November 3, 2024 - The Alchemy - Navigating life when everything feels sideways
November 3, 2024 - The Alchemy - Navigating life when everything feels sideways
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Transmutation. Pen on paper. October 8, 2019
Energy Update
The energy for November is intense, and the energy for the first couple of weeks is particularly jagged. There’s a lot of astrology at play this week and it may feel like everything is going on in every direction. Kinda like the drawing above
The energy is gonna do what it is gonna do. The question is, what are you going to do? Here are some suggestions to navigate these times and take care of yourself:
Connect (or reconnect) to your personal power. There will be a lot of agendas trying to push and bend us, but the energy is encouraging us to find our personal sovereignty. Boundaries are a form of self-care. But so is knowing what we believe, what is important to us, and what we want to fill our life with.
Hit the pause button before any big decisions or responses. Being impulsive is not going to be helpful with the drama energy around us.
Look for the next right thing to do. Don’t overthink this. Look for something simple rather than a creative razzle dazzle. The (usually small), next right thing in front of us is the way to go.
Our expertise and experience will be of value if we stay in our own lane. Our voice wants to emerge, but it also wants to do more than yell. It has important things to say.
REST. The energy will feel a bit like carrying something against a strong wind. We can do it if we take it slow and steady, but we’ll definitely need extra time to rest, integrate, calibrate, and restore.
Be gentle with ourselves and others. Being gentle doesn’t mean being a sponge or shock-absorber for everyone’s big emotions. Sometimes being gentle means giving yourself permission to step away from someone else’s drama. Sometimes it means giving yourself permission to step away so you can process your own emotions without throwing them at others.
And don’t forget about the things that take care of your physical body. What does your body need this week?
ps, I’ve been doing some poetry readings of various poems (not just mine) to help us pause for a moment and find our center. You can find them over on my YouTube channel. Here’s a link to What If?, one of my poems which I used to kick this off.
Micropoetry
Message from Chardon
Breathe dear ones, breathe.
You are not abandoned. You are not alone. You have never been alone.
This is a time of becoming.
And, to become, you must shed and release the old.
In some ways, it is a rebirth after death. A beginning after an ending.
But you are not wiping the slate clean. You are not restarting from scratch. However, you are going through the closets of your lives and choosing what you will take forward with you on this next move.
While the entire world is changing as well, we invite you to consider this solely from your own lens right now.
Who do you wish to be? More importantly, how do you wish to be? Why do you wish to be?
Use these questions to guide what you release and what you keep. What you leave in the past and what you take to your future.
What will you choose to take with you?
Upcoming events
(schedule through The Reiki Center):
November 8: Channeling Share, 6-8pm, in person or zoom
November 9: Channeling 1 - The Art of Channeling: Connection to Higher Dimensional Wisdom, 9am-5pm, in person
November 13, 20, December 4, 11: Channeling Integration Course: A Space for Deepening into your Connection with Higher Wisdom, 7-8pm EDT, zoom
The Transformation of You and the Journey to Becoming a message from Chardon . Register for replay (at your convenience) or live-stream (November 17, 10am EST)
By the way, if you missed the October 20 interview of Chardon by Linda Haley, Executive Director of The Reiki Center and author of Arrival of the Light Beings, message from Chardon, Life Beyond Earth you can sign up to watch the replay by sending me an email or contacting The Reiki Center and we’ll get you added for the replay. It will be available through December 4.
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