This isn’t a time to act under an imagined sense of urgency. Keep your emotions from running away with you. Turn to your Higher Self, engage your power of reason, and trust your inclination to step away from the drama and intensity of the moment. Study and analyze all the factors of the situation, and allow your Higher Self to guide you to the right end. Sleep on it for a night. Better yet, sleep on it for three nights, then heed your Higher Self’s message: “Leave it to me for now.”

Your Joy Guides are tapping at your mind’s door, hoping to open it and free you from the corner any narrow or presumptuous thinking on your part may be unwittingly backing you into. If you fall into the trap of running on too many assumptions, or operating on unexamined preconceived notions, you quickly eliminate all your options, leading you to a “damned if I do, damned if I don’t” cycle of frustration.

Your Joy Guides playfully remind you to step back and notice where your “stuck” perceptions might be attracting such frustration. They remind you that you’re not stuck—but your thinking may be. Stop your mental movie and take a commercial break. It’s time for a fresh look and a new viewpoint on all things. The best way to achieve this is to treat yourself to a heavy dose of humor, and let it break through to your unbearable dilemma. Your Joy Guides’ counsel is, as always: “The situation may be critical but not serious.” Join them in reviewing the situation, and laugh your way forward.

Although no one likes to admit it, we all have our dark sides and shadows—those less-than-flattering facets of our personality that take delight in abusing and shaming others and wielding power in the most unfair ways. Whether it’s the condescending remark to the slow-moving grocery bagger at the supermarket, the aggressive hand gesture directed toward the meandering driver on the road, or the belittling comment made to your uncooperative child, many of us are guilty of hurting or deriding others at times.

Your Divine Healers are present now to help you witness your shadow, lovingly making you aware that it’s actually contempt for yourself and your vulnerability that fuels such hostility toward others. These gentle but powerful higher forces surround you in love and urge you to accept and embrace your weaker aspects, rather than harshly rejecting yourself by attacking those aspects in others.

Ease up, and be more tolerant of yourself. If you do so, these shadows will give way to light and healing. Your Divine Healers’ message: “Ask for help and accept our light.”