Birthing the Creative Process

I’m thinking today about how the creative process resembles the process of gestating and birthing a child.

About six months ago, I received the ‘download’ that there was a creative task in store for me which would eventually involve making a larger effect in the world. Around the Autumnal Equinox, I conceived. The vision for what I am currently calling ‘The Womb Medicine Project’ came to me clearly and with a lot of excitement and potential. I felt that I had been touched by something greater than myself, just like some women feel around conception, I was full inside, with a mystery of my own making.

After the conception, I went underground for the winter and gestated. I worked with creative frustration for many months and the daunting feeling that I was not doing anything to bring forth this vision. I stared in the face again and again the negative beliefs that kept me from moving forward ~ ‘I’m not good enough’, ‘It’s not OK to be an artist’, ‘I am too young to make that kind of effect’, ‘I’m not powerful enough’, and more. It was quite a bit like the morning sickness in the first trimester of a pregnancy…painful and nauseating!

I knew that I was being asked to do something risky, something that will change me forever and I didn’t believe it was real. Just like a new mama, pregnant for the first time, I wasn’t sure if ‘there was really something in there’ and I didn’t trust with certainty, that someday I would actually have the courage to give birth to this vision. (continue reading…)

Reclaim the healing power of the cycles of Womanhood.

Here are 9 Ways to make your MoonTime sacred ~

1) Start with your speech. Make a conscious effort to speak about your menstrual period with respect. Consider calling your menses MoonTime or some other name with honor. Our language holds a ton of power. Notice how you speak about your sacred bloods. Do you talk about this time of the month with positive energy? Do you do your best to keep it a secret? Do you express any challenges you may have with your cycles in a respectful way?

2) Consider using cloth menstrual pads. MoonTime can be more enjoyable, interesting, healthy, and ecologically responsible with the use of cloth menstrual pads! I believe this is one small step we as women can take toward reclaiming a positive relationship with this very important aspect of Womanhood. Read more about the joys of using cloth for your MoonTime in the latest Shakti Moonletter. (continue reading…)

Sitting inside of the earth last night with an intimate and potent circle of women, it was palpable…our connections with one another had the sweet flavor of unconditional love. The envy and subtle competition that so often set the undertones within groups of women were dissolved.

At the end of our circle as we sat around the sacred fire, we found our way into more immediate contact with one another through holding of hands or stretching to reach another woman’s knee, or shifting our body weight to see her eyes more clearly in the firelight. These informal spontaneous gestures were an expression of the closeness that we felt from a night of truly being together.

Being is the essence of woman. Without the time and space carved out to actually BE in our femininity, we cannot expect to feel genuinely connected with other women. When women are (continue reading…)

Who knew? My first blog post is about pink cupcakes. Well, I do spend a lot of time with a 3 and a half year old girl.

We recently celebrated the Birth of Spring with my little girl and a handful of her friends (with their parents too). I am very interested in finding inspiring, creative ways to celebrate the natural cycles with her and teach her about the ordinary magic of the changing of seasons. We wanted to celebrate the Spring Equinox on the Spring Equinox, but the Spring Fairies could not find their way to our garden in a foot of snow! So we waited until the First Full Moon of Spring, which is just as well. The night before, we left a plate of fruit out in our backyard for the Fairies to eat as an offering. In the morning, we checked to see if they had come to eat our offering. (We hear that they only come when children are sleeping and dreaming of Spring…) Vwa-la! there was only a half eaten rose petal left!

The Spring Fairies sometimes leave a basket of treasures for children in their gardens when Spring returns. So we looked around and found a beautiful purple tulip basket full of goodies…little fruit bunnies, tinkerbell socks, a new toy fairy with glittering wings, paper grass, and jeweled eggs for Zahara!

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