This week in the collective we have been exploring renewal, personal re-invention, navigating change and developing a deeper sense of trust.

Any journey involving the above is sure to be one that tests the heart, our ability to keep our sight on our North Star and to develop the resources we hold within. 

Life transitions and changes can both be full of hope and full of heaviness. Full of potential and full of fear. But a common thread, within there somewhere, we may find grief. A processing of one or many heartbreaks as we let go of what was and turn our sights upon what is ahead. Letting go of what we knew, old version of ourselves, past versions of others, previous chapters of life. 

Some transitions in our lives may feel like a relief, a chapter we have been longing to close for some time now. Others, may feel like the page is being torn from the binding of our very own heart. 

It hurts because no matter the reason, the outcome, or what it is that we see ahead, we are having to let go of a version of ourselves that no longer exists. There is no where to go back to anymore, simply this new reality. 

At times, we may have chosen this change, through our intention, visions or what we felt to be true. Other times, it may have been out of our control, the waves within this ocean of life we are each navigating through. 

Either way, either outcome, either potential - there is still a loss that we experience.  

Because as with every opposite, when we step forward, there is always something we are leaving behind. Stepping into a new version of self requires us to learn new parts of ourselves and new ways of being. 

But the one part of us that may stay throughout it all?

It is a calling held within, the guidance, the inner compass that speaks into our heart. 

When everything else around us may feel overwhelming, chaotic or empty. 

This beats within us steady and if we get quiet enough, we may just hear it. 

Sometimes this calling whispers, with gentle nudges, gentle signs, gentle guidance. Offering to us the wisdom of what feels right, what feels true and real + highlighting to us what feels unsure, what doesn’t feel right, what doesn’t feel true. 

The calling will often whisper before it demands. Gently guiding us, hoping that we listen, hoping we that we choose to trust. It keeps calling even if we turn away. 

Because it rests within. 

And the more that we deny our truth, the more that we deny ourselves, the more that we deny others. 

And the more that we deny life. In the words of Kahlil Gibran - “life’s longing for itself”

So the calling may demand, the voice may rise, the words harder to ignore, the signs harder to turn away from. Because our heart wants us to listen. 

Even then, we may find other ways to push it away, the fear, the ‘should and should not’s’, the voices of others that may cloud the grounded faith we are able to hold within our own. 

So when we start to notice it, or more importantly, before we even do. There may be an invitation here, to get a little quiet. 

To carve some stillness where we can, to create some space of reflection to help us discern that which is true. 

What still calls us forward after all this time? 

What will the heart not ignore? 

What is asking for our attention? 

What is asking to be changed? 

What is asking to be released? 

Whether life feels still and fairly balanced, positive and hopeful, or if we are navigating painful, uncertain change. 

It is this space that may serve us most well. 

The more we turn away from our truth, the more we distance from ourselves and evidently, the more we loose who we are. The more we loose the core, the grounding within that keeps us steady. 

The more we honour what we know to be true, the more we begin to find the solid ground in life again, the settled waters amongst the waves.  

Our callings continue to evolve as we move towards them, as we have new and different experiences. 

What if, it has never been about needing to know the full path ahead, just the gentle whisper of the next step in front of us. 

Could it be within the changes, the unraveling and stillness that we begin to find the truest parts of ourselves? 

Maybe, life is a process, of finding, loosing and coming back to our truth - again, and again, and again.

Not needing the answers, just trusting within our very next, steady step forward.

Sounds, words and inspiration to nourish what's unfolding within you.

“Running out of faith, but your wings are still bright. Hold on, don't you cave in yet. Your spirit's much stronger, don't you forget”

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Cleo Sol ~ Butterfly

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