I am flexible and bending

I resist any brokenness by being flexible and bending when storms appear.

The 22nd verse of the Tao Te Ching is:

The flexible are preserved unbroken. The bent become straight. The empty are filled. The exhausted become renewed. The poor are enriched. The rich are confounded.

Therefore the sage embraces the one. Because he doesn’t display himself, people can see his light. Because he has nothing to prove, people can trust his words. Because he doesn’t know who he is, people recognise themselves in him. Because he has no goal in mind, everything he does succeeds.

The old say that the flexible are preserved unbroken is surely right! If you have truly attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.

During the past week while discussing my intentions for 20111, my sister said, “Okay, you have all of these goals and intentions so, what happens if life throws you a curly one or something horrible happens?

Just between you and me, she can be a little negative at times, although she would argue that she is a realist and I live somewhere out on Fantasy Island.

Anyway, my response to her statement was that we must be flexible with our plans – I also added we must also demonstrate resilience (one of my favourite qualities).

If you plan and work toward a particular goal and the Universe sends you a lightning bolt out of the blue then see it for what it is, an opportunity to grow or to look at life from another perspective.

2011 has begun and the Sadge Moon lifts us up to the 9th house. This house opens up our mind to long distance travel, higher learning and philosophical pursuits.

One of my best girl friends is currently using this holiday to give her open field to higher learning. Each day she reports on what subject or herbs she has been studying. It is interesting – I feel that I have been on the journey with her.

Meanwhile, I’ve been visiting my fourth house of mother and family connections. This has been the focus of my holiday but today we return home. We are travelling a different route back to Canberra. Well, it is a New Year after all!

Love, Peace and Harmony,

Julia Ashton-Sayers