everything is cyclical
Including you.
You’ve probably heard the trope, “nothing blooms all year”.
Well, it’s a saying for a reason. If we can look to Mama Nature for an example of this, maybe we can learn to recognize this in ourselves.
Our Western, capitalist culture is predicated on productivity above all else.
Go! Build! Grow at all costs! Keep doing and making and creating all the time or you’ll DIE.
But this isn’t the way the nature of our bodies was designed to operate.
Just like the cyclical nature of the seasons, so to do we go through seasons of change within our own lives, and within relationship to ourselves.
You have to give yourself permission to be slow. To be uncertain. To take a break. To take a nap. To not have all of the answers or know all of the next steps.
We've entered Scorpio season and the season of Autumn here in the northern hemisphere, and the energy of this time is always a beautiful invitation to slow down and go within.
The veils are thin. Old energy needs composting. And you, my love, need rest.
You must allow for these times of quiet, empty, void-like space, in order for the blooming that is in store to occur.
This can be easier said than done, when we are conditioned in such a way that our value hinges on how much we are doing rather than on who and how we are being.
Here’s my tip for you if you find this sort of practice challenging:
1. Identify that voice in your head that acts as a task master — the one that urges you (often unkindly) to “get your sh*t together" or to “get over it”, or that “should’s” all over you whenever you slow down or take a break or when things in your life feel “stuck”.
2. Separate out from this voice. Give it a name. A personality. (I once had a client who named this part, Felicia, so that she could say “bye, Felicia” whenever it came up). Dis-identify with it, because it is not you. Your truth, the voice of your higher self, would never put you down or make you feel badly, or like you aren't doing enough.
3. BE NICE TO YOU. For f*ck’s sake. Nothing blooms all year. Be kind to yourself in this season of your journey. You need your own support the most.
4. Recognize that rest is productive. It is a necessary and essential piece of your ability to create and share yourself with the world. How much more effective are you at whatever you are doing (not to mention, how much more happy are you being) when you’ve had enough sleep, or spent rejuvenating downtime with a good friend, etc.? Rest is your right. Exercise it.
There is so much beauty to be found in the stillness, the slowness, the not-quite-yet. If you get quiet enough, you may be able to hear the Spring that’s on its way…
Trust the process. It's got your back.
I love you.
