The Season of Becoming
Inviting the fullness of who we are and what we envision into bloom
🌬️ Grounding Invocation
Before we begin, pause.
Feel the soil beneath you—not just under your feet, but within your body.
The ancient soil of your ancestors. The fertile ground of every dream, every prayer, every sacrifice that carried you to this breath.
Place your hand over your heart.
Whisper to yourself:
"I am not just growing.
I am becoming.
I am not waiting for permission.
I am blooming in real time.
I am the answered prayer and the unfolding future."
Breathe that truth into your bones.
Let it spiral through the timelines you carry.
You are not an accident.
You are a continuation.
You are a beginning.
Let’s begin.
The Season of Becoming
We have journeyed through emergence—through the cracking open, the tender stretch, the sacred thresholds of not-yet.
Now we stand in the season of becoming.
Not rushing.
Not forcing.
But inviting.
Inviting the fullness of who we are—and the sacred visions we carry—to root deeper, rise taller, and bloom wilder than the world ever prepared for.
Becoming isn’t about leaving parts of ourselves behind.
It’s about gathering.
It’s about (re)membering — putting back together the pieces that colonization, capitalism, and supremacy tried to tear apart.
It’s about bringing every scar, every lesson, every longing into the garden of now—and watching it blossom into more than survival: into soul-led, spirit-fed, community-rooted living.
This season asks:
Can you bless the versions of yourself that carried you here?
Can you allow your dreams to grow teeth, petals, and wings?
Can you let go of colonial timelines and let divine timing carve the sacred way forward?
Becoming is messy and magnificent.
It’s grief and grace braided together.
It’s letting yourself be undone by your own unfolding—and still choosing to rise.
You are not late.
You are not too much.
You are not unfinished.
You are in season.
Nature Teaches Us: Becoming is a Sacred Birth
The earth doesn’t demand perfection from her blooms.
The earth does not rush her blooming.
She doesn’t shame the seedling that takes a little longer.
She does not scold the tree whose blossoms come slower than the rest.
She doesn’t rush the river or chastise the tree for stretching slowly toward the sun.
She invites.
She holds.
She honors every timeline as holy.
She celebrates each unfurling leaf, each tiny root breaking through darkness into light.
Nature teaches us that becoming is not a task—it’s a tide.
It moves through us. It carries us home.
It doesn’t ask for performance. It asks for participation.
Presence.
When we align with nature’s rhythm, we remember:
🌕 Becoming doesn’t happen all at once.
🌖 There is a season for rooting.
🌗 A season for resting.
🌘 A season for rising.
🌑 And yes—a sacred season for blooming.
(And yes—the moons are intentional, beloved.)
You are not "behind."
You are simply blooming at the speed of your becoming.
You are moving at the pace of your own divine timing.
This Season Asks for Your Yes
This moment invites you to say yes—not a timid yes, not a half-hearted one—but a soul-deep, earth-rooted, sky-reaching, gut-trusting, ENTHUSIASTIC YES to your life.
A yes to your fullness.
A yes to your voice.
A yes to your sacred messy magic.
A yes to your ancestors’ prayers breathing through your body.
Because becoming isn’t something you earn.
It’s something you allow.
It’s something you trust.
It’s something you offer back to the ones who dreamed you into being.
Reflection Prompts for the Season of Becoming
What part of myself am I being asked to invite into the bloom, instead of hiding away?
Where can I move from striving into surrendering?
What dream is asking for deeper roots before it rises?
How can I honor the pace of my own becoming without shame?
Affirmations for Blooming in Truth
I trust the timing of my becoming.
I welcome all parts of me to the bloom.
I am already the garden and the gardener.
I am allowed to grow slow, wide, deep, and wildly free.
Closing Reflection: You Are Already Becoming
Beloved—
You do not have to hustle for your becoming.
You do not have to force your unfolding.
You are the sacred convergence of every season you have survived.
You are the living, breathing testament that emergence is not just possible—it is inevitable. It is your birthright.
So today, breathe deeper.
Plant your feet like roots in fertile, ancestral soil.
Feel the pulse of your own unstoppable life-force moving through you.
You are not just growing.
You are not just healing.
You are becoming.
You are not waiting for the future.
You are the future—unfolding, unfurling, unstoppable.
And we—your community, your ancestors, your descendants—we are watching and whispering:
"Bloom, beloved.
Bloom in truth.
Bloom in rhythm.
Bloom without apology."
Welcome home to your season of becoming.
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Thank you for being part of this sacred emergence.
You are needed. You are witnessed. You are already becoming.
In sacred emergence and unstoppable love,
Desireé B. Stephens, CPS-P
Educator | Counselor | Community Builder
Founder, Make Shi(f)t Happen
New Agreements, New Systems, Deeper Connections
Writer of Liberation Education
Where Reflection Meets Transformation
Our writings are very similar. That’s why I subscribed. Idk about you but sometimes I feel like I’m not reaching people. Like…am I the only one that feels the shifting energy. Keep it up sis! Ase
I wrote this where I'll see it: "I am blooming in real time. I'm the answered prayer and the unfolding future." I can feel the truth of it. Thank you for this.