Rooted & Radiant

Today my heart is broken.

Today my heart is broken, for the needless loss of precious lives and for the fear and wounding that armor our hearts.

My heart is broken for those who cannot breathe freely. For anyone and everyone who feels they are not enough.

My heart breaks, and I allow it to do so. It is the only right response.

I allow my heart to break, knowing I am not alone, that countless others are mourning. May our collective tears be a cleansing and a balm for us all.



And, when we come up for air, may we allow breath to move deeply into those broken-open heart spaces. May we remember the cleansing power of wind, of the breath, to clear new vistas.

Nature mirrors all the change and the steadiness we can feel within. We can turn to that mirror, and be reminded. The heart is resilient.



The Moon, so full and brilliant this week, is quite literally the force that makes all the rhythms of nature possible. Let’s remember to allow wonder to also shine through our broken-open hearts, when the time is right. Nature invites us, constantly, to do so.

The Moon is patient, and reliable. The Moon’s light will wane, and then disappear, but is never gone.



From my heart to yours,

Gaby



PS I credit the brilliant and beautiful novel Bewilderment, by Richard Powers, for the wonder-full scientific fact about the Moon's stabilizing power on Earth's climate.

The second spiral of Rooted & Radiant begins next week, with the New Moon Solar Eclipse on June 10!

There’s no need to do these spirals consecutively—that’s the beauty of a spiral. Wherever you enter is where you need to be.

From the first spiral of Earth and “Opening Awareness” concluding this week, we enter into the second spiral of Air and “Expanding Mind” on June 10. Our muses for this spiral are the astrological sign Gemini and the Knights in the tarot—they’ll be supporting our explorations. Choosing new stories while laying to rest old, stale beliefs and thought patterns—we’ll be engaging with tools from yogic and shamanic traditions for changing your mind—cultivating new outlooks and mindsets of abundant self-love.

Each week, we focus on a different element, a different suit of the tarot and the current astrological and energetic influences as we “spiral” through practices of body, Earth, heart, imagination and stories.

These practices are disciplines—a daily devotion to your own unfolding self-love, presence and purpose.

Each week you’ll receive a PDF workbook, an audio podcast and an audio meditation. Weekly group Zoom calls and one-on-one Shamanic Reiki sessions are optional. Please see my website for all the details: https://www.shaktijourney.com/rooted-radiant-spirals.

With Mercury retrograde and a powerful Solar Eclipse to support new endeavors—the timing is perfect for this deep dive into your beliefs, thought patterns, and stories. So many of these thought forms simply aren’t expansive enough for what wants and needs to come through each of us in this transformative time!

Every offering during these four weeks is dedicated to YOU, as you are, being fully Rooted & Radiant in your life, as it is.

Visit my website or message me directly if you’d like to know more!

- Rooted & Radiant Spirals - | Shaktijourney ... is a spiraling journey to your soul, that place of your unique essence, your innate loveliness.  This journey begins where you are, in this life, this moment, this body, and invites you to explore and deepen into your innate gifts and your soul’s purpose in this life.  It is a journey in lea...

On Wednesday, May 5, I’m hosting a meditation and Q&A in Zoom to share my upcoming Rooted & Radiant series! Check out the event I’ve created on this page!

We are now in the fifth month of a five year (2+0+2+1=5), which according to the Tarot means the Hierophant—the archetype of finding, honoring and trusting our inner teacher, our inner wisdom. This is really what being Rooted & Radiant is all about—tuning into our inner guidance and making choices from a place of trust in the abundance and rightness of our life, as it is.

If this were easy, I wouldn’t need to teach it. I need to learn this stuff as much as anyone (really). It’s been my honor to share these tools and approaches with college students for six years. Now I find myself in the exhilarating place of midwifing the caterpillar of that academic version as it is becoming the butterfly of Rooted & Radiant.

Notice that I say becoming! Yes, Rooted & Radiant is becoming, and is quite honestly in the mushy tender phase of being neither caterpillar nor butterfly! This means that YOU and I, if you choose to join me on this adventure, will be co-creating Rooted & Radiant together—trusting the butterfly it is becoming through each of us and through our collective.

This kind of work, this authentic collaboration and intuitive, improvisational flow is actually my FAVORITE place to be—in the liminal zone, right on that razor’s edge between full-body/heart/brain knowing and complete, utter unknowing. This first “spiral” of the series invites us all into beginner’s mind, so we’ll play in these realms of deep creativity and seed-planting.

Check out my website https://www.shaktijourney.com/rooted-radiant-series and the Event on May 5 for more information!

- Rooted & Radiant Series - | Shaktijourney Join me on an unfolding adventure through the elements, the phases of the Moon, and into your own rhythms and depths.  Find yourself rooted, radiant, and living with clarity and courage at each new step of your life’s journey.