Hi SOUL Hi! Lovianhal!
How you? I’m glad you’re here. I’m here too! I love you.
The last several weeks have been A LOT. I culminated my 10th annual 40 day fast and continued on for what will be 12 more days come Sunday. I’ll be resurrecting myself on Resurrection Sunday. Or, at least, I’ll be complete with this year’s fasting journey. Which is interesting. I started with the energy of Ramadan. I continued on through Passover and shalt culminate on Resurrection Sunday. Which feels big. To dig so deeply into my own psyche and fears and doubts and wants and desires for 52 days. It also feels appropriate.
To also do all of this through a mercury retrograde–which notoriously brings the past forward for dealing with.
For me,
I’ve had some really and truly loving conversations with some olden days fren frens. People I used to speak with regularly, who I haven’t spoken with in a long time. The reconnection has been soul serving. It has reminded me to make space for unexpected connection. To dig in to the parts of my life that I have already spent years cultivating.
To remember that I am not a lone…
Which I’ve been grappling with. Remembering I’m not a lone. Even though I’ve been feeling very much a lone especially this last year– and it’s more than logistics. It’s a complicated dance going through a divorce. I thought the separation would be the hardest part. But for me, the hardest part has been speaking up. Saying what hurts out loud to fellow human ears. Being willing to be heard. Being willing to say what it is and what it was without trying to protect my ego
or hissssss.
Realizing there isn’t anything to protect anymore.
Except,
maybe,
my heart– which is still tender from all the excavation I’ve been doing these last 50 days. Gurl. This year’s fast has been a real and true journey into how I know and love and take care of myself. What I believe about myself. And what I believed about myself before I became entrained in the survival strategies “the world” of form taught me.
Particularly those things that I had swallowed and then tamped down– so that I could survive. I held myself together so tight, you would have thought I was wrapped in string. That’s a superpower women have. Digging in. We can dig in as a celebration of abundance on our plates. We can dig in, to the soil of our lands for planting gardens or our lives for soulful exploration. We dig in to hold on to what we have or dig in to hold ourselves together. We dig in to be anchors. We dig in to be a resource. We dig in to feed and clothe and care for ourselves and others and we dig in to be able to let go of what no longer serves.
It makes sense that as we continue our month long conversation about BEing Earth tonight– we focus our discussion on Digging in…
Tonight’s Starfolk University staff:
Eric Nixon- Dean of Fellowship + Change
Jason Benefield-Dean of Peaceful Life Navigation
Dr. Carol Penn-Dean of Spiritual Legacy
Of course, Jordan is in the WuWu Metaphysical Studio with me, so Join us tonight 7-10p on WURD! Bring a journal, pen and 3 frens…
#starfolku #starpeopleish #comegetfree
“In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.”
“In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.”
“The reward for attention is always healing. It may begin as the healing of a particular pain—the lost lover, the sickly child, the shattered dream. But what is healed, finally, is the pain that underlies all pain: the pain that we are all, as Rilke phrases it, “unutterably alone.” More than anything else, attention is an act of connection.”
― Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
You can listen live with this link and/or on the WURD App. We ARE Live on the FB Live OR Twitch too tonight!
Per usual, in EVERY single thing we do, the intention is transformation. And well moisturized legs.
Pssst! This month our #shiftprompt is:
The Art BEing EARTH
Acronym:
Everything
Arrives
Rhythmically
Truthfully
Holy
(Earth turns…)
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The WuWu Metaphysical studio begins Friday night at 7p EST on WURD 96.1FM Philly + The FB LIVE (worldwide). See you then yes? Oh! Bring a journal, a pen and 3 frens! WuWu is best done together. 🙂 #comegetfree
Lovianhal,
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