{"id":2585,"date":"2017-08-22T04:37:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T22:33:31","slug":"where-is-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priestessyourlife.com\/where-is-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo 1 Lunar Cycle: Where is Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"
New Moon:\u00a0what is new?<\/strong>
\nI could feel it brewing for all of the previous cycle, like a train in the distance rolling towards me.\u00a0 This question: where is home?<\/strong><\/p>\nThis small town in prairie Canada to which we have returned so many times is filled with loving relationships.\u00a0 With family connections, deep and loyal.\u00a0 I have been coming here for a third of my life.<\/h6>\n
I feel the resourcing of this place, at multiple levels, relationally and practically. \u00a0At the New Moon, I know myself at the top of the food chain<\/strong> \u2013 that\u2019s my lived experience, cruising on a boat on a beautiful lake with family and friends while a glorious sunset paints the sky.\u00a0 Why wouldn\u2019t I live here?\u00a0 Why wouldn\u2019t I choose this place for my children, for a time at least?<\/h6>\n
This is a potent seed.\u00a0 I feel the power of it.\u00a0 I choose to share it with others, knowing that in the speaking of it, there is no taking it back.\u00a0 It will have a life of its own.\u00a0 It could change my life.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n
\nCrescent Moon:\u00a0what is emerging and birthing?<\/strong>
\nIf I live here in Canada, specifically here in rural prairie Canada, will there be room for me and my work, my Way?\u00a0 This has always been my question.\u00a0 How interesting that half this cycle is devoted to singing the Work here in Canada and seeing what\u2019s possible!<\/h6>\nWhat do the women of Canada need?\u00a0 How do I find kindred souls?\u00a0<\/strong> Where are my sisters here?\u00a0 What is possible here?\u00a0 Trusting the process\u2026<\/h6>\n
\nFirst Quarter Moon:\u00a0what is gaining momentum and growing?<\/strong>
\nWe make a Lammas altar and the women co-create the map of the cycles, at house church, this group of beautiful soul travellers. \u00a0So there’s an answer: yes, there is room to bring myself to this small town, to be received, to find our shared resonance… \u00a0Perhaps the only limit is my assumptions, in the end, rather than any cultural gap too wide to cross…<\/h6>\nI fly out east to Quebec to join Jane<\/a> and Sequoia<\/a>.\u00a0 We \u2018take the waters\u2019 at a spa in Montreal, nourishing our bodies with warmth, sisterhood and ideas.<\/h6>\n
This green, rolling landscape of Quebec is the closest I\u2019ve found to the green rolling hills of the Dandenongs.\u00a0 It\u2019s lovely to see more of Canada \u2013 my soul so nourished by perceiving the world in all her diverse beauty!<\/h6>\n
\nWaxing Gibbous Moon:\u00a0what is increasing and blooming?<\/strong>
\nWe attend Yonifest<\/a>, a festival unashamedly about birth and all manner of women\u2019s interest and experience, but open to men and children.\u00a0 Food is partly by donation.\u00a0 There\u2019s a river to dip one\u2019s feet into.\u00a0 There\u2019s a skate-ramp and a day care!\u00a0 It feels like a beautiful vision<\/strong> of how it\u2019s possible to come together, to live together.\u00a0 I am inspired!<\/h6>\nJane presents a pre-conference workshop on the Shamanic Dimensions of Pregnancy, along with three sessions at the festival.\u00a0 All are very well received.\u00a0 There is great interest<\/strong> in the Four Seasons Journey coming to Quebec, multiple offers of venue, names added to a list of very keen sisters!\u00a0 It\u2019s an exciting affirmation of the work!<\/h6>\n
We practice our conversational French!\u00a0 Bits of my high school lessons return.\u00a0 (And I learn from Jane who has taught the Four Seasons Journey with French women and is planning a French Four Seasons Journey in 2018!)<\/h6>\n
We attend the Witches ball!<\/strong> \u00a0The power of costume and play!\u00a0 Surely medicine the world needs now!<\/h6>\n
Just before the Full Moon, I witness Jane, Australian grandmother-midwife, and a Mexican grandmother-midwife, Dreaming together, seeding the possibility of future collaboration, envisioning sanctuary for the great-grandchildren in the face of increasing restriction in regards to childbirth and women\u2019s health, worldwide.<\/h6>\n
Watching them hug, I have full-body tingles<\/strong>, feeling the ripple of this powerful Full Moon prayer.\u00a0 Blessed Be!<\/h6>\n
\nFull Moon:\u00a0what intensity is to be embraced?<\/strong>
\nIt\u2019s a breather between Yonifest and the upcoming circles in the US.\u00a0 By day, we work, rippling our personal medicine out into the world in the form of emails, newsletters, personal projects.<\/h6>\nAnd by night, we Dream into what the world needs now<\/strong>, and how the School of Shamanic Womancraft can play her part.<\/h6>\n
So many ideas, notebooks filling.\u00a0 We have travelled forwards in time<\/strong>, from Imbolc to Lammas, from early Spring to early Autumn.\u00a0 It\u2019s like getting a sneak peek at the harvest, and being able to nurture the Spring seeds with this information, tweak their growing environment so they can thrive.<\/h6>\n
\nDisseminating Moon:\u00a0what harvest is to be celebrated?<\/strong>
\nWe are detained at the US border.\u00a0 I learn that the magic word is \u2018menstruation<\/strong>,\u2019 mention it three times and it seems to work like \u2018open sesame\u2019!<\/h6>\nWe sit in circle with women from the green mountains of Vermont, blessed by Pippa\u2019s hospitality.\u00a0 Pippa<\/a> held the vision of Jane coming, and made it manifest \u2013 this is what\u2019s possible for all of us, when we Dream deep and strong<\/strong>.\u00a0 We can call people from the other side of the world, from other times and places \u2013 that\u2019s pure magic!<\/h6>\n
It\u2019s a harvest moon at a harvest time of year in this hemisphere, but this is definitely seeding work, the patient work of the farmer scattering grain, trusting the process.<\/h6>\n