Video Summary:

We are approaching the first day of spring and Spring Equinox. It’s a time of new beginnings on the Medicine Wheel. Spring Equinox ceremonies often revolve around creating an intention to offer to Spirit to co-create something that you would like to awaken and unfold in your life.

Intention is where our creative power really lies. Now's the time to create our lives through intention. The Medicine Wheel is an intentional wheel of life. We're deliberately doing things to participate with life. When we create an intention, it creates a partnership with Spirit, a partnership with life.

The things we want to create are amplified if we co-create it with life at the time of year when all of nature is giving birth to new life. Plants are sprouting and animals are giving birth. New life is being created, and that energy is here. So why not leverage that energy to create the things that you want in your life?

An intention itself is the more yang, masculine part of the creation process. It's when we choose and commit to what we want to create in our lives. After the intention is there, the yin, and feminine energies support us to embody, unfold, and integrate the things we intended.

Our culture often gets this backward. We tend to be more passive with the intention of saying. “Well, whatever happens, happens.” And then we try to control its unfoldment.

Rather, we can go inside, decide what we want to create and commit to it. We can then offer that intention to Spirit and let the universe guide us to unfold it.

When we offer an intention and Spirit receives that intention, this conceives of the new thing I want to create in my life. From there, it just grows. Perhaps it grows in the womb for a while and then gives birth into our lives. So now is the time to decide what we want to create this coming year.

It can feel daunting and downright scary to commit to what you want to create. It takes some self-worth and boldness to declare to Spirit, “Of all the things I could do with my life, these are the things I want to create. This is what I'm going to commit and dedicate myself to unfolding. It's a very deliberate thing.

There can be some resistance to asking for what we want. For instance, I hear variations of, “I guess if a relationship comes along, that would be great, but I'm not going to put a lot of energy into it.” Or, “If a new job or career change falls into my lap, I'll consider it. But if nothing does, I'm happy to stay.

And there's absolutely nothing wrong with these stances. However, it's not leveraging the power of intention. This is the perfect time of year to decide what you want to create in your life now. Maybe you don't want to create a relationship or job right now. Well then, what do you want to create this year?

Much of our resistance and reluctance to do this is emotional. We might be afraid of being disappointed, especially around important things like relationships, careers, having kids, and following our spiritual path. We may have had our hearts broken and been painfully disappointed around these things.

So when we want to create something, we are risking disappointment. It might be, “What if my new business goes the same way that my old businesses?” Or, “What if my new relationship has the same fate that my last one did? I don't want to go through that again.” It's a fear of being disappointed.

So this is part of the decision. It’s considering, “Am I willing to risk disappointment? Am I willing to risk this? Am I willing to get my hopes up for this? Am I willing to want to put my energy into this and start creating it? Because if it doesn't work, it might be painful.

If you find yourself dragging your feet on important things you want in your life, you might ask yourself, “What is the resistance? What is the fear? Is it disappointment? Is it a self-worth thing? Do you feel like you deserve that level of happiness and joy?”

It's linking your core issues to how they're affecting your intention process. And then you’re left with, “Is the thing I would like to have in my life important enough to risk the potential disappointment? Am I willing to risk having my heart broken?"