a pause for january
another turn around the sun
I have yet to land into the new year. My birthday falls on the six of January, leaving a trail of quiet celebrations behind the holidays and causing the new year to finally feel fully arrived only a week or two past New Years Day. For the last two decades at least, I’ve never spent the holidays in the home or city where I’ve lived - I’m always on the road or in the sky, floating until I find a place to settle in.
While I am still drifting into the year, I’m allowing myself to gently ease in to the newness of the month and am welcoming the warm flutter of new year feelings. I imagine some of these are wisps from the beginning of The Artist’s Way again too. I’m dreaming up habits to stack and routines to polish. Even among the devastation of the last few days, I have hope for this year ahead. So many wishes and dreams.
I also have a sense of great unknown, reminders that nothing is promised. These feelings are scary, of course, and remind me that the trust and home I build within myself is of utmost importance. May I trust myself to figure it out; may I trust in my resiliency.
I’ve made time for my little new year’s less/more lists and have pulled my tarot cards and have listened to my horoscope for the year ahead but earlier this week, I realized I hadn’t paused - nor considered an intention for the year ahead. So I created the space.
The entirety of the year ahead felt like too much, so I focused in on the next three months and what came to me was STRUCTURED OPENNESS.
This past year was haphazard and the last few months I’ve been allowing myself to slowly reenter routines and rituals for grounding. I’m craving a steadiness and also I know this year will require some pivoting, an openness to what can and will be. I’m being called to cultivate a deep trust in the process, an embrace of the messiness, and a cultivation of the trust I hold within myself. I am working to feel a sense of home wherever I go, a sense that home is not a place or my items all together, it is deep within me.
May you too take a moment to pause, a moment to consider an intention for the year, the quarter, the month, the week, the day or the hour ahead. May you take a deep breath in and really allow yourself to feel it.
Wishing us all a sense of steadiness and a feeling of home to blossom within us.
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