Are Your Wildest Dreams Here Now?

Plus, an audio soul message in collaboration with the Mayan sacred calendar

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In today’s post, I’m sharing a dreamy realization along with a related soul message for myself and the collective. Don’t miss the two prompts for further consideration by your soul at the end of this post.

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Are Your Wildest Dreams Here Now?

I was laughing out loud on my morning walk.

My little town by the sea is getting all gussied up for a day-long festival. There are markets popping up all over town, some featuring jewelry and candles, others featuring photography and paintings. There’s a big book sale going on at the local library across the street. It’s being held outside its historic building that looks like a beautifully-crafted boat on the inside.

The inhabitants of this town are just beginning to wake up, to order their coffees, to give their time, attention, money, and love to all the sweet makers setting up makeshift shops along the seashore.

I walk by a sweet-looking dog who snarls back at me. Clearly, the dog is not so happy at the markets—and all the people—that are beginning to pop up in our little town.

And as I walk through the harbor, watching everyone set up, I start laughing out loud.

I start laughing because I hear a message rise from within. The message is, “You have the dream life that you wished for several years ago.”

And the realization of the dream sort of crept up on me, like the quiet snarl on an otherwise smiling dog. It started small and got loud.

And, you know, sometimes my current life doesn't always feel like my dream life because it doesn't look exactly the way I had visualized it in my mind.

But, in this moment, along this walk, I invite myself into a review—a review between my soul and my mind.

One, I had wished to live by the sea and I do.

Two, I had wished to live by a beach and I'm walking to the beach right now. It's less than a mile walk to one of the most beautiful beaches in New England. Roundtrip, it's about two miles. If I walk the beach, which I often do, that makes it two and a half miles. It's truly a perfect morning walk. So, I wished to live by the beach and I do.

Three, I remember wishing to have friendships and relationships with people in the community. And I indeed have several lovely friendships with different shop owners and business owners.

There’s the Honduran girl at the post office who greets me with a smile. There’s the even-keeled attendant at the dry cleaners who remembers my phone number. There’s the sweetest team at the local library, the team who's putting on the big summer book sale today, who recognizes me with a whisper of a hello.

I know the neighbors in my building, from the wine shop owner to the family who runs the insurance agency. I know both of my residential neighbors well enough and I've even hung out with them. We’re building up neighborly friendships which feel lovely and meaningful. They are most certainly becoming messengers for me.

Four, I remember that in my dream, I wished that I would have dinners with people on my block. I visualized that I would have spontaneous meals with folks in my community, and guess what? I've had dinners with people in my building, sometimes only planned minutes before forks were in hand.

Five, I wished that I lived in an area that had visitors from all over the world so I can meet people from all over the world. And, given the proximity to one of the most beautiful beaches in New England, I meet people from all over the world.

In fact, just this week I met a beautiful couple from Ireland who jumped into the ocean with me, still in our workout clothes. I met another man from Scandinavian who swore the ocean water was 50 degrees, when I knew it to be warm enough to be atleast 65 degrees. Temperature aside, we both dove in.

Six, I wished to have access to beautiful food, to beautiful produce, and I do. It reinvigorated the desire within me to cook. I have even returned to baking, which is something I haven't done in a very long time. But this community or my soul has inspired me to return to it. Actually, there’s a Blueberry Summer Cake cooling on the stovetop as I type.

Seven, I wished to be comfortable wearing whatever clothes I wanted to wear and I do. I can wear anything I want out here, from a swimsuit, to workout clothes, to a pretty sundress, to the coziest sweaters and fleece during the colder months. It’s inspired me to come into my own style, to figure out how the new me adorns herself.

Eight, I wished to feel like I belong somewhere. And I've learned through this process of returning to me, that I belong anywhere that my sweet soul wishes to belong. Because, ultimately, I belong to the home within me. And, how beautiful is that?

I know that wherever I am, I am at home within.

In fact, in the last week, I had a talk with one of my Mayan spirituality teachers and he actually pointed this out. He said, “Every time I've been on Zoom with you, you’ve been in a new place in the world. The energy of E’, the energy of exploration and adventure, both within and without, in the soul and out in the world, it's just a part of your energetic DNA.”

And I replied with a question that I already knew the answer to. I said, “That's true. However, is this just the way it's always going to be? Am I always going to feel this desire to go places, to travel, to explore, to not have one home but many?”

And he said, “That's possible to you because you know your real home is right here.” He pointed to his heart, “In your heart, in your body, the home within. You can be anywhere in the world and feel at home.”

That was a beautiful reminder. It's always nice to hear it from someone you respect and admire, from someone who sees you, like really sees you.

So here I am, on my early morning walk, laughing out loud to the fact that my dreams have materialized, literally and even in far more sensory ways.

For example, even living by the sea, you don’t always smell the sea. But over the last few days, the weather's been such that I smell the sea. I can smell it at my home a mile away from the beach. And now as I'm approaching the ocean, I smell it too. It’s thick and sweet and salty. Whenever and wherever I smell it, it feels like home. I can be in Costa Rica. I can be in California. When I smell this thick air that is simultaneously salty and sweet, I know that no matter where I am, I am home.

And so I’m coming to you today to offer this message, that I hope soothes your own soul: I may not have millions of dollars in my bank account and I may not have, in this moment, a long term romantic partner. And in this very moment, I may have a bum foot that I'm nursing back to health.

But besides those things, some of my wildest dreams have come to life in this tiny town by the sea. And what felt like a resting stop, a pit stop on my path to allow some space to visualize my new life, feels like an answer, a generous reply from the universe.

The universe has said, “You want all these things? We’ll give them to you. It may not look exactly the way you thought it would but, follow your soul’s guidance and we'll give them to you. We'll remind you that it doesn't have to look exactly the way you thought it would. Because you are at home within your own body and that feels good. That always feels like the ultimate dream.”

So now it’s time to go dream up some new dreams and allow the realization of those dreams to creep up on me too, less like a snarling dog and more like, perhaps, how blueberries hit your tongue when smashed, starting off sour but leaving a smack of the sweetest bit of sugar.

A soul message in collaboration with the Mayan sacred calendar

Here is today’s soul message, inspired by the Mayan sacred calendar energy of 11 Imox. It’s available in text and audio format.

“I invite you to dream today and always. I invite you to cast a wish through a vision. Today is a day to dream the big dreams, the dreams for yourself and the dreams for all living beings.

It's your dream. It's your wish. It's your vision that is first required in order to bring in a new reality but we will leave the reality for another day. This day is about dreaming. It’s about allowing your artistry to flow.

It's about tossing a penny into a pond and looking into the hazy reflection to see what feels most possible, most alive, most ready to become a picture, an image of the more beautiful world, of the more beautiful reality you see for yourself.

All moments are beautiful, really—the past, the now, the future—and yet, it's in this dreamy state that things feel extra sweet, extra potent, extra full of potential to heal, to become, to materialize into the highest possible timeline. And so we wish for you to dream, to be in the dreamy state today, to daydream, to float like water, head tilted back, eyes to the sky, wondering what is possible.

Do not limit the dream. You can impose limits and bounds when you get to reality. But, for now, dream big and wide. Take up the entire surface of the water. Splash about and see where the droplets land and what they want to create. Look into the water and see all the possibilities for the most beautiful, beautiful world, for the most beautiful, beautiful existence.

Be in that dream today. Because to be in it today, to live in possibility today, to flow today, will fuel the fire of reality creation tomorrow and all the other days.

So the invitation is to dream. The invitation is to allow, to allow your brightest creations, your biggest artistry, your wildest wonderings to take up space, so you may feel as whole as possible in this human body, on this beautiful planet, in this society that really is just full of great potential.

That is what we have to say. That is what the energy of Imox fuels in us, offers us, today.”

Prompts for further consideration

I am leaving two prompts on the altar between us:

• If you may look past the exact manifestation, which of your dreams have already come to life? Perhaps, say them aloud to offer gratitude for the answers to your last set of wishes.

• What is the new dream—or series of dreams—that wishes to materialize? Consider them now, in advance of the next new moon, when you may say them aloud, offering them to the figurative fire that may ignite them into being.