One of my favourite winter self-care practices is to walk to one of my favourite coffee shops, during the sunrise. I am just lucky that there is a place I love that is a 30 minute walk east of me. And during the darkest 12 or so weeks of winter it’s very easy to time my walk with the sunrise so I am walking right into it. It is downright magical!
We’re at the time of year when that is getting harder, the coffee shop doesn’t open until 7:30 and the sunrise is already starting at 7.
But this morning, I was up early with the new moon eclipse energy, FILLED with energy and enthusiasm... and I walked AWAY FROM the sunrise. (The place I want to go to isn’t open today and going west was the only way to find a coffee shop a 30 minute walk away, and getting a 1 hour walk in the morning is vital for my mental health)
After all these weeks of walking INTO the sunrise, walking AWAY FROM it felt so disorienting and weird.
But today is a new moon AND an eclipse, in Aquarius, so walking away from the thing I always walk towards is the perfect way to start the day.
As I talked about on our New Moon Intention Setting ritual yesterday - be on the lookout for new perspectives that want to find you over the next few weeks!
So, being disoriented was the perfect way to start the day of an eclipse. I feel VERY OPEN to any new perspectives the universe wants to send my way.
I also had a new perspective to think about on my walk.
I woke up seeing a current project (making videos to go with the You Are The Magic guide + journal) in a whole new light.
When we are IN IT, already having done a bunch of work (I have recorded, but not edited, 10 videos already) it can be really hard to let a new perspective in.
So I did resist it at first, because this new perspective is to scrap everything I have done, and actually re-do the journal itself because I see a way that I could do it much better.
We often resist re-starting like this but actually… I have found that DOING THE THING can be a really good way to figure out how I want to do the thing. In other words, I do it… THEN I know how I want to do it. Which means yes I have to do it twice. At least.
This can seem non-linear.
This can seem like I am going in circles.
But I am actually going deeper into it.
I am learning and growing each time I do it.
This is actually the BEST way to work with your dreams. Not necessarily re-doing the work, but to keep going DEEPER into the process instead of trying to go FASTER in the outer stuff.
When it comes to our dreams, doing things the fastest or most “straightforward way” is usually not a good plan. It doesn’t leave space for the ALCHEMY that comes with going deeper into it.
My project is TRANSFORMING. I am transforming with it. We’re both growing into a new version of ourselves.
How can you make space to go DEEPER with your dreams this week?
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