Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society. — Confucius
Communities work best when people think beyond themselves and their own joy. It can usually be beneficial to pause actions when your happiness causes a loss of peace to another.
Is the action necessary?
Can the action be adjusted for the peace of all?
Where is the line between honoring yourself and being selfish?
When people care how their actions impact the lives of others, contentment and good feeling may prevail in connections.
“There isn’t time—so brief is life—for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving—and but an instant, so to speak, for that.”
– Mark Twain
Time is much more fluid than we are conditioned to experience. So while this quote may read one way on first glance, I ask you to look again considering there is no backwards or forwards. Consider for a moment that your life has happened in a flash and the idea of progressing forward is nothing but an illusion. Perhaps your life is a spiral folding into itself with the overarching energy you inhabit creating the defining factor.
We are multidimensional and time is multidirectional. Should you find yourself backtracking or wishing to go back, address the nature of how you go back to uplift the action of retracing with a new energy and a fresh momentum. It is natural to replay patterns, but how you do it each time determines whether or not you are going back or going forward. If you run a piece of music you’ve played a hundred times with a different emotion underpinning the score, the piece is felt in an entirely new way. If you’re smoothing a vase on the potter’s wheel and you change the angle of your hands against the clay as it spins around landing against your form in a different way to mirror a changed form in the vase, then the old piece has become something different and may be felt as new.
You may see that we too are constantly invited to the same patterns with the opportunity to interact with the material in a new way. Going back to a project or an artistic expression with fresh energy is absolutely acceptable and not backwards at all. The same is true of every life experience, if you can perceive it all as art. If you, as a base material, have changed, then there’s no way to go backwards — the components are different and will interact differently. As far as I can see from my current vantage point, everything is always changing, so there truly is no way to exactly repeat anything.
What you bring in awareness to the equation is what determines your experience of time and change, backwards and forwards, and this now moment holding you.
Today we move with Jupiter, the planet of expansion and luck, into Leo , the fire sign of heart led passion. And what is Leo not passionate about?! When Leo is inhabited in its highest expression, fear fades away and love takes center stage in expansive thinking leading to generous ways of being. There are so many ways to be generous with yourself – with your listening, with your smile, with your fully embodied presence. The places where you used to hold back, are now ready to be held with honest visibility and absolute divine grace shining through.
With this in mind, I ask you to pause today and consider how you may personally move with this lucky heart centered placement over the next year while Jupiter holds this energy.
What in your life is ready to expand?
Where could you use some extra love and luck in your life? What may change in this area by honing in and giving your undivided, trusting focus here?
How can you live more and more each day from your heart to expand beyond the obstacles you perceive today?
What can be held with curiosity over fear? Dearest, what does happen when you trade fear for curiosity?
What pattern is playing in your mind that needs to be thrown in the trash? I’m not good enough. I’m too old. That’s too expensive. Perhaps it’s something else.
You will see clearly what needs to go when you pause to ask your heart for guidance:
1. Heart, as Jupiter moves to Leo to inhabit the generously heart-led energy of the Lion, how can I expand to assume luck and love are mine to experience in every possible form?
2. What script, conscious or unconscious is ready to be released from my field?
Give yourself plenty of space and time with these points of reflection. The answers may come straight away or they may appear to you over time through your own vessel, through others, in songs, in the title of some article, or in nature. Stay open, Sweet Souls to the beautiful ways Spirit may communicate with you.
I’m right here with you asking myself these questions. Everyone has work to do, even when they’ve done so much already. There’s always room to grow.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
There is beauty in recognizing the ways we are like others and also that no one else will ever hold our unique energy.
We are each here in our human experience like so many and within that, we are exquisitely singular. The way we grow into our fullness, choose how we lean into the light, and how we hold our shadows defines us in a particular way that creates a sort of splendor. It’s too exhausting to try to be anything other than what you are, dear one. Let yourself be at ease in your own energy so that others in resonance with that can find you more easily.
I had the incredible fortune of crossing paths with a hawk today that called to me just before I crossed a creek it was sitting above. My mind was running laps on something I wanted to resolve and I was out in the woods to quiet myself. Getting quiet is often the key to seeing more clearly and then resolutions appear with less effort. I was looking down and the sounds from the bird above caused me to stop dead in my tracks; the hawk was so loud and close. I couldn’t believe what I was missing lost in my thoughts when I looked up. Wow. Just wow.
Once I looked up and met the eyes of this amazing friend, I was overwhelmed by being so close and the bird not budging. I see hawks frequently here but not this close, not with eye contact, and not with an invitation to visit. I could see the hawk was defining some sort of boundary and stepped back a little. After complimenting the bird on the magnificence of its being and taking some photos, I sat down on a larger rock next to the creek just to marvel at the wonder of nature to be appreciated before me. I continued on with the hawk for some time just sitting together until it caught sight of prey and went through its hunting ritual. Once the hawk was off on its way, I took back to my path with the quiet mind I had been intending to cultivate sooner.
I was so beautifully reminded of the importance to speak up for yourself, hold space with grace, and take your time in stillness so that movement is made with focused intention.
“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” — J.M. Barrie
“We rise by lifting others” — Robert Ingersol
Have you ever been in a relationship, either platonic or romantic , that required you to be less kind than you would be in your natural expression?
Have you ever felt contained, capped off, or extinguished by proximity or perhaps agreement spoken or not?
What kind of information does this provide you?
Let yourself sit with reflection on those connections that drain versus the ones that create peace as well as the ones that amplify your energy.
How are your relationships feeling when you look at those three categories?
When relationships are loving and supportive —truly based in love without fear, control can soften, and your better aspects based in love can be supported for expression in the world. You may find you can be kind without consequence and loving without reason to those sharing in the relationship as well as those encountered at varying degrees of frequency because your dominant vibration magnetizes the positive aspects of others.
When allowed to rise with love and kindness, every interaction can meet you in that elevated state.
Presence and Positivity 