Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung
Your Year of Testing the Walls. This is the year you discover which of your beloved rules were scaffolding and which were the actual building, and the difference turns out to be far more interesting than you expected. A project that spent months resisting its own shape finally loosens in February when you drop one assumption you had been calling a principle. By spring, the whole thing breathes differently. A collaboration you might have turned down on instinct becomes the surprise that earns a second look, and the second look wins. You find yourself saying yes to the version of an idea that breaks your previous pattern, and it fits better than the pattern ever did. The year keeps asking which walls are load-bearing. The ones that aren't come down easily, and the room gets wonderfully bigger.