Inspired writings

 

Join me on my path of discovering, unfolding, experiencing and embodying within this lifetime. 

May my words be a healing presence for your own becoming.

May they be a soft landing place for your heart.

Grab my hand, beloved, and let's go and paint the town the colour of love.

 

Being held in love

 

It is such a tender place to be held in love.

When your life has been filled with being pierced by pain over and over again and then within your healing journey you arrive in a space where there is so much love, so much softening, so much tenderness and care for your heart, turns out it is a very vulnerable place to be in.

Suddenly the worries of the mind feel so small and empty, because your soul reminds you of how fleeting this life is.

Suddenly, the tasks you thought you weren't up to, turn out to be already settled and secured for you.

You have already succeeded.

So now what?

How to stay with that tenderness and vulnerability of your soft heart?

How to embrace the ache of understanding that soon enough this all will be over?

How to be in the presence of this fleeting life?

In these moments your soul reminds you that only love will stay.

Only love.

So love while you still can, because turns out we will never be able to finish loving.

There is no other reason for us to be here than to walk gently, ever so tenderly.

We are all such tender creatures.

We all, without exception, stand naked when death arrives.

Bringing back the sacredness

 

What an honour it is to walk in sacredness.

To be aware that we live in Divine's embrace.

To feel the reverence for each step we take on our soul's path.

To bow to Divine's wisdom that protects, realigns, bestows unexpected gifts and lets the sun always rise again.

In our modern world most of us haven't been taught to see life as sacred.

We have not inherited the honouring of our lives and seeing beneath the surface.

We have been programmed to believe the material reality that we see with our physical eyes.

That reality has been given meaning and importance that creates a world of its own.

Most of us were not brought up with the learnings about our Divine Mother and how we can rely on her unconditional love for us at any given time.

But we carry the inheritance of our sacredness in our bones.

In our roots.

In our ancestral memory.

Because there was a time when we did walk this Earth with reverence.

Communing with the Divine.

Sitting with the wisdom keepers.

Learning how to live soulfully.

And now is the time to re-member this again.

To walk ourselves home.

And then help others to re-member.

To bring back the forgotten skills to see beyond the ordinary.

To bring back the intimacy of Divine's love into our daily lives.

To bring back the gatherings where the soul is shared in its raw naked beauty.

To bring back the remembrance of our connection to each other and to life itself.

To bring back the honour for the world that is seen with the eye of our heart.

Taurus New Moon

 

There is a playful energy in the air with this New Moon in Taurus.

How's your inner child doing? 

You might surprise yourself with an unexpected nudge to just have some fun. Enjoy 

There is also an energy of letting go, not surprisingly, as to start anew we have to release what no longer is.

If you have been moving through another layer of grief lately, this moment brings freshness, emerging excitement even, and an anticipation for what is to come.

Every time I read for one of you, I feel deeply honoured to connect with your soul in this way.

Thank you 

Message me if you want to book your personal reading.

Blessings, beloveds! 

Alëna

Solitude

 

There is a sacred becoming in solitude.

The tender place where you stay with yourself through it all.

When you have expanded, when you have left your former life behind, you will experience moments of contraction.

Moments that your old self longs for the comfort of previous confinements.

When moving through current discomfort, the prison of the past can seem like a welcome relief.

But you know better.

You cannot go back to your old life.

That path has dissolved the moment you chose your new timeline.

You elevated, jumped life trains.

The only way now is forward.

Through the discomfort, through the fear and solitude.

Breathe through it.

You are safe.

You are enough.

And you are doing the right thing.

You cannot mess this up.

Patience is the slowest of miracles.

Allow yourself to be held in the arms of divine unconditional love when you feel lonely and forgotten.

You belong here.

You deeply belong here.

Sacred Rage

 

Divine discontent.

Goddess Pele is here to reignite your soul fire.

Kali Ma severs everything that is not worthy of your heart.

Lilith is here to transform your rage into sacred inner power.

Stamp your feet.

Let your sacred fire come alive and move through you.

This is the death of the 'good girl' role you have played for centuries to keep yourself safe and palatable for the ones who cannot bear to witness the power that you embody.

Repeat after me:

I am worthy of support.

I am worthy of unconditional love.

I am worthy of respect.

I am worthy of honour.

I am worthy of loving reciprocity.

I am worthy of sacred holding.

I am here to take up space.

I am worthy of trust.

I am worthy of belonging.

I am worthy of thriving, not merely existing.

To everyone who has ever shown me disrespect and didn't appreciate my sacred value, I now say thank you.

I bow to you in gratitude for it finally made me see, respect and deeply value myself.

My soul fire is indistinguishable, you see.

And my rage is sacred.

I am not here to please you.

Nor am I here to make you comfortable with your hiding from the light.

I am here to illuminate all that is.

You are not the one who created me.

And for that your opinion about me is irrelevant.

Receiving

 

Oh Rumi.

You said: "Open your arms if you want to be held.".

As I sat with this, it became obvious how closely connected receiving is with trusting.

Trusting that good things are meant for you.

Trusting that if it's meant for you, it will be delivered.

Trusting that people actually show up to support you when they say so.

Trusting that if you open your arms, you will be held...

So now the question arises: who do you want to be held by?

And what is truly meant for you to receive?

Turns out, receiving is a two way street.

The key factor is the discerning quality of our souls.

To be able to receive something that is for us, it has to feel as something we actually want.

It has to have that clear soul resonance that lets us know: this is for me.

The song of our soul responds to this something or someone with love, with aliveness, with excitement.

Our soul says 'yes'.

This is not the 'yes' of our ego, of how we try to convince ourselves we want things to be, how we want them to feel.

Our soul's 'yes' is like a flower's fragrance that brings us into the present moment as soon as we scent it.

A flower opens up towards the sun, because it wants to receive its light and warmth.

It doesn't open towards cruelty, deception, mind games and the unconscious want to consume that stems from the ego.

Rumi said it in his own words:

"Respond to every call
that excites your spirit.
Ignore those that make you
fearful
and sad, that degrade you
back toward disease and death."

You are worthy of receiving all the good things.

Faith

 

Oh, this intricate journey of being human.

Let's talk about faith today.

As I came to discover, faith is not something we proclaim when everything is going our way and we flow effortlessly through life.

Faith is what we are practicing when things are not happening in a way that makes us feel comfortable.

Delays of that which we thought will happen in our timing, yet asks us to trust the divine unfolding.

Human souls that leave our life when we thought our connection would keep us together.

Support that comes in forms that we didn't expect and turns out we have to learn how to embrace.

That unsettling, uncomfortable feeling.

The nagging fear that can grow into despair if we let it unattended.

The unstable ground beneath our feet.

That moment in time it feels as if there is nothing on the external to hold on to.

The human tendency is then to hustle.

To move from panic and a feeling of being unsupported.

To convince ourselves that we have to make something happen, otherwise we're doomed.

This is when faith comes in.

Patience, my dear.

Yes, patience.

What truly belongs in our lives, will never be withheld from us.

We are safe, taken care of by life itself and we can trust the unfolding of our journey.

Unconditional love

 

Yes. Yes. We have the capacity to experience unconditional love in this human life.

It is not what our ego tells us it will be like.

It is a deeper layer of living life.

It is a soul resonance that has little to do with our human self.

Our human self can feel deeply hurt, shattered, abandoned and victimized.

And simultaneously, our soul self can still feel the love underneath it all.

Even if the human in us tries to deny, dismiss, reject and abandon that love.

That is simply not possible.

Because this love is unconditional.

This is not about accepting hurtful and abusive behaviour.

This is about the quality of our own love within that stays with us through everything.

The human self sets clear boundaries of what is welcome in our lives and what is not.

This is how we define our relationships, how we discern where we want to put our time and energy and the quality of connections we are open to.

The soul self just keeps loving.

This love transcends the human relating.

It exists on the level of our souls.

It travels with us from lifetime to lifetime.

We might not always awaken to it within a particular human life, but despite that, we always carry it within us as our destined inheritance.

When we do awaken to this love, our own quality of loving, every step on the way becomes a confession of this love.

May we discover this space within ourselves and may we dwell there into eternity.

Homecoming

 

When you travel far from home, from your soul, it takes a while to return.

I have lived multiple lives within this lifetime.

I have played multiple roles to make myself fit into a system that I was never meant to be a part of.

As you can guess, that didn't work.

I was meant to experience it to gain wisdom from it.

To re-member myself along the way.

It was a winding road back home.

Back to my soul roots.

Back to the peaceful place within where there is alignment and silence.

No mind chatter, no more roles to play.

Just my human self embraced by my soul self.

The world of tarot and oracle cards opened up for me more than 12 years ago.

And it has been with me ever since.

However, it took me 10 years to uncover the simple truth: this is what I came here to do.

To divine, to see, to voice the unseen, to enter the invisible worlds, gather the messages and bring them to the surface for the conscious mind to integrate.

For me, tarot is a tool that opens multiple dimensions.

It takes me to places where my conscious mind cannot go with its linear thinking.

It awakens dormant energies, memories and skills within me that I didn't know were available for me.

It is a portal to the infinite possibilities that are always present in the here and now.

It is art.

It is beauty.

It is reverence and awe.

It is curiosity and revelations.

It is Divine communing with me.

It is my way back to joy, clarity, peace and understanding.

It is my way back to unconditional love.

Safety

 

What an intricate word.

It is such a primary need of ours that we rarely are aware of how feeling safe or unsafe shapes our lives, shapes our choices, shapes our connections.

There is the safety of survival.
Our instinct of preserving our physical lives when there is an immediate threat.

Then there is the feeling of safety that is much more nuanced and multifaceted.

When the tender parts in us get touched by something in our environment, our initial reaction is contraction.

In that state it takes practice to maintain a connection, to stay open, to keep breathing and staying present in the here and now.

It is such a relief for our hearts to know and therefore to feel that we are safe to experience whatever is present in this moment.

That is it safe for us to pause, take a deep breath, slow down and refrain from reacting from our activated pain.

There is so much love found in holding ourselves in tenderness.

Whenever an old pain is suddenly occupying our present moment, it becomes an invitation for us to hold it in softness and love.

It is such a tender experience of being human.

Safety can sometimes feel so elusive and unattainable.

And in those moments we need our love the most.

Just love.

Scorpio Full Moon and Beltane blessings

 

One of the many things I love about doing card readings is that it's a mystical experience.

It is based on the divine feminine strength that has been dismissed, devalued and even ridiculed for centuries.

Exactly for that: holding a power that cannot be corrupted nor deceived.

Every time I see a deep energetic shift take place within the person who receives a reading.

It is not always noticeable to the conscious mind, but it is immediately sensed in the energy field.

And that changes the flow of life force and aligns someone with their soul path.

The divine feminine moves in the unseen.

There is so much power in surrendering to receiving.

Message me if you have any questions and to book your reading.

Blessings, beloveds!

There is a powerful energy of (self-) forgiveness present in this moment.

Relax your heart.

It is safe to let go now.

This being human

 

What a ride it is to be human.

I have been labelled sensitive for my entire life.
For me, it didn't make much sense, since I am as I am.
I don't know how to be someone else.

What kind of world do we want to live in?
We can make anything.

How much conditioning are we carrying around?
Thoughts, beliefs, opinions that were never ours to begin with.

How are we treating our heart?
The one that beats for us without exception.
The one that has such an intimate relationship with us.
She tells us everything about our life experiences.
What hurts and what delights us.
Are we paying attention?

We want to be seen, truly seen, by someone outside of us.
But do we truly see ourselves?
Do we see our own beauty and lovability?
Do we see how much love is contained within us?
Do we see the singular, unique, divine creation that we are?
Do we see the astounding beauty of being human?

Or do we let shame dictate our narrative?
Do we guilt trip ourselves into a life that doesn't honour our divinity?
And what do we tell ourselves when we notice this repeating pattern of scolding ourselves?

This being human consists of beginning again and again.
We forget and then we re-member again.
We choose differently after the initial reaction.
We hug ourselves in love.
We return to the beauty of it all.
Exactly as it is in this moment.

The waiting pattern

 

The more I dive into my own psyche (soul), the more I see what soul lessons I chose for this lifetime.

As a child I was conditioned to wait. 
Wait for my mom to return.
Wait for other kids in class to finish their assignments so we could move on.

Later in life I fell in love.
Deeply.
Madly.
For the first time.
And I waited for that love to conquer all for many, many years.
The love stayed, but in a different form than I thought it would come to be.
I got angry, because I told myself that due to that waiting I didn't get children.
Later, when I started to deeply reconnect with my soul, I realised that this waiting was a blessing.
I didn't get children, because I was never meant to dedicate this life to being a mom.
I'm sure I've been a mother in many, many lives.
This time, my soul chose differently.
And that love was a blessing on my soul path.

Now, I see the waiting pattern repeating in my life circumstances.
And I remind myself of the mysterious workings of the Divine.
Every time I feel frustrated, afraid, doubtful and not enough, I have a choice to surrender.
I have a choice to surrender to the unknown.
I have a choice to trust the blessing that is hidden underneath this waiting.

And at other times, I remind myself of having a choice to act.
A choice to go my own way and not wait for others to catch up or join me.
To follow my soul's lead and trust that divine grace fills empty spaces if that is needed.

I am grateful for both.

Returning to self-trust

 

Trusting that we are enough.

Trusting that we have what it takes to live a life that is good for us and with that it is good for everyone.

Trusting our capability.

Trusting our inherent worth.

Trusting our inner guidance even if it sets us apart from the crowd.

Trusting ourselves without the external validation.

Finding the trust within our soul.

Trusting the goodness in us.

When the world around us feels unstable, this is the return to our soul roots.

Beyond our human suffering, there is something eternal within us that gives us the strength to live another day.

With practice, we can learn to return to our innocence, to our inherent pureness.

From this place we re-member that we are worthy to choose a life that is ours.

Blessings, beloveds!

Lemuria

 

Unconditional divine love.
On a soul level, we are all unified light.
We are all one.

Now here on Earth, we can experience the unlimited diversity of being.
We can be a villain in someone's story.
We can be a heroine or hero.
And everything in between and beyond.

In Lemuria, the reality was different than the one we are experiencing on Earth at the moment.
It was a frequency of unconditional love and blissful existence within a co-created field of love.
It is close to the frequency of the dolphins.

And since this is a frequency, it still exists now here on Earth as well.
Just in the unseen realm.
And we can make it visible by living from the heart.
By seeing with the heart.

Lemuria is here for us to embody and to be shared.
We have what it takes to live a joyous, soulful, and love-filled life.
It has always been our birthright.

I personally feel deeply connected to Lemuria.
It feels as my truest home to my soul.
This is where I relax and can be my gentle, loving self.
I have spent many, many significant lifetimes in that frequency of unconditional love and joy.
And now I am here to be that love and joy.
I am here to spread this frequency by being most soulful version of me.
I am here to let us re-member a world we have once forgotten.
I am here to co-create from our souls for the highest good of all.
I am here to uncover the love that is ever present in the here and now.
All of this anchored in embodied discernment and deep honouring of my own human heart.

Blessings to all of you, beloved humans!

Crown Chakra - Sahasrara

Story: The Ugly Duckling

 

"Once upon a time, on a farm, a creature was born into a duck family. They didn't look like their brothers and sisters and for that they were slandered and ridiculed.
No matter how hard mama duck tried to protect them, the farm's bird community bullied them and eventually rejected them. The birds told them they didn't belong there. They were banned from the community.

The creature left and went on a solo journey.
On their way, they saw the most graceful white birds flying above them.
They instantly fell in love with these birds.
After that, the creature came across other animals that lived together, but since they didn't look like any of them, they were banned from there as well.
They continued their journey alone.

Eventually, the creature settled within a cave near a lake and only at night, they swam and flew around a little so that no one would see them and make fun of them.

Spring turned into autumn and autumn became winter.
The creature grew lonelier and sadder by the day.

Until one day, they suddenly saw the gracious birds once again, now swimming in the lake.
The creature gathered all their courage, came out of the cave and entered the lake.
And suddenly, they saw their own reflection in the water.
They looked exactly like those beautiful, gracious birds!
Turns out, the creature was a white swan all along.
The swan family welcomed them in their group and together they flew away to faraway lands."

We can only shine our magnificent light by being true to ourselves.

Let the world see and witness the Divine expression of your soul.

Allow the unfolding of your essence.

Come home to your soul self.

Chakra card from "The Triple Goddess Tarot" by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman

Third Eye Chakra - Ajna

"When you know, you know."

And

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 'The Little Prince'

 

Trusting oneself.
Trusting our inner visions and the things we just know without knowing how we know.
Relying on our soul's guidance instead of external validation, permission, approval, and the stories we tell ourselves about what we perceive with our physical eyes.

Going deeper into discovering the hidden visions within us that stem from our past lives and the wisdom they carry. Wisdom that is usually wrapped in lessons and unprocessed pain.
It is worth unwrapping to get to our inner treasure. That's exactly why it's there. Waiting to be discovered by us and shared for the loving good of all.

Strengthening our inner compass that guides us through life and our decision making.
Inner compass that is anchored in our soul's light and infused with its eternal wisdom carried through many, many lifetimes.

What kind of life are you longing to live?

What lights you up from the inside and makes you sing and dance?

What do you believe to be possible for you in this life?

What are you deserving according to your own judgment?

How much joy are you allowing yourself to experience?

How much love are you allowing yourself to receive?

How much love are you allowing yourself to share?

What do you believe to be true about this world, yourself, and others?

What kind of life are you joyous to be living?

Chakra card from "The Triple Goddess Tarot" by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman

Throat chakra - Vishuddha

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, and the Truth." ~ Buddha

 

On the inside, we always live closest to our truth. That doesn't mean we are living our truth.
How many times things were so obvious from the beginning, if we were willing to listen to the whispers of our soul, that now we are fascinated how we overruled that inner voice with the voice of our ego? I guess, this is how we learn.

Our inner truth always wants to be lived. Fully.
So at times, if we are not yet able to act directly and clearly from our soul, we create circumstances that eventually make us adhere to our inner knowing.
Just to name one of the many times that happened to me: that is how I created an upheaval at my last job, simply because my soul couldn't bear it any longer that I was not living my truth. It was time.

Every one of us has their own timing in choosing to live our truth. Or not. Chosen by our souls and what we chose to experience here this time around.
I believe some of us chose not to live our truth in this life. We chose to avoid living our truth, or even acknowledge it to ourselves, because we wanted to experience how it feels, and where it leads, if we avoid it at all costs. This creates double lives, addictions of all kinds, and numbing in any way that fits us most. I believe, we've all been here at some point in our lives. We choose to do anything to stay far away from the truth of who we are. Not because we're weak or cowardice, but because our soul wanted to have this experience to be able to know what that'll be like. On a soul level, there is no judgment of bad and good, right and wrong experiences. Everything is part of the multidimensionality we all are in essence.

The High Priestess, the Papessa, in the tarot. She sits in front of a veil that separates the inner truth from the known consciousness. We get access to that place when we are willing to become very still and to listen to our inner mysteries. From here, we can make a choice, again and again. In accordance with our soul path.

Chakra card from "The Triple Goddess Tarot" by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman

Story: Rumi and Shams part 2

 

When you see a miracle, when a blessing is freely given to you, but you are not accustomed to receiving and you are used to pain and suffering, you will not be able to accept it. It takes an embodied amount of self trust to be able to believe that such a blessing is given to you freely. Because you are worth of the beauty of it.

When you meet that soul, the one you have met before.
Different body, different life, same soul.
If coming upon this earth you chose to remember your previous lives together, you will remember your stories.
You will remember the love.
And you will remember the pain of goodbyes.
You will feel it as if it is happening here and now.
Because in a way it is.
Your soul contains it all.
It can be excruciatingly painful to remember.
The love and the pain.
It makes it even more painful if the other chose not to remember in this lifetime.
Oh, they will feel the pull.
They will feel the strange unsettlingness within them, but they will run.
Because it's unexplainable. Because it's very uncomfortable.
And you will have to grieve.
Grieve all of it.
The love and the goodbyes.
It is your task to not let those tears, that grief, freeze up inside your body and make you unable to move.
It is your task to cry.
To scream that pain out of your soul.
To howl at the moon.
You are grieving lifetimes.
Don't fear the intensity.
You are alchemizing pain into majesty.
You are returning to unconditional love.
You are purifying your soul of the pain it carried into this lifetime, because it couldn't transform it in the past.
The goodbyes were sudden and definite.
There was no time to grieve.
The pain was unbearable so it had to be tucked away until another lifetime where the soul could now grieve on a soul level in this new embodiment which serves as a buffer for that life spent together.
And this is the lifetime you chose to do it.
You are ready to move beyond the pain of previous lifetimes.
So grieve.

And then you will have to move forward.
Because your soul chose to remember not to make you suffer, but to ripen your soul.
That's the whole point.
And with that ripeness you can experience the love you are here to for.
That is the whole point.

Heart Chakra - Anahata


Story: Rumi's poetry

 

"Stay close to those who know about the heart.
Choose the shade of a tree
that is in constant bloom.

Don't meander aimlessly
among the herb sellers and potion venders.
Go directly to the shop
that sells nothing but sweets!

Don't sit waiting by every boiling pot
to have your plate filled!
Not every boiling pot
is cooking what you want.

Not every sugar cane is filled with sugar.
Not every down has an up.
Not every eye has vision.
Not every sea contains pearls."

Rumi and Shams

You get to experience that kind of love story when you will long for it like you long for air after almost drowning.
This love comes as a gift. A gift that you have to be ready to receive. Ready not with your mind, but with the awakening of your soul. This is a gift that can only be received when all lesser loves cannot satisfy you anymore. When you grasp for air after being underwater for too long. When you crave sunshine like your life depends on it, because it does, when you've been in the dark for many, many nights.
You are ready to receive this gift  when you are on your knees, in tears, communing with the Divine and surrendering your love, your life, your whole being and existence to the eternal. When your whole life becomes an offering of love to the Divine.
Until this moment, you will settle for lesser loves. You will settle for not quite, and almost. You will settle for lessons of eventually feeling what it is that your soul truly longs for and cannot live without. You will settle for lessons of eventually walking away from what cannot feed your soul.
You will be on your knees many, many times.
You will be in tears and in pain many, many nights.
And you will rise.
You will find what you're looking for.
You will be found.
What you want, wants you.
What you seek, is seeking you.
Your soul will be nourished with the nectar of love.
Your soul will spread its wings and fly to unimaginable heights.
You will experience the love you are here for.
That love wants to be experienced through you.
This is your destiny.
And so, it is meant to be.
Maktub.

Chakra card from "The Triple Goddess Tarot" by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman

Poem from Rumi's Oracle by Alana Fairchild

Solar Plexus Chakra - Manipura


Story: Sri Bala


"Bala is the daughter of goddess Lalita. She has a strong and clear inner compass and it leads her to express herself fearlessly and authentically.
One day she asks her mother to join the battle against evil. Lalita is concerned, since Bala is still a child and not a warrior. Besides, she would not want to lose her daughter on the battlefield. However, Bala convinces her mother that this is what she is meant to do now and to have trust that she has what it takes to succeed.
And so it happens. Bala wins the battle and saves the day."

The old soul with deep knowing, the divine feminine child with wisdom beyond her years.

Your inner compass shows you the way.
The trust is found within oneself.
You know what you came here to do and you know who you came here to be.
Your authentic path is always divinely protected and guided.
It is the safest path to take no matter how little, or none, external validation you are receiving.
Trust in your destiny.
Follow your soul's voice.

Your authenticity will cost you people.
A lot of people.
The ones that cannot understand you.
The ones that cannot see you.
The ones that are afraid of you, because you're doing things your way.

You are the odd one.

And it will also bring you people.
Your people.
People that will feel as a blessing.
Each and every one of them.
People that will come as a gift.
People that will see you.
People that will understand you.
People that will know your soul.

Have faith in your path.
It is all worth it.

Inspired by Alana Fairchild 'Kali Oracle'

Chakra card from "The Triple Goddess Tarot" by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman

Sacral Chakra - Svadhishthana


Fairy tale: "Selkie"


The return to home, the wild home, the soul-home

There is human time and there is wild time.

"There lived a very, very lonely man. One night he saw the most gorgeous women dancing in the dark on a rock in the sea. Next to them he saw their sealskin laying there. He stole one and insisted for one of the sealwomen to marry him to get her sealskin back after seven summers.
The sealwoman birthed a son. Seven summers past and she began to wither. She demanded her sealskin be returned to her. Her husband denied her what belonged to her.
The son obtained his mother's sealskin and returned it to her. She went back underwater and took her son with her. But he had to go back to land. He returned and grew to be a good man. And the sealwoman visited him near the shore ever since."

This story is about conscious reclamation of what it is that is most important to us.
It begins with suffering. Being unaware, tricked in one way or another, and then finding one's own power and depth again. It is returning to the cohesive, creative, soulful and wildish female nature. Here, a woman is entirely in and of herself instead of seeking external validation, doubting her every step and trying to behave as is convenient for others.
This path is neverending. We forget and then we remember and return to our soul self. And then we forget again. And remember once more. It is a timeless motif in human psyche that the ego and the soul vie to control the life force. It is a path from a muscular ego self to soulfulness which is, simply put, submitting to the concerns of the soul.
Untame yourself.
Rewild yourself.
It is time.
Welcome home.

Inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estés "Women Who Run With The Wolves"

Chakra card from "The Triple Goddess Tarot" by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman

Root Chakra - Muladhara

Fairy tale: The Little Match Girl


"There was a little girlchild who had neither a mother nor a father, and she lived in the dark forest. To survive another day she would buy and sell matches in the nearby village.
One cold winter day she wasn't able to sell any matches and she decided to burn them instead to warm herself. While she sat on the icy ground, she closed her eyes and saw images of a warm, loving home. In the meantime, she was freezing to death.
Eventually she saw the image of her grandmother who took her hand and took her to heaven.
In the morning, the little girl was found still, and gone."

And so, the initiation begins.
This ancient story tells us about the awakening of our life-force energy within us when it is confronted with death.
It is also a cautionary tale to shake us up and let us connect with our life-force to make life-affirming choices.
Leave the places where people don't care. They are not worth your time.
Be with real people who nurture you, who warm you up, who love and value you as you are.
Choose places where you can thrive, where you are celebrated as you.
Realize you are worthy of being nurtured.
Respond to your own needs.
Deeply value the gifts that you were given.
And make choices accordingly.
Life-force within us can make us stay complacent in the most barren circumstances. Because it's main function is to let us survive.
Death threat, however, wakes it up and makes you choose beyond survival.


You are not for everyone.
When someone is not supporting you, it's because they are undernourished themselves.
They cannot give what they do not have.
That is why it is so important to connect with the roots within yourself.
And just as important to choose your environment, your people, wisely and with great discernment.
Who is nurturing and warm?
Who supports your life and your visions and sees and treats you as the great divine gift that you are to the world?
Those are your people.
Be deeply rooted in who you are and what you are here for.



Chakra card from "The Triple Goddess Tarot" by Isha Lerner, illustrated by Mara Friedman

Inspired by Clarissa Pinkola Estés "Women Who Run With The Wolves"

What is your truth?

 

I invite you to receive the soul truth of who you are.

You know the truth by how it feels in your body.

The truth feels like an expansion instead of a contraction.

The truth feels like a deep breath.

The truth feels like coming home into your body.

The truth feels like a resting place, not a battle ground.

The truth feels like a genuine embrace.

The truth feels like belonging.

The truth feels like dropping the shields of whatever stories you are telling yourself.

The truth feels like sacred silence.

What is your truth?

 

Fire Horse Year

Aqua New Moon Solar Eclipse

 

The energy has shifted. It is palpable.
The Divine Feminine has been building an inner solid foundation after the crumbling of the old and in the meantime shedding layers upon layers of conditioning, limiting beliefs and the barriers we had around our hearts.
We have been attuning to our own natural rhythm which can be different to each and one of us.
Now there is a clear sense of alignment. The fear that could bother us yesterday has dissolved. There is a clear sensing of our own worthiness and the life that springs from that. The messages have suddenly landed within our bodies.
We are making the steps from trust and embodiment. And we are greeted by our soul destiny every step of the way.
Much love, beloved human!

The way of the Divine Feminine

 

Embodied wisdom - that is the way of the divine feminine

From overwhelming self-doubt to deep unwavering self-trust

From self-abandonment to reciprocity

From censoring my speech to spontaneously expressing my truth

From overgiving to honouring my need to receive

From limiting beliefs to living unbound

From grasping in fear to trusting in the divine

From fear of lack to surrendering to the divine love

From rigid life script to asynchronic unfoldment

From coordinated steps to nonlinear dance with life

From overfunctioning to deeply rooted, embodied discernment

From being programmed to be convenient to deeply honouring my self-worth

From seeking validation outside of myself to being deeply rooted in my inherent self-value

From judging my humanness to surrendering to the fully embodied sacred experience of being human

The divine feminine way invites us to move from controlling to allowing

From surviving to returning to love

Being fully protected by the divine masculine

He bows in deep honour to the sacredness of divine feminine

 

 

 

Let your human self be loved

 

For me these words are connected to Mary Magdalene. There is so much tenderness here. The complete surrender to the indestructible softness of our hearts.

I stand naked in front of you and you see me in all that I am.

I want to see you, too. Truly see you. Nothing left to hide, nowhere to go.

The surrendered state of a heart fully broken open. There is no way back to the prison of the past. The past is in the past.

The exquisite beauty of every virtue and challenge ever given to me and their synergy were always meant to lead me back to my soul's truth. To make me re-member. To let me return.

I ask to be stripped bare of every desire that isn't Divine will.

I want whatever you, my Beloved, want for me.

True love is immortal.
And it has already won.

 

 

Madeira

I remember the first day I spent with you after arriving.

I sat in your lap by the ocean and the mountains wrapped me up in their tender embrace.

That day I was walking around bewildered, disoriented, a bit lost.
And at the same time I was feeling so excited like a kid that ate too many candies.
At that moment I had no idea of all the blessings and gifts and magic that were waiting for me here and that you would bestow upon me so openly and generously.
I didn't know that it was you I've been searching for all those years.
I didn't know that all that time you have been patiently waiting for me to find you.
I didn't know that at that moment, even before I became aware of it, we were reunited. At last...

My love for you grew slowly. I started to re-member... With each careful step at first (your hills tempted and seduced me from the very first day), with each soft breath until I was dancing (jumped up in the air a couple of times as well) and laughing in your streets and screaming from excitement like a seagull.

I remember my first kiss that I received from the Ocean. It was so sudden, unexpected and wet. I loved every drop of it.

I saw your sexiness right away. Oh, you are so erotic. Your winding roads, lush bushes, steep hills, the intensity of your raw beauty, the big contrasts that you hold within make me swoon. Your dramatic valleys.

You introduced me to the Ocean. The most exquisite lover that I was unable to imagine, because I had to feel him to experience him. I was also unable to resist him. No chance. The way he makes me feel... With his movements, his tenderness, his persistence and enveloping sensuality. His waves become my waves and before I know it we are one flowing movement of love...
I don't even have to say a word about his love. That's just there, ever flowing, infinite, vast, unfathomably deep...

And as if this was not enough to experience, you also introduced me to the lovemaking of the magical forest. I don't know what kind of spell he put on me, how and when exactly that happened, but after that the world has never been the same. The pants were torn, the mind was mind blowingly quiet, my soul was on fire and I awakened in a different dimension of experiencing life. He clearly wanted me to remember him forever. As if I could ever forget.

 

And there was so much more.... And there IS so much more yet to discover and experience...

The clarity you gifted me?
You are my home.

 

 

The Guesthouse ~ Rumi