The Seasonal Soul: A Mystic's Guide to Inner Transformation

By Lauren Aletta and Tegan Swyny

Brimming with mystical practices and hundreds of evocative illustrations, The Seasonal Soul is an enchanting guide to self-discovery. Spiritual teacher Lauren Aletta takes readers through the metaphorical "seasons" of personal growth and illuminates the ways your springs, summers, autumns, and winters provide opportunities for insight, healing, transformation, and rejuvenation. Organized by season, the book is packed with enriching practices and advice, including self-care rituals, crystal and chakra guides, and journaling exercises. In an eye-catching, shimmery package with black dyed edges, this book is perfect for modern mystics and the spiritually curious.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: May 7, 2019
• ISBN: 9781452175058

Lauren Aletta

Lauren Aletta is a spiritual teacher and the founder of Inner Hue, an online platform offering video courses, personal coaching, and spiritual readings. She lives in Queensland, Australia.

Book preview

MAGIC MAKER. THAT’S WHAT YOU ARE. RADIANT. WISE. CREATIVE LIGHT. REMEMBER YOUR INNER COMPASS FOR CLARITY & THIRD EYE FOR INSIGHT. LET YOUR HEART. BE THE MASTER YOUR HEAD THE FAITHFUL SERVENT. VISUALIZE WITH CHAKRAS BRIGHT BE THE CONSCIOUS CREATOR OF YOUR LIFE. REBEL. STAND OUT CONNECT. EXHALE. INVENT. EXPRESS. EVOLVE. IGNITE MOTHER EARTH. FATHER SKY EMANATE YOUR SOUL’S DESIRES YOU ARE A PIONEER OF THIS NEW FRONTIER. RAISE YOUR VIBES BE BRAVE. BE LOVE BE FREE. YOUR GREATEST ASSET IS YOUR ENERGY ADVENTURE. IMAGINE. EXPAND. EXPLORE. LET YOUR INTUITION GUIDE YOU YOU ARE WHAT YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.

First published by the author in 2017.

Copyright © 2019 by Lauren Aletta

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available.

ISBN 978-1-4521-7482-2 (pb)

ISBN 9781-4521-7505-8 (epub, mobi)

Illustrations and design by Tegan Swyny

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Contents

Embracing the Adventure

Preparing for the Adventure

A Guide to the Terms and Methods in This Book

Part #1 Winter: Into the Cave

Winter: Tools for the Alchemist

Part #2 Spring: The Glimmering Sun

Spring: Tools for the Alchemist

Part #3 Summer: Run with the Wolves

Summer: Tools for the Alchemist

Part #4 Autumn: The Fading Light

Autumn: Tools for the Alchemist

Coming Full Circle

Chakra Guide

Crystal Guide

Glossary

About the Creator & Designer

EMBRACING THE adventure

The Seasonal Soul has been and continues to be my adventure.

Through years of self-observation and experimentation, I have found the unique approach outlined in the following pages incredibly helpful and supportive in discovering my personal orientation and rhythm in the chaos and brilliance of life. It has allowed me to create from what I call my soul space, to redefine (and redefine again!) my personal alignment and propel myself forward with a thirst and zest for life!

About a decade ago, I became aware of highly familiar internal sensations that married with my external experiences at the time. I was curious and began to track these sensations and life experiences as a way to better understand mySelf (my Soul Self) and my life. I became hyperaware that something deeply mysterious yet deliciously magical was occurring within me and my life.

There was a burgeoning pressure and propulsion that pressed up against me internally, creating a cycle of friction, irritation, then depression. I often felt caged within my life and trapped by the ideas I held about myself, as well as the ideas and vision I had for mySelf. Nothing about this feeling was new. It was an old and familiar friend that had accompanied me since I was a child. Not knowing what to do with this insistent and uncomfortable sensation, I simply ignored it. Putting on a smile seemed to be the only way I could fit in and deal with life.

From what I saw, this seemed to be how everyone did life!

But eventually my soul prodded and poked until I paid attention. Finally one day, out of the blue, I had a tremendously exciting body slam of a realization. A very clear and distinct pattern was taking place within me and my life. Instant imagery of the Earth’s seasons jolted me awake, accompanied by the phrase "Cycle of Growth."

By the time I had looped around all four seasons on a larger scale three times, I was excited! I was utterly hooked as I noticed strong consistencies and distinct attributes that belonged to each season. I became increasingly aware of my own personal relationship with each season and the various tools that were helpful (and sometimes unhelpful) in traversing this ever-exciting terrain.

From there, I began to record each of my personal seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. The distinct and consistent attributes of each season allowed me to discover my personal orientations and create stability and strengthen self-trust in my own life. Even during the heaviest and coldest of Winters, I witnessed forward movement, growth, and birth.

I know now there is always order to chaos and chaos in anything ordered. This is the thrill and flow of life!

As I consciously and curiously explored my seasons, steadily looping around and completing the larger Cycle of Growth, more of my soul truth unfolded and my soul purpose became clearer. Day by day, I grew more confident and patient with mySelf. The restlessness that had been bubbling up deep inside mySelf was teaching me. All I had to do was be present with where I was within each season and be brave enough to follow the internal prompts when guided to act. By following my own natural rhythm, the path became clear. I felt more and more like myself, and that awful low-lying discomfort transformed into hell yeah! happiness and excitement for what lay ahead.

After much documentation in a messy handwritten scrawl, I began to introduce this approach to my clients. Where appropriate and with guidance, we would explore their personal seasons and reflect on their past cycles to create familiarity.

Their wonderful "aha!" moments made me smile, and I watched their faces soften, their panic vanish, and a newfound understanding take root. Like me, when they dug deep, they experienced revelations about themselves and their environment.

This book is designed to press your internal reset button. This book is a deep exploration of Who You Are! You will laugh, you will cry, you will relive moments of pain to release the chains and develop clarity about where you are right now in your life. You will begin to find your own magic—and it will astound you. You will stop wondering what your purpose is and slowly begin to live it, allowing it to unfurl and unfold out of you.

This is what this process has done for me.

My adventure is only just beginning. But what I already know to be true is if I continue to consciously be the explorer and pioneer of mySelf, in step with my own seasons and cycles, I will paint this lifetime of mine with my best colors. I will turn up to the world and serve in the most authentic of ways—and have an absolute blast doing it. And you, dear reader, will be joining me.

Within these pages, you will find relief, alignment, confirmation, and excitement. Know that one season is no better than another. All seasons are purposeful and each new cycle is different from the next.

YOU CAN NEVER BE LOST. THERE IS A WONDERFUL AND EVER-PRESENT MAP WITHIN YOU ALONGSIDE A STRONG GUIDING FORCE PROPELLING YOU ONWARD lean forward into your adventure AND WALK INTO THE WOODS WITH ME...

Before we begin

Preparing for the Adventure

A Guide to the Terms and Methods in This Book

The Seasonal Soul is like a Choose Your Own Adventure book. (Remember those?)

Each season takes you into your own personal inner landscape, providing insight, tools, and guidance to support you and help you identify where you are within your current Cycle of Growth. The book will gently lead you through each phase and season. It’s like a little road map for your own adventure!

The sweet relief and clarity I have observed when clients work out where they were within their cycle excites me no end! From there they flourished, facing challenges with grace, courage, and commitment while being guided by their soul self to create a life that’s potent and aligned. Once you have oriented yourSelf within your cycle, the anxiety drops. You sink back into yourSelf and enjoy the ride more with this deeper knowledge:

This too shall pass.

You don’t have to traverse these pages from start to finish. Perhaps a particular season is calling to you. If so, start there. Revel in the unraveling, and navigate your way to the other chapters as they call you. This adventure is yours. Own it.

Your journey through this book will explore:

TOOLS FOR THE ALCHEMIST

You will find these tools within each season to support the alchemist that is you. You might not be transmuting metals, but you are transforming this life (your life!) in every moment. These activities are designed to help you navigate your Cycle of Growth according to the season you are in.

THIS IS A BOOK YOU CAN REVISIT FROM ONE SEASON AND CYCLE TO THE NEXT. LET ITS PAGES BE WORN, DOG–EARED, AND TEA STAINED.

LEADING WITH INTUITION

You, sitting right here, are a rad little vibrating particle of light! You are this awesome, bright, unique, complex yet simple bundle of energy. Really!

Don’t be mistaken for that fleshy long-limbed thing called your body and that cog-turning apparatus called your brain. Yes, you’re finitely those things too, but oh my, you’re so much more!

You are a multidimensional, multisensory being. And right now we are experiencing a global awakening. You only have to look around you to notice. We are evolving organically and rapidly, and it is super exciting! It also means that we cannot keep living our lives and conducting ourselves in the same way we’ve always done.

You sense other people, businesses, ideas, products, systems, and structures through energy, and you’re doing this either consciously or unconsciously, taking the information in and absorbing it.

Your soul self then informs you through feeling and sensation. Thought and decision follow as you intuitively decide if the unseen data and information is aligned to you and your unique vibration and purpose.

The goal of this book is to help you lead a life that is not governed by the external value and ideologies of our society but rather by one that will help you reshape society by living an authentic, aligned life.

The best and most powerful tools you possess are a strong awareness and trust in your intuitive self. Developing your intuition is not a novel idea—it is a necessity.

human self & soul self?

THE SOUL SELF

The soul self is powerful light consciousness that is God/source. At all times, it holds the human self with love and utmost respect, kindness, and understanding for who the human self is and its journey and choices. It will never override and influence the human self without the human self’s intentional request or prearranged activated programming. This is where the soul of the human, prior to coming into human form in third-dimensional consciousness, preplans, according to larger soul evolutionary contracts, to spontaneously activate a shift, often through an event to elevate and move the human self into an aligned state of growth.

The soul self is whole and has access to all knowledge about all that is, along with knowledge about many of the varying experiences of all the lives the multidimensional human self has had, which the soul self has had the pleasure of being a part of and experiencing.

The soul self desires to experience contrast and expand through the human experience. The soul self works on a vibratory level where, by incrementally moving through higher and higher vibratory planes, it awakens the human self to its soul self aspect and invites the human self into increasingly grander states of awareness and realignment, which in essence is the return home.

THE HUMAN SELF

The human self is the vehicle that offers the soul an avenue for expression for its Universal Consciousness.

The human self has its own functioning system, and blueprint that includes the ego, chakra, and larger energetic system, and physical, mental, and emotional programming that has primary foundational needs. These basic human needs are culturally variant and influence, drive, and motivate behaviors that are linked to the chakra system and energy bodies of the human self. These energetic aspects of the human self intersect with the soul self and any karmic or soul contracts the individual has created or agreed to, all of which creates opportunity for cataclysmic human self–to–soul self healing and growth. This elevates the vibrational state of the human self and aligns the human aspect to the soul aspect, producing the experience of remembering and re-membering. This is where the human self then begins to live a life of conscious awakening and connection to his/her soul self and God Source.

By accessing your own soul self, you up-level into your own expanded soul awareness and unified connection with Source. What comes with this is a sense of deep ease, relief, and insight along with a surge of life-force energy. There is also a sense of thrill at expanding into and embodying the higher aspect of you.

However, this is a choice. First, the human self must seek the higher insight, direction, wisdom, and guidance of the soul self. And when the human self reaches the expanded awareness of the soul self, again it is upon the individual to either choose to embody and live with the new truth and vibrational platform it now knows or choose to renounce it and continue to live with the discomfort of old patterns.

Because we are all—in essence—light and originate from the same place, we are all connected. So when one individual traverses a human issue or blockage, or makes an elevated consciousness shift, creating deeper alignment between its human self and soul self, the whole of the collective consciousness shifts and experiences a vibrational upgrade. At an even larger level, this consciousness shift also shifts things multidimensionally.

When the human self and soul self increasingly re-member, it dramatically alters perception of Life and deepens one’s connection to the essence of all things— from the connection one has with one’s self to the connection one has with another being, animal, plant,