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2023 is marching fast towards its end as I contemplate the beginnings of 2024.
What do I want to see, do, be, accomplish? Where do I want to go, who do I want to visit, what will I write and who will I write to?
As I have begun to unpack the stories (both the old and the new) that have been seeded in my vision of 2024, I am feeling lighter. As I begin to leave behind the “stuff” of nonsense, distraction, and resistance, I am losing the weight I have been carrying on my back, across my shoulders, in my heart, and visible around my middle.
I am recognizing the burdens and expectations (mine and those I perceive of others) bundled and tied together. Like packing a mule, I heft them up and heave them over my shoulders each morning. Is that not a crazy “picture”… picking up that “stuff” every day just to carry it around and “bear” the weight of it?
For the last month, I have been struggling with life. Ya’ all get it!
You may even be in the same boat; aging myself, aging spouses or partners, parents, even children and grandchildren. We pretty much all paddle along the best we can – What’s the alternative my neighbor always reminds me?
Now, don’t get me wrong, I am grateful for every day I wake up and as my friend Ann says, forked side down (both legs to the ground).
When my left knee was wreaking havoc in my daily life, Lynn (Andrews) would occasionally ask me what I was refusing to receive, to look at, to move towards and be in my world? In other words, why wasn’t I moving forward?
My back aches and I hear her voice asking me, “Why are you holding back from doing what you are meant to do? What do you want to be in this life? What is keeping you from moving forward, not just living and giving, but doing and being?”
I would love to have another conversation with her while I am here in AZ this week. We could meet at the Blu Burger and brainstorm over BLT’s and Veggie Burgers (extra ranch dressings please).
I would ask her why I am finding it difficult to lay out the path ahead and why I feel so lost at times? Why am I drifting without direction when there are so many doors opening for me and invitations waiting to be accepted? I stepped into 2023 ready… ready to go, to do, to be all I am meant to be and yet here I am, questioning, second guessing, playing at this game of life instead of living it wholeheartedly.
I can see her now, those “wolf” eyes piercing right through my walls as she “reads” the colors I am wallowing in and turns the question back on me to answer.
Damn, just once, I wish she would have given me a direction, a clear answer, shown me the way, but that wasn’t her way.
I hear her now as I type this “stuff” out into the open, shining a light on my own indecision, “You know I can’t give you what the ladies (The Sisterhood of the Shields) gave me. I can’t give you that same experience. That was mine to learn from. You know that my job was not to give you answers, as much as I wanted to.
It was (and maybe still is) my job to lead you to your own. You know how to do this. You have been teaching others the way I taught you. Listen to what you have said, read what you have written. Your answers are right in front of you. Go wash the dishes.”
The waiter interrupts us asking if he could refill our drinks and clear the empty plates we were pushing around the table. All those lunches and dinners, all those conversations steeped in everyday friendship and filled with timeless wisdom, always seemed to end at the perfect interruption of the restaurant staff.
And then the conversations would return to how the horse was doing, what the new puppies had learned, where the next story was going.
Today is the first day since she left, that I have been open to hearing more than just the voice in my own head (and I don’t mean the encouraging one). Tonight my heart is speaking, guiding, and cajoling me into remembering all the projects that are started and waiting. I am reminded not just to remember but to do, to be, to remember authentically, where I was headed when she left, and stop treading water.
Today I am waking up the dormant me that has been starting and not finishing, that has been going and not getting anywhere. Today I am excited to get back to all those file folders waiting on my hard drive; the ones with stories, teachings, new books waiting on an ending, and courses, started, drafted, outlined but never presented, never done. They are all there just waiting, waiting on me to get back in the saddle and get tripping across the keyboards.
Today I am looking forward to 2024. The seeds have been germinating for many moons, years, decades even, and they are ready to grow.
- Are you with me?
- What lies dormant in the bottom of your heart waiting for intent, some sweet fertilizer and water to birth it out into the world?
- Are you searching for an answer that may just be right there in front of you, waiting for you to wash the dishes?
- I am re-writing a new version of the process Lynn called an Act of Power and I will have it ready to release to you all in December 30th.
- Who’s in? What would you like to see manifest for you, your life, your business in 2024? What’s standing in your way?
Let’s Soar Together into the coming year with a focused intent, practical exercises, meditation, and ceremony.
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Writing through the end of this year and into the next… my keyboard primed and ready. Are you?
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Vicki Dobbs is a bold and adventurous warrior walking a path of heart to manifest spirituality in everyday lives. She opens existential gateways for individuals to face their challenges and embrace these tests as the great teachers that they are.
Her goal is to see everyone walk in beauty and balance every day of their lives empowered by the voice of their own authentic truth.
Through Wisdom Evolution and Sacred Wisdom Workshops, Vicki creates opportunities for others to make deep personal changes through experiential classes, ceremony, sacred art and story. She endeavors to inspire others to create their lives intentionally. Vicki is an Inspirator of everyday awareness, an Instigator of spontaneous stories and a Connoisseur of Creativity. Gratitude and grace sprinkled with humility and humor are the medicine she brings to the world.
As an Elder, Teacher and Entrepreneur, Spiritual Coach, Ordained Minister and Crafter of Sacred Art and Tools, Vicki perceives life’s journey as an ever-upward spiraling ascension of the human spirit leading her to wisdom, wholeness and authenticity.
Her experience includes being trained in the Harner Method of Shamanic Counseling and the Pachakuti Mesa Tradition of Cross Cultural Shamanism. She is a Graduate Teacher and Mentor with the Lynn Andrews Center For Sacred Arts and Training and has been the Administrator and Writers Guide for Writing Spirit, the School.
Vicki is also an Artist of the Spirit Certified Spiritual and Energetic Life Coach, a Graduate Mentor in the AoS program and a founding member of HeatherAsh Amara’s Warrior Goddess Leadership Team and Facilitator of the Warrior Heart Practice.
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