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New addition! A family Dream from the beginning of the year! Currently known as Bandit!
✨🤹🏿‍♂️✨ #kitten #catliove #catsofinstagram #fun #playful #bandit #sunday #morning #weekendvibes #priestessyourlife

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WHITE WALK
Grateful for a walk with a friend today, talking about intersectionality and the multiple faces of our white privilege.

How, by so many measures, we have received more than our fair share. We swing power and our particular opinions and assumptions around without question.

And how, as women, we also taste the other side, this bitter ocean of patriarchy in which we swim. Stories of domestic violence and abuse present in our circles, our births, our ancestral stories, our lived experience.

Gendercide fresh in our cellular memory.

Seems to me I can use my pain and outrage in this ‘realm’ to sing up greater awareness in the arenas of life where I am blind to how I support and uphold this abusive system. How I benefit from it.

Some starting points:
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→ Admitting my multi-faceted and perpetual blindness to issues of race, class, language, education, religion, gender, appearance, sexuality, age, ability and more – this blindness a reality of every conversation I attempt to have (this one included).
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→ Acknowledging my skin has a colour – white. It’s not just ‘others’ who are ‘coloured.’
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→ Cultivating the eyes to see the gendercide and genocide (thankyou @the_angela_gallo for bringing these together) that occur around me every day, on a physical, emotional and/or spiritual level.
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→ Mitigating my inevitable failure to understand (I won’t ever truly ‘get it’) by at least showing up to the conversation: to listen, to learn, to apologise, to wait, to connect…

I know the existential relief when a man admits there is a problem, culturally, with male violence. I’m not going mad, things really are broken, and have been for a long time.

The worst is feeling alone and ostracised in the fuckedness.

Seems to me, I can use some of the CAPACITY that my white privilege has bequeathed me, to be with the discomfort of this conversation – my own, and that of others. (cont)

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🎃 SAMHAIN (HALLOWEEN) /🌺 BELTANE⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, it is Samhain today, AKA Halloween!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Yes, I know we all went trick-or-treating last week, on the traditional date of 31 Oct, but today is the exact date, when Earth and Sun are oriented exactly halfway between the Fall Equinox and the Winter Solstice!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Samhain is the third of three harvest festivals and marks the beginning of Winter, and also the Celtic New Year.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I love that symbolism, the Truth that everything start in the warm darkness of the Womb of All Things.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We gather our pumpkins, both literal and metaphorical. What of your efforts throughout the past year will nourish you through the coming winter?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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The leaves are falling all around, and in the same way we are invited to let go of all that no longer serves, and to celebrate our connection to our ancestors and beloved dead. The veil between worlds is thin…⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Today, we honour the deep wild magic of compost, stillness and death, as the birthplace of all things.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere, it is Beltane today, AKA May Day! Festival of High Spring, life blooming passionately in every direction.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How is your Spring garden? Which projects (from the profusion of possibilities) will you focus on, in order to grow them to fullness?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Beltane celebrates the Sacred Marriage of Yin and Yang, of Feminine and Masculine energies, with the traditional ceremony of the Maypole and May Dance (phallic symbol entirely intended)!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Beware the imported pumpkins in the supermarket, marking the Northern Hemisphere’s Halloween/Samhain!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Perhaps the joyful desire to dress up can be met in the form of a Beltane garden party/high tea/bonfire instead!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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#samhain #halloween #beltane #crossquarter #cycles #seasons #sabbats #spring #fall #ceremony #intention #priestess #poweredbypresence #knowthyself #livewithintention #devoted to #transformation #priestessyourlife

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ANCESTORS
Altar honouring those who came before us. Every face loved and appreciated.

Marking Samhain at our house today (see next post)...
🕯️🕯️🕯️ #samhain #halloween #altar #ancestors #grandparents #candle #remember #crossquarter #cycles #seasons #sabbats #spring #fall #ceremony #intention #priestess #poweredbypresence #knowthyself #livewithintention #devoted to #transformation #priestessyourlife

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GYM TIME
Physical strength-building to match my emotional and spiritual strength-building.

This alignment of inner and outer is important to me... We've gotta be strong in every way, in order to change the world and rewrite the story, especially for women, the Earth, and minorities of all kinds!

Lots to remember in all these barbell movements. Bit overwhelming at first!

But slow and steady, week by week, in tiny increments, I can do more, hold more, flex more... I never was a “gym person.” But I appreciate the CrossFit style (ie. not a room full of iron and mirrors, and the same routine each time), and most of all, I love how I do things I would NEVER otherwise be motivated to do! That is priceless... The secret? Just keep showing up... (that, and friendly coaches! 😊)
🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♀️🏋️‍♀️ Thankyou Lisa @crossfitlisa2.0 for the video, and your awesome coaching! 👍👍👍 (And excuse that rude man in the background, who shall remain nameless!) 🙄😹 #strong #woman #priestess #insideandout #power #workit #womenworkout #discipline #showup #rworkout #challengeyourself #fitness #goals #neverstoplearning #crossfitsteinbach #steinbach #priestessyourlife #grow #knowthyself #livewithintention

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2020 LUNAR JOURNAL

I feel mega excited about this year's Lunar Journal! It's going to be better than ever this year, which is good, cos 2020 feels like a big year → important to be LIVING ON PURPOSE!

But now I have a dilemma: I'm not even sure it should be called the Lunar Journal anymore, cos it's so much more than that!

The 2020 Lunar Journal cultivates awareness around four key cycles: the menstrual, lunar, seasonal and life cycles and is the basis of what for what can be a potent weekly, monthly, seasonally and yearly self-reflection practice!

I've had a few ideas for a new name, would love to hear your thoughts. You can vote for one in my story! ↑↑↑ Or comment below with your ideas!

With much gratitude...
xxx Grace
💛💛💛 #lunarjournal #lunarjournal2020
#priestessyourlife #selfreflection #soul #life #patterns #moon #lunarcycle #seasons #sabbat #astrology #journal #selfcare #grow #dream #flow #celebrate #soulgardening #cyclesoftransformation #cyclicalliving #flowstate #help #peace #love #grace #witch #priestess #knowthyself #livewithintention

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