August's Revealing Energy

Last night during meditation I was talking about the energy August has brought to us and spirit gave me the best metaphor (as spirit always does!!)

The energy of this month has been intense and you might very well be feeling it, even if you are not an energetically sensitive person.  You may not be sleeping well, be overly emotional, feel like you’re working so hard and not getting anywhere, feeling completely lost or lonely, don’t fit in your own life and certain relationships are explosive at the moment. 

Let me start by saying, you’re not alone.  The energy of August is a very revealing energy.  Whatever hidden traumas, suppressed emotions or underlying issues you have are coming to the light and we really have no choice but to see them.  We all have things happening within us or in life that we just wish would clear, go away or heal, but we are too terrified to actually bring about that change or we have no idea how, so we just keep putting the bandaid on to cover up the wound in hopes it will just heal itself. 

The Universe has heard our cries and is now giving us exactly what we need.  August is ripping the bandaid off, and it hurts!  It was a particularly strong bandaid (because we put a super sticky one on there so we didn’t have to see or feel anything icky) and when it came off it took every little hair with it, leaving us to stare at a messy, raw open wound.  We cannot put the bandaid back on.  We have no choice but to sit and lick our wounds.

For example, many people are in relationships and have been dealing with the same issues that never seem to get resolved.  These people just end up going around in circles hoping the issues will spontaneously go away, or that the other person changes in order to save the relationship.  So while hanging on, they keep putting the bandaid back on until one or the other resolution finally happens.  But now that bandaid is off (thanks to August’s revealing energies).  We are left starring at the wound and it is demanding to be healed.  Many people are left in shock and awe as we realize that this particular bandaid has not been pulled off the relationship, or the other person, but has been pulled off of us (yes, you!).  And there you are, left with a wound that you thought and hoped did not belong to you.  Heart wrenching. 

But, the wound is where the light enters.  Allow the wound to be there.  Take ownership of it so it no longer steals your power from you.  It takes your power by giving you the illusion that the issue belonged to the relationship or to your partner and therefore you had no control over it and no say in how it heals.  But now you do!  Now you see the power rests with you, as uncomfortable as that makes you feel.  Be brave and don’t put the bandaid back on to cover it up from the light (from your awareness).  Realize that if you are the owner of said wound, YOU have the power to heal it.  Yes it’s raw.   Yes it’s messy.  But that is what healing looks like.  If this is how you are feeling right now, you are absolutely on the healing path.