Creativity and the Heart

Self Sabotage and Stress - Thought Provoking Thursday

I don't know if it is stress or if this has just been a difficult month for me.  It’s interesting how self-sabotage can sneak in and bite you from behind when you think everything is going well. I am sure you can relate. Everything seems fine then all of a sudden you aren’t returning phone calls promptly or emails.  You tell yourself you will get to it later but when later comes you completely forget. 

I have to remember to actively work with the Shadow Timings myself or I can quickly lose my center, which throws everything off balance leading to mishaps in my business and relationships. 

I reminded myself that getting back to basics can be very important during times of stress. 

If you find this is a stressful time and have been sabotaging your success, remember what the basics are for you; what steps you took in the beginning that you have put aside thinking you don’t need to do them anymore. 

Sometimes it is the simplest things that can help us get back on track.

Your turn - What are the basics for you?  What helps you get back on track?

Much love,

Morgan Dragonwillow

Summer Solstice and Gratitude

This is a wonderful day to think about the seeds (physically, emotionally, spiritually) you have planted in the spring, sending them energy for growth and prosperity, and visualizing a bountiful harvest.

Gratitude is something I missed in creating the art for this post. How often do we forget gratitude in our daily lives?  Gratitude wasn't the original direction for this post but it seems most appropriate.

It is in the gratitude that we feel and express that allows for what we have planted to grow strong and healthy. What is funny is that yesterday I was thinking I needed to create another gratitude list because I was feeling moopy yesterday (a combination between mopy and moody). I asked myself in the moment what I was needing to help me out of it and Gratitude is what popped up for me.

Here is what I am grateful for today and not necessarily in that order:

1. My family
2. My flute
3. Friends
4. My muse
5. Circle sisters
6. My car
7. My daughter and granddaughter living with me
8. My creative abilities
9. My ability to see patterns
10. Soaking in the bathtub
11. My creative cooking abilities
12. Soft fabrics
13. Fluffy pillows
14. My tarot and oracle cards
15. My animal family
16. Having a blog :D
17. My health
18. My Hair
19. My books
20. Love
21. Passion
22. Strength
23. My clothes, in particular, my dresses and skirts
24. Thrift/Second hand stores because you can find the best stuff there sometimes

I am sure there is a lot more that I am grateful for but I am running out of time.  My challenge for you is to find all that you are grateful for and to make your list at least as long as mine if not longer.

Happy Summer Solstice!

Morgan Dragonwillow

Your Sacred Body

I realized yesterday that I am not being kind to my body.  It isn't that I just discovered that but yesterday I said to myself, if you aren't honoring your body as the sacred vessel that it is then you are sabotaging the most important tool that you have.

Wow... my body is sacred and I am treating it like crap.  I haven't been eating well and I haven't been moving it as it was meant to move.  I have actually gained about 20 pounds over the last six months.  It isn't about wanting to be on a diet or a special exercise regimine just treating it as the sacred body that it is. 

Our bodies are not something that most of us were brought up as thinking it was something sacred.  I was brought up as a baptist and pretty much everything to do with the body was a sin.  I have been reading The Body Sacred by Dianne Sylvan that has me thinking about all of this. 

Dianne Sylvan says, "I call for women to stand up and reaffirm their Goddess-given beauty no matter how short, fat, old, or imperfect we think we are. Each of us is touched and blessed by the Divine, no matter what we look like. Our task is to remember this and to live it.  For most of us, it is the hardest and most rewarding magic we will ever do."

I understand what she is saying and I am really enjoying her book.  What I am talking about is how I am emotionally sabotaging my body because I am uncomfortable with the energies that are happening right now.  I choose to look at that and see my body as she says but while I am doing that actually treating it like the Goddess that resides within me.

I am thinking that if I do that I will naturally become healthier.  Everything that I put on it or in it I am going to ask myself, is this good for my sacred body?  Is this something that is going to nourish my sacred body?  Is this something that will enhance my sacred body? Is this something that my sacred body deserves?

If you start looking at your body as the sacred vessel that it is, what glowing, healthy changes might happen for you?

The In Between

Many find themselves in a state of limbo or in an in between place during this time of changing energies. This can feel like a numbness to being really uncomfortable.


Being in the in between is an opportunity for transition from feeling unworthy to living a successful life doing what you love. Working with it instead of against it can allow for positive transformation.



A few of the reasons for being in the in between:


1. It is necessary for you to look at your life and see what needs to shift, moving you from fear to love.


2. If you aren't living your authentic life in the present, the energies grow increasingly uncomfortable to force change.


3. The shadow planets have moved into position to remind you what needs attention.


All of this is an opportunity for you to grow and learn how to live life filled with passion and joy, authentically living your life purpose. 

What in your life keeps knocking on the door that you keep ignoring?


Currently in Retrograde:

Pluto Apr. 9^th – Sept. 16^th 

Pluto is all about the underworld and facing your fears. It can feel like you are in the birth canal wondering what you need to do to get out, meanwhile all of your fears keep popping up left and right.

Neptune June 3rd until Nov. 9^th  

Neptune is the Identity Project which can feel like an identity crisis, leaving you thinking who the heck am I and what am I doing here.

Uranus June 10^th until Dec 10^th 

Uranus is all about being stuck and how to get unstuck. This of course can have you in your bed wondering what the point is anyway.

Just because these planets are in retrograde doesn't mean that everyone is going to feel this way.  It just means that if your life isn't on track, when these planets go into retrograde or are squared to your chart, then it is going to gently or not so gently push you to clear past situations that are keeping you from moving forward and being in the present.

We are naturally in an in between time due to changing of vibrations that are happening on this planet that can make it quite uncomfortable. If you have issues popping up, old relationships coming back to haunt you, obsessive thoughts that just won't leave you alone, then it is past time to clear them and gain peace of mind.

Surround yourself with love and light, be gentle to yourself on your journey, forgive yourself and others, and do whatever is necessary to lighten your load that will lead to a passionately joyful and authentic life doing what you love and making a living doing it.

Blessings,

Morgan Dragonwillow