Protection in salve form
This protection spell is a repeat from a couple years ago, it had a different name,
it was called The Salve Of Striding Towards My Yes,
and it feels important, it feels important now,
I wish I had a better way to explain this feeling in my body which makes me so certain of this.
It feels vital and tingly,
imagine a dozen sparkling arrows all pointing towards
this spell-that-is-a-salve,
lighting up the night sky.
Yes, this spell comes in salve form,
an invisible salve distributed here by way of [magic].
Protection in salve form
This salve arrives just in time to counter the usual
new year’s bullshit proliferating across our social media timelines,
you know how it goes, everyone talking about resolutions,
it’s supposed to be inspirational but it never is,
it just feels like finger-wagging,
the “experts” spouting statistics, warning us about just how many people
“fail” to fulfill their resolutions,
and telling you what they think you need to do to
avoid being one of those people,
which is a nonsense approach to life.
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND.
The superpower of being with what is.
You of a year from now is an different person than you of right now,
it would be completely absurd and unfair to hold that new person
— that amazing person you haven’t met yet —
to promises made now, and even more so to blame them if they ended up
going a different path because their yes was a new yes.
We can’t know their yes yet.
We haven’t gotten there yet.
What do we know…
We can’t know what challenges and mysteries our future selves will be dealing with,
or what will fascinate and excite them, or what
new superpowers and skill-sets they might be working on.
We can only feel into
— if we get quiet and really listen,
a spark of a right-now yes.
What if we can be true to that,
what if we can let that be enough.
Intention without expectation
There is no greater gift to a Slightly Future Self than
lovingly releasing/absolving any “resolutions” that require that they
achieve certain things or be a certain way.
Otherwise we’re just setting ourselves up to feel guilty for
not following through on something
when that something may not even be relevant anymore to
our true yes of the future.
We can seed wishes, intentions, qualities,
we can set off in a direction that appeals,
we can take steps in support of goals that feel powerful,
but nothing is more important than making this clear to our future selves:
of course we support their missions and desires, whatever these might turn out to be.
We can welcome anticipation, invite sparks of
hopefulness and wild joy,
release expectations.
Lovingly
When we commit, lovingly and with warmth, to following the yes trails,
as they appear, to wherever they lead,
to trusting ourselves in a moment instead of forcing,
this subverts all the unsovereign guilt built into
this yearly cultural ritual,
and we are able to let our incoming-selves be free to
be who they are and to
want what they want,
in the way that they want it.
so rigged, and external culture is so loud and so guilt-driven,
well, that’s why we have the salve.
Application
When I rub this salve into my skin, I remember to turn inward instead of outward,
to hear my yes instead of expectations, cultural or otherwise.
This salve rearranges things at the cellular level,
it helps me to breathe more steadily.
It helps me trust that as long as I am true to my yes,
staying present with the moment,
making space for both my yeses and
my incoming self
to move and change as needed,
I am doing great.
This is a secret self-treasuring salve,
it is made of permission, power, self-knowledge, presence and
exquisite streaming colored lights.
A Soothing of Salves
I found this gem (and expanded on it for you)
while editing A Soothing Of Salves,
an ebook collection of {magic in the form of words}.
The book features ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE SALVES,
collected from over the years and edited with love,
each one intended to bring more ease (hello, month of Ease)
into some aspect of life or how we approach this
complicated thing of being alive and in a body.
It is a sweet lovely book, full of wonder and sparks,
and we are doing a pre-sale while I am in the final round of edits,
and before I actually write sales copy for it,
which I have not done because I’m busy with a Mystery related to my house,
anyway, right now you can reserve a copy
right here, at the pre-sale price of $20 USD instead of $45 USD,
and I will be delighted to send it to you soon.
*Note! If you’ve already signed up for the 2018 Secret Star Society or The 108, then do NOT get this because we are sending it to you as a gift!
Invitation for this post!
You are welcome to share !!!! or anything sparked for you in this salve,
or seed any wishes, intentions or desired superpowers for the year to come,
glow love for Incoming You, whatever you like…
We remember that People Vary, we take care of ourselves as we need, we don’t give advice.
Here’s how we meet each other here: with great kindness, appreciation and love.
Lots of heart-glow over here for you and everyone who reads.
Follow
“When we commit, lovingly and with warmth, to following the yes trails,
as they appear, to wherever they lead,
to trusting ourselves in a moment instead of forcing,
this subverts all the unsovereign guilt built into
this yearly cultural ritual,
and we are able to let our incoming-selves be free to
be who they are and to
want what they want,
in the way that they want it.”
When I was a child, I would plan and script out everything I could, especially phone calls, because I didn’t trust myself to be able to remember in the moment what I was supposed to do–what to say, who I was, who I was calling for.
It wasn’t until I took improv classes as a postgrad that I realized how exciting and freeing it can be to just trust that you-in-the-moment will figure it out; that you and whoever you are with can lean on each other, ask questions, say “yes” to each other, and build something from there.
Many sparks to this salve and this post.
Mmmm improv superpowers! Trust in the yes-process x1000! <3
Oh! I used to script my calls too as a child! I grew up in terror AND was a perfectionistic, sensitive child so had to write it all down (and would even write the greeting!). The plus side is that I’m now a good communicator… and yes, with really complex, challenging calls, I still script them *grins*
I needed this today. Thank you.
<3 <3 <3 glad it is the right time
<3 <3 <3 !
Reading this blog post, I realized that I don't know what my Yes is in relation to certain areas of my life that I'm dissatisfied with and trying to work ion.
Maybe I need to do more internal listening. Maybe I need to check more closely for internal messages that might be coming from fears of Then. Maybe I need some safe rooms for frightened parts of me. Maybe I need to take it SERIOUSLY that Certain Particular Things Are Not Easy for Me, no matter how other people feel about them. And try using the tools accordingly!
Thank you.
Link to a photo of a rose you might like to see (or see again)
Beautiful rose! And yes to all this, I also need to take it seriously about the Certain Particular Things, and adjust according to that instead of external/perceived expectations.
i have had a doozy of a year that has left me feeling Not Like Myself and very weary, tired to the bone. reading this post gave me the tingly feeling in my legs and arms that i used to understand as “you are right where you need to be” and that made my heart glow. glittering with gratitude for this much needed salve. thank you ?
Mmmmm I am glad, and oh yeah ditto on the weariness of this year <3 <3 <3
Thank you for sharing this, Havi!
Following the yes trails!! I love this!
When I internally tell myself the opposite of that which is pressuring me [internally], I feel myself breathe more; there is more space around me, in me. So recently, I was feeling pressured to be less, to take up less space, to express less, to not show the deep pain I’m feeling, I told myself NO! Be MORE, take up MORE space, express MORE, FEEL more pain… and paradoxically, whilst I didn’t on the outside, telling myself let me breathe… let me be me.
Some spaces are harder to be me than others, both internally and externally.