you don’t have to set goals…
As I look out of the window, I see Monviso, her peak covered by snow glistening in the sun. I think to myself that I could just sit here all day and stare at her. For her beauty is intoxicating.
I write this as a loveletter to you all, perhaps sparking your own thoughts on the words you will read and hopefully inspiring you to not get pulled into the rush. May this feel like a gentle reminder to exhale and allow yourself to return into the void of stillness.
I know I am deeply privileged to be here, to be able to take time off work and travel to Northern Italy. To be born into a family that has allowed me to develop and study, to be born in a country not torn by war or famine or…
I am deeply thankful that I give myself time, time to watch the winter sun cast beautiful shadows on the wall. Time to let myself become ‘bored’ and just be.
This does not come natural to me. For all the privileges that I have, they also come with the side of never enough. Always something to do and to create, the ‘more, more, more’ energy. I see this in the newsletters I am receiving and on Instagram posts and stories. ‘Last chance’ courses being sold and offerings for the Gregorian new year. Words spill over me about the year ending and a new year starting. About needing to set goals, they invite me to have a ‘new year, new me’ mentality. I get so many emails about wrapping things up and yet here I am, wrapping myself in a blanket and taking another nap.
As I have been living cyclically for many years, I am deeply aware of the connection and reflection of nature’s cycles on my own cycle. However, it hasn’t been until the last few years that I have been diving even deeper into the meaning of this. Trying to find the connections like the mycelium threads below the surface. It is here that I have found that the Gregorian new year does not reflect my calendar or cycle. For when I truly follow the wheel of the year I am still deep in winter. There is no need for me to wrap things up, get excited for or start reaching outwards again. For I am still in the darkness, still cocooning and processing all that winter has given me.
If you need it, let this be your permission slip to not set goals. To not wrap things up and start creating new offerings. Let this be a time of deep reflection, of stillness and time spend with yourself and/ or loved ones. Let this be the biggest present to yourself; to emerge when the daffodils show their beautiful faces. For they are the bringers of Spring, they symbolize rebirth, hope and new beginnings. They represent the true cyclical New Year.
With love always,
Anna
