The year 2011 brought a major astrological lineup bringing change and break-ups from all that has been holding us back, or that has outgrown its purpose in our lives. How do we deal with this going forward?

The best way is to embrace the changes coming this year. As human beings, we tend to want to hold on to what is familiar and what has been working; we resist change. However, with the astrological aspects that have recently taken place, we need to be embracing the upcoming changes in 2012, as they can be exciting and rejuvenating.

If you find that people, work, situations, places where you have been comfortable for quite some time are suddenly not working for you anymore, let them go. Do not try to hold on to them, or force them to work out. If you do, the situation will get progressively worse, until it becomes unbearable and you are forced to let go.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive ~ Howard Thurman

It is much simpler and easier to let go when you first begin to get the indicators that something isn’t working in your life.    If something isn’t working now, it is because it has served its purpose. It means it is now time to embrace a new direction.

If something is meant to remain in your life, it will. If it doesn’t, know that its time has passed and you are now in a new era. Try to view this change with excitement and a sign that something better is getting ready to come in and revolutionize your life in some positive way. You have completed something and you are now ready to move on.

Remember that anxiety and excitement are different expressions of the same emotion. Excitement is the positive expression of anxiety. Both may give you that same feeling at the top of your abdomen in the area of the solar plexus. Learn to recognize which is which. Let go of the fear and embrace the excitement of new positive potentials and beginnings.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be ~ Marcel Pagnol

Regardless of who you are, you will feel this energy in some way in 2012. Some may find sudden new job opportunities, others may find a relationship breaking apart, and others may experience other types of losses or change, such as long distance relocation.

Although you could be in for a wild ride in the year ahead, just remember to release all that is leaving your life and instead embrace the new opportunities and beginnings that are coming in.

Be adaptable. Release the fear along with the old, as change is always ultimately for the best. The only thing constant in life is change. It is not to be feared, it is to be embraced.