What are you grateful for this year?
Are you grateful for your family? For those who have stood by and supported you, cheered you on and rooted for you no matter what? Are you grateful for a fulfilling career and pursuing something you love? Are you grateful for your innate gifts or learned skill and your ability to use it? Are you grateful that you can be yourself, your true, unfiltered, unabashed, awesome self? Are you grateful that something painful is now out of your life? Are you grateful that you were able to leave a situation behind that was unhealthy or no longer served you?
Gratitude is something wonderful to practice anytime, not just around Thanksgiving. Whenever things get tough or stressful or aggravating, it's always helpful to make a gratitude list. You can write it out or even make one in your mind, but it helps elevate your mood and raises your vibration. When I started making gratitude lists, I had recently ended a long term relationship that had turned violent. I was being gaslighted and got angry as more and more levels of lying were peeled back from that relationship. Each time I made a gratitude list, I started with very specific things so I could make the list as long as possible. After a while, it got easier, and more and more things began to come into my head while I was making the list.
Spending time with family around the holidays can also be difficult, especially if you feel like you aren't measuring up to someone else's expectations. But before you sit down to the dinner table, take some time to yourself to think about how far you've come. The last two years alone have been tough for a lot of people, and with Scorpio's presence in Jupiter and the New Moon lately, you've probably had some revelations come to light. Even if you've realized that you want a new job or feel nervous about starting something new, take a moment to acknowledge that you know what you want.
No matter how small they may seem, acknowledge the accomplishments you've made in the last couple years, or even the last six months.Take a look around you and notice what you feel grateful for. If it's someone living, you can always thank them for their role in your life. Even if it's someone who hurt you, you can acknowledge how much they taught you about yourself.
And if nothing else, when someone asks you what you're grateful for this year, remember that we are all drops in the same ocean. At times we can feel separated and distant from one another, but we are far more connected than any of us realize. You are not alone in this big sea. At any given moment, you've got a million other drops around you who are there to help you, act as a shoulder to cry on, give you a leg up, or make you laugh. That's always a wonderful reason to feel grateful.