21/12/2024
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It’s in hindsight that we retrieve the gifts of realisation about ourselves, what we are truly capable of, our beliefs and our faith as well as the truth of how it is to be. It can either get us down or it can be received with the greatest respect for ourselves, what we’ve endured to get here, what was unknown until now and what we learnt in the process that we wouldn’t otherwise if everything was just handed to us.
I can feel the awareness rising of conditioning that we have endured through those around us, through the world as we know it and the awareness that this is not how it needs to be. Before it was just how it is, now the distinction between how it is and how you know it could be is becoming so much more clearer and the access to it is open, when before it was closed off.
At this point in time it’s not so much about doing but rather about letting it sink in, letting it land. We are ushering through huge amounts of conscious knowledge, this requires time and space and integration. It requires presence and intention. If you feel the pull to busy yourself or the go from one thing to the next out of habit, check in how does this actually feel? Compared with how you desire to feel. Our systems are on autopilot unless we change our state and interrupt that pattern.
We also have a chance to say how we are willing to have this next year play out. Not by control or avoidance but by using this time of reflection to embody what we have learnt, to give permission to the parts of ourselves that we know we need to call on. Not the parts of ourselves that we have exhausted this year, but the parts that have been waiting in the wings, the ones that have only been partially acknowledged, the ones that haven’t probably played a role so far in this lifetime. Only in doing this do we discover more, to rise up to what is yet to unfold.
Sending prayers of nourishment, peace, joy and the gentlest of transitions.
Rowena xo
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