Merry Christmas everyone! Thank you so much for your support, love, and cheerleading in the last year. I hope every single one of you feels blessed this Christmas :) Let's all take a moment to feel the energy of the season, and feel the joy of the world, as we all celebrate our family, our friends, and our faith, whatever that may be!
Here is some Christmas inspiration to remind you of the sweet moments that this season has to offer!
He came to in a dream.
How many times has he come? I don't know, often.
This time, in a different body. He likes to do that.
His familiar energy makes my whole being light up, and it lasts long after I awaken. I feel playful, intrigued, already fully in love with whoever this is. I know him. No. I know it. This is a soul, not a human, and it's that realization that makes this all the more exciting.
We intrigue each other. Sometimes he's my brother. Sometimes my lover. Sometimes he's even Justin Bieber. Hahaha. Yes. I did just say that. Perhaps he uses the little Bieb's body to tell me about music, or wild success, or maybe he just knows that I love boyhood, and always will. That rebellious, silly, wild and free energy, that so many men seem to lose as they move onwards in life. But not him. His boyhood is fully present and untamed, and that makes me really really happy.
When will he come? Out of the dreamworld, and into my life in the physical?
I don't know.
Perhaps next month, or next year. Maybe not even then. Maybe it will take longer.
Because I feel him. No... I feel it. He's just an energy. As are all of us.
The support, the encouragement, the love, the fun, the play. The laughter, the promise, the openness, and the cosmos. I can feel it like a guardian angel surrounding me. And it's beautiful.
He told me near the end of the dream, 'You feel this? This love, this excitement? All of this is within you. You don't need me for it. You can experience it anytime you want.'
And so I will. I will take it with me today, and everyday. Not because I'm desperately waiting on some promise from the future, but because I'm opening up to the true, valid, very accurate fact, that everything I desire to feel, is already within me now.
Happy cosmic dreaming lovers,
Pay attention to the whispers, pay attention to the dreams,
Art: wyldraven
Go to the beach, the park, or some other still, beautiful place. Dance playfully around and look at the moon directly with your heart. Tell her all you hope to achieve and feel over the next moon cycle. Let her help you with it. Dance your way back home.
2. Have a bath in the pitch black. Make it real hot. Sweat. Purge. Release. Then stay there until it gets cold. Meld into the beauty and darkness of your deep, luxurious soul. Think about anything any everything that makes you feel amazing. Meditate. Sing. Cry. Swoosh. Be. Let yourself be honest and real. Go insane. Give the water everything when you're done. Release.
Art: wyldraven
3. Pet a kitty. Be gentle with her. Respect her space. Let her guide you as your hand brushes over her soft, gentle fur, and wait for the cues that tell you she's ready. Go further. Deeper. Let her roll over and pet her open tummy. Lightly, playfully, gently. Give her a kiss on the head, and walk away.
4. Pick or buy flowers and put them on your altar. Choose the colour of the flower that relates to the chakra or energy you'd like to embody more of. For instance, orange is the colour of the sacral chakra, also known as our Goddess centre. Red is of the root, a primal, sexy centre, associated with home and wealth. You get the idea. Now bathe in their beauty, and know you just did something really great for yourself.
5. Go be with a tree. Just be with her. Sit under her languid, mysterious branches for quite some time. Get lost in your connection. It's OK if you only have 5 minutes. Sometimes, that can feel like forever.
May the Divine Feminine breathe within you, and upon you,
Art: wyldraven
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Heartbreak.
Um, wow.
Has there been anything else so volatile, so chaotic, so disruptively whole within your being? Alive.. intense.. dead. We can experience it all through heartbreak.
Rarely do we associate our past life memories, what our ancestry has gone through, our relationship to environmental degradation, or even a childhood variable with the root source of our internal pain. We tend to place it on something very external outside of us. When really, that external thing may have just been a trigger for detoxing deeper pain.
... Let's keep going.
Recently, I've consciously tapped into a part of my being that can only be described as intense loneliness.
Looking back though, I can see that in ways I've had this feeling for my whole life.
Not all of me, no ... a part of me is this bright sunny disposition that is just natural and flowing. Bubbly. It feels fun.
But then, there's this other part of me that feels a hole, an emptiness that aches for something outside of itself that will never come.
And beautifully enough, through the path of the priestess, I've come to foggily realize what this is. The memories are coming back.
Recently, I've recalled a past life trauma...
... Foggily detailed,
... Yet oddly accessible.
I kept seeing, for years in my minds eye, this little Irish, beautiful fishing settlement and Village, maybe what would be considered 2 or even 3 thousand years ago. And I just know it got burnt. Ravaged. All of it. And my family died. And the attack was blunt, and traumatic, and I was left without a family, and without a home, and without a village, all at once. I've seen this for years and years, but lately these obscure details and feelings from it have come into light.
Understandably, like everyone else whose grown up in this culture, every once in a while I have those 'Am I totally just making this up?' kind of moments. But more often than not, I just feel this knowingness inside of me, that yes, this is to be trusted. It is truth.
These visuals and the memory of this feeling (loneliness, gnawing) are the same I experienced after I first watched Tristan & Isolde when I was 14 or 15, (Starring babe of the century James Franco, might I add ;D ) when I watched an ancient Irish settlement being burned, and a boys whole family be killed. I walked out of the theatre absolutely numb to the tragedy I had just experienced in my soul, but completely besotted with it at the same time. It was intense. It took days to get over it, and yet, at the time, I thought it was just a really sad movie that I was oddly affected by. But now I know it actually mirrored a long buried past.
All of this inside of me, I found, as I explored this feeling, and the idea of heartbreak.
And since then, I've realized, I shouldn't beat this feeling up. This loneliness. This ache. Or ignore it for that matter. Whereas before I might say 'Why am I sad, I should stop being sad?'', I can now know that...
It has a cause.
A very real one.
And to be treated with the utmost of respect.
So. Give yourself permission to love your shadows, because they are worthy of your love... And so are you.
Lots of love and Happy Solstice everyone,
Don't be afraid to feel it, whatever it is,
Oh my Goddess. It has finally come!
Photo: Lauren Treece
It's amazing that so many years can go by, without ever having consciously realized the significance of this day, of this time.
Our Pagan brothers and sisters have been celebrating and marking this time for thousands of years. Unfortunately Christianity was intimidated by the thought that anything other than Jesus and their priesthood could have power and influence over people, so they sanctioned a holiday just 4 days after this sacred time to distract and overpower.
Now I do love Christmas, and I regularly call on Jesus, as he was a great master, but let's just say it like it is, Christmas was not originally a time to celebrate Christ's birth. (In fact, many Santa Claus and Christmas stories originate to a tale of a Shaman and a magical mushroom, no joke)
Its date was chosen to compete with the Pagan, Goddess, or Earth Loving celebrations. In many places, such type of gatherings were banned or outlawed, as it was considered sin to mark the times of the seasons, connect with the Otherworld, and go into the depths of the human soul. What we do not understand, we fear, and in those times of oppression, the differences seemed greater than the similarities.
Thank Goodness that it is here. The time has finally come.
To celebrate in the open again. We've been born into such an open, loving generation. Although we often hear of reports of the contrary (understandably, these are chaotic times) - it's actually amazing to sit back sometimes and revel in the freedom that we all have.
The church has lost it's grip, we are awakening to the fact that we do not need to go to a priest to be atoned for our 'sins', we do not need to follow an empire that is based on the singular celebration of the masculine, and we do not need to learn the teachings of Jesus through controversial manuscripts written by the hands of men. We can find all this, and more, in our hearts.
Art: Anne Stokes
We can celebrate the Goddess, we can celebrate the seasons, we can celebrate our connections, and hopefully, we can look back at the last few thousand years with compassion and forgiveness, though I know there is an anger and a violation within many of us that first needs to be honoured before we can heal.
So now, in my awakeness, in my growth, and in my childish wonder, I can honour that the darkest day of the year is upon us, and it is time to give the last of our pains, our troubles, our impatience, and our fears from 2013 to the dying embers of the flame. For tonight, all will be in darkness.
Tonight I'm joining a group of beautiful souls at a friends house, to gather with music and the holiday spirit. I will no doubt come home to spend some time in the darkness, in my favouritest of places, my bed, to simply feel and experience the vibration of this event. Woot woot!
Tomorrow, I will spend time meditating on my heart's visions, and my core desired feelings, and will be creating a vision board from the insights. In truth, I've actually spent the last month reflecting on what I really want to create in 2014, so I feel really excited going into the manifestation process having become so clear on my desires. I'll share the fruits of my labour with you in a later post ;)
I'd love to know - How will you be celebrating?
Has this period, the solstice, grabbed your attention more than in recent years? Or does it seem just like any other day? Either way, it's beautiful, it's perfect. Either way, solstice will work it's magic.
If you'd like some more ideas on how to celebrate and mark this beautiful day, head over to Mystic Mamma to read her ritual ideas and celebrations!
Lots of love folks, and have the best Pagan New Year ever!
xo Beth
Ps. Please note I mean no disrespect to the essence of Christianity. I was raised as a Catholic and attended Catholic school up until my graduation, and I know that at it's core, the true faith means to spread only love. I merely feel I have a duty to share some of the AHA moments I've had surrounding the Christian/Goddess dichotomy. Thank you. xo
Last night I was cleaning the kitchen, and wandered my way into listening to the Wanderlust Gabrielle Bernstein lecture from 2012.
It was some powerful stuff, and woke me up to the fact that the very way to alleviate the pressure I have been feeling, is to be more direct with my audience, my feelings, and in the sharing and the discipline of my work.
Yogi Bhajan teaches, in his 5 tips for the Aquarian Age, that when we feel the pressure of the world on us, we must ACT and the pressure will be alleviated.
It means that we really do just need to act on our inner nudges in order to feel aligned with the holy and cosmic flow again.
Because, that's why we're here.
I share more of my personal story with this experience in the vlog below...
Tonight I spent an hour or so on the beach, under the bright, bright Full Moon in Gemini. I came home inspired, and flowed into creating a collage of my favourite images on Pinterest lately. Happy Moon Flowing Sisters and Brothers. <3 xoxo
{Just click on them for full size + scrolling ;)}
This morning I was feeling really groggy when I woke up, however this didn't necessarily surprise me. For the past 2 weeks I've been feeling off. Low energy, foggy thoughts, constant dull headaches and a note of depression have been constant. These symptoms have revved up in the last few days, and finally I decided to call my Mom for a bit of advice + comfort.
After getting no further than one line into describing my symptoms, my Mom took the reigns.
