Hello Lovelies,
Here is your weekly drop of self-connection through the body and connecting to your creativity and flow via intuitive painting. :)
This week´s Ritual sits on an interesting day.
The Mercury retrograde ends this week, Leo season starts this week.
The Barbault basket is full on doing it´s magic, which can feel intense, pivotting or like sharp insights dropping nowhere at a speed, that you cannot even write all of them down, while they are also very big, very bold, very exciting until you get out the shower and your brain catches up to what it would require from you, so your subconscious starts to show you all the ways that differs from your current identity. (In a nutshell…. :D)
How does these days feel like to you? ;) Do you feel like pivotting, expanding or just fighting it and want a way out of the spin? <3
The way I like to follow astrology is to see it as a longer process. Not only a linear one, but a cyclical one. So this “basket situation” with Jupiter, Uranus, Neptunus and Pluto joined by the Moon and the Sun works like a mirror, an amplifier, and also a step int he middle of this cycle.:)
We have received all the insights from behind the curtain on what might hold us back, how we think really and unconsciously, and maybe why the things didn´t work out the way we planned them, but how they were still important stepping stones on the journey.
This basket is building on those foundations, expanding and magnifying anything you place in it - so I like to be intentional on what I want to carry with it further. It came also after a New Moon, where we could plant a seed in a soil we tended to previously and now we get to “fertilize/nurture” it with an extra charged compound and sprinkle of magic. So that when we get into the season of acting and shining naturally bright in the light of the reflectors - we already know what is the essence, we allow to be visible and leading from that place.
Yesterday I held an in person Ritual and the themes have definitely been Surrender, shedding and the balance of masculine and feminine.
Which reflects so beautifully that it happened on Sunday, on the edge between our “Serpent” week and this week, which is for the “Jaguar”.
On Jaguar weeks I suggest you to ease into meeting your shadows. Get out of your head as often as possible. Gather your practices to guide you back to your center as quickly as possible, avoid explosive reactions and let nature hold space for you. Surrender, seeing the gifts in situations, befriending triggers as “path-showers” and extra amount of compassion, plus supporting relationships carry me through these weeks in every cycle. It also makes you feel stronger and makes you remember and own your resilience. :)
I feel with Leo season coming up, the balance between feminine (soft, emotions, water) and the masculine (leo, power, leadership, action, fire) is going to be in an interesting interplay. Jaguar weeks also call in the “Gentle Warrior”, so remember, that not all fights are to be fought in the open, many more is found in the invisible and fought by compassion, tenderness and being able to hold yourself. <3
And I brought a little fun visualization for this special time.
Yesterday morning I was receiving many ideas about how to embody these energies and how to draw the possibilities and anchor them in this 3d world.
I have had a handmade basket, I just finished and brought it with me.
I guided the visualization and after we drawn our helping object, we placed it in the basket and along with some words, which came up for us. Almost like seed planting, actually getting our body to connect to the intention and being playful at the same time, like children can always innately be.
To bring balance to the insintesity of this amplification we are receiving these 2-3 days, I wanted to invite extra depth.
So during this visualization you are invited to shed 4 layers and your protective shield, receive a helping object or energy to place in your heart and to help you remember the quality most needed in you for this coming season staying strongly in your own light.
The layers:
the one we simply outgrew - imagine it being hard and suffocating - starting to crack and fragment and drop off piece by piece
the one, which is ruled by our thoughts, fromt he top of our head - suddenly being hit by a lightning, and bringing it down with one pull, all at once from top to toe
the one, which is uncomfortable, undescribebable, gooooey, gluey, slimey substance we need to climb out of to get fresh air
the last one, which catches fire from the spark of our heart and burning from the center, seeing as the black hole with ashes just spreads and burns it all away$
Then we stand there. Feeling the lightness, but also the nakedness. Being all vulnerable, we naturally look for a shield.
investigate, how does your shield look like? Is it directly on your skin or something you hide under? Is it hard or more like a veil of niceness, so your enemy chooses no to attack you? Is it something more of a bubble, keeping you at great distance from the touch of anything?
Now…
Reach out with your hand and ask for a gift. A gift, which could help you to stand in your power and feel what you need to feel for that.
once you have your gift, place it back into your heart, right under the shield - there is an opening on it, so you have access to bring it right inside
Notice, how this gift dissolves your protective shield. With it´s own quality. Either it melts away, explodes it, simply is being taken down.
There you are. Just as pure as your heart´s essence is. With the fullest of your Soul gift.
Protecting you, empowering you, remembering you.
If you feel called, write down 3 words this gift represents. What you need in the future. What you already own of your qualities. What you are calling in from the basket to amplify. And place it in a basket, on your altar or whisper it to a glass of water.
As a Creative Call, we start using your gift item.
What color does it have? What shape does it have? How could you express it?
Place it to the canvas in a space, which you imagine is the heart of it. Like if your canvas was a body. Start your painting there.
Dedicate the bottom of the canvas to the 4 layers you are ready to leave behind.
Then turn around and apply your protective shield, and finally dissolve it.
See how the story evolves, where are you guided, keep rotating the canvas every time you need a shift of perspective or feel stuck.
Enjoy the process and remember, you create not only an imprint of your current inner landscape, but also an anchor, which keeps delivering messages to you during your whole week or the upcoming period.
Have a wonderful, playful and enjoyable creating time with curiosity. ✨
The transmission for the week from me to you:
Have a good one, Sweets :*
