Last week I got to celebrate my birthday at a cute little cabin with a private frozen lake :)
For someone that has traveled my whole life (35+ countries!) — starting over and building a new business has momentarily taken away the freedom to travel, so this was a treat for me. Thanks, Tiger!
We may not always get what we want or think we want, and perhaps it’s because we are meant for something greater.
Over a year ago, I was determined to travel across the country, to explore the South West where I’ve never been. I bought some guidebooks, started looking for places to stay. Almost got scammed at a place in Sedona. I looked and looked for a place in Guatemala.
I truly tried to find somewhere to go, and for some reason, nothing stood out and felt right, the path forward just wasn’t as smooth and clear as I’ve experienced in the past. So when the universe spoke, I listened. I allowed. I stayed and surrendered to living at my parent’s house in NJ for the first time in 20 years!
The opportunity that came from staying, led me to have the space and time to create Cacao ceremonies in the New York area with all of you, meet Tiger, live on a lake for the summer, live in Nyack with my dear friend Doro, create this newsletter, and for that I’m super grateful.
I’m currently doing an Align with Prosperity Immersion (A 22-day experience) with Keith’s Cacao and something that is coming up around this is Allowing. When we allow, we are not trying to control. We are not trying to resist. We can allow ourselves to surrender to the flow. Whatever that may be for us.
“Allow, allow, allow.” Keith says.
In order to align, we need to Allow whatever it is that we need to do or be in order to balance ourselves to get into alignment.
Perhaps it’s about finding a balance between doing and being.
The way I see this for myself, is the need to create space and time for rest. I fill my calendar from morning to night, I do do do. I enjoy it all! And yet, I need to just allow myself more time to rest and be, and less doing, to balance myself, to listen and give space for creativity to flourish. It brings me back to balance and tuning in to my inner knowing.
A year ago, it was to prioritize and create more structure with my calendar so I can actually do the work.
When we are too busy doing, we can disconnect from our inner intelligence.
When we are not doing or taking aligned action, then we are not moving forward in our soul’s mission.
It’s a balance.
I have a clear vision of future travels as part of my dreams, and I know that it will happen in the right timing again because I KNOW that we CAN achieve our dreams as long as we take time to listen, trust and follow our intuition, and take risks if we have to.
Part of my life’s work — that I discovered through Human Design and Gene Keys — is to keep dreaming and aspiring higher and higher. I naturally do — and I enjoy guiding my clients towards their dreams.
In “You Were Born Rich” — the current book we’re reading in the Sacred Money Book Club I started in the Adventurous Souls Community — there’s a whole chapter on taking risks. We NEED to take risks to have the life we dream and want. It’s the only way we can grow beyond our comfort zone and expand. However, we do need to be responsible with those risks. We need to be able to see it in our mind’s eye. If we can’t see ourselves doing it, then perhaps it’s an irresponsible risk.
Risk is subjective, it would be irresponsible for someone who is not an experienced stunt person, to be a stunt person on a movie set. A professional stunt person on the other hand, knows what they are doing and can see and precalculate what they are about to do.
What is the universe whispering to you at this moment? Are there any risks that you’ve been afraid to take that can take you to the next level in your life?
My morning cacao ritual is the foundation to my day that helps me tune in and listen. When you give yourself that time and space to listen, Cacao is an amazing ally who will assist you in receiving whatever you need at this time. And then we just need to allow, allow, allow.
Do you have a morning ritual that helps you tune in?
Current Energy Update:
Quick note: I’m a student of astrology (a student of life, really). I’ve set the intention this year to live in harmony with the universe and one way I'm doing that is by learning its language and experimenting to sync with the astrology (the universal energies) of the moment and by learning and observing what's going on at the macro and micro level. Expressing myself below, to you, is helping me embody this knowledge, so thank you!
First of all, this Friday Aquarius Season starts! Come join Tiger and I in a free virtual ceremony on Saturday to discover all about Aquarius and set intentions with the New Moon (with or with out Cacao).
We’ve been in a major retrograde moment — a battle of inertia — the last few months and weeks. Mars (planet of aggression, forward movement, energy, sex and action), just went direct January 12 after going inward since October 30th. Phew! Mercury (communication, thinking mind) is about to go direct today (January 18th) yay! And Uranus (the planet of shake-ups and sudden changes) is going direct January 22.
When planets go retrograde, it’s about going inward to learn the lessons of whatever those planets represent. When they go direct, we go into a shadow period of implementing whatever lessons we received during that time.
Long story short, we’ll be in the clear of any retrograde planets until May/June and expect some forward momentum soon!
I’ve been intentionally tuning into these retrogrades to learn them for myself. The last couple weeks I’ve been feeling like a rocket ready for take off, smoking and firing at the ground… just waiting for take off. Not yet, not yet!
What lessons have you learned during the last few months? What have you been preparing to take actions on?
I found a link here that speaks about all the retrogrades coming up in 2023.