Happy 2024!
Wishing you and your loved ones a beautiful start to what promises to be an exciting year!
Mercury goes direct tonight, Jupiter went direct on Saturday and we will feel the energy speed up as we go ahead.
I'm still basking in the slow pace of life and have been spending deeply nourishing time with my family.
Also working on a beautiful gift for you, see below for a sneak peek!
Gifts from 2023:
As I reflected on 2023, I realized that there were several qualities that deepened within me and thought to share with you the beautiful gifts I received from 2023:
Deeper trust in the unknown:
2023 started off on an intense note for me. Fully into my Intentional Creativity (IC) teacher training, we had started to work on a painting called Talisman.
My intention with this painting was to connect with my legacy work, what I was born to create and do.
Of course, when we make bold declarations like this, anything that's in the way will come up to be released. And as I was clearing old pain, I got a download for my legacy work...And, The Gift of Your Authentic Voice (GYAV) was born.
This course works with patterns of Chiron, Pluto and Saturn (the celestial bodies in our natal chart that hold the bulk of karmic unresolved energy AND also our gifts).
But as I started to create this course, I learned news of my father passing.
It all seemed somehow related (the painting, the Muse that came through, see pic below, her teachings and GYAV), although I couldn't exactly identify the link then.
And I dove into the most pressing thing at the moment, which was the grief.
Letting myself feel it all and honoring the process.
Despite the grief, GYAV continued to come in very strongly and I continued to create the content.
Going slowly, but also honoring the intense creative flow that had been activated.
It was quite the balancing act.
My IC practice deeply supported me at this time. I completed Talisman and started on Artifact (a powerful painting process that works with healing of ancestral lineage).
Through this process I felt the support & presence of not just my father but also my grandfather.
A lot of healing related to his journey emerged, on my trip to India in March.
This painting resembles what my grandfather looked like in his younger days although the painting was created a 100% from intuition as well as using my own photo and I had not seen his photo in years!
Such is the nature of the intuitive & intentional creative painting process-we tap into realms that are so beyond our conscious awareness.
Through this I learned that:
- I deeply trust myself. My trust in my own intuition had deepened a 100-fold.
- I deeply trust the unknown, because I have trust in myself. I was truly supported and held in love even when processing heavy grief.
- This trust in ourselves and trust in the greater mystery is what allows us to navigate intense and unknown situations with grace.
Trust is a quality that magnified in me in 2023.
Boldness to express my uniqueness:
The 1st half of 2023 flew by as I was doing my IC training. Towards the mid point, I started to teach IC processes to whoever wanted to learn from me 🙂
These included engineers!
I had always thought that my creative side and the engineering side of me were separate. This is something that I struggled with a lot during my engineering days.
Feeling like I had to shut off a part of myself to fit in that world.
But through all the IC learning & teaching, I tapped into an aspect of my Muse, which brought through the energy of Boldness in a big way!
And I just did it. I started to teach with paint & paper & pens and color the IC processes to transform the inner critic into the muse.
And I realized through this process that this work can benefit everyone, if I just got over my ideas of what venue was 'appropriate' for this work. In reality everyone could do with a deeper connection to the voice of their Muse.
This was directly related to my own learnings from GYAV (transforming the wound into higher expression).
Not only did I start to teach creative processes which was exhilarating on its own, but I adapted GYAV into a new course called Authentic Voice and taught that to 20+ women engineers, deepening my connection to those I work with in a meaningful way and nourishing my soul in the process.
And I plan to continue to expand this aspect of my offerings in 2024.
Reclaiming the Artist within:
The 3rd quality that deepened within me was the connection to the artist inside. This is also something I have struggled to identify with.
But the more I paint, the more I feel I already am an artist.
Painting is how I connect to my intuition & creative life force within.
In fact, it flows so strongly even if I am playing with color, I ask myself sometimes, why it took so long to accept this part of me!
And today I'm so so delighted to share with you that my art is being featured in the Intentional Creativity Foundation's calendar for 2024!
All the art in this calendar has been created by Intentional Creativity practitioners. And the purchase of the calendar supports the Intentional Creativity Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, which stewards the MUSEA Museum and Membership.
A great gift of beauty and intention to give a loved one. Purchase it here.
And now to the free gift:
Here is a sneak peek of what I am getting ready for you!
I'm super excited about this and have been having just a lovely time writing this book (currently 43 pages long!) that is meant to act as a toolkit for navigating 2024.
You should receive it in your inbox by Friday, Jan 5th latest!
Wishing you beauty, love, joy, peace, ease and grace as we move into yet another brand new year!