The Turning Point with a Little Help from my Friends the Wood Dragon and Aquarius
How Zillow can shake you up like Mother Earth’s ground breaking quake
So far 2024 has been unpredictable.
I was expecting the unexpected within my milieu as I planned to make significant changes this year. Life gets in the way when you make plans. And the external and spiritual environment definitely put a wild spin on the new year too. Like the Year of the Wood Dragon which brings evolution, improvement, and abundance. I am a rat, so per the Wood Dragon, the Rat has a great chance of success and recognition in 2024.
2024 is the year of Aquarius, that would be me too. 2024 will be a tumultuous time and a hopeful time. Aquarius also symbolizes people coming together and evolving into their next phase.
I wonder what the woodland fairies have in store for me!
2024 is for me the year to fulfill my future as I want it. There aren’t too many years left when you seek to understand how life works; death and taxes. I like sequences of events and reverse engineering so I set out to develop my goals once I thought out my future and how I can realize it. A lot of introspection and dialogue for sure.
My second phase was retirement, which is based on a myriad of goals; the first being to sell the house.
I decided to become my own project manager, not the for sale by owner but close. It is still a hell of a lot of work 24/7, and you see everything from your own lens as the owner which can be very difficult. My knees and I are feeling my age, I’m looking like I haven’t seen a salon since my retirement in December, and I now have stock in Uber Eats. Unfortunately for me this has taken a toll on my physicality.
Throughout the months so much had to happen. Packing and boxing up was priority. Then the first open house comes, and I am a wreck. But before the open house came the Zillow post. It got me by the heartstrings, I felt I was sucker punched. As much as the family are going our separate ways to start each of our lives over, seeing my home on a list of hundreds of others just threw me for a loop.
My sons grew up in this house. We had holiday parties that Martha Stewart would be proud of. Wakes and funerals were set here for my family. The congregations were Scorsese worthy. We built a home, a love for the hood and our volunteerism hit the roof. That is precisely why I accidentally got a full time job at CUNY, because of my project management skills, leadership skills, event planning in the PTA and all around board member emeritus. Of course, my experience over the decade before in mental health, physical & cognitive disabilities did not hurt. Being a Director of Operations in four of the five boros of NYC definitely taught me a lot, as did bringing up boys.
But it was like my emotions finally flooded out like a waterfall. I couldn’t help myself. Weird flashbacks of good and not so good streamed across my head as if from a projector. Sights, smells and tears. The boys’ milestones, his hospitalizations, the coma, the walker. I shook my head and rewound the tape to see the beauty, the hunk of a man I married, the strength of our marriage and the duty we had to bring up amazing boys. I then had to fast forward the memories to see what the future will hold.
A tumultuous time and a hopeful time, says Aquarius. Evolving into our next phases with love, respect and interdependence. This cannot be done alone. We still need each other. My young adult sons will find their way. We will all seek a new life of evolution and improvement, says the Wood Dragon.
Looking back at the wild week I just had, with the first open house, an earthquake and the powerful solar eclipse, I find that the external environment with a dash of the Universe is responsible for the reset that my family has been going through. Mother Earth shook Queens, NY like a dog shaking himself after a dip in a murky lake. The eclipse helped us to see a transformation within ourselves and the home that is turning into a house for others to live in.
With all of these special cues, Mother Earth is telling us something. It’s time! (Not like she’s been hitting me over the head with a brick for years!)
Time to clear the way for new plans and see our instability turn to a lesson in balance towards each of our new paths. This earthquake made me feel as if I had vertigo, and my feet were tingling or so I thought. I ran outside to see the birds still chirping. No broken ground, because the broken is within us. Each human who experienced the quake and the eclipse are in a profound moment of change, of being set free.
Shake yourself like the beautiful canines of the wild.
Make a plan. The world will not stop for us to jump off. I have plans, and I need to fulfill them, like the prophets. My Rat zodiac sign and my hard work will help me achieve my goals.
And damn it, so will St. Joseph, as he is here to help sell the house. Upside down of course.
I wish to sell this house quickly, easily, and profitably, and I implore you to grant my wish by bringing me a good buyer, one who is eager, compliant, and honest, and by letting nothing impede the rapid conclusion of the sale.
Amen!
