admit you are angry and then find a way to express it safely. Write a letter you don’t need to send or shout at a cushion or chair pretending it’s another person. If someone else is involved leave them out of it completely until you have expressed it away from them. Otherwise you will regret it. Only then you will be ready to let it go or to discuss it with them reasonably.
If you are sure you are not angry and think that this must relate to your partner, or potential partner, you are mistaken. They may be angry too, but this is about you.
Acceptance
It is about letting those we have relationships with, or hope to have relationships with, be themselves – accepting who they really are.
It’s a tall order. Mostly when we have relationships we want to change the other person to who we want them to be, regardless of who they really are. Acceptance is asking you to stop this. Trying to change someone we are having a relationship with doesn’t work for you. If you want them to be different, then have the relationship with someone else who is already what you want. If you really want the relationship with this specific person, then you need to accept them as they are. If they wish to change themselves it is their business and their responsibility. You have no power over anyone else. So the sooner you accept who they are and how they are, the better.
What you do have power over is your reaction to who the other person is. You can find it acceptable or unacceptable and you can tell them this. But remember what they do with that information is up to them. You need to accept this too. Stop denying who they are or pretending they are someone they are not.
If you ask someone kindly and specifically to change a particular behavior, they may have the goodwill to do so. Appreciate this and support them. But if they won’t they won’t. Step back and have a good look at who this person really is and accept it. Remember much of what may need to change will actually be you and your behavior. It’s always easier to put the focus on someone else.
We are all perfect, exactly as we are, with all of our faults and endearing qualities. Stop trying to force someone untidy to become untidy, or someone dishonest to be honest, or someone lively to be quiet. Enjoy who they are or move away from them and move on, but stop trying to change them. Then maybe you can begin to accept who you really are too and have the confidence to declare it. Then you can be appreciated by those who accept you for you and let go of those who don’t.
Jealousy
When jealousy is operating it is important to admit to it and learn from it, rather than deny it. Otherwise it will be very damaging to your relationship or desire for a relationship.
If you feel jealous of your partner, check whether they are behaving appropriately. Are they prioritizing their commitment and loyalty to you? Check whether jealousy is actually a warning signal that you are not the priority when you should be. Don’t put up with someone who doesn’t treat you with the respect that you deserve. Or perhaps their behavior is fine and your jealousy stems from your insecurity and low self-esteem. Address these and you will find that your jealousy disappears.
Jealousy operates in many areas of our relationships. You may be jealous of someone else in relation to your partner or you may be jealous of their confidence, success, lifestyle or their relationships with friends, family or work. When we are jealous. We are envious in a negative way, which means that we want something which someone else has. Our refusal to acknowledge that desire creates the bitterness and pain of jealousy. But if we have the courage to be honest about our feelings we can use jealousy in a positive way. What is it that you are jealous of? Does someone else have qualities or elements in their lifestyle or relationship which you wish for? Start working out how to get these things for yourself rather than resenting those who have them already. Use these desires to motivate you, rather than turning your energy against another person. Go after whatever it is that you are jealous of, for yourself. But remember to do it in your own style. You can’t become someone else; you must learn to develop who you are.
Also, look at the price that the other person pays for having what it is you are jealous of. Are you willing to organize yourself or your life in the way which would be necessary for you to have what they have? Is it worth the effort to you? Is it worth the sacrifice? If it isn’t then appreciate them for their choice but admit that in reality you don’t actually want the whole package. Jealousy is an easy way to resent what others have without being willing to take the consequences, good or bad, of having it ourselves. Admit that your choices work for you, unless of course they don’t – in which case make some changes. Work on your self esteem and your self confidence. No one else is lucky enough to be you. Appreciate that.
Pain
If you are hurting right now this is for you. You may be very aware of this or denying it, but you are in pain. Are you suffering from a broken heart having been let down by someone that you love? Or have you recently ended a relationship because it wasn’t right? When things have gone badly the pain doesn’t end when the relationship ends. You need to give yourself the time to grieve. Don’t just rush into something new or you’ll take your pain into the next relationship where it will cause unnecessary damage.
If you are single at the moment your pain may be from loneliness because you long for someone special to share a relationship with. The world may seem full of couples and it can be especially painful being around others who have the companionship that you so wish for.
Being in established relationships can also be very painful. Sometimes it’s hard to accept how much it can hurt. Throughout our lives we are sold the fantasy that love will be a totally wonderful experience. No one tells us the truth. That love involves pain as well as pleasure. It’s all too easy to move on whenever being in a relationship begins to hurt, but if you do this you will always be moving on. Stay committed and deal with the pain. Share with your partner what hurts and together work on learning how to support each other when you are in pain.
What you most need to understand is that this pain that you are ascribing to love or the need for love has little or nothing to do with romance or relationships. It stems from the deeply buried hurts of childhood. You expect love to take you away from your feelings of emptiness or from the ache deep inside you. You are using romance and companionship as a drinker uses alcohol. To avoid your feelings of being left alone with yourself. What is happening in your love life is only happening to bring your childhood pain to awareness so that you can deal with it. And when you do, you will find that you are more successful in love and all aspects of love will be less painful.
Right now you need to accept your pain and welcome it into your life. You may imagine that you can’t bear to do this but avoiding your pain is what really hurts, experiencing it brings a real and lasting sense of relief.
You can handle it. Pain is part of loving. Be brave and remember to be kind to yourself.
The Wish
This is a good luck omen. It means that what you wish for is being given extra support at this time and likelihood is very high that your wish will come to pass.
If you have been waiting for news of some kind, this reassures you that it will be favorable. Your dreams will be realized, so relax and trust that everything will work out.
When wishing we need to be mindful not to try to control someone else or we break the power of the wish. Form your wish in the first person, think in “I” statements to ensure that you wish for yourself. Also leave others out of your wish. For example, if you wish to meet the person of your dreams, don’t name them. Even if you feel sure of who they are. Maybe your perfect partner isn’t known to you but if you are right, it will work out anyway, without you trying to control someone else’s destiny.
You need to be very specific about what you wish for. Close your eyes, still tour mind and actually picture the result of your wish come true. Make it as real as possible. Where are you? What can you see, touch, smell, and hear? When we make our wishes tangible then we help the universal power deliver them to us. We become like a magnet and draw what we envisage to ourselves. The clearer we are the more powerful our magnet. Imagine the wish already well defined, hanging around, waiting to be wanted. The clearer you are, the quicker it will recognize that it is wanted by you and wing its way to you!
When you wish for something be very careful that it is what you really want. It’s easy to focus on the positive elements that it will bring into your life, but you have to be sure that you can live with the whole package. Stop for a moment and ask yourself what the drawbacks of your wish could be? It you are honest, there must be some. Now do you want to moderate your wish to take this into account? Remember the saying “be careful what you wish for you might just get it”. This tells you that you will. So wish with care and with respect for yourself and others and then enjoy!