I hope you will indulge me a moment as I take a stroll down memory lane and look at the past year. It feels a bit therapeutic to honor what has been, and recognize what’s come to pass.
It’s been a big year.
As 2010 rolled into place my thoughts were on “responsibility.” Both personally and collectively I felt the energy asking us to really “step up” and own who were were. No more were we able to hide behind our masks…or someone else.
This was my personal work and also what I saw happening with those who were consciously deciding to work with the energy and take a leap of faith into what was calling them forward.
Many of us were coming off of a rocky 2009, and a little weary of what else we were being asked to do. But January seemed to bring a new level of energy to the task, and we stepped up.
We circled back around and shed layer upon layer of old patterns that we just couldn’t take into the year. We were becoming responsible for who we were – owning all the parts of us – so we could be present with others.
This was a timely task, as February shook Gaia through and through. The devastating earthquakes woke up an even deeper layer of our humanity, and a call to support the collective whole.
March held an energy of slowness to some degree, and an energy of deep planning for what we were creating and needing to birth in the spring.
And that spring energy was powerful.
April brought more global pain and the need to take a hard look at what we were doing to Gaia with the oil spill. It was a balancing act to stay engaged with the world and not go into fear…a balance we still need to hold.
And when May rolled in, well… it was energetically explosive!
The energetic “encouragement” in May was to engage with the present energy and say “Yes!” Oddly, it was the first month in the year where a real shift in the energy could be felt toward cohesion or ease…despite the fact that globally it still seemed like we were going to hell in a hand basket.
Summer didn’t slow down. Energetically there was a lot going on. So if you spent the summer engaged in your healing process as you moved through your world, you were in good company.
June took us on a ride of change. There was a big clearing out of old patterns and emotions, particularly about the time of the Solstice. There were some celestial events that rocked us: a lunar eclipse and the Grand Cross. And, with those came a deepening of our sense of Self. Once the dust settled, the energy brought on a feeling of expansion…ahhh!
In July we stepped through a doorway it seemed. And on the other side was an energetic awareness that shifted reality for many. I know for myself, I had a sense of more calm and more trust. I was learning a new way of Being.
August came in with a bang and put a lot of us to work, getting down to the core of what we were here for. The energy kept taking us deeper and deeper into our Truth…there was no escaping it!
That door we stepped across a few months earlier, and all that energy we were working with in the summer, sent many of us reeling in September as things began to really integrate. It was like we were squeezed and re-formed into something new. That was the month of weird energy symptoms like headaches and dizziness. We were getting used to all this “new” energy and how we needed to work with it on the physical level.
October and November brought swift energetic changes, and a learning on the physical level as to how to manage higher vibrations that held more light. We were getting another upgrade that had to move into the nervous system…and quick! Yet, things seemed manageable since the summer months and whatever change took place there.
And alas, December. We had Mercury in retrograde, a lunar eclipse and the Solstice all affecting us energetically. These astrological events took many of us again on a ride along that spiral path back to what needed attention. This last month of 2010 held an odd urgency to heal what, again, can not come with us as we step into the new year.
The energy has been powerful. It is powerful. It needs to be. It is pushing some, and propelling others forward on a journey of ascension and spiritual evolution.
And, 2011 promises to be quite a ride I am sure. But the Universe always prepares us. I think that from an energetic perspective we are indeed in good hands as we cross into the new year.
Sure, there may be bumps along the path, lessons to be learned and even deeper layers of our heart to be opened. But, the pathway has indeed been expanded!
Wishing you all a joyful and expansive New Year!
It seems to me that 2010 is the year of responsibility. Personal responsibility, that is, in accepting our creative abilities.
A mind map is a diagram with words and pictures to represent an idea. It’s a great way to tap into your creative brain as you begin to lay out thoughts associated with a certain topic.
