As the seasons change and the beautiful sunshiny days shrink around me, I'm feeling the mood for change. Exactly what that means is yet to be seen but it does bring a level of excitement with it.
Some people fear change, they prefer the status quo with all it's predictability, security and lack of challenge. I'm apparently not one of them, though at many points in the past I would have strongly argued that I was.
As I've said before, I purchased a small ladies boutique right on Christmas last year and all my efforts have been focused on getting it into order. More of a challenge than it perhaps should have been but I can now see light at the end of the tunnel. The changes I've been making are being well received and the feedback is encouraging. There will continue to be opportunities here for change but that's not what I'm feeling. It feels more personal.
At this point, I've stopped writing for a couple of days and returned none the wiser as to what lies ahead. The solar eclipse messed a little with my energy and I'm always a bit of a mess when good old Mercury is retrograde but I think I'm learning to deal with this, as much as you can anyway.
My mind keeps returning to a few random thoughts, one is a small portion of a Lilly Allen song about f loads of diamonds and people dying to find them. I've struggled with the message here but I think it might be that I don't need a f load of diamonds to be happy, it's more about harming none and that speaks directly to my witchy side. So maybe the big change is to further embrace what truly makes me happy and bugger everyone who doesn't get it.
I have my perfect house, I have my boys, I have my beautiful little shop and I have Lillith's to keep my mind focused. I have big plans for reinvigorating the charity that my family run, stay tuned for that. My focus word for the year is charity which came to me from the universe, so maybe I should listen.
Whatever the change you need in your life, embrace it with all your might.
Short example: 20 plus years ago, when my son was quite young I dyed my hair purple, nothing subtle here, I use wizard purple in patches then progressed to whole head. My normal hairdresser refused to do it so I had to find someone else. I loved it, people in my world told me I could not be taken seriously with purple hair and random people would stop their cars on the street to tell me they thought it was great and they wished they could do that. It's only hair I would reply, just do it and if you don't like it dye it black, simple. The point is that you should always do what makes you happy with no regard for the norm and absolutely not driven by the restraints of others. As long as you harm none, be your best you.