Welcome to 2025! We alive!

I’ve come to break this posting drought and share the lessons and universal synchronicities that have approached me recently:

Manifestation and attraction – Coinciding with the Cancer full moon and the Sun’s opposition to Mars, I started to receive news that made me very happy. Pure delight and glee!

I had been accepted to serve as a board member of an arts organization I support. I completed one of my first art grant applications. I was connecting with guides who could support my growth and development. I won a raffle and won enrollment into a comics and graphics class.

In my journal, I wrote, ‘The universe wants me to be an artist. And I accept!’ All of these felt like supportive confirmation that I am on the right course, that the universe is calling me in to experience my desires more fully and on a wider scale. 

I’ve been considering, as I often do, how to organize, make time for, and share the various forms of art I create. This led me to realize: I can’t do it all, all the time. There will be seasons of creation ebbs and flows – so I am letting go of all or nothing thinking, perfectionism, and pre-judgment (e.g. ‘If I can’t write the essay as perfectly crafted as I imagine in my fantasy…’ – you know the rest) NO! Instead, I am realizing that there will be pockets of time and energy I can harness – 15 minutes is a wonderful block of time to jot out ideas and get a message drafted. I want to make consistent progress towards developing my cadence of creation. Then, I’ll prime myself to flow.

Pro-motion: My soul sibling Ayanda has a beautiful tapestry of paradigm-shifting content for artists on her platforms. One of the ideas she teaches that stuck with me is the concept of “pro-motion.” She considers this the things we do to breathe life and energy into our projects, to help them move and be visible and reach the people they are meant to.

Think of this as an act of love that honors all involved: the audience, by being given the opportunity to experience your art and its transformative properties; yourself, for honoring your time and energy to bring the creation into being; and the idea itself as well, to tap into its full creative potential and reach. We can have such unsavory connotations around thinks like marketing and promotion, networking, and the like, but these are opportunities to amplify the goodness of what we create. In 2025, I said that I am going to be more open with sharing my art and intentionally free about how I engage in pro-motion.

Creative flow, sacred release – As Tabitha Brown recently admonished: finish what you started. This statement struck a nerve with me. I felt a mixture of emotions, including nervous, convicted, and yet still open to hearing what she was saying. My book-in-progress, Searching for Sun, immediately came to mind. I had been having misgivings about the scope and viability of this project, my qualifications to write on the subject matter, and embarrassment at the state of the work thus far (sometimes stream of consciousness, sometimes joke-riddled, and more often than not tangents upon (related!) tangents). I have to remember that my particular voice gives the work its character, charm, and flavor. Let the spices flow!

As I have learned in my music career, finishing what’s in the queue allows the next idea to have its turn. Many times, I will not be able to mentally or emotionally clear my slate until the previous project I’ve worked on has been posted and shared. In truth, I think that’s why I’ve had a hard time getting back into my recording lab – I have projects from the end of 2023 that are begging to be published. I think it’s time to give them the shine they deserve, and allow myself to move on.

These are a few of my insights from the first few weeks of 2025. I hope that my practice of easy creation and release guides me to where I need to be, and that this has been helpful for you too. Ashé.