A New Creative Cycle
Some of you know I'm a Human Design & Gene Keys nerd, and I wanted to share a little more about it and let you into my process.
For those who don't know, Human Design is a detailed blueprint of the mechanics and essence of your energy.
My aura type is Manifestor. I'm one of 9% of the population, designed to Initiate, here for Impact. I impact folks just by existing.
I've experimented with this system for about 6 years now and it's been a profound framework to understand myself, alongside my existing frameworks in somatic therapy, social justice, embodiment, energetics and ritual.
When I look at the past year through my Manifestor, I can see I have been in a long, deep Rest Cycle. It's been so intense. Almost a whole year of resting, healing, feeling the foundations of my being and my energy dissolving, swimming in a lot of soup. I'm closing out a 15-18 year lunar node cycle and I can feel the potency of the next lunar node cycle building - a macro Urge that will take many, many micro urges to birth.
Right now I'm in the pulse of a solid urge. Intense energy flow, downloads, upgrades, followed by sincere rest, every couple of days for the last three weeks. Suddenly after a year of swimming in energetic soup, so to speak, things are crystalising and coming into form.
I have practiced Being With and trusting my process, and it's required so much faith to not push through this soupy shutdowny resty healing phase.. and I am so bloody grateful that I did. My internal energetic structures are rebuilding, I'm downloading and playing with new frameworks and blueprints, and the alignment and clarity of what I'm here to do is precise. And the ENERGY for it!
So far, it seems like I’ll be:
Exploring the continuum of Grief and Love, Anger and Power and Strength. We can channel our Anger into Strength.. we need Strength to hold our Grief... Our capacity for Grief expands our capacity to Love. And our Love will channel our Anger and direct our strength and power towards creating a future that we can all stand behind, that is generative, just, loving and inclusive, that is respectful of every living being. A future that is Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Supremacy of any kind, and has the capacity for true community, belonging and compassion - not friction free, but respectful, and creative in our solutions.
Creating collective dreaming space, because right now there are not a lot of solid solutions to the big questions... but I believe we have all the intelligence and wisdom we need in the collective, and if we can free up enough of our intelligence bandwidth to dream, together we can create something beyond what we can currently imagine. This is inspired by Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy.
Working more at the intersection of neurodivergance and trauma. After 2023, I've connected a heap of dots about my own spicy brain and realised I am probably AuDHD (Autistic and ADHD). Yes, I'm one of the thousands of adult girlies self-diagnosing after a lifetime of feeling like a little weirdo. I'm learning heaps at the moment about the overlap between trauma symptoms, Autism and ADHD and I'd love to be able to bring something to my clients from my embodied experience. Chewing on that like a cow with a cud.
Bringing spirituality into my work. In fact, spirituality will be the vessel in which all my work is housed. Part of decolonising therapeutic practice (and unpacking our individual identities) is recognising and addressing humans in their wholeness - not separating mind from body, and not separating body from soul and spirit and connection with all things, taking our individuality into community and beyond. This work has to be about more than our individual processes. I've been shy about it, because I was worried about 'legitimacy' but I'm not going to dull it down anymore. We need this more than ever - grounded, embodied spiritual leadership, actively engaged and embedded in the living world around us.
Some more specific projects in the works:
Something for Human Design Manifestors for somatically alchemising anger into embodied power, and clear informing (this might end up being good for every body!)
Grief rituals in many forms - exploring the gates of grief as per Francis Weller's teachings, grief and dreaming rituals like the Empty Out, Open Up ritual I just offered, grief writing spaces - as an expression of activism. Grief work is a huge part of the work humanity needs in order to really face the truth of oppression.. we must be able to grieve, for example, in order to bear witness to genocide, to unpack our privilege and the disconnection keeping us stuck from taking action.
And grief rituals for healing from relationships.. Empty Out and Open Up to Love. I just did a private client ritual on this topic and can’t wait to share it with you in a group format.
Business energetics and branding - Human Design/Gene Keys readings and embodiment session packages. I’m working with a colleague at the moment on birthing her business into branding and it’s so juicy!
Human Design embodiment pods - I'm so good at readings, but I'm reluctant to do in-depth readings for other aura types, since I don't have embodied experience to guide them. I think I am more interested in pointing people in the direction of self-education, and then when they're ready, holding space for embodiment of their unique gifts. See what comes of that.
A travel blog - travel and spirituality, ancestor and land reverence, trusting the process and the flow of life.. my overseas adventure has turned into ancestral healing and unexpected visits to sacred sites all over Europe, connecting with spiritual lineages in unexpected places and ways... and the most incredible people.. for example, my first house sit in Sallanches was for this woman who is *just* like my Grandma Shields who died in 2022 (and that process was the catalyst for this whole thing!), it was such a special connection and I'm going back to visit her in March. This whole adventure has been such a gift to arrive in the last 3 months of 2023 and I'd love to share it with you all.
So that's a current moment snapshot of what's cooking in the cauldron. I’m so excited to see what comes out of this creative cycle! Who knows, it might all look completely different - but I hope you stick around to find out with me :)
And now, back to rest and dream and grieve and love and ritual and play and watch the sunrise over the Alboran Sea from my house-sit at Mojacar Playa in the South of Spain.
Thanks for listening to my TED talk… Many blessings, and email your reps or sign a petition today to demand a permanent ceasefire xx
