A couple years ago I started getting into roller skating again, which was a favorite activity of mine as a child. I’m certainly not the best or most confident skater out there, but I have a great time doing it. As an adult who once watched one of their 30something year old friends break their wrist from a fall within minutes of getting their skates on, every time I step on the rink, I usually feel a bit nervous and not entirely surefooted. So I do the same thing each time: I stiffly skate over to the small practice area at the back of the rink, the little patch made for people to try out moves or get their bearings as beginners, and I just spend a little bit of time practicing the motions, to wake my body up. I then skate back onto the rink, do a regular lap or two, and then I sit back down and rest for a few minutes.
When I feel ready to skate again and hit the rink, suddenly, my body remembers. It remembers the joy of the experience, the confidence I do possess, my love of the motions. And I feel free and awakened on that rink, loving the wind in my hair, the glide of the floor underneath me, feeling strong, bouncing along to the music.
And all of that comes from my willingness to rest. To let my body remember and wake up at its own pace. It wouldn’t happen if I just tried to push through my nervousness through sheer will and judgement. It comes through in this way because rest is integration. Rest allows it all to fall into place and activate into aliveness.
Creativity is the activation, the breath of life. And it comes in cycles, like sleep, like seasons, like day and night.
In this week’s audio I talk about creative blocks, art, entertainment, learning new spiritual systems, and Gene Key 2, which features a quote I love: “All true creativity is rooted in patience and yielding.”
There is a deep nourishment in creativity, in art. Art, not just entertainment.
Entertainment obviously has its place. Who doesn’t love entertainment? It’s great, it’s fun, it doesn’t ask a whole lot of you. Like a lot of people, I have my comfort entertainment, and I try not to cast judgement on my consumption of it (but both the judgement and the overconsumption still happens tbh). Entertainment can feel like a balm. Entertainment is usually what we turn to when we want to tune out.
But art is different. Art asks us to tap in.
The ecosystems we encounter in digital and entertainment spaces were created to do whatever it takes to get our attention. Through controversy or by offering a retreat from what’s happening in the world around us. Our brains are literally being rewired by social media and streaming. It’s changed the way that we think, our ability to understand nuance, to listen deeply. So when we dip our toes into something that is asking for us to show up with intention and focus, wow, it feels like an oasis. It feels like a return to form. It’s affirming, it’s juicy, it’s something to sink the heart and mind into.
With social media and binge watching and overwork and capitalism, it feels like you’re doing something wrong if you’re not hyperproductive, always watching, or reading the news or posting. But that quote, “All true creativity is rooted in patience and yielding,” reveals that it is in presence, in accepting cycles of rest alongside output, that we get to the gold.
In the audio I talk about this time as a global initiation. Everyone is impacted by the socio-political landscape of the United States right now, as climate change looms and human domination of the planet becomes more and more untenable. We need art to remind us that this is not the end of freedom. This is not the end of autonomy. In fact, we are being asked more than ever to tap into our inner resources. Within, we find internal systems that show us the perfection of who we are, as we are. Neptune in Aries, and in a few weeks, Saturn in Aries, are both here to teach us this art of differentiation. Know thyself.
This is where true connection and communion must begin. When we no longer sacrifice our wisdom and instincts and needs at the cult of scarcity. Scarcity teaches us to fear death and loneliness. We fear being alone, we fear the absence of love; but so often we also fear togetherness, we fear intimacy, we fear being seen. This is not meant to be a rehash of tired you-have-to-love-yourself-before-you-can-love-others-basic thinking because this work can be done in relation or on your own, but there is nuance there. How can we nourish our connecting points if we don’t bear witness to what it is that animates desire, that lights the flame of unity?
Lean into an honest art, the art of living, the art of bearing witness to being alive. Know thyself and find freedom, know thyself and align to truth. Nothing can take this away from you, no legislation or government or institution or person can take your light away from you.
YOU GUYS! Mars has been direct for a few weeks now. Mercury just went direct. Venus will be stationing direct soon too. Things are shifting. Can you feel it? It’s okay if you don’t honestly. We’re still getting our bearings after the eclipses and have to get through these retrograde shadow periods. But we have been in a very sluggish period for months now. So give yourself some grace and keep giving yourself extra time. I know I’ve had to. Take your time and rest!
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