Allowing Everyday Magic from Your Heart

One day it just clicks. You realize what’s important and what isn’t. You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself. You realize how far you’ve come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that you would never recover. And you smile. You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you’ve fought to become.”

– tinybuddha.com

I have to begin this post with gratitude. I feel grateful for this moment in which I feel like I am fiiiiiiiiinally able to write another post. I arrived at a point in today where I could at least START typing…

I feel grateful that I arrived at a point in my life where I am less likely to stress myself out because something, like writing a new blog post, didn’t occur in the timeframe that I thought I would. I have seen so many times how when I allow it to flow, all of the bits and pieces, including ones I didn’t know would be part of it, arrive and then I am ready to tackle the task or mission.

Today was exactly that. I was talking on the phone this morning while I sat on the patio, and as I listened to kind and loving words being spoken, a male American Goldfinch came up to the feeders. He was the first I’ve seen in months, and his presence felt like a nudge. I couldn’t remember what symbolism is associated with the goldfinch, so I searched my blog. I mentioned the goldfinch in four posts:

• The Goldfinch Speaks, 13 May 2020 – This one did not mention symbolism, but one paragraph stood out like a reminder that I needed to see because of how I could say the same thing about my past week:
  
  “I laughed and asked, ‘Why is everything a fucking metaphor?’ Seriously. My week has been one amazing thing after another when I am allowing them to come to me and happen instead of trying to make them arrive on what I think their timeline should be.“
  
  Another beautiful reminder from the same post: “Every time I consciously and earnestly say, ‘Thank you’ I receive more for which to be thankful.”
  
• Meditating with the Birds, 17 May 2020 – Reading this post today brought to mind something else. My post suggests that mindfulness and being fully engaged in the present moment can be achieved in different activities besides typical meditation in order to feel grounded; however, I feel some of my greatest peace (that launches more gratitude) in ordinary moments when I realize that I had been completely focused and not for the purpose of grounding.
  
  The post also emphasizes having consistency and patience, especially when it comes to allowing arrivals. I only have control over my actions and thoughts and what I can do to invite an arrival, and from there, I have to be patient and allow.
  
• Come As You Are, 9 June 2020 – I loved reading this and realizing how much unfolded since then: “My life has become magical, metaphorical, and mystical, and as the oriole reminded me, much of it comes from reconnecting with and continuing to heal my inner child. I’ve carried forward all of the things that brought me joy as a child. After many life and soul-journey lessons, some that made it easy for me to lose my way from my path, I’ve been working on learning, healing, and creating my future as I’ve always dreamed it.” Oh, if I knew then what I would experience this past week! 🙂
  
  Come As You Are focuses on bringing our authentic self to all things, and at that time I mentioned working for change: “IF you read my blog regularly, then you know my calling is a storyteller, lightworker, healer, sacred rebel, priestess… Therefore, my purpose is to stay with the bigger picture so that it helps you to be who you are meant to be and come as you are to working for change.”
  
  Being your authentic self is also key in another matter – aligning all the people, tools, and experiences that help us with our life purpose and mission. And also a final reminder from the post: ALWAYS BE KIND.
  
• Timing: Arrival, Advent, It’s All Coming Back to Me, and I’m Still On My Way, 29 Nov 2020 – This post opens with the quote, “It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for.” – Lois McMaster Bujold. In this post, I have a list of things that I didn’t see coming in the future, but they were all great things that happened FOR me and they arrived when I would truly appreciate and treasure their value.
  
  This post feels connected to my most recent posts, Magic Moments: The Princess of Spring and Inviting and Allowing Magic Moments. Only six days ago I used the Paulo Coelho quote, “We have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments.” Two days ago I wrote my own quote, “Magic is in the heart of the believer.” The image on the post affirms, “I allow life to flow freely through me. I am open to experience this moment as it is.”

One more thing to bring forward from the penultimate post: “The Princess of Spring. Optimistic, Enthusiastic, Creative, Energetic. It’s time to go after your dreams. Do something that expands your horizons. Let your creativity take flight.” – Radleigh Valentine, Fairy Tarot. And my favorite part from the guidebook, “She exhibits an almost childlike exuberance for life that will have you smiling.” Agaaaaaaain, if I knew weeks ago how this message would play out over and over, especially this past week, I still might not have believed what was coming.

With all of that in mind…

In the past couple of weeks, but mostly since last Thursday, the day that I woke up and felt like it was going to be a magical day, I feel absolutely certain it was. Whether you want to call it praying or setting intentions to manifest, I have been receiving everything I dared to ask for from the universe. I am manifesting a life of abundance. Needs are met. Wants are few. I am living a happy, fulfilling, purpose-driven life.

Every bit of work I’ve done in the last decade to improve my mindset to invite abundance is paying off now. The keys? Consistency and patience in: living in constant gratitude, healing from past experiences that kept me anchored in the past and blocked energy flows, releasing fears or negative thought patterns that stemmed from someone else’s mindset… those are the first three things that come to mind, but I know it’s not just those… ALLOWING INSTEAD OF CHASING… gaaaahhhhh that was a big one! (That’s what she said! haha)

Those all are a part of being able to LIVE AUTHENTICALLY – hear what your soul is calling you to do as your life purpose and live it! Once I allowed my creations (blog posts, videos, images) to flow naturally in whatever way I felt they should be rather than what I thought others want or trying to follow a formula/model, I began creating my own unique work and building a following of social media friends who enjoy and appreciate what seems to be “The Princess of Spring” coming out of my creations.

I’ll affirm again in the same words I used in a previous post, my light shines brightest when I’m not trying to shine but am simply being… living… being me… interacting with others… doing my own thing…

… and I love how I feel from finding out through comments and interactions that what brings light and healing to others is so simple.

My laugh and my smile.

And those were never in what I thought was important for fulfilling my purpose and mission! Laughing and smiling… two of the most natural actions that I could do since I was a baby! I mentioned it before in LAUGHING: It’s Funnier When Someone Snorts or Pees Just a Little.

Things are falling into place and my mission keeps becoming clearer to me. And I feel grateful to everyone I’ve met and have yet to meet who in some way contribute to my fulfillment of my mission. I feel grateful that by shining their light, several helped me to get where I am especially by empowering me to step up and begin creating and posting content whether it was this blog site or one of my social media accounts.

I found the courage to take the first step… the second step… baby steps… LEAPS… regular steps… crawling at times… but always moving forward. I answered what I thought was my calling, but every success or failure keeps clarifying my true purpose as a healer and lightworker… a warrior woman… a priestess… a sacred rebel. And all of my gratitude invites more of what and who I need to keep doing my part to raise the vibration, spread LOVE, and heal the world.

I have a journal in which I kept notes from some of my card pulls. The reminders I wrote to myself on the title page come from Rebecca Campbell’s Work Your Light oracle cards:

“Warrior Woman. Have you answered your deepest calling?”

“Priestess. How are you being called to step up and lead? Let your life be your message. A leader has the courage to go first and shine a light on the path.”

Luceat lux vestra.