{"id":9224,"date":"2023-03-20T16:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2023-03-20T16:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T16:37:53","slug":"welcome-to-spring-the-new-circadian-circle-wisdom-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnaionadrozda.com\/lifecycle\/welcome-to-spring-the-new-circadian-circle-wisdom-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Spring & the New Circadian Circle\/Wisdom Wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The same stream of life that runs through the world<\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\n runs through my veins night and day and dances <\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nin the rhythmic measure.
\nIt is the same life that shoots <\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nin joy through the dust of the earth
\ninto each blade <\/em><\/strong><\/span>
\nof grass and breaks into
\ntumultuous waves of flowers. <\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Rabindranath Tagore<\/p>\n

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As we enter the East Gate and the twelve weeks of spring it can be useful, and it does no harm, to have creative tools at the ready. You say, but I’m not creative. Or you say, I know my creative direction. Either way, you’re correct … check out the Free 8-Day Jumpstart Challenge.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

This challenge is helpful at any time of the day, week, month, or year when you feel the need to …jumpstart your creative energy.<\/h4>\n

In review: the twelve weeks of winter,<\/a> placed the creative focus on clearing away what is no longer useful. We have had ample time to sense the renewal of patterns in beliefs and behaviors that either no longer fit who we are becoming or feel like the flow of being energized and inspired. I review and see that there were pockets of anger, shame, and guilt stuck deep inside of me. I didn’t know. Now I do.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Finally, in the moon\/month of March, the focus is placed on purifying intention. We consider a hot shower or sweat lodge as we a deep clean and set our direction. Here we are. Standing at the East Gate and the blank canvas of the new Circadian Year.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

Do you feel ready to walk into the ME space of the Wisdom Wheel? Remember the word ME is used as a code for the feminine energy of Isis, the Divine Feminine within, who is orchestrating the deep and true relationship with midwifing the newest truest version of Self.<\/span><\/h4>\n

I have experience with this relationship that verifies magic and mystery coming together<\/a> to bring forth the deepest dream.<\/span><\/h4>\n

When I lost everything at the age of nineteen; my connection with home and family, my infant son, my body’s health, everything was gone. With the theft, I had the potential for losing my mind. THEN those three dark shadows that were hell-bent on my soul’s murder walked onto my Life Stage. And as they left my Real Life arrived. I gained what I could have ignored.\u00a0 I could have justified feeling further victimized. Or I could pay attention to and see what goodness, beauty, and intuitive guidance came of focus. <\/span><\/h4>\n

I chose to focus<\/span><\/h4>\n

I chose to unlearn patterns that were destined to carry me down a slippery slope. Back then I began in earnest to practice seeing through my Inner Eyes and listening with my Inner Ears. I had no idea that what I was up to was alchemical. I was shifting the lead of my life into the gold of my new way of seeing and hearing.<\/span><\/h4>\n

I share this remembrance with you, Dear Reader, because we are all subject to hypnotizing ourselves through our inner talking and our way of thinking.<\/span><\/h4>\n

I share these tools because stepping through the East Gate with conscious awareness is a gift, free of charge, that changes everything.<\/span><\/h4>\n

Aren’t you tired of the rinse-and-repeat cycle of the old worn patterns? Spring is the opportunity for the new!<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Some of us feel a draw toward the new and fresh and some of us pull back and want things to stay as they are. Both of these approaches bring their harvest. I find it helpful not to get too far ahead of myself. I offer my dream\/vision up in six and twelve-week chunks. I keep in mind that no matter how long it takes for my idea to germinate and sprout … my growth process is to be honored. This is not a race. I am not looking for likes r for the most views. I am on a mission to create a life that feels like a fit for ME.<\/span><\/h4>\n


\nThese next twelve weeks journey us through the ME quadrant of the year. This is the natural time to tune in and tune up the relationship that we have with ourselves … even if only for 15 minutes each day. <\/span><\/h4>\n

We take full responsibility recognizing that there is no one coming.\u00a0 The WE quadrant follows arriving at the summer solstice.<\/span><\/h4>\n


\nBetween now and then the opportunity is to focus. Show UP^. Lift UP^. Rise UP^.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Indra’s Net, Drozda, Lino-cut print, 2022<\/p>\n

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Still I Rise<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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BY\u00a0MAYA ANGELOU<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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You may write me down in history<\/h4>\n

With your bitter, twisted lies,<\/h4>\n

You may trod me in the very dirt<\/h4>\n

But still, like dust, I’ll rise.<\/h4>\n

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Does my sassiness upset you?<\/h4>\n

Why are you beset with gloom?<\/h4>\n

\u2019Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells<\/h4>\n

Pumping in my living room.<\/h4>\n
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Just like moons and like suns,<\/h4>\n

With the certainty of tides,<\/h4>\n

Just like hopes springing high,<\/h4>\n

Still I’ll rise.<\/h4>\n

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Did you want to see me broken?<\/h4>\n

Bowed head and lowered eyes?<\/h4>\n

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,<\/h4>\n

Weakened by my soulful cries?<\/h4>\n

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Does my haughtiness offend you?<\/h4>\n

Don’t you take it awful hard<\/h4>\n

\u2019Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines<\/h4>\n

Diggin\u2019 in my own backyard.<\/h4>\n

You may shoot me with your words,<\/h4>\n

You may cut me with your eyes,<\/h4>\n

You may kill me with your hatefulness,<\/h4>\n

But still, like air, I\u2019ll rise.<\/h4>\n

Does my sexiness upset you?<\/h4>\n

Does it come as a surprise<\/h4>\n

That I dance like I’ve got diamonds<\/h4>\n

At the meeting of my thighs?<\/h4>\n

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Out of the huts of history\u2019s shame<\/h4>\n

I rise<\/h4>\n

Up from a past that\u2019s rooted in pain<\/h4>\n

I rise<\/h4>\n

I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,<\/h4>\n

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.<\/h4>\n

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Leaving behind nights of terror and fear<\/h4>\n

I rise<\/h4>\n

Into a daybreak that\u2019s wondrously clear<\/h4>\n

I rise<\/h4>\n

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,<\/h4>\n

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.<\/h4>\n

I rise<\/h4>\n

I rise<\/h4>\n

I rise.<\/h4>\n

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Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” from\u00a0And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems<\/em>.\u00a0 Copyright \u00a9 1978 by Maya Angelou.\u00a0 Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

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