It is the infamous 30th of January and fuck me, this has got be the first year ever that I haven’t felt hyped for my birthday.
What a goddamn year where to start, 2020, the year where everything fell apart and shook the whole Earth into a new dimension.
Its 11:17pm and the last forty-five minutes until my birthday so let’s make it one hell of a half an hour baby, I’m really pushing it for time this but I made it before midnight so here we go. This birthday is the first time I’ve not travelled somewhere and am home in Melbourne for my midnight ritual. It’s been 5 years since I’ve ever celebrated my birthday home in Australia. Which feels incredibly weird but beautiful and grounding at the same time. Im in my room and space that I spent my whole year building, surrounded by my lush plant babies and ambiance of my candles & neon lights. A true introvert heaven.
I have one word for 2020. Claustrophobia. Corona quarantine. The year of death.
28 has been the most humbling, shadow breaking and confronting year of my life. I feel like I purged absolutely everything in my life and shed a lot of skin. Died in multiple ways and let go of everything down to the skin of my bones.
A year of extreme fluctuations, being alone and also not wanting to socialise with anyone. A real year isolation with only my beautiful darkness. An incredible year of fucking introspection like never before.
It was indeed, very dark and not that magical to be honest, but I’ve brought I back to life now and I’v saved it out the other end. I struggled really fucking hard this year. But I’ve also had the best fun reconnecting with my inner child.
With on/off sobriety, a deep heartbreak, losing my sanity, no freedom to explore, travel and adventure around the world (which is the bane of my existence), no tattoos or entertainment, my extreme weight gain from quitting smoking & drugs and inhabiting a brand new level of self loathing I never knew existed within, I still made it out with a badass attitude. I made it.
28, where to begin.
The first year I’ve ever been forced to be unemployed and have time to live and do whatever the I wanted. It was hard but I took that time and turned it into gold. The year I emerged as the Artist I’ve always dreamed to be. The year I’m the thickest I have ever been, cut my own hair and also turned it into a mullet, the year I quit smoking and still thriving like the baddest bitch alive. This year I created a permanently living space at home and bonded with my mum like I never have before. Also the year I became a plant mama myself and found a new love for living life differently than to my usual. This year wasn’t very adventurous or as wild I’d hope my time on Earth was going to be but it was incredibly wholesome and grounding. Being forced into lockdown this year was so tough, spending 7 months being locked indoors while I was having to deal with a break up and loss of self really let me sit in a dark room with nothing but drugs and a bookshelf of liquor to get me through. But if it wasn’t for the break up I went through with him, I wouldn’t have opened up traumas inside me and held a mirror up to myself to see where I needed to heal in order to be who I am today. 2020, the year I wasn’t allowed to travel anymore than 5kms from my house for 7 months. The year I wasn’t allowed to leave the country and forced to find haven in the suburbs. The year of 9PM curfews, fucking skincare and tiktok.
I fed myself so much drugs, alcohol and depression that I drugged myself into voluntary sobriety. I can’t say it wasn’t a good time though, it was too good of a time if anything, and I wouldn’t change it for the Universe. It was honestly the only thing that kept me going and cope with. Amazing, the hardest part is having to withdraw and say goodbye to my beloved drug addiction. I haven’t been on this many benders since Europe, but it was all home benders which was too dangerous for my wellbeing. I wish I could be on drugs forever with no come downs. What a dream. Big shoutout too all the beautiful meaningful highs this year and benders with all my best friends. I wouldn’t have survived without them. Fuck I love my friends.
But give a little mention this year was the first time I discovered a new level of tenacity and ferociousness in the workplace, realising my passionate personality does not belong in a workplace where my values do not align. I vowed this year to never work or live for a job that I do not care about. Ever. It has been a shit year but also incredibly humbling and rejuvenating experience because I have done a life changing amount of shadow work and now I’m a butterfly emerging out a cocoon. Not much may have happened this year but the biggest thing also did - my soul evolved in whole new way I’ve never felt before. And I’m feeling so magical again after feeling locked in the dark for so long. A year of a new found wisdom and surviving heartaches that hit so different.
It’s raining heavy today but my heart is warm and full of a strange feeling I haven’t felt in a long time. A feeling that, I’m exactly meant to be doing what I’m doing right now and I’m not carrying any thing in my soul that isn’t meant to be there anymore. Healed. Today is my last day of being 28. I’ll never be this young again, and that in itself is a notion of magic. I read today that we never stop being young, only becoming a different age of young as every second passes.
I’m so grateful for being alive and being 28 has truly transformed and birthed my entire being with a whole new sense of power I’ve never felt before. I just spent today writing everything I wanted to let go of and burnt it away into the sunset. I also birthed a new 29 manifestation. Here to falling in love with myself this year and getting to know myself even deeper.
The birth of the DIVINE FEMININE ENERGY.
I am loved and love to be.
Pure wholesome love & peace in my heart.
A newborn fearless energy.
A goddess of sex, birth, creation & healing power.
The Universe is within me as I am in the galaxy.
I belong only to myself.
I only want what wants me.
Abundance of self-love & empowerment.
Worthy of a million galaxies.
Forever living halfway in fantasy and reality.
Unapologetically.
ART HOE • PLANT MAMI • BAD BITCH • SEX GODDESS • FAIRY ON EARTH • BABY ANGEL
Lavender butterfly. My new era.
I vow to never stop romanticising and celebration my incredible.
Ready to be 29 with brand new character energy. To flourish and become the most creative, beautiful, intelligent, wholesome and loving side of my soul I have ever lived to be & explored. I am an artist at heart and the artist of my own existence. I am going to create the most beautiful reality I have ever lived in, in 2021.
29 baby, I pray to the Universe and a trillion galaxies that things will be as magical and dreamy as I feel existing in this dimension.
Fuck of good riddance 2020 though, bye bitch. Thank you for opening my Saturn’s return with one hell of an entrance.
I love you.
11:59pm
30th January 2021’
Age: 28 years