A Decade On the Blog

Dear Reader,

Here we are; my blog, “Intuitive Cartography”, ten years later. Honestly, I am having a hard time taking in the fact that I have been writing about intuition and the inner life for the past ten years. Blogging has changed multiple times since I began, and even though it is certainly not dead, as some would insist, the nature of online communication looks very different from the way it did on March 4th, 2009.

Do you remember where you were and what you were doing ten years ago, dear reader? What was going on in your life back then? Were you happy? Doing what you wanted?

And how are you different now?

These are only some of the questions that have been going through my mind as this anniversary has drawn near. Ten years ago, I was in a period of profound change. The year before, in 2008, I left New York City after living there for 24 years. My mother died. I got married.

In 2009, along with starting this blog, I started my intuitive coaching practice. A beloved aunt died. And I moved to Scotland (Shetland, to be specific) to live with my new bride and my step-daughter. Despite the losses and relocations, I was filled with hope for the future, and happy to be with my new family.

The ten years that have passed since then haven’t always been easy. Sometimes the challenges have felt pretty large. I have had my share of failures along the way, perhaps more failures than successes.

But I am so grateful for it all, grateful that I am with my soulmate, the love of my life, and grateful that I still have the opportunity to make a difference in this beautiful, amazing world of ours.

I am still filled with hope.

I am filled with hope for better lives for all of us, for a world filled with more compassion, more love, and less fear. For me, that hope never goes away. It renews, and renews, and renews. Even when I feel despair, hope returns.

I wish I could say that the writing has always been easy, but it has not. Some years it has flowed, but other years have been a struggle, including last year. But for the most part, despite a few breaks, I have just kept writing.

I write because I believe the things I write about – intuition, creativity, love, spirit, the soul – are beyond important. These things are crucial for us to explore, reclaim and celebrate as this wild evolutionary ride of ours continues.

So I ask again, who are you now, dear reader, and how have you changed in ten years?

Here’s another good question for you: who will you be ten years from now?

Who do you want to be ten years from now? What wisdom will you hold? How will you be different?

I will be exploring those questions, and I hope you do too.

In the meantime, I will keep writing. I invite you to keep reading, leave comments, ask questions, and if you haven’t already, sign up for my newsletter – the sign-up form is over in the sidebar on the right of this page.

This journey is much more powerful – and fun – when it is shared.

I honor your loving heart,

John