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Women’s Moon Circles — Divine Feminine Wisdom

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Join us in the Moon Circles

Together we can step into Divine Feminine Wisdom in deeper ways than we can do alone

Know this: together we can make needed and badass healing magic, better than we could ever do alone.

All of these things that we fought for and made space for and celebrated over the last decades — who knows what’s going to happen now?

  • Women’s rights
  • Gender freedoms
  • Civil rights
  • Women’s agency and sovereignty over their own bodies.
  • Health care

[Ack! This post is taking a long time to write because I am throwing my hands up and making disgusted noises as I type each of these things in that list above. Okay, calming back down.]
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Weaving together the strands of my heart’s work

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Are you afraid that your deepest, lushest, most heart-centered you is too big for your audience?

I’m a lifelong spiritual student and practitioner. In the last twelve years, since I’ve been working with women as a coach and supporting them in their branding, my commitment to spirituality has deepened in many ways.

Yet, for many of those years, I found myself keeping some of my more arcane sacred practices veiled from my business interactions and offerings. Looking back now, it makes sense… I came from years of corporate graphic design work, and there were few to zero models for authenticity and transparency among my colleagues and clients.

In the last year or so, as I work more and more with my own heart-centered business coach, and study with teachers who live and work with transparency, I have come to realize that it’s time for me to step out from behind the veils. I know that I can best serve my own clients by parting the veils and sharing myself 100% as I am.

“A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.”
— Dalai Lama

What held me back from an open expression of my spiritual path

Although I am not looking to enroll anyone in any of my spiritual paths or practices, I carried around a fear that some revelations might be too big, too woo-woo for people to take.

I was operating under a belief (that I no longer think is valid) that my business offering and my spiritual path should be separate. No overlap. With walls and moats between, please. This was because I simply didn’t know — hadn’t seen, hadn’t imagined — that there could be a way to bring my open-hearted most loving spirituality into my business in an integrated way.

I thought that my coaching and design clients would resist and misunderstand suggestions to deepen and broaden their connection to spirit. Ummm…. not true!

“Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.”
— Mother Teresa (1910–1997); Founder of the Missionaries of Charity

Transparency

I have always talked about having a big toolbox full of practices. Now I’m upending my own toolbox and sharing with you the spiritual awesome that makes up what I deliver from my heart in my work.

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Learning to see, hear and allow the blessings

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crystalballAllow the blessings — I’m still working on it, still trying to figure them out!

I really wanted to bring a clear message today. And I don’t have one. My heart and mind are in a bit of a turmoil (like that swirly foggy crystal ball over there). There’s a distinct lack of clarity in the house.

I spent a day, nearly two, in the hospital this week. I got a transfusion which I really needed, but then left against advice because I was getting not-so-good care, and the only doctor available wouldn’t look me in the eye, told me I couldn’t possibly have had the experience I had, and made jokes instead of answering my questions. Plus I was hungry. No food after midnight for a test that was promised to happen by noon. Instead of feeling calm and clear, I feel a bit guilty and more than a bit stressed.

I know there is a lesson in this for me, one that will likely benefit you as well, but I don’t have it to share yet… I will share it with you, beautiful, just as soon as I know it!

 

New Moon in Aquarius

Thursday 1/30/14
10º55′ Aquarius
1:58 pm Pacific
4:58 pm Eastern

Lunar New Year of the  Wood Horse

Friday 1/31/14

Imbolc

Sunday 2/2/14

The Dark Moon is the time to reach into your own heart, your own sacred feminine depths, and state your intentions.

What are you beginning?

When the Moon is New, the Moon and the Sun are aligned in the same sign. A New Moon is always a time when something hidden begins to poke through to our awareness, allowing new growth to be nurtured.

This month, the alignment is in Aquarius, the fixed Air sign.

An Air New Moon is an invitation to communicate and inspire.  >>>This time around, best to focus your energy on ideas like these now because our friend Mercury is going retrograde on 2/7.<<<

  • Is there anything in your messaging to your tribe of prospects and clients that needs to be revised or retold?
  • This is a great time to launch something new, start a new campaign to grow your list, or begin a new joint venture.
  • Set aside time for your strategy and implementation sessions with your team. Move forward with your creative and inspirational workings.
  • How’s your technology? This is also a good time to upgrade your hardware and software.
  • Complete your negotiations, sign contracts.

Lunar New Year

The Chinese astrologers say that the Horse symbolizes speedy success.

The Horse loves to compete. In five-element theory the Horse is also connected to Fire, which helps Wood to burn, making your flame endure.

Imbolc

Here in the North, the ground is beginning to soften, and the milk is beginning to flow

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How to stay connected to love and service, even when s**t gets real

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It is so much easier, I am here to tell you, to be loving, to be of service to your tribe and your clients and your business, to show up for all the rich and juicy parts of your life and work, when you’re feeling okay. When your response to “How are you?” is Good. Okay. Tolerable. Even fair-to-middling.

Part of the service I lovingly give to my readers and my clients is to talk honestly about exquisite self-care as women in the third third of life. Menopause and beyond is quite an adventure, isn’t it? And those of us who are Shero women entrepreneurs in our 50s and later, well, we love being radiant shiny examples of good health and vitality, don’t we? We get to set the example, and carry the torch, for the impact and importance of women’s work in our later years. For me, though, I was smacked in the face with some realizations when I got bad sick last week. The biggest one: I am attached to being fit and haven’t yet begun to come to terms with what aging really means.

Think about it.

If my life runs its course, if I don’t die in a car wreck or a plane crash or something like that, I will live for a bunch more years (maybe 25, maybe 30), and I will get to deal with my body as it becomes more frail. As bits and pieces and organs and systems and tissues and who knows what get affected by ailment or infection, I will continue to find (I get it now!), as I found this week, that I don’t bounce back as fast as I did when I was younger, and the impact of sickness goes deeper and wider than ever before. I was lucky enough to begin reading Aging as a Spiritual Practice by Lewis Richmond right before I got sick. This book is a powerful ally for those of us who have begun the journey. I know, I know! The Journey with a capital J, of course, begins at birth and ends and death. What I’m talking about here is another journey, one that has the same destination, but can be said to begin the day we begin to see that our imagined invulnerability and immortality is just that, imagined. The day we begin to accept our own humanness like we never have before. The day s**t gets real, yo.

So now that I’ve gotten well enough to write down some of the insights gained during this week of fevers, and pain, and ER visits, I have a few gifts for you. File them away for when you need them, darling. For unless you die young in a car wreck or a plane crash or…, I promise you s**t will be getting real for you too. May the realization be long coming. May this be a very gentle unfolding, dear one.

Try a version of the Lovingkindness Prayer that includes aging

Are you familiar with Lovingkindess work? It’s a really handy and powerful tool. You can find many versions of it all over the internet. It helps restore balance and sanity and ease to relationships that are being stressed by one thing or another.

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Gratitude challenge week 17

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(this time the quote’s from me! teehee…)

“Expressing gratitude causes a fundamental change for the better in my thoughts and words and actions. And because I know from experience that today’s gratitude won’t help me tomorrow, I have embraced a nearly daily practice of writing my gratitudes and sharing them with others.”  — Sue Kearney, personal/business coach and graphic designer

Hello, my gratitude peeps! Keeping it simple on this gorgeous Saturday. I want to be outside!! I am grateful that I live in California where I get to have gorgeous sunshine so much of the year. I am grateful—privileged—that I am a priestess in such a sweet juicy and powerful tribe of women.

Last night’s Oshun ritual was, I think, the most powerful ritual I have ever experienced. I got to drum and play with three amazing guest priestess drummers. Wow! Powerful.

I am grateful that the ritual, the dancing, the singing, the devotion, were so amazing. It’s rare—for me—to be so fully in my heart and body (and not in my critical monkey mind) for nearly the entire time at ritual. Wowowowow!

I am grateful for the dancing and enactments of Kris Freewoman. If you can do a workshop with her, give yourself that gift. Or buy one of her amazing offerings. You will be glad you did!

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Blessings of the equinox to you! And a little rage…

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The equinox at StonehengeIt’s the day of equal dark and light…

…the tipping point as the sunlight increases towards summer (here in the northern hemisphere). Today there is 12 hours and 11 minutes of daylight. Here in California the sunrise was at 7:11 a.m. and the sunset is at 7:22 p.m. Balance.

A powerful day to set powerful intentions.

An equinox prayer

American Goddess by Paul StahlMay this day herald balance for all. May it bring in spacious and abundant love, peace and harmony. In our families, in our communities, in our world. May there be sacred work taken on, and much merriment and dancing! And may every woman be honored and respected and empowered to take her own path and make her own decisions. Today and every day. And may every woman stand for her sisters’ rights—out loud.

Yes, a little of my rage at the erosion of women’s rights in this country seeped into that prayer. Good! Women’s rage makes for powerful magic. Every day brings more appalling news about states encroaching so far into women’s decisions that they now legislate vaginal probes before a woman can decide to terminate a pregnancy. Unwanted penetration? Isn’t that rape, yo?

Love Letter magic

Tonight’s the night I will take all the Love Letters that have been mailed to me and put them in a sacred box on an altar in my house, blessed and charged to grow in power and intention over the rest of this year. These letters were written by the women who took the Love Letter class with me. Each is addressed to the writer, written by the goddess, god—whatever entity embodies spirit for the individual. The letter is dated December 31, 2012, and lovingly congratulates the writer for all the powerful audacious juicy manifestations that have come to be in 2012.

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