Earth Star | Mouse | Mimulus
I Embrace Change.
Mouse scurries into your cards to remind you to embrace the constant flow of change in this ever-moving stream of life. Change can be scary, even good change, because it challenges the ego’s sense of safety and brings us closer to our fear of death. Have you been fearing bad things happening? Mouse teaches that in challenging our fears we build our capacity and, in turn, become stronger and more courageous. Embracing change means honoring rites of passage, seasonal shifts and the process of aging. Sometimes when we let our fear of change paralyze us, we hold on to extra weight to ground us, horde things excessively, stop leaving the house or develop a shopping addiction to mask our fear.
Mouse also crosses your path to remind you that God is in the details! Are you forgetting to pay a bill or send out a birthday card? Noticing all of the details keeps you one step ahead and like mouse avoiding raven, you dodge being prey to a predator. Staying out of fear when in new territory helps you retain your keen sense of observation. Maybe you’ve been procrastinating around doing new things because you are afraid of making mistakes? Remember that all mis-takes give you the opportunity to try again, expand your capacity and grow.
Mouse connects you with your internal “healthy father.” Healthy father qualities include but are not limited to: providing safety for yourself and others, working hard to reach a goal, moving forward even when things feel tough, staying grounded in times of change, taking care of details, having discipline and integrity, doing what’s right, being true to your word, facing your fears, taking healthy risks and keeping stress-levels under control so you can act rather than react. Mouse darts safely back home to show you that the only thing you have to fear is fear itself.
Bach Remedy: Mimulus
Key Words: facing fear, taking risks, change, healthy inner-father, details, fear of making mistakes, courage, staying grounded, blind spots, infestations (lice, bed bugs, mice, etc.), fear of death and hypochondria, minerals, legs and leg cramps, spinal column, phobias, varicose veins, injuries
Action Steps:
Stand up straight! Studies show that 2 minutes of power posing raises your testosterone and lowers the stress hormone cortisol. Plus it gives you more confidence.
Exercise! Getting into your body helps you face life’s challenges. Ground into your legs by doing squats.
Are you overly afraid of making mistakes? If you had a father that didn’t allow for mistake, yelled and belittled you, you may still hold a fear of doing things wrong. Contemplate if this applies to you.
Take mouse steps toward facing a fear. Write down all of the things you are afraid of. This will bring it into your conscious mind. We create our fears in our reality when we keep them in our subconscious mind.
Work on your blind spots. Listen to the subtle details of what people say to you….you can get clues to your blind spots.
Do you find that you don’t ever want anything to change? This can create a lot of resistance and anxiety. Journal about past memories where big change occurred in your life and how it affected you.
Are you fearing a bigger change such as an empty nest? Consider some talk therapy with a counselor or friend who has been through it.
Walk. Taking time each day to walk across the earth activates a grounding frequency within us.
Are you overly afraid of illness and tragedy? Use a pendulum to help identify a trauma from your past that created this fear. Getting to the core will help you bring it to light.
Notice if the very process of life makes you sad or scared. Like “how the heck can I enjoy anything when it just keeps changing until I die!” Take conscious steps to align with the process of life, from birth to death.
Take a healthy risk toward your goals and dreams!
Practice being true to your word, little white lies add up and chip away at your sense of integrity. This might mean being more honest with people instead of making up excuses.
Contemplate healthy ownership versus possession.
Learn and practice yogic inversion postures like Plow.
Do you find you crave alcohol to feel safe? Reflect on the women in your lineage and how alcohol is used to tone down fear. Is it in moderation or excess?
Consider weight lifting. Building muscle seems to increase courage.
What is your relationship with food like? Do you stuff your feelings, binge or yo-yo diet? Reflect on what months of the year you eat to feel safer.
A healthy father does his inner-work through self-examination and learning from mistakes to become a wiser version of himself. Encourage the men in your life to express their feelings.
