I totally get it.

"I totally get it." 

- one of my favorite things to hear

I've recently (again, like all of us) had to let go of something to make room for some things; things that I don't exactly know, but I know they are coming.

Poetic, but difficult in the day to day. 

Or rather, excruciating with out faith. 

Like you, it's not my first rodeo so we know the feeling when we are in alignment and when we are out. I feel very clear that I am in alignment, because I have been out. 

I once had a coach tell me that in my core-structure I am motivated by connection and meaning. "You actually are here to help people," she told me. 

"Yup," I said, that I knew.

So with all the letting go in a year of collective letting go, I thought to myself, "What else do I have to lose?"

Answer: Nothing

"What if I just went on resonance?" I asked myself

Answer: You've got nothing left to lose...

[Me sitting quietly]

Answer: So, yes.

From that choice, I have had a slew of phenomenal recent conversations, connections and further a-ha's. Just from saying yes, to something (there's that word again) that I have indeed already said yes to, but now at a deeper level from a depth of unknown versus the light of assuredness.

I noticed that when I was connecting on that impetus, when I would begin to explain why I was reaching out to someone or explaining that I had no agenda but resonance in...[insert topic] I heard this in response:

"I totally get it. I know what you mean."

Again and again and again, 

It was so easy that the mere feeling of clarity lit up the next steps.  The space of what had been taken left me with a choice: Change or Repeat.

I choose change. I choose to move from a knowing and make it grow to a resonance—just like you have done time and time again.

We all know this comes in seasons and cycles. We can anchor it in more each time around the spiral, and unabashedly celebrate it when it comes.

So, if you are in it: Yay.

If you aren't: keep going. Your turn is coming.

If you need a little Refresh, a place to talk it out and get clear on a path, project, or journey.  Let's chat. 

More soon,

Kate

More talk on Alignment here.

Some things never change

Some things never change.

Like how many times I've walked a dog to this very spot and cast the same prayers into the water. Thankfully, the Wisaahickon loved me too much to answer them all.

That wisdom comes with the learning repetition gives, some call it aging.

Talking with a deeply creative friend, who will be on Season 6, (subscribe) he reminded me that Our Path, some call it entrepreneurship, or non-traditional -- IS the traditional path.

Humans traditionally worked on the seson's cycles, powering to Harvest and Resting for the next Season.

I realize my entire life has run on the Educational Cycle of time. 46 years! Even when I was in corporate I still spiraled with the summer of play and the anchoring into the new in September.

Every astrologer (there have been 5) that looked at my chart said the same: Oh, you have the Teacher Archetype. That's what you're here to do.

So why would that change? Look at where it brought me? Here.

Only the form evolves as I align closer with the Essence.

Change is afoot (literally and figuratively) and I think for those in this circle that this change is calling on our Creativity, which is really our Divinity ---pulling Form from the Cosmos, the womb of possibility, saying I am here and this is the Life I created.

Have a beautiful day.

Kate

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What if it's not about getting it right?

Moving in Spirals

I teach a class/journey named Step into the Spiral. In nature, everything moves in cycles and spirals. We birth in a spiral motion. A fern unfurls—spiral. I wanted the title to hint at that the solution: to take a step and let the momentum lead you to the next step.

I am really good at this—most of the time, but I am admittedly coming out of a stretch that I was not so certain in my footing and it weighed heavily on me. I have been reflecting a lot on that: the uncertainty and how could I have let myself drift so far away?

I know part of the answer: There's no growth in what we already know. 

I remember talking about my son's birth with my mid-wife after the fact (spoiler: we didn't have the birth I imagined) and how it had gone so unexpectedly. As I remember she shrugged her shoulders, intimidating That's birth and then she said something I can still hear: "You were all in. The universe never misses an opportunity like that."

What if it is really more about learning and dismantling than it is about achieving? For the new readers, let me explain. I am Type A. I thrive on achieving, but (and this is a big but) if I am only achieving then something is lacking. If we are striving or learning or letting go of one pattern for another or openly enjoying ourselves (internal landscape motivators) then we achieve, but we don't care if anyone notices because we can feel it. It's a whole other level of accomplishment.

Friends & Power of Presence

I love and crave the support of my friends, and I have learned that some markers go largely unnoticed by the other and yet are groundshifters for how I perceive myself inside to out. Maybe that is one of the markers of that growth.

I have very few star crushes, even fewer these days; they don't hold my attention; however, I used to avidly watch Cesar Milan. His show was about energy work and dogs—a fave combo for me! I dug a little more into his background as a pop culture reference point while I was teaching bodywork. He lost everything at one point, his dog Daddy died, his wife filed for a divorce and he tried to end his life. When he awoke in the hospital he was surrounded by fellow patients that were fans that told him how much he had impacted their lives.  

Cesar Milan & Gifts of Failure

The interviewer asked him what he had learned from being successful, and Cesar Milan answered with an insight I have never forgotten. He said, "It's easy when you are successful. Everyone wants to be around you. Everyone wants to help. The real learning comes when you lose everything. Who is there then? I learned how to rebuild my pack, at work and we became international, but," and there was a look in his eye, "I built my pack from a very different place with different people who all held the same vision."

I truly feel that this year, if you hold the vision, you will see demonstrations back from the Universe, from the Elementals, from whatever you believe in that is orchestrating my thoughts and the breath and keys on the board, that you are heading in the right direction, that there is support waiting for you.  Acknowledge it and watch it grow. This is a year of change, you can read about it or you can close your eyes, sit still and feel it. Whatever works for you. 

May we learn from the times that are hard what is aiming to prepare us for our next grand rising.