I meant to host a gathering last Sunday, on the solstice.
I didn't. For days it's been overwhelmingly hot, and something in me knew that I needed to pause.
I'm glad I listened.
This morning I was in a session with someone I call my quantum therapist (I mentioned him before and no, I still can't fully explain what he does), and what surfaced was a word.
Autorité. Authority.
And inside it: auteur. Author.
I've been building a body of work around story for years now. The stories we tell about ourselves. The ones we leave out. The ones that shape how others see us, and more importantly, how we see ourselves.
And the communication part that comes parallel to the stories. The one I learned from experience: own the narrative or someone else will claim your story for you.
But this morning I understood something I hadn't quite named before.
The pendant of story is authorship.
Not writing, necessarily. Not craft or technique. Not journaling, not publishing. But the act of claiming, or declaring: I am the one who gets to shape this narrative. I have agency here.
Even when life imposes certain stories we didn't choose, and it does, it always does, there is a creative impulse available to us. A possibility. Or rather many possibilities.
We are all authors. Even those of us who have never written a word.
Sol sistere. The sun stands still.
We've crossed the mid-year threshold. From here until December 21st, the light begins its long folding. And it seems to me a natural moment to pause and ask the oldest, simplest question:
What do I want?
Not what should I do. Not what does the next quarter require. Not what would look good, or make sense, or be responsible.
What do I actually want? Where would I like to see an unfolding, in my life, in my work, in myself, between now and the end of the year, the next solstice?
Is it ease? Energy? Results? Something that doesn't have a name yet?
I wrote about this a few years ago, about a catalytic moment when sat, downtrodden and exhausted, asked the question and wrote down the answers that came. As with most of the work I invite you to explore, it's for the brave, not just the ready. Once you know what you want, you can't 'unknow' it. It's from a place of knowing that we can start claiming authorship.
→ On goal-setting, desires, and intentions → READ IT HERE
And if you'd like to bring this question somewhere, to sit with it in good company, with some structure and some space, I'm holding an Intention Hour on Monday June 30th. It's a monthly gathering, pay what you can (suggested: 35 CHF).
→ Join me for the Intention Hour, June 30th → REGISTER HERE