I was introduced to this phrase a few days ago. What a great archetype to move through and transcend! For some, it takes a physical event or illness to stop the egoic do-er in its tracks. For others, the process is more gradual. As with most things, there is no ‘right way’ but only what is appropriate for each of us. And the trick of it is that our “do-er” self does not know what our right way might be. Its’ incessant efforts do not ‘find the way’ but get in the way. The mind will do almost anything to delude and distract us from this truth.

What does it mean to take mystical steps with practical feet? Or, vice versa, taking practical steps with mystical feet? I do both, all the time. So do you, if you’re honest with yourself. Game-changing feet are those whose path creates itself beneath them.

All that cannot live within that field must be released. Those energies have to go elsewhere. Set them free.

I probably don’t have to write another sentence to explain, but there is a tech to this tsunami of letting go flowing through us.

Oh my! It is a water tiger year, after all. The full moon, on the 18th at 9:33 AM MT in the US, shines its torch on the planetary situation, bringing the higher octaves of mystery with it. In music, octaves repeat from lower to higher, their pitch determined by vibratory frequency. As with music in our realm, so with the music of the spheres.

Snow covers the ground here, at present, but I look forward to the emergence of these lovelies. With well-rooted bulbs clustered together, they lift their golden hearts to the sun. In Whoville, the Grinch learned that nothing he could take from anyone was stronger than a committed circle, “heart to heart and hand to hand.” So say the daffodils.

We are all going through this purging process, particularly those in the US, and the American continents.

Today begins the cycle of the “Pluto return” for the U.S. Dwarf planet Pluto returns to its alignment when the country was formed. The strength of this alignment will wax and wane, building to a crescendo in October, then continue affecting us into next year.

This is a deep karmic dredging, activating all kinds of debris remaining in our fields. It is an opportunity to recognize what unconscious bits of us are still somehow, even tentatively, hooked into the human collective of violence, subjugation, dominance, and greed. The energies we dub as ‘masculine’ are being hardest ‘hit.’

Our dreams are filled with an odd montage of toxic masculinity and those of what is positive, that we may barely recognize for what they represent.

This week, two of those I spoke to for 1:1 sessions had major breakthroughs. I did mention the timing was ripe. And those are only the ones I know about. For us all, the portal of this week, leading us toward the Equinox opening {which is MASSIVE}, has created huge shifts. Whether we notice, or how we notice, is, of course, up to us. If your mind insists ‘but everything seems the same…’ I know some lovely cheeses you could enjoy with that whine. They might be tough to obtain in your area, but one can always hope.

I can’t count how many hours I spent standing in various aisles in various building stores in France, waiting for someone to make choices about what was needed to support the life they were building. It’s amusing to observe it now, from that perspective. I did ask, one night as I stood guard next to a shelf full of just-enough siding, why on Earth I was there. It wasn’t the usual query, “why have you put me here, Source? What is there for me to see?” but more of a WTF moment. There were many of those. Many stores, many decisions with regard to lumber, insulation, flooring, tile, glass, built-ins, and infinite variations on the theme of light fixtures. Mère de Dieu!! Let there be light, already!

As the saying goes, “be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction.” As we move through our incarnations, like roles in various stage plays, we learn cleverness and adaptability in the form of shape-shifting and camouflage. We may not be aware that we are cultivating these skills, but our inner being knows. We are like the clever fox, protecting our ‘home,’ guarding it lifetime to lifetime from those aspects of ourselves that wish to keep us from it. We may have disguised our true natures from ourselves, but deep within, we know our way.

How does a fresh start look and feel? What is optimal? Your Source Essence knows for sure.

Beginning Again
When we think of beginning again, we typically think of starting over. The feeling of again takes precedence over the reality of beginning. In the movement arts, for example, we return to our original mark and repeat a specific sequence with a refreshed level of intensity, and/or with the intention of adding vigor, flavor, or whatever else was perceived to be missing from the last attempt. We strive to perfect something we have done before. This is the definition of practice. Practice tends to have goals that, no matter how fluidly we think we hold them, are “an ever-fixed mark”* we strive to hold once attained.

When cosmic energies start moving forward in February you’ll see as well. Our lives will continue to re-birth according to focused intent. Every future timeline is contained in, and predicated on, how we vibrate in the present. Any present. Meaning, things can change. They are. They will do. We will move through many manifestations this year. We have. We are. The seeds are sown. What will we feed, water, and harvest? What will 11 months from now call forth from within us?

I’m not a huge proponent of chats with a ‘future self.’ Which future? What timeline? What about the infinite tracks and trajectories available? Those conversations could take way too much airtime. Here is something else you can use. Your galactic positioning system.

The word makes us groan until we truly ‘get it.’ First, we move through the difference between reacting, reactivity, and the idea-form that responsibility means “able to respond.” Progress, but not quite home.

A Medium colleague of mine posted this on Responsibility this week. It is an excellent essay on the subject, and we can go deeper.

Source would posit this: “To what/who are you truly responsible?”

Try not to answer off the cuff. No clichés, if you please.

Note your answer(s). Then, ask all various parts of yourself to chime in with what those answers mean.

The layers of meaning we have assigned and ascribed to all things are peeling away, shedding, and dissolving. Why? New cycle. The old life dies away. We can let it fall, turn to ash, and compost like autumn leaves, or we can enmesh and entangle ourselves in its demise. We do what we feel responsible for doing. What can you now release for which you have held yourself liable?