Into the flow...

I spent the morning pouring over the electronic pages of apartment therapy, domino and Ikea, looking and searching. I’ve got this idea…that if I can make over my office then I can figure out how to make a home business work. It’s as if looking into the rooms of others, I can divine my own path. I know this sounds silly and incredibly consumerist in this dismal economy…but during this astrological Mercury Retrograde I am reviewing and sifting through what is important and what is not (yes, I follow astrology too, especially when it comes to world events. Here’s how I use it…numerology for focus on the warp and weave of a person's life, astrology for the overall backdrop of universal events). And besides, I’m a visual as well as a literal person. Having a concrete picture of what I’m trying to accomplish focuses my energy.

Due to a pending refinance we have decided we’re going to stay in our beautiful little urban mid-century (our new mortgage will fall well below $400 dollars a month.). It’s a bittersweet decision since I don’t live in a perfect city and discussions over the civic problems that we’re currently plagued with can work me into a dither. However, I’m trying to bloom where I’m planted as is part and parcel of my personal year energy (3 – joy of living). Yesterday I made a step forward, gratefully giving away those pieces of furniture that others dearly need (a desk that is pretty but too small for my business needs and an extra bed) and actively making a plan to release to the universe some of my library.

What I’m trying to practice here is giving back. Outflow is as important as inflow as we’ve all discovered in this shrinking economy. And if I want things good things to cascade toward me, then I need to do my part in providing others with the same. This is by no means easy but if we all hold too tightly to what we have, then everything becomes calcified and stagnant…and no one profits from that. Plus, in January, it’s very, very important that I build a strong foundation…one that will steady me in the heady weeks and months to come.