Tag: creative

Read an Experience With Julia Cameron’s ‘The Artist’s Way’

A 12-week exercise in nurturing my “inner artist” became a contemplation of the ways in which society cuts off women’s genius at its knees.
— Read on thestoryexchange.org/the-artists-way-and-the-limitations-we-place-on-womens-imaginations/

Mercury Retrograde Fades into Shadow

Mercury stations direct today, ending its 3-week retrograde, however the planet that rules communication, travel & technology remains in the shadow phase until February 24th. Although we are not quite out of Mercury’s influence yet, life will start to feel much calmer and more manageable from today, particularly considering we are now in a period where all planets are direct.

For many of us life has felt turbulent in recent weeks and we may have experienced immense turmoil, disappointment and intense emotional pain. However, we have also learned a variety of essential lessons, healed aspects of our past and had a major shift in our consciousness.

We will now have entirely new perspectives on the most important areas of our lives and we will no longer be willing to settle and accept less than we know we deserve.

Mercury is renowned for muddling up our minds and creating chaos and confusion, and, as it was partly retrograding with Venus, much of this puzzling was focused on who and what we value most. During this time we have become aware of some harsh truths and shocking revelations and many things that were previously hidden have now been illuminated.

There may have been miscommunication, misunderstandings and disagreements that have triggered many painful wounds, particularly ones that were buried deep and we didn’t know existed. Much of this could have caused us to feel abandoned, rejected, inadequate or even worthless.

While Venus was recently retrograde we will have either consciously or subconsciously carried out inner work, that will have helped us come to the conclusion that it has all just been a mirror for how we have been abandoning and rejecting ourselves.

Fortunately, Venus focuses on love, relationship, values & intimacy and has been on hand to help us review our self-worth and self-value and allow us to take a much closer look at why connections with certain people cause us to feel so many conflicting and painful emotions.

We will likely have had periods of quite intense introspection where we revisted the past, possibly through the dreamworld, and an array of distant memories and visions will have resurfaced to be cleared. We will have gained valuable clarity as to why we have been allowing certain behaviours and patterns to continue, especially ones that have harmed our self-esteem and ultimately blocked our growth.

Mercury confronts us with past events so that we review, reevaluate, cleanse, declutter and tie up all loose ends so we are able to move forward renewed and recharged, without the the urge to keep revisiting the past. This retrograde is almost like a reset of our energy, where everything is shaken up and placed in front of us so that we have no other option but to deal with it, heal from it and then peacefully move onward.

Now that Mercury is out of its main retrograde period we will be feeling far less distracted, irritable and unsettled and we will feel ready to clear up misconceptions and miscommunications that have taken place. We will also have a greater understanding of which connections are important in our lives and will know exactly what to do to cultivate them, and recognise the time has come to cut unhealthy ones loose.

Mercury and Venus have given us the strength, awareness and conviction so that we are able to finally let go of our attachment to trauma bonds and relationships that sabotage our peace and personal growth.

With all planets in forward motion we will have clear flowing energy and this will help us restructure and rebuild our lives.

We have been through quite a transition over these past couple of months, so it is vital to take periods out for rest and reflection to ensure that the decisions we make our for our highest good.

We are integrating a new programme and shifting away from our old reality, so over the next 24-48 hours we may feel exhausted and be needing to sleep more than normal while our energetic body adjusts to this higher frequency and we align with our soul’s true purpose here on Earth.

Within the next few days we will begin to notice a rejuvenation and realignment of our mind, body and soul and we will be feeling more focused, motivated, energised, inspired creative and ambitious than ever before. This is the optimum time to really take the reins of our life and steer it toward manifesting our goals, dreams and visions so that everything we have been working hard towards materialises effortlessly and finally becomes the reality we have long been dreaming of.

Alex Myles ❤

Find Your Inner Hag

If you want to be a bad ass sexually empowered woman, embrace your inner hag.
Thats right.
The crone. The ancient old woman. The witch. The hag.
The crone archetype is an aspect of the feminine not exactly associated with sexuality.
Women groom themselves to be girls. The younger the better.
Paint those lips red and blush those cheeks like you are wet and ripe for impregnation.
Make them believe you are in perpetual ovulation.
Make them hard. Make them desire you
Get that face lift. Suck in that belly. Bat those lashes.
Guess what.
The crone doesn’t give a fuck.
And that is her power.
She embraces her spider lines and swinging, sagginesss.
After all, this is what life does to the body of a woman…eventually!
Does that make you uncomfortable? Would you rather not see?
Her secret threatens to corrupt you.
She can make you wild.
She can reveal to you your power.
Your volcanic senseless holy
Once she opens her mouth, the jig is up.
They tell you she is crazy.
Dangerous because she has broken out of that jail cell you call restrictions.
How would you have sex if you didn’t give a fuck about how pretty you look?
Or how flat your stomach is?
The crone is not an object of desire.
She is free to claim her own desire.
In a world that praises women for being objects of desire.
Where the more lust you can seduce the more value you possess, the crone is laughing with that cackle that only women of power have.
She does not possess the enchanting beauty of the maiden or the fertile reproductive juices of the mother.
She no longer bleeds. She no longer bares children.
Her sex no longer waxes and wanes with the moon, gaining and draining energy with each passing tide.
She is full.
The portal to her blood has been sealed.
She is drinking in the nectar. She is bathing in its luminous darkness.
Her sex is a diamond pressed and polished by years of experience and wisdom.
She has passed through all the phases of initiation as a woman.
That heavy web of social conditions all feminine creatures are baptized into.
She is unraveling herself from these webs.
She has liberated her sex from all their stories.
She is making it to the other side.
Freeing herself.
Without the ability to be a mother or a sex object, what is left of a woman and her sex?
I’ll tell you what.
Pure power that doesn’t give a fuck.
Crazy wisdom that knows how to make love to the moment.
Sex that ripples through every authentic cell of your body.
Sex that pulses with every tiny whisper of life knowing life.
If you want to find the seat of your sexual power.
Your real deep sovereign sexual nature.
Find the crone that lives in you.
Wild. Ugly. Innocent. Real.
The real initiation begins here.

Author: Maya Luna

Photo Art: Sarah Peirse