• Practice BEing in the NOW.
• Make BEing an embodiment of love, evolutionary consciousness and self mastery your priority.
• BE the fullest version of Self you can be.
• BE an embodiment and loving protector of freedom, yours and other’s.
• Master your ego and mind, teach them to serve Self and Source/Life/the Divine.
• BE better at balancing internal contrasts (work/rest, action/receptivity, yin/yang, etc.) and expand your wellbeing, resilience and joy.
• Express more of your honest and heartfelt love, gratitude and appreciation to those around you. It is still too rare in our world and we all can do better.
• Live from your Soul’s vision, not from current circumstances or trending narratives.
• Expect life to evolve and work out in ways that best serve your growth and expansion.
• Trust the timing of your life’s unfolding and keep showing up best you can while practicing patience.
• Learn to guard and preserve your energy with discernment, your balance and energetic sovereignty are more important than adhering to social scripts or traditions.
• Move into new adventures, opportunities, paths and challenges with your ALL.
• Focus on your sphere of influence, on who you can BE, what you can do or co-create in service of higher consciousness.
• Witness everything with zero point consciousness and detachment, allowing yourself to know the observed from all perspectives without treating any one perspective preferentially. 
• Reject the baits of dualistic narratives, divisive ideas and ideologies, and anything else that feeds ego-trips on superiority.
• Know your ego’s triggers and disarm them by healing the underlying pain, shame or distorted beliefs. 
• Keep releasing attachments to identity, self and narratives.
• Listen deeply to others, beyond the opinions and identifications they express. 
• Discern their underlying motivations, woundings, patterns and limitations and meet them with kindness, compassion and love as much as you possibly can.
• Be selective in the choice of the company you keep, surrounding yourself with those who are striving for learning, growth, and expansion of consciousness while integrating the ego into a position of service.
• Be mindful and discerning in engaging with people who are ego-driven, meeting them from love and compassion. Give yourself permission to decline engagements whenever they could be detrimental to your wellbeing and vibration.
• Prioritize, cultivate, balance and nurture your chosen relationships with an abundance of love and energy. 
• Be an ambassador of honesty, compassion and kindness to all you encounter.
• BE kind to yourself, taking exceptionally good care of your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual body in all the ways they need to be flexible, adaptive, resilient, strong and open to Self-leadership.
• Listen to guidance, intuition and symbols which meet your awareness every day. 
• Honor the sacredness of life, remember to begin with yours and the lives of loved ones. 
• Keep serving life – always and in all ways you are called to.
• Keep sharing your gifts, insights, wisdom and love with generosity of heart and soul.

Photography:  @mjrodriguez7 by David Dunan

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The first thing she pushed for is taking action to tie up any and all loose ends of the past and close out past cycles fully and start with a clean slate.Then she clearly and unmistakably laid down new boundaries and brought all other selves in line with a new vision of selfhood and life.

These are some of the intentions and trajectories my self-leadership set for this new cycle: 

I am closing the door on my past and certain people of said past. This is a line in the energetic sand, a barrier to all who played a painful part in teaching me about lies, betrayal, disloyalty, manipulation, abandonment. Though they are wholeheartedly forgiven there will be no new chances, no reconciliation, no return to my life in this incarnation-even if they have changed or experienced enlightenment. This is my gift and promise to the wounded little girl, in honor of the pain and devastation she suffered and we transcended to become whole and choose better. 

I am closing the door on my ego’s antics and no longer willing to allow parts of myself that wreak havoc and invite pain to have more than a ‘consulting’ part in my life and choices. I no longer accept the drama and distortions my ego keeps instigating to disrupt inner peace and darken experiences. My energy will be channeled towards focusing on all that enhances, supports and expands my experience in wholesome and evolutionary ways without the taint of self-harming dynamics.

I am holding myself to moving away from anyone or anything that disrupts my peace or tries to bind me to unconscious patterns, regardless if they are within or without. I give myself permission to terminate without further explanation any connection that persistently shows up in an immature and disharmonious vibration. 

I am holding myself to practicing intuitive discernment in my encounters, exchanges and sharing with others. Tempering energies as best I can, transmuting what needs transmuting, amplifying the light or darkness whenever such medicine is needed, and walking away in honoring of the guidance I receive.

I am holding myself to keep nourishing my soul by seeking and co-creating play, sweetness, lightness and joy which fill my being with bliss.

I am holding myself to keep my attention, focus and energy on what needs love, compassion, caring, building, creating, nurturing, and witnessing. 

I am holding myself to embodying the fullest version of Self I possibly can. Being gentle with my failings yet disciplined and persistent in my efforts to BE better. 

I am holding myself to showing up with kindness, compassion and love and to never stay the sword of truth and wisdom whenever a moment calls for it. 

And so the new self expresses in a new soul song and begins her dance with the new year and energies…

Photography: Dora Maar by Man Ray, 1936

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I take full responsibility for my life, my experiences, my emotions, thoughts and actions. I work on being accountable and actively work on repairing the damage I caused and on learning to be more mindful and sensitive to the boundaries and needs of others. Yet I will not let myself be dragged into egoic shadow dances with those incapable of doing this consciously and playfully.

I am committed to a life path of healing and integrating my self, lineage and ancestral patterns. Self work is an intrinsic part of my life, some might even say an automated reflex by now for me.

Spirituality, mysticism and the fascinated hunger for the metaphysical aspects of existence call to my being and will no longer be denied or set aside in any way.

My intimate relationships are based on freedom, growth and sovereignty, my relationship preference being clearly non-monogamous, deeply committed and evolutionary.

I have no wish to change another, limit their freedom or expression. I adapt to their expressions and prioritize honoring my values, needs, boundaries and principles. I strongly believe in the beauty and value of things given from the stirrings of another’s heart and soul and have only little appreciation for things given in duty, from habit or from following social and cultural scripts. 

Oneness is the fundamental principle I choose to operate on, therefore you will see me work towards finding the zero-point in every duality and rejecting every ideology, policy, activism and belief system which creates or affirms divisions and separation.

Should we share these aspects, regardless of how we individually live them, you will have an honored and special place in my heart and life as we are walking similar paths. Life has taught me the precious value and necessity of having like-minded, like-hearted and soul kin in my life. 

You will find I cherish the exchange of experiences and knowing, the sharing of awe and inspiration along our individual paths. I thrive in learning from, in being inspired by the wisdom, passion, courage, strength, playfulness, bliss and creativity of others. Everyone I call my friend and whom I love and keep close is in a way a chosen teacher of mine. So even if you are not aware of it, because I have not yet found the words to tell you what I appreciate and learn from you, know that I am enriched and learning from you.

You will find me having an open ear, a shoulder to lean on and a willingness to help with all I have and in alignment with my values and principles. I know the value of myself, the value of my friendship, attention, time and love. I give them with a renewed deliberation, my innate generosity and a renewed sense and ability to redirect my energies or let go when people fall out of alignment or do not meet me with the appreciation and reciprocity I am worthy of.

Those who know how to fill their own cups can be of better service to life and therefore I no longer look to others to fill mine unless I should be down and out. And life has graced me with amazing women and men who show up with love, care, wisdom, humor and spirit to help me find back to my flow and self whenever I should be in need of it. This is a precious and rare wealth I treasure and love to repay with all of my being and doing. And what a joyful, creative and loving dance we are co-creating as we grow together!

Taking care of my needs and being deliberate in my choices has expanded my spaciousness to embrace and love otherness and contrasts, even if current processes and vulnerabilities guide me to keep some at a distance as my internal rebuilding and integration proceeds in a need for protection. One day I hope to be non-reactive, equanimous and loving with all forms of expression and being allowing me to spare not much thought on these things as they have become deeply embodied. 

As always I remain an ever changing and growing work in progress with the gracious support of the Universe and all my wonderful teachers and catalysts…

Photography: Adot Gak by Alan Michael Duval

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The all is mind; the universe is mental.

II. Correspondence

As above so below: as below, so above.

III. Vibration

Nothing rests; Everything moves; Everything vibrates.

IV. Polarity

Everything is dual; Everything has poles; Everything has its pair of opposites; Like and unlike are the same; Opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; Extremes meet; All truths, are but half-truths; All paradoxes may be reconciled.

V. Gender

Gender is in everything; Everything has its masculine and feminine principles; Gender manifests on all planes.

VI. Rhythm

Everything flows, out and in; Everything has its tides; All things rise and fall; The pendulum swing manifests in everything; The measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; Rhythm compensates.

VII. Cause & Effect

Every cause has its effect; Every effect has its cause; Everything happens according to law’ Chance is but a name for law not recognized’ There are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the law.

Text: Kybalion, Illustrations: Unknown

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