
I hope you are all well!
Or, if you’ve been experiencing challenges, may you find the resources and resourcefulness, and be met with kindness and generosity, to support you in finding your way through.
My goodness! From what I’ve seen, heard, witnessed, and had shared from several of you very lovely kindred spirits, the last few weeks — particularly that waxing to and through the recent tender, tender Pisces Full Moon – Neptune-duo week or so!
Yes, that was a stormy one — literally, with so much hardship and heartbreak for some in the storm’s path; and stormy in other challenging or disruptive ways for many others.
When we’re experiencing things that are beyond our control — and yes, I can understand that from my own experience — we still, even in that out-of-control (and sometimes very undesirable) unfolding of circumstances, can respond as courageously as we can, and gain strength or add something new to our experience pack (usually easier to see in hindsight than it is in the midst of the whirlwinds!).
I’ve received a couple of requests for a previous post, so I’m refeaturing it here — it’s timely, to be sure.
A good many people feel off-center, stretched-too-thin, stressed out, and ‘pulled in all directions’ these days, for a variety of reasons:
… challenging circumstances, being there for others who are moving through tough times, having a whole lot of people needing you, paying attention to the ‘news’ and all that’s swirling, and on and on.
I’ve written before of this sense of feeling, in Bilbo Baggins’ words, “Like too little butter spread over too much bread,” and feeling off-center and pulled in all directions is a version of this.
For people who are more empathic or sensitive to the energies around us, this can be an all-too-familiar experience.
This is elevated not just by a natural, ‘wired’ empathy and sensitivity — which has its point, purpose, and gifts — but also from conditioning to be ever dispersed ‘out there’ — always on the lookout, ever responsive to others’ needs, preferences, pace, dictums, and agendas.
And there’s the related ’empath-sensitive survival strategy’ designed to avoid or brace one’s self for the rather unpleasant and dreaded volatility, bullying, outbursts, hissy fits, or tantrums — the control- and manipulation strategies common to certain personality types intent on getting their way, no matter what carnage they leave in their wakes. Such volatility — which is a type of normalized violence in a bully culture — feels excruciating for an empathic person.

When the squeeze is on and the general pressure-cooker energetics are heightened, as they’ve been and are, this whole potentially toxic dynamic more easily comes to a high boil, with introvert-sensitives drawing inward into a fretful, gut-knotted fetal position (whether actual or energetic!); and some extroverts or outwardly-volatile types boiling over into offloads and psychic vomit.
Fun, right? Well, what helps?
Needless to say, it doesn’t feel very good, nor are we at our most resourceful, when we’re off-kilter, off-center, and too much out there … too dispersed or spread thin.
Read on for more on ‘gathering back’ and centering, to more skillfully and confidently navigate the storms.
When Pulled in All Directions, the Center is Up
Happy Equinox, Autumn or Spring where you are!
Big Love and Be Well,
Featured Image Credit: Wooden Boat in a Storm Sea (PD Images)

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September 22, 2019 at 9:44 pm
Hey Jamie. Thanks for the post. Yeah, lots of craziness swirling about, and been feeling the stretch myself. I keep telling myself that things will change. They always do. Hope you have a blessed equinox. Cheers!
September 23, 2019 at 1:12 am
That headline feels like it was written for me
Was it?
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November 29, 2019 at 4:23 pm
Funny how that works, yes my Underworld Sister? It’s a re-feature of a previous yet ever-timely post — already scheduled for a week or two prior to 9/23/19 when it re-debuted. Perfect sync sometimes. 🙂 Happy Appreciation Feasting! xoxo Jamie
September 23, 2019 at 6:59 am
Reblogged this on dreamweaver333.
November 29, 2019 at 4:22 pm
Thank you, ViGold, as always. Many thanks for sharing Sophia’s Children musings with your circle! I appreciate you and wish you well! xoxo Jamie
September 23, 2019 at 7:02 am
Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.
November 29, 2019 at 4:21 pm
Thank you, Eliza. Happy Holy and/or Holly Days to you as we enter the Season of Lights (yes, there’s a post on that somewhere!). Wishing you very, very well! xoxo Jamie
September 30, 2019 at 3:07 pm
Oh, yes! That Pisces Moon was intense. Just saw this, and indeed, centering is the only way through the storm. xx
November 29, 2019 at 4:20 pm
It’s been just that kind of whirlwind in recent months (whether one would call it ‘good’, ‘bad’, ‘intense’ or something in between), as I’m seeing and hearing and experiencing. The watery full Moons do seem intense for people (like the recent Scorpy Full Luna). I’m seeing your posts as I do quick check-ins (it’s been an active year on the local-ground extroversion!) – hope you’re doing and feeling and being well! xoxo Love, Jamie
November 29, 2019 at 7:37 pm
Yes, thank you, Jamie. So glad that you’re having a bunch of local on the ground community. Big hugs and blessings. Love, Laura
January 11, 2020 at 6:15 pm
Happy 2020 to you, Laura! Yes, the Work has had me more involved locally, whilst continuing to tend the friendships over the miles, too. Hope you are well and that 2020 unfolds with lovely, delightful blessings. xoxo Jamie
November 27, 2019 at 3:18 am
Very beautiful Jamie
Ashley Lyn
November 29, 2019 at 4:17 pm
Thank you, Ashley! I’m hoping and wishing that you are well! xoxo Love, Jamie
May 5, 2020 at 3:31 am
Miss you
November 24, 2021 at 6:17 am
I’m good. Same you you
December 11, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Happy holiday season to you and yours, Ashley! May 2021 wrap well, and 2022 begin well for you.
xoxo Jamie
May 30, 2022 at 11:32 pm
I’m doing good! Persephone is guiding me again this past months. Sent you a email!