As we come to the first new moon of the year on January 23rd it’s ideal to start tuning into your intentions.

Hot Tip – most ‘new moon’ dates in the public domain refer to the dark moon, which is technically the day before the first light of the new moon and what you want to be working with to put cosmic energy behind intentions.

Now when I say intentions, I’m not meaning to start exercising every day, or lose X amount of weight, or the more surface type intentions that are derived from the personality self. I’m talking about the deeper intentions at the level of the True Self, what is wanting to come through for our soul essence, and the bigger picture of why we incarnated at this time.

So how do we start to tap into ourselves on a deeper level and gain insight into the intentions of the True Self?

1. Get out of your head and into your heart. The mind doesn’t have the answers to this. Place a physical hand o your heart, or your conscious attention in the center of your chest to start this process.
2. Sit quietly and go within, closing your eyes, taking yourself into your inner temple of the heart and slowing down your breath.
3. Allow 7-10 long slow deep breaths, with longer time on the exhale to bring you to calm your nervous system and get you out of fight or flight. This creates a safe space to go deeper.
4. Get into heart coherence to help you further anchor in the heart – think about something that makes you smile, or that you can feel appreciation or gratitude for. Visualise it, imagine it, feel it with all your senses as you continue to breathe slowly for a few more breaths.
5. Now ask your heart and infinite intelligence – what intentions are most important to focus on this year from a soul level. Ask out loud. Send it out into the quantum field to connect with all of you – as you are everything. Pause. Be still. Wait. Listen.
6. If it’s easier to imagine your True Self or Soul stepping out of your body and sitting in front of you as you ask questions about your intentions – do that! There is no right or wrong way to approach this and creativity is key.
7. Notice if you are perceiving anything sensorially – a colour, or a memory or an image or song/sound, feeling, emotion, symbol or some kind of inspiration that pops in. Just feel into it and see. Don’t rush it. Allow space to be.
8. Even if you don’t receive anything in this moment, know it will come through to you in the coming hours and days to make itself known to you. Be open to receive, be aware and conscious and on the look out for how messages might want to come through to you – dreams, synchronicities, numbers and symbols in your environment, animal messengers and even key words or conversations you may overhear – there are so many ways this can come through and we are each different technologies that resonate differently.

It’s the perfect time to get clarity right now, with planets retrograde or shadow retrograde allowing for deep introspection. Spend time going within and asking deeper questions of your True Self, to allow you to connect with the energy that wants to expand you through the coming months and year.