In the early morning hours, pacific coast standard time, the new moon birthed herself into the sign of Capricorn. Earthy, perservering, ruled by Saturn. This is the new moon that begins our year. It all comes together. The Winter Solstice on the 21st marked the beginning of our Solar year, the time when we make that slight pivot, and turn towards the light after being enveloped in darkness and the releasing of things no longer needed in our journey. Then this new moon in Capricorn, a sign for setting goals, initiating projects and commencing once again a new journey needing to be manifested.
Saturn, Capricorn's ruler, is a planet of constriction, limitations, and often times fear. Its about making specific choices to single out and focus on, feeling the fear and letting it motivate you as opposed to stopping you dead in your tracks. I don't really think its a coincidence that our calendar year ends and begins at this time.
Last year when I created my Vision Board, I did a meditation to feel what words would theme this year for me. 2008 was the year of Ease and Freedom. I remember how very tangible these words felt for me. How important it was to allow these things in my life. As is usually the case, when these words and the visioning I did took place I had no idea that the year ahead would look like what it ended up being.
Sitting here, at the cabin in Idyllwild, working for myself, living with my Beloved as we create a creative, abundant and world adventuring life, I am amazed at what Freedom and Ease really look like for me today. It makes me teary to realize that I am in the midst of manifesting something so much more then I had the capacity to envision even then. It thrills me, because its a tell tale sign that whenever any of envision something for ourselves, what we end up with is always going to be so much more if we open to it.
This new year beginning for me is so different in feel and vibration then last year. The word that has come through for me is born out of being in a different life altogether. It comes out of existing in a different rhythm.
We had the opportunity to attend a ritual art performance in honor of the Solstice here in Idyllwild. It was a perfectly cold evening, and I attended in a very quiet and deeply rooted manner. My prayer was to be given the theme and direction for this upcoming year. What I was given came unexpectedly, and when the word was spoken by Trine, the Yogini/Priestess/Artist/Goddess, an emotional dam broke in me that caught me by surprise.
My time now in this upcoming cycle is about Transmutation. T r a n s m u t a t i o n.
This is different the transformation, although that is what will be taking place as well. I am still holding this word close to my heart, still letting it unfold within me. I am aware that this is about a cellular, vibrational, physical, elemental, spiritual shift into another being altogether. And I am also aware that this would not have been possible had I still been entrenched in the life I was living in Long Beach. It was a good life, but it was a noisy, cluttered life, still being lived with too much commitment to fear and habit. Things are different now.
Interestingly, I don't have a list of things that I am going to call into my life in this next year. Those are already there, and will come. What is more tangible is the inner work. The stillness, the dedication to a particular Goddess for this up coming year. A journey is what this year will be about.
I encourage you all to be still and find your word for this upcoming year. Make a sign, create an altar, a vision board, a list... This is the night to ritual around these things and set in motion the energy to manifest them in your life.
Blessings and Jai Ma.
