Mabon is a celebration surrounding the Autumnal Equinox in the northern hemisphere, celebrating the equivalence of light and dark, the arrival of seasonal-change, and a time of thanksgiving.
There are two equinoxes every year: one in September and one in March. In the northern hemisphere, the autumnal equinox occurs in September each year, and marks the end of summer and beginning of autumn.
Mabon is a threshold, Braveheart. What we choose to carry over into the next season affects our well-being.
Dates and calendar years are not as relevant or memorable as personal anniversaries, seasons and celestial cycles for the purpose of perspective and discovery, expression and growth.
- Choices + insights are constantly offered to us within the familiarity of our anniversaries, seasons, phases and cycles.
- We live on purpose—or we live by default: allowing our doubt or inability to choose to be the choice we make [a default end result].
Let’s be intentional as we move toward this seasonal threshold with ritual, reflection and care. 🩵
✍️💭 prompts:
📝 Note to Ko-fi patrons: These prompts will be included in your quarterly 📥🗃️ planning booklet available on September 26. 😊
- What habits do you desire to continue? 🧡
- What habits do you need to release and move away from?
- What relationships and/or situations consistently offer you a fruitful harvest [peace, comfort, a sense of belonging and meaning] for the time and energy you have invested? 🧡
- What relationships and/or situation consistently fail to yield this type of harvest and/or merely consist of cycling through rejection, feelings of worthlessness and self-loathing? 😔
- What 🔎 clues (keywords or phrases; experiences; urges; blurts of jealousy) keep presenting for you?
- Emotions are messengers. 🗣️💗
- Jealousy is a 🗺️ map, Braveheart.
- If nothing comes to mind, pull an oracle 🃏 card and/or compile a list of clues and guide words that you notice during the next several days. (We see what we seek, Braveheart.) 🧡
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- What are ways you express and process your current life experience? 🗣️♻️
- All too often we “express” ourselves via our automatic survival responses (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn) 🤬😖🫤😰 when we feel triggered in our relationships or recurring situations.
- This is especially true we we are being 🚫 criticized or rejected, or in chaotic 🌀 situations.
- Self-compassion and creative expression enable us to move beyond our default reactions and are the foundation for right brain planning:
- dated 📅 journal entries + creative 🗣️♻️ expression (collage, inky doodles, painty vents) are ways of getting in touch with what we are 🤬😖🫤😰 feeling as well as experiencing personal 🔭 discovery, healing ❤️🩹 and living 💢 wholeheartedly
- creatively 🎨 noting what you desire + want to include and experience + continue to allow in your wild and precious life
- All too often we “express” ourselves via our automatic survival responses (fight, flight, freeze, and fawn) 🤬😖🫤😰 when we feel triggered in our relationships or recurring situations.
- In what ways do you consistently honor (or ignore) what you need for your overall 🧡 well-being?
- Common examples:
- believing your are too busy to […]
- believing you do not have the time (or money) to […]
- believing you do not deserve […]
- believing you have to do everything or nothing will get done
- Common examples:
- How often do you celebrate yourself (your worth, life choices, micro-moments onward, etc.)? 🥳
- Once a day? 🥳
- Once a week? 🥳
- On the new 🌑 moon? 🥳
- Once a month? 🥳
- Once a year? 🥳
- Never … 😥🥺😢
Right Brain Planner is a collection of lunar + seasonal prompts and journal-planning ideas to encourage self-compassion and review, reflection and expression, discovery and healing.
Braveheart, we learn by doing: we discover details about ourselves through dated, chronicled observations 👀✍️📔 because everything we experience is data. 📊
Data is value-neutral; it is neither “good’ or “bad”—it is merely information to use for our choices, intentions and conclusions. Remembering this helps us to live free from judgment and shoulds.
Thank you kindly for your presence here.
I appreciate your interest and support.
~love & good wishes~
Artist’s Statement 😊🔮🔎📝🖌️🎨❤️📊
❤️ Braveheart, as the Creator/Artist of Right Brain Planner I am ever-grateful to have the opportunity to share my creative work online + support other creators! 🎉 For almost 20 years I have had the privilege of sharing my art and writing about right brain planning while also hosting kindred 👭🏽💞👭 communities. ✨ I consider it an absolute delight to continue this portion of my creative work (even as I retire from full-time work).
This is possible, in part, by {you} and your presence here. ❤️ But also because of the support of my Ko-fi patrons and the other member/subscriber communities I host.
If you already have your own system of creative journal-planning, but are interested in financially supporting my creative work, you may do so by making a donation:
- Make a one-time contribution in any amount via [this link]. (Thank you!) ❤️