A probing mood can come over you without warning today, causing you to put aside worldly tasks so that you can concentrate more completely on reflection. Your need to engage in introspective activities can manifest as an attraction to meditation or other similarly thoughtful pursuits. As you reflect today upon the role your emotions have played in your existence, you may be surprised to discover that you can see patterns in your responses to certain stimuli. Your insights can then provide you with a template with which you can deduce how you will react in situations that have not come to pass but are sure to occur at some point in the future.

The better we understand the multifaceted patterns of behavior that have defined our existence, the easier it is for us to anticipate how certain situations will impact us emotionally, physically, and practically. This skill is useful because it enables us to prepare ourselves to face the wide variety of unknowable circumstances that are likely to lie ahead. While we may not be aware of specific details that will influence our experiences, we can venture to guess the form that influence will take with some degree of certainty. To identify these patterns, we need only examine our emotional reactions to the major events that have taken place in our lives to determine how our feelings developed within the context of the circumstances unfolding around us. Introspection will give you the keys you need today to understand how you will likely respond to specific contingencies.