ASK ABDI: DECEMBER 21ST IS FORECAST AS A SIGNIFICANT DAY. WHAT DO YOU FORESEE?

QUESTION: December 21, 2020, is forecast as a significant day. Some forecast doomsday; others a cosmic event. What do you foresee for December 21st?

ANSWER: I have studied and followed with interest many “significant days” and “forecasts” from different cultures over my lifetime. It has taken me decades to realize that awaiting “cosmic events” or fearing “doomsday” are two sides of the same coin: the unwillingness to deal with what ails us in the moment. We need to take an honest inventory. For those of us who pay attention to such things, how many similar events have come and gone with absolutely zero change in our behavior?

We await with bated breath for a cosmic shift or doomsday because we want an external event to bring change. But that change can only come from within. If we are not moving towards it even incrementally every day of our life, we certainly will not do so wholesale because of an external event or date. We want to believe in cosmic events because we are in so much pain. And we crave doomsdays because, on some level, we want the pain to stop. But we are not helpless. Even with the dogs of fascism having gone past barking and tearing at our flesh, we still hold the freedom card. That card is facing our internal fear squarely in the face. This can start by paying attention to behaviors, people, places and things that are nourishing or poisonous to our soul. To learn to embrace the first and release the latter. Paying attention to our feelings is what will allow us to discern between the two groups.

The “perfect alignment” as well as the “doomsday" that we keep putting our serenity off for is here right at this moment. Our thinking and behavior is what determines our freedom. Attention to the internal landscape is the map. Aligning our will with that information is the key. Befriend yourself and set your heart free. This is an internal process. The outer life will in due course have no choice but to reflect the inner.

The events that can help hinder or free us on December 21st are here right now. And now... And now...