44     WEATHER   

 KEY CONCEPTS:  the elements, the unexpected, predictions, forecast, powerful forces, nature, seasonal conditions, preparedness, extremes, emotions, running hot or cold, indecision, riding the storm out.

MESSAGE:   Truth is not subject to Weather.  Into each life precipitation must fall, and it rains on both fair-weather friends and true-blue travelers.  Wherever you go, you find Weather…and climate complaints.  Everybody loves to grouse about a heatwave…or a frigid winter morning.  Our emotions resemble weather.  A soft cry releases grief and makes flowers bloom.  Too many days of “woe is me” and flash floods inundate your bungalow.  Do you stifle your emotions?  Like rising waters, unexpressed feelings tend to rapidly build alarming pressure.  It’s pragmatic to install a release valve, but don’t let that valve get stuck.  Folks fail to realize they can redirect wayward moods; there’s no need to let rage cycle on repeat!  We pull a lot more sway in our psyches than we do with Old Man Winter.

 Tempests roll out perpetually in unexpected and reactive ways; when it happens, take it as it comes.   A storm can eradicate earthly achievements in a single deluge; it might even wipe out our lives.  Whether you find it too arid or too humid, brutally hot or intolerably cold:  it’s not in your hands.  Weather belongs exclusively to the Divine.  For all its unpredictability, it does loosely follow celestial patterns in the form of seasons.  When storms strike, they hinder all alike.  Savvy travelers sometimes pack umbrellas, long johns, galoshes…all potentially mitigate various effects of climate’s caprice, but your valise can’t fit contraptions enough to combat every possibility.  Improvise...Weather happens.  Forecasts frequently fall prey to fickle Mother Nature. Atmospheric conditions resist humanity’s increasingly complex attempts to predict them.  Anticipated storms dissipate or change course…sacred direction proceeds down many mindful avenues in the eternal now.   Connect to your source, not your burdensome plans: every storm must first be settled within your consciousness. 

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