-Tips for Mending Wounds, Finding Harmony-

Relationships will take center stage in the Chinese Rooster Year officially beginning January 28. The build-up to that dynamic is under way now, impacting both personal relationships and relationships between citizens and the power elite. A key example is in the US, where a new leadership is preparing to take power January 20 - stirring unprecedented uncertainty and unrest. This indeed is a unique time for all of us to be alive. Continue reading to find out what this means for your personal relationships and your experience relating to the outside world.    

What's Different Now

For years we have been in the midst of a revolution in how humans relate to one another. Leading up to 2017, however, new levels were reached in the ascension process as humanity's awakening accelerated and brought to the surface more of the issues hidden away in the closet. 

The light has been shining incrementally brighter on humanity's shadow side. One example: the divisive US elections in 2016 unveiled a plethora of deeply-rooted hate. As this energy emerged from the shadows and played out, very old wounds resurfaced.

As we begin 2017, wounds need mending and the shadow elements now in the light must be addressed. For all of us, no matter where we live, this is an opportunity to reflect on our own shadow elements that prevent us from being as loving and kind as we want to be. Everyone has these; it's not just the crazy world showing us its shadow.

Your Personal Relationships

For your personal relationships, the Rooster Year energies will be catalyzing deeper levels of unresolved issues. That includes things you already know about, and perhaps also "new" issues arising because of past life patterns in your DNA. It's common in these times to have unresolved past life themes surface in current relationships. When they show up, they can seem new, but in fact they are ancient. 

Yin Fire Rooster Year & Relationships

It will be a Yin Fire Rooster Year, carrying potentials for nervous tensions and explosive dynamics as well as innovative solutions and rebirths. 

Relationship mastery in such a year can mean a huge new beginning with your partner - almost like rewriting the script you came together with. However your relationship was before, it can evolve into a more enlightened dynamic. 

Tip: it's highly recommended that you explore and heal whatever comes up with your partner this year. Do this even if you are on the verge of a break up. The goal should be to complete the learning from this relationship and bring it to a more enlightened state. Then, if you still want to end things, you can do so in the highest way - without redos and without needing to again encounter that person or someone like him or her to finish the lesson.

Understanding the DNA Level

Here's a way to better understand the DNA level of your current relationships.

I recommend a long view of your relationships. You are on a path of accelerated awakening. Most likely you aren't the same being now that you were a few years back. With each stage of you spiritual growth, you are able to access new levels of awareness. It's like your energy container is larger. 

This means that as you enter a new level of awareness, you as a soul are more able to address your hidden parts that need healing. They were there all along, but they don't surface all at once. Therefore, when you enter a new cycle, issues you didn't even know you had can get triggered. 

Consider that the person you are having a squabble with has been with you in other key lifetimes, and that there is an important reason for him or her showing up again now. In my DNA intuitive healing work with clients, I see such connections often. To heal what's going on now, it helps to connect the dots with the past and get the big picture. Resolution in the present also happens when we can see and clear past life situations still in the DNA. These must be healed in the DNA at their past life root level in order to change the present. I'm grateful for the ability to do this work and help in this way.

Tips for Mending Wounds, Finding Harmony

Start with You
Improve your relationships with others by being a better friend to yourself. Don't be stingy. You deserve your own love and care. Ever told yourself you would go to the ends of the Earth to help someone you love? Would you do the same for yourself?

Decide now that you will initiate and maintain a healthy level of self-care in 2017. Your self-love in action - through improved self-care - changes how you feel about being alive and allows you to be a helpful force in the world. 

RX for Relationships with Others 
Look beyond surface appearances and be willing to go to a deeper place to explore obstacles and find solutions. If some issue continues to reappear, think of it as a gift of awareness, showing you that there is a deeper level to investigate. 

The energies of 2017 will support your deeper look at relationships. Don't be surprised if on some days you feel dissatisfied with how things are in a key relationship. This could lead to a rethinking of situations you regret. Do your best to let go of the past. You can't change what happened that soured your relationship. You can, however, consciously choose to learn from it and be more loving going forward.

Good relationships don't just happen. They are consciously energized into being and tended regularly to remain alive and thriving.

When you love yourself or someone else, you allow space. This includes moments of relaxation and quiet, allowing for the processing of conversations, thoughts, and emotions. A relationship is not a race - give things time. 

Seeing Humanity Through Spirit's Eyes
As you interact with the outside world and observe the dark side of humanity, factor in the big picture. Look for the light in others and find more peace living in this world. No one is all bad. At the core of all beings is light and the potential for enlightenment. 

Trust that wake up calls are going to all of humanity in these moments. This includes those who have amnesia about their own light. These people are unconscious to their true selves or they would not do what they are doing. Forgive them for their ignorance. 

Know that the universe has a way of energetically balancing the scales. Even the most hateful dictators will at some time in the future respond to spirit's wake up call. Hold the space for them to do this, trusting that goodness does prevail. 

Be among those who choose love and kindness, each and every day. Do not allow the negativity of the world to extinguish your experience of hope. Remember that at the core of your being, you are hopeful and filled with light. Allow that light to guide you forward.

Decide now to actively commit yourself to your divine changemaker path in 2017. Invite spirit to show you what this means on a daily basis. Ask to be directed to the people, causes, courses, inner work, and situations that help you to fulfill your role.