New beginnings

Last week was a total lunar eclipse, something that won't be repeated until 2033.  There were lots of posts on social media explaining the significance of the event but all seemed to focus on the fact that an eclipse like that ushers in big changes.

I don't know who decides the meanings of events like this but I understand the value in attaching meaning to events that are experienced by great numbers of people.  A perfect example is New Year's Day which is associated with creating new resolutions. People of many cultures and from many countries use New Year's eve or New Year's day for making big changes in their lives. Another is the beginning of the school year.

In reality we can choose any moment as a starting point for whatever change we want to make. It's one of the many things we get to choose that maybe were not even really consciously aware of. I chose this quote today because we get to decide today as we wake up and start the day who we want to be, how we want to live our lives, how we want to look at any situation. It doesn't matter how we lived yesterday, last week last month. Today is a brand-new slate for whoever we want to be.

What changes would you like to make right now? Who do you want to be today? Someone who is patient, kind, happy? Someone who sees the beauty in this amazing world we live in? Someone who focuses on what's good about a situation versus what's wrong with it? It's all up to you. It always has been. Just like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, we have had the power all along. So go out and have yourself a kind of day you most want whatever you end up doing.  Have a wonderful day!