Sophia's Children

Wu Wei: the blasphemy of 'non doing'

“Industrious people build industry.

Lazy people create civilization.”

– Kaz Tanahashi

Shocking, isn't it?

The idea and practice of not doing is truly blasphemous in our 'do-aholic' culture.

I mean, think 'not doing' and notice what reactions come up within you.

"Well, how will anything get DONE?," we might ask. "Everything would fall apart!" "You have to do something!"

Can you feel your heart palpitating at the very suggestion of NOT doing -- or the thought that 'being lazy' might have its strong points?

I don't know about you, but I definitely did not get that memo when I was growing up!

There's a part of me that finds it compelling, though.

After decades at the Altar of Perpetual Doing, I saw that the Puritan Workaholic Ethic that is so ingrained in our culture has got a pretty big shadow side.

After hitting the Workaholic Wall going 1000 miles an hour, I was literally forced by circumstances -- including my own wellness -- to consider other perspectives.

The Taoists, following the wisdom of Lao Tzu and others, talk about 'wu wei' -- nondoing.

One idea of wu wei or non-action is that you 'do without doing and everything gets done'.

Can you feel your brain cramping and well-conditioned synapses smoking at the thought?

Stay with it...

In order for this 'nondoing' magic to arise, we have to be still and receptive much more often, so that we can connect to our oneness with all things and allow Life to lead us through inspiration, intuition, and synchronicity.

This is a pretty radical thought for Western-conditioned minds.

Just look around, or tune in to yourself, and you'll see just how terrifying and uncomfortable most of us find it now to be still -- still the body, still the noise, still the mind.

It's enough to give most of us jitters and hives, if we haven't immediately 'plugged in' to relieve the discomfort with some more stimulus and action.

Yet most of us would also say that we want to experience 'flow',  synchronicities and, dare I say, maybe even miracles.

We'd all like things to be just a bit easier, a bit less hard, a bit more graceful than they seem to be, particularly these days.

We all want inspiration and intuitive-guidance to lead us into passionate, purposeful right action and graceful timing.

These require stillness, not doing, so that we can be receptive to that guidance, our deeper yearnings, and more subtle frequencies.

The challenge is to reclaim the wu wei wisdom through stillness,  listening, and closer observation of what arises within us and what arises, then, around us.

And it couldn't be more alien -- even excruciating -- to us.

This has deeply challenged me, often, over the years.

Despite a natural contemplative vein that runs through me, I learned early on that being still, daydreaming, sitting or wandering quiety, and things of that more contemplative genre were in the same pigeon-hole as being unproductive, suspect, or lazy.

In comparison, I was encouraged and rewarded in those 'activa' pursuits that were considered industrious -- no one really seemed to care whether action was wise.

Perhaps you, too, heard, "Don't just sit there, do something!"?

And now, of course, we're surrounded with the outcomes of a cultural addiction to perpetual left-brain-informed action, workaholism, and stimulation without the balancing, wizening benefits of contemplation, reflection, and wisdom (aka 'the Feminine' or right-brain gifts).

To heal it -- individually and collectively -- we have to practice our way back to a healthier balance, to reclaim those right-brain Feminine gifts.

As the saying goes -- with a fun little twist -- don't just do something, sit there!

Blessings on the Wu Wei.
Jamie

Image Credit: Kazuaka Tanahashi at the San Francisco Zen Center. Photo by Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle. Kaz Tanahashi is a Japanese Calligrapher, Zen Teacher, Author & Translater, and former student of Aikido Founder Sensei Morihei Ueshiba. "Moon on Water" image from GeekSailor's blog.

"My Life Came to a Standstill..."

That's what Leo Tolstoy wrote in his Confessions about the period in his life when his old priorities and accomplishments no longer held meaning for him, but a new sense of meaning and authenticity hadn't yet become clear.

He was pretty depressed about it, understandably, and had been resisting it for a long time.

"My life came to a standstill..."

I've experienced that, too, as are many more people in this time of great transformation.

As much as it frustrated me, none of my attempts to 'go back' to an old comfort zone seemed to work, and no attempts to impatiently force a new clarity were very effective. Both ego-effort and resistance proved depressingly futile.

One image that really captures this time of 'in-between' is the symbol-rich Queen of Disks painted by Lady Freda Harris for the Thoth tarot deck.

In this card, the Queen of Disks is at a standstill, but her pause is not without purpose.

Take a look.

She sits on her throne, looking back over the barren valley through which she has just journeyed.

The desert seems to stretch on forever into the horizon now behind her. It has been a long, trying, and often exhausting journey for her.

The desert, like the 'dark forest', is that cycle of life when what has come before has dropped away, and the 'new life' and renewed clarity and motivation have not yet materialized.

Our Queen of Disks looks out over the meandering path by which she's come -- one that seemed to zig zag along without direction, until she sees the whole of it from her current vantage point. It's led her to where she now sits.

And though it's a desert, and her path was meandering, she now sees the many trees, grouped in threes -- a pattern that she hadn't noticed when she was laboring through the journey.

This tells her that the Feminine, the Great Goddess, had been present with her throughout her desert-valley initiation.

She can now more fully realize that her desert-valley journey has been an initiation into the Feminine, presided over by the Great Goddess herself.

In her current position, new vegetation grows around her, symbolizing the energy of new growth that is gathering, perhaps because she has taken the time to be still enough to let the greening energy gather.

She wears the crown of spiraling horns, and the Aries ram sits to her left. In the journey of the Zodiac, Aries is the new beginning: one cycle has completed, and a new one readies to begin. The spiraling horns signify a maturity, a 'royalty' earned on the Spiral Road of initiation.

Look closely (unusually, I've repeated the same image twice so you can see it more easily).

She holds an orb-shield painted with interwoven circles, symbolizing her awareness of the interconnectedness of Life -- a more wholistic perspective gained from her experience crossing the desert valley.

In her right hand, she holds a scepter topped with a crystal, symbolizing a new clarity of mind and a new mastery that she has earned through experience, through gnosis -- the knowledge and wisdom based in her own experience.

With this awareness and experience, she is more grounded, centered, spiritually mature, and dignified. She can now move through life with a newly earned depth and grace.

Because she is a Queen of Disks, which represents Earth, her orb and scepter speak to her new mastery being rooted in 'down to Earth' experience, and her awareness that she is connected with the energies of Mother Earth and the 'greening' energy of Nature.

She now knows that it is this 'greening energy' of Nature, of the Feminine, the very Shakti of Life itself, that allows life to be rich, fertile, and abundant rather than the barren wasteland of the wounded Masculine in the Grail.

Being a Queen, she represents the Feminine, having learned through her journey how to navigate using the Feminine gifts of the Empress and the Priestess.

From this different perspective, she sees that the barren valley, the desert, is 'greened' through the presence of the Feminine and action that is based in connectedness and alignment with the laws of Nature.

Her meandering path through the desert valley might now be seen, with her expanded perspective and wisdom, as a potential riverbed through which waters might flow to bring a new fertility to what has lain barren and dry.

She reminds us that our time of seeming standstill allows us to take stock of our journey through the desert, and 'gather the pearls' of the new perspective and mastery we've gained, knowing that these give a renewed fertility and abundance as we begin a new cycle on the spiral of Life.

From Leo Tolstoy's writings, this is what he learned, too, as he opened to a new, more vibrant awareness that gave new meaning to his life.

If you're feeling like you're at a standstill, the remedy is homeopathic -- like heals like. Stand still, and let the 'greening energy' gather around you, renewing your vision and guiding you into authentic, inspired, and meaningful action.

With the current Aries energy and the newly emerging growth of Spring, it's the perfect time for it.

Blessings on the Way,

Jamie

Image Credits: the Queen of Disks, painted by Lady Freda Harris for the Thoth Tarot Deck.

The Returning 'Divine Feminine'

Greetings!

As we all feel the increasing pull into a new era and a new way of being -- and feel the old paradigm slipping away, sometimes from beneath our feet.

We're being ever drawn and invited to remember and reclaim the Divine Feminine awareness and gifts within and around us.

The Ways of the Divine Feminine have been marginalized, brutalized, suppressed, and buried underground.

But instead of dying away, the Divine Feminine gestated, like a seed underground in the cold of Winter, finally cracking through the seed shell, winding Her way up through frozen ground, and is now sprouting green buds throughout the world.

And it's a good thing, too.

Seriously. All we need to do is look at the news on any given day to see the whackadoo imbalance that's run dangerously rampant. Enough of that.

The Way of the Feminine is just what's needed for a more yin-yang balanced way of existing, being, creating, knowing, and relating. And these capacities are vital to awaken and embody for personal and collective healing and wholing.

You'll find a lot about the Feminine in my blogs, particularly Sophia's Children.

And if you're really committed to that call and want to deepen your relationship with the Feminine, join me in the Academy of the Divine Feminine ~ I've created a wealth of audio programs to support you on your return to the Feminine, drawing from my own Journey of Return.

Take a look...

Blessings,
Jamie

Image Credits: Seed sprout, from Omega Gardens.

Oh, those Feminine archetypes!

I've been quiet these past weeks -- again -- sensing into the energies whirling about, and listening deeply and watching closely for messages and insights from the Feminine (world and earth soul).

As our ancestors once knew, everything speaks if we know how to watch and listen. It's an art we forgot, and we're remembering.

Here's a bit of what's percolating, and the archetype-energies of the Feminine vying for Voice, understanding, and renewal:

Vesta - the quintessential 'Keeper of the Flame', who finds her counterparts in Hestia and Brighid. This is a key role we're being asked to remember.

The flame of the Feminine that has been kept for ages, that was purposely (and literally) extinguished (but was kept secretly by kindred-spirit Flame Keepers), and is now burning again.

This is an interesting symbol and story to reflect and vision on -- how are we called to tend it, and to embody it as we go through our world?

Aphrodite-Venus - particularly Dark Aphrodite, this Goddess of Love's lesser known aspect -- like the Dark Madonna, etc. -- whose cauldron of initiation was not the temple or the cave (though I'm sure those were still powerful symbols), but in relationship itself!

This is a powerful archetype, and understanding it can transform our understanding of relationships ... and make us alchemists for the true potential of relationships.

Aphrodite-Venus is also about our own deep respect for our own value and inherent worth, and thus our capacity to stand in that and respect it deeply (and call it out to play) in others, too.

Juno-Hera - After hearing five women (not related to one another) ask, "How could a woman do that to another woman?", I started asking into it and Juno-Hera appeared.

There are no doubt other archetypes of the Feminine that would answer this question, but Juno-Hera offers some answers!

Juno-Hera is the quintessential 'devoted wife/partner' who finds her purpose in being the devoted wife/partner, at least as personified in the Greek-Roman mythology.

But Juno-Hera was married (conquered) to Jupiter-Zeus, and his philandering nature and other escapades invited a whole different side of Juno-Hera out to play!

This is what the women's question -- above -- pertains to. I'll bet you'll recognize it in the Juno-Hera story. It's one big facet of healing the wounded Feminine that we've seen, experienced, and perhaps internalized.

As I've shared before -- and this is at the root of my own passion for rediscovering, reclaiming, and reinterpreting the 'myths' -- these stories, symbols, and archetypes live us in their 'shadow form' until we understand them and begin living their higher potential.

We'll be exploring these stories and energies of the Feminine in the Feminine Mojo Mystery School -- the 'Inner Arts' academy of the Feminine Mojo V-School. If you're not already a member, join us!

Lots of Love (and continued incubation!),

Jamie

Image Credits: Photo of Vesta, Vatican Museum, Rome, by Lisanne Marshall;  a statue of Diana-Artemis at Ephesus; Hera statue in Greece, photo from Dov's Blog.

Venus, Green Man & Magical May

With trees and flowers coming into leaf and bloom, it's easy to feel the fertile 'greening' energy and more than a little Earth magic.

In May, we enter the magical, creative realm of Venus, Taurus, and the Green Man -- each having a connection to 'sacred matter', experiencing Heaven on Earth, and the abundant, fertile, sensual, magical creative energy evident in and through Nature.

May 5th is Beltane, the more ancient tradition of celebrating the newly blooming fertility of May after the starkness of Winter and ripening potential hinted at in early Spring.

For the ancients, this was not an intellectual or conceptual thing -- when they celebrated fertility, sensuality, and new life coming into bloom, they did that in a celebratory, full-sensory kind of way!

The Beltane celebrations of May and fertility-in-bloom included the sacred signal fire, feasting, dancing, and lots of fun, lusty sensuality and sexuality.

The whole vibe was orgasmic, in honor and gratitude of that same orgasmic creativity that was becoming increasingly evident in Nature all around them.

In May, we're also in the season of Venus in her Taurean expression. The Goddess of Love, beauty, harmony, abundance, magnetizing attraction, sensuality, and co-creation brings it down from the intellect into Earthly expression. Heaven on Earth, in all of the ways you can see, hear, feel, sense, touch, smell, and taste!

Venus asks: "What feels beautiful to you? What gives you joy? What's just oh-so-luscious? What do you love so much it bubbles over into beautiful expression? What does your heart yearn for and desire? " And so on. The more we feel it, the greater that magnetizing attraction and Venusian co-creation.

Venus in her Earth sign of Taurus is also very Earth connected. She doesn't just stop to smell the roses, she plants them, cultivates them, appreciates them, and then collects the fragrant, fallen blooms and creates rose-water!

Like the Goddess Artemis, she adores what is naturally wild in Nature, and in our own truest nature.

And like the Great Mother-Bear Goddess, she doesn't hesitate to stand for it, speak for it, or protect it when she sees someone denigrating it -- she'd just prefer to do that in a beautiful, harmonious kind of way, rather than bonking someone over the head.

Like Sophia-Gaia, Elat, and Shakti, she is the very creative power of Life that surges through and animates and gives life to all things (including each of us).

And like Sophia, Venus teaches us that our heart's desire is a powerfully creative force, as is our kindred-spirit connection with all of Life, including our animal kindreds and Nature herself. Indeed, Nature is an expression and embodiment of the Goddess herself.

And this magical, Venusian month is extended further, when Jupiter moves from fiery-Masculine Aries into lusciously Venusian Taurus on June 4th -- to stay for a whole year, helping us to expand all things Venusian in our lives.

The Masculine complement to Venus in her Taurus Regalia is The Green Man -- sometimes called the Horned Man, Pan, Dionysus, or just, The Wild Man.

This is the Masculine spirit of Nature, the Sacred Masculine that honors the wisdom and embodiment of the Feminine and overflows with yang generosity and protection of it, along with joyful, passionate engagement with it.

There are some lovely reflections online that link Jesus with the Green Man, given Jesus's own self-proclaimed association with Sophia, his respect for the Feminine as it expressed through women (e.g. Mary Magdalene), his emphasis on the present moment and the Big Love, and his abundant references to Nature.

Engaging the Power of the Archetypes

Over the last few years, I've been working more consciously and interactively with Venus, as one of my more prominent power-archetypes, with La Luna, the Moon, alongside Venus in my blueprint. It's an always-amazing, enlivening process!

Like all of the great metaphors, symbols, and stories, these archetypes have their roots woven deeply within our ancestral and soul memory. They're alive in some eras, then go dormant in others, only to be reawakened into our consciousness once again.

And so it is with Venus (Aphrodite to the Greeks), the Green Man, Sophia, and Shakti -- all faces, facets, and feelings bubbling up again from the deep, ancient well of the Divine Feminine, coming alive again as we need to embody the beauty, strength, magic, and wisdom.

Wishing you magical weavings in this very Venusian month!

Venus Blessings,

Jamie

Revitalize your own inner Garden of the Feminine & reconnect with the powerful Feminine archetypes, stories, and gifts -- join us in the Feminine Mojo Mystery School.

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Image Credits: Top image - author TBD (this looks like a John William Waterhouse or Edward Burne-Jones, but no online images are credited so far. I continue my sleuthing!). The Soul of the Rose, by John William Waterhouse; Dionysus (Green Man) from Greek vase, painted by Kleophrades; Sacramento River headwaters/spring at Mt. Shasta.

The Feminine & the Moolocracy

I just posted "Beyond the Fear & Shame of our Moolocracy" in the new Feminine Mojo blog. Here's an excerpt, and the link for the whole piece:

This is a story about the Moolocracy in which you and I live. And if we want to get beyond it (and we sort of have to), we have to recognize it for what it is and where we are on the Moolobot scale.

The term 'moolocracy' buzzed into my awareness as part of an 'insight download' in the wee hours last night. When I googled the term this morning, nada. So, Moolocracy is born into the memosphere.

We live in a Moolocracy, of course, so it's no surprise that the term would be floating around the 'luminous aether'.

The God in the Moolocracy

In our Moolocracy, the presiding deity is the Great God, Moolah - aka Money, and the the religion, Moneytheism. Unfortunately, this is a religion that requires frequent human, animal, and Nature sacrifice - and blood sacrifice, at that. Life, and quality of Life, are sacrificed hourly on its altars.

The Feminine is considered too untameable, too unruly, too renegade, and way too wildy creative and passionate for maintaining Moolocracy status quo, so leading Moolocrats tried to banish the Feminine long ago, and rigorously try to squelch or at least marginalize any Feminine outbreaks.

You'll find the complete "Beyond the Fear & Shame of our Moolocracy" post here.

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FeMojo Blessings,

Jamie

 

Why is it important now to reconnect with the Feminine & Sophia?

Happy 2011!

I just wrapped the first of two inspired Feminine Mojo Show conversations with the brilliant author, scholar, and Mystic, John Lamb Lash, on the Sophia 'vision story', the Divine gifts available to each of us, and what influences have alienated us from Sophia's design for us.

John is the author of Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief, and the tender of Metahistory.org. Listen in to the Feminine Mojo Show conversation with John as he talks about Sophia's story, Patriarchal culture, our Divine gifts, and the clues to the influences that deviate us from Divine design.

Follow the show (or watch this blog and my Tweet-stream) for Part 2 of this dynamic discussion, as we delve more deeply into the vital importance of desire, imagination, gender balance (and gender love), and what John calls Planetary Tantra to help us to re-bond with Gaia-Sophia, the great Goddess, in a very real way.

We'll continue to see the re-emergence of the Feminine -- and the need for it -- as 2011 unfolds and the waves of transformation continue to ripple (and sometimes roar). We'll also explore how to deepen our connection with the Feminine in the Feminine Mojo Mystery School - join us.

More soon...

FeMojo Blessings,

Jamie

Replenishing the Well & Diving for Hidden Gems

The past month has been pretty wild, from an energetic and psychic perspective. I've heard from more than a few people who've shared challenges, several saying, "It makes me feel like I'm crazy."

Masked as the challenge(s) du jour, all sorts of things are coming up from the depths, wanting our attention and pointing to opportunities for healing old wounds, clearing unhelpful or stagnant energies, and waking up to latent or long-forgotten gifts and talents. I don't know about you, but for me, that usually feels pretty intense.

During these types of high-intensity cycles, when so much comes from within and yet there is so much going on around us, I can easily find myself feeling like "too little butter spread across too much bread," as Bilbo Baggins said in Lord of the Rings. Too dispersed; too much information coming in from 'out there'.

It's handy to know the symptoms (a million thanks to my teachers and mentors, and lots of practice!). Aside from actual physiological clues, when I'm too dispersed I find myself suddenly craving - and I mean really craving - simplicity and 'cave time'.

Like many people, I was pretty well trained to ignore these symptoms and clues and 'push through it', again and again. I can tell you, that doesn't work so well; it  takes a toll.

When we don't listen to those calls for rejuvenation, quiet time, listening, vision time, it comes looking for us, usually through a less-desirable way of breaking through our habitual busyness and non-listening, slowing us down, and pulling our attention inward for a realignment and course correction.

In Taoist qigong, it's called the need for yin time -- really, connecting back into Source so we can replenish the well...ideally, before it runs dry and becomes a crisis. Yin is simplicity, receptivity, quiet, listening, slowing down, getting adequate sleep, receptive meditation. And it's pretty counter-culture.

The huge burgeoning of the 'spiritual market' -- books, yoga, workshops, etc. -- is a sign of this. And those can help, inspire, and guide us. Ultimately, though, we have to actually practice and embody yin, so that we have a plentiful wellspring to fuel our action, and so our action comes from a place of centeredness, groundedness, true inspiration, and most of all, the wisdom of our own hearts.

Take it from me -- a former (and recovering) go-go-go-go-go, Please Everyone Girl for whom it took a wellness crisis and everything falling apart to draw me inward, to replenish, honor my intuition and creative wellspring, and reconnect with my heart's wisdom (aka my Feminine Mojo). These are among the many gems that live in the dark places, those hidden caves, wells, and underground streams.

Go to the well now, replenish yourself, quench your thirst for the waters of your own beautiful Spirit, and be renewed.

FeMojo Blessings,

Jamie

Image Credits: The Downward Spiral by Qthomasbower (Creative Commons), the Lady Shallott by Holman Hunt, and Devil's Den from Dive & Surf World.

Tune in to Your 'Inner Oracle'

How do you know which path to take, which opportunity or decision is 'right', and what timing is optimal? How does your intuition and 'higher guidance' speak to you?

Gathering perspectives and information from outside of ourselves can be valuable, but ultimately our own Inner Oracle will guide us most truly.

If you'd like to explore your Feminine gifts of intuition, oracle, vision, and other guidance, it's not too late to join us for tomorrow's "Tap in & Tune In to Your Inner Oracle" call for the Feminine Mojo Mystery School.

With things shifting, swirling, and changing all around us, it's important to strengthen our connection with our Inner Oracle -- the ways we receive, process and translate the guidance that can lead us in the direction of heart-and-soul.

Tomorrow's Feminine Mojo Mystery School tele-gathering will offer an introduction to our Inner Oracle, including some of the ways we receive information (how do we know?), how our feelings offer clues, how Life guides us, and how to use divination tools like tarot or pendulums to reflect or validate our own intuition and guidance.

And we'll have a special guest: FMMS faculty member, Kim Gould, of Love Your Design (Australia) will join us to share how she regularly works with tarot and oracle decks for guidance, and what clues she receives from her body wisdom.

Register now for the Feminine Mojo Mystery School and join us for tomorrow's call (11/4 at 4:30 Eastern), or to receive the audio and other Feminine Mojo Mystery School perks.

Looking forward to tuning into the Oracle with you!

FeMojo Blessings,

Jamie

* Image Credit: The Lady of Shalott, by Holman Hunt (1905)

 

 

The 'Inspired Idea' That Won't Let You Go - The Feminine Mojo Projects

It feels like such an amazing, tender, and -- I admit -- terrifying thing to be gifted with an inspired idea that just won't let you go.

Particularly when 'the idea' is very different from what you've done before, professionally at least. And when 'the idea' takes you into sharing deeply personal, profound, and sometimes hard-to-put-into-words felt-and-sensed experiences. That's the case for me, as I'll share a bit of here.

Finally finding my feet following a pretty radical 'transformation by some seriously big cosmic two-by-fours', aka 'initiations', I asked, pleaded, prayed, and meditated "How can I be of service? How can I share what I've gathered during this time?" In other words, "What the hell do I do now, because there's no going back and I haven't a clue how to go forward?"

The Feminine, the Feminine, the Feminine was the continual response, like a drum-beat.

So, Okay, I said. What does that mean? What do I DO with that? Really, what I wanted was one of those old-fashioned billboards with a clear message in big type, and a detailed action plan. Very Masculine. The joke, and initiation, was on me. The Feminine doesn't work that way.

The Feminine responds step by step, message by message, nudge by nudge. No guarantees, no set outcomes, no certainty, no locked-in-place expectations. No billboard. No detailed five-year strategic plan. For me -- seriously adept Analytical Daughter of the Masculine that I was -- the Way of the Feminine has taken some practice. Lots of it. And the learning of the Way continues.

Even when the resounding drum-beat of The Feminine turned into 'Feminine Mojo' in mid-May of this year, my questions and prayers for guidance remained the same: "Okay, and what do I DO with this?" Within a day or two, my friend Kim Gould called to say, "This is coming up for me, too, so let's collaborate on a Feminine Mojo project!"

We dove into an array of myths and archetypes, stories of Goddesses and ancient cultures like Crete, and found ourselves in a vast pool of Feminine riches, with the Goddesses Athena, Circe, Artemis, Ta'Nit, Persephone and Demeter, Hera, and others as our guides and teachers.

The myths and stories -- or the spirit, voice, and essence of the Feminine within them -- beckoned and guided us, and slowly revealed layers of wisdom, joy, passion, heart-power, and insight that lay beneath the surface, like fertile soil and rich seeds beneath a garden that's been paved over.

And the spirit of the Feminine, the Feminine wisdom and voice, woven into the myths, stories, and archetypes worked on us from within, as well, hinting at gifts and strengths and passion that, like the garden, had been paved over, too.

Long story short, that project evolved into several Feminine Mojo projects, including the Feminine Mojo Mystery School -- a virtual circle for diving into that pool of rich Feminine Wisdom, for opening ourselves up through the powerful stories, myths, and archetypes; for remembering the fertile gifts of the Feminine that are within us, waiting for us to recognize and reclaim them.

Gifts like intuition, body wisdom, sensuality, joy, heart-centeredness, creativity, imagination, connection (to Source, nature, ourselves, and each other), and a power sourced from that deep pool of heart and wisdom.

I launched the Feminine Mojo Mystery School a week or two ago for the Autumn Season (in the Northern Hemisphere...Spring in the Southern). Join me to co-create and explore & activate the Feminine gifts, strengths and passion within -- and strengthen the overall field of Feminine energy and intention that's building on the planet. Join me to remember, and to practice, strengthen, and evolve that mojo together.

We'll explore together through tele-conferences, audios, and a private online forum, to start. You know what they say - when two or more are gathered, magic builds and miracles can happen.

Learn more about the Feminine Mojo Mystery School and other Feminine Mojo projects.

FeMojo Blessings,

Jamie

Image Credits: Circe's Palace by Maxfield Parrish; Garden of Eden by Thomas Cole (1828). WikiCommons.