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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (spiritual self-reliance) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival…

 

One thing that’s always driven me nuts in the modern shamanism community is the over-reliance on guides, to a fault. “Let me check with my guides,” “If Eagle says it’s permissible,” “When I get clearance from Isis…” I can’t tell you how often I’ve heard comments like that. Or the inverse, “I keep asking my totem about ___, and I get no response,” or “When I present so-and-so, my guide just stares at me.” I was guilty of it myself in the beginning, and I realize now that if a spirit guide is truly doing its job, the push-back on the shamanist is priority.

I’ve always joked from the beginning of my path that I have tough love guides, and I did. I do. However, in the beginning, they were always there. They always showed up, even if they were mute and presented me with puzzles. Now, though, the stakes are much higher, personally, professionally, and collectively. The advent of conflict in how we all live is higher much higher than it was 25 years ago, and that’s true even in the Dreaming. It’snot at all uncommon for guides not to show up, to force self-reliance–and that’s not just IMO.

That reality flies in the face of what many modern shamanists think the job of spirit guides is, which is to be at their beck and call. I find a great deal of angel overlap in that perspective, as if divinity is a messenger, a conduit, an errand girl. As if we have no role to be active in that relationship. The wakeup call with that dynamic is, that’s why specific guides come to us. Because through us they have expression. They have the opportunity to affect form. If we behave as if they have no need of us, as if we only need them, we weaken the relationship and forego the potential for reciprocity.

That’s all well and good–that the spirit ally street goes both ways. The challenge therein is we have to be mature enough to handle crossing the street. We have to be stable in our mundane lives, heads, hearts, and all, to do it justice. We must be mindful before emotional and sometimes instead of spiritual. The real issue that I see with passing the buck to guides is that we’re not holding up our end of the deal when we can’t choose food from a menu without checking in with them, first.

Too often in the modern culture we skip emotional and mental processes. We search for a reason instead of sitting down with hard reality. We mine meaning instead of digging out of the debris. We clutch at miracles instead of allowing the process that is. And when that process doesn’t yield the wanted outcome (a miracle), we insist that divinity needed it the other way.

Where’s the accountability in any of this? Who exactly is in the driver’s seat of these perspectives? Some things just are, and we will never circumvent dealing with that fact, really dealing with it. No spirit guide, totem, or divinity wilol foster that truth to be otherwise.

I know who’s in my driver’s seat, and it’s seriously uncomfortable. I’ve been on a progression of hard truths of late, from survival into adulthood, to tending that which parallels healing, and I’ve found no comfort. I recognize this challenging space too easily from my era of Gift of the Dreamtime, when comfort just isn’t on the agenda. There are times when comfort isn’t part of growth, and in the realm of walking the walk of shamanist, get used to it.

Guides don’t function without us. Exist, sure, but actively create, grow, and meet their needs? Not likely. Otherwise, why bother with this whole manifestation thing, anyway? We need physicality in order to grow. We need it to mature into the beings collective reality demands that we be. We need it so that our guides can remember how freaking hard it is to be here, so that together we find creative solutions for how to deal with the conflicts and fill our own needs.

And we need to remember that our ability to navigate the challenges of form ripple out effects everywhere, even to our guides.

How do you handle it when your guides don’t respond? What’s your recourse to take it deeper when you’re already alone in the depths? How do you demonstrate spiritual self-reliance?

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The Weekly Rune – Nauthiz

For the week of  14 August 2016

Plan your hold music accordingly.

Ansuz is the half-month rune through 29 August.  Nauthiz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Jera is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Ansuz, Nauthiz, then Jera.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Often called Odin’s rune, Ansuz is the fourth rune in the first aett. In the native order of the Elder Futhark, it’s the first point that we move away from giant energy and step into something far more risqué.

Ansuz brings a radical change from the giant s. Having moved through the base laws of Nature, we arrive at the point that divinity happens—hence its association with Odin, or more specifically the breath of Odin. Seen as the god of gods, what Odin said happened. Literally, as in many cultural creation stories, in the Old Norse tradition, Odin’s spellsong brought what we know as reality into being. Word is power, and coming into the knowledge that we embody that same power makes it incredibly provocative.

Such is the message of Ansuz, and of this season. For the next couple of weeks, be careful what you wish for. This is the native time of words’ empowerment. As it corresponds with early harvest, it sets our expectations for what comes as the weather cools.

To learn more about Ansuz, read the full runecast. What you read on Intentional Insights is merely the highlights. Have the full cast delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!

Luckily the rune to shepherd us in how to say what we mean is Nauthiz. The stave of focus this week, Nauthiz tells us to have patience, and pay close attention to the moment. It speaks of delays and things not moving forward as intended, though consider that stillness is for good reason. Plan your hold music accordingly.

Jera portends good results of this focus and patience. The words of the planet to our ears this week encourage us to take the time to realize that results out are the effort put in. It’s not magick. Also, remember the process. So often when we manifest something long worked-for, in our excitement (and astonishment) of that fact, we forget all that we did to bring it into being.

In keeping with Jera’s accounting nature, take notes over the next week on thoughts, meditations, actions, phone calls, leg work, prayers, blessings, solitude, etc. Write down that formula, and hold onto it. Things may not go as quickly or predictably as desired, though they will go. Be present for the process. Participate. Allow.

Read the full runecast.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful to have completed a piece of art. More grateful to have sold another!

I’m grateful for a relatively quick recovery from a cold.

I’m thankful for support and cheers we’ve gotten at our announcement of creating Clever Play Cafe, a board game cafe, in Raleigh, NC! Stay tuned as it progresses into being!

I’m grateful for gentle wake-up calls.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Survival) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival…

For the last couple of years, for me the theme has been a refinement of what I’m doing here. I’ve realized that in my adulthood, I don’t have to do anything. I mean, I have to earn a living and stay healthy, though there are no specific trappings around which I’m required to do that (mostly). I’m not in survivor mode anymore, by which I don’t mean the childhood abuse kind of survival, but the childhood to adulthood kind of survival–the kind we’ve all luckily managed to be blessed with.

We don’t think of growing up as survival, because air conditioning, three squares a day + snacks, and access to decent education doesn’t seem like hardship. However, if you’ve ever watched a toddler deal with frustration sans language, fall thirty times a day, or grapple with atmospheric distress, it’s one personal crisis after another. The fact that we learned to walk upright, figured out how to feed ourselves, navigated our own emotions (let alone those of others), and somehow made our way into self-sustained ongoing-ness attests to the fact that we all survived recurrent stress into adulthood. We learned how to establish and sustain a baseline of coping.

Because we began this process as our brains were still forming, we don’t really remember how we got here. We don’t remember how stressful that journey was. We don’t remember on what models we based our behaviours and actions (or maybe we do, and they no longer jive?). We don’t remember the choices we made (for the most part) that created what’s on our plate, now. So it’s not a surprise that we don’t know how to un-make them, when what’s on our plate is unwanted.

Most of us didn’t get an early education in learning and living what we most deeply want to do in our time here. Gen-Xers and Millennials have grown up in the age of self-help and relatively abundant mental health resources, though our parents and Baby Boomers didn’t. We modeled what we were taught, which–good or bad–enabled us to come through childhood and early adulthood. We got an education in a trade or skillset that enables us to independently sustain ourselves and build life and relationships around that. That’s the survival stuff. Ultimately, emotionally, interpersonally, psychologically, even spiritually, those skills only stand up to the test of how well they serve us, now.  Maybe they do. However, what to do if they don’t? Our discontent for life circumstances now and how to manage it is directly related to how we managed it the first time.  But how do we do that if we can’t remember it?

I can’t tell you how often clients come to me wanting to know their life purpose, meanwhile they’re in an abusive relationship, dealing with addiction, or some other very present survival scenario. I’ve learned that we can’t mine the deeper stuff, until we’ve mastered survival. We can’t be figuring out how we’re going to pay the bills and secure enlightenment. We can’t reveal our authenticity while running from the past. Pay the bills, first. Deal with the past, first. Higher awareness will wait. Until we’ve managed to create a reasonably sustainable base for ourselves, we can’t get to the deeper stuff of what we want and who we are. Indeed, spiritual healing is helpful and supportive in dealing with stress; it can’t teach you how to deal with it.

Spiritual healing can’t and won’t skip the personal process of  healing.

The question remains, if we don’t remember the survival skills we learned that got us here, how do we remember them, now? How do we change now?

We don’t have to remember, which is the beauty of human consciousness. We don’t have to trek back through the muck to rewire a healthier process for the present. We do, though, have to set a baseline that su

pports us. Whatever gnaws for attention, give it. Surround self with the resources that support stability, whether that’s therapy, a different job, a move, ending a relationship–do it. Give self time and support to move out of survival mode. It won’t happen overnight. The distress of the immediate everyday has to be manageable before the deeper self can be accessed.

Then, realize the need to learn skills to identify what the deeper conscious wants. Understand that we never had time to develop that awareness before having to rise to more practical demands, and that it’s possible to go back and explore it, now. Just because we realize we don’t have to do the survivor walk anymore, doesn’t mean we suddenly come into the skillset of knowing who we are and what we want. We think we should know, because nobody else is us. Who else can know? The New Age has taught us that everything we need to know, we already do. Yet, mining that deeply buried data isn’t necessarily just a meditation away.

Though it could be several meditations away. This is the point that spiritual healing can dig in, where deeper awarenesses can be facilitated through shamanic work.

The only path to that wisdom is inward, and how it’s revealed is likely as unique as each of us. My path is to journey to my deepest held values, and talk with them, to talk with guides and allies who can help me with this work. Through that direct relationship, I can access the childhood aspects of me that know what my heart wants most. I can return to and restore a purer perspective of why I came here, and what I want to do with this time. Then, with the survival baseline in place, I engage my life skills to make them happen. This is where the rubber meets the road, where the practical means the divine.

How do you connect with who you most deeply are? How do you live this you on the outside?

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The Weekly Rune – Tiwaz

For the week of  7 August 2016

The upswing of the hammer.

Thurisaz is the half-month rune through 14 August.  Tiwaz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Kenaz reversed is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Thurisaz, Tiwaz, then Kenaz reversed.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

The core of Thurisaz is the reminder not to become rote, not to be stuck in habituated ‘getting through.’ It’s not easy for every aspect of our lives to be inspired, or to make the calls that distinguish what we are heart-drawn to do from what we must accomplish. Consider this second week with Thurisaz the opportunity to clean up habit, particularly the one(s) hitting like a hammer, right now.

 

To learn more about Thurisaz, read the full runecast. What you read on Intentional Insights is merely the highlights. Have the full cast delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!

Thurisaz paired with Tiwaz as the rune indicating how humanity can best get with the program this week indicates the hammer’s on the upswing. I consider this stave the survivor rune, in that its lore comprises that of second chances, the inhalation before the battle cry, and the advent of Plan B. Doing anything otherwise is creating conflict with the life force available, now.

The planet’s insight for us this week is Kenaz reversed, which hints that we’re probably overlooking some valuable insight. Reversed, it cautions us not to let that insight smolder to our detriment. What we refuse to accept about ourselves or some present dynamic will bring ruin. There is an aspect to this reversed stave that suggests we don’t value our own insight, or we’re not even aware of our own insight. From the perspective of the planet, this is a purely human dynamic. Nature doesn’t obscure itself. It doesn’t hold itself back. The caution we’re given through this rune is to face whatever is in the shadows of our own wisdom, and let it light the way.

Read the full runecast.

Learn more about the Reclaiming the Runes Intensive and preview course.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful to have seen the nomination of a woman for President in my lifetime.

I’m grateful for having great clients to work with.

I’m thankful for support and cheers we’ve gotten at our announcement of creating Clever Play Cafe, a board game cafe, in Raleigh, NC! Stay tuned as it progresses into being!

I’m grateful for the ability to keep it in my lane.

I’m thrilled that my new book–Life Betwixt – Essays on Animism in the Everyday and Shamanism Among, is doing well in its categories. Thank you!

I’m happy to welcome newcomers to the really real blog carnival– What It Is Wednesday.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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Shamanic Mentorship and Intensive Changes

Several years ago, I altered the structure of my shamanic work, such that I placed less emphasis on isolated sessions, and more on sustained support.

I’ve maintained my practice for over 18 years, and the one thing that has become evident in that time is that most of us need more emphasis on what happens between sessions, rather than on what happens during them. How we carry what we gain in deep soul work through everyday life is the hardest part of any spiritual path.  In an effort to fill that gap, I began doing less work based around reading and more on mentoring.

To that end, I began offering mentorship opportunities through Soul Intent Arts. After working with many Initiates and mentorees (is that the correct word?), I’ve re-organized how these services function. This re-organization serves to offer more opportunity to engage shamanic and spiritual mentorship on a self-paced, one-on-one basis.

The Spirited Path remains a two-year group study in modern shamanism. The Intensive includes monthly Sharing Sessions, which are Initiate peer witnessing sessions. Sharing Sessions continue after the Intensive is completed to sustain cohesive, grounding, and accountability in service. The Intensive begins each January. If you’re interested in the Intensive for next year, contact me.
I’ve created the opportunity to complete the work of The Spirited Path Intensive on your own as a self-paced study with regular mentoring sessions, as Shamanic Mentoring. This schedule is wholly self-determined, and requires the attendance of monthly Sharing Sessions.
Spiritual Mentorship remains an option for those who would like to deepen animistic connections throughout life, though don’t want to focus such through the role shaman.
Reclaiming the Runes is a one-year Intensive exploring the Elder Futhark as an alphabet, and as a system of storytelling, timekeeping, and divination. It’s your opportunity to create your relationship to the runes. Check out the Preview course to get an idea of the Intensive range and flow.
As always, I offer in-person and self-paced studies, which include Intro to Modern Shamanism, Totemism, Ritual, Ceremony, and Cosmology, Intro to Middle World Journeying, and the Reclaiming the Runes Preview Course.

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Tending) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival…

I’ve been finishing up a book that I began writing over a decade ago. Its focus is chronic health conditions through a shamanic lens. Why has it taken me so long to wrap it up? Because I’ve dealt with chronic pain and fatigue since 2001, neither of which have neat treatment or cures, and often leave me feeling like crap, to say nothing of inarticulate. Besides, bow do you conclude a topic-centric semi-autobiographical book you haven’t finished living? That conundrum alone epitomizes the nebulous nature of chronic conditions. You never know when they will strike, or how long an episode will last. Productivity be damned.

Over the last month, though, I’ve had very clear revelation that the fact that there’s no end is the end. In all circles of wellbeing we talk about healing. From the allopathic standpoint, you either heal or die. They really don’t know what to do with you if you don’t situate in that very wide middle. Natural and alternative medicine provide powerful alleviation of symptoms, though also often don’t cure conditions. From this ambiguous soup of fragile existence we emerge with “healing” meaning complete cure, or resolution of symptoms enough that they don’t interfere with day-to-day life. Either way, we assume an identifiable alleviation of symptoms for the long haul.

However, many of us never get there. And what does that mean, exactly? If you listen to allopathic medicine and even complementary medicine, certainly spiritual aspects of the New Age, it’s your fault for not feeling better. That’s not to say there aren’t totally controllable components such as diet, exercise, mindfulness, etc. And if you express to others feeling poorly, again, everybody and their sister has something you should try, that worked for them, that their great great grandmother root doctor swore by. And when it doesn’t work? Silence. Worse yet, blame.

What about when you’re doing all of those and still aren’t finding relief? Or you find relief for a while, only for it to rear in your face again six months down the road for no particular reason? Chronic conditions often have no clear signs for when the tide will turn.

That one thing is why there’s more to the picture of chronic conditions. It doesn’t re-surge because you’re not doing all the things you need to, or because you’re not doing them perfectly. It doesn’t come back because you’re damned, or flawed, or missing something, or not good enough. It comes back because we have no allowance for tending in our culture.

In tribal cultures, a person who sustains a life-altering wound or condition that leaves them compromised with regard to fulfilling their duty to the overall tribe doesn’t remain part of the tribe for long. We’ve all read stories of how the wounded, incurably sick, or elderly take it upon themselves to wander off into the woods and never return. We consider that barbaric, uncivilized, yet in tribal cultures, this is an honorable death. Us? We have medicine, and therapies, and heating pads, and surgeries, and specialists, and MRIs, and…

Am I saying if you have a chronic condition that you should wander off into the woods and do yourself in? No. I have no plan to do that, myself. However, just as my conditions don’t fit neatly between heal or die, neither do they situate perfectly between vanish into the night or stay in physical therapy and on pain control meds for life. My point is, there’s a great deal of room between the extremes of anything, and chronic conditions are no different. Our culture, and perhaps specifically from the Baby Boomers to the Gen-Xers and Millennials, haven’t been taught the art of tending. Frankly, because of the aforementioned western medicine amenities, we haven’t had to.

Some shit doesn’t go away, period. It requires vigilance, care, tending, ongoing, forever, the end. Our culture has lived in the realms of healthcare without a model of tending, except for in the case of extreme mental need or elderly care. Why, then, from a spiritual perspective, are young people developing autoimmune conditions that give them chronic pain and fatigue, for life? Because of environment toxins, frankenfood, overuse of said medications. Yes, all of those. That’s not what I’m asking, though. What need, at the heart of awakened spiritual living, would a chronic condition serve?

What if everything isn’t meant to be cured? What if alongside our definition of ‘healing,’ there runs a concurrent state of being that is ‘tending? ‘ They’re not separate, yet they’re not the same, either. Healing exists. Some conditions do go away, for good, or become well-managed. Tending, hurts, though. It annoys, distracts, inconveniences, plagues. Our natural reaction to something that must be tended is to try to heal it.  We throw at it medication, surgery, therapy, soul retrieval, with improvement yet still an unresolved something. I talked about this state of presenting no soul wound, yet clearly not being well a few months ago in the Life Betwixt series. I discussed the initiatory wound that shamans confront in that post, yet now, my suggestion is that we all have one, shaman or no. Maybe we all carry some unresolved something in heart, mind, body, or even soul, that we must tend.

The rune Fehu means assets that must be tended. It’s always interpreted as meaning material assets, wealth. However, what currency is more important than our health? Without it, we don’t get far in this world, literally. My conclusion, which I never thought I’d come to for this book, is that we all have that in our lives which we must tend. A dynamic, a sadness, a pain, a lack–it’s likely unique to each of us, and not easily described to others. And it’s not failure. It’s just life. It’s living on the planet, in this day and time, in this culture.

By tending, I don’t mean keep doing all the healing things with thoughts of outcome. Tending is the outcome. Be present to this hurt, care, have compassion the state of caring for what isn’t well, as if nothing will ever come it, as if it will never be well. Yet you still tend it anyway, because to do otherwise brings a greater hurt than any part of you can bear. You tend it because the thing that needs you is the thing you least want in your life, always.

Maybe this is Buddhist suffering. Maybe it’s timeless sacrifice. My modern brain struggles with those concepts, yet I wholly understand tending. I understand standing betwixt and between. I understand how this ends, now.

How do you sit with chronic conditions? How do you tend the untendable?

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The Weekly Rune – Mannaz Reversed

For the week of  1 August 2016

Change the mind, 2.0

I know. I did a double-tale, too. Needless to say, this repetition is unprecedented in The Weekly Rune.

Thurisaz is the half-month rune through 14 August.  Mannaz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Eihwaz is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Thurisaz, Mannaz reversed, followed by Eihwaz.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

For three weeks, Mannaz has presented, emphasizing the mind. For the last two weeks, it’s been reversed, indicating limitations at the mental and community level. With twenty-­four runes in the Elder Futhark and all the patterns we can find in them, the likelihood of drawing the same ones back­-to-­back is small. The emphasis on change and self-reliance remains critical this week; however, the way they manifest is more fierce.

 

With this stave we are reminded that we don’t have total control over how our carefully placed dominoes will fall. This stave’s life force is marked by it bringing controllable change, suggesting that on some level we’re not at all surprised by intrusion. Some see the strike of Thor’s hammer as the unexpected force that knocks the dominoes down, while others see it as the reminder amidst the fallout that we can still have a say in how we recover.

Maybe it’s both.

 

To learn more about Uruz, read the full runecast. Have it delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!

This first step into Thurisaz this year, remember to stay flexible. Whatever heart’s desire is on the horizon, give it multiple avenues to succeed. Plan to change course, without knowing what the fallback course will be. This stave doesn’t spell disaster and ruin. It portends holding dynamics gently, and the willingness to redirect them as needed. Think organically and act, react openly.

Mannaz reversed reinforces that no white knight is riding in this week. The lack of a savior didn’t mean failure. Our solutions will be self­-originated, self-­implemented, and self-­supported. Ingenuity and creativity must prevail. Likewise, our ability to discern the resources that are available falls to us, as well. It isn’t that they aren’t there, we just have to remember that they are, and to call on them. Keen mindfulness is called for at this time.

Eihwaz supports the change flow. Again, the planet reminds us that we are capable of transmuting shifting circumstances into a solid foundation to support a new version of ourselves. Let it happen. However called upon to be flexible this week, know it’s Nature’s way. Nothing is lost as long as we can roll with it.

Read the full runecast.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for progress on a project Rob and I will announce publicly, soon!!

I’m grateful for a relatively quiet week. Boredom is a virtue.

I’m thankful for new insight into a blocked plot. Now I’m asking for stamina and momentum.

I’m grateful for the clients I’ve had recently, and the very inspiring soul work we’ve done together.

I’m thrilled that my new book–Life Betwixt – Essays on Animism in the Everyday and Shamanism Among, is doing well in its categories. Thank you!

I’m happy to welcome newcomers to the really real blog carnival– What It Is Wednesday.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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