Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Full Moon in Scorpio and Mid-Life tasks
Reflection on the May 14 Full Moon, 2014
"This Scorpio Full Moon
asks us to contemplate the most important law of life—facing what needs to die
and acknowledging what wants to live—so we can understand what we value and
what supports our future growth.
We cannot grow further as individuals or as a world until we accept don Juan’s wisdom to take ‘death as our adviser’. We fear death and refuse to face it until we are forced to—unfortunately, we are facing death because we let climate change get out of hand instead of dealing with it years ago.
This Scorpio Full Moon can push us to face what we’ve refused to face and finally acknowledge the task." ~ Cathy Lynn Pagano, http://www.wisdom-of-astrology.com/
We cannot grow further as individuals or as a world until we accept don Juan’s wisdom to take ‘death as our adviser’. We fear death and refuse to face it until we are forced to—unfortunately, we are facing death because we let climate change get out of hand instead of dealing with it years ago.
This Scorpio Full Moon can push us to face what we’ve refused to face and finally acknowledge the task." ~ Cathy Lynn Pagano, http://www.wisdom-of-astrology.com/
What I feel is that mid-life women go through this stage as part of their journey. We are over fifty, we are facing a finite length of time, and our own mortality. And we are renewing our identity and perhaps letting go of our old self to welcome in something new we can't quite imagine yet.
At mid-life, this ‘dying and letting go’ is one of our most important tasks.
It means doing the underground work, the
sorting and dividing, looking at all the tasks we do, the projects left
unfinished, the projects not yet born but simmering, the patterns that no
longer serve us, and looking also at what ignites a fire in our heart, what
makes us truly come alive.
It is time to let go and burn what is draining, exhausting
and depleting our energy, and welcome in what is gratifying, promotes growth
and allows us to feel one with our authentic self.
Ask yourself, where is my power? What feeds its root? What brings you
the greatest Joy? Believe in yourself and find the Courage to go for that.
Yes, it means dying to the old ways, and allowing rebirth to
happen.
It means cutting away what makes us feel small, what keeps
us limited.
On a personal level, what is pushing you to take action?
What is calling you to move towards living an optimal,
creative life?
Monday, May 05, 2014
Give Yourself a Gift for Mother's Day
"We do not believe in ourselves until
someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to,
worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can
risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the
human spirit." - ee cummings
What does every mother long for, deep in her heart?
Speaking for myself, I can say that when my kids were little I longed for a weekend morning to sleep in and not have the kids come and wake me up at 6:30 am. I longed for time alone to think my own thoughts, and once I hit menopause the need to get away and was even stronger.
I did give myself permission to get away on retreats and writing workshops for weekends, and once even for a whole week. But more importantly, I began to make time during the week for little moments of reflecting time, journaling or yoga or just listening to quiet inspiring music to soothe my woman's soul.
Once I learned about SoulCollage(R), I began to integrate making card collages and images into my retreat time. These days it's usually a Monday or Friday morning, when I can push aside the emails, phone calls, house errands and laundry to just sit and breathe quietly while I write in my journal or make a collage.
Why do I do this?
My woman's soul is fed by solitude, quiet, and creative journaling, as well as writing down my dreams. I am a very social person with lots of friends and a busy schedule, but once a week, I need to have my time alone, to focus just on me. Sometimes my daily journal only gets a ten minute jot down, but during these mini-retreats I just let myself go and write for longer, or colour in my art journal, making doodles and expressing how I feel today.
This is what today's doodles look like. How I feel, and then How I want to feel.
It feeds my soul, and soothes my agitated mind. It encourages a dialogue between my left and right brain, it helps me understand what I'm feeling. I often find solutions to questions and quandaries I have by the time I've finished writing or drawing.
So for Mother's Day, give yourself a gift - create a time and space for your woman's heart and soul to be nourished.
And if you need help with journaling exercises, there are some great books out there -
Sark has juicy creative stuff at http://planetsark.com/buy-stuff/sark-books/succulent-wild-woman/,
Jennifer Louden has published several books with retreat exercises for women http://jenniferlouden.com/products/books/
and there's some great journaling questions for women at mid-life in my own book, The Tao of Turning Fifty, What Every Woman in Her Forties Needs to Know (free excerpt at www.jenniferboire.com), order on-line.
Happy Mother's Day!
Musemother
ps check out The Tao of Turning Fifty's page on Facebook
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