Now is the Time

The wind swirls through the trees in my backyard as I write this. All the leaves seem to be performing some sort of moody elegant dance, but despite the currents the trees stand strong.

It seems like the world is being swished around by the wind at ever increasing speeds lately. Market shifts, political change, financial uncertainty, polarized opinions screamed in to the void of social media and global crisis hit you in the first five minutes you open your phone. You only intended to google something and then check an instagram cat video and somehow you have come out knowing chaos is swirling through the branches of society.

Maybe your own gusts of difficulty are closer to home, in the challenges you just can’t seem to keep up with in daily life. Conflict with the kids, limited funds for the things you love, exhaustion and other personal hits can feel like a tornado is approaching.

In these moments it can seem like now is the time to draw inward and play it small. In crisis, naturally, people look to how to play it safe. We start to seek ways to store our own security, and eliminate the excess in our life.

But did you know that trees get stronger in the wind? As strong winds blow and the limbs and trunk shake it triggers something in the tree to produce what is called reaction wood. The tree gets stronger and her roots reach deeper in the blanket of mother earth’s soil.

Similarly, when a human body lifts weights the bones bend ever so slightly from the pulling of the muscle and it triggers bone cells to produce, thus creating stronger bones. (Thanks college anatomy class!)

The very bark and bone of us know that external pressure is not about about getting smaller but about growing stronger.

Of course limbs (all kinds) can break if the wind is strong enough. But even that has repair and adaptation.

So many of the “threats” feel like they will break us, but it’s your leaves that are shaking. It is the top and most fragile pieces of you that quakes when the world does or when your life does. This is the realm of thought and mind, and unlike the tree if we identify enough with it, the body will emulate the threat we think it is.

More often than not we are responding to threats that aren’t at our door to respond to. We feel helpless because in fact they aren’t ways to help in situations beyond our reach. Although some things have political action that can be taken, many things are not within any realm of our control. Because of this, we must draw our focus to the lives we can impact, our own and those around us and focus on the small ways we can contribute to bigger causes we have a passion for.

So even though so much is moving around us now is not the time to limit our lives.

Now is the time to dig in to the core of who we are and get stronger in our expression. Now is the time where the frame of you is built anew.

Taking inventory and eliminating excess can be a good thing any time, just so long as that which you eliminate is not what your soul came here to do. When the world seems crazy we shouldn’t always wait out the storm, unless that storm is literally right over you (then you may dance in it if you can). We have the divine opportunity to remember the preciousness of our experience here because of the storm, not in spite of it. We have the opportunity to say; if not now then when.

Of course there are people who are in the storms, facing famine, war, disease and other immobilizing things. They may not be in the position to start that business or learn the art of dance or travel abroad to taste pasta.

But more than likely you are if you put your mind to it. And I guarantee you that it is the hope of standing where you are, able to make creative life decisions beyond survival, that keeps the immobilized going in the darkest of moments. It is the sufferer’s dream to have choice over how they live their lives. Don’t waste yours idly worrying about what can be done for things you don’t plan to do anything about. This does not mean we don’t help if we can, but it is to say now is the time to make the life you want, while all the limbs are in tact.

You might be thinking what does she know, is something coming?

This is not a dooms day prediction. I am merely responding to the pulse of collective fear. Hopefully many of you aren’t in it. But the message is the same. Don’t let suffering you cant change stop you from living your magic. Don’t let the fear of the unknown prevent you from stepping boldly in to the life you feel your soul came here to have. Don’t let the weight of your daily struggles dampen your spirit to create more.

If anything, let the wind strengthen you, not break you.

The future has always been in the unknown, we have just behaved so predictably we thought it could be predicted. (Now as an intuitive I do know some things can be predicted but they are weather patterns and there are varying options based on how we work with the energy).

I encourage you to let the uncertainty invigorate you, let it make you dance like the leaves. Because I know my own spiritual guidance has been, get up, NOW IS THE TIME.

Unplug from media or even the mundane tasks of life for a bit and focus on how you want to live. Just because the currents are wild doesn’t mean you have to be swept up in them. You can create life from this energy. You could become the strongest most vibrant tree in the forest, or you can collapse.

This is all as much true for the collective currents as it is for the personal storms.

So if your ready for change, take the first steps. Sign up for the class, go out to dance, give up the bad habit you know is holding you back. If you don’t know the steps then take a deeper look inside and say what kind of life do I really dream about living.

If you need help in that, I am taking mentorship clients on. This is only for those who are truly ready to start living in a way they haven’t before. It is for those who are ready to do the wildly magical work of inner change to create outer change. I will utilize all my skills in this to create the perfect blend of what is going to help you grow your strength. Whether your limbs are almost at a snap or your standing strong and wanting to grow to new heights, spirit will guide us to your personal expression. Email me to find out more.

Individual reading are still available and man do the spirits have good things to say lately!

Whatever you do, I hope you pull your mind in to the strongest parts of you and feel the wind like the divine animator it is!

In strength,

Avery