The opportunities are for a renewed sense of individuality and the need to step out of the familiar way of going about life. Leadership, courage, stamina, and all the things that define the sculpting process of the diamond are underway. This is a seed planting year as you attempt things. Not all will come to fruition, but the effort is important. Grappling with purely selfish wants and transmuting them into a larger vision or purpose that enhances the lives of all concerned brings about the noble qualities that define a great leader. Calling on unique capabilities and a fresh vantage point are part of the requirement this year. Align your will with higher guidance, and your endeavors will be something you can be proud of by year’s end.

This year calls upon you to overcome all that keeps you from soul expression. Choices are very important. Choose that which uplifts, nourishes, honors, and benefits you and life. Release all mental constructs that pull you down. Avoid food and stimulants that add no benefit to the wellbeing of your body. Choose only partnerships that are mutually respectful, and know that you have Divine partnership with inner guidance that is always available as you reach within for assistance. An inner light illumines your path, and can become a light to others when you attune to your gifts and share them with the world. The time is now. The requirement is discernment, and your contribution can bring needed insights to a world in the dark.

You are a child of the universe. Your sense of wonder and self-expression are important, and throughout this year you will have opportunities to expand your gifts and to bring your voice forward in creative venues that appreciate what you have to offer. While a stage is set and waiting for you, there may also be emotional pulls that cause you to sacrifice the opportunities because of someone else’s issues. Life asks you to be more detached. In looking at the universal year, #9, remember that everyone is being asked to release attachment to limitation, especially in relation to the number of the year in which you find yourself. Who and what contributes to joy in your life, and who or what is critical and restrictive to your higher calling? You can love others and have compassion for them without being devoured by their inadequacy. What is your bigger calling in life, and where are you answering it, or deferring because someone else is blocking the way?

Look at every area in life that is built on a foundation. Where are your building blocks strong, and where are they wobbly? Where do you have a healthy sense of self-esteem, and where are you on shaky ground? Do you believe in yourself and your abilities - in your capacity to take on something that may seem beyond your present capacity, and  willingness to risk to the unknown? Throughout the year, you have opportunities to build or re-build. You can construct a strong and safe environment, or you can be caught in a fear-based trap that causes feelings of imprisonment. Gather the materials for establishing yourself in a practical manner. Push beyond the perceptual boundaries that limit you, and you may find yourself transforming from the caterpillar into the butterfly. It’s your choice, and challenge. Risk to the call of your higher possibilities, and fly beyond all roadblocks from the past.

Throughout 2007, be ready and willing to adapt to new criteria, shifting roles, expanding horizons, and change. Flexibility is required, as well as good management of your time and energy. You may react to restriction like a hormone driven teenager, so it is important to allow your higher guidance to act as the steadying influence when you are ready to react without thinking. Pause. Consider. Assess. Be discerning. Then take action. Many things can be accomplished when you direct the focus of your exuberance. Too much information can put you on systems overload, however, and then you may become hyper critical of others or yourself. This can be a very revitalizing year in your life, with openings to greater good. It will require that you be aware of how much time you actually have to spend, and how much money. Reach for your dreams. Strategize your moves, and act with boldness. This is your life… so enjoy!

2007 focuses on all things related to family, health, and service. You have opportunity after opportunity to view your reaction to what is asked of you. Do you give with a loving heart, or through a sense of obligation and duty? Are you resentful for what is placed on your shoulders, or is it a joy to give to others and see their reaction? Do you feel abused and put upon, or loved and cared for? These are things to assess. Expectations can create barriers to loving communication, so if you expect too much of others, or feel their expectations of you as a burden, create workable boundaries that define what you will and will not do before it becomes a martyrdom issue. Loving relationships can become more meaningful now, or go through crisis. Healing comes through practicing love and forgiveness – not just for others, but towards yourself as well.

This is an important year for you. Look at your assumptions about life and about yourself, and be willing to really examine what is true for you and what has been assumed based on what you were told you are, or how to think. You have a grace given opportunity to dissolve all elements that defeat the real you. By strengthening your link in spirit to the Divine, you may come to know yourself in a way you have not previously realized was possible. Special areas of interest, deep insights into life or relationships, willingness to let what doesn’t work drop away – all are avenues to a fuller expression of your gifts and abilities. This is your time to do the spiritual work that will make your life a symphony. Follow the sound of your higher calling, and you will always be thankful you did.

This is a powerful year of contrasts. You are able to see the light and shadow, to experience the ups and downs, and feel the effect of past actions that lead to harmony, harvest and blessing, or make you feel you are called upon to pay the bills that are now past due. There is no judgment in this – but there is a requirement to take care of each thing presented as it comes up for action. The year calls for maturity, good management, and organization. It shows you where you have paid too much attention to one area of life at the expense of others that now need to be cared for. It provides powerful assistance and responses from others based on your efforts, so do your very best this year. There is responsibility, but there is also help. Open your arms to dance with life, and find the balance that makes your journey a poised performance.

You are completing a nine-year cycle of life. Therefore, there is much to review. What is important to carry with you into the future, and what needs to be released? What have you accomplished in this past nine years? What has blocked you, and where have you overcome limitations? Are there relationships that need healing or releasing? Are there attitudes that no longer serve you? As you can look upon everything presented with a sense of gratitude and appreciation for the gift embedded in it, you open yourself to receive the grace and provisions of Divine guidance. When you forget to be grateful, and   fall into the trap of pettiness and small thinking, you feel the isolation of tumbling from a mountaintop of clear vistas that includes all life. Alienation can only be overcome through opening the heart, inviting Spirit to be the Source of supply, and moving into compassion, forgiveness, and love. It may sound difficult, but once you open that channel of receptivity, all things are possible!