Welcome to the first collective energy reading of 2025! Each month I dive in to see what Spirit has to say about the collective energy of the month, and the collective guidance for the month (often times the medicine helps us embody an energy suggested in the first card, or transform an energy suggested in the first card).
As always, with any reading, remember - the future is not set. Readings capture probable realities sensed in that time/space. And of course, take what resonates, leave the rest! May this reading help guide you throughout all your engagements in life this month.
Energy
Anapausis
Winter Winter Winter, sweet child of light! It is time to R E S T . Your heart needs some time to disengage (perhaps with the collective fear or despair, personal struggles or even with competing with the mind). Stillness in the heart cannot be found if the heart is activated in a stressed way. This kind of disengagement is not bypassing, but rather a gift to yourself to reset and center, so that when it is time you can engage in life fully, and perhaps in a new, emboldened way.
Tired of all the new year, new me hype?? Remember this is a time of visioning, of rest, of recovery. It’s winter. Even the hype of the new year can be given a pause. No need to get all your visionary ducks and intentions in a row - the true new year is not until springs bursts forth mid March at the equinox.
In this willingness to let go, to be slower, trust is inherent. Trusting in divine timing. That the right events will unfold at the right time for your sacred journey. Let go of needing to make things happen and just BE for now. Tend to your spirit, your heart.
The Latin word anapausis refers to pausing, ceasing, in work in order to regain strength, renew vitality and open to creativity. This kind of rest is one for success. Remember that there can be many kinds of rest. Be sure to include rest that involves sanctuary for your soul. True rest that nourishes and replenishes. Mindless scrolling doesn’t do the trick. Often many pleasurable engagements only refuel an aspect of yourself. Take time for stillness and to discover what truly fills your cup.
Remember that even through rest, Spirit sustains you through your devotion and commitment. Rest is actually a part of that process. The renewal found in your connection with the Divine is always available to you.
Medicine
Spirit Bear of 396 Hz
In case rest wasn’t highlighted enough in the energy for this month, Spirit Bear drives in the point. A time of hibernation. Allow your heart to heal. Allow yourself to dive into the heart, and emerge from your winter cave with your heart ablaze - ready to walk in and engage with the world in a heart-centered, spirit-led way.
Throughout your winter rest and reset, you are encouraged to make your way out into nature. Even in the cold. Even in the snow. Let this season, the way the plants and animals are in the time, be medicine for your heart and wisdom for your soul.
The divinely ordained time for your liberation, healing and emergence is much closer than you may realize. An abundance of blessings to come, now is the time to really become anchored in the heart.
This is the way into restoring your self-love, healing any residual guilt or fear, and stepping into loving all that is.
The outer world may give myriad reasons to keep a closed heart, but now is the time to rise in spiritual fortitude - learn to lead with the heart. This means that for now, your bear cave is quite important. Create a space within your home you can retreat to and/or find a special, sacred spot in nature. Visit this place often. Light a candle, stare into the flame and enter a meditative state. Be still and breathe in and out the heart. Offer herbs or other sacred gifts to the Earth. Hum. Sing. Find the center within yourself.
And as you discover any mountains in between you and the stillness of your heart, find a healing practitioner and/or wellness center you can trust to help you merge with that mountain and enter into its sacred stillness. The mountain is (an aspect of) you.
In your sacred space at home, enjoy this mini healing process, adapted from the White Light Oracle by Alana Fairchild.
See you next month!
Munay, Becca
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