What does a speeding ticket, a fall down snowy steps and a computer that’s suddenly unable to charge all have in common?
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Very clear messages to slow down and reset…
Needless to say, January has started strong with BIG teacher energy for me.
I was coming off of being sick for almost the entirety of December and spent over 3 weeks not feeling like myself at all.
My whole family had gotten sick around the same time and we found ourselves trapped at home together– uncomfortable and out-of-sorts.
When I’m not feeling 100%, it is much harder to have the capacity to be in the practices that support me to feel good, especially my energy differentiation routines.
I have talked before about doing a lot of work around interrupting my energy from automatically merging with the people around me and untangle myself when I notice it happening.
As a past people-pleaser with a chronic fawn response, energy differentiation is a skill I have learned to develop over the years. To be able to sense myself as separate from other people. To actively choose to NOT merge with another’s energy. To create and hold my energetic boundaries to support living from a sovereign center.
However, as the sick days started to blend together, so did my energy. I had much less reserve to work to differentiate out and clear the energy within and around me from my family members.
By the time the first weekend in January rolled around, it was clear I needed to do something differently. I was crawling out of my skin.
For one, I was super frustrated. I was sensing more muddled and confusion energy. I was still feeling the pull of the family bubble vortex, but at the same time craving separate space and time.
I hadn’t done any of the reflection and celebration practices I love to be in at the end of the calendar year. Nor, had any time to be in the intuitive predictive rituals I LOVE working with at this time of the season.
As I allowed myself to finally be with feeling unsettled and checked in with my body, January’s energy signature came in strong:
It’s time to RECLAIM.
Exactly. When I am feeling this muddled, this out-of-sorts, it is essential to slow down and take the time to orient to what is actually true for me.
This requires SPACE…ALONE.
This requires TIME.
This requires PATIENCE.
Of course I didn’t feel right, I hadn’t had any space and time alone that I need to really SENSE MY SELF.
January is giving us an opportunity to slow down and reassess what is important. We get to pause here and work with the energy and RECLAIM on all levels:
Reclaim your spaces
Reclaim your sense of self
Reclaim what is actually true for you
Reclaim what you need
Reclaim what you care about
Reclaim your rituals
Reclaim your practices
Reclaim your body
Reclaim your connections
At the beginning of the month I started with RECLAIMING my physical spaces. I cleaned out my office and my bedroom, removed old client files, bagged up clothes and items that no longer work for me, took apart old altars, and put away oracle cards and crystals.
All of this significantly opened up the energy in both spaces.
The clearer my physical spaces are, the more easily I can sense my self and my essence.
This month is here to help support us in untangling any merging energy that occurred during the holiday season, so we can access and RECLAIM our truth again.
One of the definitions of “RECLAIM” that pops up in the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary is “to restore to a previous natural state”. This feels very fitting.
What needs some attention right now that will support a solid foundation within you? Where is restoration possible?
For me, I am being asked this month to look at my physical body and alignment again. Reclaiming the spaces and places that I can be healing and taking care of my structure.
RECLAIMING in this way requires deeply SLOWING down. SLOWING down allows us to get quiet enough to hear what is actually being communicated to us from our bodies.
The signs from the universe to move slower this month have been loud and direct for me! I am working to listen, even with the simultaneous energetic pull I feel to go about things as “business-as-usual”.
How can you invite in some SLOWNESS this month as you RECLAIM what is important to you?
For January I am reclaiming how I “typically” do the monthly energy readings. I have not gotten a chance to do my card pull yet for this upcoming year, but it’s clear that this RECLAIMing energy desires to be shared.
Instead of getting frustrated with myself that “I’m not doing it right” or forcing myself to do the reading before I am actually ready or have the spaciousness needed for my ritual, I get to change things up (good thing I am my own boss! 😉).
What area of your life is asking you to SLOW DOWN and RECLAIM?
What small step can you take this month to honor this message?
XO Sara
