You're restless for a reason

Beloveds,

If you’re feeling restless right now, there are so many good reasons for that. If you’re feeling you need more rest, but also like you need to “keep up” with the energy of spring, of change, or feel you need to stay on top of everything, I feel you.

It’s real. That compulsion to push through. To check things off the list. To get to the spring cleaning after five long years of grieving. (Even my cobwebs have cobwebs at this point.)

This past week I hit the wall. Maybe you did too. It’s like the hand of god(dess) said NO. Despite getting decent sleep and practicing my usual self-care, the week took its toll. It felt like being inside a giant pressure cooker. By Friday I crashed. And when that happens, the only other option is surrender.

So this morning, I resisted the urge to write this message. To be productive. To get something done on the never-ending list.

After a warmish walk with the Tunes, we both took a rest. And then I let Source write through me. I let the birds sing all the way into my tender heart. I let go of the need to know.

I wrote two poems. Here’s an excerpt from one:

It’s all just too much to try to figure out
a plot that has not yet been written.
So let it all go.
Put feet to earth.
Let the bird’s song filter through the webs of control
you’ve spun to keep yourself safe.

As Uranus continues to bring Gemini-flavored opportunities most of us haven’t ever experienced thanks to its 80+ year cycle, our need for rest is going to increase. As our minds get stimulated with more information, more creative impulses, more and also increasingly questionable social media inundation, our work will be to step away. To create intentional pauses in our day where we can be with what is, slow down, tune in to the one thing that we can count on.

That one thing is the Great Mother. Which is to say, love.

As I’ve been sharing, your relationship with nature is perhaps the first securely attached relationship in your life. And very likely, the longest loving relationship of your life.

The Great Mother (the earth, nature, Pachamama, however you choose to call her), is here to shepherd us through the tumult of this time. She even came to me yesterday in a card pull.

I share more about it in the video below and I read my full poem aloud, too. It’s a minor diversion from the dark night theme I’ve been on, though of course, everything is related. Ours is a relational universe. And in fact, the call to rest and retreat is one of the most prominent features of the dark night experience. There simply is no pushing through this one.

And if you’re craving more on the dark night topic, remember this powerful convo with Dawn Lester at Dawn of Discernment podcast about all of this and what happens when the personal dark night meets the collective dark night. We went DEEP. You can find that here.

The Spirit notes in today’s episode:

• What Uranus has to do with restlessness, especially now

• My free-write poem about rest and restlessness

• The only thing that is really real right now

• When you can’t figure out what to make of the world, this is what you CAN rely on

• An oracle message to lean on this week

It’s ok to rest. To say no. You don’t need to save the world today. All the beauty and insanity and magic will still be there when you wake up so you might as well just go take a nap.

>>> If these messages resonate, please share with one person in your soul fam. This is my ministry of love and it really helps if you like, subscribe and share. I appreciate you so much.

Yep, it can be challenging. If you need support navigating this great awakening or your own dark night of the soul, let’s talk. We are not meant to do any of this alone.

Big Love,

Anné

P.S. The Tunes knows what’s up

After a toasty warm late May walk, the Tunes knows exactly what to do. Slurp up some water and find a cool spot on the floor.

Before the time of Puritanical work ethics, before we learned to over-work in order to cope with the effects of trauma, we knew how to rest. Nature reminds us every day. The birds gather all day and take refuge at night. The fields produce from spring through fall and rest all winter.

We’ve got to remember how to deeply rest. And as things only speed up in this age of air (Uranus in Gemini with Pluto in Aquarius) things are going to get realllllly fast. You’re gonna feel the pull to speed up as well. But take a lesson from the Tunes; we really do need to slow down to speed up. It’s ok to rest. It’s what will help you stay in alignment with love as we build a new reality that actually supports humanity.

P.P.S. Save the date, would ya? Me and Emily Trinkaus in person in Santa Fe on July 11: Surrender to Your Revolutionary Rebirth (half day women's retreat)... Details coming soon. xo

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