It isn’t that you’re not intuitive, babe. It’s that you’re a control freak.
Control is the enemy of intuition.

If intuition is a flowing river, meant to be a guide as you float along it in sweet surrender, control has to wait for the exact right raft at the exact right time, which never happens…

Because the exact perfect conditions don’t exist.

So you continue to stand like a frozen pillar at the edge of the banks, paralyzed with indecision until life loudly clangs you into making a choice, often through pain.

If intuition is the golden field of life thrumming with ripe possibilities all around us, control is an iron clad dam called anxiety, more convincing than Gandalf at the gates of Mordor.

You shall not pass! 

• Control is contraction. It’s a trauma response.
• It needs certainty and dominance to feel safe. 
• It has no relationship to the unknown, to the mystery, to miracles.
• Control is the opposite of self-trust, another foundation of intuition/winks from the universe.

While we’re at it, other enemies are:

Entitlement, urgency, judgment, greed, comparison, and expectations—in particular, expecting you’ll get something for nothing. Expecting you don’t have to transform, work, take action, or be uncomfortable.  

Remind you of anything? Yeah, the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy!

Why do you think they want us logical, fearful sheep, believing in the stock market over astrology?

When you trust yourself, you can trust your intuition, because you know you will always have your own back. You know there are no wrong answers, short of consciously harming yourself and others. You know that with surrender comes abundance, and that life often surprises you with something better when you pry your hard cold hands off the steering wheel of life. 

For now, here’s a practice. Suspend assigning meaning to events. Take a “wait and see,” attitude. Do this with good events and hard events. Push off into the flow of life, and see where life itself is telling you to go.

We’ll be exploring the foundations of trust all springtime in the Moon Studio’s flagship intuition course, Secret Studies: Intuition.

You’ll learn how to soothe your ego, and get out of your own way, to access more of your inner compass.

You’ll be guided by me, someone who has made their living literally as a psychic.

I’m a highly sensitive, creative business owner with certifications in hypnosis and somatics.

For more of the curriculum and information on the course, go here.

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