2022 Energy Report

Dana Mrkich
Jan 6, 2022
21 min read

Happy New Year! The 2022 Energy Report is 17 pages so get yourself your beverage of choice and settle in! You might also like to have your journal handy or notepad for the journalling prompts.

This year has a very different feel to the last two. From March 2020-March 2023 we are in an intense 3 year window of major social transformation, mass awakening and a dramatic choice point/turning point for humanity. Each year has triggered and activated more and more people to wake up: personally and collectively, socially and globally, on every possible inner and outer level. Each year’s awakening wave has been bigger than the last, with 2022 set to bring on the biggest of all.

Before we get into the three waves, a quick recap on what March 2020-March 2023 is all about:

Saturn in Aquarius

Saturn in Aquarius is manifesting in a couple of different ways. Saturn is the Father, and can come across as controlling, dominating and restrictive. On a healthier note it also represents growing up, taking personal responsibility, and stepping into greater spiritual adulthood. Aquarius represents humanity, community collaborations and freedom. It also represents technology, computers and things like AI – Artificial Intelligence.

If we look at March 2020-March 2023 as a choice point between two very different future timelines, we can see the preview that Saturn in Aquarius is giving us: on the one hand we have extreme government control, with our every move tracked, traced and restricted. Today it’s QR code check ins and v mandates, but in the dystopian Shadow Edition of Saturn in Aquarius there is so much further we can go. Maybe it’s your bank card getting disconnected because you didn’t pay a fine, or you bought too much food above your weekly climate quota, or you had one more child than allowed. It all sounds so crazy yet yesterday’s conspiracy theories are all today’s news headlines.

A Swedish tech start up has invented a microchip that can be implanted under your skin to store information like your v passport and bank account payment details. The organic human then starts morphing into something else, something that is now connected to a greater, artificial machine. If your phone or computer can be hacked, why not a human with a chip? If a phone or computer can have information downloaded into it, why not a human? It’s all possible, and it’s all there on Timeline New World Order, aka Saturn in Aquarius, the Shadow Edition. If trans-humanism is what someone genuinely chooses, and would love to experience, then good for them. That is their choice. However, what if ones ‘choice’ is actually not ‘choice’ at all, but a result of coercion, blackmail, threat of loss of livelihood, inability to feed ones family or permanent separation from family? People have ridiculed those fighting against mandates saying ‘they have a choice, no-one is forcing them’, but there is some serious gaslighting going on here with this word ‘choice’. Before we go further down this timeline we might want to assess how we feel about the preview so far.

This isn’t about spreading fear. This dystopian reality is not destined for humanity or Earth. However it is important to realise that even though it is not destined, it most definitely was planned, and now we’ve had to live through the preview of this plan just so that we can see what was planned. If we didn’t see it, many still wouldn’t have been awake to what’s really been going on for so many years/decades/centuries/millennia, and we have to fully awaken as part of our transition to the next cycle.

We are all receiving a test: where is your line in the sand when it comes to personal freedom and the greater freedom of humanity vs totalitarian control? At what point do you say, enough? Everyone is having their own personal line in the sand moment, and these moments are ultimately part of our initiation into our next phase of spiritual adulthood and true freedom, personally and collectively.

This brings us to the other version of Saturn in Aquarius: the Great Awakening Edition. Here, Saturn asks us to put on our big girl and big boy pants and step up. Step up into our power. Step up with our voices and choices. Step up with our truth. Saturn asks us to stop needing external authority to tell us what to do or dictate what is right, and to instead tap into our inner author-ity (author of our own life), and response-ability. It is time for us to step into our spiritual adulthood and be led by our own inner compass of morals, values, integrity and discernment.

In the Great Awakening Edition, Aquarius is all about freedom, communities working together in a heart-centred way (as opposed to externally directed/controlled), and humanity entering a new phase of our organic evolution. New homeschool co-operatives are popping up everywhere, led by teachers who are no longer welcome in the old system, and parents who are done with it. Families are moving out of cities, wanting a treechange or seachange, having got a taste of a slower-paced life, with the ability to work remotely, and eager to connect with close-knit, like minded communities. In this Age of Aquarius, (a 2000 year cycle which many astrologers believe started in Dec 2020 with the Great Conjunction of Jupiter/Saturn in Aquarius), unity and community is what it’s all about.

The 3 year Saturn in Aquarius influence comes around every 28-30 years, so this isn’t a new thing. However what is new is that this time around it co-incides with:

The end of one Age - the 2000 year long Age of Pisces – and the start of another, the 2000 year long (approx.) Age of Aquarius.
The end of a Mayan great cycle - the 5125 year long count, which is 3114BC to 2012 AD – and the start of another.
The end of a Mayan grand cycle of almost 26, 0000 years - 23, 618BC – 2012AD - 5 x great cycles = 1 grand cycle.

What does 2012AD have to do with 2020-2021?

If you go by the ancient calendar, Dec 21, 2012 actually fell on Aug 27, 2020.

The end of an Age, and the end of Great Cycles, typically herald huge social, cultural and paradigm shifts for humanity. The end of a Grand Cycle is like the pinnacle of Shifts, and could really quantum leap us into something that is impossible for us to foresee or perceive from our current level of consciousness.

To understand current events, know that we are in a transition point between not only one Age to another, or one Great Cycle to another, but we are getting the whole shebang as we Shift from one Grand Cycle to the next. It is a full circle closure moment of sorts. If an Age is a chapter in our book of humanity, and a Great Cycle is a book in a series, the Grand Cycle completes the series. We are on the cusp of a new chapter, in a new book, in a whole new series.

Those who have had control over the last great cycle, and indeed possibly the whole of the last grand cycle, want another crack at the wheel. BUT…it’s not its turn anymore. It is the turn of humanity to regain our freedom and sovereignty. It is the turn of the awakening timeline. The control timeline is giving everything it’s got to have another go of the wheel, but the thing about destiny is, you can’t stop it. In fact, whatever you do to try to stop it only seems to bring it about faster. And humanity’s destiny is to be free this next cycle. So here we are, in this crazy climactic point as we transition out of the collapsing old, into the unknown new.

Awakening Adoption Curve

In marketing terms, there are 5 different kinds of people when it comes to trying new things. At the start you have your innovators and early adopters. In the image above they are described as tech enthusiasts and visionaries, although for this analogy let’s replace the word tech with “truth.” In Great Awakening terms, these would be the people who have been ‘awake’ or aware for years if not decades. In the context of this energy report, ‘awake’ refers to ‘awake to the truth of our world’ rather than ‘awake-lite/light’ which is being awake to the spiritual aspects of life while ignoring/avoiding/not being aware of the whole reality show.

The innovators and early adopters received the equivalent of a group text message around March 2020 which basically said: “The shift is here. It is being triggered by the trojan horse that is covid and its associated global control restrictions/control of the new cycle agenda.”

The decades-long (millennia-long) control agenda was meant to re-route/cancel the great awakening with this final climactic trojan horse event, but in the funniest twist it has actually ended up triggering the awakening in a bigger way than all previous years of spiritual books/workshops/retreats/videos/courses combined. It feels like they had to press fast-forward on something that was meant to unroll at a slower pace, and in doing so press conferences and news headlines now increasingly resemble some sort of comedic satire.

The non-sensical narrative and relentless push to steer everyone down one and only train of thought ultimately resulted in awakening the next wave of peeps, who came in strong during 2021: the Early Majority. These are the pragmatists who initially perhaps gave the authorities the benefit of the doubt thinking ‘Let’s see how this goes. Maybe they really are trying to do their best.” However as time went on, and more and more things just didn’t add up, make sense, or were contradictory, as more and more doctors, virologists, epidemiologists and immunologists were thrown off social media and de-registered for asking questions, as treatments were banned and new still-in-trials v’s were mandated in almost every arena by bureaucrats and business owners who have no background in medicine or health, this next wave started having their “Hang on a minute” moments. By the end of 2021 millions within the Early Majority group had joined the 2020 group, literally marching the streets of every major city and regional town, all over the world, united in a call for freedom and truth.

In 2022 we’ll see more of the Early Majority join in, and maybe even some of the Late Majority if their personal circumstances become shocking or extreme enough. This group, known as conservatives, (not to be confused with political Conservatives), find it very hard to accept a reality other than the one they are firmly entrenched in. If they admit, for example, that politicians and certain media organisations have lied, then what does that mean for their entire belief structure? It takes a lot, and sometimes can be too much, to mentally and emotionally accept and process that the world is very different to how they thought it was. So some within these last groups, the conservatives and the sceptics, may not choose in this lifetime to ‘see’ or to awaken in the way that we are defining awakening.

Clinical Psychologist Mattias Desmet is an expert in Mass Formation Psychosis: the process that happens when a society is being ushered into totalitarianism. (Link to video interview below) He has given some great interviews to help people understand why people so willingly give up their freedoms. He describes the process as a kind of hypnosis that around 30% of people go into. Another 30% are not susceptible to it, for reasons scientifically unknown. The middle 40% tend to go along with the majority, and so it’s important for the awake 30% to keep holding the line so to speak, creating the opportunity for more and more of that 40% to join them.

Looking at the above graph, using Mattias’s percentages, we could guesstimate that the majority of the 30% are in those initial groups of the innovators and early adopters. These are the starseeds who came into this life ready for this exact moment, ready to help people over the bridge into the new world. The rest of the 30% along with some of the middle 40% are the Early Majority, while the Late Majority contains the straggling remainder of the 40% along with some of the ones in that final 30% group still under full hypnosis. The Laggards/Sceptics complete that latter group.

The mainstream media is giving a false impression that there is a very small minority questioning the narrative. They stir up division with almost every story. However, the numbers out on the streets at all the freedom rallies worldwide, and the comments sections of popular news sites, articles and you tube videos, tell a different story. Add to that the rule of thumb that for every person at a protest, there are 10 at home who would have liked to have been there or are there in spirit/agree with the viewpoints being expressed. If you take a look at the ratings for many of the ‘leading’ news shows in your country you will likely find that their viewership numbers are at their lowest point ever, and are being surpassed by the likes of Joe Rogan’s podcasts and other alternative media.

A lot of people are waiting for the truth to finally come out on mainstream media. Even if they lost faith in the mainstream media long ago, it is still the ultimate symbol of confirmation that a news story has hit the masses. The issue however is, the mainstream media is holding up the old world, and is owned by the old world. We are still waiting on mainstream news shows, with declining viewer numbers, to validate what we know, meanwhile independent news media with skyrocketing viewer numbers that far surpass the likes of CNN and BBC, are getting on with interviewing Dr Peter McCullough and Dr Robert Malone (links below). We’ve finally met the nice guy who values us and treats us with respect, (independent media sources) yet we’re still wanting to hear “I love you” from the bad boyfriend who cheated on us (mainstream news)!

2022 is hopefully the year that more people not only switch off from the mainstream news, but realise that most people have already switched off. We want ‘the truth’ to be on the mainstream so that the masses see it and hear it, but actually mainstream news has started its process of collapse.

The Joe Rogan Podcast is averaging 11 million listeners per Spotify episode,

and 200 million listeners monthly.

The Sun, and the Light

The Sun is gearing up with its Solar Maximum cycle, forecast to peak between end 2024-early 2026. The Sun in 2022 feels like it will be speaking to us in bigger ways than you may have perceived before.

At the start of the energy report I mentioned that 2022 feels to have a very different energy than 2020-2021 in this current 3 year cycle. 2022 feels super-charged with Solar/Soular Energy, activating us in positive, empowering ways. For so long, many on the path of awakening have had to ‘clear our stuff’, and go through dark nights of the soul, heal our wounds and integrate our shadow. The collective started to go through all of that en-masse at the start of 2020. While the majority of the collective will still be doing that in 2022, there feels to be a huge surge of energy propelling the first wave further forward, with a palpable feeling that we have finally ‘broken through the clouds’ as a critical mass. That is, a big enough number will have awakened/become aware, to start having a tangible ripple affect across the globe.

This doesn’t mean that we will finally have 70% or 80% of us awake and aware. We don’t need to. Up until recently, the energy of the ‘cloud’, (the old energy) has been the dominant force. Even in our awakened states it has still occupied the bulk of our attention and focus over the last couple of years. The elite/control agenda energy managed to be the dominant force for decades/centuries/millenia with only 1% as their number. So our critical mass tipping point of those fully standing in the Light, and embodying it, and acting upon it, going by that, might also only need to be 1% or 1.5% or 2%.

I don’t know the number or the percentage,

but having “Majority” power isn’t about having the most amount of people.

It’s about having the most amount of influential energy.

In 2022, our group text message says something like: “We are the Children of the Sun. Our Light is the greater Force. Our Light is the greater Frequency. Truth overrides Illusion. Love, Light and Truth are the stronger energies, and this is now what we will focus on.”

Imagine that we are all connected by golden light. We have all been strategically placed all over the planet in certain locations. Know that wherever you have been based for the last couple of years, and wherever you are now, there is a reason for that. As more of us ‘switch on’, this light grid gets stronger and stronger. 2022 feels like the year where this light grid becomes the stronger force on this planet. This year will call more truth-speakers and light warriors to action, while activating others to question things or finally draw lines in the sand about what we will and won’t accept.

Make a conscious effort every day to feel the Sun on your skin. Have you ever felt unwell physically, mentally or emotionally and then sat outside and felt the sun’s rays pouring onto you, and then felt so much better?

Use the Sun in a more conscious way in 2022 and ask:

what messages do you have for me today?

Venus Retrograde

Venus is on her Retrograde journey from Dec 19, 2021 – Jan 29, 2022. The first month of 2022 asks us to ease into the year gently with a focus on self-care and self-love. As Venus starts going direct from February 1 this is when we’ll feel more of the real new year energy, (Chinese New Year also happens to fall on Feb 1 this year) with regards to feeling ready to move forward.

For almost 2 years we’ve been told to ‘stay home’, all the while being bombarded by a tonne of external noise. Venus invites us to go home – within. To connect with your inner sanctuary space of peace and quiet, of calm, beauty and harmony, allowing external noise to fall away.

Do you have a daily practice that helps you to feel calmer and clearer?
What makes you feel uplifted and energised?
What fills your creativity and joy cup?

With our busy lives, unless something is written down and scheduled it tends not to happen.

Write a list a few things that you would like to include as your daily self-care/spiritual/mental health/emotional wellbeing practices. It might be a daily healthy smoothie, morning walk, 10 minute meditation or gratitude journaling. If you’ve never had any of the things on your list as a daily habit just start with one thing at first. Once it is ingrained as a habit and becomes as natural to your routine as brushing your teeth, then add something else.

Write another list of things that you would really like to spend more time doing: eg reading, gardening, engaging with a certain hobby or creative project, cooking, baking, learning guitar or a new language, whatever feels good to you. These are usually things that we’ve been meaning to do for ages ‘when we have time’ but never get around to doing them. Choose something on your list, and make it easy for you to actually do it. Buy the wool for the jumper you’ve been saying you’re going to knit ‘one day’. Set an alarm on your phone for a certain time each evening that says “Put the phone down, time to read a book/pick up the guitar/etc”. When we’re stuck in old patterns we kind of need this forced prompt to get us doing something new. However if the new thing is genuinely something you enjoy doing, eventually it will become your automatic go-to rather than the old thing.

It’s quite apt that we start the year with this focus on inner self-care, harmony and balance because the Numerology of 2022 is all about that!

2022: Numerology

2022 with its emphasis on 2’s speaks of harmonious partnerships, union, and balance. This year will strengthen these themes - and highlight anything that is in contradiction to that.

2022 is a 6 year in numerology which represents love, the heart, emotional awareness, peace, home, family, friends, self-care and taking care of others. We’ve all come to a greater realisation and appreciation over the last couple of years regarding what’s truly important. 2022 will highlight our heart connections and the responsibility we have to nurture those connections, both within ourselves and around us. Journal Prompts: 🌺 What do you want to do more of in 2022? 🌺 What do you need to do more of? 🌺 What do you want to do less of? 🌺 What do you need to do less of? 🌺 Write a paragraph describing your ideal vision for 2022 for your personal life. 🌺 What are 3 things you can do, either as a new daily/weekly habit or action steps, to support that vision? 🌺 What is your vision for humanity and the world? 🌺 What can you do to support that vision?

Daily Alignment affirmations: Someone on the last Sanctuary Space asked if I could post the words I said leading into meditation. I use these words a lot- at the start of sessions, and also as a daily alignment practice. If they resonate please feel free to use them, or tweak to make them more personal to you: 💛 I am filled with Love, surrounded by Love, protected by Love and guided by Love 💛 I am connected to my highest Self, highest Source of truth, love and light, and to the core and Heart of Mother Earth 💛 I am aligned with my best possible self, best possible reality and best possible movement forward on all levels: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, cellular, DNA, ancestral, etheric and all the chakras Daily Gratitude ❤️ I also recommend a daily gratitude practice where you say thank you for a few things that you are grateful for and appreciate ❤️ You can also include things that may not yet be in your life but you’d like them to be. Word it in the present eg If you’re looking for new work, say: Thank you for my work that I love where I help people everyday! ❤️ You can also say thank you for feelings you have or want to feel eg, Thank you for all the love, joy, happiness, peace, good health and abundance in my life

Chinese New Year of the Water Tiger

February 1, 2022 starts the Chinese New Year of the Water Tiger. The Tiger is bold, courageous, adventurous and doesn’t mind taking a risk. The Tiger has a lot of enthusiasm for life, so hopefully this year we’ll all feel a resurgence of energy and motivation to get out there and truly live life again – and find the assertiveness to do so among all the influences telling us we can’t or shouldn’t. Tigers don’t like to be told what to do, so this year Tiger will help everyone who is ready to say “Enough. I am done with this constant micro-managing of our every movement!”

Tiger energy is creative and likes to dream big, so this year for the first time in a long time you might be asking yourself with regards to a certain big idea, dream or desire: “If not now, when? What am I waiting for? It is time to take some sort of action toward this!”

Tiger energy likes to look good and feel good, but not in a selfish way. Tigers are generous and like everyone around them to feel good too. Tigers know that if they keep their cup full, all the better for helping others keep their cups full too. Running off the back of the Venus Retrograde influence, the Tiger Year is a great year to keep asking yourself:

What makes me feel good? Do I need to do more of that?

They are family-oriented and like their relationships to be happy and healthy. This ties in really well with the 2/6 influence of 2022 numerology. You might be asking yourself this year: What is the best decision for my family when it comes to the home we live in, where we live, where my children go to school etc. Tigers, especially Tiger Mothers, are extremely protective of their tribe, and of their children. This year we will see a huge vocal uprising when it comes to the protection of children.

This is the year of the Water Tiger. Water energy at first conjures up feelings of peace, serenity and gentleness, and indeed this is for sure one of the ways that the Tiger energy can manifest. Yet water is not all still lakes and picturesque waterfalls. It can also be raging white water rapids, a deluge of torrential rain, floods, tsunamis and huge stormy waves. Water is sensitive and emotional. The year of the Water Tiger will bring all our emotions to the surface, activating gushes of creativity, expressions of feelings, and healing releases.

This is not a year to keep things in. Find positive, supportive ways to say what you need to say, ask for what you need, maintain healthy boundaries, treat yourself and others with kindness, love and respect, say yes when you want to say yes and say no when you need to say no.

USA Pluto Return

On February 22, 2022, Pluto will for the first time be on the same degree exactly that it was when the US Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. The below is from the Jan 2018 Energy Report, and is helpful to understand that the US’s Pluto Return isn’t a 1 day thing or a 1 year thing. It is an almost 20 year process, rebirthing much of what originally occurred 250 years ago over a 20 year period. While 2022 is significant, 2024-2028 will be even more so, with regards to the rebirth of true freedom.

USA Pluto Return

1773 Pluto in Capricorn 21 Degrees

Boston Tea Party protesting British Parliament’s tax on tea

Pluto returns to this degree: 2019

1775 Pluto in Capricorn 26 Degrees

American Revolutionary War begins, the 13 colonies fight for independence from the British Empire

Pluto returns to this degree: 2021

1776 Pluto in Capricorn 27 Degrees

Declaration of Independence, 13 Colonies asserting themselves as a new nation - the United States of America

Pluto returns to this degree: 2022

1778 Pluto enters Aquarius 0 Degrees

The turning point of the Revolutionary War. Up until then it was still thought that Britain could win. France joins US as allies.

Pluto returns to this degree: 2024

1783 Pluto in Aquarius 8 Degrees

The War ends, US Independence recognized.

Pluto returns to this degree: 2028

1789 Pluto in Aquarius 17 Degrees

US Constitution and Bill of Rights (first 10 Amendments) submitted

Pluto returns to this degree: 2034-2035

1791 Pluto in Aquarius 20 Degrees

US Constitution and Bill of Rights adopted

Pluto returns to this degree: 2036-37

Australia Pluto Return

With so much happening in Australia over the last couple of years in terms of our extreme restrictions including almost constant state/international border closures, and many people feeling like we’ve once again become a prison colony, I wondered recently: what was going on in Australia during July 1776? Well, guess what:

During the 1700’s almost 60,000 British convicts were transported to the US. In July 1776 as mentioned above, the Declaration of Independence was signed. A new convict solution was going to be needed. Enter Joseph Banks, who was the botanist on board James Cook’s first voyage to the land now known as Australia back in 1700. In August 1776, at the suggestion of Joseph Banks, the east coast of NSW was selected as a perfect place to found a Penal Settlement.

In 1783, the US Revolutionary War ended. US Independence was officially recognized, and one of their demands to Britain were: no more convicts. The First Fleet from Britain carrying the first convicts bound for Australia thus landed on our shores in 1788. See Pluto Return chart above for how those dates correspond to current times.

So it is no coincidence that this ‘prison island’ theme has come up again, not to mention issues regarding the treatment of our aboriginal population that have made global headlines.

Does this mean we are destined to continue relatively bound and chained during this time? No. Pluto Returns bring back the same themes, and the same energetic influences. However they call for transformation and overhaul. They call for a death/rebirth of all that has outlived its use by date, so that something more authentic and in alignment can emerge. Pluto Returns are catalysts for healing, and as Denby Sheather said in our chat the other day (link at end), now is the time for the healing of the wounds of colonisation.

Australia is going through a major transformation, and our Original Peoples are playing a large role in leading the way forward. 12 Elders did a sacred ceremony at Uluru on Dec 21, 2020, said to have opened the “Magic Box.” (Article about it at end) This “Magic Box” is said to be connected to the Pleiadians. The message passed on from generation to generation for thousands of years, was that it was to be opened at a certain time. Dec 21, 2020 was that certain time.

Opening the box was one part of it, activating the energy inside is another, which is where (allegedly) the people of Australia and then the world come in. Some say that the activation requires a certain number of us to be in a high vibration: that is, heart-centred, love-focused and unity-oriented, as opposed to being in fear, anger or division. The energy that has been opened can then be anchored all around the country, and then out to all around the world. Others say it is the aboriginal people themselves who are singing the activation in, the rest of us just need to step out of their way. Either way, having an intention to maintain a high vibration sounds like a good plan. Certainly, the energy at all the freedom rallies has been very high-vibe, heart-centred, love-focused and unity-oriented which has been wonderful to see and be a part of. If this “Original Prophecy” is true, then it makes sense why this country has been particularly targeted for 2 years when it comes to ramping up fear, depression, anger and division.

Now is the time to get up, to rise, to hold hands, to unite,

and to stay strong to the vision in your heart that knows what is destined for our Earth and Humanity:

a new beginning, a rebirth and a return to the Old Ways of the Original Peoples.

The Final Healing

All countries, all nations, all people, all individuals, have to heal their wounds.

“If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.

If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

― Gospel of Thomas

When we react to life from our wounds, from our unhealed issues with our mother or father, from our anger at being betrayed, from our fear of being persecuted, from our desire for revenge, we are at risk of acting blindly, not in the best interests of ourselves or others. When we have the courage to face and heal our wounds, address our issues, and transform our most intense emotions, we can then start to step into our spiritual warrior mode, into our spiritual adulthood, and take responsibility for our lives with our new found response-ability. That is, the ability to respond from a clear, calm, self-aware, heart-centred place.

Pluto Returns strip us down, leaving us feeling raw and exposed. They then build us back up, new and improved, on a stronger, more solid, firmer, more sustainable, more authentic and aligned foundation. As anyone who has been through a Pluto Return aka Dark Night of the Soul knows, it is a brutal process. Yet it is necessary if we are to step out of lives that we have outgrown, lives or identities that have become too comfortable or uncomfortable, too false, too out of alignment with who we really are. The ending of an Age, of a Great Cycle and of a Grand Cycle is like a Pluto Transit on steroids!

We are all in it now. The Shift of the Ages. The final healing and the great cleansing/clearing. Your life has prepared you for this moment. None of us really know where this is all going, but if the last couple of years have taught us anything it is that we need to let go of our need to plan and control the future. The bigger questions are: