You notice recurring thoughts or feelings that can help you know where you stand, and what you believe.
You see the roadmap for your own personal growth and evolution.
You learn how to take care of yourself by revisiting your “owner’s manual”.
You realize that inside you already have the seeds of everything you desire.
You realize what would make you happy and why you should make it happen.
You discover forgotten or unacknowledged dreams and gain courage to pursue them.
You make connections and see patterns.
You develop higher level ideas that take your past ideas that one step further.
You notice the things that you overcame and celebrate it.
You know you can handle new challenges in the future.
You develop a sense of self that allows you to have healthier boundaries with others in your life.
You know who you are.
You are more you in the future.
You notice great things you wrote that you might want to do something awesome with like write a book, blog or article.
You have even more great adventures to write about!!
Join me for a special FREE event where we will read our journals together.
Every Winter Solstice I like to get in touch with myself. It’s the longest night of the year and this year it’s the night before the New Moon.
I eat yummy baked goods and sip tea, and pull Tarot cards, but what I’m most excited about is finally finally diving into my stack of words.
Because when do you get around to actually rereading your own journals?
Will you join me and help me make this happen?
Both the sun and moon will be at their low dark points. That can seem lonely, mysterious, forlorn and so I invite you to be with me, and we can dive within together.
To me these moments hold mystery and secrets that I desire to glean, and soak into my skin. Like maybe if I am quiet, I will learn something beautiful from the silence all around me.
What does the Winter Solstice Mean to You?
It’s a time of appreciating the beauty of nature, even as the leaves have shed, there are still evergreen trees that thrive on, birds and animals living on the land. There is a peace that wraps around every living thing.
There’s something natural, too, about writing on a cold, dark day. Especially by hand– I wonder how many other humans scribed by candle light with a quill ages ago.
It’s like by continuing the process in this ancient manner can bring us in touch with an intelligence and essence shared by so many other people, breathed through us all, a part of our blood.
We are lucky to have writing, to have letters, paper and pen so readily available to so many of us today. I’m a huge proponet of writing, I have written Morning Pages daily for over five years.
It’s one thing to build a creative and writing discipline–to open the flood gates and capture ideas and thoughts and feelings in written words.
It captures who we are in the moment on the page so we can visit ourselves later.
But to truly appreciate the gift of this art we have to revisit our words, we have to reread what we have, and not in drips and pieces, but to really sit down and give ourselves the time and the presence to read everything we wrote in that notebook–or if the words are in pieces to bring them all together in one collection.
I believe there are many elements to creativity. There’s the Earth, The Map of what you’d like to create in the world and through what project. Then there’s the Fuel, the tools, the education, the self care and time to burn our Fire, passion, drive, commitment, and motivation to go onward.
But where most people drop out is in the final stages— creating a Metal Container to collect ideas into, and churn and distill them into Air, the final product that they can share with others proudly to create the change they desire in the world with their creation.
By creating a container with my FREE ReReadaThon Webinar on Sunday Dec 21st 2014 at 1 PM EST, I will be making it easier for you to go through the process of revisting your journals, distilling all your ideas and emotions and thoughts from the past into plans for your future, and a deep knowing of who you are and what’s important to you.
You can attend Live or watch the broadcast later. To sign up go here
I can’t wait for you to see what I have in store for you on the Winter Solstice, it’s a special day for me and I’m excited to have you join me so we can make this happen!!
Don’t forget to sign up and I’ll send you access to the show and a reminder!
And leave me a note— what does the winter solstice mean to you? What will you do? And do you ever reread your journals? What’s good about it?
