Wow what a year so far. I wanted to let you know that I’ve created two new videos with spiritual messages to guide you to a rockin’ 2018. Each is 5 minutes or less.

The first is on the general important feelings I have gotten about this year and messages that are really important. They have to do with self love and the difference between self love and narcissism.

See that below

During the second movie I pulled a card or two to guide us in 2018 generally as advice for us to make the most. The messages I got were about knowing your limits, boundaries, needs, use your voice and mind your focus. Go after what you want with determination this year! Don’t allow your thoughts to wander far from where you are trying to go.

See that here:

Coming up I will be sharing some thoughts from this particular moon cycle, January going into February. There’s a power of yin, rest, earth, and rounding. I’m really feeling it this month.

As I mentioned last time, I’ve been moving and creating a new space and environment for myself. I’ve also started a new, very physical part time job as a massage therapist. It’s all a lot of activity! And as old ways disappear, I’m creating a new sense of safety and structure. It’s a lot of work but I’m excited for what is to come. I’ve also been moving a ton of energy and writing a ton of music, and I’ll be sharing more about that soon, too!

We can do this!

Blessings

Sofia Wren

PS I hope you enjoy the message of the year, please know that if you want to always know what to do next to make faster progress on your goals and creative projects (especially), contact me and we can talk about what might help you to overcome your challenges and create faster results. And if you want to shoot me a line, it’s always nice to hear your thoughts on my messages as well. Peace!

{The image of this card is from the Mythic Tarot}

This spiritual message of this month is based on the Tarot card King of Pentacles. Take a moment to be open to any positive shifts that may occur as you read this sacred writing and remember to breathe.

December is the last month of the year, but this time there is a special burst of energy all around us, helping us to make physical things that may have been up in the air for some time. The only thing is that the current energy is really requiring us to take a deep look inside to make sure we are really committed to ourselves. Right now be careful of accepting anything that doesn’t feel like a good fit. Trust yourself and your gut. You may need extra time to let things settle so don’t be afraid to say, “No not now,” or “I’m not sure.” Take the time you need to figure things out before jumping into things. If it is not a hell yes then maybe it’s a no. Imagine yourself positioning an arrow towards your future path, take extra time to aim yourself and make sure it feels aligned with your heart. You may still have time to make a change to previously agreed upon plans.

This month the energy of Saturn is very present in our life. Saturn is about building from a strong foundation and about work. Saturn has been traveling close to Mercury in retrograde and the Sun, and it’s about to make a switch from the sign of Sagittarius to Capricorn. This sign change only happens every two and a half years or so, and we’ll also be feeling this energy flow into January. This is a lot of Saturn energy, which can cause us to be more serious and down to business.

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Lately I’ve been on this “prepare for New Years” kick. I want to help you do it in the best possible way that will really be aligned with your spiritual potential, too.

In my last few posts the first thing we did was distinguish what you what from what others want for you. Then I helped you go into silence and clarify what you want. Then you took what you want and turned it into a mini goal so you could get momentum and traction right away.

Now you are ready to go big. Today I want to show you how to take the mini goals and expand them into a broader plan that you can then go implement.

Ok, so now you have some energy flowing. Maybe you are even getting a little bit excited. Good! Yay. Let’s really get into it now. The next thing that you do to really move forward and expand on those goals is to sit down with a piece of paper or a journal and brainstorm about all those things you need to accomplish to get what you want.

Write all of your thoughts down–thoughts, feelings, things to do, things you need, people to contact, random pictures or images, feelings, colors. This is brainstorming so it should be messy and untamed. Time to get out of the box during this step. Don’t edit, stay with the creative mind that just wants to pour everything out without stopped. It does not need to be organized. You are preparing for the future organization to happen by dumping out the contents of your brain. Write until you have no more to write.

It’s going to feel SO good.

Keep going, this may happen over a few days time, that is okay. Sometimes what we want is complex. A complex desire may require a complex plan. More importantly, it probably has been taking up a lot of space inside of you and you need to get all those thoughts, feelings and details out. Get this out now, and let the energy start to move so that after the brainstorm you can start to put the pieces together into your New Years plan. Follow the energy, just watch, it’s going to happen with minimal effort now that you’ve got it all out.

Now if you are one of those people who wants multiple things and has multiple projects and you get really overwhelmed and you want help with that so you can make progress next year, then I invite you to contact me and ask to have a goal setting session with me. We will review all of the different goals you have and identify what’s holding you back from accomplishing them and create a plan to move past that.

The New Year is approaching, which is why I’m offering these sessions for free before the 15th of January. I know there a lot of people who read my emails or my blog who have a lot of potential. Over the years I may have talked to you, one way or the other, or maybe we haven’t gotten a chance to meet. But I know you are there and I’m here to help. This is about you starting the year with goals and achievable ones! So you can actually make progress.

Contact me if you’d like to make an appointment to make a goal setting session!

You know I want everything to feel right for you, so listen to your intuition about the things that you want. You do deserve it and I hope 2018 is everything you hope it will be.

To your bright future & Have a great holiday.

Blessings,

Sofia Wren

PS Big kisses and thanks for reading my posts

Did you have a chance to sit in silence since last time? I know it’s busy around the holidays. The whole point of sitting in silence was to understand what you want so you can set your goals for the New Year. Honestly, why wait? You can get started today.

What I’m going to talk about today will help you once you know what you want and are actually sitting down to set your goals or make progress. This is a way to stretch yourself without setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Just like our eyes may be bigger than our stomach so we put too much on our plate, we can do that with our goals or expectations.

We can take on too much, and set bigger goals than we really have the capacity to take on. That’s one of the biggest problems I see with clients when it comes to achieving their goals. I hate seeing people be hard on themselves when they don’t meet their goals.

The truth is that we have to play mental games with ourselves sometimes to set powerful and achievable goals.

This is something I learned through writing. Have you ever faced a blank page? Especially if it’s the start, say, of a 20 page paper.

Even a 3 paragraph long blog post can seem long when I have nothing to start with.

When I sit down expecting to make massive progress, sometimes it ends up hampering my creative ability. My clients have reported similar experiences in their own endeavors. So aim low.

What I’ve learned is that we need to be creative to problem solve, but we also need some sort of structure or guideline like a goal to make consistent and thus faster progress. My solution is to play around with the goal I set and try making it really small to get some momentum under me.

Maybe instead of trying to do a whole paper, I just try to write a sentence. Use this as an analogy for other things.

Some of you reading have real drive, real passion, and there is something you want to create and offer through your business. Maybe it’s a book, a blog, a website, a sale, a musical career, a painting, you name it. Your soul knows you need to do this. You have accepted the call, you want this with a burning desire but it isn’t getting off the ground quickly enough for you.

Try making it easier–set a stupid low goal. Or what I call “an easy win.”

Instead of your goal being the full impact on the world that you want to create, what if you got that smaller goal completed like the painting or the first blogpost? Choose one thing, and then one smaller piece of that.

What if your goal right now is just to figure out the smallest possible step that you can take to move forward in your project?

If there is something so stupid easy you know that you could do it in 5 minutes or less then go back to that when you get stuck. That will contribute positive energy and momentum to your project.

This is a trick I do all the time. And it works. Try it.

What’s your stupid easy goal? Let me know if you need help

Look for the final post in this series where I will show you how to expand those small goals into a plan for the New Year.

Blessings

Sofia Wren

P.S. Aim low.

It’s me again sprinkling some love to help you prepare you for the New Year. Last time we talked goals and knowing what you want. Since so many people have trouble knowing what they want and what to do next, I have a shortcut for you. It works for everything.

It’s called silence.

It’s called inner or outer listening.

The Silence Test. It’s the ultimate way to know if you’re going in the “right” direction.

So when you do this practice, what are you listening to?

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

Instead of focusing on sounds of a door closing down the street, or a child playing, or music in the background, I want you to find the space, the absence, the gap in between noises.

If you like you can make a silent request to Spirit, God, Goddess, your Higher Self to be with you and guide you in this quiet time.

Once you’ve sat in the silence for a little bit, thirty seconds at least, now ask yourself a question.

You could use this for any question, but right now, I invite you to ask yourself:

What do I really want?

You may have a lot of thoughts running through your mind, but just try to listen to the silence. Keep going back to the silence. That is where you are going to find your answer.

When you’ve really allowed yourself to be in the silence, then something will occur to you. Trust that you will know it when you hear it. It will feel or resonate differently than the thoughts trying to distract you. When it comes to you, you will know it. Grab it. That is your answer.

This is how you know if you are going the right direction: silence. This is how you will know what you really want most of all so that you can make faster progress and get that.

Silence always has answers for you, if you take the time to listen.

This is your intuition. God, Goddess, or that wise presence by another name, speaking and giving you the answer.

So now I invite you to spend five minutes (or less, or more if you wish) and be in the silence today. Just take your questions or challenges or prayers or concerns about what you really want to happen in the New Year and just spend a moment inviting an answer to come into the silence with you.

I use this technique with my clients, having learned the power of silence from my Master’s studies in Spiritual and Pastoral Care from Loyola which is a Jesuit institution. I’ve been translating their methods of Spiritual Direction to a “Spiritual but Not Religious” way of being, like that of most of my clients.

Sometimes my clients sit in the silence and suddenly know exactly what to do to break through their resistance around that thing they know they have a clear download to do. Sometimes they know what to do in their business. Sometimes the steps to take their creative projects like song writing or even just taking care of life problems–suddenly the way seems clear and calmer.

Because they stepped out of their brain and into the silence.

So take this invitation to hit a pause button and whatever it is you are grappling with, let’s take five minutes or so and sit in it together. Starting with that question, “What do you really want?”

Go.

How was that for you? Feel free to comment

Blessings

Sofia Wren

PS Try it!

If you want to make faster progress then you need a goal– but don’t just pick any goal–PICK SOMETHING YOU ACTUALLY WANT!!!

Who tells you what it is ok or realistic to want?

Society?

Your parents?

Your sister or brothers?

Your uncle?

Your neighbor?

Your spiritual community?

Your business community?

Your school?

Your friends?

Your God, goddess, angels, guides?

The quiet voice that speaks in your private time?

Who is it that directs the force of your life?

Today I want to talk to you about something really important that I work with clients on all the time. With the New Year coming up, we are already reminded of the passing of time. Maybe you’re already thinking, “Where did a year go?”

We are all assessing our goals for 2017 and whether we got there and looking at our goals for 2018. But you know what I think first before I even talk about goals at all? We need to look at what we want.

We need to go a little bit deeper than just asking, “What is my goal?” Deeper than people usually go. And I’ve learned this the hard way because when I was growing up the goals I set were for other people – not me.

(This is the problem, because when I was growing up, doing what I could to achieve goals and be successful and get things done-get As, get into college, get a boyfriend, whatever, whatever, whatever–I never stopped to really think about what I was doing.)

Most people aren’t even aware of what they want.

I used to always operate on autopilot, pursuing goals that were important to everyone around me, that I thought they would approve of. These are things that I thought would make me “successful.” In fact I had no separation between myself and those other people and their opinions. I never asked myself, “What is success? How do I define it personally? And does ‘success’ by anyone else’s definition really matter to me?”

I want to want to ask you, “Do have separation between your thoughts and other people’s thoughts of you?” Still to this day I can inflate or deflate depending on who I am talking to and what they have going on in their mind about me.

But here’s the thing: I consciously know when this happens to me now, and I have practices to help me tell the difference between me and them. I’ll be talking about this more in an upcoming email.

But today I want to give you the verbal equivalent of a shake– HELLO!!!!!

DO YOU EVER STOP TO THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT??

Yesterday I was literally talking to someone and asked him, “What do you want? I hear you talking about being pulled in a million directions from all these other people tugging at you? What about you–what do you want?”

And do you know what he said? They said, “Wow, I really don’t sit around all day and wonder what I want. I just sit around thinking about how to make other people happy.”

I said, “Well, have you tried writing about it?” (Because I know this person has found journaling and writing down stuff helpful in the past.)

“Yeah I think if I wrote about it, I’d probably have about one sentence.”

“Well that’s ok. Today you have one sentence. Maybe tomorrow you have another sentence. You don’t just figure out what you want. You keep inquiring. You keep looking. You find out. You know what is there today, and maybe it’s not a whole lot, but tomorrow there might be more.”

Clearly not enough people are asking this question: WHAT DO YOU WANT?

I mean it. For YOU.

As a spiritual person there are so many things that I “download” and that I consider to be like a personal mission, so today I feel called to ask you to BE SELFISH. BE SELF CENTERED.

I’m serious– will you think about what you want please????

As a coach, this is part of my job: to help you figure out what you want and listen to yourself because really only your opinion about your life, your work, your creativity, your relationships, your spiritual path, etc. only your opinion matters and the rest of them can stuff it because this is your life, and only you can live it.

Open your heart. Love. Live. Ask what you want.

Look for my next post in a couple days, where I’ll say more about ways to know what you want and go get it.

Blessings

Sofia Wren

PS Please think about what you want and maybe journal on it, or doodle or mindmap or make a painting or a song, etc. !! It will help you greatly, I swear. xo

This month’s message makes me laugh. This card is oh-so-familiar to me as it has been in my own personal readings for several months. I’ve been working and working with the energy of this card, and now it looks like I’ll be getting company!

However, this Reversed position is new for me, and in this case is a good thing. An energy is opening up in places that have felt limiting or small. We are suddenly becoming more propelled to us outside the box and fast and now, rather than trapped in our stuff.

It truly can be joyful. There is a fun and free energy to the reading this month. Can’t wait to experience it myself!

Feel free to comment with your insights, news, feedback or intuitive urgings as well! I love staying in touch with you.

Below is the message for November to help you know what to do next and make faster progress on your projects and in expressing more of who you really are to the world.

{The image of this card above is from the Wildwood Tarot}

This spiritual message of this month is based on the Tarot card 4 of Wands Reversed. Take a moment to be open to any positive shifts that may occur as you read this sacred writing and remember to breathe.

Prepare for a new energy. Maybe you’ve feel an unfurling, an unboxing, a releasing, happening in your life already. But it is only the beginning. How far can you allow yourself to grow. Can you approach the unknown with an open mind? Can you be vulnerable, can you lean into your fears and your strengths? Who will you become? What are you becoming? Maybe you don’t know–and maybe that is ok.

This is a time for fun and freedom. This is a time to touch base with your emotional and creative rituals, to go beyond what you have gone before. My feeling is that this opportunity to unravel what’s not working and dig into the truth and messiness of who we really are (in a good way that is sometimes scary) will be occurring all year as Jupiter is in Scorpio. It could be good, it could be bad, but whatever it is that you’ve been avoiding or hiding from yourself is sure to come up, so you may as well lean in. Rediscover yourself.

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Inspiration of the month: 

Something that has been inspiring me lately has been the music of Tash Sultana. She’s young, she’s dedicated to her craft and she’s an amazing musician and performer that has found success.

If you like that, you might also like my Music I Like Playlist on youtube as well. The most recent additions show up at the bottom of the list.

Want to make faster progress on your goals? Trying to set a daily goal and make it a habit you do every day. (That’s what I recommend for writers so that you are always primed and ready to go when you need to make progress.)

But when we set goals it is easy to get discouraged or bummed out about missing a day–because we are tired or played hookey or whatever reason. The truth is it happens. Or maybe you owe someone an assignment, a job task, etc. and you start to feel guilty or upset that things are running late. What do you do?

You might know it is a good idea to move on and focus on what you can do today, but what if you are still holding on to those negative feelings from being off track.

Watch the video below: I guide you through a powerful process to let go of the past and get motivated to make faster progress right now.

PS Contact me if you’d like to chat about how I can help you make faster progress on your business or writing goals.

If today’s post looks familiar, it’s because I pulled a similar card for the month of April earlier this year. In some ways this month will be same old, same old, repeating similar patterns. On another level, it is entirely different because your energy levels, enthusiasm, your point of view and inspiration will all be different. It’s like a spiral- we can circle around back right to the point where we were before, earlier in the cycle, and yet experience it all and a higher and more transcendent level.

On one level, seeing this card, I feel frustration. I wanted a new energy. I was hoping to draw the Fool. But the Ace of Wands really is a new energy type of card- as an Ace it is the beginning of a cycle, and as a fire card it has a generative fresh energy that can inspire many new things. But as an Ace it also embodies the entirety of the journey. Like the saying, “The way you do one thing, is the way you do everything.” So any patterns from the past you have been battling are likely to make an appearance–make sure to keep yourself aware so you don’t fall into the same old traps as before if you really want to turn over a new leaf.

This makes it difficult for me to get excited but then I remember other things that have lit me up for some time in my creative world: singing, playing music, art, the ocean, going on walks with colorful leaves, a fire pit. What lights you up and gives you inspiration? What new things do you want to explore? How can you combine old and new in your life as you move to the next level?

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