I like my boundaries with creativity: It's the energy report for September
With a special calendar of creativity prompts for September!
As I tuned into the energy this month I felt a vibrancy and a strength about it. It feels like a taught violin string, in a good way. Clear, strong, foundational, ready to go (or be played? Actually, yes more on that in mere seconds!) Then I remembered it is Virgo season and it all made sense. Virgo energy loves orderly structure so that it can do what it wants to do from there, and that’s what it feels like to me.
When I say, “do what it wants to do”, what I’m feeling so much of lately in this regard—and it very much applies to September—is creativity.
I keep hearing from my clients how healing wounded inner child parts has opened up a well of creativity and a sense of joy and playfulness in them. Sometimes I worry that I only emphasize the wounding of the inner child, but that’s because by fostering connection with these parts, the healthy expression comes up naturally as we heal, so we don’t always need to focus on it directly.
That said, let’s deal with it directly this month! It’s a bit of a chicken or the egg situation here, in that when you feel more free, the creativity bubbles out, but sometimes creativity itself breaks you out of old patterns (hence the slide above).
Sometimes we feel like we don’t have time for creative projects (and if you are a creative, replace that with creative projects that aren’t related to your job). But giving yourself the time and space to be creative has soooo many benefits. So many I had to add multiple o’s benefits! Not only is it just fun for fun’s sake, it lets your inner child know you value them and that you are more than the things you checked off a list. Were you born to produce? No. Were you born to express yourself (which producing is a byproduct of)? Yes! When we don’t do this, we are cutting ourselves off from part of our life force.
Creativity can be expressed in so many ways. It could be cooking a meal, or gardening, or running through your lawn skipping because you just fucking felt like it. (Yeah, I got emphatic about it, so what?!) That’s you, expressing yourself beyond the gaze of capitalism or “adultism”. Oooh, did I just make up a word??? Sorry, did I just invent a word???
I have been releasing myself from the chokehold of doing just for the sake of an end result and I feel so much lighter. It’s wild what a little fun can do for a mood!
In order to help give y’all a little encouragment to do this, too, I created a calendar for September of creative prompts for paid subscribers to give you lots of ideas! Do it with me, do it with your kids/family/loved ones, if you like, and come back and let me know how it went in the comments, or email me how it’s going! Now I’m even more excited about this!
Here’s a glimpse of what the calendar looks like.
If you become a paid subscriber, you get all the other other fun things from the months before, so come join us!
The other energy I’m tuning into for September is also no surprise for Virgo sezan (spoken like a French lady): boundaries. We do have eclipse season approaching and my sense is that we are doing a lil cute clean-up to prepare us.
What I’m getting is that it’s a time to re-evaluate relationships: what feels good and what doesn’t. You can’t play that violin string loud and in tune if it’s hanging on by a thread! Was that an analogy or just words? Okay, I’ll reel it in, what I mean is, if you are feeling unsure about what you want, or if you’re self-abandoning, your relationship to yourself and the other person will feel wobbly and confusing. (Did I bring us back??)
So let your inner child vent to you, let them speak their truth! And then after you’ve felt the feels, see if you want to rearrange the relationship. Am I asking you to Marie Kondo your relationships? I mean, I’m encouraging you to, yes. What sparks joy? What is ready to get sent to Goodwill (don’t send your partner to Goodwill)? Now’s a great time for an assessment.
It could be that this is eclipse prep so you’ve got that sturdy sense of who you are and who you’re with if things feel bumpy. Or it could be so you can start to build more of what you want on a sturdier surface. Either way, it’s win/win.
As a reminder my colleague (and friend) astrologer, author and teacher Britten LaRue is releasing an amazing course, Moon to Moon and I can’t recommend it enough. I am contributing to this class, too: three meditations (including a new one on hypervigilance), as well as a Q&A session. If you sign up through my link you get 10% off! If you want to get to know her better, we talk about hypervigilance and the class in the latest episode of Getting to Know Woo. In her words, “Moon to Moon will catalyze the healing and remembering you crave in order to access more of your wild presence.” NBD.
As always, I’m grateful to be here with you!
With love and in kinship,
Natasha
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