2024 First Full Moon in Leo
Navigating new beginnings, goals, and not compromising on yourself. We all deserve to live a fulfilling life. Are your relationships serving you/vice versa?
Relationships, family, human connection is such an important and rich aspect of our experience. When we cohabitate with those we love most where does the consensus lie? The balance of mutual effort, respect, and integrity. When does it seem like enough is enough? We continue to live in our routines as we grow individually. Do you want to live in a constant spiral of repetition or embark on the journey of evolution? How could your change and growth not expand outward? Not to challenge your relationships? Not for intended strain or challenge but to help yourself/the world around you to grow.
When we heal our inner world we uplift the word around us creating a catalyst of change.
We cannot shift anyone. Intentionally living in a way that allows for space and expansion to honor yourself. How can you make this available? At times offering yourself space from the world around you can silence the outward voiced connecting you further to your intuition, emotions, will, and desires. There is almost always a way, brainstorm! Time for yourself can look differently every day, walks outside on a break when you can, mindful showers (let the water cleanse you, rinse it all away), podcasts, note what you are consuming in all forms. Feed your mind peace, watch or listen to meditation, audio books, yoga videos, frequency. Whatever brings you expansion and resonates. It is an ever evolving part of life not a problem, adapt, grow, and learn.
How can we balance expectations with reality?
What we hold in, attempt to say, or speak outward can at times bounce off the wall and come back right. We cannot always explain ourselves, be heard, or understood. No matter how eloquently you put your words. So then what can I do?
What do you notice? Is there a cycle being repeated? Can you identify this feeling with past experiences? What can you control? Are you able to place boundaries to respect your peace? What would that look like?
When you have tried it all, and you feel like giving up, I offer:
THE ART OF LETTING GO.
Although it may feel scary to set yourself free, to change the dynamic of your relationships you are your greatest obligation. Change may not always have to be permanent and when it does honor it and trust in what you can do next. Where your actions, your investments create opportunity and excite you.
See yourself as the producer of your own life, heck, your own UNIVERSE!
Take a seat, allow your mind to be the move screen, you the producer, watch life happen for you not to you. Notice when emotions are leading your reaction. Honor and feel and then step back, play the scene again now watching from your mind as a by stander. Analyze the specific life happenings or relationships in your life. Is worth stopping production to address the situations at hand? Or do you feel more empowered in letting that moment be an exit opportunity for those that do not serve you. At any point you can call "CUT" bring any cast members in/out or create a casting call by setting an intention into the universe. Letting the applicants come your way, when you create space in your life for change the universe will present opportunities. Not always what we want but perhaps what we need to challenge us into our next point of evolution.
You can always reinvent a character but for your own sake let go of what does not serve you. Step into what does and allow yourself to see life outside of you. Perhaps this is the art of reflection.
How can we take it further?
Reflection = Awareness
What is is that feels heavy on you in this moment? Is it inside of you or outside? Now pause… that space in-between is your awareness, your consciousness. Lets say your BFF that you talk things through with. Bring up your questions and talk them through. The first time your inner voice may say the things you expect but that it is because we must do the work to retrain our inner voice and shape it to match our greatest self not repeat the ideas preventing our expansion. Through life lessons, through intuition, those times when you said “I knew it” I should’ve just…” Now we accept and honor our awareness.
Forgive yourself and give yourself grace. Sometimes its the hardest part.
When we value something it grows in importance, in meaning. We do the same with ourselves. Feed your soul. Read the books that will support your goals, we can take inspiration from the world around us but do not be the inspiration. Let it inspire you in a way that you can add on, share, and further develop with your touch/essence.
Often times this voice is shaped and taken over by our perception from early years on. It can sound like those that raised us in moments of consequence. Doing the inner work is starting to separate your NOW self from the old self. Setting yourself free of old thought that weighs you down or may limit you. This is coming into your highest self. Your ability to succeed exists with intention, plant the seed and tending to the garden will bring an abundant harvest. The work begins here.
With so much love, from my heart to yours.
You can, you will, you do amazing things!
-Joseph O.