Leading Your Life

Leadership.

It is the headline of this new moon on Wednesday. It is the headline of eclipse season. It is the headline of Leo season. It is a headline that lingers in the daily news.

It is your headline too.

Through eclipse season, our attention is redirected and our paths can shift. When we are grounded and willing to take the lead in our own lives, we are more aware, better able to pivot and more creative in working with the circumstance at hand.

We don’t control every circumstance. We do have agency over how we meet it and how we respond.

When we take ownership of our response to life, including the stories seeded in our past, the choices we make, the patterns we repeat and the possibilities we allow ourselves to see, we begin to lead from where we are rather than from what has been.

This is leading your life.

As we sit in the eclipse energy, we are being asked to step up and lead our life, within the dynamics of the external circumstances.

How do we do this?

By owning our role.

By releasing judgement of ourselves and others.

By working with our external circumstances from a place of curiosity.

By leaning on support systems.

By being present.

Let’s work through these.

Own what is yours.

Yes, there are circumstances less than favorable in our lives. Get curious as to why they are so bothersome. Sometimes, they are simply out of our control and need to be released from our being. Other times, we ruminate over them, creating stagnant energy that settles in and becomes a block.

Own what is yours to control and release what isn’t yours to carry.

Release judgment.

There is the judgment we fear receiving. And the judgment we place on ourselves. Both cause us to be a little quieter, a little less shiny.

Judgment does not allow us to lead freely. Love yourself a little more. Love others a little more. Replace some of that judgment with curiosity.

Judgment closes, blocks. Curiosity opens.

Choose curiosity.

Get curious. Explore other pathways. Open your mind and heart to the circumstances of others.

Instead of asking, “Why is this happening to me?”, ask “What is this showing me?” 

Curiosity creates possibility where judgment often sees limitations. 

Ask for support.

Lean on your support systems. They are there if you are willing to see them. Ask for help. If a “no” comes your way, move onto the next support and ask again.

Do not give up on yourself.

Leadership does not mean doing everything alone. Knowing when we need support and being willing to receive it is part of leading and living our lives well.

Come back to presence.

Presence. Say it with me, “Presence changes everything.”

Presence creates the space between what happens and what we do next.

It gives us a moment to notice the story we are telling ourselves. To recognize where judgment has crept in. To see what is ours to carry and what we can release. To ask for support. To recognize and make another choice.

As simple as these practices may seem, leading your life from a place of curiosity, presence, receptivity, and love changes how you move through the world.

You do not have to control every circumstance to lead your life.

Be present enough to recognize where you have a choice, courageous enough to make it and open enough to receive support along the way.

That is leadership.

You don’t have to lead alone.

Leadership is not having all of the right answers. Sometimes leading your life means recognizing that you need a little support to hear yourself again.

This is the heart of my work. It is a remembrance of your magic already within you and a return to what you know.

Through Reiki and The Aligned Month, I create space for you to slow down, become present, clear some of the noise and reconnect with what you already know within yourself.

Explore an Intuitive Reiki Session, an Intuitive Soul Conversation or The Aligned Month, where we prepare and align to the month ahead before the month carries you along.

Leading your life doesn’t require a dramatic change.

Sometimes it begins by becoming quiet enough to hear yourself so that you can take the next step, centered, from your place of knowing.

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