Today is our New Moon Intention Setting Ritual for November! But the time this lands in your inbox, the live ceremony will be close to starting. The replay will be up later today. I am looking forward to that call for a chance to do a deeper reflection on how I held my intention from last month because... I definitely have more to learn there.
This morning I went to the coffee shop with my journal to sit and journal about what is it that needs to change, so I can have a smoother creative process creating the content for Your Creative Dreamer.
AND be creating promotional material for it.
AND do the Goodbye 2026 Hello 2027 31 day meditation and journaling thing I always do in December.
HOW DOES THIS ALL FIT?
It’s not too much work. It’s just that it’s all a fog in a mind, when I look at how it all fits together.
So what needed to do was journal about that, specifically. How do I WANT it to fit together? What do I WANT the process of finishing Your Creative Dreamer, putting it out into the world, and offering Goodbye 2026 Hello 2027 to LOOK, FEEL and BE like... for me?
(So often we focus on doing things RIGHT or doing things so they get the outcome we want, but then we can overwhelm ourselves because we haven't set things up to feel how we want them to feel as we do the thing!)
So earlier this week I felt PRESSURE. Then I just had a lot of FOG.
And it was heavy fog that I thought I couldn’t see through… but actually once I gave myself space to explore what I WANT this to be like… I filled four pages in my big journal.
I mapped out December which gave me a list of things to have done by the end of November.
I thought about COZY VIBES for December as the days get shorter, and how I re-arranged my creative space earlier this year and now I have this open floor space in front of a drawer unit full of art supplies and I’d like sit on that floor (I have heated floors so it’s awesome in winter) with a big mug of tea and make a creative mess every day.
And the big thing that came to me, the solution that answers all the questions and solves all the problems: BE MORE DEEPLY PRESENT IN THE PROCESS.
Meaning, the alchemical process where we are working with the Dream Work and Inner Work along with the Outer Work.
And of course there are ways that I already AM present in the process but then there are also ways where I am avoiding going deeper into the process. Being PRESENT is a spectrum.
Going deeper into it all:
Makes the creative process smoother, richer, more enjoyable AND makes the end result better.
Makes it clear how to promote it, in that it gives me lots of things to say about it and images as I can take photos from my journals and use them for posts
Shows me how to fit the Goodbye 2026 Hello 2027 31 days of Meditation and Journaling into the mix.
Like, it feels like there is SO MUCH MORE SPACE for everything when I slow down and go deeper into the process. I receive this lesson over and over lately. And I assume I will keep needing to receive it!
