On the path I walk, one step leading to the next, looking down, looking ahead — is this the path I created or did I pick up where one was before me? It’s both, but the pathway is evolving and winding. It’s never a straight line.
It’s amazing how much our thinking mind wants everything to be linear like step 1 leads to step 2 and so on…but what if those steps were taken at different strides and in a sequence that doesn’t feel like order at all — step 1, step 4, step 7, step 2?
Well, that’s what any journey really is, even the structured ones like education and learning a new skill. Where that learning takes you is far beyond a straight line. Once it enters the mind, we get to think about what we want to do with that information next. We choose, we have free will — and we can change our minds.
Do you feel yourself on a path, a self-determined path to your own productivity, creativity and achievement? Whatever that is for you, great or small, domestic or corporate, artistic of performance-based, community or family-wise — all goals have the intention of making us feel accomplished, of showing us how we want to get from where we are to where we want to be.
But then in the middle of all that something happens. A feeling of “why.” Why am I doing all this? Why am I motivated by these things? Why do I want what I want? Do I still want what I used to or am I just conditioned to want these things? Am I happy? Why am I focused on me when all this stuff is going on in the world?
Do you feel the sweeping current of the collective “everyone else out there” pulling your attention away from your own path? Does the state of our world worry you, distract you, give you an excuse to not try?
Thinking about and focusing on yourself is not wrong/selfish/silly/unnecessary — pick a term that makes you feel contracted — and that is typically the default setting brought to us by society at large. Yet thinking only of the self with disregard for others is low vibration and will not allow for an expanded life experience. We are all in this together. This myopic thinking of only being concerned about people we know and like, our loved ones and our family members but not also caring about someone else’s friends/family/loved ones is coming to a head. We’ve backed ourselves into a corner and we now have to create solutions instead of divisions.
It’s an old paradigm busting open — and because it is, we are in this whirlwind of reactionary content online that perpetuates the illusion that all is lost. But that’s just the collective shadow (which we are all responsible for) trying to keep us from changing, from birthing a new paradigm. But I believe it won’t be able to stop the transformation.
The collective is Waking Up and is no longer willing to be bullied by the overgrown lower egos of the “powers that be” or by the societal programming we continue to proliferate in our lives. Even if what you see outside of yourself is holding onto the old narratives — that people are “stupid,” that people are selfish and opportunistic, that people complain and aren’t enlightened — folks actually are waking up. For real, for real! To what, you ask?
To the reality that there is more to life than just their own physical needs being met, that their souls are starving for more, for purpose and expansion. That the constant desires and striving to be more, do more, have more are pointless. They act as an endless treadmill. Mindless consumption is a dead end — there is no destination or ending where you have “made it.” People want to experience more than just working to make money to buy things to die. Our souls want to have EXPERIENCES that color, cut, sculpt, paint, write, dance, inspire who we are. Your soul, the part of you that animates your physical body, doesn’t want the easy route. The soul wants as many twists and turns as possible to make it a ride not only to remember, but one that elevates and allows for an ascension beyond the mundane world, to something more special.
We are at a precipice, one that is crumbling under our feet. But just beyond that is solid ground, reinforced with the desire to change and open up to new possibilities. New possibilities of innovation, connection, community, love and light.
Welcome to the limitless dreaming and imagination of Pisces season. As winter transitions and the springtime life broods underneath the soil, we feel a shift in mental capacities. The words are coursing, ready to fly.
Feeling the flow of creative juices call to me, the call of the wild within and the call of the Divine — find me, flow through me, create with me, express through me.
Stars forming, the eternal OM, the great abyss of creation and how it all began…not just what are we but what is all of it. That’s probably been my number one thought since I could start thinking. The connections being made in my mind, my spirit, all of the alchemy taking place as I continue forward, remembering to look back only to learn and grow.
Spiritual path of enlightenment unfolding before me with every thought I think, action I take, idea I conceive. Will I manifest it or will it forever live in my brain, in the abyss of dark space, the womb, always ready to receive, ready for life? The clock is ticking inside, this life is winding up not down, so make the most of what you have and just fucking go for it!
My part in spreading the light is through my words and connection with others, through the realness of shared experience and discussion. The drive to be “successful” isn’t it anymore, but there is an unending desire to create, to have the means and resources to be able to focus solely on spreading light to the rest of the world. Who’s soul can I wake up today? How can I wake up my soul today? What connections can be made that rewire my brain, my DNA, to level up my experience, to ascend?
Pushing, pulling, holding, being — going back and forth between feeling urgency and calmly allowing experiences to unfold. I see clearly the ways I hold myself back and why some of those ways have helped and some are still being healed.
My healing is just as important as anything I do outside myself. The rectification of the inner seeking of knowledge and the outer expression of it is my constant mindset — what am I doing, why and I doing it, how am I moving toward my objectives, how am I clearing the filter so more Light gets through? The Universe, God, Elohim wants to experience itself and I have my marching orders — my highest purpose and how to fulfill it — but the “how” evolves with every choice and new experience. I examine myself, my reactions, my expressions not to think but to know and feel and be.
I think about how I can feel myself opening. Like a blossom that is receiving more water and light and slowly but surely opening to become a Full Bloom!
I am my own seeds, my own womb and my guide. Inner Transformation is the key. I am here to Know Thyself.
We are under a Pisces Sun until March 19th and this is our Full Moon during the Pisces season. It’s opposite is Virgo. A Full Moon is always exactly opposite the Sun. Where watery Pisces imagines all the possibilities, Virgo pulls out the details that can actually be worked into manifested form.
This Full Moon combines the will to dream with the intention of practical application. It also highlights relationships — with others and with yourself. Focus on what you can weed out of your garden to prepare it for new growth. Make room for those seeds that you planted upon the New Year to expand and flourish. They are waking up underground. This is the last Full Moon of the Astrological Season.
Upon the luminous light we see in the darkest hour, let us honor the part in us that seeks purification. We clean, wash, burn away the unsavory parts, the dirt and grime. Shedding the baggage of the past, using the stories to transmute what’s still clinging into fuel for continued self actualization. We eliminate the toxins and find ways to practically prepare our vessel to receive downloads from the Divine.
Full Moon Blessing
Virgo Moon, purify me
Guide me to the place where I choose my highest path
Caring for each little detail along the way
My lessons and realizations, ever turning my wheel
Ascending and descending, finding balance
Embracing my life as a spiritual practice
A mystic open to the waters of wisdom
A daily, walking prayer, a moving meditation of activity
Tending the garden of my mind, my soul, clearing the clutter
So light can penetrate beyond the gate and germinate the seeds
Chores, tasks, errands, no matter how mundane
Are also sacred, leading me to my grander dreams
The visions I see of how my future can be, how my now can be
And how do I make it so?
By dreaming without a filter, then planning, building to manifestation
The Divine is in the Details
Happy Full Moon and here’s to forging your own path in life, your way, authentically, without the need for approval or validation outside of yourself. Because it is in the fruits of our efforts that we can determine if we are on the right path, the path of our soul’s purpose.
Images - Pixabay
Winter thawing path - Albrecht Fietz
Pisces glyph - Dorothe + Darkmoon_Art
Seed bursting through snow - Sunflair
Virgo glyph - Dorothe + Darkmoon_Art
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