Ep.6/ The year of sacred play
Life is SO vast. So large. So beautiful yet often we want
a detailed roadmap.
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4/1/24, Day 8, Spring
Our inner spring is a time of play and initiation.
Yet, rather than just harnessing your spring time creativity in your menstrual or moon cycle, what would happen if you used that energy across a whole year instead?
Playing rather than pushing? Exploring rather than expecting. Trying new things. Releasing expectations. Allowing the anxiety to instead be butterflies of anticipation and soul-led play?
Personally, 2023 was a big one. Loss. Releasing. Lots of tears and feeling adrift in the sea of unknown territory and chaos.
It was a year of releasing of old patterns, behaviours, friendships and relationships. I restructured my life, and my career.
Yet it was in that moment that I found rest.
Through the releasing came the healing gift of deep surrender. Releasing everything that no longer served.
Once we are emptied, we get to dance with spaciousness.
CHOOSING CONSCIOUSLY to not just fill the void with what was and is familiar BUT to hold the space so it remains open.
Open to new. Open to different. Open to a new season of consciously unconscious creativity.
How does this make you feel? Does it make you feel excited or, perhaps anxious?
Isn’t butterflies in the stomach akin to the emotion that we often label as anxiousness?
As I sat on the edge of the Pacific ocean this morning, water swirling around my toes, I felt the oh so familiar wave of emotion. Anxiety, rapid pulse. Breath in ears…. Pit in stomach.
I could feel it. Sense it. Fear. The unknown. Uncertainty. Potential Loss. Wanting to control but not knowing how… Afraid to just be in the moment.
Yet what happens if I reframe this inner dialogue?
Can I also feel anticipation? Excitement? The What if? The Maybe?
The waves rolled in. The waves rolled out.
The certainty and the uncertainty.
The vastness. The magnitude.
Inconceivable to try to control or contain the ocean before me.
Why would I even want to? Why would I try to do that? But isn’t that what we do with life?
What would it mean
If you changed your inner dialogue?
In that moment, I chose that this is year I CHOOSE TO PLAY.
What would it mean if you chose to build sand castles on the waters edge and allow the tide to wash them away?
To delight in the moments of the not knowing. To revel in the milky velvet darkness of what now?
To simply breathe in. In this moment. For this moment is all that we have. Everything else is a mirage.
We don’t know what’s going to happen in the next 3hrs. I sure as hell can’t go back in time and change what happened yesterday or last month or last decade or last year.
But we can REVEL in this moment.
We can allow the delicious beauty of cycle positivity to be our anchor point.
So this year, in the spirit of Inner Spring, I invite you to be gentle. To be open. To try new things and to embrace the ebb and the flow.
Here’s to a year of sacred play.
CYCLE PRACTICE #7
Our menstrual Inner Spring can be a little tumultuous without the buffer of oestrogen.
Be gentle with yourself. If you feel anxiety building, go a little slower. Ground yourself with your feet on something natural and just breathe in, and then out. See if you can invite your inner wisdom to breathe in and welcome the embrace the uncertainty!
Written from a place where I am
Day 22 Inner Autumn — Feeling deeply grounded and appreciative at how cycle positivity can change our world!