Some days it might be easier to stay focused on one’s personal daily business than try to get a clear perspective of the larger world happenings. December 2009 is one month that is easy to keep life more personal with traditions and celebrations. This may not be the year of our biggest and best celebrations, but it will help to remember those we care about and to hold ‘love’ as a dear thing.
The year of 2009 had a series of outer planet contacts that is only partially complete as the combinations become more powerful and complicated. When the slow-moving planets make alignments that exert a powerful combined stress on the earth due to their tensions in the electromagnetic field, there are corresponding tensions that arise in world events. The alignments that are forming for 2010-2014 are historically the most dramatic combinations that relate to factors of power, governments, social and civil developments, and all things that are the parts and pieces of economy and commerce.
It would be a real pleasure to report that the coming seasonal chart that represents the trends of the year ahead is all about stability, comfort, and ease. But, not this year. If you thought 2009 was stressful, that was just the warm-up. What we have ahead of us is a challenge that will make us all pay more attention to the larger picture.
Corporate power is at a stage of morphing into a stronger, tighter core. Mergers will be very common between December and April. This is not likely to reflect job openings, rather more job loses and companies tightening up. Where are the new jobs? What are the new jobs? If small companies are not growing and big companies are monopolizing, who is stimulated to move in a new direction? Where is the innovation of new business? It is going to take a revolution of thinking to bring around real changes. Right now, people are still lulled into thinking that something is “going to open up.”
The power of the people is truly in the small community and local networks. In many respects, we will be starting over in 2010. Creatively, there is energy for projects that benefit the community. When people draw together socially, we feel the heart and look into the eyes of our neighbors. It is timely to be brainstorming for new ways to help each other survive and to maintain our small local community power. One thing that can make a difference in our survival is participating in community associations, school-parent groups, and all of the various ways that people work together. Staying connected and being a contributing member of a group or community is an opportunity to share ideas and bring social issues to a place of solving problems.
If we look to history to see the resilience of humanity, new growth appears after devastation. New systems replace what has failed. The pioneering spirit erupts into action and innovation takes hold. I expect there will be some shocking events in 2010 that will stimulate social changes. I am looking for the awakening of goodness and compassion within the small community to counter the stark contrast of global economic struggle and personal suffering.
Blessings of the season to all.