Wishcasting Wednesday: Saying Yes

It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for the first Wishcasting of 2011, hosted by Jamie Ridler at Jamie Ridler Studios. Jamie kicks off the year by asking:

What do you wish to say yes to?

It’s really simple. I wish to say yes to everything I mentioned earlier this week: to my Word of the Year, Trust, to my color of the year, to the great things included in my 2011 vision board.

Also, I wish to say yes to love, kindness, happiness and health.

Very simple, but very powerful wishes this week.

How about you? What do you wish to say yes to? Write it out and join in the wishing!

Belated Wishcasting: Wishes for the New Year

With 2010 ending, I am reflecting and releasing the year and peering into 2011.  This week for Wishcasting, appropriately, the luminous Jamie Ridler asked:

What do you wish for the New Year?

I’ve thought about this.  There are specifics that I am hoping for, but there are the deeper things that the specifics are aimed at achieving.

If all else fails, these are my deepest wishes for the New Year, for 2011:

• I wish to find my place in the world, somewhere I feel at home, like I belong.
• I wish to be happy, to feel vibrantly creative and alive.
• I wish to learn to trust myself, my intuition, the Divine/the Universe.
• I wish to see the Divine spark in all things and people, even–and especially–when that feels difficult.
• I wish to fearlessly follow the Muse.
• I wish for radiant health, not just for me, but for everyone I know.
• I wish to both give and receive love.

What do you wish for the New Year?  It’s not too late to write down your wishes and join in the wishing circle!

Wishcasting Wednesday: Celebrate!

It’s Wednesday, meaning it’s time for Wishcasting hosted by Jamie Ridler at Jamie Ridler Studios!  This week, Jamie asks:

What do you wish to celebrate?

This is perfect timing, because in the past week I have taken some tangible steps toward telling a creative dream, “I see you.  I hear you.  I believe in you.”

Back in September, Jamie wrote a post entitled, “Do You Call Yourself An Artist?”  This inspired me to write my own “Declaration of Artistry,” in which, among other things, I said:

“If I could only dedicate myself to one creative endeavor for the rest of my life, it would be photography.”

In the past week, I’ve taken the first tentative, tangible steps toward pursuing the possibility of becoming a photographer, which, coincidentally, also cropped up as a dream on my Mondo Beyondo list when I took the course.

First, I followed through on something my Muse had been begging me to do for over a month.  I started a photography blog.

Then, I dove into Expressive Photography: The Shutter Sisters’ Guide to Shooting from the Heart.  It’s such a beautiful book, and their approach to photography truly resonates with me.  There are technical examples and suggestions, but also lots of juicy thoughts on what happens in the photographer’s mind and heart while composing a shot along with creative prompts.  I’m happily soaking it in.

And, finally, after much dithering about it in recent weeks due to the cost, I woke up Saturday morning and decided it was time to bring home my first DSLR kit.  I got up, told my Dad about how I’d been dreaming about holding that camera and making beautiful pictures with it for a long time, and all night long the night before.  He was supportive, and went with me so my gremlins and miserly tendencies couldn’t talk me out of it.  Here it is:

Me, holding my new camera baby, a Canon EOS Rebel XS with EF-S 18-55 mm IS lens.

There’s a learning curve to moving from my point-and-shoot which has, by now, become like an extension of my hands and goes with me everywhere, but I’m up to the challenge.  Right now, I’m reading the manual and familiarizing myself with it.

And, finally, I’m currently selecting photographs to enter in the amateur division of a local photography contest that’s coming up the Friday after Thanksgiving.  I’m having trouble deciding which ones to enter, but I’m gradually narrowing it down.  I think I have a good chance.  Fingers crossed.

I am just feeling so radiantly happy in my creative life, and so much less frightened about the future.  I finally feel like things are looking up, like I’m stepping into myself, and like I have a calling of sorts.  The feelings of directionlessness are fading a little more every day, and along with them fear and the attacks of not-good-enough.

I wish to celebrate all these things.

What do you wish to celebrate, dear reader?  Whatever you wish, know that, in spirit, I am celebrating right along with you. 🙂

Wishcasting Wednesday: I Wish to Shed…

A leaf, shed. Taken 9/22/2010.

After a bit of time away from it,  I am getting back into the ring with Wishcasting, hosted by Jamie Ridler Studios.  This week, I have to wonder if she peeked into my paper journal, or perhaps my mind.  The timing is uncanny, because I was just thinking about this yesterday evening and this morning.  Jamie asks:

What do you wish to shed?

A nutshell answer: oh, so much.

However, I’m choosing to focus my wishing energies on the things that I most need to shed.

I wish to shed the insecurities and limiting beliefs that I allow to hold me back from what I want, and what I could accomplish without them, along with the resultant negative self-talk.

I wish to shed my seemingly endless quest for approval.

I wish to shed the fear, stress and anxiety that often keeps me spinning in small circles, not seeing a way out of them.

I wish to compassionately shed my unhealthy eating habits, along with the emotional baggage that drives them and the extra pounds on my body which form the physical evidence of them.

May it be so.

What about you?  What do you wish to shed?  May your wishes come true.

Wishcasting Wednesday: Abundance

This week for Wishcasting at Jamie Ridler Studios, Jamie asks the perfect question as today is the Equinox, and we in the Northern Hemisphere now transition to Fall and the harvests that come with it:

What do you wish for an abundance of?

I wish for an abundance of faith, faith in my ability to reach my dreams as well as faith in the Divine, faith that all will come when and as it should.

I wish for an abundance of courage, so that I may step fully into my own power and follow my inner compass, even if others don’t approve.

For similar reasons, I wish for an abundance of self-confidence, something I frequently run short on.

I wish for an abundance of well-being, mental, physical, and spiritual, not just for myself but for everyone.   When one is operating from a place of complete well-being, life seems to flow more smoothly, and it frees up time usually spent feeling run down to be used for good and productive things.

Finally, I wish for an abundance of creativity, gratitude, balance, and stability, both for myself and for everyone.  These are the things that make life enjoyable, that allow us to settle into this season.

What do you wish for an abundance of in your life or in the world, dear reader?  Feel free to put it in the comments or post it to your own blog and join us in the wishing.