You’re beginning to stride into your purpose. Work is no longer a struggle, and your Master Teacher is guiding you along the way. The more aligned you become with your life’s proper path, the more your days will flow with ease. You’ll lose track of all barriers as you go with the flow and throw your heart and soul into your efforts. Your dedication will pay off in the long run, but even this isn’t important; your efforts are their own reward.

Doing what you love so well and so faithfully fulfills you. Your challenge is to resist the temptation to push yourself to exhaustion. Remain measured and steady, and don’t overlook the importance of taking a day of rest at least once a week. Your Master Teacher is pleased with your progress, but reminds you that even though you may love your work and feel that you could work forever, your body and mind do get fatigued. Develop the wisdom to know when to step away and refresh your soul. Your Master Teacher’s message: “Pace yourself.”

You’re entering a period of great expansion and celebration. Your Joy Guides are at hand, ushering you into a season of abundance, celebration, and hospitality. You’re loved, accepted, and trusted by those around you. This is a time when life gives back to you. You may become engaged, get married, receive a promotion, land a deal, or just get a long-awaited lucky break. Whatever you desire, your Joy Guides are urging you to prepare for, because it’s surely coming.

Realize that as life’s tides turn your way, the soon-to-become-realized positive flow of events isn’t just a fluke or an accident or just the luck of the draw. Rather, it’s the natural outcome of your unwavering efforts, and commitment to your dreams and goals. Your Joy Guides’ message: “Plan for the party.” You’ll soon have reason to celebrate.

Your Higher Self is present, activating your powers of reason and intellect. It asks you to develop clarity and objectivity when looking at your life, rather than interpreting events through the murky and distorted waters of emotion. Strive to see the reality of what happened in the past so you can acquire a more accurate understanding of what’s going on. You may notice things that make you uncomfortable or challenge your ethics. Ask your Higher Self to give you the courage to stand up for your truth and address difficult situations at their core, rather than distance yourself or pretend you don’t see the real problems because they make you uncomfortable. Like the child in the fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” your Higher Self is motivating you to not only see life more deeply, but to also share your perceptions with those around you.

This is the time, for example, to address your unbalanced budget and look for ways to cut corners. It’s also the time to acknowledge your ever-expanding waistline and seek out what’s really eating at you. This is when you need to step away from your emotions and dispassionately study the problems at hand so that you can come to a solution without blame and projection. Ask yourself what the problem is, not who the problem is. Only then can you begin to find real solutions with productive outcomes. Your Higher Self is sharpening your perception and clarifying your view so that you can make important and necessary changes at this time. As Carl Jung once said, “When the diagnosis is correct, the healing begins.” And your Higher Self’s message is: “Look for the truth behind appearances.”