Greetings Chickadee!
October marks a month potent in its consistent foreshadowing. Each year we enter into new energies, as with each month. This month is unique because it numerologically reflects the year to come. Which creates not only a foreshadowing of what it will feel like, but also a fertile land to plant the seeds of next year’s secret wishes.
To honor the unique nature of the month, my spirit guides brought forth a soft lavender energy of gentleness.
Since 2026 is a Universal 1 Year energy: of new beginnings and plans for the future decade. 2027 will be a Universal 2 Year, energy of planning, intuition, and heightened sensitivity. Making this coming time a Universal 2 Month energy, as well as being paired with cosmic shifts which are churning the waters of life.
The result of these swaths in environmental shifts, means we are going to feel this month deep within our bones. Highlighting the scars and also the skills time has brought us. Therefore, when I sat down to meditate and channel this month’s focus, I was reminded of the almost illogical importance of gentleness.
In time of hardship, like war, things like books and art are the first to be sold off. Abandoned for food and shelter. Yet, the artistic motifs of our faith are what we lean upon. Art reminds us of the full truth of life. Beauty acting as a balm for a weary spirit and salve for our soul.
Gentleness not only helps nurture us, but it also teaches us about the fragility of life, of human form, of artistry. Proving a means for cultivating beauty. Which helps us with safety, nurturance, and support. Why else do we spend so much time exposing children to music, dance, theatre, art, poetry, and a cultivation of self-expression?
October is a month filled with slips of energy tapping into our internal sensitivity. These streams of conscious or sometimes subconscious awareness, which not only connect us with the collective but also seek to inform our navigation.
When we begin a journey or seek to put furniture together, we take a look at the plans. The steps we will take to reach our endeavors. We utilize the knowledge we possess and we utilize hope that the experience will be something we like. Not only is this year a mark within celestial measurements for change, but also collective radical change has been triggered.
The pressure points pushed, the prayers addressed, and thus, a change has come. One which seeks to address the true scope, power, and support needed for humanity. In answer, it is okay to feel – lots. Good things. Sad things. Mad things. Hopeful things. As my mother told me when I was a child, “Feel what you need to feel. Then let it go.”
Emotions are meant to run through us like the waters of a stream through our fingertips. To touch us, sometimes deeply. Yet, to also move on. So that we can be free to move forwards without dragging the troubled past along with us. This month, gentleness is here to touch you. A warm, nurturing hand to your heart – like beauty to the eyes. To be a reminder that even in times of change and turmoil – that is not the full scope of humanity.
Life comes with pumpkins. Cinnamon and nutmeg. With children’s laughter and smiles. With reasons to do the hard work, that change demands. That the choices we make this month can plant the seeds to how we want to experience the coming year. Because like the turning of the moon or the circling of Mother Earth to the sun – times change, seasons too, and this too shall pass. So, no matter how you come to feel this October, let gentleness remind you that you are loved.