Power Path: October is Evaluate ~ Adjust –~Create By Lena Stevens
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The theme for October is EVALUATE-ADJUST-CREATE.
This
month is much more intellectually oriented where much comes up for
review and evaluation. It will be about making decisions, being
practical, and doing what you know is best. For some, this time comes as
a welcome relief from the very driven energy of the last couple of
months; but for some, the month will present its own challenges of
confusion, resistance, ambivalence and possibly feeling stuck.
You
could be evaluating almost everything this month: Finances, work,
environment, relationships, career, projects, health, practices,
routines, home, your physical environment, your reactions to things,
your beliefs, your spiritual life etc. The big question will be, “How
important is it in your life, and does it serve you?” If not, there are
adjustments to be made.
In
order to evaluate anything you need to have the space and time to do it.
There is a breather this month as the very yang action influence backs
off a bit and allows us more clarity about what we have been doing and
what we have involved ourselves in. If adjustments are in order don’t be
afraid to make them. This is about putting yourself first and trusting
that the right decisions will lead to the creativity needed to implement
them.
One of
the challenges will be to face the truth in your evaluation of
something that may be a hard truth to see. If you allow yourself to be
deeply disappointed, you will be. A great deal of neutrality this month
will serve you better around facing some of these difficult but
necessary truths. Remember that no matter how hard these adjustments are
to make, they will bring great rewards of creativity and expansion.
How do you evaluate something in your life?
The
first clue is that it does not feel right. It does not serve you. It
gives you no satisfaction and it is an energy leak. When you put energy
out, something has to come back. If it doesn’t, there is something wrong
with the picture. If you feel drained instead of just simply tired
after a day’s activities, you were not nurtured and fed by your
experiences. Always ask yourself, “What am I getting out of this?”
True
service towards others always feels good. Service offered out of ego,
ingratiation, fear of rejection, Self-deprecation or Martyrdom is doomed
from the beginning and will not end well. Learn to be discerning and to
differentiate between right service and ego driven involvement.
The
other big energy leak is getting overinvolved in other people’s drama.
Evaluate this with neutrality and practical truth. Remove yourself from
this unhealthy waste of time no matter how deliciously it may beckon
you.
How do you make adjustments?
These
will be different depending on each individual circumstance. The key is
to adjust gradually by weaning yourself away from activities,
relationships, practices and habits that do not serve you. Once in
awhile it is appropriate to change something completely and dramatically
but often it is too much for the ego to handle all at once.
Think
it through. There is enough intellectually centered support to bring
clarity and mental problem solving into the picture this month. Beware
of impulsive decisions and give everything just a bit more time to sort
itself out before making an adjustment. If there is no clarity, wait
until there is before moving ahead.
You
may run into something that needs to be adjusted that seems overwhelming
to you. Start with the baby steps and do at least something towards a
greater adjustment that may take a much longer time to accomplish. This
would be the case in a huge change such as changing careers or making a
big move or ending a long-term partnership. Sometimes just the decision
to finally make this adjustment in your life is enough as long as you
are committed to it.
So how does creativity fit into this picture?
We are
still under the influence of the Artisan with Creativity as a major
theme for the year. What blocks creativity is the encumbrance of all
those things and activities that don’t serve you. Once you have cleared
the decks and made space for something new, creating is the next natural
step. In fact once you feel unencumbered, you may begin to feel more
creative. Use your creativity as the inspiration and fuel for what you
want to manifest.
The
opportunities are for getting yourself realigned, for seeing great
results in your creative endeavors and for manifesting more balance and
well being for yourself. In other words, you could end this month
feeling really great.
The
challenges as usual will come from fear, resistance and confusion. As we
mentioned last month, action always cures fear. Decisiveness around
taking action towards adjustments will keep things flowing and not
taking everything personally will keep you neutral.
How the month shows up:
YOU PERSONALLY
This
is a great opportunity to make profound changes and adjustments in your
personal life that will serve you better. You have support for ending
this time frame feeling better and in a better situation than you have
ever experienced before. It will take stopping and taking the time to
evaluate how you are, whom you are with, what you are doing, how you are
doing it, where you are and why.
Make
sure you practice not taking others reactions personally. Stay on track
with your own experiences and work on wedding out and adjusting what
needs change. Take some time for yourself and practice saying no to
unnecessary demands from others. Find that place of internal peace from
which anything is possible and then ask for what you want. Be creative
in everything you do and have fun.
RELATIONSHIPS
Relationships
will go through evaluation, adjustment and creativity. The good news is
that you will likely have more fun this month. The challenges will be
in seeing the truth in some situations that are seriously in need of
adjustment. Remember that you will never be able to please everyone and
someone will always feel they have received the short end of the deal.
It will take discipline to keep true to yourself and what you know you
need to do. Recognize the energy leaks in relationships and adjust your
involvement where needed.
The
creative piece will spruce up tired relationships as well as bring in
new ones on a different vibration. As you evaluate, adjust and change,
what you magnetize to yourself will be vastly different than what you
have been involved in before. Keep an open mind where relationships are
concerned and don’t take others reactions personally. Strong reactions
in others are always about them and never about you.
THE ENVIRONMENT
We’re
going to focus here on your personal environment, which is an extension
of yourself and ho you are. As you evaluate what serves you and what
doesn’t, look to your environment as one of the most important aspects.
What needs to be adjusted? What needs to be changed?
Your
environment is also one of your canvases for creativity. Especially put
some attention into parts of your personal environment that have not
received any from you in a long time. What have you become blind to?
What have you learned just simply to put up with and live with? If it
does not serve you, make adjustments and in some cases make a greater
plan for a bigger change.
Be
creative in how you interact and use your environment. Especially see
where you have gone into resistance based on a feeling of being trapped
or a belief that you cannot change anything. The most powerful practice
is to be present and to pay attention to all of your surroundings fully.
In this way you will easily identify that which really does not work.
Be neutral but practical and aggressive in your intention to adjust and
create change.
HEALTH AND THE PHYSICAL BODY
As you
evaluate where you are physically, be neutral about it. It is a good
month to evaluate if what you are doing for your health and well-being
is working or not. Are you feeling good? Are you doing what you know is
right for your health? Are you getting enough exercise? Are you sleeping
or not? What is your stress level?
If
there are adjustments to be made, you do not need to know all the steps
or the answers. All you need to have is the clarity and recognition of
what needs adjustment. Then open yourself up to the inspiration of your
own creativity fro the answers. Make it fun.
You
have a great opportunity to set your physical well-being on a good path.
It is important not to dwell on the past or buy into past definitions
of conditions or what is possible. Remember that being creative includes
what you can create for yourself in terms of physical health, energy
levels and well-being. The most important practice is to keep things fun
and simple. Most of us have over complicated our lives and everything
in it. Think simplicity and gratitude, and be inspired by your body and
what an amazing thing it is.
FINANCE, PROJECTS, PARTNERSHIPS, BUSINESS
This
is an area that desperately needs evaluation especially if you have been
doing business the same exact way for a long time. Times are changing
and practices have to change along with them. What relationships are you
taking for granted? Especially evaluate the quality of your practices,
projects and partnerships. It becomes obvious in these times that the
relationships are the most important aspect of any business endeavor and
they will need to be re evaluated first. Make any adjustments that need
to be made.
You
may need to adjust your own attitude towards something or perhaps the
adjustment will need to be around finances or the scale of a project or a
past goal that is no longer viable. Whatever it is, work with the
creativity available to you and start thinking outside the box. Don’t be
afraid to put your creative ideas forward. They may just bring in the
adjustment needed.
POLITICS AND GLOBAL ISSUES
This
is a huge area of evaluation and unfortunately it can get bogged down in
too many discussions, rhetoric, disparate ideas and no one really
getting on the same page. On the other hand there is a great opportunity
for seeing the truth whatever the truth may be. It is important to keep
the trust that real truth will eventually surface and will always lead
in the right direction even if there is tremendous resistance to it.
There
are many layers being uncovered right now that have covered up various
truths over past times. It is important not to react negatively to what
has gone on before but to act positively and creatively to what is
possible for the future. Negativity and blame are energy leaks
especially when they are focused on something of the past.
DATES AND TIME FRAMES
October
1-7: Evaluation time. Watch the tendency to define a less dramatic time
as uninteresting or even experience it as depressive. Be grateful for
the deep breath you get here and take advantage of the void that beckons
you stop and evaluate. Pay attention to how you feel and spend some
time asking yourself some of the questions that will shed light on
anything that needs to be adjusted. Watch for synchronicity and see
significance in any experience that happens to you at this time.
October
8-15: A creative spurt of energy is available for anything that needs
to change or be adjusted. This is also a time of facing hard truths. Be
courageous in your decisions and neutral in your reactions. Beware of
energy leaks and practice saying no to those people and things that you
know don’t serve you. This is a time frame that supports getting all of
your priorities straight. As we head towards the new moon think of
something in your life you can simplify.
October
15: New Moon is at 6:03 AM Mountain Daylight Time. Take this day and do
something to simplify your life. Do something creative and simple and
fun. If you are making it complicated, notice that and turn to
simplicity whenever possible. Spend a little time today just doing
nothing but being in the void. Watch your reactions to this. Slow down.
Sit. Think. Create. Simplify.
October
16-21: This is a time frame that can be incredibly joyful and
productive and creative. How fun it will be will depend on what you have
evaluated and adjusted. If you have ignored signs and signals of what
needs change, those situations will not go away and things could come
crashing down. But if you have been paying attention all along to what
needs adjusting, you will be in good shape and this time could be really
great for you. There is a window of opportunity for new projects, new
relationships, new understandings and new appreciation for yourself and
who you are. It is also a good time to do something new and different,
to change it up a bit and be creative.
October
22-30: A more moving centered aspect comes in again during this time
with a bit more action and less evaluation time. If there are
adjustments in the works they will get some support and energy. Any
creative project will also be fueled by the moving center. You can
experience tremendous movement if things are aligned in the right
direction. If not, you may feel like you have just been hit by a truck
and all of your chaotic pieces of life are scattered all about the
highway. If you are in this experience instead of the “everything seems
to be working great” one, you may need to stop, evaluate and adjust.
October
29: Full Moon is at 1:50 PM Mountain Daylight Time. This is a busy full
moon and a good time to get things done. If you have a project or
something that can use a boost, ask for help. A community of people can
really create something huge during this full moon time so don’t be
afraid to ask big, think big and manifest big. You probably won’t get
much sleep during this one but instead of resisting it, use it and have
fun.
Have a wonderful month!
Lena
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