Another orbit around the Sun: 42

Forty-two.

Another orbit around the Sun.
Another revolution through light and shadow.
Another sacred spin in this vast galaxy of existence.

This year, my guiding codes are simple:

Prayer, meditation, celebration. 🎉

Stillness and joy.
Presence and praise.
Grounded feet, open, guided heart.

I was given the privilege to embrace, enjoy and experience 🥰and I do not take that lightly.

This is grace.

I am privileged to experience being human in this physical body, to feel the warmth of sunlight, the ache of growth, the softness of care and love, the stretch of challenge. To breathe. To move. To hold and to be held.

Not everyone gets this many orbits…
Not everyone gets this many mornings. Yet I am here, holding my mug…so it feels like responsibility now. Not pressure, dont get me wrong, but sacred responsibility to make the most out of every day with all that I have got on that given day.

Neither in a frantic way, nor in a performative way. (I loved when we learned the structure neither …nor at school), but in a present way.

To live awake.

﹒⟡﹒ᐢ..ᐢ﹒◖﹒⇅﹒○﹒✿﹒⊹﹒∇﹒✸﹒⟢﹒❀﹒ᵔᴗᵔ﹒♡﹒〇﹒✿﹒⟡﹒ᐢ..ᐢ

Life can be challenging and exhausting sometimes.

There were seasons where my nervous system trembled.
Years that stretched me thin.
Moments that humbled me.

But the trials did not diminish me. They initiated me.

They made me stronger and more resilient, even more compassionate and more devoted to living from the heart instead of from fear.

The difficult chapters are not punishments, but training grounds.

A Jedi does not become wise through comfort alone.

Every challenge carved deeper empathy.
Every heartbreak widened my capacity to love.
Every exhaustion and overwhelm taught me to find my way back to centre.

Meditation and prayer became my anchors. …and celebration became my rebellion against heaviness. To notice what I can celebrate each day, even the very small wins.

➜﹒★﹒⨳﹒✿﹒❀﹒✶﹒✸﹕☆﹒◐﹒◉ ﹒◖◗﹒▽﹒ᶻz﹒‹𝟹﹒♡﹒ᐢ..ᐢ﹒

To lift and raise our vibration, we can make that difference to ourselves. We need to connect, allow guidance.

Tap into the Force, a Jedi might say, but it’s not Star Wars fantasy you know, but real awareness.
As breath.
As the subtle current of life flowing through you and around you.

The Force is present when we choose gratitude instead of resentment.
Whenwe soften instead of harden.
When we pause instead of react, so then we can respond instead.
When we breathe into our heart and remember who we truly are.

Meditation and prayer clear the static and celebration amplifies the signal. What do you think?

And what feeds your soul? You know, the sort of nourishment that brings along the feeling of joy, because emotional needs are met. Let’s play with it. I dare ask myself the questions now and invite guidance 💚 What puts that smile on my face?🧡 What makes my heart sing? What is it for you? Is it spending time with special people?
Enjoying time in nature? Receiving or offering a treatment? Dancing in the kitchen? Laughing with your children?
Walking your dog at sunrise? Or simply sitting alone in silence?

I like to find these moments and allow that time. Not always as planned, but the intention to be guided and aligned from within is the best compass, because it comes form the heart. So please, do not postpone joy as if it is indulgent, becuase it is not. Joy is not escapism either. To me feeling joy is alignment. I got to the phase in my life, when I can allow it more and more. Still learning, but you see, ageing is a privilege, so I feel that sacred responsibility to make the most out of every day with all that I have got on that given day. ˖ ࣪‧₊˚⋆✩٩(ˊᗜˋ*)و ✩

Yes, I see ageing as a privilege, because not everyone gets to grow older. Not everyone gets to gather years, stories, scars, laughter lines, wisdom, tenderness and laughter lines. Each year is a gift that is not promised, I am very aware of that. Each year is a chapter we only get to write and then read, because we are still here to turn the page.

I feel a deep respect for life and ageing is not something I resist. I do my best to grow with it and take good care of my body, honouring its phases, so it is more like something I bow to. This is how I look at the elderly, when I go to the parish centre for my volunteer sessions and give them hand massages. I hope I will get to hold so much history in the wrinkles of my hands as they do.

And you know what? Each line on my face is a chapter survived ◝(ᵔᵕᵔ)◜ Each year is proof of grace I was given. Each scar is evidence of courage. ..and I am definitely not becoming less, but maybe more distilled.
More intentional.
More heart-led.
More aligned. Yes, I feel that true. I’m grateful for my body, not because it looks a certain way, but because it carries me. Because it has healed. Because it has endured. Because it still lets me hug my children, hold my loved ones, offer healing through my hands, and feel the Sun on my face.

I’m grateful for my heart, for its capacity to break and still remain open. For its tenderness. For its courage. For its stubborn commitment to care and love, even after it has been hurt, stretched, tired.

I’m grateful for the lessons, even the ones I wouldn’t have chosen. Especially those. They taught me compassion. They taught me humility. They taught me how to sit with discomfort, how to listen more deeply, how to meet others with gentler eyes. Yes, this body has carried me through breakthroughs, births, breakdowns, healing, devotion, laughter, fatigue, faith, care and love. And I honour it.

I honour this human experience.

So here’s to 42.
Here’s to another year around the Sun, to living not from fear, not from old stories, but from the heart💛
Here’s to breath, to becoming, to belonging, to learning, to return to centre, to loving, to honour the miracle of being here… so here is to celebrate every moment and enjoy what life shares with us 🎉

Even the quiet ones.
Even the messy ones.
Even the in-between ones.

Because this, right now, is the gift. As I am pouring my heart out and you are soaking it up with yours. We connect.

Here is to another years around the Sun, wherever you are in your orbit...
Another sunrise ᨒ ོ ☼
Another breath🌬️🍃💨

May we use it well🙏
May we live from the heart♡
May we tap into the Force that flows through us as grace, guiding, strengthening, and quietly renewing.

With deep gratitude for this human journey,
B 🐝✨