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The Intuition Seeker
- Ashtyn Larsen
- Nov 25
- 3 min read
When intuition becomes the itinerary
Sometimes, we just get a vibe.
It can be good or bad. We meet someone and immediately feel uneasy, though they've said nothing wrong. We decline an invitation without knowing why. We change our route home for no valid reason. When the logical side of our brain presses to explain, we shrug: "I just have a feeling."
That feeling, that quiet knowing, is intuition.
In our overstimulated world, that inner voice can become nothing more than a whisper. We're drowning in notifications, obligations, and ever-expanding expectations. We fill every silence with podcasts, every pause with scrolling. It's like being in a group chat with yourself, and your intuition is the one person who's been muted. That leaves us feeling lost, unsure of our next move, and out of touch with what we truly want or what will bring us the happiness we're seeking.
Intuition needs better PR.
Intuition has been marketed as more of a woo-woo sentiment than the skill it is. It's your subconscious mind processing thousands of data points faster than your conscious mind can keep up. It's pattern recognition, embodied wisdom, and survival instinct, refined over millennia. Intuition is a skill, and just like any skill, it needs constant practice.
But here's the problem: stillness has become uncomfortable, even suspicious.
In Stillness is the Key, Ryan Holiday writes: "Breakthroughs seem to happen with stunning regularity in the shower or on a long hike. Where don't they happen? Shouting to be heard in a bar. Three hours into a television binge. Nobody realizes just how much they love someone while they're booking back-to-back-to-back meetings. If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot."
In an environment where our own attention is the hottest commodity, how do we protect it?
Travel requires presence
When you're far from home, there are no routines to follow on autopilot, no roles to perform, no expectations from people who think they know who you are. You are simply present.
In unfamiliar places, your senses heighten. You notice everything, the quality of light, the energy of a street. You can't overthink your way through a place you don't know. You have to feel your way through it.
Every day becomes a series of intuitive choices: Which café calls to you? Who do you strike up a conversation with? Do you follow the guidebook or wander down that unmarked alley? These small decisions become a daily dialogue with your inner knowing.
If you're seeking intuition, you need spaces that make stillness feel natural, even irresistible. These are the places where your nervous system can finally downshift, where external stimulation decreases and internal awareness amplifies.
Stillness isn't about doing nothing; it's about creating conditions where your intuition can finally be louder than the world. And some places are designed, whether by nature or by culture, to offer precisely that.
destinations that cultivate stillness
Here are some ideas of where to go:
A Silent Retreat — Vipassana meditation centers offer 10-day silent immersions where you hand over your phone, avoid eye contact, and sit with nothing but your thoughts. It's uncomfortable, confronting, and often transformative.
A Cabin in the Woods — Rent a remote cabin where your phone goes in a box and your only companions are books, journals, and the forest. No agenda, no itinerary, no performance. Just you, your thoughts, and whatever wants to emerge.
Sacred Natural Landscapes — Sedona's red rocks, Iceland's geothermal pools, the deserts of Morocco, your favorite national park. These are environments that make you feel small in the best way.
Astrocartography Insight
There are places in the world that our soul feels drawn to, without any reasoning. They feel magnetic and mysterious, like a story is waiting to be written there. And it is. In astrocartography, we can identify these places by examining your unique birth chart.
Your intuition hasn't disappeared; it's just been buried
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