Leaping Into February

What a difference a month can make! Amirite?

January presented us with opportunities disguised as challenges to facilitate our ability to shed any unwanted energetic vestiges of 2015 and begin 2016 with renewed vigor and sense of purpose. Well, me being me, I went with the challenge of illness. I’m not saying I consciously chose to be ill, but truth be told, there is a part of my subconscious that still exists in the falsehood that I must suffer to learn. So I did. I suffered for nearly three weeks from a bring-you-to-your-knees viral/bacterial bug.

By way of this latest illness, I took the plunge and dove deeper into the abyss to cleanse the emotional residue that caused my skin to crawl. It wasn’t a pretty scene as I struggled with myself and a sinus infection. According to Louise Hays, author of You Can Heal Your Life, the underlying emotional issue contributing to the physical malady of a sinus infection is ‘irritation to one person, someone close.’ Why, yes, Louise, that seems to ring true. And, what do you have to say about the emotional implications of an ear infection? What’s that?  ‘Not wanting to hear. Too much turmoil. Household arguing.’ Excuse me? Dare I ask about headaches?’ Invalidating the self. Self-criticism. Fear.’ Yikes.

Irritation. Turmoil. Invalidation. Fear.

I had my work cut out for me. And by work I mean self-care. Such a foreign concept and one I typically wouldn't subscribe to until circumstances demanded it. However, as I grow older and wiser, I’m learning to stop, drop and roll with it much sooner. I didn’t fight the need to rest. Rather, I leaned into it and leaned on the Earth Angels that came to my aid. I allowed myself to be cared for and they came with soup, banana bread, oils, tissues and ½ & ½ . They called and texted with messages of wellness, humor and love. By accepting help, I was freed up to deal with irritation, turmoil, invalidation and fear. I wrote, meditated, slept, prayed, listened to music, slept, watched movies and had vitamin IVs.

Now it’s February. All my favorite teachers tell us that February will give us a reprieve from the trials of January and the energetic yuck of 2015. February will provide us with an opportunity to lighten up and have some fun. I remember fun. And, it’s a leap year.

image via Telegraph.co.uk

In my leap year reading I pondered many things: the scientific explanation, the metaphysical interpretation, biblical theory, but what struck my fancy was this:

“Numerologist Christine DeLorey calls the leap year ’29’ a ‘numerological wobble in time’, the ripples of which create additional weekly insight starting in calendar week #9, which is the week in which February 29th falls.”

The article continued, “That moment out of time when you are in the potential of what could be. Kind of like the void, the emptiness that is present before something is full.” -Numerology 4 Your Soul

Shazam! "That moment out of time when you are in the potential of what could be."

Consider your potential. Consider the potential of those closest to you. Consider the potential of our nation to choose the best possible leader for the US. Consider the potential of the world to awaken to the knowledge that we are all One. 

We all have the potential to be potent. With great power comes great responsibility as they say. I say we go for it. We just do it. We just paint (that one's mine and a story for another day).