I have been listening inside more than usual lately. What comes is not just a gentle nudge, as I usually experience it, but a very clear, strong, and unquestionable guidance. It pours in with a different quality now: it is decisive. Not cocooning, not cautious, but deeply certain. Even when what it says feels a little radical, it is deeply true. It confirms things I have felt for a long
time but postponed.
We are in the last few weeks of slower Yin energy of March + Mercury Retrograde, before April rushes in with two supremely powerful and unruly forces: the Yang Dragon & the Yang Horse. This window feels so very precious, and I am using it to the maximum. How about you?
The biggest thing that comes through for me is about my work.
I knew for a while that how I present it does not truly reflect what I actually do. But I had so many excuses. I am busy. My clients are mostly return clients, they already know me very well. I have no time, I do not want to take new pictures, I do not like being in front of the camera. It is funny (or sad?) because I have a master's degree in marketing and can spot hundreds of details in other
people's work in minutes. For my own work, though, I had every excuse in the book. None of them cuts it anymore. This is very clear to me now.
So I am allowing what has to emerge to be here. It is a bit scary, and it confronts real fears, but once I said to myself, ok, I am scared, and I will go through this anyway, everything lined up quickly: booking the photographer whose work I genuinely like, a new website look and feel that can actually reflect the depth of my work, a clearer way of presenting what I do for people who do not know me
yet.
This has been my forever biggest struggle, because the word "feng shui" in itself, as strange as this might sound, is a huge blockage. How do you convey that your home is literally like a physical body, with its own very unique aches and pains that influence your life in very tangible ways? That this is not about moving a chair or a new paint color, but rather an ancient system of really uncanny precision? This is what I need to take the time to clearly express, and where my energy is going now. Of course, every small change in your home matters, and I have hundreds of blog posts that can help you with it. But I need to go deeper, and I will.
The other thing that came through (and oh, that felt like such a deep relief!) is leaving social media for good. Instagram, LinkedIn, all of it. I was in an in-between space with both for a while. I left, then came back a few months ago. But as one of my trusted advisors said: you came back to a ghost town, you do not belong there. That was the last signal I needed; a confirmation I did not ask for
openly, but deep inside, really craved.
You probably know I have been doing this work for almost twenty seven years, twenty two of them full time. I did not start with a carefully curated business image, a beautiful website template, or a long-term marketing strategy. When I began, newsletter marketing companies did not even exist; I would send my newsletters directly from the Mail application on my computer, then spend time manually
creating separate colorful pages on my website so clients could read them. It feels like last century because it is.
It is not a business I was given a clear recipe for, or a structured direction; I had to find my own way and create my own rules. One of them was my early on decision to not get involved in the feng shui community. I know, it sounds strange, but I had good reasons. This includes not commenting on other consultants' work, so when my students or clients ask me about others, I do not comment.
I exist in a strange kind of territory: a cross between professional consulting, a very artistic field, and a deeply healing modality. It can be strange and lonely at times. But it is what it is, and I am used to it.
I do this work because it's what I am here for. And now, for the first time in the longest time, I need to take a real look at how I present it. Which brings me to this newsletter. I am moving it to every two weeks instead of weekly; not because I have less to say, but because what arrives now needs more breathing room.
Managing the space between who you were yesterday and who you know yourself to be now is not easy, neither in personal life nor in business. You can probably relate.
But this is a good place to be.
I wish you good energy in this precious time window.
Warmly,
Rodika
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