Don’t race …… Review and Ruminate to ring in the 8 energy of 2024!

We’ve got a handful of days left on the 2023 calendar and several weeks more, if we’re using Aries on the astrology calendar to start our 2024. 2023 wants us to slow down and get ready for the 2024

Review and New

 Review of your accomplishments is always a good idea- bringing gratitude forward into the new year is an excellent idea. Take a few moments right now and make a list of all the positive things that happened in 2023.

In my IG feed, “7 Universal Energies 2023'“, my reflection of the energy of the 7 was to get grounded, and ask for truth and faith. In the December & 2023, I suggested considering what spirituality meant for you. Did anyone have spiritual issues come up for them in 2023? For myself, I had choose my mantra to be; '“respond, don’t react” so that I could be more thoughtful. Following my heart requires me to be quiet and wait, often meditation is very necessary to get my ‘head’ out of decisions. (I spoke on The Age of Aquarius as well.)

Now, consider what NEW energy you can focus on.

 Meditating on the 8 for over a month now, starting with a walking meditation with Women Making Waves hike last month I’ve had some of the energy of the eight come up and the fact that the ceremony at the end of our walking meditation was about manifesting (‘3 things to let go and 3 things to manifest’), I know ‘manifesting’ will be big this year.

 The Universal Year energy (2+0+2+4=8) so the tail end of 2023 of the 7 really supports refection and time spent alone (see poem below for encouragement). When I received this message on my odometer on 12/27/23, I started writing this post. Note that last year (2023, I was too busy meditating (insert funny face emoji.) to post on the energy except for a few short ones on my IG account.)

 Reflect and Meditate

Honoring the tail end of the 7 energy of quiet reflection will serve you well for the new year. Being a Life Path 1 - and no 2 energy in my chart, the desire to be alone is strong. Because it is not an issue for me, I need to stop to consider those who have the opposite drive. With that idea in mind, I share (below) with you a reflection from one of my very first clients. She shows us how mindfulness works. More important, how alone time is the prescription we need.

UNIVERSAL YEAR ENERGY 8

You have some choices when it comes to the eight energy. Which one feels right for you?

Abundance
Ambitious
Finance
Justice
Persistence
Power
Self-Sufficient
Transformational
Ho’oponopono

 Justice had come up for me and at first it didn’t make sense. Realizing that ‘pono’ means exactly that, ‘justice’, I reflected on it. Let’s not forget that Hooponopono means ‘making things right’. More on Hooponopono here.

 If you were given your due justice - what would that mean? Where would you shine? Focus hard on your success, make things right where necessary but understand the energy of whatever you put out, will comeback (or be reflected back) to you. This is why it is so important to be positive and not judgmental or critical.

Review and Ruminate

Here are some suggestions for working with the 8 energy after you have reflected. Note my suggestions for #LifePath. Calculate your Health and Wellness Path here. Use any of the digits of your life path that resonate :

• Start a “Circle of 8” group
  Lynne McTaggart is a scientist who created this concept and has tracked its effectiveness. I have been involved in these groups myself while living in Hawaii… in a word: WORKS! If you are in San Louis Obispo County and would like to start a group, contact me if you’d like my help.
  LIFE PATHS: 1, 8 - start a group. All Life Paths encouraged to participate.
  

• Do an Energy Experiment
  Decide each day what kind of ‘energy’ you would like to see/experience. Set your intention and then keep notes on what came your way. “I see gratitude.” “I see kindness.” “I am love, love is all around me.” LIFE PATH: 2,6 Life Path 5, if you have too much drama in your life, please use this experiment to look for calm or excitement.
  

• Do Gratitude Rants
  This is my favorite one. The year I did regular gratitude rants … starting in February, called “Show Me Love”, I had the most incredible birthday to date! We really do create our own reality and this active gratitude practice really proves it. LIFE PATH: 7, 9
  

• Expand Your Creativity
  Two of my favorite books for support are; Something More by Sarah Ban Breathnach and The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. LIFE PATHS: 3, 4, 5(use your hands!). I can not express enough how important it is for those with a 3 in their life path to be vigilant about their creativity!
  
  

 A powerful, loving and sensitive 26/8 shares her private reflections. I hope it encourages you to go within.

Does the thought of meditation scare you?

Stillness, silence and aloneness, oh my!
Stillness, silence and aloneness, oh my!
Does the thought of sitting still make your skin crawl?
Stillness, silence and aloneness, oh my!
Stillness, silence and aloneness, oh my!
Does the thought of being alone make you want to cry?
Stillness, silence and aloneness, on my!

 

My business mind could not be still, nor allow being alone and not thinking.  I took pride in my multi-tasking ability.  Raising a family, running multiple businesses, designing buildings and luxury properties, throwing parties, spending time with friends, attending charity events, and volunteering at my children’s school meant no time for such things. I was living the dream.  

As a child I was quiet and compliant. By putting my energy into playing sports I received some validation. I learned early on that by doing, by getting up early, by working your fingers to the bone it was a measurement of your worthiness.  So I put myself through college, working hard, trying to prove to myself and others that I was worthy.  Not knowing myself, decisions were based on input from other people. I spent a good portion of my life creating places, businesses, planning events and controlling situations to ensuring my life looked a certain way.

To me, being alone was a pathetic place of nothingness. It use to scare me enough to make me cry just thinking about being alone.  I didn’t need to be with people 24/7 but having many people in my life was important to me. Certainly, I was alone at times which was okay but I would plan an event or find ways to bring my team or friends together. Having a group of people I cared for meant they cared for me and the more I had the better I felt about myself. I became really busy creating the life I thought I wanted or the life I should have. Other people’s happiness became a gauge in which I measured myself and my own happiness. I had no idea of what I really wanted or what brought me joy other than the happy faces I saw in the people around me.   

I was successful and creative in my efforts but rarely did I feel acknowledged, appreciated or loved.  After creating so much beauty in my life and having what I would consider success, I was still depressed, lonely and incredibly sad.  No amount of money, jewelry or success made me happy nor did I feel any more validation or worth. I was still feeling alone.

For years I saw a therapist and read every self-help book. I continued to seek out the answers through every means available to me including hypnosis, journaling, dieting, (oh if I was just thinner I’d be loved)  but I did not understand what was wrong with me.  I considered antidepressants but I wanted the answers to the problem, not a drug.  I was scared, hurting, depressed and I felt lonely. I went on creating more and doing more, hoping this would bring the love, the trust, and the life we wanted together.  No amount of work or creating made a difference and my marriage came crumbing down.

Without a partner, someone to count on, someone to fill in the proverbial “in case of emergency” line on documents I felt alone.   Honestly I am not sure I really felt it I was just afraid of what that meant in my own eyes.  Being alone meant such an ugly tale and meant no one loved me.  I felt the need to be acknowledged in having a relationship.  Sounds weird, but I didn’t want to be the single girl when all her friends were in relationships.  I felt pathetic in family photos without a man standing next to me, validating that I was worthy. Exhaustion, numbness and a sensation of living outside of myself became my new existence. I started to mediate because multiple doctors said “slow down, reflect and meditate”.  In the past I had tried it, including hiring someone to help me as my mind just would race. This time the need was more urgent.

A turning point for me was learning a releasing technique called the Sedona Method which is a form of meditation. This is when I began to discover who I was and started to deal with my fears of being alone and what that meant to me. Clarity came gradually and seemed to be in tune with how much I spent releasing, meditating and allowing.  With clarity came tears and cleansing of things that I needed to let go of and allow them to be as they are.  It’s not easy but it has gotten easier with practice.  Now I am able to recognize the feeling of needing to be alone and I enjoy my time alone reading a book or doing absolutely nothing.

There is nothing wrong with me, nothing wrong with you and what we all seek is pure love from ourselves.  From learning about life lessons in numerology, releasing and meditating, I know now this was part of my life path. What I have learned is that answers come from your heart not your mind.  The ego is strong and your mind can trick you into thinking there is something to fear. 

Are you afraid of ghoulish answers that will be revealed in stillness and silence?  Fear not! As clarity, love, joy and peace will come in time.   With meditation and years of mentorship from my dear friend Kim and from spiritual guidance by Tricia Gunberg, clarity, love, joy, peace, and all the things I have been seeking are now unfolding.   Thank you to these two wonderful mentors I feel so blessed.

Happy Halloween! Do not let your mind trick you, instead treat yourself to some alone time.

Beverly Servi

Be mindful about your energy and things that surround you. I promise that time spent alone in meditation will fill up your cup. As it does you’ll fully enjoy the overflow!

 If you’d like to know your Personal Year energy and a glimpse of your chart, $11.11 on Vemno to get a text photo of your chart numbers. (Repeated numbers are a good focus.)  To get help with understanding which attribute of the 8 is best for you to meditate on, schedule a reading with me. DIY method; look through all my blog posts starting with The ABC's of Your 123's and build your own chart and points to reflect on. 

Happy 2024!
Love and Light,
Tricia