Discipline as devotion

The Capricorn New Moon arrives on Monday 19 January, inviting us to look at the life we’re building with our daily choices. 

We want to stop, to pause and to remember that the body we want to inhabit, the life we want to live, the version of ourselves we’re working toward will never happen without follow-through.

In Tantric work, we talk a lot about surrender, flow, feeling your way through life, but there's another side to embodiment that doesn't get talked about as much and that is structure.

Your body needs consistency and practices you return to again and again. True transformation 

happens through devoted practice that unfolds over time. 

In classical Tantric understanding, discipline is tapas, the devotional fire that refines the body-mind over time, and abhyasa, the steady, repeated practice that reshapes our inner architecture. 

This is Capricornian energy: the sacred masculine that builds slowly, protects the nervous system and holds the long arc.

It is the container of Shiva to Shakti’s movement. 

Think about the idea of discipline as devotion in action: loving yourself enough to keep promises to yourself. It is leaning into masculine energy, the kind that builds, protects, moves.

Tantric work has taught me that the nervous system needs predictability to relax, that when you have consistent practices, like breathwork every morning, a weekly session booked in, your body can open itself up to pleasure. 

Without structure, even the most potent erotic, creative or spiritual energy dissipates: desire becomes compulsive or avoidant and our practices come and go.

So the Capricorn New Moon asks:

• What daily practices would help me embody the person I'm becoming?

• If I interchanged the word discipline with devotion, what would my practice look like then?

Structure creates freedom because when the container is solid, we can surrender inside it. 

When we know the boundaries are clear, we can explore within them.

With love,  

Pauline

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