How am I holding onto the magic? [Dream Status Report]

I am siting down to do my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week.

Doing this, consistently over time, IS MAGIC.... this is where your dream becomes REALITY. This is where you stop and notice: How am I showing up? Is this working for me? What else might be needed? This is where we figure things out!! There is so much we can learn by witnessing our own process.

AND... Consistency is hard for most of us these days! So - I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it here, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

I'm just adjusting to waking up in the dark.

In Winnipeg, Canada we have very long days in the summer and very short days in the winter and the shifts between them can feel sudden.

This morning I made a smoothie and a coffee and turned on the fairy lights in my creative space and sat down with my journal. Since I hadn't been feeling well for the last few weeks, I was sleeping a little longer so it was my first time getting the day going in the dark.

It felt cozy.

I did the meditation for the Dream Status Report and felt so HELD in the magic.

We had such a lovely New Moon Call on Thursday and my new intention came through loud and clear: to LUXURIATE in how I take my next steps. Kind of like how my morning felt this morning. Slow. Intentional. Filled with self care.

And during the call I felt so sure about what this means... but a few days later now I'm kind of like... what?

The New Moon calls can bring so much CLARITY. The can help us see parts of our process we weren't noticing. They are a way of stepping out of our process to look back on it and this brings new information.

Then we have to integrate that information into how we keep going with the process.

Doing these weekly reflections in the Dream Status Report, including remembering and NAMING AGAIN what the dream is, why you want it, how you'll feel when you have and what your current new moon intention is... this helps us HOLD the magic of it.

Just writing down MY DREAM IS: _______ every week or even every day really is a helpful practice!

It's a way to help you hold it! Especially when you then notice... what are the thoughts and feelings that come up when you do that? How does it feel to really hold onto this dream?

Right now I feel... on the cusp.

I've been really sick the last few weeks. I've had a really rough year actually, with health stuff, and I had finally gotten the help I needed and then a week later got this cold that turned into bronchitis.

It's like this whole year I have been held back by my health.

But, on the other hand, this whole year I haver really practiced being present in the part where I am HOLDING the dream.

In the past I was holding my dreams but also moving forward with them, you know?

This year I couldn't move forward in the same way. And it's easy to think of that as a negative but I'm starting to see what a positive it actually is. I'm seeing how I have deepened into my relationship with this dream. Like I am doing the Dream Work on a whole new level.

I say this all the time AND I keep learning it in new ways.

The Outer Work is NOT the only way to measure progress with a dream. So much growth, healing and magic happens inside us and when we slow down and be more present with those parts - I think that makes the Outer Work so much easier to actually do.

Where are you this week? What's happening with your dreams? I'd love to hear your updates in the forum.

And please reach out when you're not sure what to do with your dreams. I want to help!