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The season of letting go …

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We’ve shifted into the Autumn months in the southern hemisphere, and the tree’s are about to show us how beautiful it can be to let go.

Autumn makes me feel grounded because it’s a sensory experience

A visual transformation in nature that creates a tapestry of colour, and I love the warm earthly tones of red, orange, yellow, brown and gold. The sound of rustling leaves dance with the wind, and they crunch under foot, creating a musky aroma of decaying leaves in the air, and nothing beats sitting around a fire on a cool evening. The romance of watching the sky changing colour as the sun sets, and the moon rises. Contemplating the cosmos under a blanket of stars makes us feel part of something Greater, and that feeling invites us to reflect upon the deeper meaning, and higher purpose of our life.

Autumn is a deeply grounding season because the sensory experience helps to regulate our nervous system, shifting us into a more relaxed “rest-and-digest” mode, that promotes a more present-focused, and calm state of mind, but it also teaches us how to let go. Like the trees, we need to release what no longer serves us, to conserve energy during the winter months, in preparation for new growth in spring. Learning how to flow with the seasons is how we learn to embrace the natural ebbs and flow of life, so we can be less resistive, and more accepting of change, but this process will challenge us to be more present.

By tuning into our senses, it turns the gaze inwards

To identify the patterns triggering our limiting beliefs, so we can break free from what’s holding us back. To process our e-motions, forgive, and heal any lingering hurts, so we can let go of what no longer serves us. To adopt a growth mindset, by reframing our past mis-takes and redefining our identity, so we can align with our core values. We align with our core values by identifying what guides our behaviour and motivates our choices, acknowledging what drains and nourishes us, and determining what we prioritize and why. We have many core values, but some will be on top of the list, and compromising them is a slippery slope of consequences we will learn valuable lessons from.

Experience is how we become an active participant in our own life

Having the courage to be vulnerable enough to make mistakes is a foundational element of our personal growth. According to Dr. Brene Brown. “Vulnerability is defined as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure – it is not a sign of weakness, but rather the most accurate measure of our courage. By letting go of the pressure to be perfect, individuals and leaders can create stronger, more trusting, and more collaborative environments.”

Therefore, embracing failure allows us to use the obstacles as stepping stones, cultivate a growth mindset, develop new perspectives, break cycles, change patterns, and perceive our challenges as opportunities for new growth.

Embracing this growth cycle transforms the past into wisdom, rather than the weight of our burdens and regrets we carry

Although failure is a natural part of our personal growth we still struggle when things don’t go right, but why do we believe something is wrong if it fails? Why do we believe we’ve lost something when it changes form?

  • What if we are learning the most when we fail?
  • What if we are growing the most from our losses?

Failure and loss act as a catalyst for change and transformation, but it will trigger a story, and the narrative will differ depending on how we’ve failed, what we’ve lost, and who we are. Those stories are easily shaped, altered, or reinterpreted over time, and as authors of our own stories we are able to redefine ourselves, and rewrite the narrative as often as we need to.

What story has been playing out for you?

“Men may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.” (Candace Bushnell) is a quote that comes to mind because for me, the end of a significant relationship has been challenging me to change. Refining my internal locus of control, and acknowledging external limitations to maintain a more balanced state of mind.

“Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” (The Serenity Prayer)

Although it’s a deeply personal experience, it’s also part of the collective story.

The threat of another war makes us all feel anxious, and it’s his-story repeating itself, but another story is being written and shared by women. Her-story is an internal battle she’s been fighting with the ego on her spiritual path, so she can understand the illusion of control, and surrender to a higher power.

A Shero’s call OUT to adventure, and her calls IN to do the shadow work

“The world will be saved by the Western women.” (Dalai Lama)

His Holiness said this in 2009 at the Vancouver Peace Summit because the threat of war has been an ongoing concern. Chemical warfare threw the world into chaos in 2020, and the political bullshit continues to agitate the masses by creating a divide, but we’re healing the split, and the game is changing.

Social revolution demands people wake up, shout out, and stand up for what they believe in. Systemic change requires active, courageous, and vocal participation rather than inactive resistance. Passive compliance, tolerance or silent acceptance avoids conflict … but it prevents change.

Can YOU feel the call urging us to move beyond comfortable conformity, to challenge authority, and demand justice? Western women have been fighting for our privileges for centuries, and we now have the means to inform and influence change … but our willingness to speak the truth triggers a reaction.

Our presence has always challenged the ego’s sense of control, and women are still being told we are too sensitive, and over-reactive to the bullshit we are being served. The patriarchy loves to project our reactions to disrespect, punish our intolerance of injustice, and pathologize our defiance, but we are becoming more conscious of the patterns … and we are healing deeper wounds.

Women are the greatest threat to an ego, and the patriarchy because our heart seeks authentic connection, and harmony, but it demands vulnerability, and that’s our strength. The witchy woo woo women are no longer being burnt at the stake … but we are burning for love in so many ways.

… and still we rise 🔥

Ladies and Gentle-men, by turning our gaze inwards we reclaim our sovereignty, and become an active participant in a spiritual revolution.

The Divine Feminine and the Sacred Masculine can align within us ALL, regardless of our gender, and this internal integration is a path to wholeness. When these energies are balanced within us, we embody “goddess wisdom” – a blend of intuition, creativity, and love, while using the masculine aspects of structure, protection, and purpose to ground that wisdom in the physical world.

Becoming an embodiment of our spiritual essence is our destiny …

... but our fate will be determined by the choices we make 💫

How can YOU align with the season of Autumn and LET GO?

Lunar Eclipse in Virgo…

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The significance of (3) strikes again 𖤓☾✩⃤⃤⃤

This is the last in a triad of Blood Moons that began in March 2025, and I can’t ignore the significance of it occurring on the (3rd) March.

The Divine TRINITY of completion …

According to the star gazers, this is the final chapter of a story that’s been playing out for us, the final purge of what no longer serves us, the closing credits of a karmic storyline that’s been challenging us, and the reckoning of our truth. Oh yes, it’s dramatic, and it’ll be life changing, but what that means to us will depend upon what’s been unfolding for us since March 2025.

  • What challenges have you been confronting?
  • What questions have you been asking?
  • What’s revealing itself to you?

Every FULL MOON is another opportunity to RELEASE and RESET, but this months eclipse energy feels purposeful for our soul, because it’s been inviting us to dive deeper so we can rise higher. Eclipses illuminate what’s been avoided (emotional truth, subconscious patterns, and hidden attachments), and according to the star gazers, illusions will crack, secrets can surface, cycles will be reaching completion, and bonds will either deepen or sever.

An alignment of the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth creates the kind of tension that brings clarity, but old fears and doubts will surface to be released, and unresolved feelings will arise to be healed. Triggering ego clashes, hidden tensions and suppressed resentments to illuminate the truth, release old patterns, and expose what no longer serves us.

This energy is an invitation to ALIGN with our higher selves.

It’s a karmic cleanse that will redefine and refine us, but we need to ask …

  • What are my blocks and what have I not allowed myself to see?
  • What are my obstacles and what am I gripping onto too tightly?
  • What is holding me back and what am I afraid to let go of?

Embracing the ancestral shadow holds profound wisdom because the light isn’t our only teacher, but it’s no longer about fighting or provoking the system. It’s guiding us towards accepting the whole truth of who we are (good and bad). To disrupt the illusion of control and bring balance to our experience, so we can be more grounded in reality, and that’s how we empower ourselves.

What is the ancestral shadow?

  • Inherited trauma we keep repeating until someone becomes conscious of it
  • Abusive dynamics we keep repeating until someone is willing to change it
  • Silence around pain we keep repeating until someone is ready to feel it
  • Patterns we pass down unnoticed until someone is able to see it

Ancestral programming is part of the collective conscience, and it’s surfacing to be seen, felt, healed and changed, so we don’t keep repeating the same generational cycles. The collective conscience wants to evolve, and that’s why we are experiencing more mental health challenges, its why so many of us are failing in our intimate relationships, and it’s why the political drama is playing out as it is, but more and more souls are waking up to the illusions of power and control (thank fuck), so we can change how we respond because we understand.

  • Why we tolerate what we tolerate?
  • Why we shrink in certain dynamics?
  • Why our body reacts before the mind understands?

This isn’t witchy woo woo nonsense, it’s psychology, it’s science, it’s quantum physics, and although complicated it really is quite simply a matter of being conscious of “where focus goes, energy flows” (Tony Robbins). Imagine the kind of psychological revolution that shifts the power towards healing, rather than the conditioned fear response that keeps us in a constant state of agitation.

What if the power to change the world really does lie within us all?

Call me crazy, but I believe that kind of change IS possible, and I’m gonna keep preaching it until others believe they can create it too, but that kind of revolutionary thinking asks us to confront the truth of who you are. To acknowledge our coping strategies and defence mechanisms, so we can RELEASE ourselves from the unconscious fear program running the show.

How is your nervous system running your life?

  • Habitual patterns of behaviours you’ve learned?
  • Ineffective coping styles that offer immediate relief?
  • Mental loops that keep you stuck?

It’s all rising to be REVEALED so we can become cleaner in thought, body and energetic boundaries, so notice the stories you’re telling yourself, and listen to your deeper knowing because something is ending for a reason…

  • A mental identity
  • A habit
  • A dynamic
  • A pattern
  • A story line

Compassion for the struggle is both the message and the medicine because the triggers will always persist, but we are changing, and I believe in YOU.

Our thoughts shape our reality

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Inspiration to write is found everywhere, and this morning it was a post I read and shared on the book of face, because I related to what he wrote. I haven’t written in a diary for years either, because I’ve been using the book of face (or) my blog to openly share my thoughts and feelings too … but why?

For some, social media is a platform to share funny memes, family photos, and exciting adventures, but it can also become a stage to play out the fantasy, the illusion or the lie. It’s a space to share our personal experiences, have conversations, exchange creative ideas, express political views, share information, learn new things, and connect with each other, but it can also become a court room to justify our actions, plead our case, and vent our opinions to a jury of spectators, so they can deliver their final judgement with a push of a button. We all know the anticipation of a like that makes us feel seen, a love that makes us feel understood, and a care that makes us feel like someone gives a fuck. Those buttons are designed to trigger positive reinforcement by giving us a boost of dopamine, as the reward of social acceptance, and the instant gratification of accomplishment (or) it stirs a negative emotional response that triggers our anxious and competitive behaviours, that’s rooted in the addiction for external validation because we feel rejected by our tribe.

Human behaviour is absolutely fascinating … my own included !!

Social media can be all of the above, but we get to decide who we are, what we follow, and how we share. I don’t share my truth and talk about my life for attention, but my ego definitely responds to the triggers of those buttons. I share my truth because I am here to live my life as honestly as I can.

For me, journaling has become more than a book to dump my messy thoughts and unexpressed feelings, it’s an important part of my healing process, and that’s why I share. As an extrovert, who is open to experience, I often feel called to share the conflicts of my concerns, and the experiences that are challenging me to change because there is no shame in the struggle.

I know I am the healer in my own life, but first I usually need to suffer the consequences of my own choices, before I can share the magick of my own medicine with others.

Letting go of the guilt trips, the blame games and the shame stories is how we heal, but we are creatures of habit, and we fight to hold on, even if it’s making us bleed. I’ve been called OUT to experience the chaos of conflicting truths, and leaning IN to explore the tensions of my own resistance for years, to understand the struggles, and I’ve been learning plenty of hard lessons along the way.

As a witchy woo woo woman, I consider words to be my craft, and I often write to make sense of a world that doesn’t always make sense to me. To find meaning in what’s challenging me to change, so I can feel a sense of purpose in this crazy wonderful journey that is my life. Sometimes the written word can be like the weaving of a spell, as I challenge my thoughts, to break free from the limitations of my conditioned mind. Provoking and evoking emotion, to expose my deeper truth, so I can explore the possibilities and manifest new experiences, that will shape my reality in the future.

We are the creator of our own life and the narrator of our own story

Although we cannot control every experience that happens to us, we do have control over how we understand and respond to it. This perception shifts us out of a victim mentality, based on our need to survive, into an empowered growth mindset, so we can learn, heal and grow from the experience. That’s how we become an active participant in our own life, rather than a passive observer. As the narrator of our own story we can edit and rewrite the script as often as we want, and we are the one to decide who plays the significant roles in our lives.

Truth is, everyone of us struggles with our mental health, especially during challenging times of change, and that’s why our conversations matter. When I look back on my life, I could easily get caught up in the old stories I’ve outgrown, but I don’t believe everything I think. However, that doesn’t stop those thoughts from rising, and becoming conscious of this split in our thinking is how we become the bridge. We integrate the survival and growth mindset to become whole, so we can be a fuller expression of SELF.

Most of us believe we are being ourselves, but when we deny, defend, avoid, reject and project what’s perceived to be negative, it creates the shadow, which is all those unaccepted and unlovable parts of who we are are. To heal, we must learn how to accept and love ALL of who we are, shining a light on our shady behaviours. Holding ourselves accountable, and taking full responsibility for our experience inspires others to learn, heal, and grow from their challenges.

Imagine living in a world of evolving people, who are loving and accepting of each other because they are healing themselves, and therefore relating as their higher selves, instead of reacting to each others triggers.

What if that is possible for each and every one of us?

When we align our thoughts with our highest potential, then we can turn the vision of our dreams into reality

Language has a power …

To unite (or) separate, to protect (or) defend, to create (or) destroy.

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This image popped up in my Facebook newsfeed this morning from Spiritual Revelations, and it reflects the split in our thinking perfectly. How the ego wants to control the narrative, but the consciousness wants to understand our experiences. My words are always written with the intention to understand because I am passionately curious about the human experience, but my willingness to speak the truth, challenge reality, and question what is can often trigger a reaction in others. However, this isn’t wrong, negative or bad because the activation of a strong emotional response is an inevitable part of our human interaction, and our biggest opportunity for deeper reflection and growth.

Like it or not, the triggers of our mirrors and reflections are part of the human experience. Guiding us IN so we can resolve past experiences, and therefore they are a catalyst for our learning, healing, and growth.

To grow we must be willing to challenge our thinking, our limited beliefs and our assumptions, by questioning ourselves …

What story am I telling myself ?

Why do I believe that, and is it serving me?

What triggers me, and what is it revealing?

How can I learn and grow from this?

Do my choices align with my values?

Will this choice move me forward or keep me stuck?

Asking ourselves the right question interrupts the rumination of thought that makes us feel anxious, empowering us to deepen our self awareness so we can live a more conscious life.

I believe that’s the true source of our SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT ✨️