I’m hiding out in the forest.
A beautiful sandstone castle and city stand in the background encircled by a wall.
I feel the central tower crumbling and dissolving as I continue deeper into the vegetation.
At times, I duck behind hills of moss as I hear hooves approach. I’m becoming less and less concerned that the horsemen will recognise me.
I cannot go back. I belong in the unfenced wilderness.
Here in nature, I can revel in my true nature.
I can breathe. I can dance. I can lie on the velvety floor and be absorbed by the earth.
Just as I would pretend to do on my mum’s brown flowery carpet in the 90’s.
I’m no Peter Pan. I don’t feel resistance to growing up.
But I’m increasingly resistant to the unnecessary weight it entails.
Rules and responsibilities. Conditioning and contemplating. Systems and fences.
I long for simplicity. Nature. A wild return to what’s true.
A revenue.
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I’ve discovered my higher self has no interest in “income.”
The financial compensation that travels in “streams” to boost my bank balance.
Rather, I am enthralled by the concept of “revenue.”
The “coming back” or “return” on my energy, time, and intention.
And this return could take so many forms other than money (energy, time, intention, love, learning etc.)
I like to see revenue as a mysterious and almost magnetic or magical exchange with a reciprocal, multi-directional flow that comes in exchange for work that ripples out into the world not to make a splash and send floods of income back my way…
(a kind that has me forever treading water waiting for the next stream)
…but to bob me back to my aliveness. My essence.
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The way I see it…
Just like a tree finding its growth and nourishment both rooting down into the earth and stretching for the sun…
The work we’re meant to do simultaneously embeds our wisdom deeper within ourselves as it scatters it further out into the world.
It heals others at the same time it heals us.
So, it’s important to ask what fuels you, feeds you, encourages you, nurtures you other than money.
To get curious about what comes back to you when you give to others and how your work is helping you to grow, overcome, heal as you do the same for others?
Your soul wisdom is both the most fascinatingly enchanting and tirelessly challenging gift you have.
The lessons you are here to learn are also those you are here to teach.
What is at the core of what you help others to do? This is also your greatest endeavor in this lifetime, and I could say, your most valuable source of revenue.
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Permission to redefine what marketing means for you.
As I share about myself and my work, I don’t envision entering a marketplace in the centre of a built-up battlement in which I need to package my multidimensional magic into a suitable container to barter and auction off to the highest bidder.
I feel it as a more ancient, organic, and intimate exchange.
In my village in the woods, I am “moving the medicine” I hold out into the world in a way that heals me and those it is meant to reach.
When I write, I am not standing on a box in the village square.
I am lying right here, on the forest floor, letting myself be absorbed by the words and the energy passing through me.
I have no doubt it will reveal more of myself as it unveils parts of the person reading.
This is the level of connection I desire as well as the revenue I deserve for sharing my soul gifts and unguarded self-expression with the world.
If you dislike the concept of “marketing” or have an uncomfortable relationship with money, here are some questions for you:
𖤓 How would you redefine “revenue”?
𖤓 What would a mutually beneficial business model, offer, social media post look and feel like?
𖤓 How is your purpose of “making money, signing clients, proving your point” coming at the cost of the real revenue (for you)?
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The Tower in the Major Arcana.
My card for today.
There’s not always a lesson. Not always an intention. Not always a reason.
As we are enlightened on our path, we allow the crumbling of (often long held and deeply ingrained) systems, stories, and masks that dictate our expression.
To liberate the fluttering lightness and cadence of the words spoken from the heart.
Rooting for you in this potent time of reimagining and reconfiguring,
Beautiful ❤️