Divining Through Desire

Greetings, friend! 😌❤️‍🔥🔮🌍

Warm wishes for an easy flow into the Gregorian new year and a happy twelfth day of Christmas.

Here in France, in these “days out of time,” we were gifted a preview of spring by La Niña; warm air spiraling up from the west coast of the African continent and pushed eastward by the Atlantic jet stream. Birdsong and flowering ground cover, the smell of pine hanging in humid air. It’s helped bring some life energy into the collective cultural practices of introspection and divining the unfolding of our lives over the next twelve months.

On reflecting how I want to move in the world this year, I returned to one of my sincerest desires for every human, and that is for each of us to be friends with our true nature. One of those logics that I decided upon in childhood—if we could live in a way that allows each of us to develop ours, somehow this would spontaneously bring about world peace (cue Jesus Jones). Soon after, I caught wind of Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, and that was all the external validation my kid-mind needed. Thirty-odd years later, I’ve never felt more certain.

Befriending our true nature is to befriend nature; we are mother earth. We don’t have to look far to grasp how the planet has spiraled so wildly out of her relative stability when so many of us struggle to find our own flow with the gifts we’ve been given. To be authentic, a word Michael Meade breaks down in meaning—to author one’s essence—is to do our humble part in bringing the natural energy flow of the planet back into coherence.

What are your essential desires for the world? How will you author your essence this year?

That which we want for the world becomes the sacred offering we grow to nurture and give to the world.

I want to thank you for joining me on this adventure, your attention is precious to me and I’m grateful to have yours. Below you’ll find two playlists I’ve curated to satisfy the soul’s calling.

The first, I LOVE YOU, a reminder that love is always present, and that it’s our universal privilege as human to experience love through our bodies & senses; the second, KEEP GOING, for all the times when you want to feel like you’ve got this; to remember that many are conspiring in your favor.

Until we meet again—

with love,
heather 💜

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