“Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.” A Course In Miracles

We’ve all seen the cartoon where the ostrich is afraid of what is going on and hides his head in the sand. Sadly in life we often emulate that poignant little ostrich and shove our heads into some comfortable frame of mind, place, or thought to escape what makes us uncomfortable. Confronting this thought as we are right smack in the middle of Mercury retrograde in the heavens is a bit daunting but I assure you – right now things will seem less about the past and more about your future. Right now Mercury the ruler of your mind is clashing with Neptune the ruler of dreams, a battle of epic proportions as Dane Cook would say.

As universal law depicts we are dual by nature, the moment we chose a body and enter the planet earth or the “un-merry-go-round” we become dual. It is present all throughout nature. Black white. Yin Yang. Male Female. But what about your mind? How much is it awake for the battle of epic proportions, and how much you realize that when we are awake we are still dreaming? That dream is what makes us dual, that fear is what drives our head into the ground when if we would only pause a moment and realize that this big dream of life that we experience from day to day is nothing more than YOUR dream. You absolutely can not blame, judge or hide when you realize that the reasons for other actions is their OWN dream – not yours. And then forgiveness becomes much easier.

Forgiveness is the closest we get to being divine, it’s a gift and often when we stick our heads in the sand we might miss the opportunity to have a divine moment. So regardless of this week’s battle of epic proportions, please remove your head from the sand no matter how hot your hiney might look sticking out and offer up some forgiveness to yourself and to someone else in your life even though their dream might differ from yours it’s still a chance at the divine.