The 12 rough nights is a time for reflection and manifestation. As legend has it it is a time when we are especially receptive for messages from the spiritual world when you are ready to open your heart. The ideal time to prepare to be on your way for new horizons, dare to make a new start and to discover your calm and balanced self.

Whether you believe in spiritual messages or not is up to you. However, to open your heart is the topic of the third rough night which is energetically assigned to March. March is the month when nature slowly re-awakens from its deep winter sleep; and the seeds you have sown so far with your work over the last rough nights, start to sprout as well. Open your heart for the wonders of nature, the re-start of everything.

By opening your heart, you open up to your inner wisdom, the love for yourself and others, and also the love which is all around you. You are going to be more tolerant and trust yourself more and can allow new experiences. This makes special relationships possible – with yourself and others. Functioning relationships are important resources and serve you as a network which will also support you during difficult times. They are going to strengthen your resilience.

Open your heart meditation

1. Read the following before you start doing it. You can also record it and follow your own voice or ask someone to guide you through.

2. Sit down comfortably but straight. Both feed next to each other flat on the ground, hands resting in your lap or arms next to your body.

3. Concentrate on the natural rhythm of your breath.

4. After that concentrate on your heart. Can you hear it beat in your chest? Maybe, you can even hear it.

5. Breathe a few times into your heart.

6. Imagine your heart as a beautiful bud. Which flower is it? What’s the colour?

7. Now, imagine how golden light streams from above and enters your body at the highest point of your head and spreads all through your body. Breathe the golden light into your heart and feel how your bud opens into a beautiful blossom flooded by light and love.

Open your heart all over again. Train it like you would train a muscle. You don’t go the gym once expecting to be and stay fit for the rest of your life. I know, it’s a pity ;-).

With an open heart we can recognise our heart wishes and values, and become aware who you truly are, and which passion you carry in our heart. Those are wonderful signs to bring meaning to your life, which is an important pillar for a strong resilience.

After your meditation remain still and think about your heart wishes and your passion. Then start creating a wish board, where you draw, write, or add symbols and/or images of what you want.

My Tip:

Keep your fingers off everything that feels heavy and wrong because it is usually not right for you. Grab what feels light, good and right, because it is usually right.

We can also open our heart by simply deciding to do so.

Finally, take one of your 13 wishes written on pieces of paper and folded and burn it while asking the universe to take care of it.

Enjoy this magical time of the year and be well.