New Vibrations

I woke up this morning feeling a little irritable and lacking in inspiration for the day but I knew that the sunshine was beckoning. As soon as I wondered outside I was met with the various jewels of Spring: dew drops nestling on blades of grass, small glass beads; blossom petals fluttering in the air and clusters of daffodils looking as though they were making an announcement through yellow loudspeakers.  I saw a lot of women with babies on my route – a sign that newness and re-birth was indeed here.

Feeling  more softened around the edges, I decided to buy a coffee and sit in the sunshine. The new community café had changed and was now a Cuban café. As I waited for my Americano my foot started tapping to the rhythms. The vibrancy of the décor picked me up, reds, pinks and yellows transporting me from soft Spring delicacy into bold Summer vibes.

I took my coffee and sat outside in the sun. I got chatting to a young lad about life and the world, about AI and quantum physics to the new employment laws. It was refreshing to have access to different perspectives. On the way back home I noticed that someone had discarded a sound system. It was an old fashioned ‘stereo’ replete with CD system: the discarding of old vibrations perhaps.

I met a red setter puppy on the way back home.  Her spindly legs reminded me of one of those new born foals that take a while to stand on their feet after birth. I am realising that opening to re-birth and to new energies requires gentleness and softness and some nurturing of those parts that fear change. The recalibration to this new timeline responds well to that approach. We don’t have to jump into change with two feet (though some of us may wish to do so!) Gently opening is enough right now: being curious, allowing the experience of what we notice and what it feels like, going with how our bodies now feel and what we wish to express. I was guided yesterday to pace myself. I had perhaps succumbed to the narrative about the fire horse and this rather masculine energy of ‘powering through’ but my body has other ideas. It would like a more gentle surrender into self-expression which allows the conjuring of a whole world of inspiration, colour and vibration that can be channeled into the new creations at the right time.