The new moon is all about setting intentions. And I love how it reminds me every 4 weeks to do so. To not forget, helping me to create the life of my dreams, in the holistic way I envision it.
The days leading up to the new moon are often drawing up tougher emotions. Have you ever noticed this pattern? It's for us, and I have started working with it.
Ever since I have known about this, I no longer want the tough emotions to go away, I pay attention to them instead. I become curious about what else is showing up.
Interestingly, it's always stuff that is stopping me from taking my next step. I know, that is kind of logical, because it is, right?
Before I started working with the lunar cycles, I simply tried to run as fast as possible from these icky feelings!
But by noticing and allowing the feelings, even welcoming them now, I get to work with them. I can question them, seeing them for what they are, detach from them, regarding them as information. Allowing me to become aware of the bs stories I tell myself. One at a time, sometimes many times. From this place of awareness, I can set intentions.
It's almost like magic💫 But it requires us to stay present and to say yes to our inner world. There is so much wisdom in there.
In order to not get weight down by the emotions too much, I go outside and move. I go for walks or I garden. Or I dance in my living room. Sometimes I sit with my emotions, I feel them, I notice, I cry, I rage. Which I find hard. Other times I write, which has a similar effect as physical movement, and yet differently.
Find what helps you, we are all different. Just go with the first thought that pops into your head (as long as it comes from a place of love and is neither harmful to you nor others, which come from the place where we hurt, not our inner wisdom). But don't just notice the negative, notice the positive too! It doesn't have to be a massive weight!
For me, the past few days were filled with emotions and doubt, but also ideas and support. My emotions and doubts came after the ideas. I know what I want, and the person holding me back, is always me.
The thought that came up over and over again over the past few days, is one of my oldest dreams: to bring people together and help them grow.
My gift is empowering others. And I have tried doing that the conventional route. And it worked. But at my detriment. At the expense of all my energy.
At some point I had to stop, and start walking my path. Part of that path is to start creating those get-togethers that I keep envisioning.
At the risk of failing. Because, who knows? Maybe they will succeed!
Within the possibility of failing always lies the possibility of succeeding too; and if you don't risk failing, you don't get a chance at succeeding either. Again, this is simple logic. And yet it is not. Because when you add in fears or doubts, this becomes potentially very complex to navigate. Not for everyone, but for many of us this is a source of constant inner conflict.
It's interesting to look at fears from a Human Design perspective (and obviously additionally from a perspective of your life experience). In Human Design we have 9 centres. Those are the shapes you see on the Human Design bodygraph, the triangles and squares. Each of these centre represent an area of life. Three of these centres, the spleen, the emotional and the head centre, are so-called awareness centres. All the gates in these three centres have fears attached to them: one side of the coin. As well as gifts/ talents/ strength. The other side of the coin.
The beautiful thing about Human Design is, that it always gives you information you can work with, as well as showing you a path to try out. Which planets defined those gates will give you a significant additional clue as to how to work with them, too.
For example, I have gate 32 as my conscious sun gate, the Gate of Continuity, which is located in the spleen centre. The fear, this gate is associated with, is the fear of failure... The gift is knowing what needs to be done to ensure success. Most of my life, I let this fear paralyse me. But through a lot of inner work, reflection and understanding my design, I have been able to start walking my path and not let my doubts kill my dreams any more.
What intentions feel available to you today to start creating your dreams? Are there fears or doubts?
Trust yourself. You have an inner knowing. We all do x