“…you have a very realistic view of how and where you might of failed, which is not that common…”

I wrote that to a client this morning after reading her ideas about where she might have gone wrong.  It’s really hard to look at your own failings and when someone does this, it’s impressive.

Yesterday I went through a deep and ghastly process in an attempt to get at the root of why I feel blocked from virtually everything. I thought if I could identify this, I might be able to resolve it. With Pluto stationing in aspect to my natal Mercury, now is the time for me to excavate this kind of thing.
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The soldier’s thoughts on failure being predictable have proved seminal in that they have provoked my own analysis of my own thought process and what I observe around me.

As an example, we recently noticed the business of someone we know was beginning to smell as if it might be failing. The owner of the business is quite bright so it was hard for the us to believe this person could not see what was coming. It was possible but hard to imagine as probable but as days and weeks passed the scale continued to tip in the wrong the direction.
Continue reading More Thoughts On Failure (And Arrogance)