As The Natural Moves Into Its Next Cycle
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As The Natural Moves Into Its Next Cycle
So Do I
As Autumn begins to push its way past Her Sister Summer, the parts of me that have been hibernating through the heat are beginning to blossom forth.
It’s been a strange journey.
As I sit here this morning, I know, more clearly, that my path is shifting once again.
As always, I am heading towards the same destination. I am taking a different turn, a different road, to get to where I want to be.
I have had to reaccess my goals and desires recently. Not only due to my health but also because having spent all of August writing about different topics, I had a few realizations.
As you know, I wrote about planners and planning here on Substack.
On Medium, I wrote about Tarot.
On my blog, I wrote about my GOS, Grimoire of Self.
After a month of publishing nearly every day of the month, I have discovered that I prefer…to have time to relax and research more than I allowed myself last month.
I love the writing, but I need more off-screen writing to pull out all the tidbits that stick in the back of my brain waiting for that one little niggle of something to pull it forth that only comes from writing, then journaling about what I am writing about, and then going back to what I was writing for publication.
Funnily enough, the journaling part of my process does not always have anything to do with what I am writing. It’s just what I do.
I also learned during that month that I have a clearer direction of what I want to do for and with my GOS course, and also how I want to work up and complete the course. I need to do the work. The course itself, if were a book, would have roughly ninety chapters. As a course, on an online platform, ninety chapters is a bit much. I have to decide how to create that balance between the information I want to give out and what is best consumed by students.
It’s a process.
But it is a process that is calling out to me more and more, no longer content to sit in the shadows.
I also want to go back to my roots.
If I am honest, this course is twenty years in its creation. It started out as something completely different. There was no Grimoire to be seen originally. Perhaps there was a diary to be kept for the duration of the course. However, some of those original exercises are ones that I still go back to and use myself. These are the things I want to impart to others.
There is more to a Grimoire than simply what you put upon the pages. The book is also a memoir of your life, of your emotions, of you.
This is where I lean now. I plan to lean into that.
How about you? How are you greeting September and the coming of Autumn, and then Winter?
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