A shocking beginning to my year

Yesterday, January 1, 2018, began wonderfully. I had a great quiet morning time, meditation, and had written the blog I sent out. For the past ten or so years, it has become a tradition to get together with my sister on New Year’s Day. We were preparing to do this and I took a few things to the car. When I returned to the house, my lower back hurt in a way I had never felt before. The pain was sharp and intense.

We debated whether or not we should still go. I had no idea what I had done physically or metaphysically to cause this since I hadn’t lifted anything heavy or done anything else that could cause what I was feeling. We decided to go anyway, hoping the pain would work itself out.

What a miserable time I had. The pain got worse, not better, and sometimes when I tried to walk, it was so sharp and intense that I almost fell. We stopped at the store on the way home and Rhonda got me a lower back body wrap that is heated in the microwave and some icy-hot pain patches and some Tylenol. She helped me into the house and I sat at our kitchen table for rest of the day, doing Reiki, praying (OK, begging for relief) and letting my back heal. By 6:00 pm, it was much better and this morning I feel almost normal again.

What the heck happened? I reminded myself that in my blog I had mentioned the Universe gives us pop quizzes and that we can’t always predict what will happen. That was certainly true for me yesterday. I did a tarot reading on the incident this morning and it was very positive, that this was actually a clearing and an ending to some pain I wasn’t even aware I had! And that ultimately, it is leading me to a major transformation.

Okay, Universe. May I request that from here on out, the clearings be a little more gentle and occur with greater grace and ease? Thank you.

I hope your New Year’s Day was less dramatic than mine.  Now on to day two of the New Year.