It is well known that most of you have had a pretty difficult or intense year so far. January, February, March and even April have not been the most comfortable period of time in your lives so far! May is finally the time when things can make sense to you again. It is as though you catch up with yourselves beginning in the last week of April. This kind of energy will likely continue on through May and even through June. While the challenges in your life will remain and you will need to tend to the challenges in your lives, you will find that things make more sense than they have before. The solutions that you try will work better than you expected, or finally something will work where nothing has worked before. This is a time when a lot of the questions that you have in your everyday lives, as well as questions that you have about all of humanity, start to get answered. May is a time when you are likely to find a reassuring sense of your own intuition. You are likely to find evidence that things are in alignment, and even the difficulties serve a useful purpose.

What a project it turned out to be. The old paint on the kitchen cupboards was a pretty ghastly and intense color, as was another set of cabinets, but my landlord who is away in Indonesia for five years teaching “green” was more than agreeable to whatever I chose to do.

First, I had some sanding to do. Then, two and sometimes three coats of primer were needed. After that, two coats of color were needed. Then, the teal color I had chosen did not dry dark enough, looked baby blue instead, and I had to have the color altered and paint again! I began to wonder if this project would ever get done. Would I ever be able to live in a beautiful and comfortable home? Would I be able to feel “right” in this new space? Would this project ever be completed so that I could finally unpack and settle in?