{"id":2980,"date":"2017-04-26T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/?p=2980"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:37:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:37:05","slug":"clarity-gently-leads-to-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/clarity-gently-leads-to-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarity Gently Leads to Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to the art\/life trail ride and the New ‘Wisdom’ Moon!<\/span><\/h4>\n

We need something bigger than we are to be awed by and to commit ourselves to.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without the transcendent and the transpersonal we get sick,
\nor else hopeless and apathetic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Abraham Maslow<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

It’s the New Natural Year and we are enlisting creative energy tools heading out together on an exciting adventure!\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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We are back in the saddle after our six (October – March) moon\/months of exploring the depth of our roots and allowing space for replenishment.\u00a0<\/span>There’s creative stress at the start of a new trail. That’s okay…it’s actually good even…to a point… as creative stress keeps us alert and watchful. Our inner wisdom reminds us that we can’t see where we’re going and we can’t know what’s up ahead…that’s the very nature of creative…as opposed to negative…stress.<\/span><\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/span>We’re beginning a journey and it’s\u00a0wise to pause long enough to ask, <\/span><\/h4>\n

\u2018Where do I want to be going?\u2019<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Here on the trail we navigate using cycles and\u00a0seasons and the power of the focus that comes by assigning a keyword to each moon\/month. We use each keyword as both a challenge and a gift. Each moon\/month builds on the one before. The Clarity that we practice in April opens to the Wisdom that we will discern throughout May leading to a radiant brilliant aliveness in June. The potential expands as we travel.<\/span><\/h4>\n

All the while we travel we keep our North Star, our Destiny Point, in mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

This moon\/month challenge engages our keyword<\/span><\/h4>\n

WISDOM<\/span><\/p>\n

I find this to be a tricky segment of the circle…it’s not easy to rise above thinking and rationalizing to sense into the experience of life that has brought what cannot be taught. Your opportunity this moon\/month is to discover and uncover what wisdom means for you…now. Today.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Each and every Natural Year provides yet another turn on the spiral of the art\/life and lifts us to our\u00a0next plateau. Every Natural Year gives us the time and the space to engage the power of the Ancestors and the elements as a way to ground and root more deeply.\u00a0That brings wisdom.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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I offer\u00a0encouragement to be fresh in outlook, to imagine what’s possible as this Natural Year moves us through spring and summer. These are the blossoming moon\/months. <\/span><\/h4>\n

Our seeds have been planted over the past two months…we’ve been dreaming the dream and pressing our seed vision into the creative ground of our being. <\/span><\/h4>\n

Now we’re being even more conscious of what we would like to have come of this time ahead…we’re visualizing and imagining what’s possible.<\/span><\/h4>\n

It\u2019s useful and it does no harm to set our sites on the best vision\u00a0for what\u2019s possible. <\/span><\/h4>\n

What do you yearn to create? <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

When you review what has come into your heart in the past six months what does it point toward? <\/span><\/h4>\n

In walking the Natural Calendar we allow 90 day chunks of time between equinox and solstice to provide four manageable 12 week periods that span 12 moon\/months. Twelve slices of Natural Time. Yum.<\/span><\/h4>\n

We move inward during fall and winter to find our authentic feminine\/ receptive power. \u00a0During spring and summer we move into the action required to experience, express, create and contribute our healthiest masculine\/manifestation. Naturally these qualities blend and are never isolated, yet as creative tools it’s powerful to give them each plenty of space and time by considering these seasonal spans as fertile ground for focus.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0Circle Gathering at Cuyahoga Valley National Park<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This first three moon\/month section (April, May and June) is led by the idea of reclaiming a sense of feminine\/masculine balance. <\/span><\/h4>\n

\"\"\u00a0Journal page, Drozda, 1994<\/span><\/h4>\n

Throughout this 90 days let your clarion call express the idea to BE*ME<\/strong>. By investing the first 90 days of the path to this celebration an integration of the inner masculine and feminine takes place. The active (masculine) and the receptive (feminine) marry and by summer solstice there is a trajectory of increased\u00a0growth. Experiment with\u00a0this. Observe the ways that balance\u00a0manifests for you. <\/span><\/h4>\n

It’s quite exciting to begin a\u00a0conscious relationship with Natural Time. This approach opens up The ME; that deeply balanced alchemical, archtypal awareness of both polarity and congruence.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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2017 begins a new Creative Decade for us globally. Read the\u00a02017 Lifecycle Forecast<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/em>..to be reminded of the<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>power and potential of the art of the start<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Hop back into your\u00a0saddle, breathe in the fresh new air…move forward! <\/span><\/h4>\n

I’m so glad that we’re here together…on the art\/life trail ride.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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