Watching the colors of sunset emerge from a hole in the sky between the majestic peaks and dark purple gray clouds above the lake through the trees, I see fuchsia, magenta, gold, and tangerine all dancing together. They do so with individual brilliance and joyously as a unified celebration.

They send a message of vibrational resonance to my heart, reflecting the importance of embodying the energy you desire for this year and onward, as these frequencies will act as your alignment navigator.

What are you feeling called to walk with?

What are you here for?

Questions like these may seem daunting if you feel overwhelmed with stimulus that fogs your thoughts and emotions, if you feel inadequate and like the answer must be something extravagant to be meaningful, or if you’ve never really sat down to ask yourself what moves you in the first place.

Where it may have seemed like you were building and in limbo for so long in previous years, the new is here now for the embracing. Grabbing hold of the energy stream you want to ride will take you out of inertia.

Maybe it’s time for a new mantra.

Perhaps something as simple as “I allow myself to receive” can begin the rewiring.

Spring may be the official renewal season, but Winter and this first month of the year can cultivate and lay the groundwork for what you do in fact want to start seeing bloom.

Regardless of it being a new year, it’s always a great time to touch in with yourself and see how you’re feeling about things, what you do and don’t like, and what intentions and visions you’d enjoy experiencing.

Is this the year you follow your truest heart calling?

Is this the month, day, or moment you click in a brand new commitment to some step toward one of your goals?

Maybe it’s simply the year you shift one or more limiting perspectives to more expansive ones, or create more balance between how much you give and receive if one outweighs the other.

What would you like to lean more into?

Committing to listening more to your intuition?

Allowing yourself to rest and just be?

Slowing down and going more within?

Stretching outward more and accepting invitations or extending some?

Celebrating your unique, magickal self?

Expressing gratitude more?

Immersing more in playfulness and imagination?

Just a couple of days ago I was doing my usual singing and talking to myself with made up stories that induce laughter. Dave looked up and said with a laugh, “You’re like a 3 year old little girl just going on and about things that make no sense to anyone else for no reason at all.” He continued to laugh, finding it amusing and endearing he added.

I said to him, “Well, then I know I’m in my essence because this behavior hasn’t changed from when I was actually 3 years old. I was doing the exact thing then. Sitting in my room playing with my stuffed animals and toys, creating an imaginary world, while talking and singing out loud, giggling, and completely in my joy, all on my own. In fact, my parents thought it was so cute then as well, that they have recordings they made of me amusing myself that they have still to this day.”

One of my intentions is to strengthen this connection I have to who I really am and one of my commitments is to my essence.

Where I might have in the past felt judged, or judged myself about this, or perhaps thought I should tone it down when around others, I’ve now amplified even more and plan to continue to.

I’ve said to Dave on other occasions recently, “I sure do have fun and am happy. And in a world that doesn’t always have a lot of that being expressed or where so many other emotions or fears are flying around, I’m grateful to be the way I am.”

I feel the more we brave up and support each other to brave up to being exactly who we came here to be, the more this will spread into a new natural conditioning of essence excitement across the globe!

And for me, this isn’t just about amplifying my playful always-inner child, but amplifying the gifts and powers I suppressed or kept at bay for various reasons over the course of my life. No more subduing.

Something that may speak to you as well for this new cycle might be to create a personal practice that you commit to implementing daily this year.

Of course, it’s great to be flexible and gentle with yourself when it comes to goals, but it’s also supportive to create ways to engage yourself more so you do actually want to do, and enjoy doing, the practice you put in place.

Sometimes you just don’t know how much you’ll enjoy something until you actually start doing it. It’s easy to create a story around things and then play out what you fear. But it actually is just as easy to create a different story and play out what you want. It takes a little momentum and practice to make something stick, too, as well as make something become your new natural.

Nothing you do now came overnight. Whether you do something you don’t like or like, it all took practice and conditioning to get there. And so, it takes the same to get somewhere else.

This doesn’t have to be hard. Make it fun. But I assure you that once you do it just a few times and start feeling the truth of it in real time experience, rather than think about the story of it you made up, you will be happy you started and grateful you didn’t put energy into the worry or fear.

Start now…start over. You’re beginning from a place of experience. Probably many years of it and you can definitely find your process for successes there. Maybe you’ve just been amplifying the challenges or places that didn’t go the way you want more, rather than realizing how much you have actually accomplished.

This is one way to start making changes. Amplify the perspective that sees what you have created in your life. Become your own cheerleader to replace the voices of those who may have tried to pull you down. Take back your energy and take back control of your life.

You aren’t actually starting from a blank slate. You have tons of experience to pull from. Highlight those areas and utilize the process that made those things work.

You have so many answers locked within you. Letting them out is a form of self value. You have much to be proud of and so much innate wisdom that just needs your desire to interpret it.

Stepping out of your comfort zone isn’t always easy, but remember that you learned some of these comforts as a form of coping with, or making up for, things you didn’t like – not just purely because you wanted them.

Curiosity around things can lead you to answers, but of course that too, is a choice. And where ever you find yourself choosing, is perfect and unfolds an equally perfect experience. You need only to make new choices if you commit to a desire you have to change something.

It can be powerful to simply ask yourself, “What do I need?”

Sometimes we’re afraid to state what it is we really want. Now is a great opportunity to vulnerably ask yourself this question and speak it out loud. Once you voice your feelings, they are no longer operating subconsciously. When triggers take place, they are many times an invitation to say how you really feel and to compassionately voice your truth. When something is heard, then it can be addressed and guides you to the root of things.

Good communication isn’t just about communicating with others better, but communicating with ourselves more clearly as well.

Again, everything unfolds perfectly and in divine timing. So, there’s no need to judge where ever you find yourself along the journey.

Experience is experience. How you interpret it, makes the only difference for you.

For me, I’m choosing different experiences moving forward. This starts with creating an organic list of things I want to focus more on. Some of these things may be altogether new, some may be a strengthening and increasing of frequency for something I already do, or it may be resurrecting a deep seeded passion and soul purpose.

This will then evolve into a baseline framework for my days to look at ways I can implement all the things I want to do and how feasible that feels. It may start out looking more structured, but I’ll be sure to implement ways to be creative and allow my personal need of flow, while also honoring the self discipline I know works well for me. Eventually, something that seems carved out and constructed will become a new natural and not seem rigid like it might at the beginning. Some things just take some finessing for a bit to find the right balance that works well for all of our needs.

This is something I implement with clients who work with me more regularly. We work at finding the way to bridge where they are to their goal in bite sized morsels that feel more natural in progression because not everyone can just jump the fence.

I do some of both with myself – some finessing and some fence jumping.

I’ll go first with sharing how I started my process to help jump-start ideas for you. There’s no right or wrong way with this.

I haven’t detailed or organized my intentions yet for daily implementation (which eventually will include more specifics and timelines, as well as may simplify or shift what is written here), but here are examples of things I have on my organic, brainstorming list I’m exploring right now that came up as important in some way for me. It’s a way to just flow ideas of what comes to me without filtering and then from here I can then start to define what this means and how it looks for me, as there are ways that things can be incorporated and broken down more:

Engaging all of my gifts and amplifying my essence, more friend and family time, balancing giving and receiving even more, strengthening boundaries, carving out creative anything time, more time cultivating my unique spiritual practices, focus energy into personal projects, more daily exercise, more infrared sauna and massage chair time, more nothing just being time, incorporating some liquid fasting alongside regular intermittent fasting lifestyle, more creative cooking and baking, more backpacking, travel and cultural immersions.

Perhaps you might start with a brainstorming of stuff that pops up as things you just feel called to more, want more of, or that you feel would be more supportive and is your joy or path.

You don’t need to know yet how this looks, or if all of these will actually make your final list, but just allowing yourself to flow with what comes up is the key. You may even find that there’s a way to do something that integrates several things on your list, or that after writing your thoughts out you realize something different, or that what you wrote was merely wanting your attention to shift a perspective about.

I simplified mine as a list of short ideas that I do personal exploration around after, but you could journal more about them and see what feelings and ideas come through with just inviting your desires to share themselves.

It’s a way to invite your heart into your day more and the inner voice that doesn’t always get heard.

We enjoyed a different New Year’s Eve than we have in the past. We’re usually in bed as the change of years take place and haven’t gone out in years to do anything.

This year, good friends of ours invited us over for a fun meal of vegan raclettes, followed by checking out the festivities at the ski resort at their end of the lake, and if we wanted to not drive home, to then stay over.

We embraced the invitation and added more to the mix of the evening’s engagements, even though we’re usually more comfortable snuggled at home. The additions included the idea of a Tarot reading for each other and sound healing bath to end the night.

None of us thought we’d actually stay up until midnight, as we’re all early-to-bedders, but in fact we did, as that’s how the energy of the organic flow of everything unfolded naturally.

The meal was delicious and the ski resort events were actually fun. We loved the idea that they ended at 6pm, getting us back home early and not having to be out at midnight.

It included a snowcat parade, followed by skiers with lights parade, and ending with a really spectacular half hour fireworks display.

We spent half the time inside the lodge enjoying drinks and chocolate, then bundled up to take in the sparkle of colors over the snowy landscape.

It was mellow and easy to get in and out of.

We returned to their home, enjoyed dessert and hot drinks, and proceeded with some really insightful Tarot readings for each of our year ahead that we all supported one another with, and followed that with two of our group working the crystal bowls our friends have and other instruments I brought – a chakra bowl, tingsha bells, Tibetan bowl, and a Peruvian medicine rattle.

We ended up hitting midnight, then went straight off to bed.

We stretched our own usual comfort zones to do something that sounded fun, intentionally aligned, and connective and we ended up having a great time. That included an incredible breakfast spread our friends made for us to kick off the first day of the year.

Even though we were only thirty-five minutes from home, it was a real treat and a great way to savor enriching experiences, people in our lives, and shift the energy into a new direction for the year.

I also waited until the new year to start my skiing.

Dave had gone skiing seven times on his own, where I honored my feeling of hanging back to complete work I’m tying up and just not feeling it yet since the snow wasn’t the way I like it, nor the crowds gone from the holidays.

I then picked up two days of skiing right after our biggest snow storm yet, which in fact did make skiing conditions optimal for my first time out.

One of those days was just with Dave and the next one was with other friends of ours.

I am grateful for our friends who are so accommodating to my own pace, cheer me on, and simply enjoy being with us and sharing the day even though they and Dave are all excellent skiers.

The day shared with friends was mellow with slopes clear of crowds and ended with snow falling and misty white covering the views.

But on our way down the mountain on the lift, Nature parted her cloud veils and gifted us a beautiful rainbow over the lake, smack center of our shared chair with all four of us watching the show. Rainbows are continuously showing up, heralding a theme of new life in progress and coming out of the storms.

Trusting and honoring my feelings proved successful in aligning me with what I like most and making the experiences enjoyable.

Oh, and I actually forgot my ski pass on the second day with our friends, which I didn’t realize until after the attendant scanned everyone’s passes. Somehow when they scanned for passes, I went undetected, or in fact registered even without one, as I actually heard the scanner click four times.

New year, new magickal energies in motion!

In between the two skiing days we opted for a variation and did a longer 6.5 mile hike down in the valley where the terrain shifts from high desert brush, to stone outcroppings, to forest, with sweeping views of the valley ranches and majestic Sierras all around us.

Nature shifts moment to moment, season to season, and from one area to the next with micro and macro worlds all intertwined. She reflects our own divine nature to change as well. We may not all be mutable signs like I happen to be (Pisces), but we have the innate capacity to evolve by our nature of being and the life force that moves through us continuously.

Leaning a little bit more into feeling the energy, rather than trying to control it, can help to align with where the moment wants to take us. Greater ease comes with cultivating this kind of trust and brings us into experience of the highest good unfolding.

It may take some rewiring to fine tune yourself back to your natural essence, but the nature of you will reward your efforts tenfold when you embrace the wisdom there. You can’t see the results from where you stand, but with a little gentle assurance and nudge, you will find your courage growing and the excitement of a new adventure of greater essence to be enriching.

I’d like to end with something pretty special to us that has happened here at our home that Dave and I have been in awe of every day.

We have discovered that a colony of mountain mourning doves has christened our home with their presence and in fact seem to have claimed it as theirs as well. There’s a large collective of these sweet, plump songbird doves that constantly come to our house since Winter began and sit on our deck bannisters, on the deck floor itself, on our window sills, trees, on the ground around the house, or under the eaves of our roof next to our house.

At times I’ve seen about thirty of them. Other times they are in smaller groups of eight or ten. Sometimes as a pair, but usually not alone.

They especially warm up to the house or in our trees when snow storms come.

We find it extraordinarily magickal and feel their presence to be such a gift.

They feel to be messengers of spiritual protection, peace, and love surrounding us in a very big way and I sense they’ve been sent to us for the purpose of celebrating the wholeness of life cycles we’ve moved through – perhaps even from our sweet companions who have transitioned.

They also speak to me of collective guardianship watching over us in these shifting times and especially as Earth is going through so much change we’re seeing and hearing about across the globe. A message of hope.  

Their presence acts as reinforcement of peaceful mourning closure to an old way of life with renewal on hand of a new one. There’s a feeling of purity and grace they bring, as well as such gentle comfort. To know they have chosen our home as their comfort too, is a powerful heart reflection.

I shared a photo in a previous post of one of the doves from a pair that was nestled by our window in the snow storm.

Today I share these – one in a tree covered in a blanket of snow to keep warm during a storm (actually the first time one was by themselves) – and the others of a group of eight all fluffed out in the early morning briskness on the bannisters of our deck.

We noted how they kept vigilance by facing outward in all directions, while nestled into their perches.

We’re grateful for their energy here and love that we have families of so many little ones who have made this their home and gifted us sweetness to cherish long after our babies started the next part of their journey.

I am holding their message of promise and renewal, as we join hearts toward all those in need right now.

There is so much promise and hope in the air.

What eyes do you intend to see this year through?

February 26th is just forty-nine days away and I’m on track – perhaps even will finish early – with my putting closure on everything I intended. For now, I’m still honoring that date as the last day for any registrations in terms of Intuitive Guidance Sessions or Reiki Certification Training. So, if you have intentions around this please let me know, as there’s a chance I could end things earlier.

I added one new year crystal skull star child who is a really special being, along with a golden avian dragon if you love them as much as I do, and a rare peach spirit quartz on Boekenhout jasper matrix that are available along with one, unique Tahoe quartz merging several types of crystals all growing together, to the ones that remain. Crystals & Crystal Skulls

I hope your year is feeling the winds of promising change and your heart continues to open wider.

And if you’re feeling the blossoming forth of new parts within you, too, you may love seeing my giant amaryllis plant.

My parent’s gave us this plant at Thanksgiving to enjoy the blooms through the holidays and Winter. The plant grew two tall stalks with a pod at each end. The first pod opened into five beautiful flowers and the second pod is now just beginning to reveal the next generation of blossoms. I’m curious to see how many there will be.

Amaryllis embody the messages of strength, determination, resiliency, potential, and radiant beauty. Their trumpet shape seeming to announce brilliant achievement at hand or yet to come.

With a new year and such powerfully different energies kicking off, my giant amaryllis feel resonant with undercurrents and speak to incredible possibilities blooming even under Winter’s blanket. My indoor garden is such a joy and feeds constant hope and excitement.

What does that for you?