Own Your Light
Happy New Year and welcome to the roaring, magnificent 20s. Many have referenced the year 2020 as the year of having 20/20 “vision”. What this means is having the ability to see new opportunities, the clarity to see through to what is next, gaining insight into our true selves and being able to interact in our world in new ways.
I remember a year ago, January 2019, I heard an interviewer ask her guest about 2020. It surprised me that she was asking about something a whole year away. The guest was adept at keeping her interviewer on track for the energies of 2019, however as the year has gone on, I have since understood that 2020 was going to bring big shifts and changes. It was actually a very astute question by the interviewer who obviously had a sense of the enormous energy of 2020.
As 2019 moved into the fall months, that question stuck in my mind, and over the months since then, many have been talking about the strong energy of the solstice (December 21st), the ensuing eclipses, and the powerful astrological impact and energies forecast for 2020 which are now upon us.
What do these shifts mean and how is the coming New Year and decade different from the last?
2019 appeared to be a year of endings in many arenas. There was a huge push to let go of what wasn’t working. Many people took a deep dive into changing what has held them in stuck patterns. As a sensitive soul, you may have experienced feelings of sadness or grief related to a personal loss or have felt unexpected grief related to the collective grief on our planet. For others, stagnant patterns may have been triggered by other life events, smaller “traumas” or releasing lifetimes of trauma held in their body.
Whatever emotions you experienced, if you ignored those feeling and the push to go within, you probably were forced into having to make a decision, or to surrender and finally lean into the emotion or situation. If you were able to let go and focus on nurturing your body, mind, and spirit, you may have felt a deep sense of relief, despite not being sure or knowing where you may be led to next. These have been deep lessons in staying connected to your intuitive self, trusting that you will be guided on your next steps.
There were glimmers of new possibilities but things didn’t take root or take off in 2019 as many of us expected. Just one example of several that didn’t get off the ground this year was the second book I co-authored with Jan Rysdon Be Your Most Powerful Self: 15 Heart-Thoughtful Strategies to nurture your inner confidence, connection and calm.
We finished writing the book in early September and invited several women we thought were perfect to read and write a foreword for our book. All were delighted but for various reasons unable to write the foreword for us. Meanwhile our plans were to publish in September…then October…then November, and then December! At the beginning of November, we were connected, by a friend, to an amazing woman who was delighted to read the book and write the foreword. We were thrilled and planned a December launch. Through a series of internet follies, the divine plan rolled out and the book itself was never received until this past week. All will now be ready to move forward in – you guessed it – January 2020.
There is no need to force things, as the unfolding of the divine or larger plan iso invisible to us.
In our case we now see in hindsight (20/20 vision), how the woman who is writing our foreword is perfect and we trust that the timing is also perfect. I suspect there is a bigger picture to where this book is supposed to go than we are aware of right now.
.SSo, dance like no one is watching into 2020 . This is a year to own your light and listen to your own inner guidance. Trust that what didn’t roll out in 2019 isn’t lost. It just wasn’t the time. Trust yourself and your knowing that your heart and Soul’s desires, that which is your “perfect” heartfelt dreams, have been incubating and are now unfolding. We had to shed some layers, let go, and find inner peace before stepping into our more masterful new selves and new or unexpected opportunities in 2020.
Sparkle Your Light… See it, own it, and Live it (dance like no one is watching) in 2020!
Bonnie
P.S. Look out for news about our new book soon to be on Amazon Be Your Most Powerful Self
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