Are you clear about your direction in life?

Learning From Our Super Navigators – Are You Finding Your Way?

I was recently walking with friends on the land I’ve called Raven Sky. Suddenly we were hearing this loud raspy bird cry that seemed to come from all directions. As we stood stock still and just listened, we simultaneously realized we were hearing and then SEEING a “swoop” of Sandhill Cranes flying above us high up in the blue sky in perfect V formation. The bird sound filled the air and bounced off every hill. It was so thrilling and exhilarating! It put me in mind of animal species migrating all over the world. From monarch butterflies en route from the United States to Mexico, to more localized movements with bear or deer moving up and down in elevation with the seasons. These purposeful migrations occur to find food, give birth, and/or find a more suitable environment than the one being left behind. Although plants are rooted in the ground, they too are preparing for the next season, with much of their activity magically moving around underground and out of sight.

Only a few days after our surprise at this miracle of migration passing overheard on its way to the Rio Grande Bosque Del Apache preserve, I received another surprise. One of my favorite podcasts, To the Best of Our Knowledge, happened to feature of all things, migration. More amazing still, the producers played a soundtrack of Sand Hill cranes! Check it out here.

November is a special month in the northern hemisphere and latitudes; the temperatures begin to seriously cool; all the leaves have been wind-blown off the now naked trees; and everyone is nestling in, getting ready to wait out the winter.

This migration phenomenon also contains some of the more amazing super navigators that travel about our globe. A super navigator is an animal that has a built-in magnetic system, sort of like a compass.

Do humans have a super navigator system?

Let me ask you these questions:

Where are you going? Are you clear about your direction, what some call True North?

How do you find your way? What is your inner source of guidance…and are you following it?

It will be a dark night on November 4th when we’ll have a New Moon, and the Taurids Meteor shower begins. November 6th is the Cross-Quarter Day, beginning the dark half of the year and leading us into winter. Another meteor shower peaks on November 17th and 18th, and the full moon occurs on November 19th. Humans have used these observed events to help guide their lives and events. They are sign posts. If you really tuned into them, what could they mean for you and your flight path?

Clarity and Wisdom

Finding your “inner GPS” system or inner compass is an ongoing journey. We change, our environment changes, so we must adapt and transform to be prepared for uncertainty. When we take the time to reflect within and notice what has meaning for ourselves, we will more likely find our sense of purpose. Randy and I always take a few days at the end of the year to spend time together revisiting our passions and looking at what is “working for us” and what more we want to experience. If you have not had the chance to discover and get crystal clear about your passions or the things that are truly important to you now, I encourage you to take the time and use this simple but powerful tool to get clear. The process includes learning a decision-making tool that for me has become a reliable inner compass keeping me focused on and committed to my passions…despite all of life’s and our world’s distractions!

Intuitive Leadership with Journaling

Journaling can be restorative and a great relief from obsessive thoughts. The process can provide insight into why you constantly think them and feel the feelings they bring up. When you experience a guided journaling process, you gain even more insight into your own inner wisdom. Join me and other pioneer journalers who want to move forward in their life and business with presence, openness, and authenticity this January 12-14th from 5:00-6:30pm MTN on Zoom. Together we’ll explore the power of journaling using nature as an inspiring model of resilience and strength for our own lives.
Email me to sign up: karinlubin@gmail.com

I’d like to close with a poem about Sandhill Cranes, written by Linda Hogan of the Chickasaw Nation.

The Sandhills

The language of cranes
we once were told
is the wind. The wind
is their method,
their current, the translated story
of life they write across the sky.
Millions of years
they have blown here
on ancestral longing,
their wings of wide arrival,
necks long, legs stretched out
above strands of earth
where they arrive
with the shine of water,
stories, interminable
language of exchanges
descended from the sky
and then they stand,
earth made only of crane
from bank to bank of the river
as far as you can see
the ancient story made new.