What do you wish to attract?

You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt above on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.

Sometimes we bury our dreams and desires deep within, as though hiding them under layers and layers of snow. Protecting them. Protecting ourselves. Waiting until the time is right for them to grow. Now is the time to tune into your heart, to let your intuition and your dreamboard express and reveal the dreams that are hidden inside you. Let the creative process take you below the surface, beneath the layers of safety and protection, guiding you to the innermost dreams sparkling in your soul.

The Full Snow Moon asks: “What desires lie deep within?”
Next New Moon: February 21
Next Full Moon: March 8  The Full Worm Moon

My Full Moon Gifts to You

• FREE 2012 Full Moon Schedule, including their names.
• FREE Dreamboard Workshop. Never made a dreamboard? Watch my How to Make a Dreamboard Workshop here (part 1) and here (part 2).

What do you wish people knew about you?

You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt above on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.

Developing practices that support you can make all the difference in your creative life. I’ve found that when I commit to morning pages, meditation and movement, I am so much more available to my self, the world and my creativity. We’ve started our year with  morning pages – yay! For February, let’s journey with love into meditation. Now, this is a new practice for me and maybe it is for many of you too, so I’ve shared some resources below.

There are many ways to meditate, so there are many ways to participate. The key here is to define what it is you’d like to practice this month and then do your best to come to it each day. It may be meditation of a particular tradition you are familiar with. It may be a walking meditation. You may give yourself 10 minutes for a guided meditation each day. It can be as simple as 5 minutes of daily chair-and-stare time. It is up to you what your “meditation time” looks like. To me, this is about committing to 10 minutes every day to be still with myself.

Why Meditate?

Susan Piver offers some great reasons to explore this practice. (She uses the word *magic*, so you know I’m in!)

Meditation Resources

• Susan Piver’s blog is rich with meditation resources. One great way to get some support for your meditation practice this month is to join her Open Heart Project which teaches you how to meditate through a series of emails and videos, including 5, 10 and 40 minute practices. (Psst. It’s free) This is what I’m using to guide my meditation this month.
• Insight Timer is an app that’s available both for the iPhone and Android phones. It not only holds the time for your practice, it also lets you know how many others are meditating at the same time. It’s a beautiful way to feel connected as we go through this month together. I’m on it as Jamie in Toronto. We can send each other encouraging messages as we go :)

Joining in:

• Define your practice. What will your daily meditation time look like? Share in the comments.
• Anyone is welcome to join. If you’d like to make it official and say, “Yes, I’m in!” add your name to the Mr. Linky below. That way we can also come visit and see who we’re playing with.
• Join me on Facebook or Twitter to participate in daily check-ins.
• Join in any time.
• There’ s no pressure here. Just encouragement. Even if you just do one day but that’s more than you would have done before – woohoo!
• Here’s a badge if you’d like to make it official on your site.

We started this year by sharing a tidbit of daily support for developing a creative living practice: morning pages. It’s amazing how the simple act of a daily check-in can support and reinvigorate a practice!

Thank you to everyone for making the effort, for showing up – when and where you could – for the enthusiasm and for your beautiful, candid honesty. We had days of insight and days of slogging. We shared celebrations and grumblings. That’s the practice, in all its gritty, beautiful, unfettered flow.

Whether you did it sometimes, mostly, every day or once, I’m celebrating you and morning pages – and I invite you to do the same in the comments! What would you like to acknowledge? What have you learned? What insights do you want to hold onto How do morning pages support you? How does developing a practice nourish you?

Tomorrow we will start meditation practice check-ins. I hope you’ll join me!

PS If you’re wondering what the heck we’re talking about, the journey started here.

What do you wish for your health & wellness?

You can be a maker of magic and a tender of wishes. It’s easy. Answer the wish prompt above on your blog and then add a direct link to your post in the box below. Support wishes by visiting other participants, leaving a comment saying “As (insert name) wishes for her/himself, so I wish for her/him also.” It’s that simple. There is great power in wishing together.

It’s the New Moon and that means it’s time to start gathering your images and inspirations for your next Full Moon Dreamboard.

What a potent time we will be creating in as this new moon marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year and start of the Year of the Dragon. Let the bold, passionate dragon be your guide as you begin your preparations. As you journey from here to the Full Snow Moon, look below the surface. Peer through the fears and past the inner critic. Ask your heart, “What desires lie deep within? What dreams lie beneath the cold, deep snow?” Let your dreamboard answer.

The Details….

Next Full Moon: February 7th, The Full Snow Moon
The Full Snow Moon asks: “What desires lie deep within?”
New to Full Moon Dreamboards? Find out more here.
Download the full 2012 Moon schedule here (including transpositions for the Southern Hemisphere).

Wondering how to make a dreamboard? Watch my FREE Dreamboard Workshop here (part 1) and here (part 2).