The Lady Wild Oracle — Energy Reads For The Week Ahead
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Trigger warning: I am a lefty, progressive feminist.
My spirituality infuses my politics, ergo politics are sometimes mentioned in my writings.
If you are looking for just the spiritual, you might want to check out another page.
Conscious living includes sacred resistance and I am committed to consciousness.
Blessings, Kat x0x0
THE WEEKLY CARD IS ON HIATUS
I am currently putting together a "Best of Series" with writings from the weekly card and Goddess Speak. Will let y'all know when it's done!
Goddess Speak: 1/14/2018 - Leaving the Past Behind
Channelled words — Rewire, reprogram
I’ve been thinking a lot about how we re-wire and re-program ourselves. If you’re going to change something about your life it takes a tremendous amount of discipline, self-honestly, and willingness because you’re talking about changing yourself on a fundamental level. In my experience as a mystic and soul counselor I have found that debilitating thoughts, without fail, are rooted in the past. In this way we are controlled by our past, and our present and future are limited. When I first started working with these concepts back in the early 80’s, and applying them to my life, I was enormously successful. 40 some years later, being deliciously human and an adult woman of vast life experience, I have known my fair share of detours back into a past that is still calling the shots. It is not okay for the past to control my present or my future.
The thrust of my work is healing and change, helping others to get out from under whatever has them groveling. The uninitiated newbie will tell you to just think positive but thinking positive does virtually nothing to change debilitating feelings or behavior patterns. This is what you can do. Let's use shame because it’s so vicious and we’ve all got it.
Ask yourself the following questions:
What would it be like to live without shame?
What would I be like without shame?
What would my reality look like if I was without shame?
Take time out daily; sit and hold the questions and your answers for at least a week. This is going to trigger the stuff underneath that’s holding your life in place, the life you are committed to changing. You may cry, you may find yourself feeling I can never change this, you may find yourself saying fuck all. Keep going. This is the stuff born of the past that’s controlling you; this is old programming, belief systems that have nothing to do with who you are. Feelings are not facts; you are not your feelings. Always come back to the questions and imagine the answers. Try on and wear the reality, making that reality as tangible and real as possible.
This is a very powerful exercise, and you can do it for whatever ails you — employment, love, health, anxiety — any area where you are feeling powerless to change. Have I told you recently how much courage you have? To consciously, energetically create a new reality? By accepting and refusing to live in the past? And if you get scared along the way try the following prayer:
Lady, Lord, Infinite Tao.
Please lift this fear from me (you can even say what you’re afraid of)
Help me to trust in my process
Help me to live my process in harmony with divine will
Divine will be mine.
So mote it be.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat x0x0x
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WEEKLY CARD - Weave a New Fate
CHANNELED WORD - Self Acceptance
Happy New Year!
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Reiki 1 Workshop now forming for February 3rd. For more information
SERVICES - IT'S A GREAT TIME FOR A READING TO PLAN THE YEAR!
WEEKLY CARD - Weave a New Fate
CHANNELED WORD - Self Acceptance
Happy New Year!
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Reiki 1 Workshop now forming for February 3rd. For more information
SERVICES - IT'S A GREAT TIME FOR A READING TO PLAN THE YEAR!
Weekly Card: 12/20/2017 — Jupiter in Scorpio
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Need last minute holiday presents? I do gift certificates!
Also you might want to book for your New Year’s readings and plot your course for 2018.
If you're having issues with trauma, I can help you transform it, so that it no longer controls you. Soul Counseling and Reiki.
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Need last minute holiday presents? I do gift certificates!
Also you might want to book for your New Year’s readings and plot your course for 2018.
If you're having issues with trauma, I can help you transform it, so that it no longer controls you. Soul Counseling and Reiki.
Bi-Weekly Read: 12/4/2017 - 12/17/17
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Gift Cards are available for the Holidays.
Here is a link to the services page
30 minute readings = $60 + $5 processing
I can either email you the card or email the card to the person of your choice.
Combo's are also available at the price listed on the services page.
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The weekly card/weekly read is morphing into something else and I’m not quite sure what that is. There will be one more writing in December and then due to time constraints I will probably go monthly, rather than every week. I will keep you informed.
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The Holidays are upon us! I do gift cards and what's a better gift for a friend than a psychic reading!! Gift certificates for 30 minute readings = $60.
I am posting the week's card early because I will be doing a workshop this week-end. Enjoy! x0x0x0x0
“Human on earth began with the lovers Eva and Butcher. She was love, He was the right arm of the law, and the only law was love. What you don’t know, baby girl, is that when man and his God put that asunder, original evil was born. They put woman on her knees, made her serve man, and that, my darling, is the original evil. You been out in the world; you seen the sickness that grows out of that.” Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle by Katherine Manaan
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Goddess Heal Mystic Specials:
Throughout November, 2017, if you book an hour reading, you will receive a free 15 minute reading. The fifteen minutes must be used by the end of February, 2018.
If you refer someone too me, who books for an hour, you will receive $10 off your next hour reading.
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“Human on earth began with the lovers Eva and Butcher. She was love, He was the right arm of the law, and the only law was love. What you don’t know, baby girl, is that when man and his God put that asunder, original evil was born. They put woman on her knees, made her serve man, and that, my darling, is the original evil. You been out in the world; you seen the sickness that grows out of that.” Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle by Katherine Manaan
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Goddess Heal Mystic Specials:
Throughout November, 2017, if you book an hour reading, you will receive a free 15 minute reading. The fifteen minutes must be used by the end of February, 2018.
If you refer someone too me, who books for an hour, you will receive $10 off your next hour reading.
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Weekly Card — Manifest 11/5/2017
Channeled word: Be. Positive. Heal
It’s enraging and saddening that we are taught and programmed to stay small. Arguably one of the most profound concepts to hit the culture since I’ve been on the planet is that each of us has the power to energetically impact and change our lives. Manifesting is one of the ways we can do it. Full disclosure here: I have a pipeline into negativity when it comes to money and I am as fully committed to destroying it as I was to raising my son "right." My negativity around money is a quality I don’t like about myself and generally twist 36 ways from Sunday to avoid. In my experience though, trying to avoid something just makes whatever it is I’m trying to avoid stronger and leads to crash and burn. The great thing about crash and burn is you end up in the ugly truth of something. Take it a step further and you will find the wound out which the ugly truth grows. Destructive behavior in any area of our lives is always a result of a wound. In your face destructive behavior is a result of a festering wound. In your face destructive behavior is psyche saying, “Pay attention!” Your psyche is your best friend.
Manifesting requires a positive mental attitude. The question is, what do you do when you want to think positive but you’re stuck in the negative? I’ve been reading this great book, called “Creating Money,” by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer, and they have all sorts of really neat exercises for this kind of thing. This is the one I did. First, I visualized what I wanted. I thought about why I couldn’t have it, and put it in a balloon. Then I thought about why I could have it, and infused the image with light. Holding the light image on the movie screen in my mind, I watched the balloon drift away. It was the most astounding sensation ever. I felt a release, inhaled deeply, exhaled and open my eyes. I felt positively buoyant but contained, not grandiose-out-of-body-go-tell-it-on-the-mountain.
The Samhain season is a powerfully healing time of year. Healing is a kind of death, a dying of an old way, belief, behavior, that is of no benefit to you. Healing is about clearing, changing, purifying. I wouldn't dream of engaging in any healing process and change without first asking my Higher Power to guide me, and without saying, "thy will be my will, my will be thine, our wills are aligned, thy will through mine.*** During the Samhain season we prepare ourselves, become clear channels, for the new light that will be born at Winter Solstice. This is the week to really get into your wounds around money. This is the week to begin practicing the exercise I wrote about in the last paragraph. This is the week to create a vision board. This is the week to think about staying positive and pray for right action. This is the week to say daily, “I focus on what I love and thus draw it to me.”
And as you die to the old, making way for the new, remember: re-birth always follows death. The actions you take now are the seeds that will come to fruition in the spring.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat x0x0x0x0
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Goddess Heal Mystic Specials:
Throughout November, 2017, if you book an hour reading, you will receive a free 15 minute reading. The fifteen minutes must be used by the end of February, 2018.
If you refer someone too me, who books for an hour, you will receive $10 off your next hour reading.
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***thy will through mine was originally said by Francesca De Grandis in her book, "Be A Goddess."
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Channeled word: Be. Positive. Heal
It’s enraging and saddening that we are taught and programmed to stay small. Arguably one of the most profound concepts to hit the culture since I’ve been on the planet is that each of us has the power to energetically impact and change our lives. Manifesting is one of the ways we can do it. Full disclosure here: I have a pipeline into negativity when it comes to money and I am as fully committed to destroying it as I was to raising my son "right." My negativity around money is a quality I don’t like about myself and generally twist 36 ways from Sunday to avoid. In my experience though, trying to avoid something just makes whatever it is I’m trying to avoid stronger and leads to crash and burn. The great thing about crash and burn is you end up in the ugly truth of something. Take it a step further and you will find the wound out which the ugly truth grows. Destructive behavior in any area of our lives is always a result of a wound. In your face destructive behavior is a result of a festering wound. In your face destructive behavior is psyche saying, “Pay attention!” Your psyche is your best friend.
Manifesting requires a positive mental attitude. The question is, what do you do when you want to think positive but you’re stuck in the negative? I’ve been reading this great book, called “Creating Money,” by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer, and they have all sorts of really neat exercises for this kind of thing. This is the one I did. First, I visualized what I wanted. I thought about why I couldn’t have it, and put it in a balloon. Then I thought about why I could have it, and infused the image with light. Holding the light image on the movie screen in my mind, I watched the balloon drift away. It was the most astounding sensation ever. I felt a release, inhaled deeply, exhaled and open my eyes. I felt positively buoyant but contained, not grandiose-out-of-body-go-tell-it-on-the-mountain.
The Samhain season is a powerfully healing time of year. Healing is a kind of death, a dying of an old way, belief, behavior, that is of no benefit to you. Healing is about clearing, changing, purifying. I wouldn't dream of engaging in any healing process and change without first asking my Higher Power to guide me, and without saying, "thy will be my will, my will be thine, our wills are aligned, thy will through mine.*** During the Samhain season we prepare ourselves, become clear channels, for the new light that will be born at Winter Solstice. This is the week to really get into your wounds around money. This is the week to begin practicing the exercise I wrote about in the last paragraph. This is the week to create a vision board. This is the week to think about staying positive and pray for right action. This is the week to say daily, “I focus on what I love and thus draw it to me.”
And as you die to the old, making way for the new, remember: re-birth always follows death. The actions you take now are the seeds that will come to fruition in the spring.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat x0x0x0x0
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Goddess Heal Mystic Specials:
Throughout November, 2017, if you book an hour reading, you will receive a free 15 minute reading. The fifteen minutes must be used by the end of February, 2018.
If you refer someone too me, who books for an hour, you will receive $10 off your next hour reading.
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***thy will through mine was originally said by Francesca De Grandis in her book, "Be A Goddess."
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More about the nuts and bolts of transforming:
Sober Witch: Toxic Emotional Loops and Butterflies, Oh My...
The Power of Self-Love: Unconscious Wounding
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Goddess Heal Mystic Specials:
Throughout November, 2017, if you book an hour reading, you will receive a free 15 minute reading. The fifteen minutes must be used by the end of February, 2018.
If you refer someone too me, who books for an hour, you will receive $10 off your next hour reading.
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I work with a number of people who are on sacred paths — committed to living their myth and authenticity. There is a process to this kind of living and Wise Woman counseling - life coaching addresses what comes up during this process. What you like, what you don't like; what you can and can't change; ever evolving perspective and perceptions; grief, ecstasy, rage, and everything in-between. I can help you find out who you are and help you to reel in your projections. I can help you determine the most practical and beneficial, emotional, mental, and spiritual choices for you in the moment, and the right and perfect chants, prayers, affirmations, and spells to support your choices. I am about supporting the humane in a human being. If a choice isn't humane than it's not spiritual.
Mystic Counseling/Life Coaching is face to face, either at my home in Saugerties, New York, or on Skype, or FaceTime. I do take Paypal. All Paypal transactions are $5 more. Payment is due before the session.
30 Minutes = $70. 60 Minutes = $140. 3 one hour sessions = $395.
5 one hour sessions =$650. 10 one hour sessions = $1200.
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Dear Readers, As of April, 2017, the weekly card will be on hiatus. I have been hired to ghost write a novel and am not going to be able to devote the needed time that the weekly card demands. I will still be available for readings and soul counseling. Much love, Kat
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MARCH NEWSLETTER
PSYCHIC READINGS, SOUL READINGS, HEALINGS, WOMAN WILD COUNSELING, OH MY!
"You cain’t kill a dream. You can murder the people having it for sure, but anything with a heart is always reborn, and each time, it’s born stronger and stronger."
Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle
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For those who've asked me about, Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle, go here......
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I have a new Yelp Page!
For those of y'all who sent reviews, thank-you, thank-you, thank-you.
(I'm really irritated they didn't publish all my reviews and put the ones they didn't publish under "reviews not currently recommended." When I called to complain, they're reasoning had nothing to do with the real reason, which is they got slammed with reviews from my clients and the computer couldn't keep up so they relegated to reviews not currently recommended as if they're fakes. I was so upset I can't even begin to tell you! K)
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SOUL READINGS
I am on the planet to help people live true to self and soul. I am on the planet to help people uncover who they are, live from that authenticity, and know love beyond all reason. Soul readings, a delicious blend of the psychic, the Jungian, and Goddess teachings are the result.
I look under the issues, to the feelings, and to what is creating the reality, that has you so confused and/or you want to change. I will ask you questions: what themes are replaying over and over, what do you love, what do you want most in your life? These are the questions that have to be answered if you want change in your world. Knowing self is power and right use of power, to create and impact your life, is love made visible.
I am a wide-open channel for healing, teaching, and guidance, and work with whatever tools are needed for the reading. Tarot, astrology, numerology, past lives, Spirit guides, angels, the Fey, the dead, Patron Gods and Goddesses. The tools I use in any given reading are determined by Spirit.
I may not always tell you what you want to hear, but I will lovingly tell you the truth, help you get out from under the critical voices in your head, and explain your best course of action and the practical and magical steps to get you there.
I am located in Saugerties, New York. I do readings at home, by phone, and by Skype. Please be advised that all first time readings are done on phone or by Skype unless you have been referred to me by a long term client.
I do take Paypal. All Paypal transactions are $5 more.
Payment is due before the reading.
30 Minutes = $60 45 minutes = $90 60 Minutes = $130
FOR AN APPOINTMENT OR MORE INFORMATION
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My novel Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle is up on Amazon
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Goddess Heal Mystic — FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER
Goddess Heal Mystic — SERVICES
GODDESS HEAL MYSTIC FEBRUARY 2017 NEWSLETTER: Musings, magick, specials.
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Mercury has gone direct and it's a great time for a reading!
For more information:
I do magical consults; $60 for 30 minutes and $125 for an hour.
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Sober Witch
Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle
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“Seven rays of rainbow light exploded through the ground. The light entered the feet and filled the bodies of all the Wild Women and Magick Men dreaming humanity’s dream, and the dimming hold of the Omnipotent Hornless God, the oil slick cloak, exploded off the people and the earth. And I saw for the first time what could be, in the true and mighty colors of earth and her people revealed; vivid and vibrant as the colors in my first book, only giant-sized.” Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle.
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Goddess Heal Mystic Services
Soul Readings
I am on the planet to help people live true to self and soul. I am on the planet to help people uncover who they are, live from that authenticity, and know love beyond all reason. Soul readings, a delicious blend of the psychic, the Jungian, and Goddess teachings are the result.
I look under the issues, to the feelings, and to what is creating the reality, that has you so confused and/or you want to change. I will ask you questions: what themes are replaying over and over, what do you love, what do you want most in your life? These are the questions that have to be answered if you want change in your world. Knowing self is power and right use of power, to create and impact your life, is love made visible.
I am a wide open channel for healing, teaching, and guidance, and work with whatever tools are needed for the reading. Tarot, astrology, numerology, past lives, Spirit guides, angels, the Fey, the dead, Patron Gods and Goddesses. The tools I use in any given reading are determined by Spirit.
I may not always tell you what you want to hear, but I will lovingly tell you the truth, help you get out from under the critical voices in your head, and explain your best course of action and the practical and magical steps to get you there.
I do readings at home, by phone, and by Skype.
Please be advised that all first time readings are done on phone
or by Skype unless you have been referred to me by a long term client.
I do take Paypal. All Paypal transactions are $5 more.
Payment is due before the reading.
30 Minutes = $65 45 minutes = $95 60 Minutes = $135
FOR AN APPOINTMENT OR MORE INFORMATION
Wise Woman Counseling - Life Coaching
I work with a number of people who are on sacred paths — committed to living their myth and authenticity. There is a process to this kind of living and Wise Woman counseling - life coaching addresses what comes up during this process. What you like, what you don't like; what you can and can't change; ever evolving perspective and perceptions; grief, ecstasy, rage, and everything in-between. I can help you find out who you are and help you to reel in your projections. I can help you determine the most practical and beneficial, emotional, mental, and spiritual choices for you in the moment, and the right and perfect chants, prayers, affirmations, and spells to support your choices. I am about supporting the humane in a human being. If a choice isn't humane than it's not spiritual.
Mystic Counseling/Life Coaching is face to face, either at my home, on Skype, or FaceTime.
I do take Paypal. All Paypal transactions are $5 more.
Payment is due before the session.
30 Minutes = $70. 60 Minutes = $135. 3 one hour sessions = $375.
5 one hour sessions =$625. 10 one hour sessions = $1200.
FOR AN APPOINTMENT OR MORE INFORMATION
"You couldn’t look at what I was seeing and not get it smack clear that man so loved what he’d made, what he’d thought up, he flat-out ignored what he’d been freely given. Maybe Mankind started off nice, I didn’t know and I really didn’t care. All I knew was it’d outlived its usefulness with its my-cock-is-bigger-’n-yours ways.” Genesis 2: The Passion of Emma Ray Earle
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I am doing soul readings for 2017 throughout January. Click here for more information
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I am taking on new clients beginning January, 2017, for Woman Wild Counseling and Life Coaching. Click here and scroll down the page.
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THIS MONTH'S SPECIALS AT GODDESS HEAL MYSTIC
READINGS are on special for the month of December, As of January 1st, 2017, this special is over. If you'd like to buy a discounted reading in December to use later, you can. BUT, you have to use the discounted reading by January 31st, 2017. My availability is not as wide open as it used to be, due to my other job. Saturday's and Sundays are now best for me.
An hour reading is $100 rather than $145.
A half-hour reading is $60 rather than $70.
All paypal payments are $5 more.
Gift Certificates for the holidays are available. They are good through May, 2017. After that they are null and void.
Gift Certicate prices:
Hour readings = $135
1/hour readings = $65
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Specials at Goddess Heal Mystic
Readings are on special for the month of December, As of January 1st, 2017, this special is over. If you'd like to buy a discounted reading in December to use later, you can. BUT, you have to use the discounted reading by January 31st, 2017. My availability is not as wide open as it used to be, due to my other job. Saturday's and Sundays are now best for me.
An hour reading is $100 rather than $145.
A half-hour reading is $60 rather than $70.
All paypal payments are $5 more.
Gift Certificates for the holidays are available. They are good through May, 2017. After that they are null and void.
Gift Certicate prices:
Hour readings = $135
1/hour readings = $65
Wise Woman counseling and life coaching remains the same price!
Have a great week my darlings. x0xx0 Kat
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HOLIDAY SPECIALS WILL BE POSTED NEXT WEEK!
For services click here.
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Please be advised, I periodically run specials, offering pretty, darn terrific savings. If the special is not advertised after the weekly card, then it is no longer running. If a special is advertised after the weekly card, it runs for one week, unless otherwise noted. You can buy during the week of the special and use it within the month if you'd like. But it will no longer be valid after 4 weeks. I hope this clears up and any all confusion. Also, you are required to pay upfront before the reading. I would love to let everyone pay after the service provided, but unfortunately too many people have taken advantage for me to continue the policy.
For Wise Woman Counseling and Life Coaching
Click the above link and scroll down the page.
Jersey peeps, I will be moving at the end of November so if you want to get in for a face to face soul reading, you’d best book now.
For my clients all over the United States and the world, the skype address will remain the same!
For my newbies here is a link to my services.
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Cards of the Week: 10/31/2016 - Imagine and Empower
Hello my darlings, the weekly card is a little different this week because I drew 2 cards at the same time; one was stuck to the other. My guidance was to do them both so here we go. The cards I pulled were Imagine and Empower. In the most literal sense what we imagine we empower. To empower something is to give a person, place, or thing, power. New Age thinking tells us like (what is powerful) attracts like (what is equally powerful) which according to the law of mentalism (you create your own reality), is as much fact as gravity.
When I first started working with the Law of Mentalism some forty years ago, I was utterly fascinated by the idea that we create our reality. I was taught that I was creating whatever I didn’t like in my life, (as well as what I liked) and therefore I was responsible for keeping and holding onto that which was making me miserable. No matter what happened, good, bad, or indifferent, I was creating it and it was up to me to un-create it. I controlled my life.
At 63, after almost 40 years of dancing the sacred, there is no question in me that we can energetically impact our lives and can work the currents of any situation to our benefit. I also know that I can’t control my life. In more instances than not, I can dictate the terms, put out there what I want, but I can’t control my life because it leaves out the reality of other people’s bad behavior, the play of light and shadow, karma, grace, and miracles.
I had coffee yesterday with an old friend from my early days in New York City. To this day, she and I refer to our 20's as our young and immortal years, and it was just by chance that we ran into each other, on a crosstown bus of all things. She's living in upstate New York now and going through a vicious divorce; Dante’s hell has nothing on this woman’s divorce. When I was going through my own divorce saga some 30 years ago, I ran into my then spiritual teacher in front of a bakeshop on Broadway. I told him that my ex had changed the terms of the separation agreement; terms we had worked out together over a foot massage. The terms were now unworkable and I was going to have to get a lawyer. He looked me right in the eye and said, “You’re creating this shit storm." “Defending my legal rights and the legal rights of my son, is creating a shit storm?” He glared at me and walked away. I was young, still pretty new to the great work, but I knew in my gut getting a lawyer was the right thing, no matter how un-spiritual it made me. And as I walked down West 91st Street towards West End Avenue, not for the first time I was sharply aware of the split within. It felt like I was living two lives, the spiritual, and the real, and they were as far apart as they could be.
Back to coffee with my friend. I love this woman; she’s funny, she’s loud, she’s got a heart of gold, and she works at a non-profit saving the planet. She is not being unreasonable on any level, anymore than I was back in the day. Since the divorce began, the man has pissed in her car, put her contact information on a porn site, had her cursed, and that’s the mild stuff. I can hear my former teacher in my head, “What is she doing to create this?” If I was still dealing with the man, I would say, “She is not responsible for her ex’s behavior, anymore than the women in the Congo, are responsible for being herded into rape camps and gang raped 48 hours a day.”
Clearly the idea of creating your reality, as a means of controlling your life, is wrong use of a very real concept. We all feel powerless sometimes; we are all victims sometimes and in the throes of feeling, the worst thing you can possibly do is to ask yourself, why am I creating this. You’ll drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out, and/or you’ll figure it out incorrectly because you’re not thinking clearly. Either way you’ll end up beating yourself to a pulp, which does no one any good, and it’s not going to change the feelings and/or deeply uncomfortable experience you’re having. What is called for here is compassion; accepting where you are and loving that wounded piece of self, which is way more difficult than jumping to what am I doing to create this, because we’ve been so programmed to think, to believe, our feelings are wrong, especially if the feelings are one of the so-called ugly, feelings, like rage and revenge and feeling less then and ashamed.
If you really want to create your reality than you have to accept who you are and where you are warts and all. Acceptance of this kind is a profound act of self-love. The deeper the acceptance, the deeper the love, and the greater the ability to create. Contrary to popular opinion, having your so-called ugly feelings won’t create your reality; not having your feelings — repressing them, splitting off from them —will, because they’re cast into your shadow, where they will continue to fester and grow and eventually begin to control your behavior. Putting positive thoughts on top of extreme feelings such as I-am-going-to-be-destitute-and-homeless is an exercise in futility because the feelings are just too damn strong. (Yes, I’m using an example from my own life) But, if I bring that terrorized, panicked piece in, love her, and hold her because she’s part of me, (and I want all my pieces, not just the easily digestible), eventually she will calm and tell me that she feels completely powerless to change anything. In my head I know I can change my life for the better, I have tangible experience of changing my life for the better, but in the moment, the feeling is so overwhelming and so painful and I’m so exhausted, I can’t stop crying.
I know exactly what it’s like to be lost in pools of agony and have someone look at me and say what are you doing to create this. It’s punitive, ineffective, and a result of the teacher/person being so terrified of her/his own feelings she/he has to shut everyone else’s down. Thank Goddess, I weeded those people out of my life long ago, which made room for the best friends in the entire world. Friends with whom I can share my true feelings; friends who are not going to judge me, or try to fix me. Clearly, I knew I needed another source of income, and a cheaper apartment, and yes, time was of the essence, but what was more important in the moment was nurturing this aching, sobbing piece of me, who believed no matter what she did nothing was ever going to change and she was going to end up in a homeless shelter.
It took a few days of talking with my nearest and dearest, and chanting the pagan hail-lady-full-of-grace over and over, for the wounded piece in me to calm. The feelings of powerlessness and unworthiness were still there. My first spiritual teacher would have told me to let it go. Hmmmm. How many times have you tried to let go of something but no matter what you did, it just wasn’t happening? If you can’t let something go, it’s not because there’s something wrong with you, or you’re resisting, or you’re into pain; it’s because it needs to be transformed. This is how you do that. Hold the so-called bad feelings on one side of your heart and place your hand over them. Hold the exact opposite of the bad feelings on the other side of your heart and place your other hand on top of them. Then what you do is sit quietly and let the opposites press and grind against the other. Ultimately something new is born. It feels like balm, it feels like thick and creamy light, it feels calm, and you feel whole, meaning — not split between the spiritual and the mundane. In this space of completeness you’re ready to create.
Creating anything takes imagination and guts because what you’re basically saying is I want this and/or I’m doing this and nothing is going to stop me. If I ran the world I would require people to spend an hour a day imagining what makes them feel joyful. I would require people to spend time imagining what it feels like to be loved; really truly loved. I would require people to spend time thinking about what they really wanted, and if they didn't know, to say, I don’t know, and add a yet to it. Love, joy, and knowing what you want are three of the five most powerful magnets of creation; the fourth and fifth are receptivity and trust. If you can’t trust, if you’re not open to receiving, then whatever it is you’re trying to create, to bring into your life is going to bounce off the wall of you.
Need triggers desire. Desire triggers imagination and imagination triggers empowerment, meaning it gives power to the thing desired. Imagination strengthens, sharpens, and hones desire. The more powerful the desire, the more powerfully magnetic the attraction. Witches say, “Desire cracks open the gates, if you’re ready it will take you through.” Imagination, desire, and empowerment are a triangle of connected interdependence. They feed each other; the strength of one is dependent on the strength of another. The triangle is contained within the circle and the circle is life.
Each of us is a microcosm, a circle of life, and each of us contains the triangle of manifestation. Each of us is born with the ability and the power to create our worlds, but the set up of the “system” is hell bent on making sure we forget, that which was freely given. Creating is a conscious engagement of the pragmatic and the magical. Taking physical actions for what you want, walking through your fears and asking for help, empowers you and your desire, and is every bit as important as imagining what you want and how it would feel to have it. There’s a spiritual axiom — what you can imagine, you can create. In my experience it may not always come in the form you expect, but you will get the essence, the intrinsic nature, the unique quality, of your desire.
As for me and the creation process I’m in right now, without friends none of what I’m about to do would be possible. I am so grateful I tear up at the oddest times, like when I’m on line at the CVS or mailing a letter at the post office. The other day as I walking, absorbing delicious fall, I said out loud, “I wish everyone had the kind of friends I have.” I stopped, dropped root, and sent that wish into the heavens. The synchronicity of the moment wasn’t lost on me. Halloween, what my people call Samhain (sowen) is the witches new year. What better time to send that wish into the ethers.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat
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Jersey peeps, I will be moving at the end of November so if you want to get in for a soul reading, you’d best book now. If you live in the Hudson Valley, that's where I'll be!
For my clients all over the United States and the world, the skype address will remain the same!
For my newbies here is a link to my services.
As ever I look forward to serving all of you and thank you for opportunity to do the work that’s written on my soul. Blessings. K
When I first started working with the Law of Mentalism some forty years ago, I was utterly fascinated by the idea that we create our reality. I was taught that I was creating whatever I didn’t like in my life, (as well as what I liked) and therefore I was responsible for keeping and holding onto that which was making me miserable. No matter what happened, good, bad, or indifferent, I was creating it and it was up to me to un-create it. I controlled my life.
At 63, after almost 40 years of dancing the sacred, there is no question in me that we can energetically impact our lives and can work the currents of any situation to our benefit. I also know that I can’t control my life. In more instances than not, I can dictate the terms, put out there what I want, but I can’t control my life because it leaves out the reality of other people’s bad behavior, the play of light and shadow, karma, grace, and miracles.
I had coffee yesterday with an old friend from my early days in New York City. To this day, she and I refer to our 20's as our young and immortal years, and it was just by chance that we ran into each other, on a crosstown bus of all things. She's living in upstate New York now and going through a vicious divorce; Dante’s hell has nothing on this woman’s divorce. When I was going through my own divorce saga some 30 years ago, I ran into my then spiritual teacher in front of a bakeshop on Broadway. I told him that my ex had changed the terms of the separation agreement; terms we had worked out together over a foot massage. The terms were now unworkable and I was going to have to get a lawyer. He looked me right in the eye and said, “You’re creating this shit storm." “Defending my legal rights and the legal rights of my son, is creating a shit storm?” He glared at me and walked away. I was young, still pretty new to the great work, but I knew in my gut getting a lawyer was the right thing, no matter how un-spiritual it made me. And as I walked down West 91st Street towards West End Avenue, not for the first time I was sharply aware of the split within. It felt like I was living two lives, the spiritual, and the real, and they were as far apart as they could be.
Back to coffee with my friend. I love this woman; she’s funny, she’s loud, she’s got a heart of gold, and she works at a non-profit saving the planet. She is not being unreasonable on any level, anymore than I was back in the day. Since the divorce began, the man has pissed in her car, put her contact information on a porn site, had her cursed, and that’s the mild stuff. I can hear my former teacher in my head, “What is she doing to create this?” If I was still dealing with the man, I would say, “She is not responsible for her ex’s behavior, anymore than the women in the Congo, are responsible for being herded into rape camps and gang raped 48 hours a day.”
Clearly the idea of creating your reality, as a means of controlling your life, is wrong use of a very real concept. We all feel powerless sometimes; we are all victims sometimes and in the throes of feeling, the worst thing you can possibly do is to ask yourself, why am I creating this. You’ll drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out, and/or you’ll figure it out incorrectly because you’re not thinking clearly. Either way you’ll end up beating yourself to a pulp, which does no one any good, and it’s not going to change the feelings and/or deeply uncomfortable experience you’re having. What is called for here is compassion; accepting where you are and loving that wounded piece of self, which is way more difficult than jumping to what am I doing to create this, because we’ve been so programmed to think, to believe, our feelings are wrong, especially if the feelings are one of the so-called ugly, feelings, like rage and revenge and feeling less then and ashamed.
If you really want to create your reality than you have to accept who you are and where you are warts and all. Acceptance of this kind is a profound act of self-love. The deeper the acceptance, the deeper the love, and the greater the ability to create. Contrary to popular opinion, having your so-called ugly feelings won’t create your reality; not having your feelings — repressing them, splitting off from them —will, because they’re cast into your shadow, where they will continue to fester and grow and eventually begin to control your behavior. Putting positive thoughts on top of extreme feelings such as I-am-going-to-be-destitute-and-homeless is an exercise in futility because the feelings are just too damn strong. (Yes, I’m using an example from my own life) But, if I bring that terrorized, panicked piece in, love her, and hold her because she’s part of me, (and I want all my pieces, not just the easily digestible), eventually she will calm and tell me that she feels completely powerless to change anything. In my head I know I can change my life for the better, I have tangible experience of changing my life for the better, but in the moment, the feeling is so overwhelming and so painful and I’m so exhausted, I can’t stop crying.
I know exactly what it’s like to be lost in pools of agony and have someone look at me and say what are you doing to create this. It’s punitive, ineffective, and a result of the teacher/person being so terrified of her/his own feelings she/he has to shut everyone else’s down. Thank Goddess, I weeded those people out of my life long ago, which made room for the best friends in the entire world. Friends with whom I can share my true feelings; friends who are not going to judge me, or try to fix me. Clearly, I knew I needed another source of income, and a cheaper apartment, and yes, time was of the essence, but what was more important in the moment was nurturing this aching, sobbing piece of me, who believed no matter what she did nothing was ever going to change and she was going to end up in a homeless shelter.
It took a few days of talking with my nearest and dearest, and chanting the pagan hail-lady-full-of-grace over and over, for the wounded piece in me to calm. The feelings of powerlessness and unworthiness were still there. My first spiritual teacher would have told me to let it go. Hmmmm. How many times have you tried to let go of something but no matter what you did, it just wasn’t happening? If you can’t let something go, it’s not because there’s something wrong with you, or you’re resisting, or you’re into pain; it’s because it needs to be transformed. This is how you do that. Hold the so-called bad feelings on one side of your heart and place your hand over them. Hold the exact opposite of the bad feelings on the other side of your heart and place your other hand on top of them. Then what you do is sit quietly and let the opposites press and grind against the other. Ultimately something new is born. It feels like balm, it feels like thick and creamy light, it feels calm, and you feel whole, meaning — not split between the spiritual and the mundane. In this space of completeness you’re ready to create.
Creating anything takes imagination and guts because what you’re basically saying is I want this and/or I’m doing this and nothing is going to stop me. If I ran the world I would require people to spend an hour a day imagining what makes them feel joyful. I would require people to spend time imagining what it feels like to be loved; really truly loved. I would require people to spend time thinking about what they really wanted, and if they didn't know, to say, I don’t know, and add a yet to it. Love, joy, and knowing what you want are three of the five most powerful magnets of creation; the fourth and fifth are receptivity and trust. If you can’t trust, if you’re not open to receiving, then whatever it is you’re trying to create, to bring into your life is going to bounce off the wall of you.
Need triggers desire. Desire triggers imagination and imagination triggers empowerment, meaning it gives power to the thing desired. Imagination strengthens, sharpens, and hones desire. The more powerful the desire, the more powerfully magnetic the attraction. Witches say, “Desire cracks open the gates, if you’re ready it will take you through.” Imagination, desire, and empowerment are a triangle of connected interdependence. They feed each other; the strength of one is dependent on the strength of another. The triangle is contained within the circle and the circle is life.
Each of us is a microcosm, a circle of life, and each of us contains the triangle of manifestation. Each of us is born with the ability and the power to create our worlds, but the set up of the “system” is hell bent on making sure we forget, that which was freely given. Creating is a conscious engagement of the pragmatic and the magical. Taking physical actions for what you want, walking through your fears and asking for help, empowers you and your desire, and is every bit as important as imagining what you want and how it would feel to have it. There’s a spiritual axiom — what you can imagine, you can create. In my experience it may not always come in the form you expect, but you will get the essence, the intrinsic nature, the unique quality, of your desire.
As for me and the creation process I’m in right now, without friends none of what I’m about to do would be possible. I am so grateful I tear up at the oddest times, like when I’m on line at the CVS or mailing a letter at the post office. The other day as I walking, absorbing delicious fall, I said out loud, “I wish everyone had the kind of friends I have.” I stopped, dropped root, and sent that wish into the heavens. The synchronicity of the moment wasn’t lost on me. Halloween, what my people call Samhain (sowen) is the witches new year. What better time to send that wish into the ethers.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat
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Please be advised, I periodically run specials, offering pretty, darn terrific savings. If the special is not advertised after the weekly card, then it is no longer running. If a special is advertised after the weekly card, it runs for one week, unless otherwise noted. You can buy during the week of the special and use it within the month if you'd like. But it will no longer be valid after 4 weeks. I hope this clears up and any all confusion. Also you are required to pay upfront before the reading. I would love to let you pay after the service provided, but unfortunately too many people have taken advantage for me to continue the policy.
For Wise Woman Counseling and Life Coaching
Click the above link and scroll down the page.
Jersey peeps, I will be moving at the end of November so if you want to get in for a soul reading, you’d best book now. If you live in the Hudson Valley, that's where I'll be!
For my clients all over the United States and the world, the skype address will remain the same!
For my newbies here is a link to my services.
As ever I look forward to serving all of you and thank you for opportunity to do the work that’s written on my soul. Blessings. K
Card of the Week : 10/17/2016
Reclaim: Root, Ground, Write
Biddy Early was born dirt poor in Ireland in 1798. At 16, as was the custom in poor families, Biddy was sent to nearby Feakle to work as a serving girl. She was later sent to Kilbarron to work for a doctor. In Kilbarron, she met and married Pat O’Malley and they had a daughter. A few years into the marriage, he died. She then married Tom Flannery and had a son. Tom died when the boy was 8. Biddy could not pay her rent and was served with an eviction notice.
According to the story, the night before the police were coming to kick her out, her dead husband Tom visited her and told her to tell the police, as they approached her home, to: “Stay where you are.” She did just that and the five policemen and the sheriff’s feet were stuck to the road for two hours. No matter how they pulled, they couldn’t break free. After 2 hours, Biddy told them to go away and never return. The spell was broken and the men took off like scared bunnies. The police never bothered Biddy again.
Biddy was known throughout Ireland as a seer, herbalist, and healer. She had a small, magical blue bottle, a present from her dead son, who returned from the dead to give it to her, into which she gazed before healing or prophesying. Biddy was never without her blue bottle. Her healing potions and her knowledge of herbs, was legendary; her predictions stunningly accurate, and she could remove the wraith of the fairies. Rather than charging money for her services, Biddy accepted food and whiskey. Consequently her house was stocked with liquor and became known as a great place to drink and play cards. Though Biddy was beloved by the community the priests didn’t like her. Of course they didn't. The priests controlled every aspect of people’s lives and Biddy threatened everything it meant to be a good catholic. She concocted herbal potions which effectively healed animals and humans. She prophesied with stunning accuracy. She was poor, not in the least bit humble, remarried every time yet another husband died, and didn't a rat's ass what the rich or the priests thought. Every story about Biddy Early that has survived is adamant about the fact that she never once spoke against the Catholic Church or the priests; even the parish priest, who denounced her from the altar, and instructed the people to stop seeing her. They did not.
In 1865, Biddy Early was accused of witchcraft. The community support for Biddy was so great that the few who agreed to testify against her backed out, and she was acquitted due to a lack of evidence. Ultimately, Biddy would die of natural causes, a priest at her bedside, because she’d asked for last rites. One story says that she and the priest were close friends and she asked him to throw the bottle into the lake. He did, crying all the way. Can I tell you how many times i've dreamed of finding that lake and diving for her bottle??? Imagine my surprise when an elder back in the day told me I had my own bottle. I'm getting to that so bear with me.
Reclaiming is part of the process of taking your power back. When we reclaim, we take in the pieces of ourselves that we have kept at arms distance. We recover the pieces of ourselves that have been split off by the hard demands of life and living. Why do we split off from self? Survival, usually, and pain. When we don’t fit the paradigm we’ve been taught and programmed to fit into we split off from that piece of us that makes us different. We split off from that which makes us unique. One of the ways I end workshops is I ask everyone to take hands, close their eyes, and feel what we all have in common. That’s an easy exercise for most. Than I say, “Now feel that which makes you unique.” It’s amazing how hard it is for people to feel connected to others when they feel their uniqueness. Clearly we’ve been taught to believe that uniqueness is a source of separation and division, when nothing could be further from the truth.
To own, to recognize, to retrieve, that which makes you unique allows you to connect even more intimately with others, because you’re coming from a place that is more honestly you. By the same token, you will have less in common with certain people in your life. This doesn’t mean you’re not connected; we’re all interconnected, it simply means your energy is directed elsewhere, creating a more powerful and empowering web in which to live.
Close your eyes and imagine a ray of energy connecting all of us. Now, keeping that ray, feel that which makes you unique and see that as another ray, reaching out of your body. Like attracts like, so that ray is growing, being drawn, towards what supports it. When the ray connects with what feeds it, more rays will grow from that connection and a new web of multicolored ray energy begins to take form. Webs come and go, webs give way to other webs; what we all have in common, however, is forever.
I think most people deny their uniqueness out of self-protection. If they are who they truly are they will be attacked and maligned. This is not a figment of their imagination; this is truly their experience, so to own, recognize, and even enjoy one’s delicious uniqueness is absolutely terrifying. To deny self, though, is to exasperate the feeling of being unloved, and to know pain, conscious and unconscious, beyond all reason. Pain beyond all reason must be numbed. This leads to addiction — drugs, people, behaviors, food, booze, work, co-dependency, whatever — and addiction is the most telling and virulent symptom we have of the denial of self. Addiction is what powerless looks like, and where there is powerlessness there is rage, there is blame, there is either-or thinking — my way or the highway — you are either for us or against us — and the ray which connects us all, that which each and every one of us has in common, is rendered null and void. The connecting ray isn't destroyed, it's simply ignored. Clearly, what we have in common is as important as that which makes us unique.
In order to reclaim, we must dive into the lake (the unconscious) and retrieve the magick blue bottle that contains our power. We all have one, and at some point in order to survive, in order to protect ourselves, we threw it into the water. But now, what’s happening is our methods of survival have turned on us and are doing way more harm than good. Our methods of survival are thwarting the ray of uniqueness from finding like, connecting, and creating a new a new and beauteous web. If you feel like you're sitting on Pandora's box, doing everything you possibly can to keep it shut, there's a good bet reclaiming has found you. Get off the box, let the demons fly free, invite them to tea, and see what they want.
The most beneficial way I know to work with the rough waters of reclaiming is to root, ground, and go for walks. Keeping a journal of the mercurial thoughts racing through your brain is another great idea. I would also suggest the following affirmations:
I am a unique instrument of life’s divine power.
I honor my talents and abilities.
Power is right use of love made visible.
I am the brave woman/man, the wise woman/man, ever coming in touch with the wisdom and the guidance of my deepest and highest self.
My path rises up to meet me.
I have a great sense of humor.
Though reclaiming is not for the faint of heart, at 63 I've never met a man or woman who engaged the process and didn't ultimately come to the peace that passes all understanding. I am wishing you good journey.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat
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Card of the Week: 10/10/2016
Initiation; Abrupt Change
I had the following dream some 30 years ago when I started to do the great work of knowing self. I was sitting —criss-cross applesauce— on sand, in the middle of a pyramid. I was there for a reason; I’d chosen to be there. My eyes were closed and I’d dropped a root deep into the earth from the base of my spine. When the lightning hit (clearly that’s what I was waiting for) the tippy-top point of the pyramid, the energy traveled down the interconnected, interior webbing within the walls, and the air around me became so electric that if I was not as rooted as I was, I would have fried. Hugely terrifying fireworks of electricity were bursting around me but I stayed focused on my root and the earth energy flowing into my body. I don’t know how long it went on; I do remember when it was over. I opened my eyes and patted myself down. The inside of the pyramid looked exactly the same, but it was completely differently. That’s when I noticed a copper framed mirror on the sand next to me. I looked exactly the same but I was completely different. That is initiation.
As a witch I live the interconnectedness of all things. There is no split between spirit and flesh in the craft. What this means is initiation not only happens in the realms of what people call spiritual, but in the so called mundane as well. Getting sober, getting divorced, helping a terminally ill friend, selling a house you’ve lived in for over 50 years and buying a farm in the middle of bucolic nowhere, all of these are initiations. They turn you upside down; they upset and change you; they bring you closer to who you truly are. The so-called spiritual initiation deepens your intuitive understanding of the great mystery — that we are all connected. The mystical experience is the experience of that connection. Like the so call mundane initiation, it changes you; it opens your eyes to vastness of your being and life. In my experience, everything goes straight to hell after a spiritual initiation. It feels so good when it happens but inevitably, a day or a few days later, the extreme of whatever’s blocking my new, uncovered truth, shoots to the surface unseating the bliss I'd just had a few days ago.
I can’t even begin to tell you how many times, I’ve wondered what ancient school of wisdom came up with initiation and why. I mean seriously, it’s so damn hard, and please don’t write me and say, “Well if you just quit resisting.” I don’t resist initiation; I know when it’s on me. Furthermore, some things in life are in fact hard. Not because you make them hard, but just because they are. Initiation carries the force of a lightning strike and that force rips away every thing a person knows and counts on to survive. It’s pretty damn terrifying when what you thought was solid vaporizes before your eyes. When that happens it’s close to impossible to believe, to imagine, that the Universe is conspiring for your deepest and highest good.
For me initiation is about a working faith. Can I hold true that this process I am in will take me to a better place? Can I hold true that if I show up and take right action on any given day that I will be all right? Sometimes I can and sometimes I can’t. Sometimes I get so mad at God I could spit. What I do have is a rock solid willingness; as real and as tangible as gravity. So when I can’t possibly see myself coming out the other end of the tunnel, when I can’t possibly see how I’m going to get through what I’m going through, I take a moment and say, I am willing to be willing to know that this process is leading me to a much happier and joyous place. I may not believe it in the moment but I'm willing too. I am alway willing to allow for the possibility of miracles.
I do not believe we are here to be miserable; I don’t think we’re here to be joyous all the time either. I think we’re here to uncover the symphonies that we are. If you’ve been to a symphony you know that what makes it great is the build. One note, one chord, builds on the next, and on the next; chords come together, break apart, come back together. The horns start, then the bass drum, loud crescendo, and climax! The music begins to slow, to wane, find a new beginning within its eternity. The build begins all over again; new chords, chord combinations, and the best chords of the old. I love to imagine all of our individual symphonies coming together and forming the most magnificent orchestra, under the rainbow umbrella that is the tribe of humanity. I’m thinking John Lennon,….“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one…” It feels so good to imagine, doesn’t it?
So how can something that feels so good exist next to something that feels so horrible? That question is the key to initiation. Everything contains it opposite, not in terms of opposing but in terms of compliment. Rather than splitting off, rising above, and denying the difficulty with an affirmation — I am joyous, this is easy — try holding the tension of the opposites. Hold the opposing feelings in your heart; put one hand on one feeling and the other hand on the other and feel them press and grind against each other. Within a matter of minutes you will feel both sides give and something new come into being. Have you ever seen a volcano make land? Lava spews forth and becomes land as it cools. The new that comes into being from holding the opposites is virgin land; as of yet unexplored. A new and beckoning path, perhaps?
This is the alchemy; the alchemy of psyche. Initiation ultimately leads to alchemy; the hard, the ugly, the agonizing, is transformed into pure gold. Returning to my pyramid dream, after the initiation there was a copper framed mirror lying next to me. Copper is the metal of Venus/Aphrodite; Venus/Aphrodite is an alchemical Goddess. Venus/Aphrodite is the Goddess of love and love is alchemical. Witches chant, "She changes everything She touches and everything She touches changes." Any act of alchemy then is an act of self-love.
I still wish the ancients could have come up with a softer, easier way.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat x0x0x
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Card of the Week: 10/03/2016
Communicate: Forward Movement, Truth, Connection
I’d originally drawn another card for the week but I woke up this morning with this card. It took me over 40 years to trust my instincts and intuition and at 63 I’m not going to stop now.
My friends and I are passionate men and women, actively living large as life and interacting with the world around us. Of course, we’re going to have our ups and downs; we’re loving, interesting, complicated, tender, funny human beings — not machines. I can think of a few times some my friends wouldn’t listen to reason and I sure can think of a few times I wouldn’t either. So what did we do? We gave it a rest; we went to our opposite corners till things calmed down and maybe later we’d work it out; maybe not. Maybe it would just be water under the bridge, or become a giggle between us.
I’m thinking about my friend David, who gave me dried flowers for my 37th birthday. I burst into tears, “Is this what you think?! I’m dried beauty now that I’ve turned 37!” I was newly sober, PMS to the max, and didn’t speak to him for a month. Then we ran into each other on West 77th and burst out laughing. “I’m dried beauty!” became a running gag between us. I can’t fathom at 63 why I was so upset about turning 37. I’m flashing now on a a time I was truly wrong. It was summer naturally, and I was walking through hell, on the attack, and a friend of mine took the brunt of it. I literally ruined her daughter’s birthday with my nasty texts. There were seeds of a drama present already, but still I was way of out of line. Almost a year later, I was riding my bike down Park Street when I ran into her. Not literally; she was getting the mail and I was riding by on the sidewalk. I braked; she looked at me, I looked at her. “I'm really sorry," I said. "Words cannot express how sorry I am,” and I meant it with every fiber of my being. “It’s okay,” she said, “No, it's not," I said. "I hurt you and I am truly sorry and I miss you. A lot.”
A few watery hugs later, I rode on to Brookdale Park. Walking the track, I flashed on Miranda, in the Sex in the City episode when she attacked Carrie at brunch, in the coffee shop, for going out with Mr. Big. She couldn’t understand why Carrie continued to see the man when all he did was crap all over her. If she was going to keep showing up for that nightmare of a man then she deserved it. P.S Miranda’s boyfriend had just broken up with her. Miranda stormed out of the coffee shop leaving poor Carrie quivering in her chair. Fast forward to the end of the show and Miranda is on a walk when she spies her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend near the Met. She hid behind the phone booth and watched, aching pain on her face for the man who didn’t want her. I knew that pain, who doesn't know that pain? Afterwards Miranda ran to Carrie’s, apologized, and told her she understood why she stayed with Big. Then she broke down over her ex and Carrie held her. Sometimes the point of arguments and blow-ups is to take us to a deeper intimacy with ourselves and another person. The not so pretty parts of being a human being show, like a slip, and I am ever cautioning people not the throw those parts away because they are an integral part of our humanity. Without them there would be no great books, music, movies; there would be no connection.
I think human beings in their desire for peace refuse to call something what it is for fear of appearing judgmental. But, life is a judgment call; we weigh the facts, we name, and we make a decision. Vipers in the grass are just that, vipers in the grass. Remember the scorpion who talked the frog into swimming him across the river on his back? “I can’t,” the frog said. “You’re a scorpion, you’ll sting me, and I’ll die.” “No, I won’t,” the scorpion said. So, against his better judgment, the frog swam the scorpion across the river, and the scorpion stung him right before he got off. “How could you do that?!” the frog cried, his eyes filming over with unwanted death. The scorpion said, “Because I’m a scorpion.” Clearly, peace is not the result of non-judgment. If anything refusing to judge is our undoing; we have checked out of our instincts and intuition to be fulfill some biblical or spiritual ideal of what it means to be good. You are not on the planet to be good. I am going to write that again. You are not on the planet to be good. At the same time you’re not here to be bad either, and that my darlings is the koan of life and living.
Implicit in talking things through is the idea that the person on the other end desires a mutually acceptable and beneficial resolution. Sometimes that’s the case and other times it’s just about being right. Sometimes you need someone to see and understand why you’re doing what you’re doing, but they can’t, and they won’t, because they’re either incapable of seeing past their own narcissism and envy, or they simply have no context for what you’re talking about and never will. Where we get into trouble is when we keep trying over and over to make ourselves understood to someone who will never understand. Talk about a futile battle. I remember being on the phone with a woman once, who point blank refused to get what I was saying. I was getting madder and madder and I knew it was a futile argument but I couldn’t, I wouldn’t, unhook. Even when I got off the phone I couldn’t let it go. How could she not see what I was talking about?!
The reason we can’t unhook from a futile battle is because our self-esteem and identity is tied up in the other person’s opinion. (Not that I would have believed that then) Self-esteem and identity are of the sacred feminine. When our self-esteem and identity are tied up in another’s opinion our sacred feminine is weak. The ego, or sacred masculine, serves the sacred feminine. If the sacred feminine is weak, so is the ego, and the ego ends up serving itself. Ego serving itself absolutely positively has to be right. Ergo, the futile battle — you’re-going-to-get-my-point-of-view-or-die-even-if-I-have-to-lose-years-of-my-life-fighting-with-you. We are stuck in the mud, we cannot move forward, and there is no transformation, no change, just more of the same old, same old. There is not one person reading this page who doesn’t know that stuck-in-the-mud-inability-to- move-forward feeling.
This week you’re getting ready to walk away from people, places, and things that don’t hear you. Clearly, declarations of change in any area (work, love, friendship) that have repeatedly proven to be little more than lip service, are riding your last nerve, and you’re done. This makes perfect, timely sense because summer’s astrology literally shook us out of old identities, and metamorphosis was the result. You’ve changed a lot, changes you can’t even put your finger on, and what’s beginning to work its way to the surface is that you can no longer afford to stay stuck in go nowhere conversations. It’s stopping you from following the mystical beckoning, the bliss, and living your ever-evolving truth. You don’t need anyone’s approval to step away and you certainly don’t need them to understand. You may have to be subtle, you may have to abrupt, you may have to be neutral, you might even have to cut a fiery exit, you may have to slowly ease your way out. Whatever style of action you choose remember that the action itself is an action of self love; any communication that supports the person you are, the person you are becoming, is an action of self-love. Yes, honest communication with self and the world may lose you a few people, and situations that look secure, but in the empty space is room for something new that resonates with your very being: the kind of connectedness you've wished for your entire life.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat
Communicate: Forward Movement, Truth, Connection
I’d originally drawn another card for the week but I woke up this morning with this card. It took me over 40 years to trust my instincts and intuition and at 63 I’m not going to stop now.
My friends and I are passionate men and women, actively living large as life and interacting with the world around us. Of course, we’re going to have our ups and downs; we’re loving, interesting, complicated, tender, funny human beings — not machines. I can think of a few times some my friends wouldn’t listen to reason and I sure can think of a few times I wouldn’t either. So what did we do? We gave it a rest; we went to our opposite corners till things calmed down and maybe later we’d work it out; maybe not. Maybe it would just be water under the bridge, or become a giggle between us.
I’m thinking about my friend David, who gave me dried flowers for my 37th birthday. I burst into tears, “Is this what you think?! I’m dried beauty now that I’ve turned 37!” I was newly sober, PMS to the max, and didn’t speak to him for a month. Then we ran into each other on West 77th and burst out laughing. “I’m dried beauty!” became a running gag between us. I can’t fathom at 63 why I was so upset about turning 37. I’m flashing now on a a time I was truly wrong. It was summer naturally, and I was walking through hell, on the attack, and a friend of mine took the brunt of it. I literally ruined her daughter’s birthday with my nasty texts. There were seeds of a drama present already, but still I was way of out of line. Almost a year later, I was riding my bike down Park Street when I ran into her. Not literally; she was getting the mail and I was riding by on the sidewalk. I braked; she looked at me, I looked at her. “I'm really sorry," I said. "Words cannot express how sorry I am,” and I meant it with every fiber of my being. “It’s okay,” she said, “No, it's not," I said. "I hurt you and I am truly sorry and I miss you. A lot.”
A few watery hugs later, I rode on to Brookdale Park. Walking the track, I flashed on Miranda, in the Sex in the City episode when she attacked Carrie at brunch, in the coffee shop, for going out with Mr. Big. She couldn’t understand why Carrie continued to see the man when all he did was crap all over her. If she was going to keep showing up for that nightmare of a man then she deserved it. P.S Miranda’s boyfriend had just broken up with her. Miranda stormed out of the coffee shop leaving poor Carrie quivering in her chair. Fast forward to the end of the show and Miranda is on a walk when she spies her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend near the Met. She hid behind the phone booth and watched, aching pain on her face for the man who didn’t want her. I knew that pain, who doesn't know that pain? Afterwards Miranda ran to Carrie’s, apologized, and told her she understood why she stayed with Big. Then she broke down over her ex and Carrie held her. Sometimes the point of arguments and blow-ups is to take us to a deeper intimacy with ourselves and another person. The not so pretty parts of being a human being show, like a slip, and I am ever cautioning people not the throw those parts away because they are an integral part of our humanity. Without them there would be no great books, music, movies; there would be no connection.
I think human beings in their desire for peace refuse to call something what it is for fear of appearing judgmental. But, life is a judgment call; we weigh the facts, we name, and we make a decision. Vipers in the grass are just that, vipers in the grass. Remember the scorpion who talked the frog into swimming him across the river on his back? “I can’t,” the frog said. “You’re a scorpion, you’ll sting me, and I’ll die.” “No, I won’t,” the scorpion said. So, against his better judgment, the frog swam the scorpion across the river, and the scorpion stung him right before he got off. “How could you do that?!” the frog cried, his eyes filming over with unwanted death. The scorpion said, “Because I’m a scorpion.” Clearly, peace is not the result of non-judgment. If anything refusing to judge is our undoing; we have checked out of our instincts and intuition to be fulfill some biblical or spiritual ideal of what it means to be good. You are not on the planet to be good. I am going to write that again. You are not on the planet to be good. At the same time you’re not here to be bad either, and that my darlings is the koan of life and living.
Implicit in talking things through is the idea that the person on the other end desires a mutually acceptable and beneficial resolution. Sometimes that’s the case and other times it’s just about being right. Sometimes you need someone to see and understand why you’re doing what you’re doing, but they can’t, and they won’t, because they’re either incapable of seeing past their own narcissism and envy, or they simply have no context for what you’re talking about and never will. Where we get into trouble is when we keep trying over and over to make ourselves understood to someone who will never understand. Talk about a futile battle. I remember being on the phone with a woman once, who point blank refused to get what I was saying. I was getting madder and madder and I knew it was a futile argument but I couldn’t, I wouldn’t, unhook. Even when I got off the phone I couldn’t let it go. How could she not see what I was talking about?!
The reason we can’t unhook from a futile battle is because our self-esteem and identity is tied up in the other person’s opinion. (Not that I would have believed that then) Self-esteem and identity are of the sacred feminine. When our self-esteem and identity are tied up in another’s opinion our sacred feminine is weak. The ego, or sacred masculine, serves the sacred feminine. If the sacred feminine is weak, so is the ego, and the ego ends up serving itself. Ego serving itself absolutely positively has to be right. Ergo, the futile battle — you’re-going-to-get-my-point-of-view-or-die-even-if-I-have-to-lose-years-of-my-life-fighting-with-you. We are stuck in the mud, we cannot move forward, and there is no transformation, no change, just more of the same old, same old. There is not one person reading this page who doesn’t know that stuck-in-the-mud-inability-to- move-forward feeling.
This week you’re getting ready to walk away from people, places, and things that don’t hear you. Clearly, declarations of change in any area (work, love, friendship) that have repeatedly proven to be little more than lip service, are riding your last nerve, and you’re done. This makes perfect, timely sense because summer’s astrology literally shook us out of old identities, and metamorphosis was the result. You’ve changed a lot, changes you can’t even put your finger on, and what’s beginning to work its way to the surface is that you can no longer afford to stay stuck in go nowhere conversations. It’s stopping you from following the mystical beckoning, the bliss, and living your ever-evolving truth. You don’t need anyone’s approval to step away and you certainly don’t need them to understand. You may have to be subtle, you may have to abrupt, you may have to be neutral, you might even have to cut a fiery exit, you may have to slowly ease your way out. Whatever style of action you choose remember that the action itself is an action of self love; any communication that supports the person you are, the person you are becoming, is an action of self-love. Yes, honest communication with self and the world may lose you a few people, and situations that look secure, but in the empty space is room for something new that resonates with your very being: the kind of connectedness you've wished for your entire life.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat
Card of the Week: 9/26/2016
Subtlety: Nuance, Grace, Flow
One of my dearest friends, Marie, came over this morning for a long chant; not a chat, a chant. Marie is part of what I call my circle of home. “I’m in the mood for a long chant, like 40 minutes worth of chant,” I text-ed, and Marie was there. We were exhausted after chanting, breathless, our throats sore. We did some breathing exercises, patted ourselves all over to get back into body, and looked at each other as if to ask, “What the fuck was that?” We weren’t quite sure what had happened but something clearly had. Something subtle — that we couldn’t quite put our finger on and didn’t have the words for — but we knew we wanted more of it, whatever it was. Without saying, we both knew we would do it again next Sunday.
When I drew the subtlety card for the week, the first thing I thought was, what a lost art — subtlety. Then I remembered something I’d read in Joan Didion’s book, “The Year of Magical Thinking.” The story is about the death of her husband and her subsequent adjustment. She wrote that the first few months after her husband’s death, she was incapable of being around other human beings. It was quite simply too much for her. Without any prompting or a phone call directive, one of her best friends went to Chinatown everyday, bought a quart of congee soup, and left it on her doorstep. As Ms. Didion wrote, congee soup, she could do. What a great friend, I thought. She respected Joan’s wishes and at the same let her know she was there. In today’s culture, if someone lost a husband on a T.V. show, and the widow requested to be left alone, there would probably be an intervention (after her best friend broke a window and crawled inside) to discuss why she wanted to be alone, how wrong it was for her to be alone, and her friends’ feelings about how her wanting to be alone affected them. Sometimes people’s choices are more important than how they affect you; sometimes people’s choices have virtually nothing to do with you.
Subtlety is a quality of the wise. I watched an elder once, listening to a young witch tell her what she was going to do to the person who’d crossed her. Oh she was carrying on, the young one, smashing her fist in her hand, righteously angry, it was something to see. The elder was neutral and loving; she listened and nodded. And when the girl finished she asked the elder if she any magical recommendations. The elder thought a moment, and then she said very thoughtfully. “I might wait a month or two before I did anything.”
“I know, I know,” the young witch said quickly, defensively, “You don’t do spells when you’re angry.”
The old witch smiled. “Oh I’ve done a few, dear,” she said, “but that’s not what I’m thinking, I’m thinking you’re on a journey to know self, that’s what you told me awhile ago, and that was the whole reason you became a witch. I’m thinking your soul may have created this whole situation for you as part of your self-discovery.”
The elder spoke kindly and with respect and it was clear the young witch felt, seen, heard, and affirmed. All the ingredients were present for the discussion to devolve into a-my-way-versus-your way-battle, which the young witch, was clearly brewing for. The old witch defused the situation with love and caring and taught the young woman something at the same time, without humiliating her. The next thing I knew she was showing the young woman how to carve an uncrossing candle.
It strikes me that subtlety usually has a point, an end goal. We don’t always have to shout; we don’t always have to get in someone’s face. Sometimes a look, a glance, a tone of voice, the way we present something, a quiet, unobtrusive action, says more than an 865-page novel, and is odds on the best way to proceed. Clearly subtlety involves a certain amount of detachment and strength of character to avoid being trapped in futile battles. Ego battles. We need ego like we need our lungs, but when ego serves itself rather than the soul, the fight turns into a power battle — being right, smarter than you, more spiritual than you, more moral than you, bigger and better than you — rather than accomplishing a life-affirming goal.
I couldn’t understand why the Goddess wanted me to name the deer card I created, subtlety. Now I get it. The old witch and Joan Didion’s friend are perfect examples of heart energy, gentleness, and the ability to move through life, and whatever life presents, with grace. At the same time the deer is ever vigilant, aware of her surroundings, and can change directions in the blink of an eye. I’m flashing on Obi Wan Kanobi in the Star Wars bar.
In terms of practical application, the subtlety card has several meanings. First off, when you’re working towards a desired goal, and life tosses a monkey wrench in to your plans, don’t fight the monkey wrench. Simply look for alternative routes to get where you’re going. There are always alternative routes. Secondly, if you don’t need to shout, don’t. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for shouting if it’s called for, but ¾’s of the time it isn’t called for and will do more damage than good. Thirdly, subtlety is rooted in flow. What I know now, with the passage of a few hours, and through writing this piece, is that Marie and I were subtlety changed after that 40-minute chant. We’d experienced our connection to life more powerfully than we’d ever experienced it, and we’ve been doing this awhile. There was no question we were the same energy as the winds sweeping across the steppes, the fire burning in the cold, the sweet stream flowing through a summer meadow. We were all of that, and more, and when you come out of something like that you’re changed. The world still looks pretty much the same but you’re changed and the way you connect to you will never be the same because you know the mystery that can’t be spoken.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
Subtlety: Nuance, Grace, Flow
One of my dearest friends, Marie, came over this morning for a long chant; not a chat, a chant. Marie is part of what I call my circle of home. “I’m in the mood for a long chant, like 40 minutes worth of chant,” I text-ed, and Marie was there. We were exhausted after chanting, breathless, our throats sore. We did some breathing exercises, patted ourselves all over to get back into body, and looked at each other as if to ask, “What the fuck was that?” We weren’t quite sure what had happened but something clearly had. Something subtle — that we couldn’t quite put our finger on and didn’t have the words for — but we knew we wanted more of it, whatever it was. Without saying, we both knew we would do it again next Sunday.
When I drew the subtlety card for the week, the first thing I thought was, what a lost art — subtlety. Then I remembered something I’d read in Joan Didion’s book, “The Year of Magical Thinking.” The story is about the death of her husband and her subsequent adjustment. She wrote that the first few months after her husband’s death, she was incapable of being around other human beings. It was quite simply too much for her. Without any prompting or a phone call directive, one of her best friends went to Chinatown everyday, bought a quart of congee soup, and left it on her doorstep. As Ms. Didion wrote, congee soup, she could do. What a great friend, I thought. She respected Joan’s wishes and at the same let her know she was there. In today’s culture, if someone lost a husband on a T.V. show, and the widow requested to be left alone, there would probably be an intervention (after her best friend broke a window and crawled inside) to discuss why she wanted to be alone, how wrong it was for her to be alone, and her friends’ feelings about how her wanting to be alone affected them. Sometimes people’s choices are more important than how they affect you; sometimes people’s choices have virtually nothing to do with you.
Subtlety is a quality of the wise. I watched an elder once, listening to a young witch tell her what she was going to do to the person who’d crossed her. Oh she was carrying on, the young one, smashing her fist in her hand, righteously angry, it was something to see. The elder was neutral and loving; she listened and nodded. And when the girl finished she asked the elder if she any magical recommendations. The elder thought a moment, and then she said very thoughtfully. “I might wait a month or two before I did anything.”
“I know, I know,” the young witch said quickly, defensively, “You don’t do spells when you’re angry.”
The old witch smiled. “Oh I’ve done a few, dear,” she said, “but that’s not what I’m thinking, I’m thinking you’re on a journey to know self, that’s what you told me awhile ago, and that was the whole reason you became a witch. I’m thinking your soul may have created this whole situation for you as part of your self-discovery.”
The elder spoke kindly and with respect and it was clear the young witch felt, seen, heard, and affirmed. All the ingredients were present for the discussion to devolve into a-my-way-versus-your way-battle, which the young witch, was clearly brewing for. The old witch defused the situation with love and caring and taught the young woman something at the same time, without humiliating her. The next thing I knew she was showing the young woman how to carve an uncrossing candle.
It strikes me that subtlety usually has a point, an end goal. We don’t always have to shout; we don’t always have to get in someone’s face. Sometimes a look, a glance, a tone of voice, the way we present something, a quiet, unobtrusive action, says more than an 865-page novel, and is odds on the best way to proceed. Clearly subtlety involves a certain amount of detachment and strength of character to avoid being trapped in futile battles. Ego battles. We need ego like we need our lungs, but when ego serves itself rather than the soul, the fight turns into a power battle — being right, smarter than you, more spiritual than you, more moral than you, bigger and better than you — rather than accomplishing a life-affirming goal.
I couldn’t understand why the Goddess wanted me to name the deer card I created, subtlety. Now I get it. The old witch and Joan Didion’s friend are perfect examples of heart energy, gentleness, and the ability to move through life, and whatever life presents, with grace. At the same time the deer is ever vigilant, aware of her surroundings, and can change directions in the blink of an eye. I’m flashing on Obi Wan Kanobi in the Star Wars bar.
In terms of practical application, the subtlety card has several meanings. First off, when you’re working towards a desired goal, and life tosses a monkey wrench in to your plans, don’t fight the monkey wrench. Simply look for alternative routes to get where you’re going. There are always alternative routes. Secondly, if you don’t need to shout, don’t. Don’t get me wrong I’m all for shouting if it’s called for, but ¾’s of the time it isn’t called for and will do more damage than good. Thirdly, subtlety is rooted in flow. What I know now, with the passage of a few hours, and through writing this piece, is that Marie and I were subtlety changed after that 40-minute chant. We’d experienced our connection to life more powerfully than we’d ever experienced it, and we’ve been doing this awhile. There was no question we were the same energy as the winds sweeping across the steppes, the fire burning in the cold, the sweet stream flowing through a summer meadow. We were all of that, and more, and when you come out of something like that you’re changed. The world still looks pretty much the same but you’re changed and the way you connect to you will never be the same because you know the mystery that can’t be spoken.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
Card of the week 9/19/2016
Cosmic Order — Soul Needs, Deliberate steps, Path of the most light
During a Saturn return the needs of soul come into direct conflict with the needs of ego. The Saturn return happens once, every 27-29 years. The point of this evolutionary battle is to harness the ego, what I call the sacred masculine, to serve the soul, what I call the sacred feminine. When the ego is not serving the soul, but itself alone, it ultimately kills the soul.
The sacred masculine serves the life and the health of the (sacred feminine) soul, not as slave but as partner and compliment. For instance, I love to write. Writing for me is a soul need. My healthy ego is what says, “This work is good enough to put out in the world and this is how I’m going to do it.” In other words, I am in partnership with me. And if I can be in partnership with self, I can be in true partnership with others because I don’t need them to make me whole. I already am.
The tainted masculine, ego serving ego, attempts to run pipelines through sacred burial sites and sets dogs onto the protectors. The tainted masculine creates (profit) outside of what was freely given (air, water, the miracle of body) and orders the world accordingly. The tainted masculine is all about king of the mountain, dog eat dog, survival of the fittest, and the many living to serve the One.
Last week we dealt with metamorphosis and the sense of forced radical change. The whole summer has been about shaking off old identities and getting clear on what you don’t want in your life. For most of the people I know it's been pretty damn brutal. This week Cosmic Order is in play. The summer and last week’s metamorphosis has either aligned you with your soul needs, or moved you closer to knowing or becoming aware of your soul needs. There is a hunger to soul needs, a yearning, a damn-I-wish-I-could have-that. Right use of ego, (the sacred masculine) in this instance is about taking small, deliberate steps (serving the soul/sacred feminine) to satisfy those needs. It’s the small, deliberate steps that build to the big changes.
In the next week, take a moment to think about the things your soul years for. Then think about the feeling having that thing will give you. It could be security, love, joy, freedom, peace, etc. Now what you're going to do is take one small perfect action that gives you the feeling of (security, love, joy, freedom, peace, etc.) underneath the thing. Then take another small, perfect action that gives you the same feeling(s) and another action after that. You're working with essence here, not form; you're changing your reality by focusing and enlarging the feeling underneath the thing you want.
This is how you begin to say yes to you and if you keep it up essence will begin to attract form; maybe not in the shape you're expecting but in the shape that is in right and perfect alignment with your soul and soul needs. As you say yes to you, don’t be surprised if a voice in your head begins hissing, “You don’t have time for this. You should be doing this, that, or the other.” Know that voice is rooted in your programming/socialization and your programming/socialization was first and foremost about shaping you to fit into family, society, and culture. You’re not here to fit in; that’s not your job. You’re here to evolve into your most authentic self and connect with others on the same, diverging, or complimentary paths. That’s where you organically fit, my darlings, that's where you will feel the greatest sense of belonging, that's where you have the opportunity to fulfill the sacred writings on your soul, and that is what walking the path of light is all about.
Cosmic Order fully supports us as we begin to peel away the shackles of “should” and slowly but surely ease into our own unique being. See you next week.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
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“Deposit what I'm about to tell you in your sanity bank. You don’t have the neet-neets because you’re crazy. Those critical, belittling voices in your head don’t belong to you, and they’re acting up because your life experience is telling you that you need to break free from your programming and live your myth. Not my myth, not your mother's, your father's, your husband's, society's, a lovers, but your myth.”
http://www.katherinemanaan.com/sober-witch/the-voices-in-my-head
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Cosmic Order — Soul Needs, Deliberate steps, Path of the most light
During a Saturn return the needs of soul come into direct conflict with the needs of ego. The Saturn return happens once, every 27-29 years. The point of this evolutionary battle is to harness the ego, what I call the sacred masculine, to serve the soul, what I call the sacred feminine. When the ego is not serving the soul, but itself alone, it ultimately kills the soul.
The sacred masculine serves the life and the health of the (sacred feminine) soul, not as slave but as partner and compliment. For instance, I love to write. Writing for me is a soul need. My healthy ego is what says, “This work is good enough to put out in the world and this is how I’m going to do it.” In other words, I am in partnership with me. And if I can be in partnership with self, I can be in true partnership with others because I don’t need them to make me whole. I already am.
The tainted masculine, ego serving ego, attempts to run pipelines through sacred burial sites and sets dogs onto the protectors. The tainted masculine creates (profit) outside of what was freely given (air, water, the miracle of body) and orders the world accordingly. The tainted masculine is all about king of the mountain, dog eat dog, survival of the fittest, and the many living to serve the One.
Last week we dealt with metamorphosis and the sense of forced radical change. The whole summer has been about shaking off old identities and getting clear on what you don’t want in your life. For most of the people I know it's been pretty damn brutal. This week Cosmic Order is in play. The summer and last week’s metamorphosis has either aligned you with your soul needs, or moved you closer to knowing or becoming aware of your soul needs. There is a hunger to soul needs, a yearning, a damn-I-wish-I-could have-that. Right use of ego, (the sacred masculine) in this instance is about taking small, deliberate steps (serving the soul/sacred feminine) to satisfy those needs. It’s the small, deliberate steps that build to the big changes.
In the next week, take a moment to think about the things your soul years for. Then think about the feeling having that thing will give you. It could be security, love, joy, freedom, peace, etc. Now what you're going to do is take one small perfect action that gives you the feeling of (security, love, joy, freedom, peace, etc.) underneath the thing. Then take another small, perfect action that gives you the same feeling(s) and another action after that. You're working with essence here, not form; you're changing your reality by focusing and enlarging the feeling underneath the thing you want.
This is how you begin to say yes to you and if you keep it up essence will begin to attract form; maybe not in the shape you're expecting but in the shape that is in right and perfect alignment with your soul and soul needs. As you say yes to you, don’t be surprised if a voice in your head begins hissing, “You don’t have time for this. You should be doing this, that, or the other.” Know that voice is rooted in your programming/socialization and your programming/socialization was first and foremost about shaping you to fit into family, society, and culture. You’re not here to fit in; that’s not your job. You’re here to evolve into your most authentic self and connect with others on the same, diverging, or complimentary paths. That’s where you organically fit, my darlings, that's where you will feel the greatest sense of belonging, that's where you have the opportunity to fulfill the sacred writings on your soul, and that is what walking the path of light is all about.
Cosmic Order fully supports us as we begin to peel away the shackles of “should” and slowly but surely ease into our own unique being. See you next week.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
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“Deposit what I'm about to tell you in your sanity bank. You don’t have the neet-neets because you’re crazy. Those critical, belittling voices in your head don’t belong to you, and they’re acting up because your life experience is telling you that you need to break free from your programming and live your myth. Not my myth, not your mother's, your father's, your husband's, society's, a lovers, but your myth.”
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Card of the Week 9/11/2016
Salamander – Fluidity, Metamorphosis, Radical Change
Salamanders are the magical creatures of the South. The South is the direction of fire, but salamanders live in damp places; under stones in streams or under logs in forests. Right off the bat there’s an opposition. In witchcraft everything contains its opposite, not in terms of opposing but in terms of compliment. When I think metamorphosis, I think big changes, meaning: I’ve never done what I’m about to do before, and I’m not quite sure how it’s going to look, or how it’s going to turn out, but I am going towards it anyway, because I really don’t have a choice, even though I know I always have a choice, but right now it feels like I don’t and it’s scaring the crap out of me.
Metamorphosis, what I think of as inevitable, radical change, always involves anxiety, sleepless nights, and stepping through a wall of fear. The moment we step through our fears we begin to have a different relationship with self and with others. It can be hard when you’re stepping through your fears to be around others who are stuck in theirs, and believe me you will notice. It’s not up to you to tell them though, that they need to step through their fear, that’s up to them to discover. Bless them and get on with your life. You take care of your side of the street. What I find particularly helpful when I’m going through radical change is I imagine myself wrapped in a black velvet cloak; that way all the actions I’m taking have time to cook inside me free of outside interference. In my experience metamorphosis is a solitary journey.
A lot has happened in the past two weeks. First we were shook out of old identities like a chew toy for a giant dog. Then we had to face what was revealed, which is triggering a major metamorphosis. You may be feeling inundated with details, you may be feeling unsure and confused about how to proceed; all you know is that you can’t hold on to an old way of living, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. You must move forward. Even if you try to reach back to what was once secure, it will slip through your fingers like sand. Impatience will get you no where right now; consistent movement forward — small, well-thought out actions — will.
Whatever is happening, approach it as if you’re sailing a boat. Yes, you’re steering but you have to work the sails just so, to catch the wind. You have to pay attention and tack out of the way of the drunken speedboat racer and the sandbar. You have to pay attention to the currents, the tides, all the while keeping your eyes on the goal of reaching the far shore that you can’t see yet, but you know is there. You have to be aware of the thunderclouds coming up in the northeast and maybe make for shore along the way just in case a storm comes up. Once the storm passes you’ll be back on the water sailing for the far shore once again. Sailing is a moment-by-moment experience. You don’t get all bent over the obstacles and challenges in your path; you simply accept their presence, tact around them, and continue to sail for the far shore that you can’t see yet, but you know is there. Your will and the will of wind, water, and climate are in perfect synchronicity — fluid.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
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This month's Sober Witch: The Voices In My Head
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Salamander – Fluidity, Metamorphosis, Radical Change
Salamanders are the magical creatures of the South. The South is the direction of fire, but salamanders live in damp places; under stones in streams or under logs in forests. Right off the bat there’s an opposition. In witchcraft everything contains its opposite, not in terms of opposing but in terms of compliment. When I think metamorphosis, I think big changes, meaning: I’ve never done what I’m about to do before, and I’m not quite sure how it’s going to look, or how it’s going to turn out, but I am going towards it anyway, because I really don’t have a choice, even though I know I always have a choice, but right now it feels like I don’t and it’s scaring the crap out of me.
Metamorphosis, what I think of as inevitable, radical change, always involves anxiety, sleepless nights, and stepping through a wall of fear. The moment we step through our fears we begin to have a different relationship with self and with others. It can be hard when you’re stepping through your fears to be around others who are stuck in theirs, and believe me you will notice. It’s not up to you to tell them though, that they need to step through their fear, that’s up to them to discover. Bless them and get on with your life. You take care of your side of the street. What I find particularly helpful when I’m going through radical change is I imagine myself wrapped in a black velvet cloak; that way all the actions I’m taking have time to cook inside me free of outside interference. In my experience metamorphosis is a solitary journey.
A lot has happened in the past two weeks. First we were shook out of old identities like a chew toy for a giant dog. Then we had to face what was revealed, which is triggering a major metamorphosis. You may be feeling inundated with details, you may be feeling unsure and confused about how to proceed; all you know is that you can’t hold on to an old way of living, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. You must move forward. Even if you try to reach back to what was once secure, it will slip through your fingers like sand. Impatience will get you no where right now; consistent movement forward — small, well-thought out actions — will.
Whatever is happening, approach it as if you’re sailing a boat. Yes, you’re steering but you have to work the sails just so, to catch the wind. You have to pay attention and tack out of the way of the drunken speedboat racer and the sandbar. You have to pay attention to the currents, the tides, all the while keeping your eyes on the goal of reaching the far shore that you can’t see yet, but you know is there. You have to be aware of the thunderclouds coming up in the northeast and maybe make for shore along the way just in case a storm comes up. Once the storm passes you’ll be back on the water sailing for the far shore once again. Sailing is a moment-by-moment experience. You don’t get all bent over the obstacles and challenges in your path; you simply accept their presence, tact around them, and continue to sail for the far shore that you can’t see yet, but you know is there. Your will and the will of wind, water, and climate are in perfect synchronicity — fluid.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
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This month's Sober Witch: The Voices In My Head
September Goddess Heal Mystic Newsletter
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There will be no weekly card September 3rd as I will be on vacation. The Weekly Card will resume September 10th. In the meantime please feel free to scroll down the page and read the previous cards. There may be something there that resonates for you. Much love, Katherine
Card of the Week 8/29/2016
Owl — Insight
Last week I drew the bat and spoke of magical death — the dying that must happen in order for the new to be born. I wrote the following: “Magical death feels like being caught in a tidal wave; you can’t fight the build of the wave and you certainly can’t fight the current. The wave breaks, and you are washed onto the beach. When you come to, you’re completely amazed you’re still alive and probably pretty confused — unsure of WTF just happened.”
The good news is this week, the waters are calming, you’re calming, and insight is going to start to nudge its way to the surface. Keeping in mind magical death leads to the resurrection of something inside you that has been dormant, the coming insight has to do with that which is being resurrected. Some of my clients are not particularly pleased with the life themes and/or aspects of self that are being resurrected. If you're bumping into something you really, really don’t like about yourself, a repeating theme, a type of behavior, a life choice, try wrapping love around it. Think of something you love beyond all reason, then take that feeling and wrap it around the thing you don’t like.
Once I had a dream and in the dream I was fighting a misshapen, pointy-headed monster. There was no question, it was either her or me, and it sure as hell wasn’t going to be me. I saw this as great progress; in the past I would have just let her kill me, that I was actually defending myself was a very big deal. I finally had the monster down, my hands on her throat, when I looked into her eyes. There was so much fear and hatred reflected back at me my breath caught in my throat. I couldn't kill her. I just couldn't. Keeping her pinned with one hand, I ran my other hand down the length of her short, cramped body, feeding in Reiki energy. She struggled against the energy and then she closed her eyes and sighed. I fed in more Reiki, and more, she started to shrink, got smaller and smaller. When I knew it was safe, I took my hand off her throat, gathered her into my lap, and kept feeding Reiki into her. She transformed into the holy child, the most beautiful, radiant redheaded little girl. I heard, “She changes everything She touches, and everything She touches changes.”
I am ever amazed that my worst self contains my best self and vice versa. Love allows me to uncover this truth. It's not about getting rid of one thing or the other, it's about allowing for healing between the two opposites. Love is alchemical; love changes everything it touches and everything it touches changes. Too often people are told to love what they don't love about themselves and that's pretty close to impossible. What you can do is wrap what you consider to be a defect, in love beyond all reason, and it will transmute and transform into the numinous.
It’s a week for groking. Are you familiar with the term grok? The term was coined by Robert A. Heinlein, in his novel, “Stranger In A Strange Land.” To grok is to empathetically understand and grasp an idea/ feeling/ concept, so deeply you don't question the validity of your own knowing. That’s the quality of insight the owl card represents. Since insight of this kind invariably leads to action, it’s a great week for calling on an angel to help you navigate through the results of your insight. Write a want ad. Write — Seeking Angel For — and write down what you need the angel to do. It can be as specific as “help me make a major move, find a job, and get into school,” or as general as “help, just help!” Once a day for seven days, sit where you won’t be disturbed and read over your angel ad. Close your eyes and feel the wings of the angel you’ve summoned to help you wrap around you. The other action that would be effective this week and works beautifully with the angel ad is to pray for right action. Say: I sincerely invite the divine within and of my sacred path to be the guiding force in this day and my life. Please guide me through (whatever you need guidance through.) Both the angel ad and the prayer will make wise use of the eclipse energy September 1st.
See y'all next week!
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
Goddess Heal Mystic — September Newsletter
Card of the Week 8/22/2016
Bat — Magical Death, Listening to instinct, intuition, Adapt
This past Thursday we had an eclipse-that-wasn’t-an-eclipse-but-kinda-was and a full moon. If you felt a little or a lot nuts, it’s because the energy is shaking us out of old identities. When the bat shows up, what I call magical death is afoot. I acted for 15 years and then one night while I was waiting in the wings, furious with at my director, and about to go on, I thought: there has to be something with more meaning for me. Notice I said “for me.” I am not in any way disparaging acting, actors, or an art form which I respect beyond all reason.
Two weeks later I quit the show and I quit acting. My entire identity had been wrapped up in being an actress; my ego was wrapped up in being an actress, I’d dedicated 15 years of my life to being an actress and I just quit. But I honestly felt like I had no choice. Magical death feels like being caught in a tidal wave; you can’t fight the build of the wave and you certainly can’t fight the current. The wave breaks, and you are washed onto the beach. When you come to, you’re completely amazed you’re still alive and probably pretty confused — unsure of WTF just happened.
The purpose of life is to evolve. Magical death rips away the old pieces of self that no longer serve your evolution and resurrection follows. What is being resurrected is already inside you — you were born with it — and what has lain fallow your entire life now has the opportunity to come to the surface. That’s the whole point of magical death. Think of your old identity as a jungle gym. You knew those bars inside out; you knew when to swing, jump, bob, weave, and somersault. But now that the tidal wave has destroyed your jungle gym, there’s nothing but wide-open space around you and the landscape looks entirely different. What are you doing to do now?
First things first. Know that whatever is being resurrected will put you more in touch with your authentic self. Uncomfortable as that can be, it is ultimately more comfortable and beneficial to live as the ever evolving, thinking, feeling human being you are, rather then what people/programming expect you to be. The authentic self is the divine self, the sacred self, made visible in the world through our interactions with others. When we resurrect after magical death, we meet a piece of self we don’t know. Getting to know that piece is going to change the way we interact with self and the world. Like magical death, resurrection has its own current; its own force, you can’t dictate the terms or the timing. You can however surf the currents.
Think growing down, (a term coined by Lorna Bevan at Hare in the Moon astrology) Create a time when you will not be disturbed. Unplug everything. Sit comfortably on a chair or the floor, and do the Tara chant for 5 minutes. If you have mala beads, chant around the mala 4-5 times.
(I have written the Tara chant as it sounds as the end of this post.)
When you’ve finished chanting, inhale and exhale three times, nice and slow. On the exhale, feel the tension drain out of your feet. Now, imagine dropping a root from the base of your spine deep into the earth, into the heart of the earth. Imagine a root growing off the main root into the east of the earth, another root into the south of the earth, another root into the west of the earth and another root into the north of the earth. The energy of the four directions flows into the main root joining the energy from the heart of the earth and traveling up, up into your body. Contain the energy. Visualize a quiet place of peace; it can be a pond, the mountains, the ocean. You can visualize anywhere from 5 minutes to 30. When you’re finished, release your root into the earth.
Say the following prayer:
I sincerely invite the divine within and of my sacred path to be the guiding force in this day and my life.
Say the following affirmations:
I deeply love and approve of myself.
I am magnetic and receptive to my deepest and highest good.
I am willing to be willing to trust in my process.
Tara Chant/ written exactly like it sounds, which means it's spelled incorrectly.
OM TAR RA TOO
TAR REE RAY
SWA HA
Have a great week my darlings.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat
For a soul reading with Kat
August Soul Nurture: Living Witch: The Power of Self-love
Bat — Magical Death, Listening to instinct, intuition, Adapt
This past Thursday we had an eclipse-that-wasn’t-an-eclipse-but-kinda-was and a full moon. If you felt a little or a lot nuts, it’s because the energy is shaking us out of old identities. When the bat shows up, what I call magical death is afoot. I acted for 15 years and then one night while I was waiting in the wings, furious with at my director, and about to go on, I thought: there has to be something with more meaning for me. Notice I said “for me.” I am not in any way disparaging acting, actors, or an art form which I respect beyond all reason.
Two weeks later I quit the show and I quit acting. My entire identity had been wrapped up in being an actress; my ego was wrapped up in being an actress, I’d dedicated 15 years of my life to being an actress and I just quit. But I honestly felt like I had no choice. Magical death feels like being caught in a tidal wave; you can’t fight the build of the wave and you certainly can’t fight the current. The wave breaks, and you are washed onto the beach. When you come to, you’re completely amazed you’re still alive and probably pretty confused — unsure of WTF just happened.
The purpose of life is to evolve. Magical death rips away the old pieces of self that no longer serve your evolution and resurrection follows. What is being resurrected is already inside you — you were born with it — and what has lain fallow your entire life now has the opportunity to come to the surface. That’s the whole point of magical death. Think of your old identity as a jungle gym. You knew those bars inside out; you knew when to swing, jump, bob, weave, and somersault. But now that the tidal wave has destroyed your jungle gym, there’s nothing but wide-open space around you and the landscape looks entirely different. What are you doing to do now?
First things first. Know that whatever is being resurrected will put you more in touch with your authentic self. Uncomfortable as that can be, it is ultimately more comfortable and beneficial to live as the ever evolving, thinking, feeling human being you are, rather then what people/programming expect you to be. The authentic self is the divine self, the sacred self, made visible in the world through our interactions with others. When we resurrect after magical death, we meet a piece of self we don’t know. Getting to know that piece is going to change the way we interact with self and the world. Like magical death, resurrection has its own current; its own force, you can’t dictate the terms or the timing. You can however surf the currents.
Think growing down, (a term coined by Lorna Bevan at Hare in the Moon astrology) Create a time when you will not be disturbed. Unplug everything. Sit comfortably on a chair or the floor, and do the Tara chant for 5 minutes. If you have mala beads, chant around the mala 4-5 times.
(I have written the Tara chant as it sounds as the end of this post.)
When you’ve finished chanting, inhale and exhale three times, nice and slow. On the exhale, feel the tension drain out of your feet. Now, imagine dropping a root from the base of your spine deep into the earth, into the heart of the earth. Imagine a root growing off the main root into the east of the earth, another root into the south of the earth, another root into the west of the earth and another root into the north of the earth. The energy of the four directions flows into the main root joining the energy from the heart of the earth and traveling up, up into your body. Contain the energy. Visualize a quiet place of peace; it can be a pond, the mountains, the ocean. You can visualize anywhere from 5 minutes to 30. When you’re finished, release your root into the earth.
Say the following prayer:
I sincerely invite the divine within and of my sacred path to be the guiding force in this day and my life.
Say the following affirmations:
I deeply love and approve of myself.
I am magnetic and receptive to my deepest and highest good.
I am willing to be willing to trust in my process.
Tara Chant/ written exactly like it sounds, which means it's spelled incorrectly.
OM TAR RA TOO
TAR REE RAY
SWA HA
Have a great week my darlings.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat
For a soul reading with Kat
August Soul Nurture: Living Witch: The Power of Self-love
Card of the Week 8/15/2016
Bridge – Connect
In answer to the questions I have received…I drew the Woman Wild Oracle Cards almost 10 years ago, in the Bronx, at SunRose Aromatics. They were based on the angel cards only instead of using angels; I used symbols of the Goddess. Ultimately I named cards, the Woman Wild Oracle.
The Bridge: The Bridge is about ignoring the petty bullshit and connecting with that which holds resonance for you. The bridge speaks of opportunity(s) to connect, to lay foundation, to bring together disparate points of view. Bridges are neutral; the points they connect rarely are. Try not to internalize the volatility of either side. Instead, literally see yourself building as strong a bridge as possible. Use your imagination; how many in your crew, where are you building the bridge, is it a suspension bridge, a rope bridge, a wooden bridge, covered, uncovered? Think of the bridge you are building as an invitation; you are creating an invitation, inviting people to walk across, and your bridge is so wonderful looking it’s hard to refuse.
The card can also mean you are your own bridge out of futile battles. You know the ones, arguments you can’t possibly win that go round and round and round. The argument can be with another person or even with you. If it’s with another person, give them a rest; step away. Don’t even think of building bridges between points of dysfunctional. Instead, think of holding a mirrored shield and mirror them back onto their shining path and off of yours. Be gentle, be firm, be consistent. If it’s a battle with you, you can be pretty sure you’re caught in a critical loop, where you are continually coming up lacking. It’s akin to all the times you’ve awakened to noise in your head, pain in your heart, and said I am just not in the mood for this today.
When I wake up and the noise is on me, I pretend I’m Tarzan. I beat my chest and holler; “AHEEAHEEAH!” Then I grab a vine, and swing myself up onto one of the rope bridges that run through the jungle. Birds screech and the monkeys applaud as I walk across the bridge and into my day. If nothing else the exercise will make you laugh and there is no better bridge to the other side, than laughter:):)
Live loud, love fierce and suffer no fools, Kat (aka Katherine Manaan)
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Card for the week, 8/8/2016
Kheperi – “I am the becoming, coming forth by day, I become the night, I become the day, I am the becoming.” Kheperi chant.
Take a moment and think of how your external circumstances color the expression of your being. For instance, when I was actively raising a child, I was first and foremost a mother. My identity was completely wrapped up in being a mother. It was my focus, the lens through which I viewed my life. Today, I am still a mother but not parenting 24-7 and no longer see life through the lens of a mother raising a child but through the cat eye of the crone.
I love to think of life experience as ingredients. I think of astrological and numerical charts as ingredients also and the phases of life. You are born with the power to figure out what kind of cake you’re going to make. You’re born with the power to mix your ingredients together anyway you’d like. The culture is hell bent on programming people to believe that they are utterly without power to impact much of anything. This is a great big lie. We have the same power as the sun that rises and sets and rises again. We are ever becoming, developing, creating, bringing forth and destroying that which has no benefit. That’s hard to remember in the midst of the horrors we see on a daily basis, but those horrors can only be changed if we reclaim our power, individually and collectively. Right use of power is love made visible; power meant to keep you groveling on your knees is mutant.
To reclaim your power is to recognize and own your ability to energetically impact your life. Life experience is part of ever becoming; it ultimately colors who and what we are, who and what we become. Like the sun we live, we die, we are reborn; we are dawn, day, dusk, and night. This week, practice rooting. Drop a root from the base of your spine deep into the earth. Imagine four separate roots growing from the main root. One reaches into the east of the earth, one into the south of the earth, one into the west of the earth and one into the north of the earth. This root configuration will put you in the flow of your becoming, which will connect to other’s becoming. As our truth connects, we grow in strength, not by denying what’s happening, but by taking right action to maintain our humanity.
Have a great week.
Live loud, Love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat (aka Katherine Manaan)
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Card for the week, 8/8/2016
Kheperi – “I am the becoming, coming forth by day, I become the night, I become the day, I am the becoming.” Kheperi chant.
Take a moment and think of how your external circumstances color the expression of your being. For instance, when I was actively raising a child, I was first and foremost a mother. My identity was completely wrapped up in being a mother. It was my focus, the lens through which I viewed my life. Today, I am still a mother but not parenting 24-7 and no longer see life through the lens of a mother raising a child but through the cat eye of the crone.
I love to think of life experience as ingredients. I think of astrological and numerical charts as ingredients also and the phases of life. You are born with the power to figure out what kind of cake you’re going to make. You’re born with the power to mix your ingredients together anyway you’d like. The culture is hell bent on programming people to believe that they are utterly without power to impact much of anything. This is a great big lie. We have the same power as the sun that rises and sets and rises again. We are ever becoming, developing, creating, bringing forth and destroying that which has no benefit. That’s hard to remember in the midst of the horrors we see on a daily basis, but those horrors can only be changed if we reclaim our power, individually and collectively. Right use of power is love made visible; power meant to keep you groveling on your knees is mutant.
To reclaim your power is to recognize and own your ability to energetically impact your life. Life experience is part of ever becoming; it ultimately colors who and what we are, who and what we become. Like the sun we live, we die, we are reborn; we are dawn, day, dusk, and night. This week, practice rooting. Drop a root from the base of your spine deep into the earth. Imagine four separate roots growing from the main root. One reaches into the east of the earth, one into the south of the earth, one into the west of the earth and one into the north of the earth. This root configuration will put you in the flow of your becoming, which will connect to other’s becoming. As our truth connects, we grow in strength, not by denying what’s happening, but by taking right action to maintain our humanity.
Have a great week.
Live loud, Love fierce, and suffer no fools. Kat (aka Katherine Manaan)
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