Monthly-ish Musings
Life lately, February mood, new moon in Pisces feels...
This newsletter continues to be one of my purest forms of expression and vessels for growth. It’s both a sweet and scary practice in showing up consistently - at least in the way consistent looks like for me - and sharing from the heart. It’s also a beautiful reminder that I thrive on connection and that connection can take on so many different forms if you let it.
Monthly-ish Musings is my occasional dose of what’s lighting me up in this season of life.
Born out of a desire to share the practices, books, music, conversations and more that are helping me along my own journey in expansion, healing, connection, laughter and self-cultivation. My hope is to send a tiny ripple out to circulate some magic and good vibes into the world. In Human Design, I’m a Manifesting-Generator, also known as people with energy to pour into various passions, juggle many plates and bounce around to different hobbies, interests, work - and and and - so what I’ve come to realize is the more I let myself follow where my excitement leads me, the more eager I am to spread the learnings and resources around and the more accepting I am of this very counter-cultural way of being.
What’s Lighting Me Up Lately...
Going with Your flow. This current mode feels like I’m moving forward in slow motion, slowly picking up speed and building momentum. Shaking off the sleepy comforts of winter and tweaking habits to better suit where I’m headed. I know that come spring those creature comforts will only get in the way. Are you feeling that subtle pull forward too?
Reading: The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
Listening: I finally got around to re-listening and transcribing this tender conversation with Katrina Eugenia a few months ago and loved experiencing it through future/present perspective. Read it here.
Practicing: Getting back to basics. January was a blur, recharging from the holidays, getting sick and being confronted by old beliefs around success and not doing enough. All the reasoning or thinking my way through wouldn’t cut it. I needed an update to my beliefs and outlook, to work out the kinks for this newer version of the same but more me, me.
more practices...
Journaling even a few words each day has the power to move energy, notice patterns, savor in things you're grateful for or just process. Writing is one of the very first skills we learn in school and regularly putting pen to paper is a daily workout for the muscle that is your brain. Neuroscience tells us that our brains grow like any other muscle and that it requires a regular practice of whatever new skill or habit you’re trying to build. Where journaling and adding stronger connections in the brain come into play for me is when I’m journaling through any triggers, emotions or feelings. I'm allowing this process to challenge and grow my ability to not just seek solutions out of my current frustrations but to allow the ones that exist within me to be revealed on the page. On the other hand, when I journal on things like gratitude, I’m expanding those feelings of abundance as well as my capacity to receive more of life's goodness.
The Daily Practice, I’ve been using the Deep Imagining library in the To Be Magnetic membership for a few years now and while it’s not an everyday or even weekly practice, this particular audio: Releasing Emotions DI, has been so therapeutic recently. I'm no expert but I’d describe Deep Imaginings as guided meditations that take you into a deeper state of beta brainwaves or like a hypno-meditation. And in this more recent experience it’s been helping me identify, deeply feel and release a lot of emotions that were stagnant and becoming major energetic blockage points.
Sat Kriya as a daily practice can shift your physical and subtle energy in minutes. Kundalini yoga is commonly referred to as a householder's yoga because it’s down to earth and can fit into your life as a potent way to bring your whole self to each day. As I creep my way out of winter, this 3-minute kriya is giving me everything I need in the mornings. Sat Kriya as a practice “improves physical health with a gentle rhythmic massage of the internal organs, and it strengthens the heart through the rhythmic pumping motion of the Navel Point. The rhythmic contraction and relaxation produces waves of energy that circulate, energize, and heal the body.”
I hope this note finds you in perfect timing. If you want to dive deeper into anything I’ve shared, let’s start chatting!
A note on the New Moon in Pisces
New moons are new beginnings. The start of a new lunar cycle that occurs each month and with it brings an extra oomph of energy to help you along in your personal and collective evolution. So when I talk about new beginnings, it’s not that I mean scrap everything and start over, unless of course that’s what you’re being called to do!
Each new cycle is an opportunity to turn the page in the story of your life. How much do you want to bring with you into this next chapter? What parts need rewriting in order to align with the pages you dream of creating? We talk about setting intentions, planting seeds and manifesting on new moons and the sign the moon is in, is like the style or theme for these intentions. Pisces is the water bearer, it is intuitive, dreamy, emotional, flow-y, mystical…it’s the last sign on the zodiac wheel. It’s ruled by the wise sage Jupiter, a planet of expansion and dreamy Neptune.
What kind of future you are you dreaming about?
How are you already experiencing parts of this future vision in your current life?
What parts of your current life or day to day feel in flow?
What do you want to see, do, experience more of this month?
If you’re feeling called to dive deeper and set some real tangible goals to get you closer to where you want to be, I invite you to schedule a call with me below:
With Love, Michelle