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January 4 through January 10, 2021

Back to the grindstone! It could be a bit difficult to get back up and running after all the holiday cheer, but duty calls! Make Monday all about details, gathering information and making a plan under the Virgo Moon, and then spend Tuesday restoring balance to all aspects of your world as the Moon dances into Libra. Wednesday we’ll finally be ready to move as Mars moves into grounded Taurus, making it easy to catch up and start addressing everything that piled up over the holidays. The trend continues on Thursday, but we may experience a few ups and downs on Friday when Mercury moves into unpredictable Aquarius and Venus moves into steadfast Capricorn. This could make for a lot of stop and go motion, so practice patience and when one door closes, look for an open window! The weekend flows along joyfully under the Sagittarius Moon, allowing us a little downtime to regroup, reflect and prepare for the next busy week ahead!

11 Ways to Discover Your Life Purpose Through Your Intuition, by Kris Franken

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Your purpose is so much more than your career or job; it's the way you are in the world, your natural state of being. The way you feel called to do certain types of work, collaborate with particular individuals, serve humanity, and inspire those around you is all an intuitive part of who you that you can access anytime.

Here are 11 ways to intuitively discover the purpose written in the light of your Soul.

1. Follow Your Joy
   Your Soul has come into your body in this life with a natural inclination for joy. Bliss is your natural state; when you follow what lifts your vibration into the realms of bliss and joy, you can be sure that you are listening to the pull of your purpose.Your purpose and career aren't meant to be draining or demanding; they're intended to be uplifting and fulfilling. And although there will be periods that challenge you along the way, when you're feeling satisfyingly deep joy from service and sharing your gifts, you know that you've been trusting the divine process and following your heart.
2. Listen to Love
   If you're not sure of your talents and gifts, listen to love. Love is the voice of your intuition that is aligned with the highest expression of your Soul. Love will show you how you best serve, help, create, transform, collaborate, and inspire.How do you love others? Perhaps it's through a long hug, kind words, compassionate energy, a watercolour painting, cooking a scrumptious meal, writing a poem, or practical, everyday ways. The way you love others is a reflection of how you serve the world and it matters. The world needs you to make mindful waves with an open and generous heart.
3. Sit in Stillness
   The blueprint that's etched into the fabric of your Soul cannot be felt or heard if you're rushing, hustling, or busy all the time. Make time for stillness. Create space for the wise whispers of your heart to guide you each day.This purposeful blueprint is a continuation of all your incarnations; you have been building on your talents for lifetimes! Your intuition has so much to share with you, but it doesn't use words, so it can't compete with the chaos of a cluttered mind. In stillness, you'll feel the knowing that's always present, always loving, always nudging you toward greatness.
4. Expect Miracles
   Miracles are unexpected consequences of living aligned with the flow of your own lifeforce. Your breath and interconnected spirit are connected to the One Spirit, and as you feel this and allow it to guide your life intuitively, miracles will happen at every turn.Your purpose will unfold miraculously if you give up judgments and expectations around what it should look like or what you think you must be doing. The more you hold onto specific desires that leave no room for the fullest expression of your highest purpose, the smaller the field you have to play in.
   Miracles yearn for space. Let go of your pre-planned life and open up to all that is meant for you. Let life surprise and delight you.
5. Learn How You Help
   Consider for a moment what your gift is to your community. What do others ask you for? How do you help others in a way that feels relatively easy, humbly fulfilling, and energetically abundant? The way you help others is a portal to knowing your purpose on a deep level.We all have natural gifts—our own sweet medicine—that feel genuine and freely available. These gifts have been curated and crafted by our Souls over many, many lifetimes to help others—and us—into the highest version of ourselves.
6. Show Up
   Knowing about your gifts is a blessing for you, showing up and putting them to good use is a blessing for humanity. The love, joy, peace, and service in our being will multiply when we give it to others unconditionally.Showing up isn't about hustling or marketing yourself in any way that feels uncomfortable or misaligned. It's about being available to intuitively serve in any way the Divine calls on you through those in your grassroots and/or online communities. The more you love and heal yourself, the more you surrender to the wise intuition within you, and the more you trust in the path of your Soul, the more joyfully available you will be to all those who need you.

   Each time you show up, expect an energy exchange that speaks of abundance in all areas of your life. Believe that you will always be taken care of, financially and otherwise, for that's exactly what the cosmos wishes for you, too.

7. Dance with Life
   If you're working relentlessly, expecting your diligence to provide you with an abundance of rewards, you're more likely to become burnt out than richly satisfied. While you absolutely need to show up, you also need to rest up. Have a dance break, take a trip to the markets, catch up with friends, tend to your garden, and otherwise surrender deeply enough to receive fully from the universe.If you're giving all the time, there's no space to receive. Time away from your computer or workspace will also amplify your creativity and provides the ultimate opening for insight—new and aligned inspiration—to find you.
8. Revel in Your Uniqueness
   There is no one else on earth with the same harmonious fusion of talents, gifts, wisdom, karma, and medicine. There is literally no one in the history of humankind who's got what you've got. Revel in your own kind of magic. Explore and express it, love and care for it. Learn to be inspired by others without following them on their path.This journey you're here to traverse is exclusively yours. Your uniqueness is what draws people to you. Bring your quirks to life in every way that your heart and Soul desire.
9. Expect Challenges
   The challenges you hold within yourself that have not been healed and released will show up in your life externally until you heal them. If you are dealing with self-judgment, you will feel the judgments of others until you make peace with yourself. If you feel unworthy, you will attract others who magnify this unworthy state of being until you feel completely worthy of all the abundance in the world.Welcome the challenges in your life as a gift for you to grow, heal trauma and karma, find yourself, and come home to the greatest version of you.
10. Learn to Pivot
    There are no mistakes or failure in discovering your purpose, only pivots. We all need to pivot when we come across an unexpected roadblock, be it the fallen branch of "failure," heavy clouds of confusion, or the prickly discomfort of someone else’s judgment or opinion.Roadblocks are not a sign you did something "wrong;" they are simply the universe's way of escorting you onto another path that is more aligned with your Soul. Learn to pivot in faith and grace onto a new way. Bless the blocks, embrace the ruins, hold your chin up, look to the stars, and begin again.
11. Trust the Process
    Without trust you may find it difficult to move forward. When self-doubt sneaks into your mind, come back to your heart. Your heart knows and loves all. Through your heartspace you have access to the eternal wisdom of your Soul and Highest Self.Trust that your Highest Self will always have your best interests at heart and that you can count on this expansive part of you to guide you toward the most exciting and blissful path. With deeper trust, your intuition will be clearer to recognize.

You hold the keys to your future and the gold of your gifts. Go within and trust what you intuitively feel to be the next step for you.

If you'd like to explore your intuition, instinct, and insight more deeply, you will find an abundance of spiritual rituals, scientific exploration, journal prompts, and much more in my book, The Call of Intuition: Learn to Recognize and Honor Your Intuition, Instinct and Insight.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2020. All rights reserved.

I have had several dreams in the past year about roads ending abruptly. Here's one of the most significant: I was in the state I was born in but do not live in now. I found a 2-year-old at a family reunion. No one knew who he belonged to, so I took him and got into a car to go to my grandma's house. (She has been dead for about five years now.) My GPS wouldn't work and I got lost. I called my mom and lost reception. The road I was on began to break up and it ended inside a cave where other cars were parked. I asked a couple to help me and they told me I was far away from my destination. I've never been to the cave but my mom says I described exactly what it looks like in real life. I've had several dreams that end the same way. I am driving and the road ends at the ocean. The most recent dream was about the road to my house. I was driving home and the road stopped before my house and I could see the layers of road, dirt and rock. My boyfriend and I have been together almost three years and he says he is too young to get married and doesn't know if he ever wants kids. I think I would like to have his child someday. Are these dreams about ending roads pointing to our relationship going nowhere, or do you think they mean something else?

Astrea:

It's certainly possible that this dream means you're heading down a dead end road with your boyfriend. However, most of the time when you figure out what a recurring dream means, you stop having it.

Since you keep having this one, I think it indicates that you want change more than anything else. You're trying to hang in there in this relationship until things change and become the way you want them to be. In this case, the dead end signifies that you feel like things are out of your control.

I'm inclined to go along with the trapped theory here. It could be that you feel that even though he doesn't want to get married and create a child with you right now, you're trapped in this relationship with him and unable to find the courage to wait him out or the faith and freedom to move on to someone else.

You dream that the road you're traveling leads to a cave. In dreams, caves are traps because most of the time, there are no exits on the other side. I think it makes sense that your dreams signify that you feel stuck, like there is no good way out of your situation. However, there are other elements that lead me to believe you plan on sticking things out with him.

You see layers in the roads, and they become rougher the farther you go. These are the layers of your relationship and the dissatisfaction you feel because he's not on your schedule. Since you're not a pushy person and you don't want to be manipulative, the dreams you're having give you insights and an outlet for your frustration. Your subconscious takes over as you sleep and shows you the right road - it just needs attention and repair to become what you need it to be.

There are lots of ways to stop recurring dreams, but believe it or not, the one you're having is giving you power. Since you already have deep understanding of what is going on here, it's time to make those road repairs.

This doesn't mean you need to make an abrupt change in your life, for repairs take time. You seem to be willing to give your relationship the time it needs to grow into all you desire it to be. In relationships with air signs (Gemini, Aquarius, Libra), patience and tolerance are the keys to success. Taurus girls like you have great staying power, so you can make it together if he is the one you really want.

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Susyn:

You may be on the right track when you attach meaning to these dreams as reflections of your relationship. Dreaming of dead ends or roads that end in the wrong place is often a message that you may be moving down the wrong path to get to your goals.

Your dreams also appear to relate to important aspects of your relationship. For example, in the first dream you describe, you find a two-year-old at a family reunion who doesn't seem to belong to anyone there.

This could represent the child or children you hope to have one day. Also significant is the fact that he was part of a family gathering, and you were taking him to meet your grandmother who now resides in the spirit world, where your future children would also currently dwell.

In this dream you got lost, your GPS wouldn't work, and you got disconnected during a call to your mom. These incidents all reflect the idea that your goals are being short-circuited in one way or another. It's possible that these dreams are telling you that you can't get to where you want to go because someone or something keeps failing you.

In dream symbology, a cave may represent the womb. The couple who told you that you were far from your destination may be yet another omen that in order to reach your destination, you may have to change your path.

When you dream of a road that ends at the ocean, which can also represent a womb, it suggests you that you have reached the end of your current journey. The ocean also represents a vast expanse of choices for your future.

Finally, driving up to your house to discover the entrance blocked by layers of road, dirt and rock speak to the limits you are feeling in your relationship as well as the roadblocks that your partner keeps putting up.

These dreams all seem to indicate that if you continue on your current road with your boyfriend, who after three years claims to be too young to marry and unsure if he wants children, you may not be able to realize your dreams. Just as he is making his own choices, you also have the right to choose what you want for your life whether he is willing to come along or not.

Decide how important those things are to you and make your decision from there. My guess is that once you do, these dreams of traveling down dead end roads will cease.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.