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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

I know doing the same prompts every week can be annoying sometimes but this is magically clarifying. The repetition helps you go deeper into the process and makes it easier to LEARN from your process as you go, and the apply those learnings right away.

Here are the prompts:

PART ONE: (sometimes these can stay the same for months at time, sometimes they change often)

My dream is:  

I want it because: 

When I have it I will feel:

 

PART TWO:

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

 

PART THREE:

My goal/wish/intention for this New Moon is:

Last week’s focus was:

What happened in the last week?

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

What do I need now?

What does my dream need now?

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE: 

My dream is: Being the artist + writer I want to be. Feeling really alive. I already have it AND it's an always-work-in-process... right now there is a lot shifting around how much/what kind of art I make and working on creating more nourishing/robust/lively local creative community.

I want it because: This is hard to answer. I just want it.

When I have it I will feel: The same as now - ALL the feelings 🙂

My new moon intention: Give myself quality time and attention.

 

PART TWO: Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

I just see all these people. Loads of colours. Everyone being their unique self. Liveliness and support.

 

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Less stuff, more space for creativity.

What happened in the last week? 

I did have less "stuff" somewhat. And I write this on Thursday mornings, and have even MORE space for creativity on Thursday and Friday.

But life has a lot of "stuff" in it right now. I feel like I entered a healing portal and the only way out is through. Stuff keeps coming at me and I keep doing my best with it AND doing my best to make space for the things I want.

Right now the big thing I want is to finish the guided journal project. It's 80 pages (!) (some are blank pages for journaling with artwork on the other side, some are 2 page journaling spreads with art on both pages) but are they complete? Do I want to do revisions to the artwork or the prompts? I don't know. I have about 15 more pages to go and then I'll start editing. The way my creative process goes, it's really hard to know what will happen next. Maybe it will turn into a 200 page journal. Or I could very well use the whole process of creating 95 pages of artwork for this to realize "Oh I want to do it differently" and start over. I am worried this will happen, and I will never finish this, but all I can do is stay in the process, be with the feelings that come up, and do my best to keep moving.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

Life feels SO FULL ON right now. So many good things happening and so many big, like BIG healing.... opportunities? Crises? I feel like I am learning EVERYTHING.

What do I need now?

For some reason, I went back into the Dream Lab meditation, to meet my dream to see what it said about this. (Usually I do this for the next prompt, and just ask myself this prompt)

My dream, all the people gathered, held up signs. I looked more closely and signs said LOVE.

What does my dream need now?

Back into the dream meeting, now the people all hold hands. My focus is drawn right in, two hands clasped together.

My husband and I are having a very difficult time. Interracial relationships are always hard, but settler-Indigenous relationships - during ongoing genocidal colonization which feels particularly brutal in my city right now, which is impacting my husband in ways that white people can't understand - may be impossible to maintain.

My dream focusing on the two hands clasped together feels like "keep trying right now"

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

Looking back on my answers - it's love.

But what does that mean?

Letting love be my quality for the week. Breathing it in regularly. Asking what love would do when I'm not sure.

OK I can do that.

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