People I no longer need are falling away

[Melissa G]

As the year started, I had this sense that I needed to clean house at the office (and everywhere) because it had gotten to the stagnant point that I no longer wanted to be at my own business. There were some lovely people there, but they just were not working out for one reason or another. Previously, I would have kept them and just worked with it.

My sense was that after the first of the year, I needed to clean house at all costs. I did things nicely and helped people find jobs who had been with me a while and just kindly, but firmly cleared out others. My life and business improved dramatically. I waited and am waiting/expecting just the right new hires and tenants. I am staying patient and continuing to fix up and weed out until my current vision is complete.

So far, so good. It can be scary dumping so much that has been familiar, but each time I stay with it, the universe rewards me.

I know a lot of us are in the swirl of big change right now. :grouphug: It's a sign of the times.
We might as well enjoy the ride, because change is coming anyway.

I always enjoyed shooting the rapids while floating down the river in an inner tube. That metaphor and experience has served me well lately.

[FirstLight]

1. amen, sistah!

I started cleaning house emotionally a couple months ago and cannot believe the wave of shift i began. by simply saying "no thanks, i know where this is going" to a relationship, it shifted my family life and work life and is certain to be bringing more down the pike!
I find that the more i define what i really choose to have in my life, the more that which doesn;t click falls away. and even if it seems negative on the outset or to the other person, i feel just fine about it...because it isn;t in my space anymore.

I have to say, it's kind of a relief! ;)

onward & upward!

[Melissa G]

5. Onward and upward!

But at the same time it is about establishing community. I'm actually feeling more connected to others than ever before. I just want the connections to be authentic and more expressive of who we all really are.
It seems to be working for me. :hug: Sounds like it is for you, too. :toast:

[FirstLight]

7. community, tribe, exactly!

the threads of connection are weaving thicker every day...

i have a community gardening dream I have been wanting to create, and this may be the year to begin....in fact, i KNOW it is! ;)

hosting a booth at the farmer's market kick off day in meyers at my friend's chiropractic office, having signups and talking shop with contractors of possible. I already know families that weill join in...and how i want to structure it. and how i want to take the young girls and boys and teach them canning in the fall ;)

[Lindsey]

2. Thank you for sharing, Melissa G. You are absolutely right on so

many levels. I don't want to get into my distancing myself from others who I know we aren't serving each other's higher selves because it's too hard for me to discuss. However, I also LOVED riding on inner tube's down the rapids in the Hill County of Texas. In fact, those are probably my favorite memories (as a child and as a young adult). :)

[Melissa G]

4. When I die I want inscribed on my headstone

That I made it down the rapids after spring rains from Slumber Falls to Greune, TX without tumping even once. (Okay, I'm mature enough to be cremated now, but after I finished that ride back in the late 70's that was what I said!)

Is that one of the river rides you took, Lindsey? I wasted a lot of afternoons at that chute at Stinky Falls, now renamed Prince Solms park, as well. :party: Good Times.

[Lucinda]

3. Thank you. Very timely encouragement about sticking to what we know we need to do.

:) It helps so much!

[Melissa G]

6. ....

:grouphug:

[kimmerspixelated]

8. You Go, Girl!

I've been reading the threads, and wanted to know if you still live in Texas? I'm a native, removed, hoping to get back...

[Melissa G]

9. Austin, Texas

since the late 70's. Where were you raised? Be good to have you back here!

[kimmerspixelated]

17. I was raised near Fort Worth, but

lived from 83-92 in Austin/Fredericksburg.

[Melissa G]

21. We were neighbors!

I've lived in Austin since '79. Spent a lot of time around Comfort and Mountain Home and Ingram from 76-82.
Wonderful place to roam around.

[kimmerspixelated]

24. Cool. Used to visit regularly from 76-81 a lot too!

Those really seem like the good old days, huh!? Remember The Hole In The Wall, and Liberty Lunch??

[Ricochet21]

10. You are under a MAJOR PLUTO transit

and are doing exactly what you should be doing
this is a great sign that things will get better and better for you as you drop the "dead weight"

:applause:

[Melissa G]

12. I hear from another souce that Jupiter is also square Saturn for me

Release Release Release... :toast:

[Ricochet21]

19. Jupiter Saturn

is like talking about your little toe compared to what Pluto is doing. Sweeping changes are necessary. I'm sure you're feeling it.
You're power has arrived, and with Spring and Uranus/Jupiter in Aries, this is your time to make your move.

Good luck :hi:

[Ricochet21]

11. Oh, and

their "not falling away", you're "letting them go"

that fills in all the times we talked about "how do I let things go...."

Remember?

:hi:

That puts you in control

[Melissa G]

13. Ah Capricorns, and that illusion of control...

;)
I guess the imagery that I'm using at the moment is about me becoming more the bit of God that I came here to manifest. My ex husband who was a carpenter taught me that when one is doing a complicated cut, you just take a way all the parts that don't look like an elephant.

I'm letting fall away all the things that no longer serve my higher self. Having Taurus rising, I have had a tendency to hoard and am tactile, so letting go is an image that works for me.

Thanks for the clarification of our previous conversation, though. I appreciate the insight.:):hi:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

14. yep me too...r-ship wise

got a lot to appreciate him for, even though we're not a very good match.

All I can do for now is my best to practice making the best of it, and appreciate the time I have to do my own work, like developing more positive self-beliefs and changing self-sabotaging habits into more outgoing, capable action, for example.....

All part of the readying process for clearing out too..... going slowly..... some things are beyond my control (like when the house sells...moving forward with change depends on that, but I don't think it's going to happen until I'm ready. Which I'm working on.)

These "limbo" periods in life can be pretty difficult.....

[Melissa G]

15. I was in the 'limbo' period for a while in between husbands

I was using rune stones a lot back then and it kept coming up with something about my next move hadn't been funded yet. About the 10th time I had that come up, I was ready to toss those stones against a wall. I wasn't a patient type back then. I kept telling the universe, it would likely teach me to wait, but unlikely I would do it patiently. :evilgrin:

[Lindsey]

16. We used to go to a place named Moe Ranch every summer

and that's where we tubed when I was little. Then, when I was in my 20's and was with friends, I believe we were around the New Braunfuls area (it feels like life times ago so I can't remember the exact location but we had a blast). :-)

[Melissa G]

20. Mo Ranch is up by Kerrville

It's a church camp hang out. Had lots of friends who went there.
http://www.moranch.com/index.php?c=15


Stinky falls (Prince Solms park) is in New Braunfels
http://www.discoveramerica.com/ca/texas/gnb-prince-solms-park.html

Many good times to be had there yet! :toast:

[BlancheSplanchnik]

23. Oooh, runes! I haven't gotten mine out in a while...

:) Have a set I made a bazillion years ago from found lake pebbles, menstrual blood and black acrylic paint. Made a deerskin pouch for them too.



Patience.... yeah. Not my fave either ;)

[Missy Vixen]

18. We're seeing the falling away, too

I'm not sure it's what I wanted. After all, some of the people we're not seeing anymore are people that are still important to us.

At the same time, we're working at spending time with people who really care for us, and we care for them in return.

[Melissa G]

22. I think the important ones cycle back.

I'm seeing some friends that had been very close, but that I have not heard from in 15 years or so making there way into my inner circle again. I'm blessed with lots of friends, but not much free time so cycles can be good!

Glad your circle of friends is mutually caring. :hug: