Today is our New Moon Intention Setting ritual for March.
(Members: get the call details here <--- the replay will be on that page a few hours after we're done)
I've been reflecting on the intention I set last month because I didn't do it. Not just that I tried and wasn't successful... I didn't really try. I didn't DO anything with it.
And I've been wondering why.
(Members: get the zine for sitting with questions here)
That photo above, me holding my planner/journal open to a page that says THIS IS A SACRED PROMISE TO MYSELF is a reminder of what New Moon Intention Setting Ritual is all about.
This is a SACRED PROMISE we make to ourselves, to show up for ourselves.
It's not about goal setting or achieving, there is something much more important happening here, in this process of, month after month, REALLY sitting with ourselves and REALLY listening about how to navigate the next month
So, if I believe that my deepest truth was to do this particular thing this last month... why didn't I do it?
Which is a question that reduces this whole process down to black and white. You said you'd do this. You didn't do it. You failed.
Not the best question to sit with, but it's the one I had.
It opened up a few different "cans of worms" of thoughts and feelings...
And I followed all these different rabbit holes...
Just to remember the things I already knew.
It's NOT RELEVANT if you achieve your goals or not each month, the only thing that matters is that you stay in the process over time.
There is SO MUCH HAPPENING when we set intentions in this way. So many layers of inner and outer healing, shifts, growth, magic.
We have to stay in the process long enough to let the alchemy do it's thing.
And while we're in the process, we have to treat ourselves as living human beings whose needs, energy and capacity fluctuate.
And mostly: that this work is VITAL and SACRED and NEEDED right now.
I am doing exactly what my soul tells me is the right thing for me to be doing at this time.
And I am inviting others to do this work with me, to hold space for them to know and live their own truth in the same way.
The magnitude of this made me cry.
The fact that I didn't quite "hit my goal" this month felt so inconsequential in comparison.
And then I realized... it's not true that I "did nothing" with my intention this month.
I held onto it. I wrote about it every week in my Dream Status Report practice. I thought about what to do with it each week.
I INCUBATED IT.
And then this Sunday when I did my Dream Status Report practice... I actually did get an idea for HOW to do this thing.
I feel ready to do it now!
There are ways to work with intention that are helpful and ways that are NOT helpful.
It's SOOOO important that we HOLD ON to our dreams right now. It's equally important that we lower our expectations of ourselves. We can't push and over-work to get there. We can't steamroll our actual feelings to think positive about it and be confident.
We need to be IN PROCESS. In the alchemy. Letting things morph and change and heal and grow. We can HEAL, CREATE and MAGIC our way there.
We can't judge what we do or don't do in a given month - and it's not even relevant in the long term! What we need to focus on is STAYING IN THE PROCESS.
It IS helpful to dig in there and look around HONESTLY about why you didn't. Do you need more support? A different approach? To face a big fear? What would be helpful?
It's not helpful to RUSH your dreams.
It IS helpful to look at ways to give yourself the support you need to keep dreaming LONG TERM.
It doesn't matter if I accomplish this thing in 4 weeks or 4 months or 4 years.
It matters that I DON'T LET GO of it because our dreams are sacred, our dreams are showing us our path and we deserve to make space for them in our lives.
I hope to see you today on the call! Or if you work with the replay do feel free to share your thoughts in the forum.
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