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Subject: Who's Leading Your Life? - A Course in Miracles Insights - Updates 12/12/25

December 12, 2025

Hello, My Mighty Companion,

Lately we’ve been looking at how much easier life gets when we stop trying to run everything by ourselves. The Course keeps reminding us that peace shows up the moment we stop trying to control outcomes and start letting Spirit take the lead. Every time you loosen that grip, even a little, Spirit rushes in with help you didn’t even know you needed.

This week’s message goes right to the heart of that. A Course in Miracles Lesson 135:11 tells us something that sounds wild at first: a healed mind does not plan. Now that does not mean you throw out your schedule or stop paying your bills. It means the plans you invent from fear will always wear you out. But the plan Spirit gives you will always bring you peace. When you stop forcing life to happen and start listening for what wants to happen through you, you find yourself guided in ways your ego never could have imagined.

And with the holidays coming up, this is a perfect time to practice that. You know how this season can be. Folks acting up, to-do lists growing arms and legs, old emotions coming to visit. This is the time to breathe and say, “Spirit, show me the next step.” You don’t need the whole plan. You just need the next moment of guidance. Peace comes when you stop pushing and start listening.

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The featured video for this past week was:

Why Your Life Feels Chaotic: You're Following the Wrong Plan | ACIM Lesson 135 (Part 2)

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Give the Gift of Clarity This Season

As we come to the end of the year, this is the moment to pause and see what life has been showing us. Every challenge, every pattern, every moment of growth carries guidance if we are willing to look. When we take time to get clear now, we walk into the new year lighter, stronger, and more open to peace.

2026 is going to be a doozy. Not in a negative way, but in a wake-up way. It will be a year that stirs things up so we can see where we still hold fear, control, or resistance. The more willing we are to release old defenses now, the smoother that transition will be. This is Spirit’s way of getting us ready for a higher level of trust, so we can meet what’s coming with clarity instead of confusion.

The year ahead will ask for greater awareness and a deeper willingness to stay centered in love. That is not something to fear; it is something to prepare for. This is the time to clear old thoughts, release defenses, and step into a higher level of trust.

If you have been thinking about scheduling a personal session, now is the time. And this season, consider giving that same opportunity to someone you love. A clarity session or an astrology and numerology reading can be a meaningful and healing gift — one that brings peace instead of pressure, and understanding instead of more stuff.

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Thank you for walking this journey with me.

You Don’t Need a Better Plan. You Need a Better Guide.

Lesson 135:11 gives us one of the Course’s most practical and transformational teachings about why our lives become chaotic when we depend on our own planning. This paragraph describes exactly how the healed mind approaches guidance, action, and peace — and why following Spirit instead of the ego changes everything. The opening line summarizes the whole shift:

"A healed mind does not plan."

If your life feels stressful or chaotic, it’s not because you need a better plan. It’s because you’re letting the ego guide you. The ego plans from fear, from lack, and from the belief that you are on your own. That’s why ego-based plans feel heavy and pressured.

The Course says a healed mind does not plan because a healed mind listens. Instead of trying to control the future, it follows guidance that comes from peace rather than fear.

"It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own."

Spirit is not asking you to drift without direction. Spirit is asking you to stop inventing the plan and start receiving the one that’s already designed for your happiness.

If you were hired to build a house, you wouldn’t show up and guess. You’d follow the architect’s blueprint because the architect sees the whole structure. You don’t.

Spirit is your architect. Spirit sees the entire blueprint of your healing and happiness. Your job is not to design the plan. Your job is to follow the instructions you’re given. When you feel supported and clear, you’re following Spirit. When you feel pressured and unsure, you’re following the ego.

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🌕 Astrological Insight: Slowing to Receive

This week’s energy supports everything we’ve been working with in Lesson 135 about letting go of self-planning and opening to guidance. Mercury re-enters Sagittarius, and that brings a lighter, more spacious mental atmosphere. When Mercury moves into this sign, the mind stops gripping the details so tightly. It becomes easier to zoom out, question old assumptions, and remember that Spirit always has a wider view than the one we’re trying to manage by ourselves.

Around December 14, the Mars–Neptune tension can bring a foggy kind of confusion. You may feel motivated one minute and uncertain the next. Instead of taking that as a problem, take it as a pause. The Course tells us we don’t perceive our own best interests, and this kind of astral fog is often the way Spirit slows us down so we don’t sprint off in the wrong direction. When things feel unclear, that’s the moment to stop and say, “Guide me. I’m willing to be shown.”

Then on December 15, Mars enters Capricorn, and the energy shifts in a noticeable way. Capricorn grounds Mars. It gives focus, structure, and a sense of “I know the next step because peace is pointing to it.” This isn’t pushy, anxious action. This is aligned action. This is the kind of movement that actually gets somewhere because it isn’t coming from fear, pressure, or personal planning. It’s coming from guidance.

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