Intentions for September 2025

My Cairn... 9 stones...9 intentions...9th month...year of 9

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am grateful you are here. It has been a while since I last posted. Summer is a busy time with family, biking, swimming, and being outside enjoying the weather, the flowers, nature and all that life offers.

I began writing this post September 9th. The 9th month in the calendar year. 2025 also adds up to the number 9. 2+0+2+5=9. 9 in numerology is a time for endings, completion, time to shed, and purge what you no longer need to carry.

We are being invited to cross the threshold and step into something new. A big year for surrendering, letting go, and trusting that the universe is in alignment and all of the huge shifts happening to us physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually are transitioning us for our greatest good.

Be out in nature as much as possible to help ground you during these shifts. Become aware and listen to the silence in-between your thoughts. Begin to feel your feelings and the sensations in your body with renewed awareness.

Your true nature is awareness. You are being invited to come to know yourself and to feel the truth. Thoughts arise you can't control. Don't get lost in the story. You are a beautiful being. See beneath the story and shine your light with compassion for others as well as for yourself as the world shifts.

I know it is a BIG ask, but Trust in the unfolding by staying grounded to the earth in peace, stillness, love, and continue breathing deeply into the present moment. When we are calm and grounded in the present and we emanate love instead of fear from our hearts out into the world...it softens the chaos of the world around and starts to mirror back to us peace.

This image above was taken on a beautiful September day when my husband, my dog, and I hiked through the woods and placed our beach chairs near the water's edge at Bush Lake. Rosie has just recently started to swim and chase fish. Endless hours of enjoyment for all of us to witness.

While staying fully present, I ventured into the warm, clear water gently stepping in the sand, I noticed large stones partially buried. To prevent stubbing my toes or anyone else from tripping over them, I began to dig them out and carry them to the shore. With the blue sky, puffy white clouds, calm blue water, surrounded by lush green trees, it was the perfect environment to build a cairn. The picture exudes peace, balance, presence, and love I felt that day. I was connected to it all.

The large stone you see on the bottom was already near the edge of the shore and in the water and made for a spectacular foundation. I began to build a cairn with the stones gathered from the water. A cairn is a pile of rugged stones in Gaelic for a marker, offering guidance, it could be a blessing honoring a person's memory. For me, it is a marker for honoring the journey in my life.

It blesses this moment in this sacred spot. (Every cairn I have built, someone has come along and altered it). This one has 9 stones, in the water, to symbolize my 9 intentions on this 9th month during this 9th year. My intentions for guiding and marking my life in this present moment on this September day, are to truly live and embody peace, surrender, presence, alignment, balance, compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and love. All set in the flowing element of water.

Our intentions help set alive our words and deepest desires that flow from our heart space in the direction we want our lives to go. They are incredibly powerful and give a deeper meaning, structure, and purpose to our actions. Intentions that come from the highest truth, joy, and love for the good of all concerned help us to anchor in and begin to embody the most authentic self we wish to be.

Allow your heart to guide you to your truth. Each day is an opportunity to experience yourself in a new light of awareness. Get out of the thinking ego mind and into your heart. Begin to notice what thoughts arise, feelings, and sensations. Listen. Whatever feels expansive move that way. Whatever feels constrictive let it go.

Healing is an inside job. No one can do it for you. Nothing external can rescue you. You, dear one, must close your eyes in order to see and begin to FEEL into the vastness of your internal landscape and heal what needs to be healed. Step into the water of life and flow in your truth.

Speak your intentions out loud to the world on your breath, whisper them into the wind and into the water. Bless them with love. Feel them pulsate throughout your body, your mind, and your Soul. You will begin to become aligned and coherent in the truth of your existence. Become aware of awareness itself. Awareness is our true nature.

What are you ready to let go of? What are you ready to embrace?