Welcome to the art/life trail!
Hello to new readers! I celebrate you! We are on the trail toward greater relationship with your creative voice!
I Trust that you find a sense of community here as together we explore Natural/Circadian/Feminine rhythms found in cycles and seasons.
Explore outside the door, Virginia MOCA, Art in the Park, photo Drozda 2015
Welcome All! During the last few weeks of the summer quarter of the Natural Year it’s time to consider the power of action.
Do this:
Focus upon the vision or theme that you set back in April.
We return and review back to April. This is because each spring you are invited to engage your creativity in new and dynamic ways. We mark our Natural beginning at the equinox. We witness the creative unfolding through the spring and summer quarters.
The call all this year is to become more passionate and connected to your destiny. That naturally demands more commitment and courage. More commitment and courage mean that no matter what it looks like ‘out there’ the opportunity to discover the silver lining is ‘in here’. It’s the within that aligns you with your creative super-power. All this year the creative super-power is to seek, discover, uncover and express the silver linings in the darkest of clouds.
During the summer months there are three keywords that we explore. These are Growth throughout July, Trust during August leading to the outcome for the season which is to come to know Love while moving through September.
I truly appreciate what each of these 30 day periods invites. Let’s look a bit closer so that you can customize the experience and see the ways that these micro-climates fit for you as you consider what you are choosing to manifest.
If you look to the right sidebar, you’ll see the 12 keywords that act as signposts for the Natural Year. Our calendar, here on the art/life trail is circular and combines a Circadian/Feminine rhythm. This means that we come together to exercise a curiosity. We explore our personal creative energy to align with the in-breath and out-breath of the instinctive/intuitive/natural world of which we are an integral part.
Beginning in April with the Aries cycle there is the opportunity, every year, to ask yourself:
What is my current vision, or theme, for my life?
I see this as a symbolic placing of the fingers on the pulse-point of Clarity. You can enlist, throughout the month, all that you have accomplished thus far and sense into where you are willing to be clearer. Ask:
What is my direction?
What are my projects?
What dates are important?
Who will be involved?
When to schedule?
Why take this on?
Virginia MOCA, Adult Studio, Media Blend project, Drozda photo 2016
Clarity leads to Wisdom
As you move through May there is an opportunity to sink into all the research required to allow your experience to enhance your forward movement. That’s Wisdom. You’ll never know it all yet each year at this time you can gather a basket of the wisdom that the previous 12 months have delivered to your doorstep.
Wisdom opens the door to your Brilliance
In June on the Natural calendar of the year you can practice for 30 days being radiant. You can shine. You can be the light in any situation, circumstance, relationship or challenge. You can be the beam so that by the summer solstice, year after year, there is a sense of magnetizing your brilliance in a refreshed and energizing way. Never the same two years in a row.
The energy of June creates a point of tension as the Natural calendar expands into summer and provides you with the necessity to
take a risk and walk into the unknown…what needs to grow?
All of July is giving you the power to Grow based upon what has come to meet you so far. If you can document the evidence of Clarity leading to Wisdom and Brilliance then you’ll be in harmony with the Growth that is most natural for you.
This is exciting! There is no way to ‘make this happen’. You act based upon the focus point and invest in what it brings. By July there is momentum. Hold the image of ‘Jack’s beanstalk’ in full out growth climbing toward new dimensions and unseen realms. The Growth of July naturally supports you in developing a deeper and wider Trust in that vision that you felt drawn to back in April.
What if you had a blank canvas in April? What if you had no idea whatsoever of the direction that you wanted to go? Trust that. Lean into that. Be curious and open to see what comes to meet you with just that as the impulse for each step forward.
You’re looking at creative consciousness. You’re playing with the energy that most Naturally comes to meet you as you circumnavigate the Natural Year.
Who do you Trust? This is one of the most powerful inquiries that you can have and this entire month allows the space, naturally, to dive deep.
The six months between spring and fall equinox provide a launch pad for your vision. The creative vision that you have for your life is simply the area where you feel the most aliveness. How beautiful it is to walk with awareness, month by creative month, noticing where the flow zone lives in you.
For those of you who are new to ‘walking the circle of the Natural Year’ welcome! This is where you can explore a gentle and graced creative pace. Here you are invited to engage Natural/Circadian/Feminine rhythm allowing a different view of time. This fresh approach makes it possible to expand your relationship with time.
In the six weeks ahead, there is ample space to lean into and review what you have been reminded of here. Then after your look back to April sense into the level of Love that you have for your creative process. Really allow yourself to relish the beauty and the wonder of what your experience has brought into your life thus far. No judgments. Simply recognize that by enlisting Natural/Circadian/Feminine rhythm, as we explore here, you will magnetize that which is yours in a way that you may have been unwittingly resisting.
I’m very excited to stand with you and for you and your most creative Love. Last time we posed the questions: ‘What do I want to have come of this?’ And ‘What is this for?’
This week begin to expand into the inquiry of
What would Love do now?
Journal/Idea Log entry, Drozda, 2017
I find this question an ever-intriguing open space. I am completely surprised by guidance that sees this inquiry as a channel for creative joy and peace.
Give it a go this next six weeks.
Ask often; ‘What would Love do now?’ Then step back and observe the power of this invitation. Make a note in your journal/Idea Log of all the ways you find evidence for being supported.
August is the Trust month of the Natural/Circadian/Feminine year. In six weeks, the shift from outward/action turns to inward/reception at the fall equinox.
Enjoy the exceptionally rich creative environment surrounding you
Think of it as the creative ocean in which you swim. Imagine learning your lessons through joy and uplift rather than struggle and depletion.
Leave your comments regarding your personal process. How are you expanding creative Trust in relationships…with projects, visions, themes and others…how do you Trust?
See you soon…on the art/life trail.
Iona
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Current Solo Exhibition: Norfolk Botanical Garden
So nice to get in touch with you through your blog! I am so grateful for meeting you. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Your are an amazing person and you inspire me so much!
Hope to see you soon,
Florina Conn
-the violinist- 🙂
Hello Florina ‘-)
Yes…so lovely to meet!
… and I’m very happy to know that we are traveling together here on the art/life trail!
We Grow together.