Remember Our Goodness: New Year & Capricorn
Happy 2023! We are well into Capricorn season, where systems, long term vision, and mastery are themes – in time for discerning, choosing our dreams and goals for the new year.
Not so fast, though. I invite you to see 2023 through a very specific lens.
If you are still transitioning from the holidays and back-to-work, there’s good news. We have about 2 more weeks of slower and quiet energy due to the communication, thinking-oriented Mercury, and go-getter Mars in retrograde. There can be pent-up, accordion-like chi or words waiting to be released. Also in play, a theme of how we relate, earn, and attract.
Take the time to settle what you truly think and feel as you marinate in the cold days of winter.
I was in a coaches’ mastermind group reviewing the past year. What was successful, what failed. What values were honored in our projects. All great questions. We’d learn from the past and improve the future. Except I couldn’t finish the questions. I shared that I was overwhelmed by what I did, what I had to do. It was all about doing, not being. The mind and not the heart.
We ended the meeting with someone saying she’ll scrap the whole self-examination worksheet for her clients and ask them to just celebrate themselves.
Amen. I trust that in 2022 we’ve all done a ton of work, caretaking, loving, making, sharing, and hugging. In the perspective of ambitious, pragmatic Capricorn, these things can seem like unintentional, distracted tasks.
What if we look at ourselves from the POV of being? That we were being kind, helpful, responsible, well-intentioned, creative people who worked hard to master our lives. This is the higher realm of Capricorn, the wise, grounded, visionary who has experienced life and built something tangible over time. Evolving family life and friendships, showing up for a career in service of an ideal or team, writing books to illuminate. This work gave stability and promoted progress. Look around you and you’ll see that indeed efforts were made. Bring this acknowledgement to your consciousness and write it down.
Going forward, ask does this thought, plan, or action celebrate who I am? Our values, beliefs, history run our responses to the world. What are they?
(For inner dialogue, use my THRIVE Anywhere workbook you’ve downloaded.)
To the committee of voices inside saying what if it doesn’t work, you can’t, or that’s too much to tackle: I see you, thank you, and go back to the basement. Realize what they are protecting you from, take care of those the best way you can, and move on.
Bring your heart and fire into the equation. Tend to your light and remember it. Do one thing you love every day for 10-20 minutes to remind you of your goodness, your joy. Read that novel, take a walk, enjoy a long shower, knit something, write a friend. Be present in the moment.
Hone your fire, figure out how to keep it alight. This is what sustains us through the mundane and hardships.
After some rest and self-appreciation, consider where you’d like to do in the next 12 months. On January 22, a new moon in liberating, innovative Aquarius takes place while all planets are going direct. Meaning, there is energy for all to re-emerge anew, untethered, and ready to rock.
A aha that freed me recently is this:
No one, including me, has to do anything they don’t want to.
When we accept the cause and effect, the law of karma, we are off the hook from expectations and giving our power away. Clarity comes when we make peace with the worst-case scenario. There is no fault, no fear. We are free to choose, to show up for ourselves and others. We have the fortitude to take risks and meet challenges.
We can do this.
What do you want to build or build upon next? Use my T.H.R.I.V.E. Anytime workbook and focus on letter E, evolution. What do you need to learn in order to flourish? What legacy, big or small, would you like to leave in 2023? In a recent instagram video, I ask 3 empowering questions about this.
WHAT’S NEWS
Free THRIVE Hour is back! Sunday, Jan 15, 1pm ET. Remembering Our Goodness: Relax and Reflect on Who We Are Join like-minded people for a guided meditation, talk about what makes our heart sing, and find ways to connect to that during happy and uncomfortable times.
POSTPONED Cultivate 2023 with Your Sun Sign TBA. Energize your environment to manifest your heart’s desires during this auspicious new moon/Lunar New Year! In this interactive 2.5 hours, foster an aligned path to your goals and commit to next steps using psychological astrology. Recorded, pre-workshop assignments. *December Cultivate 2023 participant discounts. Learn more
Past C2S Clients Now that I am settled in, I really want to know how you are! A free offer to chat for 30 minutes was sent in December. Look for that email or reply here.
May the return of light boost our lightness of being. Happy Lunar New Year!
Sue
