Your Guiding Word for 2026

It’s been quite a year. We try to remember and practice kindness. We try to remember we will get through it all. We will remember our resilience. A good time to ask for help and guidance!

I ask my angels and guides for comfort and help every day. And along the way, they give me my Guiding Word. It is time to ask for your Guiding Word or Words for the new year?

What is a Guiding Word? This is one or more words or a phrase to help guide you, focus you, keep you on track, inspire you in the year to come. Over the years, my words have been Joy, Embrace, Limitless, Infinite, Peace, Self, Love, Clarity, Simplicity, Connection, Light, Presence, Be Here Now, Allow, Open, Onward, Trust and Flow, Unknowing, Equanimity, Trust and maybe KINDNESS for 2026. Our word, words or phrase present when we ask our true being, our Higher Self, our inner wisdom. We all have our answers within us.

So, if you’re interested in opening up to your Guiding Word for 2026 let’s begin. Simply, curiously, inquire: what is the word, words or phrase that might be a guiding light for me in this new year, this new cycle? Just let it rise up, without judgment. Just ask, take your time….you may be surprised at what comes up….it may take some time, a few days, or even into the new year….but at just the right time, you will hear it.

What if you can’t hear your guiding word? Don’t worry, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have one or that you don’t have an inner voice. It may just mean that you have to grease your channel a little bit….your channel to your inner being may be a bit rusty from lack of regular conscious use.

Here are some suggestions: Sit quietly. Imagine the light that is your true being, with all your answers, sliding in the top of your head and settling in you, getting very comfy merging with your physical counterpart . . . and radiating beyond your body. Now, as much as you can, just let go into your light . . . and think of your year ahead, what you imagine, ask what guidance your inner voice/inner being has for you . . . without efforting . . .you might even playfully say, is it this, is it this? with words that come up that you think you might like, that resonate with you.

Start opening the channel by having the conversation, with curiosity, but not effort. Allow your mind to wander over the upcoming new year and without attachment or agenda, just ask . . . and receive . . . trust yourself. A friend whose mind is always active questioned whether the word she heard was being given to her by her true, inner voice, or her active, thinking mind . . . when I suggested trying other perfectly good words . . . they just didn’t fit like the word that managed to be heard through all the daily mind chatter. Trust you really do have access to your inner true voice . . . it always manages to be heard some way, somehow.

As I was preparing this newsletter, I realized my word for 2026 had not yet appeared. I didn’t work on receiving the word, I just let myself be aware of open space. I don’t have to think about it or worry about it or work on it. And then, in the space of a breath, PRESENCE and KINDNESS appeared.

Presence has been a Guiding Word for me in the past. It has more depth now. When I think of Presence, I think of paying attention to the moment. Noticing what is happeing now. And how do I choose to respond, not react, moment to moment.

Kindness evokes lovingkindness to myself, which allows me to have lovingkindness for others. There are so many opportunities to judge ourseleves and others, to close our hearts to ourselves and others, to forget we are loving beings at our core and only see the flawed humans that we and other are. We forget we are also shining light beings, glowing with love in our true nature. The love that we are is more or less accessible, and practicing Kindness facilitates feeling it in ourselves and others. And also helps us take care of ourselves around those who are not accessing their loving being.

The word, words or phrase we receive will unfold during the year. It will take us to many different places and have many permutations that may not be obvious at first. But it will absolutely guide us. Each year my word becomes part of my daily fabric . . . and it leads me to more curiosity, acceptance, ease, resilience, noticing, awareness, neutrality, calm. My inner wisdom unfolds my word, words or phrase day by day, and always for my highest good.

Wishing you curiosity, joy and ease in the process and adventure of unfolding your own Guiding Word. 

Not Chaos – Closure

This popped up in my inbox, and then I found it everywhere on the internet. It resonated with me. I think these cycles happen all year long, but I acutely feel the closing of the current year and the step into the new year. I feel the turning of the wheel in my body and being. I don’t make resolutions. I might have gentle intentions. At midnight as the new year dawns, I always walk outside, look up at the sky and stars, and give all of the old year to the vastness of space to be transformed into love and light. My intention is to make room for all the good of the new year. I am willing to be curious about what the new year will bring. I am willing to receive more good than I can imagine.

It seems most years are bumpy and tumultuous. I’m always glad to release the year and all it contained and welcome the new year. This seems particularly pertinent for leaving 2025 and beginning 2026.

Here is what appeared in my inbox:

Everything you are feeling right now is the end of a cycle. It’s not chaos. It’s closure. The exhaustion. The loss. The crumbling. It’s your soul cleaning the slate. 2025 is the completion year. A “9” year cycle is ending and everything not meant for your next chapter is dissolving. You’re not falling apart. You’re falling into alignment.

The people leaving.

The plans collapsing.

 The silence where there used to be noise.

All sacred timing. You are being emptied, not punished.

Prepared. Completion has a frequency, and if you’re feeling the unraveling, you’re right on time. Let yourself shed. Let it all dissolve. Only then can your new timeline begin.

 The old world is ending. Your new one is ready.

Step through.

Author Unknown

Remember, light always follows darkness. Eventually, everything changes. Keep the faith, and keep on keeping on.

No Reason, Just Life

I used to joke that the epitaph on my tombstone should say: “WHY?” Now, I don’t want a tombstone and I’ve learned that asking WHY often distracts us from the work at hand: No matter what happens, this is happening. And, how can I take loving care of myself no matter what happens. And, this too shall pass. Whether we love or hate what’s happening, it’s still energy and it will still move and transform into something else. Maybe at some point we can see some purpose in how a situation unfolded, and maybe we’ll never understand.

To figure things out is not the point of life. The point of life is to cultivate love. lovingkindness, which can help lead us to joy, acceptance, ease. Rationalizing something to make it more palatable is one way of coping. And sometimes we need to do that. Eventually we realize life just happens. Everyone has different details in their life. It’s how we respond to them that determines the quality of our lives.

The Universe is not rewarding or punishing us. Karma is created moment to moment. We always have the choice, each moment, to make a new decision. Each decision can change the path we were headed on and allow us to forge a new path. We can try that on for size, and make another decision if we want to. Nothing is set in stone because everything is energy and energy always moves and changes. Our free will allows us to choose for ourselves and then notice the results. The Universe’s role in all this is to just keep flowing – through us, around us and with us. We don’t always feel that, but we can always trust it. Humans are capricious, the Universe, Source, One, is not. It is constant. It is Love, always. No matter what we choose.

That energy of the Universe has the quality of Love. Since we are a part of the Universe, we are also the quality of Love. We may not choose to express it in our lives. We may not know how to express it. This is what our lifetime is for: to make the choice over and over and over for lovingkindness, to ourselves and others. Even if we get to the end of our life and we haven’t loved ourselves or others, it is said that in our last moments, with our last breaths, we will remember our divinity. We will remember we are love, we love, and we are loved.

This remembrance of our true nature also reminds us we are never alone, we are always part of the All One. Even if we forgot this our entire life. The reason for everything is to remember we are Love.

Shedding

I’m in the midst of experiencing a shedding, an emptying, a clearing. As space is made, the Universe, the Oneness, responds (Nature abhors a vacuum) and energy starts pouring in the newly cleared space. Since we are all part of the collective Oneness, and all the same energy manifested individually in our own unique way, lots of us may be feeling something similar, in our own way.

Fall is when we clear out what no longer serves us. Literally, the harvest occurs. We keep what’s good to store for the winter and get rid of the rest. Often we compost what isn’t stored, and that becomes nourishment for the earth. Everything is part of the cycle we witness over and over. The wheel continuously turns.

I have a nightly mantra I say: I release all remants of energy that have served my highest good and are ready to be released. I send this energy into the earth as compost for the earth, and to the Universe to be transformed into love and light.

Affirmations aren’t just words we say over and over. They have no power in and of themselves. The power is in the feeling, the certainty of what we are saying. I am way over 51% certain that every time I recited this mantra, indeed I was releasing what had served its purpose and I was making space for more good than I can imagine.

Perhaps over your lifetime you have occasionally felt a tingling at the top of your head, in the vicinity of your crown chakra. Whenever this happens for me, I feel I am in the midst of a “download”: receiving energy through my crown chakra. This is not to be figured out. Usually it’s a bit uncomfortable, like my body is temporarily having having difficulty acclimating and accommodating to this higher frequency energy. This often happened when I was giving Reiki Attunements. Sometimes I actually had a lump in my neck as the energy I was channeling for the Attunements was so much that it took a few minutes to move through my neck and body and ground into the earth. Our bodies are denser than this energy. These “downloads” help “raise our vibration” or elevate our consciouness so we are more attuned to our Higher Self. In other words, we have the opportunity to be more aligned with the Love and Light that we naturally are.

This tingling energy is always for my highest good, although I don’t know what it’s about at the time. Again, we can’t figure this out. This isn’t an intellectual exercise. All we can do is notice and breathe. But over time, I see how I have finally moved from a stuck place perhaps, or finally realized/felt something that had been escaping me. Or the way ahead becomes clear. A decision/solution is presented. All at the right time. Once again, we breathe and trust. And we often have no idea what’s happening. It’s okay to not know.

Our Higher Self always see the entire forest, our path forward, while our human self only sees the trees in front of us and forgets there is more to our path than what we see right in front of us in this moment. Our human self, our ego, thinks we can figure this out. Only when we move into that “don’t know” state and release our need to figure it out right now, we can fall into the arms of our Higher Self. Our Higher Self is the perfect balance of reason and feeling. That’s why we say we are always whole, perfect and complete. Our Spirit, our Soul, our Higher Self is always that: pure Love, pure Light. Our work is to allow this loving part of ourself, our true eternal Self, to migrate into our human life. The ego then takes care of logistics, in service to our Higher Self, instead of thinking it’s in charge. The ego loves to think it’s in charge. And we often believe it!

When we keep connecting with our Higher Self, we are running on all cylinders. When we just use our human self, we never have a smooth ride. We get tripped up by our expectations and desires and lose our flexibility to flow with what is happening. We may not always feel our pure Spirit, but we can always check in. We dialogue with our Higher Self. What’s the most loving thing I can do here? What serves my highest good and the highest good of all concerned? I am willing to hear whatever the answer is. This is a hard one – the human self wants a certain answer and it thinks it knows what that is.

I was moved to write this today because I have been consistently shedding energy that was ready to be released. And yesterday, all that space that has been made over many months, suddenly lit up with energy. Big waves that were really uncomfortable, very agitating. I’ve been in a kind of a hibernation state for many months dealing with migraines. I could say I was not moving forward, but (mostly) I was trusting this was where I needed to be for as long as I needed to be there. The obstacles on our paths are the path. I didn’t like it, and I did everything medically I was supposed to…and I had to trust that the pattern would eventually change. Our states of being always change because we are energetic beings and energy is never static, even if it feels like it. We just can’t see up around the bend.

I don’t know what all this higher frequency energy is about or where it’s taking me. I did get the message that I had to move my body. I walked around the house, stretched, rocked, made noises, gently tapped my head and the energy meridians that go through our heads. I used polyvagal techniques to assit the energy moving through my body. These techniques help release the energy held by the vagus nerve. I took something to help me sleep. I cried. I walked around some more. And finally, I fell asleep.

I have a little tingling left this morning. I will take a walk later in this beautiful weather. My physical energy definitely feels freed up. For what, I don’t know. I don’t need to know.

Yogi Bhajan said: “Live each present moment completely and the future will take care of itself.”

So today, I breathe. I do what I need to do today. I am willing to inhabit each moment. I take care of my physical body. We are energetic beings AND have a physical body. So we take care of our physical body the best we can. I notice how I feel. I have compassion for what I am going through. I take care of myself as I need to, for I am my Beloved. I am willing to do whatever is necessary. I may not know what that is, and I keep checking in with my Higher Self. What is the most loving thing to do right now? Have some coffee? Some breakfast? Make baked apples? Empty the dishwasher? Dustmop the floors? Stay home instead of doing an errand that can be done tomrrow? Love the kitty? Enjoy the cool day and the sunshine? Have lunch? Talk to Pamela? Tell her how much I appreciate her loving understanding? Yes, all of those. And probably take a nap and watch TV later on …

What I do notice is that today I feel lighter and clearer. I will stay curious about what happens from here, how life changes. Without a doubt life will always change … eventually.

One of my favorites from Mary Engelbreit. Sometimes we just have to wait until we reach the fork in the road.

First There Is A Mountain….

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is

The caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within

Caterpillar sheds his skin to find a butterfly within

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is

First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is

Donovan – 1967

I heard this song the other day for the first time in many, many years. I was so struck by these lyrics. I’m not sure I ever really listened to them before. They certainly spoke to me now. And they are a good reminder.

There’s an obstacle, a mountain. Then it is surmounted, or lessens somehow. Oh no, there it is again! Now what? Time passes, things change….now it’s gone again, onto something else. There will be another mountain, and that will morph and turn into something else.

The only certainty in life is that things change, nothing stays the same. Not that we like it. Humans hate unpredictability. We want to know why, what, when. Staying in the present, moment to moment, trusting we will be able to handle change, is so uncomfortable!

Even when we want things to change or resolve, when we are in the midst of something painful or difficult, it isn’t always comforting and sometimes annoying to be told: This too shall pass. Yes, but I am feeling this pain or fear now. Then is not now. Both are true. Everything does pass, change, transform into something else. It’s hard to remember when we are going through tough times.

I try to remember the many times in my life when I saw no way out or through. Times and situations that felt way worse than what’s going on now. This is one of the advantages of getting older – we have history to rely on. If I got through that then, with less awreness, wisdom, resilience and trust, then surely I will get through this now. I don’t need to know the how. I couldn’t have guessed or predicted the how so many times in the past. Ultimately, I just had to breathe and trust and hang on in the present moment, sometimes only because I had no other options that I could see. And as it turns out, I not only survived, I thrived.

Ideally, the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future, to always remain in the present.

– Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche

Wise words. So simple. So not easy. I wish you love on this journey. We’ll get through everything, somehow, someway. Breathe, trust, and hang on.

How to Love Ourselves

Hello again! I know it’s been quite a while since I posted. A lot has happened this year so far, as we close in on the last four months of 2025. Unbelievably, and thankfully, Fall begins Monday, September 22 at 2:19 pm EDT. We begin to harvest the teachings and wisdom this year offered. We begin to prepare for the restoration and renourishment of Winter.

No matter what the season, the only way to get through everything is to take loving care of ourselves. As we fill up with that love, tenderly listening to ourselves about what may support us, we are more able to show up for others. We cannot give from an empty vessel.

There are always so many demands on our attention and energy. It is essential we take a few moments each day to look within and ask, what do I need today? What will take care of me this moment? Any little crumb of love directed to ourselves helps ground and center us in this increasingly chaotic world. In spite of the storm without, we do have a peaceful center somewhere within. That place of refuge is not always easy to feel or remember. That is why the practice of just a moment here and there during the day assists us in remembering what’s true.

One of the ways I am taking care of myself these days is removing myself from all social media. It took too much energy for me to filter everything in that torrent. I feel so much more peaceful dropping out of that world. And what’s right for me, may not be right for you. Listen to yourself, trust your higher self.

I offer a few quotes to help us remember it is possible to drop into the love we are at the core of our diving being – even in a world that can be so unloving, so human.

In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you. – Andrea Dykstra

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you hate, the only person that is suffering is you because most of the people you hate don’t know it and the rest don’t care.” – Medgar Evers

Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us while we starve. – Alice Walker

FORGIVE IT ALL

We are just beginning 2025. Would you like to begin the new year with a clearer heart? One way is to do a practice that helps us let go of what we are holding against others . . . and ourselves.

I am reminded of the beautiful forgiving practice of the ancient Hawaiians. I think this is a good time to send this message out once again. When we forgive ourselves, have compassion for ourselves, we forgive and have compassion for everyone and everything. We are all One. We are all Love.

Ho’oponopono

A Gift to the Planet from the Hawaiian People

From Navigating the Collapse of Time by David Ian Cowan, citing Joe Vitale’s book Zero Limits, with Dr. Hew Len

“In the ancient Hawaiian culture, whenever a member of the community fell into any kind of misfortune, whether through illness, accident, or even willful crime, the entire population sat in a circle around the person, silently searching their own hearts for how they may have contributed, even in some seemingly minor way, to the person’s suffering. Perhaps they held a judgment against this person or their family or maybe felt a secret envy or jealousy. Whatever the case, after they recognized their part and silently asked for the subject’s forgiveness, they quietly left the circle. No words were shared. In the end, when all had made their own peace, the individual sitting in the middle was healed.

“As simple as this practice sounds, it works based on what we now call quantum principles – that we are all entangled or connected and therefore we cannot escape the effects of one person on the collective, or of the collective on one person. It also works on the metaphysical level……that of the One Mind asleep in the dream of suffering (our human lives). All minds, then, are joined as One.

“Dr. Len distilled this tradition of forgiveness handed down from his elders to four phrases. Think of someone or some situation that evinces a ‘loss of joy’ however slight. Hold this subject in your mind and begin to repeat the four phrases, directing them to this mental image. You don’t have to “feel” the connection; the feeling comes after the choice to do this. Spirit is more than eager and willing to heal this relationship – even as little as 1 percent of willingness from you opens the door.” (As I like to say, willingness is the key.)

“You will find that when you next see this person (or are in the situation), something has changed. What has changed is that the veils of darkness between you have lifted. You are now both seeing more of your real Selves in each other. The past has melted away in the Light of Spirit that you invited into the relationship.

“Here is how we do Ho’oponopono. I invite you to join me in this loving practice.

“I love you: We are recognizing that at a deep level we are One. We are mirrors for each other. Judging or condemning you would just be doing the same to me. You, in my perception of you, are a projection of my state of mind. Loving and forgiving you is also doing the same for me. The divisions between us are only in our imaginations. Although bodies and actions appear separate, the Mind that is expressing through all of us is the same. All behavior is either an expression of or a call for Love. So Love is the cause of everything, and the cure at the same time.

“I am sorry: Not for anything in particular that you or I have done – that would make the offense real – but for together having decided to experience separation, and for all the suffering of all of us as a result of this mutual decision. For that I am truly sorry. And I am sorry for my contribution in this way to your particular experience of suffering, confident that in our awakening and acceptance of forgiveness, we shall ultimately see all suffering washed away in an instant of healing and liberation.

“Please forgive me: Not for what it appears I have done, but for agreeing with you to create this dream of suffering and separation. Please see me as an undiluted, invulnerable, eternal, and forever joyful Spirit, as I now choose to see you. I see you as Spirit who through the majesty of your own creativity and freedom has created this opportunity to awaken and remember Love, and I trust you to love me and forgive me my illusions.

“Thank you: For giving us both an opportunity to heal our relationship, to heal in my mind any misperception of you as less than Divine, knowing this healing goes out to the One Mind and affects everyone and everything in Creation beyond what we can imagine. Thank you for joining with me as One Mind and healing together. 

“With this level of understanding simply repeat the four phrases with your subject in mind until you feel a shift or inner lightness around the relationship. That is all. Dr. Len has condensed this practice to simply: I love you; thank you.”

YOUR GUIDING WORD FOR 2025

It’s been quite a year. We try to remember and practice kindness. We try to remember we will get through it all. We will remember our resilience. A good time to ask for help and guidance!

I ask my angels and guides for comfort and help every day. And along the way, they give me my Guiding Word. It is time to ask for your Guiding Word or Words for the new year?

What is a Guiding Word? This is one or more words or a phrase to help guide you, focus you, keep you on track, inspire you in the year to come. Over the years, my words have been Joy, Embrace, Limitless, Infinite, Peace, Self, Love, Clarity, Simplicity, Connection, Light, Presence, Be Here Now, Allow, Open, Onward, Trust and Flow and maybe UNKNOWING, EQUANIMITY AND TRUST for 2025. Our word, words or phrase present when we ask our true being, our Higher Self, our inner wisdom. We all have our answers within us.

So, if you’re interested in opening up to your Guiding Word for 2025 let’s begin. Simply, curiously, inquire: what is the word, words or phrase that might be a guiding light for me in this new year, this new cycle? Just let it rise up, without judgment. Just ask, take your time….you may be surprised at what comes up….it may take some time, a few days, or even into the new year….but at just the right time, you will hear it.

What if you can’t hear your guiding word? Don’t worry, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have one or that you don’t have an inner voice. It may just mean that you have to grease your channel a little bit….your channel to your inner being may be a bit rusty from lack of regular conscious use.

Here are some suggestions: Sit quietly. Imagine the light that is your true being, with all your answers, sliding in the top of your head and settling in you, getting very comfy merging with your physical counterpart . . . and radiating beyond your body. Now, as much as you can, just let go into your light . . . and think of your year ahead, what you imagine, ask what guidance your inner voice/inner being has for you . . . without efforting . . .you might even playfully say, is it this, is it this? with words that come up that you think you might like, that resonate with you.

Start opening the channel by having the conversation, with curiosity, but not effort. Allow your mind to wander over the upcoming new year and without attachment or agenda, just ask . . . and receive . . . trust yourself. A friend whose mind is always active questioned whether the word she heard was being given to her by her true, inner voice, or her active, thinking mind . . . when I suggested trying other perfectly good words . . . they just didn’t fit like the word that managed to be heard through all the daily mind chatter. Trust you really do have access to your inner true voice . . . it always manages to be heard some way, somehow.

As I was preparing this newsletter, I realized my word for 2025 had not yet appeared. I didn’t work on receiving the word, I just let myself be aware of open space. And then at the end of yoga class this morning, as I was discussing this idea with a couple of other women, there it was. The word was UNKNOWING. Unknowing with ease requires an immense amount of trust. Humans hate to not know what’s going on or what’s happening or what’s going to happen. Regardless, we never really know. All we can do is focus on our path and intend on what we would like and then release it in trust. And we trust (if we can) that no matter what happens, we will get through it all, if our life history to date is any indication.

So maybe my words are UNKNOWING and TRUST because I can only rest in Unknowing if I am willing to Trust in order to feel Equanimity. I don’t have to think about it or worry about it or work on it. The word, words or phrase we receive will unfold during the year. It will take us to many different places and have many permutations that may not be obvious at first. But it will absolutely guide us. Each year my word becomes part of my daily fabric . . . and it leads me to more curiosity, acceptance, ease, resilience, noticing, awareness, neutrality, calm. My inner wisdom unfolds my word, words or phrase day by day, and always for my highest good.

Wishing you curiosity, joy and ease in the process and adventure of unfolding your own Guiding Word. 

The Light of the Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice arrives on Wednesday, June 21, 2023, at 11:57 a.m. EDT. This is the day with the most hours of sunlight – often referred to as the longest day of the year. I love the feeling of brightening that is happening right now . . . every day until June 21 contains more light, more sun, more illumination, on every level that we wish to open to. Summer reminds us of the light, of our light.

This is a wonderful, powerful time to allow all that dynamic light to wash over us and through us, taking with it all the detritus and baggage we have accumulated over the course of our lives. There is always a wide open portal into which we can pour all that we are releasing. The portal will transform the flow pouring into it and return buoyant, uplifting energy to us in an endless, loving loop.

Release can be painful, we may need support and guidance. It’s good to seek out the help we need, and as we ask, it will be shown to us. I am noticing that the energy of this time and this portal is clarifying issues for me quickly and crystal clear. As I ask for help with situations where I have felt confused, fearful and resistant, and have the 51% confidence and ease and trust that I am all taken care of, the answers are dropped into my consciousness from my wisest Self, in concert with the loving Universe, of which we are an indivisible part. I always ask for my answers to be crystal clear – that’s how I need to see and hear them, to get through to my hard headed human self. And I have great compassion for that hard headed human self.

When we walk through the fires that burnish us, we come out brighter and lighter on the other side. And since there is no way around but only through this life, it helps to remember we are never alone. On the contrary, we are All One. I draw on that immense strength and support which gives me comfort all through the day. It is ours for the asking and receiving. We are an integral part of this fabric of the Universe. We are part of the Light and Love we call on.

I invite you to open to the Light and Love that is here for us and that we already are. As we open our hearts and minds in trust, we will be reminded of our essence of good and love and joy. The tiniest remembering will lift us into the Light. And I will remember you are Light and Love until you do.

Transitions

I sent a version of this newsletter in January, 2020. As the intense energy of big waves of transition are lifting me up and carrying me forward, this seems apropos to revisit.

CHANGES

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Turn and face the strange

Ch-ch-changes

Pretty soon now you’re gonna get older

Time may change me

But I can’t trace time

I said that time may change me

But I can’t trace time

—David Bowie

I’ve had a lot of changes in my life in the last year. Of course, energy is always moving, and everything is energy, so everything is always changing, even if imperceptibly. July 10 will be a year since Ed died. Pamela will retire August 1. I can’t feel time passing. I’m not sure how we got to the end of April! It is only when I look at the depth and breadth of the experiences of my life that I know that so much time has passed. It takes time to re-assess and reinvent, and then re-craft my life going forward. And I am.

I used to think this song said, but I can’t change time, not trace time. I think it’s all the same, though. Time changes us, and we can’t change what happened, or what brought us to this present moment. When we look back, it’s hard even to trace the threads that had to intertwine in so many convoluted, unknown ways to help us arrive where we are right now. And all perfectly orchestrated, of course, for our highest good.

I’ve always liked getting older. Maybe I’m wiser, maybe I make better choices, but at least I have an appreciation for the process of Life. I am better able to “face the strange”. I am in awe of how people came into my life, or left it, or how I was guided and directed to whatever was for my highest good, even when I had no idea where I was going, or what I was doing. A lot of times were tough and distressing, and ultimately all of it brought me to learning to love and take care of myself through all of changes and challenges. Or at least the best I can. I still have life to live, so I still have time to learn how to take better loving care of myself. And Life keeps bringing us opportunities to do just that.

Whatever shows up on my path is my work at that moment. And my path always leads the way. And ultimately, it’s all good.