Spread Your Wings

This Lion's Gate and eclipse season have been challenging for most people I know. It almost feels as if we have spent the last few weeks in a tunnel - between what came before and what is to come. The focus has shifted from the outer world to the internal. We have felt more - experienced more conflict, sadness and emotional release, and experienced more growth - in particular, in relation to our personal blocks and relational patterns. The release has been more intense than ever, but the growth has been less visible. It has simply been felt within, as quick but incremental softenings and widenings that would barely be perceptible to others.

Most people spend their lives in states of perpetual busyness, which doesn't leave much space for Spiritual journeying. As Spiritual pilgrims, we learn to meet each day, each week, as it comes. There is incubation and there is expansion, and there are times of inspiration and movement and times of inert stillness, where great patience is required. Any day now, we will begin to breathe into our next level of expansion and receive the fruits of our period of release and incubation. The full blood moon on the 28th of August and the lunar eclipse will end this cycle, leaving us able to spread our wings once again.

For me, this heralds a new phase - quiet and welcoming rather than loud and spectacular. I will be renting a little house for one, renovated and decorated by a friend who has infused it with the immense love that she brings to everything she does. It will be a cosy and light-filled space with a newly planted garden. Rentals are few and far between on the island, so I am very happy to be the recipient of this opportunity for my next level of expansion. I predict the next few months to be a time of connection and creativity - for me, a deeper connection with nature, with myself, and with people and projects that inspire me.

Although I believe that we call to ourselves our own opportunities for growth, it has felt like we've been through a time of testing - testing of belief, of boundaries, of self-worth and worthiness to choose and to receive. Although uncomfortable, this helps us to assess how far we've come and where there is the need for further growth. I never want to become someone else or live someone else's life, but I want to be more of myself, so I become capable of experiencing greater depths of life. Send your wishes out to the Universe on this full moon. The time is ripe for asking. Wrap yourself in a cocoon of self-care as often as is necessary. Your nervous system needs safety before expansion can become truly possible.

The wider world will take care of itself - for many and complex reasons, there are some things that just have to continue to play out. As in our personal lives, sometimes there is no way out, but through. I hear a lot of people talking about the rising cost of living and the difficulties in building a secure future. We can't do much to change these realities as they stand, but we can practice trusting that there's a reason for the current realities and that our future will be supported. The only way that we can affect the future is by believing and living as if it is happening now - in the now, we are safe, free, loved, abundant and creative. Then, when this bright future arrives, we will already be living it. On the island, surrounded by the support of friends and community, and the beauty of nature, it really does feel like we are.

Use this time of breathing in to reorient yourself to the next phase of your life. Be very intentional about what you will take with you and what you will allow into your space - I intend to do this as I move into my new home. Consider your priorities for your time and energy. Rather than setting boundaries, which can sever connections with people, become a person whose needs and wishes are respected. A change of identity is needed so that your sovereignty is felt. Consider, also, how other changes in identity might be beneficial. Rather than creating a new self, make your true self visible. Meet each day as it comes - dress for how you feel, eat for how your feel, work for how your feel, and be joyful when you can. It's time to shake off the tail feathers, spread our wings, and leave the ground once more.

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