Life as a gypsy... dreaming of roots.

This painting is evocative of me/my life, currently: Becoming more aware; nurturing the preciousness of life and self; listening to my intuition; seeing with my inner eye; focusing on my path ahead, while honoring my own voice of wisdom. L.W.
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The Triple Goddess by Bonny Hut

Life is in flux. Again. Changes are afoot. 

Are you sensing change, too? 

Are your deepest (or oldest) feelings surfacing? 

What are you embracing and letting go of?

Are you experiencing meaningful synchronicity? 

Have you noticed swiftly enlightened awareness? 

The profound in the seemingly simple? 

Me, too!

I can feel the soul deep, spiraling energies stirring, changing and moving me, my life and everything around me. I can feel a faint uncertain longing whispering 'Almost... ...almost'. I sense that something BIG is about to happen - that something magickal is about to be acknowledged, understood and joyfully lived! Something peaceful, something better; something long awaited. Something akin to bliss.

O! But, the unknown...

 

The unknown is simply that: unknown! Nothing to fear... yet,

It can feel scary when it dances you.

It feels unsettling when it awakens you. 

It may even stir the cauldron of your intuitive being 

in such a way that you surprise yourself.

Can you feel the rhythm?

Can you hear the beat?

 I can!

I am reminded:

Be true to yourself. You are strong. Hydrate, Nurture. Grow! Shine Your Soul Light. Forgive. Have Compassion. Trust.

Pay Attention. Believe. Listen. Speak with your authentic voice. Be daring. Follow the path with heart. Fly.

Though you and I know these truths, yes, and more besides, still we falter, doubt, and wonder... Confidentially,  I am not at all certain of anything in my life at the moment (including where I will be living after the 20th), yet, I do know that it is all going to be as magickal and helpful as I can imagine, and as beautiful and meaningful as I can manifest. I am choosing to live with courage, focused intention, and belief in myself! 

I am leaving what I know behind. I am following the path with heart. I am trusting my inner knowing. I am being divinely guided. I am believing in the beauty of my dreams.

I am setting off on my own.

I am walking away from what was, and is now past. I am reevaluating my life choices and core beliefs. I am facing life on my own terms. I am designing my daily life rituals. It has been a while since I have had my own private, quiet space ...a very long while. Living alone is my gift to myself. I welcome it as a time to focus and work without distraction; space to create, grow, write, garden and practice yoga. Room to meditate and reconnect with the sacred and with what matters most to me. I will be deciding how I truly want to live - Choosing: what strengthens and inspires, what nurtures and heals, what delights, what is meaningful and healthy, what is true to who I am and who I am becoming. This is what I am clearing space for - this is what I am starting this wild adventure in search of. This is where I step into the center of my being and allow what I find there to transform me into my new expression of SHE. I can feel the divine feminine passionately stretching within my body, mind and spirit. She longs for the freedom to speak, to act, and to be honored in new ways. Ways that respect and mirror Her authentic essence; Gaia, and the wild ways of woman. She is the phoenix that I shall become. She is the flames that will burn away the unnecessary and release the vital, enduring, soulful within my self. I seek roots, but She gives me wings!

Phoenix by Karen Salmansohn

The ways of woman and the ways of the Goddess are one, and the same. We flow and twist and turn and gracefully appear still when we move. We trust and allow and embrace as we think and feel. We echo ancient voices, speak truth, and communicate with clarity and wisdom. We are gentle and strong and passionate when we touch. We gather what is needed, what is helpful, what is healing and honest. We lovingly hold ourselves and others. We destroy and begin again with energies that have become tangled, chaotic, and are no longer useful for our holy purposes. We rest and allow ourselves to be rejuvenated by the elements of each season, by the phases of the moon. Within our womb space, we manifest and create all that we hold sacred, all that we desire to birth into being. This is our magick. This is our mystic unfolding. This is our time to blossom profusely. This is our time to remember and reclaim our self.

Though I will be offline during this holy process, I will return at the end of summer with magickal stories, hidden treasure, and wisdom found along the way. Indian summer will stretch her long arms and protect and preserve all that is precious, the rest will be set aflame. While I shake off the ashes I will witness Autumn claim and add them to her collection of dead, stolen leaves, damp soil and other things forgotten. In time, she will strip the roots bare and bury her dreams where heaven and earth meet. The sun will shine... and the last of the years wishes will remain briefly until wind or breath carries them away into the vast unknown. Darling, what do you wish for?

I am making wishes that I find my home 

before summer fades away.

 It won't be long before Autumn will make her nest in the earth...

Currently she is busy daydreaming, envisioning a quiet winter's rest. 

In the coming weeks:

 Consider how you might reevaluate your life, your thoughts, you dreams. Choose only that which feels true, nurturing, and wise. Honor who you are and who you are becoming as you walk your own path of beauty with ever deepening integrity and purpose. Take steps to realign yourself with your highest calling. This is not the time to let your dreams slip away unrealized.

Knowing ourselves and acting bravely is key to living a fulfilled, soulful, enlightened life. May we all be blessed as we embrace change. 

Lovingly,

Dreams of Death and Wholeness

Soul Collage card by Glenda Cedarleaf
"It was inspired by a dream I had several years ago (during an especially difficult time in my life)
in which my crone came to bring me back to life."

What message does this image speak to you?

To me it speaks in the voice of the crone... it hints at death and the unknown... 
Though it could illicit fear, I feel the beauty... 
the poetic blossoming of wisdom deeper than words and explanation. Can you?

The word crone means 'crown', and contrary to modern, negative connotations (such as hag, old, ugly, etc.) it symbolizes a wise woman. A crone is wise in the ways of 'ebb and flow': the cycles of life, death and rebirth.

Yes, mystery enshrouds these cycles and they are imbued with aspects of magick, but the crone, or wise woman steps behind the veils of mystery and enters into the realm of magick where she becomes empowered in ways she never before imagined... True, she had to let go of some precious people, places and things before she could embark upon her destined journey, but she does so, even if not so willingly or lacking great courage...

Perhaps, we all, to some extent, fear death... 

Yet, when we embrace the hidden, we pass through the veil of fear and discover meaningful truths, blessings, grace, and treasured gifts waiting for us in the realm of the unknown.

The Dark Mother, the Wise Crone is the Goddess in her hidden fullness. She is adorned in the mysterious shades of new moon energies, blood, roots and bones, but She is also the keeper of the sacred keys which with unspoken voice, promises to open doors to light, growth and rebirth, if we will but follow Her within.

For eons the Goddess was worshiped for both Her life-giving and death imposing forces, as the ancients knew these aspects of Her being could not exist one without the other. Yet, somehow, through the ages, we have divided Her and split Her in two - life or death, good or bad, and it is this illusion of separation, of duality which allows fear to enter our consciousness. Like birth, there is no reason, in and of itself, to fear death. Both are a holy rite of passage, both are part of the whole.

In order to empower ourselves as women, we must experience the mysterious power of our divine feminine wholeness. Next month, on the spring equinox, She Who Is and I will be offering an online new moon ritual embracing the dark aspects of the feminine for wholeness. 

Watch our facebook pages - The Gypsy Priestess and She Who Is, as well as our website in early March for details.