For the last few years, "The Operator" has provided predictions for us. Today, she is reflecting back on her 2021 forecasts, and thinking about 2022. Here's The Operator:
So, did 2021 happen or not?
It was 2021: The Year We (Try to) Do It. How did we do?
Mainly, what happened was that we discovered there was more to do than we thought.
I'd like to say that we're on the way out of the disaster that has been the coronavirus pandemic, but I wouldn't be telling the truth. While we may indeed be reaching the end of the destructuring caused specifically by the virus -- I haven't been able to read the timeline on this -- we have much more destructuring yet to do. Humanity is evolving, and we're still in the destruction phase. My read is that, so far, we've accomplished only 50% of the destruction required. In other words, if the virus doesn't keep tearing us down, something else will. If the virus runs out of steam before we've dismantled enough of our social and economic systems, some other catastrophic influence will arise.
Our previous beliefs keep being stripped away, gradually. Release each one as it seems ready to be let go. How have you been doing with that? If you're suffering, there's a belief to let go of. Maybe things aren't the way you always thought they were. Or, more accurately, maybe they aren't that way anymore.
In any area of your life where you're frustrated because things just won't work and just won't move forward, consider the possibility that you're not supposed to be doing those things anymore. That's the box you need to think outside of. Let go of your commitment to that box.
The good news is that the vacuum left by broken systems is the perfect environment for desires to grow stronger. Consider a domestic partnership coming apart: You could be devastated by the loss of the relationship, but what it leaves you with is space to consider what you, personally, desire for yourself. Your desires matter more when you don't have to focus on maintaining that relationship. You believed that the structure of the relationship would continue forward into the future, and now it won't. The loss makes you suffer, but when you can let go of your prior belief about your future, you stop suffering and start asking, "Okay, so, what do I want?"
It's a cycle that repeats: Loss of structure -- broken belief -- suffering -- release of belief -- what do I want? -- loss of the next structure -- etc. The only part you can influence is the transition from suffering to releasing the belief. There's no need to rush it, but do let yourself move along in the process when you can.
So, let's let the structures go. This can happen smoothly, if we don't fight it.
Along the lines of destructuring, I feel sad to report that I see movements toward secession on the horizon in the USA. I see this disturbance most in Arizona and Oregon. It appears not to be determined yet whether secession will be completed this year, or ever. I do see a lot of pain in the process of its consideration.
As I said, the more our structures crack, the more power our desires will have. At this time, humanitarian action is becoming more fashionable than greedy action. We've long had structures that favor greed, so who minds if these are broken? There's a much larger desire for goodness and oneness simmering in the collective, and this desire will gain power as the old structures come apart.
I see us still on the path toward universal health care in the USA. I wish the transition would come sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, the system that exists will have to break down more before the movement toward universal health care gains footing. The overload of emergency rooms we're experiencing now is only one stage in the system failure.
The good news is that the collapse of the current system means room will be made for kinder methods of health care to gain power. Our country has rejected ancient health care traditions for too long. What I see is that medical care will become more scarce for those who are functioning okay and be readily available only for the sickest of the sick. This will be good, in a way, because our modern medical system doesn't have enough to offer to people who are functioning okay, anyway. I don't see how the system will be restructured, but I know that by 2026 American health care will have lost the feeling of being run by profiteers. This will be a welcome shift, for sure.
We aren't finished with the previous President, obviously, but his influence keeps waning. We've been doing well in that area of our evolution. Although we're still only about 84% finished with him, we've continued unwaveringly in the right direction for over a year now.
The area of our lives that still needs the most restructuring is our daily time schedules. I feel sad to see that the call to restructure this part of our lives has been going largely unheeded. There are people making choices to renovate the ways in which they as individuals live, but there hasn't been much progress in changing the standards of how most people use their time. I expect that when I write this column next year, that area of our lives will feel like even more of a mess. We hear words now about "worker shortage" and "the great resignation" and "the great renegotiation" and calls for subsidized child care. Unfortunately, the idea that some people have children because they want to take care of them, have homes because they want to live in them, and have brains because they want to use them doesn't seem to have broken through in mainstream thought yet. We'll get there, but I don't expect these thoughts to be considered important and valid in the mainstream until 2024, at the earliest. The USA still thinks the only valuable activity is one which draws a paycheck, and I don't see this attitude changing soon.
So, how will this year feel for you? Right now, I expect that you're tired and confused. By tired, I mean mentally tired. If you're not mentally tired, then you've done a fabulous job of letting go of beliefs as they've been challenged! Good for you. I'm happy to report that the current feeling of lostness will last only until Valentine's Day. I recommend you stay calm and don't take any dramatic actions between now and then. It's as though we're in a break between sets at the gym. Just rest a minute.
After Valentine's Day, you'll start becoming aware of things you're angry about. Believe it or not, this will feel good. It will feel good, that is, if you don't have anger-phobia. If you're someone who believes that anger is felt only by bad people, I recommend that you spend the time between now and Valentine's Day educating yourself more about anger. Anger is coming. What will feel good is that it will give a shape to the vague feelings you have now that you don't understand.
I don't mean rage is coming. The riot at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, was an example of rage in action. I mean that a more sane, productive sort of anger is coming. It will happen quietly, inside individuals. It will feel like a realization that something you've considered a basic part of life just isn't okay with you, after all. I would love to hear people tell of their realizations when this time comes.
So, after Valentine's Day, life will become more uncomfortable. I feel sorry to report that the summer of 2022 won't have a joyful feeling but more that of a chronic, low-level irritation. We'll be wondering: Why are we still fussing over the same things? Why doesn't anything ever seem to change in a meaningful way? When are we going to move forward?
These feelings will build until the last week in August, and then -- what? I see an open void there. The time from August to December is a void that tells me it's ruled by Free Will. I can't read what's there, because it isn't written yet. I presume it will be our chance to decide how we want the future to look, but I'm only guessing.
What I can see is that in the middle of December, we'll enter a new phase. More than 60% of the population will have accepted that we're never going back to normal. Currently, only about 20% of people realize this. It will feel better once a majority of the population has accepted this, because then new ideas will be able to take hold.
My name for this year is 2022: The Year We Realize We Cannot Do It. This is the year we stop thinking we can fix our systems and we accept that we need new ones. Most of us will do this, I mean. Forty percent of us will still be trying to fix the old ways as we head into 2023. I don't know what to say to help those people.
If you continue to let go of old beliefs whenever they aren't useful anymore, learn to feel okay about anger and not judge it as something bad in yourself and others, and keep yourself from fearing the insecurity of change, I think 2022 can be a pleasant time for you. It can be kind of fun to watch things fall apart. Simultaneously, you'll be developing a stronger sense of who you are as an individual, and that's fun, too.
Keep loving other people and loving yourself. There's nothing to fear. You're still the strong person inside that you've always known yourself to be.
The Operator
(505) 321-1256
So, did 2021 happen or not?
It was 2021: The Year We (Try to) Do It. How did we do?
Mainly, what happened was that we discovered there was more to do than we thought.
I'd like to say that we're on the way out of the disaster that has been the coronavirus pandemic, but I wouldn't be telling the truth. While we may indeed be reaching the end of the destructuring caused specifically by the virus -- I haven't been able to read the timeline on this -- we have much more destructuring yet to do. Humanity is evolving, and we're still in the destruction phase. My read is that, so far, we've accomplished only 50% of the destruction required. In other words, if the virus doesn't keep tearing us down, something else will. If the virus runs out of steam before we've dismantled enough of our social and economic systems, some other catastrophic influence will arise.
Our previous beliefs keep being stripped away, gradually. Release each one as it seems ready to be let go. How have you been doing with that? If you're suffering, there's a belief to let go of. Maybe things aren't the way you always thought they were. Or, more accurately, maybe they aren't that way anymore.
In any area of your life where you're frustrated because things just won't work and just won't move forward, consider the possibility that you're not supposed to be doing those things anymore. That's the box you need to think outside of. Let go of your commitment to that box.
The good news is that the vacuum left by broken systems is the perfect environment for desires to grow stronger. Consider a domestic partnership coming apart: You could be devastated by the loss of the relationship, but what it leaves you with is space to consider what you, personally, desire for yourself. Your desires matter more when you don't have to focus on maintaining that relationship. You believed that the structure of the relationship would continue forward into the future, and now it won't. The loss makes you suffer, but when you can let go of your prior belief about your future, you stop suffering and start asking, "Okay, so, what do I want?"
It's a cycle that repeats: Loss of structure -- broken belief -- suffering -- release of belief -- what do I want? -- loss of the next structure -- etc. The only part you can influence is the transition from suffering to releasing the belief. There's no need to rush it, but do let yourself move along in the process when you can.
So, let's let the structures go. This can happen smoothly, if we don't fight it.
Along the lines of destructuring, I feel sad to report that I see movements toward secession on the horizon in the USA. I see this disturbance most in Arizona and Oregon. It appears not to be determined yet whether secession will be completed this year, or ever. I do see a lot of pain in the process of its consideration.
As I said, the more our structures crack, the more power our desires will have. At this time, humanitarian action is becoming more fashionable than greedy action. We've long had structures that favor greed, so who minds if these are broken? There's a much larger desire for goodness and oneness simmering in the collective, and this desire will gain power as the old structures come apart.
I see us still on the path toward universal health care in the USA. I wish the transition would come sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, the system that exists will have to break down more before the movement toward universal health care gains footing. The overload of emergency rooms we're experiencing now is only one stage in the system failure.
The good news is that the collapse of the current system means room will be made for kinder methods of health care to gain power. Our country has rejected ancient health care traditions for too long. What I see is that medical care will become more scarce for those who are functioning okay and be readily available only for the sickest of the sick. This will be good, in a way, because our modern medical system doesn't have enough to offer to people who are functioning okay, anyway. I don't see how the system will be restructured, but I know that by 2026 American health care will have lost the feeling of being run by profiteers. This will be a welcome shift, for sure.
We aren't finished with the previous President, obviously, but his influence keeps waning. We've been doing well in that area of our evolution. Although we're still only about 84% finished with him, we've continued unwaveringly in the right direction for over a year now.
The area of our lives that still needs the most restructuring is our daily time schedules. I feel sad to see that the call to restructure this part of our lives has been going largely unheeded. There are people making choices to renovate the ways in which they as individuals live, but there hasn't been much progress in changing the standards of how most people use their time. I expect that when I write this column next year, that area of our lives will feel like even more of a mess. We hear words now about "worker shortage" and "the great resignation" and "the great renegotiation" and calls for subsidized child care. Unfortunately, the idea that some people have children because they want to take care of them, have homes because they want to live in them, and have brains because they want to use them doesn't seem to have broken through in mainstream thought yet. We'll get there, but I don't expect these thoughts to be considered important and valid in the mainstream until 2024, at the earliest. The USA still thinks the only valuable activity is one which draws a paycheck, and I don't see this attitude changing soon.
So, how will this year feel for you? Right now, I expect that you're tired and confused. By tired, I mean mentally tired. If you're not mentally tired, then you've done a fabulous job of letting go of beliefs as they've been challenged! Good for you. I'm happy to report that the current feeling of lostness will last only until Valentine's Day. I recommend you stay calm and don't take any dramatic actions between now and then. It's as though we're in a break between sets at the gym. Just rest a minute.
After Valentine's Day, you'll start becoming aware of things you're angry about. Believe it or not, this will feel good. It will feel good, that is, if you don't have anger-phobia. If you're someone who believes that anger is felt only by bad people, I recommend that you spend the time between now and Valentine's Day educating yourself more about anger. Anger is coming. What will feel good is that it will give a shape to the vague feelings you have now that you don't understand.
I don't mean rage is coming. The riot at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, was an example of rage in action. I mean that a more sane, productive sort of anger is coming. It will happen quietly, inside individuals. It will feel like a realization that something you've considered a basic part of life just isn't okay with you, after all. I would love to hear people tell of their realizations when this time comes.
So, after Valentine's Day, life will become more uncomfortable. I feel sorry to report that the summer of 2022 won't have a joyful feeling but more that of a chronic, low-level irritation. We'll be wondering: Why are we still fussing over the same things? Why doesn't anything ever seem to change in a meaningful way? When are we going to move forward?
These feelings will build until the last week in August, and then -- what? I see an open void there. The time from August to December is a void that tells me it's ruled by Free Will. I can't read what's there, because it isn't written yet. I presume it will be our chance to decide how we want the future to look, but I'm only guessing.
What I can see is that in the middle of December, we'll enter a new phase. More than 60% of the population will have accepted that we're never going back to normal. Currently, only about 20% of people realize this. It will feel better once a majority of the population has accepted this, because then new ideas will be able to take hold.
My name for this year is 2022: The Year We Realize We Cannot Do It. This is the year we stop thinking we can fix our systems and we accept that we need new ones. Most of us will do this, I mean. Forty percent of us will still be trying to fix the old ways as we head into 2023. I don't know what to say to help those people.
If you continue to let go of old beliefs whenever they aren't useful anymore, learn to feel okay about anger and not judge it as something bad in yourself and others, and keep yourself from fearing the insecurity of change, I think 2022 can be a pleasant time for you. It can be kind of fun to watch things fall apart. Simultaneously, you'll be developing a stronger sense of who you are as an individual, and that's fun, too.
Keep loving other people and loving yourself. There's nothing to fear. You're still the strong person inside that you've always known yourself to be.
The Operator
(505) 321-1256
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