On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.
There are journaling sheets for doing this! these are available for everyone, not just membership members. Download them here.
In a quickly changing world, steady practices are... steadying.
Feeling grateful for the steadiness of this practice this week.
Checking in with my "big dream" and my current new moon intention immediately gave me this sense of direction. Like I have been wandering in the cosmic jungle and then was suddenly given a compass that shows - oh look, I have been going in the right direction.
Since January I've been in this process of "BEING the artist I know I AM" which has a lot of layers of uncovering and discovering.
The last new moon call (since I write these in advance I am writing this on the day of the May new moon call, so looking back to April) was intense for me! Messages came through hot and heavy - I came out of that call with a totally different intention than I had intended on.
And it's just now that I see things kind of coming together, or kind of starting to "make sense".
It's SO GOOD when the messages we receive in creative dream meditations don't make sense. This means we're tapping into "next level stuff". It's not supposed to make sense from our current state of being because it's guiding us into a new one.
I am moving into a new state of being and everything is... new.
I feel like I am, just now at age 51 after prioritizing this for most of my life, finding out who I really am as an artist.
This is an intense feeling! In light of this - it makes sense that this wasn't a hugely productive week. I felt like I made progress on everything that I wanted to make progress on but I mostly... vibed with my dreams.
What I am learning... and this is blowing me away... is that BEING the artist I AM has nothing to do with anything I make.
I think I did know that, when I started following this thread I was really clear that it wasn't about what art I made, it was an internal shift I was looking for... but I think I also thought that once I had that shift, some actual tangible "new way of doing art" would emerge.
Now, I don't know. I think I am learning that BEING the artist I AM is really much more about how I am in the world and how I see the world and how I express that through my life. I care less and less about "producing" and more and more about FEELING fully expressed.
At the same time, an idea about how to put myself out there in my business, which I have been circling for years, is starting to come into focus.
So - this feels like it was such a rich and fruitful week, though what I mostly have to show for it is a shift in how I feel about everything and a several-years-old idea that feels new and ready for implementing.
When I ask my dream what it thinks, it's kind of exploding with joy about where I am with all of this. It LOOOOOVES this "new" idea I have.
In light of all of this: next week I want to focus on implementing the new idea. Or, preparing to implement.
Co-Dreaming/Co-Working call is today!
We'll start with a short meditation for connecting with the soul of your dream (like the Dream Lab) and then have time for whatever you want to do - planning next week, working on your projects, sharing your updates, talking about something that is stuck with your dreams or just hanging out in the magic of the group.
Call details are here. Replay will be there a few hours after we're done today.
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