When The Magic Comes Back

August was interesting.

And somewhat exhausting.  I had so many lessons coming down from the Universe that it felt like the month would never end.   So many endings.  So many deep lessons from within.

But this weekend it all changed.

I woke up Saturday morning early.  It finally cooled down here in Seattle and was raining. I decided to take myself out for coffee in the early morning to write.  I needed to balance myself out and the only thing I know that truly allows me to feel balanced is writing.  As I was enjoying my Italian coffee and sparkling water, I realized what I wanted to do the most on Saturday was spend the day in silence working on my vision board.   This is a cork board I had bought myself in March but had yet to do anything with.
Saturday I was moved to finish it.  I wanted my vision of my future to finally be put down in images.
I went to the store and bought some magazines and went home to work on my project.  Chai Tea, my porch door open while the rain came down and silence.  It was perfect.  I felt so inspired by the images I was cutting out.  They feel so real.
I completed the board and hung it up on my wall.  It's so different than if I had completed it in March.  It's so much more authentic and on point.  I have shed so much since March and have gotten very clear on what I want my future to look like.

Right after I finished the board and lit my magic dream candle next to it, I saw a text from my favorite astrologer.   It said something like - the story from March is done.  You are now ready for the future.

Whoa!

I looked up the date from March in my journal and saw that this was the exact weekend I bought my vision board cork board.  And yet, it took me until this weekend to complete it.   I had so many lessons to learn. And I needed to get clear on what my vision for my future looks like beyond just "success".

I spent the rest of the day in a magical space as I realized when I just allow myself to be guided by magical timing.  That everything ends up making sense and there is a reason for it.
I could not finish the vision board until this weekend because it would not have been authentic. I would have questioned what I put on it.
But now, if I even attempt to question my vision board, it does not feel right.  My vision board feels like my truth.  Not my critical ego mind.
But it took me until now to live this truth.

I am so happy the magic has come back in a big way.  I am ready for my transformation and to help more people.

Check out my client stories if you are interested in the kind of work I do with people.  It's the same work I am doing with myself.   We are all magical beings in this life together.

http://www.emilyamitchell.com/client-stories/

Ritual For This Creative Season

This last week has been roller coaster energy.  There have been so many lessons coming from the Universe.   Most of them have been good but some have been hard as well.   It has been a good but exhausting week.  A week where I was truly grateful it ended on Friday.

But then something beautiful happened.  I woke up Saturday morning in a delicious creative space.  I suddenly wanted to dream again.  I wanted to take my time this weekend reworking on my big vision in life.  I wanted to create new vision maps.  I wanted to write in a new journal.  I wanted to sit in silence.

What I realized in doing all of the above was thanks to all the work I have been doing this year on working on my vision of what I want to create in life, is that my vision is bigger and more beautiful than before.   I am expanding on all levels.  My world is becoming bigger and my dreams are closer than ever.

What a great dive into creative energy this weekend has been.  Now as we roll into the energy of the super moon, I can feel where Jupiter is ready for me to expand my life.  My creative juices are on fire. The veil between my dream world and my everyday world is thin and expanding all at once.

I am encouraging all my clients right now to dive back into your dream in a creative way.  Because your dream may not be big enough yet and right now the Universe really wants us to dream big!

Ritual for the Full Moon

Take the time in the next week to create a new vision board or dream journal.   Start with the old dream and add more to it.  More feelings, more details, more color!  How good could you stand this dream?  Then add more to it.  
Sit down with a special candle that you will burn from today to the night of August 29th.  Create this vision board with it.   Light it everyday and spend a few minutes each day thinking about your dream. Then start looking for clues that the universe is listening.  Because I promise the Universe is listening.  These signs could show up as feathers, grasshoppers, butterfly's, your favorite song, old friends coming back into your life, new friends, a delicious book that is just what you needed to hear. There are so many signs the universe likes to place in our path.  If we are listening, watching and expecting these  signs, we will see them.

So go out and get creative!

Inspiration

I am feeling inspired this morning!   

The Universe is whispering sweet messages of change and I can honestly feel my energy shifting.  I have outgrown so many limitations in my life lately.   I am really starting to see and feel the difference.   What was once painful but accepted as life feels wrong and no longer acceptable in my life.  

This is huge!

I am blown away by this realization.  I no longer have to hold onto things out of fear or self hatred.   I can set boundaries and standards and then decide who gets to be in my life.  Instead of feeling desperate, I am feeling confident about my life.  This has also changed my story.   I no longer feel the need to please everyone nor does anyone's opinion matter but my own and those I decide upon.   

Ground Breaking!

And then I read this wonderful article about the upcoming Venus in retrograde and it explains so clearly what I am thinking and talking about.   Venus is talking to us and showing us where we need to change.  She wants us to change in these area's in the most loving way.  That's why I adore Venus. She is not a fighter but that soft energy that is going to guide you to life changing realizations.  And she wants you to change with love and fun.   

So my weekend plans are all about love, friendship, magic and relaxing.

Post Vacation

I took a much needed long vacation and my soul is happy.

I feel relaxed in a way I haven't felt in years.  I work so hard and love what I do but sometimes I forget that I need to recharge and just do nothing.

Plus, now I am ready to tackle a couple of huge projects and add more clients to my calendar.  I am ready to move to the next level in my company plans and I feel excited to take on this work.
And I return with a deeper love of my coaching.   I didn't plan it but all my clients reached out to me at the same time around the full moon.   It was beautiful and perfect!  

We don't realize how affected we are by the moon but now that I am working with clients on a regular basis, I can see it.  New moons and full moons cause shifts in people.  Including myself.

I have come back with a deeper level of self love and love towards my life.   I also have a feeling of peace and security that I have been missing for years.  The universe really is helping me.  I am being guided to this beautiful life and everyday is a choice to see it.

My heart is full!

Summer Cleanse

This weekend was truly magical.

I spent the majority of my weekend on a nearby Island just enjoying nature.   I forgot how much I need to recharge sometimes.  The last few months have been so intense in terms of actions, meetings, lessons, newness, clients, products.... The list could go on and one.

Needless to say I have hit a wall for the moment.
I need to recharge.

In a couple of weeks I go on vacation for the first time in years.  I am counting the days down!   It will be good to be on the east coast in the sun and humid warm air. It will be good to see my family and lightening bugs.  

Mr. Big Man is coming up this weekend to see me before I leave town.   Friday's are quickly becoming my favorite day of the week.   My heart is happy.

That Inbetween Time

I am in that inbetween time when your big dream starts to manifest but it is not fully formed.   That time when you suddenly feel very uncomfortable to in your old life but you are not ready for the new one.   That place where you are just hanging out and waiting.

This is my least favorite place!

I have a dream.  It is coming but not until September.   But suddenly my Seattle life does not feel comfortable anymore.   I am tired of my job.  I am tired of the traffic.  And I am tired of watching my pretty little city turn into a California sister city.   I know this feeling.  This is the feeling I get when life is about to move me in a very big and different direction.
It's exciting but frustrating that I can't do it now!

This is where I get the whole summer to work on my shadow and faith.   I know the right thing will happen.  I know there is a reason why I am not leaving tomorrow.   I know this move makes me scared in a lot of ways.   I just want to rip the band-aid off instead of feeling these emotions.

And I am sad.   I love my life in Seattle.  I love my friends and my community.  There is an excitment here that I won't get anywhere else.  But this oppurnity is too good for me to pass up.  And it will take my company to the next 3 levels in a skip vs.  staying in Seattle and watching my company grow slowly.   So I am taking that leap of faith and jumping in.

But this in between time is hard!

If Merlin Lived In Modern Times

I truly believe if Merlin lived in modern times he would work a normal 9 to 5 day job.   He would travel between the two worlds seamlessly.  He might even live in the suburbs.  He would infuse magic in everything he did but he would also realize that in order to live he needs to live with a foot in each world.   He would also do his work quietly.  He would change lives with everything he did but he would not make a show of it because at this point magic has such a odd place in our society.   We need to normalize it.  It isn't about material objects or success.  Magic is about inviting our spirits back into our lives and living in divine harmony.  It's about working with energy to experience what it is to be living at this time. It's about being human and magical all at once.

This is what I have been learning lately.   How to be magical while living a totally normal life.   I don't need to drop out of society.  I don't need to be famous.  What I need to do is to help people return to themselves and integrate magic back into their lives on a daily basis.  To let go of their old stories and to invite their spirit back in because our spirit is what we are all craving and missing.   And our spirit is what connects us to magic.

I am so in love with my spirit.  She has come back fully in the last few months and she is not leaving.  I have been spending my time getting to know her so that she will stay.  She is beautiful and fun and happy.   So happy!

New Moon

Since I started living my life by the moon cycles, magic is everywhere.  This new moon coming up on Sunday is a fertile new moon for growing your intention. It's earthy so I will be burying my intention in the dirt. It's in Taurus so connecting it with materials goods, career and success will give it an extra oomph.  But Taurus energy is also about strong commitment and loyalty so there is a connection to relationships and love. My favorite past partner was a Taurus. They have a sweet spot in my heart.

My intention will be about my company and the big dream that just appeared this week.  I can't talk about it yet until lawyers do their things and papers are signed.  So probably not until September. But I can talk about what I will be doing until then.

I will be setting the intention for what my vision is around this situation and then I will be letting go and trusting the right outcome will happen.
Yep.
 I will not be desperate or freaked out.  My energy will be confident and secure because I know the Universe is loving and magic is happening.   I know that I am doing my soul's work and I am being rewarded for it.  And I know that if it does not work out, I still have my company that I am building on my own. So I really am in the best position.

I am meeting with new clients daily and loving every moment of it. It fuels my heart and fills my soul to be able share with them with I have learned and created.  I get to build a vision for them while contributing to my vision.  I love hearing how their lives progress as they expand and grow into magic.  I love how each person is different and yet we are all human. 

Welcome

A clean slate.  A fresh start.

My life's purpose.

A few months ago I was gifted by the Universe with insight into what I know is my life's purpose.  I thought I would take it slow to introduce it to the world but in the last few weeks the Universe has made it know that it's time for me to go public.

So here I am.  Here I stand ready to start this new journey.  Ready to move forward and announce to the world that I live a very magical life and I want to help you live one as well.
The beautiful thing about magic is that it is firmly rooted in the practical and everyday normalities.  In our current times, there is no ways someone like Merlin could survive.  Our society would never allow that.  But if we slow down, if we center ourselves and start to create room in our lives for rituals and magic. If we do the work that we need to do to assist the Universe in co-creating, that's where the magic happens.  That's when we suddenly realize that magic does exist in our lives. We just have to invite it in and make room for it.

I made room for magic and my life will never be the same.