Equinox Medicine
Equinox Medicine
We are meeting the sacred portal where light meets dark. Where we are at the edge of change, a tipping point of release. What is being called forth to realign for your highest good? What are you ready to let go of.
The medicine is alive and well, and for me...both bitter and sweet - a powerful reflection of the balancing within the Autumn Equinox we find ourselves in collectively together.
So, I reach out to share my (temporary) struggle, but also my fleeting bliss. I lost my entire purse Wednesday 9/20 in BV - my personal phone, my work phone, my wallet, and more just disappeared. Somewhere from the grocery register and my car, it vanished, and even though I noticed within 20 min of leaving, it has yet to be found. This is my bitter. I have just now been able to tend to some of this 'reality', since right after this occurred was the start of my very first in-person retreat. Oh the timing of things. This meant I couldn't live in my disruption as I had already set in motion this powerful gathering of women. But I am also sharing the medicine as it is showing up for me, bringing it to the container - and blessed be, I am being held - I am deeply loved - I am able to be seen and honored. And in this I can feel profoundly, that I am not alone. This is my sweet. And neither this bitter nor this sweet will last forever. And I am here for both, trusting the medicine of what's affronting to the soul and leaning in, to savor the delicious nourishment of my expanded access to sweetness, gifted by being in sacred community!
And, so I am still 'in retreat' until Sunday evening, but needed to step out for a moment to tend to my practice and my clients.
I know there are souls whom I've never met who are likely reaching out to me looking for service - and I cannot call them back, I am not receiving their text messages. This pains me deeply. And yet, I have 11 women I am showing up for in deep presence, spirits alive and well, powerful releasing, connecting and celebrating - and this is where my power is - this IS what I can show up for.
Despite me not being able to be available to more than what's in front of me right now, I wanted to lean in to my greater community, hence why I've reached out to share. If you've recommended someone recently or you've texted me personally or called and I haven't responded, please email me. Right now that is the only way I am reachable, until I come out of retreat and tend to the reality of my situation more concretely.
I am navigating the waters of letting go of control, trusting, surrendering to the waves that are showing up for me. And I am both doing a bit of floundering and what feels like drowning...but you best believe I am also catching some BIG waves and damn does it feel good to surf.
Thank you for listening. May this be an echo that reaches those who most need to hear and feel that you too are not alone.
In love, light, and healing darkness,
Jacqueline Allen, L.Ac., Dipl.OM
Acupuncturist | Astrologer | Soul Alchemist
And most importantly... | Human
tworootsacupuncture@gmail.com.
Equinox Reflections
I reach out to reflect on the beauty and depth that has emerged since my last letter, which both was a sharing of my challenges and an honoring of the Equinox we all have just journeyed through collectively, as the embrace of night continues to grow supportively for each of us moving forward (and in).
I officially came out of my retreat space on Sunday evening and am grateful to now be getting a chance to share the sacred support, messages, and experiences that have emerged since last Friday.
First and foremost, my purse was found and turned into the BV police. And low and behold every single piece of missing items were found within and untouched: my two phones, my extra set of keys, my wallet (every card and every piece of cash), and all my miscellaneous items that I keep for easy access in my beloved purse. It was all there. So, my clinic is now accessible again: phone/text/e-mail are all presently available as usual.
And this journey into the portal of equal light and equal night as left me remembering that we are not alone.
My Spirit Medicine Retreat with Tansy Baigent this past weekend had a long and rich journey of coming into form. And it would not have been possible without the 11 beautiful souls that showed up, and who in their fullness, co-created a living embrace of Spirit. Each woman was willing to reach the edges of their existence in all its essence: joy, desire, connection, challenge, rawness & richness, vulnerability, depth, curiosity, and love. This fullness allowed for a tremendously soulful exploration. And everyone left feeling a little bit more connected: to themselves, to each other, to Earth & Sky, and to Spirit - even if the road we took to get there didn't look like the road we may have 'thought' we were walking. This undeniable awareness of Spirit everywhere and in everything allows us to trust when the road shape-shifts or when we decide to pivot as our heart compass attunes and re-attunes again. We are alive, our medicine is alive, and when we honor the relationship that we each have to everything else there is in the inter-connected web of life, we honor the ever subtle (sometimes monumental) shifting that remains a spark of potential in each passing breath - in each inhale and each exhale there is possibility that didn't exist before. Our willingness to be present from the wisdom of our hearts allows for this sacred co-creative emergence of Spirit, healing, & flow.
The Universe is a co-creative expression of showing up, connecting, listening, giving, and receiving.
As I have experienced again and again (and as is reflective in my story that I share) the path to wholeness and the steps to healing are not always easy and it's definitely not linear. But the soul does not desire ease - it desires witnessing, it desires love, and it desires connection. And the difficulty that arises to reach true and authentic connecting in any area of our lives - is always worth the effort. When we remain rooted in our intention and connected to our hearts, we can never be lost - and we remember (again and again) that all which we seek is already inside of us. And this realization is not to keep us from connection but to provide the foundation from which TO CONNECT - so that we see love within and so too without everywhere and in everything - in all ways, always.
Thank you for listening.
Lokah Samastah
Sukhino Bhavantu
May all beings be free
May all beings be happy
And may my thoughts, words, and actions, in some way
Contribute to that happiness and that freedom for all.
For the benefit of all beings
Everywhere, without exception.
In love, light, and healing darkness,
Jacqueline Allen, L.Ac., Dipl.OM
Acupuncturist | Astrologer | Soul Alchemist
And most importantly... | Human
tworootsacupuncture@gmail.com.