How can your healing expand your impact upon the world?
Hello beautiful beings, I hope that you were able to navigate watery Cancer season with lots of Grace! We are now in Fiery Leo Season, in higher visibility, shining brighter, living from heart and soul. I am already feeling the shifts and enjoying the energetic sunshine!
Today, I feel inspired to write about what gets in the way of being greater leaders, teachers, healers, and guides. The short answer: Our deepest , oldest wounds.
It is often our oldest wounds, the ones that feel most difficult to resolve, that can be the key to our greatest liberation, but also in sharing our greatest gifts.
We deeply desire to be of service, and to have an impact, especially when times are tough and the world desperately needs us. But if we are still cycling through old patterns and ways of seeing the world, we limit and diminish what we can offer.
If we are burnt out, we have little to share.
If we are in pain, we shy away from witnessing the pain in others.
...Are you Lacking, or Learning?
The Difference between Progress and Process
First off, I wanted to thank everyone who attended (live or after) our Activating your Inherent Gifts event on Sunday! I deeply appreciate our time together, and the insights and healing that we share!
As I was preparing last week, a new thought came to mind: Are you Lacking, or are you Learning? It made me stop and reassess what is going on in my life...
Like many over the past few months, things have slowed down with work, and I have been working through ways to pivot and compensate for the global changes that are affecting all of us. And, as we humans can do, I was becoming increasing critical of what I might be doing wrong, where I was missing something, the ways I am lacking in skill or know-how.
When we make perspectives black/white or right/wrong, it pulls us into the extremes of a polarity (I wrote about this recently), and can feel pretty lost or hopeless there. So getting out of a...
Are you choosing through your Wounds or your Strength?
Acting from Strength, not from your Wounds
I have been watching the world around me lately, pondering the motivations that stir/push/move us to act. Various periods throughout history, as well as shifting consciousness, expectations, limitations, and what is considered 'acceptable' have woven throughout the meditations and observations, and I have again, come to the conclusion, that history repeats because we repeat. And that can either serve us in beautiful ways, or slow our chances for healing, progress, freedom.
In terms of our negative choices, behaviours, and reactions, we are able to look back at the wounds and trauma that motivated us to react in such a way. A broken heart motivates us to shy away from vulnerability and a chance at new love. An overly strict or controlling parent can motivate us to avoid making our own choices because that had always been done for us. A manipulative family member may motivate us...
Are you swinging between polarities, or have you found Resonance between?
Narrowing Polarities
Hello beautiful beings, I hope that you are navigating the polarities of life with grace!
I have spoken about polarities and spectrums of emotion, belief, and behaviour over the years, but I wanted to take some time to expand awareness...
The reality is that we are all operating within thousands+ of polarities. In some areas we will swing conservative, in some more liberal. In some areas of communication we will shut down, in others we will shout out! In fact, if you look at any patterns of behaviour or beliefs, you can recognise a spectrum where you tend to operate.
When you are more aligned, healthier, more 'healed', the polarities are much less extreme. You don't really swing from one side to the other. We are much healthier in our beliefs and perspectives when we land in an area that feels resonate, where we understand what we really feel and value, and our responses are more consistent.
The areas where we tend to swing wide are where we are...
Have you found your new Rhythm?
Expanding the Self
Hello beautiful beings! I have just returned from a long weekend in sunny Spain, and have been reminded of the importance of travel.
When we travel, we leave our comfort zones behind, what we know, our daily routines, along with many aspects of our identities. The little things that we use to reinforce who we believe we are, are disrupted, we are not able to rely on the hundreds of cues and reminders that would be present in daily routine and regular setting. Once these have been disrupted, there is more space for new potential, within the mind, body, spirit. And I feel that this is a major part of evolution-the ability to relinquish aspects and identities that have become too fixed, too confining, so that we are able to redefine and rediscover ourselves and new 'worlds'.
Even having just a few days outside of my home, office, city disrupted patterns of eating, sleeping, working, consumption. I read different books, wore different...
Are you revisiting old paths, or pursuing something new?
Shifting Gears
Hello alchemists and time travelers! I hope that you are basking in the glow of the new moon, and planting seeds for an inspired future! I know that I am! ;)
This email simply serves to shed some light on my current journey and where things are headed, and of course, you are invited to come along...
The call to step back into Initiation is strong, and I am grateful that the world is shifting towards this too! You may have noticed that I scheduled an online Initiation Ceremony for 10th of July, to Activate your Inherent Gifts. The time feels right to discover/remember qualities within that are meant to serve our higher path.
There will be another 1-2 Initiation Ceremonies over the next few months, of similar length (3+ hrs), each offering a doorway to a higher perspective and way of being. These will likely be held in-person, though there will be an option to purchase the recording for those...
Are you avoiding endings, or celebrating what is to come?
The Closing of Eclipse Season: Practicing Resurrection
Hello alchemists and travelers! I hope that you have been navigating this eclipse season with grace and gratitude.
The past few weeks have been powerful, and if you have been doing 'the work' along the way, the healing and insights gained will have a profound effect on your world. Remember, the past 6 weeks have helped us to focus on what we value in our surroundings and daily experiences, as well as the deeper truths that motivate our choices and direction. These effect our 'real world' choices, in a grounded and tangible way, so avoidance isn't really an option! (Nor should we wish for it!)
One of the big themes of Scorpio (the eclipse last week) is Death and Endings, which understandably can stir up some tension and fear for those who hold suffering in connection with these. But I would like to propose a new way of looking at these as we move towards a New Moon in Gemini (which helps us to...
Is the story of your past Serving You?
Eclipses: Following Your Fate
The day before...
In less than 24 hours, the Full Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio begins. And because you still have some time to prepare, I wanted to send a bit of information and some areas to address, enabling you to take full advantage of the power and potency in this moment of your life.
The Nodes are connect with our fate, destiny, our greatest threads and themes in this lifetime. And this eclipse connects with the South Node, which highlights where we have come from, so that we can free ourselves from the old story and karmic cycles, and begin to create anew.
Over the next few days, spend some time meditating on the 'darker' sides of Scorpio, the aspects you've been afraid to acknowledge, the parts you've hidden away. Scorpio deals with death, the taboo, sex, drugs, & rock and roll, our old shame and the ways we have been 'wrong'. These aspects are deeply held and require courage to face.
If you can engage your courage...
Are you allowing Flow to Direct you?
As I speak to clients and friends, the past few months have highlighted some common themes. One of the biggest is a feeling, not of being lost, but lost-ish. People haven't felt totally in the dark, but the way has appeared cloudy or blurred. Either the next step feels unclear because it is new territory, (and there will always be some doubt in navigating the new), or because there are a few potential paths to follow, but the way doesn't seem obvious.
Instead of trying to find the perfect path, or stressing that you're going to lose your way, here is my advice to you:
Get Directionally Correct.
That's it. If tomorrow isn't crystal clear, then simply decide which way you want it to go.
If you want to move towards better health, make a plan that includes better food, more movement, less booze, more sun, or whatever combination would be useful.
If you want to move towards understanding yourself, meditate, try new...
Are you Seeking a High or Enlightenment?
I've spoken a lot recently about the ways we attempt to alter our own chemistry, so that we can feel different. We drink, smoke, eat, walk, sleep, dance, sing, clean, and choose other activities in an attempt to feel better. We know that some of these choices will up our Dopamine and Serotonin levels, so we pick things that feel easy and convenient to alter our states.
Especially over the past few years, many of us have felt low, either frequently, or at some point, collectively grieving what we have missed, and the lack of shared experiences. The problem is that often when we go too low, we over shoot, and seek out a high.
Highs are temporary, fleeting, and often come with a crash after-our bodies cannot sustain them, nor are we meant to live in them all of the time. And highs are often pursued through unhealthy patterns, addiction, cravings, trying to fill a gap, and they never really satisfy.
So here is what I am proposing:
High is not...
