Drive and Commitment

I'm fully committed to my Nature-Culture project. That means I have let go of caution and am involving myself wholeheartedly (brain, body, and soul) to the service of this project that I love. I'm taking a vacation from my usual way of being, and stretching my whole self beyond the way I’ve always done things.

I am also engaging hyper-drive; I am manifesting my courage, harnessing the power of productive obsession, and engaging slow passion, a kind of simmering energy that keeps me focused on my priorities.

Agenda:

1. Read "The Art of Simple Living"

2. Love cycle

3. Four days of passionate flow

Thursday Beginner's Mind

Agenda:

1. Read "The Book of Doing and Being"

2. Beginner's mind meditation for creativity

3. Pre-K school plans

4. Projects for the week

On Writing

Agenda

1. Read "The Earth Keeper's Handbook"

2. Low status oxymoronic priorities

3. Creative Visualization

A Focus on Understanding

Hummingbird waiting for my nectar on a frozen morning

I've been thinking again about my responsibility to listen a little deeper; to pay attention to body language and ask questions to clarify; to really understand what's being communicated, when the other person may not be as direct or as skilled as I would expect - really, to stop expecting, because that is always trouble!

Agenda:

1. Read "Perspective":
2. Ongo journal
3. Love cycle

Prepare for Imbalc

Imbalc is in a week and I have a few practical and contemplative preparations to make - mostly I need to slow down to watch as the wheel of the year turns. I'm exploring what it's like to BE the earth, accepting the seed and willing to nurture it, and shifting my perspective to make room for the possibility that the Earth-Me has a powerful Goddess supporter called Brigid. 

We've been having a very cold spell, and we still have a month of winter left, but my thoughts are turning outward, to the garden, our neighborhood, and my community.

Agenda:

1. Practice a Reverent Way of Being

2. Read "The Spirited Walker"

3. Love cycle

4. Make a Creativity Altar

5. Write about my seeds of inspiration

6. Plan a party

First Quarter Moon of Late January

Today is the First Quarter Moon; we are one-quarter of the way through the moon cycle. The moon is waxing - growing in light and energy, creating a time for decisive action and full effort.

I use this late January quarter moon's energy to lean in to love.

Agenda Today:

1. Journal queries

2. Read "Revolutionary Witchcraft"

3. Ongo  journal

4. Love cycle

5. Full effort for order