Janus Views, The Sibyl Speaks

For many years now, I came to the end of the year and wondered to myself, "What did I know last year this time of what the year will bring?" Each year has been full of unexpected surprises that opened my eyes to new ways of seeing. This time of the year the news papers are very interesting in their Janus views, looking back, looking forward. This year 2005 have been called by many annus bloody crapullus, and that they'd "rather just go to sleep on December 31, 2005 and wake up on January 1, 2007." Something in me says that this coming year is going to be no picnic, but a meaningful, trend setting year.

Of the state the world is in, the general summary is best described by Bryan Appleyard in an article called Waiting for the lights to go out.

"Of course, the end of the world has been promised by Jews, Christians, Muslims and assorted crazies with sandwich boards for as long as there has been a human world to end. But those doomsdays were the product of faith; reason always used to say the world will continue.

The point about the new apocalypse is that this situation has been reversed. Now faith tells us we will be able to solve our problems; reason says we have no answers now and none are likely in the future.

Perhaps we can't cure cancer because the problem is simply beyond our intellects. Perhaps we haven't flown to the stars because our biology and God's physics mean we never can. Perhaps we are close to the limit and the time of plenty is over.

The evidence is mounting that our two sunny centuries of growth and wealth may end in a new Dark Ages in which ignorance will replace knowledge, war will replace peace, sickness will replace health, and famine will replace obesity. You don't think so? It's always happened in the past. What makes us so different? Nothing, I'm afraid. - The Times News Service, London

2005 seems to have been a year facing the hard realities. Not even the spin doctors can hide the obvious anymore. The facades have fallen away to reveal the world as it is. Are we going to carry on pretending, or do something about it? The same seem to apply on a personal with me. Enough drifting about at the mercy of capricious fate, trying to predict the unpredictable. This is the way the world is right now and what am I going to do about it? If I am not happy with the way things are, how can I by my lonesome-self initiate the change I want? But first of all I must decide what it is that I desire, what do I want the world to look like?

As the futurists say: 'The best way to predict the future is to create it." If you always do what you always did – you'll always get what you always got. If you don't actively set goals, your fears become your default goals.

I watch the moon rise behind the purple mountains. At first, a sliver of a glowing eye, then bright and full. I greet the Bright Lady and let her light penetrate me, purify me. I hold my wand up high and the reflected fire ignite my wand. In silence, her song erupts in my heart. My body responds to the desire to interpret the ancient song through a dance of the soul. Filled with creative abundance, timeless in origins, I dance in unity with the past and the future. I dance until the song fades and I stand in silent contemplation of nameless mysteries. I hold my wand aloft in gratitude and let the flame within. Close my eyes in silent closure.

Always at the end of a year and at the beginning of a new , people have consulted various oracles to try and see what the new year holds for them. No matter, what form of diviniation you use, the right question is of the greatest importance when facing the unknown. I have found 5 questions that will give you the best perspective in facing the unknown. Five questions do I present to the oracle in facing the coming year 2006.

1. What I think I should do this coming year?
   This question opens up the door of reason, the logic.
   

2. What do I feel I should do this year?
   This question opens the door to intuition, to body knowledge.
   

3. What do I wish I would do this year?
   This question open the door to constructive intelligence.
   

4. What would I do if it weren't impossible?
   This question locates and expands perceived limits and possibilities.
   

5. What action plan can I make that encompasses all these possibilities?

I reached the place where I know the facts about myself, and the world in which I live. I know my strengths, my weaknesses, and I know what brings me happiness. I also know my responsibilities, and physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual needs. What can I do this coming year to make the Phoenix of myself, rise out of the ashes of my old self.?

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