It Starts With Us
Our focus this week — Nov 26-Dec 2: “Vulnerable Honesty”
Today’s MotD: It Starts With Us. While we’re encouraged to be express vulnerable honesty with others, it MUST start with us. In the 12-Step Tradition, the fourth step is all about taking a deep dive to inventory of ourselves. With today’s MotD, we’re encouraged to explore all areas of our lives in order to bring light to where we’ve been less than honest with ourselves.
We can start by asking about the status of each area of our lives. Interestingly enough, using the 12 houses in Astrology as a guide, can help us do our inventory, since it covers most just about everything.
With each house, we can ask ourselves questions like:
- What is going well in this “house” ?
- What could use more of my attention ?
- Where have I been less than truthful ?
- What do I need to be honest about here ?
- What needs to be forgiven ?
- What needs to change/improve ?
- How can I show love towards this “house” ?
Download a printable PDF version of this list
As we’re preparing for the close of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, this is an excellent time for self-exploration and self-assessment. Maybe instead of the traditional 12 days of Christmas (Dec 25-Jan 5), we could take one “house” a day for 12 days (consecutively or not) throughout the month of December…concluding before January 1, 2026. Giving us a clear starting point for creating an even better new year for ourselves.
How about you ? What about you and your life could use some vulnerable honesty ? Are you ready, willing, and able to take a deeper dive into yourself ? Would using something like the 12 houses of astrology as a guide help with your honest self-exploration and assessment ?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
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ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 