Starting the New Year With Hope

Naturally, we all hope for a good year to come when the “fresh start” of a New Year comes in. We have dreams, hopes, ideals (& even the beautifully innocent amongst you may still believe in resolutions.😅 Good on you!). And yet, sometimes…we look at the past year, remember our hopes a year ago, and feel a bit wary…discouraged…cynical…stupid, even, if we want to trust the Universe, but have felt as if we had the rug yanked out in the prior year or years.

How to make peace with the things we could not or cannot control? The world and its problems, losses large and small, the passage of time? How can we be realistic, and yet still maintain optimism for what could come to pass?

If you’re reading this, that means you are a human. And, sorry to be the one to bring the news, but, if you are human, there will be losses. Of some sorts. Things change, even if you don’t experience big losses in a year (& I hope you do not). For those who have lived longer, losses become more a part of things. This doesn’t mean necessarily that a loved one will pass. But simply your dreams, plans, abilities, possibilities may likely undergo changes.

Knowing that this is not a bad thing–in other words the ability to go with the flow–is a prime key to happiness and fulfillment as the newest year ensues. I am in no way suggesting you don’t have firm dreams and wishes to reach for, or ideals to attempt to reach. Just know that life will still do what life will do.

My ideal last year was to hike weekly, dance more, do a lot more crafts, and clean out stuff. Instead, in January, the night before my spouse left for a month for a family emergency across the country, I fractured my calcaneus (a key foot bone; very tricky recovery). Subsequently, I had ensuing unprecedented health and injury crises all year. I still, nearly a year later, am not allowed to take walks nor dance due to a tendon complication! I did one piece of art all year. During the alone time with the fracture, I also had some very stressful contractor and other issues. For the first time ever in my long life, I developed such crippling anxiety from all the crises that I spent much time this year just unable to function at all.

This was not what I had in mind for 2025!

So naturally I am “wary.” I see in my 2025 calendar book the list of what I hoped for 2025: “Heal. Clean out. Physical fun and improv. Crafts. Possibly basketry. Felting. Paper mache. More papermaking.”

Well I was very regular attending my improv playshop (except the months I could not get up the stairs there with the cast or CAM boot), and I did clean out a few things. And I always am working on healing and evolving (whether that feels successful or not!).

But instead of the other things on that list, I kept reading (& I am quite proud of my summation—read it here: ) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8209818573. And I just did my best, one foot in front of the other (well, theoretically, since I am not allowed any actual walks on the foot!).

What it seems to come down to, the only “wisdom” I can impart, though it’s duh obvious: We change the things we can, accept the things we can, and do our best to laugh at what life brings us…or cry when we need to (or rant, or all of it at once).

I don’t promise to predict your future as a psychic, (although my clients tell me I am often startling accurate). What I can likely help with is tools to hopefully make the journey more easeful and steady. Some of the things that come out of my mouth may wind up to be true in the future, but there are no guarantees. What is guaranteed is that your attitude will make all the difference in how the year to come goes for you.

I wish you a smooth, peaceful New Year, with many of your ideals and dreams coming to pass, and with serenity and peace galore around any that do not.

And just to keep the humor alive at how life can sometimes treat us, here is a very fun video on psychic predictions for the new year (referring to the pandemic of 2020):