Because Your Life is a Sacred Art

Bindrune, from the Lost Teachings Deck Dear companions on the path--
This year marks a milestone for me, a completion that I don't ever anticipate, and that makes it so much more wonderful.

I finally feel comfortable in what I am doing, offering.  I finally claim, wholly, my eccentricities, my errors, my imperfections.  I finally trust my intuition.  I finally have confidence in what it is I am saying...or, at least what it is I am trying to say.

There is a home here.  If you know me, you know that home is one of my themes.  (We all have themes that guide our lives, repeat in our creative work...what are your themes?)  Most of us live in transit, never comfortable in our own skin, trying always to get somewhere else.  Thinner, richer, more stable, more powerful, more beautiful, more more more.  We question constantly, are vigilant in our self-denial, our criticism, we wear our old stories like a shell, a mask, hiding the beauty we are.

Finding home in yourself is better than falling in love.  In fact, it is the only thing that makes true love possible.  The Moon Divas mantra, Love Your Body, Love Your Story, Love Your Life, is the essence of purposeful direction.  We are not here to deny our calling, to sabotage our beautiful bodies with hatred and despair, to repress our deepest longings.  Our love, self-love, is a root.  It nourishes each cell with creative possibility.  It is fundamental.

And it takes time.  Practice. Capitalism doesn't thrive on self-love and contentment.  Neither does patriarchy, racism, violence and hatred.  We carry stories in our bodies, in our cells, that don't belong to us, stories from structures, entities, lineages that we did not create.  Each new transition, each choice to align with our own true north, cracks open those cellular stories.  This is the vulnerability--we must open open open, to dissipate the story.  It is hard work, better done in community, better supported than alone.
Gather Goddess from the Wild Women Society Magnetize Your Vision This winter, in the depths of darkest dark, the solstice time, I am beginning my first foray into facilitation for a long time.  It feels amazing.  We are meeting in a spacious, gorgeous art studio in NE Portland to craft a project using the power of the collective and individual attention.  Together for twelve weeks we will move our dreams, our creative projects--businesses, artwork, books, any tangible heart-work we wish to make material--from vision to profit.

The Magnetize! Studio class is a synergy, a merging of what I love and believe in:  our creative potential, self-love, self-care, story showing and crafting of new stories to live and dream by.  Because life is a sacred art, we create (I know this as I know each freckle on my hand, my lover's smell, the story of my scars) the world.  I once saw a bumper sticker that said something like:

"Those who deny their own dreams won't support yours."

What magic is possible when we devote twelve weeks in community to the creation, gestation and fulfillment of a dream?

What becomes tangible when we surround ourselves with people who are taking risks, feeling the fear, doing it anyway?

What happens when we make a community that says:  I can, I want to, I will?
North, from the Winds of the World Tree in the Lost Teachings Deck This Month...A Challenge This month I'm proposing a challenge for us all:

Find a way to create the community that supports your heart's desire.  Take supported action in the direction of your dreams and help another--or a group of others--do the same.

How?  Well, in The Moon Divas Guidebook there are suggestions for creating Sister Circles, and the activities of the book are intended for use in community.   Get a free Guidebook and bring some friends together.  Share the love, the joy, the process...

Or, if you are Portland, Oregon local you can check out Magnetize! Studio.  The class is approaching full, so apply today if you are interested in taking the journey from dark to light, from vision to profit, in an inspired, creative community.

Life is a sacred art, we must live in the rhythm of creation.

Everything is spirited business, the business of spirit is what we are all here for.  What is trying to come through you now?  How can you honor the unique gift that is ever, only, yours?  

Let me know if I can help!  Email me, comment on this post or join the Moon Divas Community on Facebook.  Let's make the world (wide, welcome, content, full of love, a home) together.