And Happy New Year!

I’ve been spending some time thinking about the journey we’ll embark upon together this year through this email series and how I’d like to shape it (it benefits me greatly to have some constraints in place so that I’m not sitting down to a flashing cursor on a blank page twice-a -month and hoping for the best 🙂).

And the word that has continued to come forward for me is “Unbound”.

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Unbound. It says a lot in one 7-letter word.

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For me, it first invokes the image of breaking loose and flying free - like when a large group of starlings takes flight and fills the sky with an undulating cloud of bird bodies flowing to and fro - and then the more cautious parts of me pipe up with images of floating untethered and disoriented through space - like an astronaut who’s lost their anchor to the ship while on a space walk.

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Like I said - a lot in one 7-letter word.

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It all invariably leads me to questions and curiosities - How do I know if I’m bound? And to what? Does unbound have to mean disconnected? What’s the inner state of “unbound”? What’s the outer state? And so on …

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Again, A LOT in a word.

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As I’ve been sitting with it - especially this week in preparation for (and in my incomplete attempts to) write this email - I’ve been observing some prompts and nudges and little hints of the stepping stones that will make up our path forward sprinkled around me like fairy dust and I’d like to share one of them with you today.

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An account that I follow on Instagram -@themoontarot - posted something that caught my attention on January 11th - the same day as the first New Moon of the year) ...

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It rolled around in my mind all day …

Sit on your throne.

Observe what’s true.

And by the end of the day I had added for myself …

Move accordingly.

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After some failed attempts to get this email in your inbox yesterday, I found myself doubting and second-guessing and engaging in some not-so-kind self talk (yup,I still slip into that pattern on occasion) around the whole thing -

Who am I to talk about sitting on your throne when I just want to crawl back under the covers and try again tomorrow?

Who am I to invite anyone to observe what’s true when I’m twisting in the same winds of illusion as everyone else?

Who am I to suggest that we can move from the empowered place when I feel anything other than fully in-my-power at all times?

Who am I …? Who am I … ? Who am I … ?

(Is this pattern a little familiar for you? It’s a common one; you are definitely not alone.)

I've learned that this is not the headspace from which I can create meaningful connection and I simply did not have full access to my more aligned heart-space so I set this aside to try again today.

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The interesting thing is that when I hopped on IG today, this was the daily post from the same account -

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New date. Same words.

Unusual for this account.

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I received it as both validation of my desire to share it and as a gentle reminder that all the doubt, the unkindness and the “Who am I … ?”-ness in my mind are simply echoes of the way I have moved through the world for a long time; they are reminders of what the nature of my relationship with myself has been for many years; and they are representative of what I am consciously and intentionally moving away from.

They are not evidence of all the ways I have failed myself.

They are reminders of many of the ways I have healed, transformed and alchemized all that has come before.

They are a cause for celebration, not a sign of defeat.

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And so, dear soul, if you find yourself facing the shadows of what has been - like the ghost of Christmas past who refuses to leave when the bell tolls - and you feel yourself shrinking in the face of them, I invite you to reconsider.

When you hear yourself thinking “this again?!? I thought I’d already dealt with this.”, give yourself permission to pause and wonder how it might be showing you how you’ve evolved rather than how you’ve remained stagnant; how you’ve freed yourself rather than how you’ve remained stuck; and how you are unbound rather than how you continue to be tethered.

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This is the energy that I am bringing into 2024 for all of us -

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Sit on your throne.

Observe what’s true.

Move accordingly.

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I’ll be breaking that all down a little more in my next email (look for it around the Full Moon on 25 January) because it has me curious and turning it around in my hand like a gemstone.

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Until then, I leave you with a wish that 2024 unfolds for you gently and with many marvelous surprises.

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Sending you Love,

Tawnia

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