You might have been following this substack for a little while, before it pivoted from writing about fashion, to a more authentic version of itself!
If you’ve been here that long, you might recall a series of content I used to post under the bracket of “the jig is up”. This was content related to the underbelly of fashion brands being revealed.
Now I just need you to understand that I have 4 placements in Aquarius including my sun and rising signs, i’ll translate this for the muggles but it’s essentially impossible for me to not be authentic. My bullshit radar is through the roof, I can sniff it out the second it walks into the room.
So the longer I sat with this concept of “the jig is up” the more I noticed and heard that this is becoming a universal truth for everyone.
Frequency is the new currency.
No matter what you’re doing in life, even if you’re doing “good” work. If the intention behind what you’re doing is not correct and aligned, it will at some point stop working for you whether that’s 5 months or 5 years down the line. Perhaps you’re a doctor, you run a charity, you’re a wellness coach, you believe you’re having a positive impact in the world, and perhaps to some extent this is true, but if you’re not coming to your work from a place of alignment it just won’t last.
Let me give you a more practical example. Perhaps you’re a nutritionist, and your whole business is designed around intuitive eating, teaching people to listen to their bodies cues instead of sticking to specific diets. You might even be really successful and helping others, but at the same time you are numbing your own bodies cues by taking Ozempic.
It’s not about having to be perfect before putting our work out in the world, it’s about being in integrity. Do our words align with our actions?
In an increasingly online world, it’s easier and easier to portray the illusion of being a person with wisdom who is worth following. Maybe you’re in the wellness space and you preach about meditation, yet you never spend any time cultivating a deep practice.
It's easy to fake mastery at the moment, but we are moving into a time where what we are doing in the physical world matters less and less. Our frequency, our energy, the pulse of what we put out into the world is going to become the true currency.
If you are familiar with any kind of manifestation work (the North Star being TBM!) you already know that you can make things happen without doing too much external work as the heavy lifting is done internally.
So maybe you’re reading this and thinking, ok shit how do I know if I’m in alignment?
Are your words matching your action?
Are you the same person you are projecting out into the world as you are when you are when nobody is watching? Are you telling people you are somebody who you are actually not?
Is the energy with which you’re showing up with, coming from a place of being healed?
Both can be tricky to spot. The first one requires a healthy dose of self awareness (one study found that only 10-15% of people are sufficiently self aware, whilst the % of people who believe they are self aware is actually much higher) and willingness to confront the most uncomfortable truths of ourselves. This requires the blinkers to come off, and they may have been on for a really long time.
I think the second one is even tougher to examine. Maybe you’ve started working for a charity or become a doctor, or whatever your version of doing “good” is, just so you could prove to your parents that you are deserving of love and a good person. Perhaps your ambition is to work in politics and make a real change, but you are constantly triggered by people with opposing views, or lack the self confidence to withstand criticism. You can see how any of these scenarios in the long run won’t last.
Showing up for yourself can be really challenging but the reward of doing what is truly meant for you is priceless. Living in alignment doesn’t just mean you are more likely to succeed, but it takes you to a place of experiencing more peace and more love, which at the end of the day is all that really matters.
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