Hello loves,
With today’s solar eclipse and new moon in Libra, we are experiencing the closing point/a place of completion with lessons we have been living for the past 2 years or so.
It can be very beneficial today to take the time to meditate and reflect on what has been unfolding for you during this time. What have you learned about yourself and how you relate to creating feelings of peace & harmony, truth & justice, within and without?
What have you found needs to occur for you to experience more peace, harmony, equilibrium, a sense of truth and justice?
How and where, with whom are you able to express your real truth? What prevents you from doing so? What are the fears and layers of shrinking, silencing, censoring, shame, self-doubt or neglect that have been shifting and transforming for you from within?
Where are you no longer willing to do this?
Individually and collectively, we are now shedding skins that don’t support our natural and necessary process of growth, healing, regeneration and transformation.
Imagine a child trying to fit into its baby clothes as they continue to grow….it just doesn’t work, it doesn’t fit anymore, so there’s really no sense trying.
Anything that isn’t true to our soul’s fullest expression and unfolding must go, or else it will literally hurt and be a struggle to hold onto.
Like the snake shedding its skin, we are becoming new versions of self. And there’s no stopping it. To try to do so means we will dim our life force and feel very much less alive.
At this time, you might ask yourself….
In what ways have you been shrinking where you need to expand?
Where have you been accepting less than you deserve and desire?
Where have you been hiding your needs so as to not make others uncomfortable or add to their discomfort? Where have you been putting the peace & comfort of others before your own inner peace?
A reminder too that comfort is not supportive of growth for any of us; in many ways we need to feel discomfort to evolve and transform in positive ways…
We have been asked increasingly lately — the world in all its dysfunction is demanding of us — to master creating more truth, justice and harmony, amidst often unfathomable conflict, shadow and chaos. This is a big task.
We can ask ourselves, what am I contributing to the world? To the spaces and beings around me?
This is not a simple thing. We all have many sides and complexities living within our being. And creating a feeling of truth, harmony, peace, justice is an inside job first and foremost.
We don’t create this by silencing ourselves, shrinking our true expression, glossing things over in order to maintain the appearance of false peace.
We must go deeper than this. We must explore our shadows, really feel what makes us uncomfortable, step through the discomfort, and let ourselves be seen and heard — whatever that looks like.
Doing this is scary. And this is what makes you brave.
Learn to love your integrity and honesty more than you love fake peace.
—Voice of the Sacred
Where in your life have you found that you are afraid of rocking the boat?
Perhaps you’ve been feeling a push/pull within yourself for quite some time…where something doesn’t feel quite “right” and you’re not sure how you want to relate to it or engage with it. If at all. To rock the boat or not?
Do you sometimes fear that your truth or expression will cause conflict?
What is it that you really need to say?
Sometimes saying something or speaking our truth creates discomfort in others around us, but this is preferable to holding that discomfort within…
We are removing the mask of people pleasing in the places we still put it on, because we’ve realized that pleasing ourselves in a real way is what actually creates peace and harmony in our inner and outer environments.
We’ve come to a place of choosing ourself. No matter how uncomfortable it may feel (to ourselves or others) or the consequences, we simply must honour what is within us.
I exist. I matter. My experience matters. My perspective matters. My pleasure matters. My displeasure matters. My rage matters. My feelings matter. The power of my voice, my truth, matters. And I will share it. I must share it.
Recognizing and standing for the gift of our own presence and energy, the importance of our peace, is what it’s all about right now.
Because without peace within, there cannot be peace without.
If there is a war within, what do we expect to be seeing in others and the world around us?
What would bring you the most peace right now?
Listen, and shed that skin that needs to go.
Let yourself be born anew 🐍
A version of yourself you haven’t met yet is awaiting you on the other side….
And the world NEEDS it.
I’m very excited to share a new immersive coaching program with you in this vein later in October and November ~ that will support us in this transformative process of becoming more of the women we are meant to be in this life.
🌑 WOMAN IN THE SKY 🌕
We will be deeply nurturing and claiming our primal feminine Shakti energy, and the power we have to create ourselves and the world anew. Right in time for witchy season!
Stay tuned! This program will be available to all subscribers of Mother Nature’s Journal 🌹
For now, here is a yoga nidrā practice to support your peace and inner harmony this Libra season. By making space for and prioritizing practices that support this state within ourselves, we create radical shifts in our relationship with ourselves, and all those around us. The ripples of our inner peace, relaxation & nervous system regulation are nothing short of profound.
I want you to experience this state and spread it in your world as much as possible, so I’m gifting you this month’s yoga nidrā practice - enjoy it! And please practice regularly - daily if you can. See what shifts within you….
Big love,
Julia
Libra Season Yoga Nidrā
~35 minutes