Procrastination Gem

I should be doing my work...instead I'm just surfing my mental seas

I’ve tried everything and I’m still feeling really squirrelly around work - even though it’s work I WANT to do, and there’s not a ton of stress/pressure - yet.

I’ve made myself a second pot of coffee, gone for a swim/shower, pulled cards + journaled, put on perfume, put on music, cleaned my desk - all the things that normally ground, detox and focus my energy and still - I’m distracted by my mental sparkles.

So here goes - I still owe my parenting class one last bonus lesson on neurodivergence - I know I could teach on neurochemical imbalances and nervous system differences and…I just can’t - it’s Cancer season, and I’m feeling so soft, nostalgic and shimmery. I want to swim through mystical waters, not plod through peer reviewed research.

I want to teach on what I’ve always wanted to write on - that neurodivergence is medicine for the culture.

I want to excavate powerful questions that we can - in Britten LaRue’s words - “live into.” Big, high quality questions that function as lode stars during entire eras of our lives. That shape us quietly and gently, as consistent companions, like water carves canyons.

Zora Neale Hurston said, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

I would put it as: there are questions that are relevant for years, and the asking and questing of them is critical scaffolding for a particular part of our unfolding.

So one of my meta-questions as we come into contact with and navigate neurodivergence - in ourselves, in others, and in the collective consensus reality is:

How does this behavior

• or frustration

• or limitation

• or trigger

• or grief portal

  (that ostensibly results from an experience of neurodivergence) invite me into greater curiosity and critique of what I have (perhaps unquestioningly) accepted as the status quo?

Said another way, where does neurodivergence point out stagnation, adolescence, incompleteness, or narrow-sightedness in our current culture and societal norms?

Where does neurodivergence give us clear hints around what needs to be balanced, evolved, examined and approached in a new way?

This is a fundamentally Aquarian approach - there is no reverence for tradition or “this is the way it’s always been done.” Aquarius isn’t innately rebellious but it IS heretically curious. It doesn’t take anything for granted or given.

It can be a very frustrating energy to encounter, especially if you are an authority or a keeper of traditions.

But it is this relentlessly irreverent, curious, prodding and poking energy that carves out a future that moves us closer to our fullest potential as humans and points out where we have calcified prematurely.

The gift* of neurodivergence is its wild irreverence and I will never stop celebrating that.

*Not the only gift obvi