Michigan’s Spring is becoming a glorious event.

My joy overflows in daily discovery of the variety of greens that grace the outlying landscapes and neighborhoods.

Today I discovered that wild violets dapple the lawns in purple clusters.

Magnolia blossoms now flutter to the grounds as the fruit trees burst in full blossom splendorMay has unfolded under the watchful gaze of the Bull gracing us with Beltane, a Solar Eclipse with a dance of surprise and wonder of so many celestial bodies all the while the grace of the seven sisters has blessed and guided us.

While centering myself today, to create my calendar and New Moon Class announcement, I was following my inner voice.

My first inner message was to take a morning walk, then I was to settle in at my desk. Well, you know that’s not quite what happened.

I have a good friend who has a query in her healing work…”What want’s to happen ?” Well, what wanted to happen was to read my emails, which let to thinking about sending out my community email, which led to looking at images, which led to finding that I was choosing a lot of blue and gold images…and then…as tracking would have it, I discovered this image from Nasa of the planet Mercury courtesy Wikimedia Commons

“This mosaic of the Caloris basin has a monochrome mosaic from a previous post overlaid with an enhanced-color composite. The colour mosaic was created using photos taken when the spacecraft and the Sun were both overhead, which are the ideal circumstances for detecting brightness fluctuations.”

I was surprised to learn that Mercury is never seen in the dark of the night as he rises and sets within a few hours of the Sun. Historically he once was called Apollo, rising with the sun and Hermes ( classic Greek) setting with the Sun. He becomes Mercury in Roman culture.

Classic Mercury

“The cult of Mercury is ancient, and tradition has it that his temple on the Aventine Hill in Rome was dedicated in 495 BCE. There Mercury was associated with Maia, who became identified as his mother through her association with the Greek Maia, one of the Pleiades, who was the mother of Hermes by Zeus; likewise, because of that Greek connection, Mercury was considered the son of Jupiter. Both Mercury and Maia were honoured in the Mercuralia festival on May 15, the dedication day of Mercury’s temple on the Aventine.” excerpt from the encylopedia Britannica

We gather a few days early in our creative circle to keep our weekend open for wonderment.

This month’s New Moon, travels quickly from Taurus to Gemini

5/18 Moon in Taurus Gate 27 Food of the Gods

5/19 Moon in Taurus Gate 23 Alchemy of Simplicity.

5/20, Rubbing horns to feathers from Gate 23 Gate of Simplicity to Gate 20 The Sacred Om Moon shifts from Taurus to Geminii

5/21 Moon is in Gemini holding their own in Gate 35 Wormholes and Miracles

5/22 Moon Gate 12 Gemini

5/22 The Sun shifts from Taurus into Gemini as communication is happening in a big way as their degrees travel thru the Sun’s Gate of Exquisiteness in Taurus into the 20th Gate of the Sacred Om to meet the Moon in so much possibility.

The magical sign of the Messenger blesses the Sun on 5/22 in Gate 20 The Sacred Om herself, and the Moon meets her that day while in Gate 12 Pure Heart , as a Gift of Discrimination, as the planet Mercury rules the sign of Gemini, our Star will be experiencing Mercury as it’s guiding planet.

Hermes/Mercury carries quite a role as his mythological persona is blessed to travel between the worlds with winged sandals.

He engages in quite a few plots and stories with heavenly beings and their myths. He carries a caduceus as a symbol of peace once symbolically represented with olive branches and garlands of ribbons.

Fleet of foot, clever, known to be a trickster and communicator. He even influences the chemical symbol of mercury. Hg, derived from the Latin name for the element, hydrargyrum–literally, liquid silver.

“The Talaria of Mercury (Latin: tālāria or The Winged Sandals of Hermes Ancient Greek: πτηνοπέδῑλος, ptēnopédilos or πτερόεντα πέδιλα, pteróenta pédila) are winged sandals, a symbol of the Greek messenger god Hermes (Roman equivalent Mercury). They were said to be made by the god Hephaestus of imperishable gold and they flew the god as swift as any bird.” excerpt Wikipedia

Again, the violet bows to the lily.
Again, the rose is tearing off her gown!

The green ones have come from the other world,
tipsy like the breeze up to some new foolishness.

Again, near the top of the mountain
the anemone’s sweet features appear.

The hyacinth speaks formally to the jasmine,
“Peace be with you.” “And peace to you, lad!
Come walk with me in this meadow.”

Again, there are sufis everywhere!

The bud is shy, but the wind removes
her veil suddenly, “My friend!”

The Friend is here like water in the stream,
like a lotus on the water.

The narcissus winks at the wisteria,
“Whenever you say.”

And the clove to the willow, “You are the one
I hope for.” The willow replies, “Consider
these chambers of mine yours. Welcome!”

The apple, “Orange, why the frown?”
“So that those who mean harm
will not see my beauty.”

The ringdove comes asking, “Where,
where is the Friend?”

With one note the nightingale
indicates the rose.

Again, the season of Spring has come
and a spring-source rises under everything,
a moon sliding from the shadows.

Many things must be left unsaid, because it’s late,
but whatever conversation we haven’t had
tonight, we’ll have tomorrow.

(translation by Coleman Barks)

We are creating a few days ahead of when energies align per ephemeris on 5/20 when the Moon will meet the Sun. The New Moon in the sky is actually in Taurus on 5/19/2023, but my creative self wants to explore the Planet Mercury…and you know , the Muse will have her way.

New Moon Magic, is a monthly deep dive into emerging energies guided by heavenly archetypal symbols, such as the planets and the stars. We meet on Zoom, each participant creates from the energies that are unique to them as influenced by the month’s theme. Suggested supply list here

Our expressive arts process is informed by Intentional Creativity and Creative Depth work.

StarDust Blessings,

Kendall

Songs of the Pleiades

Taurus New Moon online Creative Circle

Friday, April 21st   7:00pm EST

~ Sacred Voice ~

The Pleiades, known as the Seven Sisters, bless us with their presence as springtime skies twinkle in resonance with Venus in a dance with the Twins, Gemini.  Our sacred voice, unique & ever present is enhanced within the dark nights prior to the birth of the New Moon’s field of becoming.

Dipping into Creative Depth as art process, gather in Zoom Circle on the Day of the New Moon. Each participant is guided to connect and create with their emerging images.

Activate, explore  transform your archetypal connections to sky and earth thru imagery & creative playfulness with symbols and surprises in blended expressive arts of Come to the Story™ .

We shall ponder the myths of Taurus; fertile, abundant, sensuous.

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One thing I know for sure, it is all Messy. No way around it, more simple, more mess

I have a curious even grasping mind, I want to know and understand many topics. I see them as interrelated elements to a whole. The study of such leads to more messy bits.

Now, oddly enough that Human Design training and study all comes back to haunt.

For instance, I want to do things, well and right…right a long time ago meant, correct…I think social conditioning placed a veil over my thinking mind, I’ve really become stuck in getting things “right”. Doing things “well” , what does that even mean ? I often find that rut within where I get stuck doing it right…or thinking it should be other than it is.

Now, I’ve taken a leap into Web-3 spaces, probably due to the fact that I get bored and the winter nights are long plus I have a vision of something that has tugged at my imagination for years. But, what am I committed to ?

Can you feel the trend here ? I may be about to go into some free flowing swirl writing. If you’ve caught on to my swirl writing , it’s about free flow and connecting the dots of the inner conversation, yet there may not be any seemingly connected dots, therefore you’ve accomplished getting your thoughts out and hopefully feel expressed and perhaps a solution has risen off the pages.

I can take that energy into an altered book, as a page and work it imaginally ( is there such a word ? )

Social Media = Messy Website=Messy Art=Messy

And you can pretty much bet, that if it is Messy, it is also Complicated, which indeed may stem from Chaos.

Chaos, a truly feminine expression can lead to impeccable innovative applications. ie: a chaotic art table full of paints, paper, materials leads to a contained imaginative sketch or collage, etc.

More messy bits, how to market your talents ? That’s a question I ask myself. I really don’t have an answer. For instance: I would like to sell my paintings to collectors, this does happen occasionally but my question is am I doing it right or well ? hmmm, a wise man would say, look at the results. But, I don’t want to do it conventionally, ie, set up a pretty website shop, blah blah blah…I have tried for years and it doesn’t feel right. Which leads to the thoughts of how unique each of us are…or is it how unique each of us is… ? I have an ongoing disagreement with grammar and syntax.

I think also that I have an ongoing debate with all these technical digital tools as well. Now there is Substack, yup, I have that one too…what and how I am going to play over there ?

This may be a many part conversation with my Messy Muse. Recently thru synchronicity, I discovered another aspect Muse, she is the Enchanted Muse. , she seems to know what she is doing in here arena over in the Web3 landscape, more to follow on her …

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Note to Self: the season of Aries has begun.

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As life would have it, the printer just broke , need to run out to create a replacement solution.

Aries New Moon

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As we evolve together, our unique energy signatures expand their depth and awareness. Approaching the creative path as a Sacred Journey enhances the transformational process, whether from wounded to healed, from broken to whole, from curious to knowing into the treasure within. 

 Creative Journey allows for expansive possibilities within your StoryField.

 How do you discover hidden stories ?

Spring of 2023 marks a new beginning, a fresh threshold to cross over within the framework of wonder and mystery.  I invite you on a monthly journey in the darkened fields of the New Moon Becoming

Under the guidance Star Fields as well as the Sign of the Moon…. guided by totems and oracles, ancient wisdom with a contemporary touch we shall make creative pages of our unique vision and story

Increase your capacities of resilience for these times thru your inner journey creative workflow.

Class dates will flow to the Moon’s Cycle, while a wee bit inconvenient for our linear schedules, following her rhythm supports our attuning to natural cycles. 

The mythic nature of star lore continues to capture my imagination, sometimes new AI technology does too! And this pondering of stars, Pisces, fish and our cultural spin is taking an interesting turn as I am swirl writing again.

On the 18th our Sun entered Pisces, some say that at 0 degrees Pisces marks the beginning now of the Aquarian age. We certainly are in motion of moving times and events. Days so full of creative options and stimulation that is may be challenging to center into the “Now”.

It seems that embracing acceptance of the moment anchors a core presence. Each inhale inviting a space in between the known and unknown, exhale to find yourself in the next Now moment.

“We breathe in and out about 22,000 times a day. We are powered by breathing. Our lungs fuel us with oxygen, our body’s life-sustaining gas. Our lungs breathe in air, then remove the oxygen and pass it through our bloodstream, where it’s carried off to the tissues and organs that allow us to walk, talk, and move. ” https://www.lung.ca

As we have entered the sign of Pisces, naturally a question arises, How do fish breath ? https://www.livescience.com/how-do-fish-breathe Yes, they have gils, hmmm, how does a mermaid breathe ?

Lungs are said to be the organ of grief, lungs massage the heart, these organs have quite a relationship of give and take, Gemini rules the Lungs, Leo the Heart and Pisces the Feet. The medicine way says that we heal thru our feet…imagine that your feet have a soulful (soleful) relationship with your heart and breath, how present are you in your feet ?

When your mermaid self transforms to walk on land She must become present in her feet, more purposeful and connected to terra firma, her gils more than likely undergo a metamorphoses for land breathing… How is your land breath ?

Join me on Monday for a bit of Swirl Writing in our Creative Pages, taking the form of journal, altared book or Cosmic SmashBook, Visually explore how your are landing in and on your feet….or taking to the waters with a mermaids tail…

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Writing a blog is not so easy.

What more is there to say in this world of non stop information ? I wonder as I free write this morning.

Well, as ever, there is always more to express.

This week my community felt the sorrow of mass shooting. It was more close to home than was comfortable as tho any violence anywhere is comfortable.

Our tears are flowing. The city and campus grieving. Praying from a state of shock and prayer that my area would be spared, as the city just didn’t know the next unfolding eruption of violence. Sheltering in place, lights out, I reached out to long distance friends for support, am so thankful that it was there. Then the arc of concern grew as the news revealed the sorrows that families will bear for those who were harmed, killed & injured in the physical statement of ones life ending. For those in close proximity to the event, they will be dealing with reverberating fears for some time to come, perhaps forever.

Take your sorrows, sighs and hope to the Creative Page

How do we live thru changing times, within this compression of experiences in this mystery of expansion & becoming ?

Can we weave hope into our communities thru the sorrows of the mental illness & trauma that grips our psyches and cities ?Becoming into wholeness takes intentional focus, self care and patience.

Ponder resilience.

re·sil·ience

/rəˈzilēəns/

noun

1. 1.the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.”the remarkable resilience of so many institutions”
2. 2.the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.

Then we take to the page, either written or visual, perhaps it is to music making, we take our feelings to Creative Expressions to transform, to express, to work it out, to land into a new sense of being and Self. A place to connect with our Soul.

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We gather monthly in the dark creation fields of lunar essence to create on the page, together, expressing our unique approach to emerging symbolic topics of the time.

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Fascinating ancient word…Alchemy...

With a sense of playfulness, I am approaching this New Year in a new way, I am practicing more ” present ” time mindfulness, being super mindful of being in the Now.

This isn’t easy, I’d rather daydream, there is little time for that unless I am fully in it, which would be in the Now in a daydream, Day Dreaming being useful practice as is Multitasking, but being in the Now as a Day Dreaming Multitasker can be confusing.

What gets accomplished if the Now of my Now intention is to reach a creative goal while I am DayDreaming ? Is it possible ? I call these paragraphs, swirl writing, as I am thinking of how to express the Alchemy of my day, leaning into the Mystery of going with the Flow in the Now.

Today I noticed the Alchemy of my intentions as I was flowing from one Now moment to the next, even allowing for intentional Day Dreaming and Goal achievement, by the end of the day I did complete one intentional task while multi-tasks continue to float about me like the Sorcerer’s Apprentices brooms…

There may be more to say, but maybe not, as Alchemy transformed my day with new connections, fresh perspective, the courage to dismantle some roadblocks (aka limiting beliefs ) providing energy to complete long term creative goals.

Being a Creative goes hand in hand with Curation.

Being creative in Analog and Digital is a unique bridge that I have chosen to cross, I am thrilled that the Dream Conduit Community is leading education in this area for participating in Web3. I am an edge dwelling baby boomer, stepping into the crowning rays of wisdom years. In my youth, Technology was shared by the Jetsons & Star Trek, suggested realty was that Dick Tracy was the only one with a wrist phone, my imagined visions of the possible as expressed artful projects lived in my imagination, now technology has advance so much that I can created even beyond those youthful imagined virtual landscapes from my DayDreams.

Benefits of Conscious Creativity, supports being here now…and when you take it to the page, you can smash & transform to create anew as you take your inquiry into the Creative, with images, crayon and paint, self awareness is supported as well as mental health and visionary insights.

If you would like to smash with me, please join in on

Saturday, January 21st 2:00 pm EST

New Moon Magic StoryBook Creativity Circle.

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January 16th

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Sneakpeak of my crossover image, bridging analog to digital in watercolor & ink

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Art of Transformation, Alchemy.

noun

noun: alchemy

1. the medieval forerunner of chemistry, based on the supposed transformation of matter. It was concerned particularly with attempts to convert base metals into gold or to find a universal elixir.”occult sciences, such as alchemy and astrology”Similar:chemistrymagicsorcerywitchcraftenchantment
   • a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.”finding the person who’s right for you requires a very subtle alchemy”

Origin

late Middle English: via Old French and medieval Latin from Arabic al-kīmiyā’, from al ‘the’ + kīmiyā’ (from Greek khēmia, khēmeia ‘art of transmuting metals’).

There is a trend to discover and announce your word (s) for the year, my first choice was Treasure…then Groov’n popped up… I’m claiming to live more intentionally with these words in 2023…Treasure…. a treasure, treasured people, places, memories, experiences and Groov’n, a little more wordplay and I will arrive at a Groov’n Treasure Trove !

Curiousity of new worlds and emerging media pathways led me to inquire and learn about the Blockchain…. first stop after the first year of Covid stay-at- home time was Clubhouse. Hours of listening to hallway conversations eventually led to The Dream Conduit. I’ve been hanging out with the Dreamers ever since I heard voices that resonated. Read more here… As my story flows I ended up participating their Art-a-Thon last Summer, my piece was accepted as a part of a juried group, and voila, my contribution NFT was minted and collected !

In October I put my hat in the ring for the learning experience of creating a unique generative profile image with a group of fellow artist, each of us created from our unique point of view resulting 500 unique images per artist…quite the process in deconstructive to reconstructive imagination within my art making. Come join in the fun, meet the contributing artists in the Clubhouse room this month as the project launches.

Each Thursday in January, 9:00 pm Eastern, on Clubhouse The Curation Conduit with Lianna Adams

Create your New Moon treasure with me as the New Year continues to shine its light !

New Moon Magic Cosmic SmashBook™ Oracle Saturday, January 21st 2:00 pm EST

treasure (n.)

mid-12c., tresor, from Old French tresor “treasury, hoard, treasure” (11c., Modern French trésor), from Gallo-Roman *tresaurus, from Latin thesaurus “treasury, treasure” (source also of Spanish, Italian tesoro), from Greek thēsauros “store, treasure, treasure house,” related to tithenai “to put, to place,” from reduplicated form of PIE root *dhe- “to set, put.” In Middle English also thresur, etc.; modern spelling is from 16c. Replaced Old English goldhord, maðm. General sense of “anything valued” is recorded from c. 1200. Treasure hunt is first recorded 1913. For treasure trove, see trove.

treasure (v.)

late 14c., “to amass treasure; to store up for the future,” also figurative, “regard as precious, retain carefully in the mind,” from treasure (n.). Related: Treasured; treasuring.

Naturally leading to Treasure Trove !

trove (n.)

1888, from treasure trove (c. 1550), from Anglo-French tresor trové (late 12c.), translating Latin thesaurus inventus, literally “treasure found.” Originally any precious metal object one finds hidden whose owner is unknown. As this usually meant ancient hoards, the term came to mean “treasure hoard” in popular use. Rendered treasure found from mid-15c. French trove is past participle of trover “to find,” from Old French trover, torver, of unknown origin, perhaps from Latin turbare “to move” (hence “to seek for”) or Medieval Latin *tropare “to compose, sing.”

Funny how a word will pop in ! First, Groov’n then Groovy…truly throwback words.. naturally the music of the The Young Rascals…easy and smooth…

“Groovin’ “

Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon
Really couldn’t get away too soon
I can’t imagine anything that’s better
The world is ours whenever we’re together
There ain’t a place I’d like to be instead of

Movin’ down a crowded avenue
Doin’ anything we like to do
There’s always lots of things that we can see
You can be anyone we like to be
All those happy people we could meet

Just groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon
Really couldn’t get away too soon
No, no, no, no

We’ll keep on spending sunny days this way
We’re gonna talk and laugh our time away
I feel it coming closer day by day
Life would be ecstasy, you and me endlessly

Groovin’ on a Sunday afternoon
Really couldn’t get away too soon
No, no, no, no
Groovin’, uh huh…
Groovin’

Writer(s): Felix Cavaliere, Edward J. Brigati

The Web3 world has its unique vocabulary, I recommend Googling a phrase/word whenever these new words show up which will usually yield a description and usage explanation.

Sometimes, dreams do come true. My sense of things now, is that with grit & brawn combined with steady hard effort, good friends, seen and unseen angels and community, Dream~Seeds burrow deeply into the earth, so that when your prayers touch the hull cracking that seed your dream potential will become deeply deeply ever so deeply rooted into the possible.

I’ve dreamt of a different tomorrow for quite some time, in my world that meant a different landscape of presence , a landscape would offer me something unknown, unseen yet familiar. I’ve landed in central Michigan, embraced by the Great Lakes awaiting a chilly winter in a landscape that thrills my being.

So far the weather is balmy, sometimes rainy with a bite. The scent of moisture wafting thru the leaf shed is incredible. The autumn colors outstanding in their brilliance. Pumpkin patches, corn fields, and forests greet me. Also, dark nights, getting lost and crossing thresholds of initiation abound.

It’s taken a bit of time to get into the computer groove again, yet here I am…and tomorrow we are gathering to create during our New Moon Magic creative circle, you are invited to join …click here

Tides of change continue moving thru our lives, whether in our deep internal landscapes, our physical home environments AND our communities. Right now the whorls of change are tapping every known structure that we can name or identify. Perhaps it has always been this way if we were to see the Universe from galaxies away.

Our interstellar address resides deep in the heart of the Laniakea Supercluster. The times call for more active imagination than ever before, with each of us creating our unique renaissance moments.

My personal journey is creating a story arc of relocation from the high desert mountains of Santa Fe to the forested lands of the Great Lakes. An adventure in changing landscapes!

How is your story arc informing your life ? Does your creativity inform your story or visa versa ? Perhaps it is all in the weave of what rises up from our inner~scapes. Images within and without form reality in some alchemical way….I have sense that we are more involved than we realize in our manifestation outcomes…perhaps our creative voice calls in more than images on the page? From decorating our homes to shopping for recipe ingredients we call in what wasn’t there before.

As the boxes fill, full of crayons, paints and paper, I realize how blessed I am to have an active creative practice and materials. Now comes a new challenge of creating with minimal materials for a wee bit of time. One of the benefits of Cosmic SmashBooking™ and JourneyCircles™ is the contained use of space.

Even more, I am blessed with the privilege of leading online Zoom groups in Come to the Story™ blended creative practice. Where my developed skills in Creative Depth get to weave with art making, intentional creativity and collage.

As a group we have explored our lives unfolding in the creative flow of consciously reclaiming and re-storying ancient myths and patterns of conditioned patriarchal fields. Creative interplay supports the Re~claiming of hidden or simply quiet aspects of our voices, our stories , hopes and dreams. Intentionally setting out to chart new territory. The Constellations of the Zodiac have been our guide. Libra, full of hidden clues guides our way this month as we take to the page !

This October will be full of seasonal glory, leaves will change, pumpkins will be carved…I am taking the time to move, but first, on Saturday, September 24th, New Moon Magic~Libra, your are invited to join our Creativity Circle at 10:00 am MST for a bit of guided Cosmic SmashBooking™ .

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StarDust Blessings !

Kendall

The season of the big cat is upon us as Leo takes center stage in the skies, we enter

time of the Lioness.

The New Moon on July 28 also makes her appearance in Leo.

We shall be explore our archetypal Lioness energies from several perspective.

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Also this summer season, the portal magic of the Lion’s Gate graces us in August.

Who is the goddess of Sirius?

“Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess. Known to the Greeks as Sothis, she was conflated with Isis as a goddess and Anubis as a god.”

Featured snippets from the web

Isis Sirius

The ancient Egyptians had a very special relationship with the star Sirius. Sirius (Sopdet) was the heavenly representation of Isis, who in the Egyptian pantheon was the daughter of Re and the sister and wife of the god Osiris. Osiris in turn was associated principally with the stars of Orion’s belt.

Sirius: The brightest star in Earth’s night sky

By Elizabeth Howell , Ailsa Harvey published January 27, 2022

Excerpt from article https://www.space.com/21702-sirius-brightest-star.html

” The star is present in ancient astronomical records of the Greeks, Polynesians and several other cultures. The Egyptians even went so far as to base their calendar on when Sirius was first visible in the eastern sky, shortly before sunrise. According to Joe Rao of Space.com, the Egyptians called Sirius the “Nile Star,” because it always returned just before the river rose and so announced the coming of the floodwaters that would nourish their lands.”

Ancient Lion Goddess, Sekmet

Sekhmet, also spelled Sakhmet, in Egyptian religion, a goddess of war and the destroyer of the enemies of the sun god Ra. Sekhmet was associated both with disease and with healing and medicine.

Our creativity circle of New Moon Magic Cosmic Smashbook™ Oracle in blended practice with Creative Depth Process and Intentional Creativity will continue to explore the emergent Divine Feminine and re-imagining of the patriarchy thru the lens of creative process, conversation and transformative vision.

Today’s New Moon in Cancer brings forward inquiry of self care and tender nourishment.

How do you nourish your Being whilst these times of turbulence ?

How do you stand in your Being while winds blow strong ?

Standing in tears and disappoint, how do you bring Joy and Hope back into your heart ?

And, if indeed you have found your center of sweet softness held in centered compassion, how can you hold the vision of hope for others ?

These are questions asked in New Moon Magic, where we gather for a deeper dive into emerging inquiries, to create intuitively and spontaneously in our Cosmic Smashbooks™, read more here

I’ve been binge watching Grey’s Anatomy, Painting, Smashbooking & Rediscovering Poetry.

 “I Arise from Dreams of Thee“

I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright
I arise from dreams of thee,
And a spirit in my feet
Has led me – who knows how? –
To thy chamber-window, sweet!

The wandering airs they faint
On the dark, the silent stream, –
The champak odors fall
Like sweet thoughts in a dream,
The nightingale’s complaint,
It dies upon her heart,
As I must die on thine,
O, beloved as thou art!

O, lift me from the grass!
I die, I faint, I fall!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale,
My cheek is cold and white, alas!
My Heart beats loud and fast
Oh! press it close to thine again,
Where it will break at last!

 I Arise from Dreams of Thee by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Long awaited and well received, The Dream Arc course is here !

I invite you to check out the new course and the Gene Keys as well. This is a magical aspect of the Golden Path Journey and one I hope that you will enjoy. Read more here and on the site too !

Dream Arc Sage, Richard Rudd and Guide, Rosy Aronson

My inner cosmic smashbook muse is looking forward to getting started with this journey as well !

Unrest still ripples thru the lands, fires here in New Mexico create collective agitation. Some days have a peaceful quality, some days not so much. My creative projects are blooming, with more on the way. Creativity an ever giving well of potential.

Prayers continue for Ukraine, I recommend a global Clubhouse social media room called The Big Picture the international contributors and participants reflect a balanced knowledge of global affairs and history. Seeking connection to the situation in Ukraine which began at the end February, I returned to Clubhouse ( after a time out ) and The Big Picture club immediately captured my attention. This room was begun by Pyotr Kurzin, to inform, discuss the situation. This room speaks to the topic.

Read more here on the Clubhouse blog https://blog.clubhouse.com/

Clubhouse can be joined via and app on your phone.

Pytor has begun a top notch podcast https://theglobalgambit.buzzsprout.com/

Invoke mystery and myth with this New Moon !

The Pleiades hold cross cultural mythological significance, also capturing contemporary spiritual imagination.

Under the gaze of our star filled skies, after the fullness of this month’s glowing Pink Moon, the dark of the New Moon is becoming, and she is becoming new in Taurus, the sign of the Bull.

This Saturday, April 30th, 2:00 pm MST via Zoom, you’re invited to join a creative circle full of inquiry and art making in the blended practice of Creative Depth & Cosmic Smashbooking™

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Relax into your imagination to create their symbolic meaning for you.

Below are links to more stories…

We shall dip into the weave of sisterhood while touching upon mythic lore.

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By The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica •

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Pleiades, in Greek mythology, the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and the Oceanid Pleione: Maia, Electra, Taygete, Celaeno, Alcyone, Sterope, and Merope. They all had children by gods (except Merope, who married Sisyphus).

The Pleiades eventually formed a constellation. One myth recounts that they all killed themselves out of grief over the death of their sisters, the Hyades. Another explains that after seven years of being pursued by Orion, a Boeotian giant, they were turned into stars by Zeus. Orion became a constellation, too, and continued to pursue the sisters across the sky. The faintest star of the Pleiades was thought to be either Merope, who was ashamed of loving a mortal, or Electra, grieving for Troy, the city of Dardanus, her son with Zeus.

Saturday, April 30th, 2:00 pm MST via Zoom Sign Up

Creative Circle is led by Artist, Creative Depth Coach, Certified Cosmic Smash Book™ Guide ; Intentional Creativity Teacher,

Kendall Sarah Scott

Spring, renewal, rebirth, regeneration….it’s everywhere, regardless of all the turmoil.

I wish you all a blessed Holy Week that comes with Easter in all its varieties of expression.

Also, if you’d like some creative play this Saturday, my Moon Wisdom class is available live, throughout the day – the theme, of course, Bunnies and Easter Eggs…I am sure there will be emerging conversation and informing presencing as we weave light magic into our creative practice , sign up links here via Zoom, this monthly offering is free, my gift to the community. Supplies link here…crayons and collage, or paints.

You’re invited to dip into the mystic well of mythic wonder and star lore.

 Aries Moon Goddess.

Call forth the energies and symbols of Athena;  

reimagine her myth, embrace her wisdom in reclamation of the Feminine Within

Create with collage, crayons, water color paint or acrylics.

No previous art experience needed, visit here for supplies.

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As never before our prayers are needed in the world of possible futures, our creative circles matter as our intentional expression nurtures the cosmic field of potential outcomes

This Spring in the next rounds New Moon Magic will be   engaging with Archetype Goddesses of the Moon & Asteroids as messengers and guides by blending the methods of Creative Depth, Cosmic Smash Booking and Intentional Creativity with a dash of Astrology

Link to Astro.com

tran·quil·i·ty/ˌtraNGˈkwilədē/noun

1. the quality or state of being tranquil; calm.
2. “passing cars are the only noise that disturbs the tranquility of rural life”

I began this blog post on January 4th…thinking that Tranquility would be the theme of the month ~ little did I know that pace of living would quicken and the themes I was seeking, those of peace and contemplation, wouldn’t be met without a struggle.

In the Human Design Cosmology, the I Ching Hexagram 41 marks the beginning of the Rave New Year on January 22, 2022. I have been living this timing for awhile and have personally have validated the nuances for me. I quote the following that described the activity from January 1- 21st.

“These days can be difficult as we close out this past year and we deal with themes of obstruction, opposition, a drive for material success, mental pressure to find inner truth, wanting facts and a physical pressure for something new to happen only to be met by limitation.” quoted from Mary Ann Winiger.

Now we begin…to step one foot at a time into the wonderment of response or not into that of becoming, touching into the mystery of the gifts of these times.

As I chose the imagery for this winter’s StoryMoon a five week intentional creativity/cosmic smash book journey with The Crescent Moon Bear, I chose the soft color of pink to represent the tone, which so matched my mood in December. Now the Bear has become a new color, that of a vibrant red-orange…this color has been energizing and strengthening warming these cold days.

Now, Human Design is filled with Codes as is the I Ching, Gene Keys and the Mysteries…we each embrace the discovery our unique inner codes to awaken into a more deeply felt inner life or not. Art making allowing for inner space and time to integrate Story Codes…to discover them and work them out.

Today I am mapping out details of Saturday’s becoming more and more excited with each click on the keyboard.

This is an open enrollment course as is Devotion, so read the links to see what feels right for you, if you would like to join in you are more than welcome.

Creatively, we shall be making pages in our Cosmic SmashBook ™ engaging the folktale as a mapping legend into the mountainous landscape of our inner selves to tame the wild bear and perhaps meet some allies along the way. Paper Clay will be used, as well as transfer creation…also, we shall be painting from Smash to Canvas..in a very steady easy classic Color of Woman style of Intentional Creativity.

And to expand on the theme of Tranquility…my seeking of such…Devotion got off to a sweet start, also an open enrollment visit the Devotion page, is it any wonder that this month’s image also has dynamic coloring !

Thank you to each of you who attend Come to the Story Creative Circles making this work in the world a wonderful success with your presence, wisdom and amazing art work !

Happy Rave New Year! 2022 ( I really like this number !)

The Winter Solstice gates have opened, as the Full Moon is waning , She moves over my skylight in easy motion, when I awake at about 5:00 am, Her light beams into my house as She slowly slips to the horizon line. Yesterday’s Winter Solstice brought a calm to my thinking and jazzed up my creative vision.

I am troubled and disquieted with the energies of change, grief, polarization, etc…I cannot pretend otherwise, Spiritually, I am tested.

My meditation with my Madonna’s has become a very regular practice which brings inner solace to my heart, I wish to bring this feeling of Peace to my art groups, so, I have created a Winter Course called Devotion.

A circle for us to gather together with the frequencies of Devotion. We begin this Sunday, December 26th, 2:00 pm MST sign up here. I realize that this is short notice, but living in the Now has a way of adding spontaneous events !

This course will expand and continue into January, February, March. Full Series of 4 sign up here

For artistic reference, we will be visually dipping into the Virgins of the Andes ~ read more .

Over time I have been able to gather books of the School of Cusco. (The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, also known as the Conquest of Mexico or the Spanish-Aztec War (1519–21),^[7] was one of the primary events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. ( wikipedia)

This photo is from the Peyton Wright Gallery in Santa Fe ~ this is the gallery where I first discovered the School of Cusco, Christmas 2011 an abundance of Madonna’s ~ Virgins, Angels and Saints… everywhere. I was mesmerized by the mystery of all this imagery.

Excerpt from The Virgin of the Andes:

CHAPTER Thirteen VIRGIN OF THE ANDES: INKA QUEEN AND CHRISTIAN GODDESS by Carol Damian

In1532, the Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro and his army of 62 horsemen and 102 foot soldiers conquered the Inka empire called Tawantinsuyu, the “Center of the Four Quarters,” with its cap-ital at Cuzco, Peru. The Spanish Conquest ended more than one hundred years of Inka domination over the indigenous Andean pop-ulation.

The Inka dynasty began, according to Inka legend, with eight brothers and sisters. After achieving the dominant position of leadership and to guarantee the purity of the ruling family, the Inka Manco Ccapac, who called himself the son of the Sun God, Inti, married his sister Mama Ocllo. Inti instructed Manco Ccapac and Mama Ocllo to teach the people of the earth to worship the Sun and the Moon (Quilla) and thus prosper. Mama Ocllo, the Coya (orqueen), was the woman most venerated among the Indians. She was a goddess, the descendant of the Moon. She was the queen, the wife/sister of the Inka king. They ruled in parallel duality.

The Coya wore and displayed her particular attributes and insignia, as did the Inka, and was associated with the symbols of her role (Fig. 3.1).Among these were weaving implements, feathers, birds, flowers, tipipins, and other ornaments.

When the Spaniards conquered the Inka Empire, the reverence to the Inka Coya would persist in Christian images of the Virgin Mary, the Catholic Queen (Fig. 3.2).For centuries, people throughout the world have revered the Virgin Mary.

But nowhere is she more beautiful and more mysterious than in Cuzco, Peru, where she is portrayed as a distinctive image that fuses Christian and Andean concepts. Around this image, the indigenous artists of Cuzco created a school of painting, the first in these so-called New World and known as the Cuzco School, where they could portray her in multiple ways, with many titles and identifying attributes, few of which are Spanish in inspiration. By the seventeenth century, these artists earned commercial fame for their paintings and their devotion to the Virgin Mary endures to this day.

There can be no mistaking that in our global and personal cultures we really are in the midst of a great change. Having my MoonBeam tea this morning, contemplating last night’s spectacular sky, tho chilly I stood in wonderment underneath the crescent moon’s glow stunned by the brilliant light of planets of dancing around her.

I do enjoy Christmas…each and every year that I can recall, the December Earth energies of this time of year thrill me. That we string lights and celebrate our beliefs adds to Earth’s splendor, the cold air, crisp nights, tree lights beaming in thru the neighborhood windows. When I moved to Santa Fe, I was so surprised that the city was fully decorated by the day after Thanksgiving…that was 36 years ago and since then I have followed the same tradition, although I do take my time. The Plaza trees are fully wrapped in lights, the luminarias are going up…I have my sand pile and candles ready to make my own. ( A luminaria or farolito is a small paper lantern which is of significance in the southwestern United States at Christmas time, especially on Christmas Eve.)

There are so many moments filled with memories of family and friends who have moved on from this world, Christmas is tender and special with friends still here and filled with hope of calling in healing and wholeness. The possibility of mending differences lies in the energies of these days.

Not a day goes by now that isn’t shadowed with deep and active change. Which is why I work with art. Art making stabilizes my Being supporting an expansion into timelessness, I can skim surfaces or dive deep into process, or just play and be silly, laugh or cry.

Since Covid came, my world has migrated even more to online interactions. Not is a zillion years did I ever think that I would be hosting online Creative Circles. Another memory flashback to my childhood when the neighborhood women would gather in their embroidery circles…with thread and needles they would teach me the art of threading and design.

” It is said, that an invisible red thread connects

those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance.

The thread may stretch or tangle but it will never be broken”

                                                                       Ancient Chinese Proverb

Faced with immense changes and shifts in her orientation, She persevered. Whew…what a way to begin every day these past 16 years let alone the more intense collective shift that we are all experiencing these past two.

Since the last new moon when I was story walking with Baba Yaga, I took action an a committed goal, that of “going thru” what I will call “my archives” , you know , those boxes of hidden papers, closets and files and stuff that you are going to someday organize, or reorganize…. Well, I did it. It was intense in a new way. A different kind of review…who was near and dear, all those cards and letters refreshing the memories of many loved ones who didn’t live to see these more stressful pressured times.

And, I went thru all my education files…organized them, blessed them, filed and threw away…acknowledging what a journey this phase of life has been as I prepare for the next phase. Having an independent spirit is no easy thing. Being a visionary and mystic child isn’t easy either, oftentimes behind the wave …or way ahead of the curve seeking middle ground and harmony. It’s been a challenge…oh yes, and then there is the Rebel aspect of the Muse Gone Rogue…where, I am going to do life my way…still learning that one…

Which leads me exploring an explanation of a feeling I have and have had for a very very long time…against all the odds of everything that is so wonky , now, in our NOW, I really heartfully feel that we can have this shift that we are working towards, or living into….and I really do heartfully experience that active creativity supports us in our personal flow of change , integrating the new and old….creating the yet unseen, bringing the unseen into form and messages that are deep within to the forefront.

And this is why I work with my clients one on one and in group, plus with myself to create Temple Space so that I have a “Room of my Own” beyond what used to be a child’s diary. The contractions of time/space/ and physical spaciousness are mitigated with setting aside creative space. Your StoryTime Smashbook is a container created and filled with heart. This past year we’ve created Moon Wisdom books beginning with the Full Moon, then the Lion’s Gate offered a new portal, the New Moon Magic Smashbook Oracle….and now, for 2022 StoryTime, a Come to the Story Journey Book…where the old will meet the new thru Fairytales, Myths and Stories of Old….we will reframe our stories with alchemical vision and artistic exploration. StoryTime, our first StoryTime begins January 22, 2022 with a 5 week creative exploration of the Crescent Moon Bear, StoryTime purchase includes New Moon Magic…for the New Moon theme will initiate the journey….

Each month begins with a New Moon portal...here is the link Next New Moon Sunday, January 2nd,2022

Join for StoryTime December 11th Saturday 12:00 pm MST with a recording,

Storytime Sign up Link here recording sent next day so you can story walk anytime….

Full Moon Wisdom celebrated December 18th 2:00 pm MST Moon Wisdom Free class Time Zone Muse below….

Coming in January 2022 StoryTime with the Crescent Moon Bear, a 5 week visual and narrative Story walk

price includes New Moon Magic for January ….

As this season shifts in splendid color taking us into our deep winter, the New Moon in Scorpio arrives on November 4th.

Imagine…you are in the forest deep…with a lighted torch lit by Baba Yaga’s Fire…what are you seeking?

Currently the tale of Baba Yaga stirs my imagination, there are a variety of stories associated with this hag, this Cosmic Crone. Sometimes horrid and awful, sometimes beneficent, her wild ways stimulate inventiveness and mystery. Achieving the impossible our compromised innocent, Vasilisa overcomes the witches’ challenges with her magical doll.

With vivid imagery , natural forces of nature, the Dawn, Day and Sunset are personified by magnificent horseman. And what tale would be a tale unless we had the naughty step mother and step sisters taunting their new sister ?

On that note, I invite you to join in a New Moon Magic Creativity Circle, where you are guided thru creative prompts and conversation to create in your art journals or Cosmic Smash Books, the tale as it relates & inspires you.

Do you live with a Visionary ? Would you be able to recognize the Visionary thinkers around you ? Can you trust a Visionary ? What is a Visionary Person ?

Now, what is a Creative Visionary ? These are the questions I am asking myself this morning. As an Active Dreamer, which for me is, a Lucid Vivid Dreamer, I have always, even as a child , dreamt in visions and landscapes. My visions reveal to me, inform me, and sometimes they even become real in the world.

My mom would call into my room,,, get up get up, time to wake up…I would sleepily murmur wait wait, I have to wait, I am seeing something, I have to finish …shhh, go away….

Artistically, some of that visual information finds its way to the sketch book, into poetry or story…maybe onto a canvas.

The marvel of modern times brings to global society the ability to work with 1 and 0 creating computing language which correlates to our DNA language….whew…that is some creative potential ! We now have video games, we have what Dick Tracy always used….the cell phone…apple watches….streaming tv…due to visionary thinking and then implementation, but it had to have belief and implementation to become real into form.

Well, let’s take those Visionary Impulses and place them in our Cosmic Smash Books…to connect in real time thru the senses to explore our unique symbolic language, thru the mediums of writing, crayons, and paper . To bring into the now, into embodiment. Getting a bit out of must do, must have thinking , into the flow of hmmm, I think I will tear this magazine to shreds and reassemble into a dragon, which may lead to building a fort for your sons that looks like a dragon !

Epiphanies occur in relaxed time/space

Now, imagine the constellation of Virgo…she is illuminated in our September skies. Imagine that her stars are portals to feminine imagination ….. symbolically she resides in the Western Zodiac at this time of year. Each New Moon, is in the native place of that month…ie Leo New Moon when the Sun is in Leo, Cancer New Moon when the Sun is in Cancer….then when the Full Moon rises in Leo, that Full Moon is in its opposite sign, that of Aquarius….and in Virgo, the Full Moon will be in Pisces.

Collectively we are in the great change of ages…ok, what do we do with that on a personal level ? A community level ? I don’t know…I am just asking the question…

What if, the New Moons can reveal more information to us as we journey thru these changes ? What if we approach this deep dark that come with this cycle and take it more deeply into our BodyMind ? What if we created a personal culture of inquiry and creative response thru creative practice ?

What if our creative practices influenced our family and neighborhoods , ultimately our larger countries in the most positive of ways, leading to innovation, empowerment & expression, what if we could find our best voices thru the gentle acts of artmaking ?

What if allowing the quiet of the concentrated dark revealed that perhaps darkness is tightly bundled light that will inform and come to illumination and fruition in the light of the Full Moons?

This September, I am choosing to create with the Constellation of Virgo as a portal, as a connection to the Wisdom Goddess Matrix….back to the Lion’s Gate in August…imagine that the doors opened to the Archetypal energy of the Mother Matrix…that of Isis, Mother Mary and Mary Magdalene… and then now….the doors open even wider to bring more connection to the Shekinah & Sophia the Wisdom Goddess ?

What if….as this last quarter of 2021 were the best ever in terms of personal illumination, thru the journey of Shadow to Light…what if every Shadow was a Light ? What if the journey into the New Moons , in October , November, December, were to reveal to you more of your inner landscapes as seeding potentials into the future times ?

It’s been an unusually long and oddly interesting week, for me, I am happy that it is Friday ~

This Sunday , the New Moon reaveals herself thru the Lion’s Gate. I am planning a Cosmic Smash Book Evening to create in my book, creating Alchemical Visions for the future.

Hope that you can join me.

There will be more stories to share about this cultural event.

https://cometothestory.com/lions-gate/

When I was young, if I can recall that far back, I think that I thought all was possible. The world was full of magical wonder, my parents were larger than life…my story as I learned later was even larger than life, for me anyway.

My Mom was pure enchantment. There are more story lines wrapped around her aura and mine, those are for another time. I recall how much she enjoyed the material world…books, books, books, dresses, fine china, good furniture. excellent design and Art.

I was about 9 years old when she got me my first calendar book which featured many masters, Picasso, Monet, Degas, Kandinsky… I wanted to be one of them…from that age. When I was even younger, she brought me all sorts of language books…I also wanted to be multi lingual….

In school, 1967 we learned a bit about drawing, I recall collaging Veruschuka…her image had been on Life Magazine…..( mom adored magazines ) I cut the image in half and drew her in pencil on the other side…Perhaps as any curious 10 year old does…I moved on into Brownies , Girl Scouts…etc… When I tried to draw again…I couldn’t make anything look real. Every attempt was abstract and bizarre…

And the story continues, Art, Art Making, developing confidence, continuing exploration, mistake making…Art History, trying to find Women in the Arts, which now is much easier than in 1970’s….

This weekend in my Moon Wisdom group, we gathered in Circle, talked story, shared , drew animal totem cards and laughed, cried and created. In my personal creative practice, I am in a course exploring Lost Child Archetypes. I was having trouble coaxing them into presence…collage is the medium used as well… as I am the hostess of the Moon Wisdom Circle…I am present for all 6 hours of creating…this devotion builds focus as I create more pages…asked more questions…guess what, a Lost Child revealed herself…the one that enjoys water, Summer and fun even as her older self reaches for rungs on the ladder.

I discovered the quilting genius of artist Crisar Bono

https://www.crisarcbono.com/

Our gifts of art and wisdom inspire one another…the times are more than interesting..may your gifts be shared widely and your devotion to your passions continue.

Stardust Blessings,

Each Morning I awaken with many thoughts or lyrics singing across my mind. Does this happen for you ? These past months the songs activate memories, whether long ago or the recent past. This Summer I am most grateful for the return of songbirds. A family of finches has made their home in hanging lanterns on my porch, even when the sun’s hot heat is beaming on them, they rest and pause during the afternoons. Their morning song merge with my imaginal songs as the day begins.

I discovered an abandoned birdbath in the backyard and relocated it to the front, where now the birds can play and drink more easily. My cats, Gigi & Cookie observe the birds quite closely as if they are watching tv screen. The weeping willow across the street was removed last week, it stood there so courageous in its nakedness this year, it had died during the winter…now that it is gone, I marvel that it was even there…I miss her swaying branches of sparkling leaves.

Still in shock over the massive changes that we are collectively experiencing, these simple pleasures of birdsong and memorable soundtracks bring comfort. As stepping into each day feels, well, different.

This week I am contemplating 31st Hexagram. The 31st Hexagram is called Mutual Attraction. If I usually have an idea when I start my explorations into the rabbit hole that is the I Ching/Gene Keys/Human Design archetypal world, that I “know” what I am choosing to study, I soon discover that….

No, I don’t .

If I approach with beginners mind I will find that I will be surprised.

According to Master Huang-Ching Ni: Guidance of the 31

Guidance: ” Mutual Attraction brings joyful love. One will benefit by being upright and persistent. Marriage brings good fortune” Lake is above Mountain, Mountain is the youngest son of Nature. Lake is the youngest daughter. Therefore mutual attraction of love occurs naturally. Lake represents Gentleness. Mountain represents strength and firmness” Lake’s movement is downward and Mountains is ascending. They meet in a movement of Communion, while each retains their natural characteristics” he goes on to say ” The ancient sages called this interaction “to touch the heart”

The Lines of this Hexagram resonate to our forms:

“Good Fortune will result from remaining centered”

Line One: “Attraction begins at the toes

Line Two: “Attraction reaches the calf: disturbing, Now is the time to remain calm”

Line Three: “Attraction reaches the thigh. One who is too anxious and responds quickly meets trouble”

Line Four: “Attraction reached the heart. A correct response occurs and remorse disappears.”

Line Five: “Attraction reaches the upper back. Neither response nor trouble”

Line Six: ” Attraction reached the mouth. Conversation is brought about.”

Now this journey leads me to the Gene Keys, where the Gift of the 31st Key ( Hexagram) is called Leadership, truthfully, I am not to clear on how the Mountain and the Lake meet here in the ” Key of Sounding Your Inner Truth” within exploration of this Gene Key. What I am imagining within, is that the flow of receptivity between strength and gentleness takes us to a place of ebb and flow, give and take. Human Design identifies this as a Gate, the Gate of Leading. Shall we lead with our hearts ? Shall we lead with our Minds ? How shall we balance the two ?

I began to this blog post with a title, Feminine Leadership., perhaps, it still is…”Feminine Leadership to Touch the Heart”. I enjoy exploring and contemplating Wisdom teachings across time to find, discover, rediscover my truths and to jog my thinking.

You are welcome to join me this Saturday as I visually explore these questions in my Cosmic Smash Book

Creative Contemplation on July 24th

Come to the Story Community : http://www.facebook.com/groups/cometothestory/

Stardust Blessings,

Along the Creative Path, Artists meander, linger, emulate, learn, express….stumble, discover, reveal , complete…and repeat.

This Friday Evening July 2nd, Celebrating Frida event ( Free ) and on Saturday, July 3rd, a painting workshop delivered in two sessions. You will discover that creating in two sessions activates and inspires more of the Muse !

Thru the month of July, you are invited to join me energetically and sometimes online in the discovery of iconic energies that we find along the Creative Path. This month I am following the spirited icon known as Frida Kahlo.

To prepare for the journey ~

Suggestions :

Go wild and google Frida Kahlo , find her images, photos and paintings on Pinterest too !

Over these next few days, attune yourself to your environment, to see what shows up…what synchronicities are aligned with the discovery of yourself with Frida ?

Prepare an inspirational Altar for your Creative Self and Frida.

Begin a visual and written journal dedicated to this month.

I am forever surprised at how my inner weather moves. Not feeling very poetic these last few weeks, feeling , well not quite stuck, but in a calm, a quiet calm, yet, not really…an inner storm ? Occasionally. Indifference ? Sometimes. Kind of like…well, waiting for my Muse to return from Safari. Her Safari would be a visual one, a painterly one.

June has never been an easy month for me, feeling the Summer’s seasonal shift has been historically uncomfortable. Do you relate to your inner shifts with the changes within Nature too ? Is there a month that is just , different in tone and presence ?

For a few weeks this month ( until the 20th) I am exploring the element of Air as it relates to the obvious shifts in natural air flow movement as well as the metaphoric. Wind, breezes, gales….tornados….stifled air… all the while taking that Air element into conscious consideration , allowing Air to support my mental activities, noticing my stop and go patterns.

Words travel upon the Air. Over the Air Waves….planes ….now that is an idea….Planes are lifted into the Air as if by Magic. Then we get to Magic Carpets…

Something did happen…something always is happening. Someone else’s magic carpet delivered a gift, this gift was full of surprise. The surprise is requiring some integration by me, and here I am feeling abandoned by my Muse.

We Intentional Creativity devotees follow our Muses very very closely, in fact, our Muses more often than not are the ones who have taken control of our lives. However, when she goes on Safari, it takes some effort to call her back.

My favorite audible book this month is “Smoke Hole” by Dr. Martin Shaw; Smoke, another Air quality, something that become within it…very mysterious from wood to Air to ash. He narrates the most beautiful rendition of “The Handless Maiden” that I have ever heard. I wept. Several moons ago, I painted my Handless Maiden.

And like the Air that moves , swirls and plays, so do my words and thoughts. How to summon my Muse this June ?

As a creative with an intention of Devotion to Art as a Sacred Practice, I challenge myself to keep showing up. I notice the threads of many coded keys of Being tugging at my consciousness. The Shadow Keys of Inertia and Indifference , for instance…

A willingness to be awkward with my writing may call the Muse back. A willingness to continue to step into the next moment , may call her back. Even if she doesn’t return as I wish, I am still Cosmic Smash Booking today.

Here is the link if you would like to join me;

Releasing Your Genius

I am going to be Releasing My Genius onto the page, transforming my Air Shadows, honoring awkwardness.

ps: there is an evening session tonight too….Smash the Shadows….Release Your Genius ~

A big thank you to all the responses to my website this past month ! April certainly brought a lot of sweet surprises. I learned about branding, I restructured my website and am actually learning how to work Mailchimp. For each question of “how do I do that” there is a training, boy it is quite a spinning whorl to shake off once you have gone thru it.

This coming week, May 12th a special Cosmic Smash Book class is planned “Reveal Your Genius” with Value as our theme. Read more here on the class page. More events are brewing in my Cauldron of Creativity that will be announced next week. ( maybe even in a newsletter ! )

“Reveal Your Genius”

I wish you a blessed healing weekend .

With Stardust Love,

How does today’s artist have the opportunity to stretch beyond their limitations ? Take my website for instance. It began as a vanity site for me to voice my thoughts regarding my various interests, then it became an endeavor in braiding those interests into the visual world, now , as with the seasons, my site continues to refresh and reorient itself to take itself into the marketplace.

Am I the captain of my ship ?

Where does our creative self meet the page and the circle ? At home, we meet the circle of our family…(in my case, my cats) Now, that we have been home alone for a bit, many of us very much isolated, what inner circle did we meet inside the home of our Soul ? Some of us lost our jobs, our community of colleagues ( I did ) . All of us have lost friends to the end of life, or softly said “over the rainbow bridge”. I can only guess at the pressured changes for those who were outside the home, creating homelike circles within their working areas, such as our healthcare providers and all the supporting retail staff a the markets and cafes.

How do we come back from all of this under turning ? Can we give ourselves and our communities the time we need to rebalance and regenerate from the ever churning belly of change ?

I had thought that I would pour myself into artmaking, such as actually at the canvas. Instead my focus went into riding the waves of 2020 in daily surprise, resting quite a bit and exploring the next steps. I did consistently work in my watercolor journals and my comic smash books. There also seemed to be endless amounts of time and uncertainty. Seasons continued to shift , the earth continued to rotate , now I am in an active unfolding of so much dreaming that my schedule is almost out of control.

As an artists we can stretch even further to gather circles in our virtual neighborhoods. Making art doesn’t require perfectionism or judgement…getting to the page with color & crayon, moves our energy, helps the body and soul. Writing doesn’t have to be exquisite…although I do wish that I could turn a phrase like Martin Shaw !

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Collectively we have been tightrope walking.

There I said it, we pray for change; it does come, although change seems to be guided by the hands of Nature and Folly, perhaps the Fates really do exist. I am praying for good changes. Am grieving for the difficult changes. The tightrope of duality is more than obvious these days.

So….sigh. This is what I am doing …I am creating gatherings, creating altars and prayers. Adapting better selfcare practices and reinventing my environment. I am also guiding and teaching classes which brings my heart so much joy and lightness, while also grappling with my cranky ornery side. ( as in “some hogs are just mean and ornery”)

This weeks schedule:

Thursday, April 22 ” Reveal Your Genius” Cosmic Smash Book class , this week’s theme “Gifts of Caring”

We are going to activate our “Planetary Healer”

“The 27th Gift has many insights for us. It is a profound and magical Gene Key. The most important Gift it brings is this unselfish attitude that comes from knowing the connectedness of all life. If we have the 27th Gene Key, or feel mysteriously drawn to it, then we’re fortunate. We’re a carer, a planetary healer.” – Richard Rudd, 64 Ways

Saturday, April 24th Gates of Taurus – Creative I Ching will begin at 11:00 am MST

Sunday, April 25th Moon Wisdom Creativity Gathering Moon Circles & Cosmic Smash Book

I am learning so much about Social Media marketing, much has changed in technology and there is a lot of ground to cover, yet I am steady on track with my efforts. I think that my cats, Gigi and Cookie, think that the computer is another pet !

Cosmic Smash Booking is becoming quite popular ! A big shout out to its founder Catt Geller for sharing about the teachers of this fun and effective healing art form, my email list swelled and I still haven’t learned how to manage Mail Chimp !

Oh, one other note. Last night, I was, well, you know. I was scrolling on my Iphone…on Instagram there was this post…I clicked, I listened, I was captivated by this embodiment of loveliness. The voice and presence of Melody Gardot, a true instrument of Beauty.

I leave you with this charming video, listen twice…or more….

“If The Stars Were Mine”

Signed in Stardust,

April days are so very beautiful, I am enjoying a sense of renewed warmth and keeping busy with creating courses ! Last Autumn a new cycle began in my world as I began to offer classes and now the Moon Wisdom / MoonCircles ™ monthly class is gaining popularity. https://cometothestory.com/mooncircles/ .

Soon, I shall announce the next offering of this “Human Design – The Basics”. We journey thru the Human Design Bodygraph of the Self/Not Self, with one on one guidance, group interaction and creativity prompts.

All my work and offerings involve Intentional Creativity, from journal to canvas with a good dose of collaging in the round with JourneyCircles™ and Expressive Arts Integration including ( yes ! ) Cosmic Smashbooking. The nicest aspect of working with these approaches, is that No Experience is needed ! We simply begin where we are at.

I would like to invite you to join into an exploration around the Sacred Circle, the wheel which holds many codes.

Creative I Ching and the Nine Petal Path ~

This month: day one: Presentation day two: Merging with the Moon Wisdom Creativity Circle , time slots are scheduled for two hours .

Saturday, April 24th am MST ; we shall explore codes, symbols & stories embedded within the month of Taurus.

Play and explore with rising

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As the spring days lengthen and before we change signs. The new moon will be in Aries soon. I am contemplating this season of The Ram .

Within the Circles of Wisdom, code holders such as the I Ching, the Zodiac…and all matters of secret knowledge….there are also Mythic Codes, Story Codes…many under the guardianship of the patriarchy…which , as I understand is now gone. Yes, declare it conquered; gone.

How can that be ? Is the patriarchy really gone ? Let us imagine it so. As a speed boat leaves waters in its wake…so does the patriarchy leave a wake of reverberating patterns and stories. In years to come, let us integrate those changes tugging at the edges of our awareness venerate what needs veneration and create new sacred pathways, lay reclaim to nourishing habits and re-imagine our unfolding futures… now that is a funny phrase…re-imagine our unfolding future ?

Yes, our past often pulled into a recreation cycle creates our present, our Now…so lets ( if we are into it), lets re-imagine, reclaim, restore and renew. While I move forward, I enjoy looking back..so I went to Ancient Greece to pull a story.

Here is a delightful rendition of Jason, Medea and the Golden Fleece.

My inquiry…what is the Golden Fleece to me ? I am not sure of my answer…just letting this percolate for a bit…if you watch the video you will see that a dragon is guarding this mystical hide…hmmm….

Signed in Stardust,

Wind, Ships, Sails, perhaps futuristic Airships too ?

How do we navigate now ? 2021 is well underway with more mystery and wonder into new ways of being.

We deepen into our personal themes of practice, whether they be sitting in stillness, reorganizing our households, establishing / continuing / expanding an inquiry or creative practice. Many of us are multi tasking, embodying several new frameworks of self expression. We will know more next year, when we reflect back as we create in the now.

I read a new piece of information this past week ( I paraphrase here and this is how I took the information in ) basically due to the way the light is measured, the dance between the Sun and the Moon happens in such a way that we see it 8 minutes after the fact…so we are seeing all time into the past… such a two step that life is, moving forward , projecting on ward, reflecting back.

Art supports a sense of visual record keeping as well as serving as a method for moving our stories, our emotions and memories. I think this allows for more “space” in our bodies ( our emotions too !) , more openness for us to breathe into.

These past months I began teaching / guiding a Living Your Design group, with inquires and discussions of what is a 9 Centered Being, what are the details, the hows and why that matters and how we integrate that awareness into our lives. Many moons ago, I called this the Path of the Nine Petals; that is how I saw it then, a lotus unfolding, the petals connected , each of us flowering into our unique ways of being.

Here is a link to our next step: The Creative I Ching ~ https://cometothestory.com/creative-i-ching-classes/

Monthly Moon Wisdom Creative Circle Free Cosmic Smashbooking/MoonCircles ™ gathers Sunday March 28th 3:00 to 4:30 PST

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Next Moon Wisdom class link Zoom Sign Up:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYuf-mprzIpH9HJ1hmf0ioMorB04EsBk4YR

A new round of The Art of Living Your Design will be posted soon, I think they will be taught in several smaller modules , please sign up for my newsletter for announcements.

Also, private one on one guidance thru your Living Your Design/ Human Design sessions are available with me, email me for more information: kendallsarahscott@gmail.com

Wowza ~ it has been a new kind of Time and a new kind of Different. Firstly, prayers and compassion to all going thru various shades of change. Joy/Grief vibrating in the same moments almost in the same breath.

What is the Color of Love ? Our Cosmic Smash Booking community has pulled together a Valentine’s Day Hop for this coming Sunday, February 14th, the classes are our gift to you.

Even if you don’t have a Smash Book, come join us ~ grab some paper and coloring crayons , no experience needed ~

Here is the reminder sign up link for the group.

https://un697.isrefer.com/go/love/kscott/

I’ve been creating more and more in my Cosmic Smash Book, I do have some classes coming up, the technology gremlins have me in their grip, so I am delayed in announcements.

The class Art of Living Your Design has been so much fun, this first wave of Human Design based classes blending Art as Process & Cosmic Smash Booking will be ongoing.

Would you like to be kept in the loop ? Please sign up for my NewsLetter , once the gremlins release me, I will be able to create with more ease.

Until then, Signed in Stardust ~

ps, I almost forgot ! Every day I am learning how to integrate these platform of website and social media ~ I have a website just for purchasing my art. Now that I am a stay at home for a long time lady, I have a chance to focus on bringing my work out into the world…that includes my art work too…there are a lot of playful products on this site that Fine Art America produces with my original images as well as art reproductions for your walls. Also, Greeting Cards are available , will be uploading fresh images soon ( yes, once the gremlins let me ) Hopefully, my Esty store will get linked in soon. In the meantime here is

https://kendall-sarah-scott.pixels.com/

As a young girl, I tried out for the balance beam…I wasn’t good at gymnastics, however, I could walk a balance beam. Seems that it is really necessary now to activate all of our balance beam skills.

My creative practice, from housekeeping to art making , is what gives my world structure and pleasure…hmmm, perhaps I could change the order of those words…pleasure and structure. Artistic processes bring me satisfaction, however the processes usually unfold as a sacred journey of trials along a winding pathway !

A few months ago I declared a to offer a class. As is the new way in conscious creating, you build the canoe as you are floating down the river….in this case, I am floating with a black swan, my canoe seems to be out for repairs.

As I was promoting my class in Living Your Design ~ The Basics to my groups, the desire and interest to actively create in a Cosmic Smashbook became a hot topic. So, now my LYD will be with Cosmic Smashbooking: Here is the copy I wrote for the event page, when I realized that Facebook changed their event policies…and now I have to go learn all that ! Adding a paddle or two to the canoe ~

In any case, here is the course description ~

Discover your 9 Centers thru Art and Inquiry of Cosmic Smashbooking, a unique approach of Intentional Creativity and self exploration applied to the Human Design System.

Embodiment thru knowledge and applied creative experience, grounds the Body, relaxes the Mind to move into the Flow of this New Age.

Classes Begin Saturday January 23 11:00 am MST scheduled for 9 weeks with class break on the week of February 20th

Class schedule will include: Visualization, Living Your Design presentation, Art Lab after presentation with room for sharing, questions and discussion. Plan for two hours.

Class Dates:

Jan 23rd, Jan 30th, Feb 6th;Feb 13th (Feb 20 no class )Feb 27th, Mar 6th, Mar 13th, March 20th Final Class.

Your journey into Human Design can be approached in a few ways. You can follow a straight path or meander. Whichever road you take, a wise navigator learns to read their map. Learning your Openness and where your conditioning is influenced reveals the legend to your Map.

We shall be working with the traditional IHDS LYD course .

No Art experience needed, I shall be guiding our group thru the process, step by step.

Click this link to register for the class via Paypal ~ Zoom links will be provided the week of the class.

Special Pricing for our time $ 150. (Course Price regularly $ 350 )

https://py.pl/16mxqN

This is  9 week journey thru the Bodygraph of Human Design System, interactive with journaling processes for supportive integration.

We shall celebrate the Rave New Year in a free call on January 21st 11:00 am MST

This link it to the FREE Call, were we will hangout & introduce ourselves.

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrcOCsrjMrHtzWiQjqt1waSCZ5-DFBGRFm

Payment plans available, please inquire.

email :

kendallsarahscott@gmail.com

Classes Begin Saturday January 23 11:00 am MST scheduled for 9 weeks with class break on the week of Febru

She would stumble, trip and fall
that is how she would learn to walk a new path
She would scribble and scrawl

mix her words, make up new grammar,

even learn a little syntax;

one day… she would learn to write, to paint, to soar with the Muse
She would throw paint….finger paint….

scribble again and again;

one day She
would claim her Creative Self

         courageous, outrageous,stubborn

                   She would become
more of herself with each day, with each step, each scuffle,

brushstroke and mark

Contemplating the blanket of early morning snow as dawn kisses our southwest high desert mountains, it feels like this will be a long white winter. I often imagine my posts before I write them, waiting for inspiration to find me, which means sometimes that could be months or even years. Yet today, I feel an extension of Thanksgiving prayers, gratitude, and reflection.

This morning began with a good hot cup of coffee and reading Martin Shaw stories…which led to ordering a book…which led to being on Facebook…it is not even 7:00 am !

Yesterday, I moved bookcases into one room, shifting how I’m going to enter 2021 in my physical space, which we know is a shift from within the bodymind…rearranging furniture…a bit more clearing of clutter and poof, into the new days. Books represent history and friends for me, each holding memories, stories, knowledge. The day was spent in slow motion rediscovery with winter promises of deep time reading.

Let’s loop back to what was revealed to me so quickly this morning…and I shall add some links here for you too…

Heart wrenching article of 17th Century female artist Artemisia Gentileschi …..https://www.facebook.com/Suppressed-Histories-Archives-333661528320

 

Touching beauty of Andrea Bocelli…

Rhythmic prayer song of Ashana…

To end this post, my prayers to each of you , thank you for reading my blogs and signing up too along the way. Extended prayers for those in grief and loss, may our memories bring us succor and time bring us ease.

You are invited to join a creative Moon Wisdom circle this Sunday. It is a free event, the details are in the invitation link.

https://cometothestory.com/mooncircles/

Onward ~

 

Storytelling, one of our oldest cultural forms for wisdom sharing and adventuring ~

My world revolves around story, I often don’t see it that way, yet over time it occurs that it does. I enjoy Archetypal Stories, Myths, Fairytales, Tales of Truth & Dare. I get wound up in my own whorl of story, my fears and dreams reveal themselves thru art and archetype.

Somehow, in the spin of the tale of what is possible, I believe ( maybe naively ) that we create our reality….this may or may not be true. One question I ask myself , what if ?

What if , once upon a time, this were true ? What if in a world that once was and always will be, this happened ? What if in a land that everyone lived in, but no one was there, a visitor arrived to discover …

Il etait une fois….once upon a time….

Once upon a time, I met a person who would become a teacher who would connect me to another teacher who would connect me to another…and another…thus creating a chain of story wisdom. This chain attached to a boulder at the cave of possibility once pulled opened into a chasm wonder as wide as the Grand Canyon, a chasm of possibilities.

Equal to the chasm, Celestial realms opened above, reinforcing the term ” As above, so below” the magical phrase that opens as a key to all that is within and that is without.

My world became dappled with light as tho the sun were shining thru a stained glass window, an array of light rainbows sparkling from a 1000 sided Crystal Prism.

This is the world of Human Design & The Gene Keys as I experience it. A world of Codes, Maps , Archetypes, Symbols, Guidelines, Mystery….and some of it may even be True. The Founder of The Human Design system qualified the teachings as an Experiment, he qualified the system as being Mechanical. ” Don’t take my word for it” he would often say, suggesting… Go and discover for yourself.

After 17 years of exploration, I am still on the trail.

To be continued ~~~

 

To begin, I extend my prayers to all, wishing ease & grace with the variety & various  wavelengths of circumstances that you may be finding yourself in ~ the list of unfortunate circumstances is long, yet I sense that the list of silver linings is growing too.

I want to introduce your to my friend and fellow Intentional Creativity Teacher, Ellison James.  She and I had a conversation last month and as we were sharing our paths and visions, a new vision emerged. ( that is often the case with creatives !) .  Ellison is joining my website as an contributor with her gifts.  As the next year comes, I hope to have more contributors with their unique points of view and offerings.   My new website is almost ready for launch, but I want to get this announcement out to you today.  

Ellison is a talented and remarkable Wisdom Guide offering us her insight and guidance of the changes for this point on the Wheel.   She is experienced in the Sacred Ways of the Medicine Wheel and is going to lead us in this Season’s Circle of Honoring.

The Event is Free, our gift to you ~

 

 

The Circle access opens at 5:45 pm PST we shall begin at 6:00 PM PST

Register here :  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tfuipqT4uGt2SzOcRwak68eVfvbJir70M

Bring pencil and paper and if you have craft/ journaling supplies available, bring those too, as we always love to dip into a bit of active intuitive intentional creativity.

If you have issues with the link; questions or would like to join the mailing list, please email me at kendallsarahscott@gmail.com

 

Last night we lost our National Treasure, Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  In her honor, thank you for the gifts that you gave our country, that you gave to each of us.

 

 

These shifts and events are happening so quickly that we hardly have time to pause and integrate.  We may be witnessing our community in any variety of disaster or we are holding steady. Holding steady takes work, responding to an overwhelming shift in circumstances takes work. Whatever side of the situation we find ourselves in, we are together, holding prayers, activating healing, grieving.   Sacred Time is your ally as the hours pass.  I will say that again, Sacred Time is your ally , your supporter, as the hours pass.  

Once again, here is the Zoom link to register: Monday Night

 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tfuipqT4uGt2SzOcRwak68eVfvbJir70M

In the meantime, we move on at a pace we cannot quite comprehend . I hope that you can take time for a cup of tea, for a sacred pause.

 

 

 

SiStars, you are invited to Join Kendall Sarah Scott and the Red Thread Creatives for a virtual Red Thread Circle** and creative class entitled, ” Nest of Love; Your Place in the Garden”.

1:00 pm PST
** Contact me on Facebook for the Zoom link        https://www.facebook.com/kendall.s.scott

We find ourselves Nesting this year, a bit more than usual. Art accesses the energy within our hearts, we shall honor our symbolic Nest today as we identity our place in the garden of our heart. How we nest, express our cozy comfort and even take flight from the nest and back again.

This class offers you an opportunity, with color, form and symbol, to creatively imagine thru your own unique expression. Tips on collaging with paint (acrylic, water color, or pastels) will be offered, along with ideas of how you can delve into the depths of your magical imagination.

Bring your Tea and snacks, red thread or ribbon, and join us virtually for this creative fun & sisterhood. (No charge for this event!)

Supplies: surface to paint on (watercolor paper, canvas paper or journal page), paint (acrylic, watercolor, watercolor crayons, pastels.. you choose!), and magazine pictures, old photos, rice paper, ribbon … stuff that you love! You will also need brushes, glue, scissors, spray bottle, towels and water container, a stapler too !

Invite your friends!
(No “experience” or “talent” necessary – really!!)

**In Red Thread Circles, we come together and interweave the common threads of our stories. Circles are held around the world, and are for women who wish to gather with others as we share stories and a simple creative project which holds the energy of our visions for ourselves and the future.

** Contact me on Facebook for the Zoom link        https://www.facebook.com/kendall.s.scott

Imagine that each flower in your garden is a potential project…unique yet a part of the flower bed.  As the garden is tended, one area weeded, another area becomes the more  pressing need.

These past several days, my computer became my garden in need of weeding and tending.  In order to more effectively create my blog post, the new website & course materials,  organization was called for, that and back up systems too !

As with large garden beds, the email account, hiding under some shade, needed clearing out as well.  I discovered that I had been unaware in a pin pointed way of seeing just how many emails the marketing machine generates.  It is unbelievable.

Now I know why I have so many, I just ignore them; thinking, oh, I’ll get back here, but I don’t and then three or four years pass leaving 20000 ( yes ) in my email account.  I have my favorite saves and favorite blogs.  I love a library,  from hardbound books, to kindle to even emails.  Saturday was spent reminiscing over a variety of emails.  I have a romantic soul….oh no…to delete or archive…but you need space….etc etc.

Do some of you remember when we had pen pals ?  Long before home computers, we had mail.  My delight with mail was collecting foreign stamps and pen pals from far away places…   over the summer vacation, friends who had gone off to Europe would send postcards…or even call !  Oh my , so exciting to get an overseas call, so romantic !

Well, the weekend experience led me to thinking about this 31 Day Blog challenge…it is a lot of mail.   Although I am not leaving the challenge , I am relaxing the delivery….the idea of the challenge is to get attention, that attention is to have you read my blog  and then in the current of the times…eventually I would invite you to a class or one of my Zoom calls. some free offerings some paid events.

I have spent the last few months re-inventing my lifestyle. Now that I work and live at home full time. I signed up with a Kajabi site and just had the best support call ever in creating the landing pages and getting them onto Facebook and in other places.

I belong to a terrific Art Community that has several handles….Cosmic Cowgirls ~ as created my Shiloh Sophia McCloud.  I have belonged for a…hmmm ( everything now is a really long time ) In any case, the pace of time and art  has moved along.  We have a wonderful community called The Red Thread Cafe ( Classroom ) we meet up on  Facebook to share our art and stories as we engage with Intentional Creativity.

( read about the Legend of the Red Thread here )

We also have a Red Thread Tribe , I will be leading the circle on July 23rd more details to come, and if you sign up for my newsletter you will get an announcement direct to your inbox.

Hence my work on my website and pages to get all these announcements together so that we can create and play in all areas of the garden of creativity !

More to follow in the days to come ~ I wish you ease as you begin your week, good health and to some , blessed recovery.   Step by step, that is how we will build our new future.   

Under “stay at home ” , I am at home.  As we know,  there are many many details that make a home.   Now many of us have home offices; our family members now have work/schools spaces ; creatives also make their art spaces sometimes carving space out of no where .  We call these spaces our Studio (someday I will have a 1000 sq foot studio maybe even more ! )  With some surprise arranging,   I re-imagined my workroom and created several  art making surfaces.  I ordered a firm table ,currently I use card tables,  the table should arrive next week , then I can film some demos for the blog.

I have two cats, Cookie and Gigi; well, Cookie found my cleared space just perfect for her lounging !  There is an invisible vortex phenomena.  The space is clear, all is in order and in a blink of an eye, there is chaos..

Yesterday, the morning revealed a spark of inspiration, happily I got to my work table;photographed images and went to the computer to document my collage.

Which led me to a spiral experience, first I had to unwind the files….clear out to make space on the computer…I tripped into ancestry files, cleared and organized those, then on to the image files to back up the system this weekend.  Before you know it, Gmail sent me a notice that my storage was full and please clear those files.

I was working in circles.  I have noticed that if I don’t fight it , I find a flow .  I didn’t get the collage made, but it might get done during this post.  If I relax from working in a straight line, allowing myself to move from what is arising, then circle back , holding the vision, while surrendering to response in the now, I do get somewhere, even tho there are linear mini steps along the way.   This is like scribble art,   allowing the pencil to move direction with a non destination destination.  You know it when you get there.  You step into the unknown , something magical happens. Quantum Alchemy , where you have created space to express; to achieve, to just be and then you just know what you may not have known before. You have entered the Pause, the Wave, the Flow.

I work in several collage styles to work with Expressive Arts, one of them is with Journey Circles™, another is in a Cosmic Smashbooking.  I keep many many visual journals, processing my dreams and feelings thru visual expression.

Working with image is a uniquely individual experience, we can create our own fresh, or use magazine or digital images. I keep a good printer to replicate images for collage, as magazines aren’t always accessible.

Creating anytime can be nourishing. Creating thru Covid Time, may be a way to keep record of the experience. 

The simple fact is that the world energies are immensely challenging.

The messages of the days are not always upbeat and cheery, that just isn’t real.

 

There is a continuum of expression within our Being.

My vocation is that of Depth Work.

Thru excavating  depths within, I find my Light and Radiance. Deep Diving.

Active participation with the mysterious Wheels of Life.

There is a popular notion that we are to become Embodied …what does that even mean ? Embodied into what ?  Release the Light within ?  Claim the Divine ?

This is where Art and Image come to Dance with Wisdom Codes.

Wisdom Codes around the Wheel of Life  unlock contemplative inner quests of Magic and Mystery.

Now , if I had all my IT  ( internet technologies ) together, I would link like mad to other resources.  This current website process is an Emergent One.  Just like our environment, our current world circumstances, they are Emergent, Quantum….Mysterious.   As the step is taken the stair appears.

We become Story Catchers.

We become Creative Cartographers with a Legacy.

                                                                                 This Summer, my world will become , as will yours.

As we move into questioning and contemplating these notions  by embracing playfulness , a spark of embodied consciousness might reveal itself, I think this is called, Self Awareness.  Our evolution of Self and Other.

Some mornings I awaken with certain poetic memories floating thru my mind.  This one came the other morning.  I truly longed to hear it.  Today, I share it with you. It is at the end of the post.

I listened to this; became very sad.   Grief comes and goes.  Important to acknowledge one’s tears and pain within the HeartSelf.  I will go paint my tender grief today, and it will become expressed.  Expressive Art making supports moving energy thru and out of the body, embracing the flow of the moment to arrive to an expressed balance place.

And if that stirred me then this poetic video that is at the beginning of my postcame forth, and I really began to cry.  I am reminded of all those whom I have loved and continue to adore.  Tender , tender tender memories.  So, I will mark make on my canvas with my tear water, and paint my prayers into the canvas.  Prayers and memories.  Joys and wounds will make their way into a work called “Artifact”

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This is the poem which tugged at me this morning….what is tugging your Imagination ?  Your Heart ?

Creativity isn’t a step by step process.  It is emergent, messy, touching….inspiring.

Creativity Spirals, like Feminine Time.  Deep Spirals , calling forth more for the journey within and without.

   Stardust Blessing,

 

I enjoy tracking my inspirations and signs from the natural world. For instance, I am kaleidoscope inspired , especially attracted to the vibrant purple in yesterday’s image…this led to organizing my watercolor paints to find which purples that I have on hand.

Today tho, the color search led to fruit…blueberries, strawberries and raspberries.  When blended together with Bing Cherry yogurt, they make a very colorful delicious smoothie.

Kendall’s Art Smoothie

Heaping serving spoon of Bing Cherry yogurt

Handful of frozen wild main blueberries

Handful of mixed frozen strawberries & raspberries

One small banana

Ground flax seed

Blend til smooth & enjoy !

 

My visual theme for July is Kaleidoscope.  Do you recall having one as a child ?

Mesmerizing and magical, the kaleidoscope provides visual surprises, perhaps inspiring Mandala making with vibrant paints or paper play.

“Coined by its Scottish inventor David Brewster, “kaleidoscope” is derived from the Ancient Greek word καλός (kalos), “beautiful, beauty”, εἶδος (eidos), “that which is seen: form, shape” and σκοπέω (skopeō), “to look to, to examine”, hence “observation of beautiful forms.” (Source Wikipedia )”

Today’s post, short and visually vibrant…..Sunday is my day to ponder and fuss, not to think so much.  The winds have picked up with a surprising strong breeze, a good afternoon rain will come…perhaps I will be fussing with my water color paints to find the purple that is in this image below ;  or I may print this image and create a collage …. What creative endeavor will you be inspired to express today ?

Prayers for our Country this 4th of July 2020.

 

The Wisdom Goddess Sophia  resides deep within the Archetypal Heart of our History, as She came before the before.

The Thunder, Perfect Mind ^[1]

An excerpt above from the poem , Thunder Perfect Mind ( written before the before ) from the Gnostic manuscripts of the Nag Hammadi  discovered  in  1945 near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi … The buried manuscripts date from the 3rd and 4th centuries.

The Wisdom Goddess is speaking to me today on raindrop waves that have left the sweet scent of water to earth & trees that only rains can activate.   This special time , this Covid Time,  has touched us all with Change.

Within this initiation  which we are individually experiencing collectively, our world is shifting in front of our eyes…not from behind closed doors.  From home life to  work life, from village to city, from county to state to country the great change has arrived and will be here for some time.      Tomorrow the 4th of July will find us reflecting and celebrating, or not, in many different ways.   My heartfelt condolences goes out to those who have lost loved ones and those who are suffering, as this is also a time of deep grieving.

I am entering into a phase of sharing more of my work in the world. For many years I have been collecting , researching, training,  learning & now integrating Knowledge with Wisdom, plus I have been cultivating an active Creative Practice.  This takes work !

With our extended “Nesting in Place”  surrounded by my books and papers. I am learning the back office  of Zoom while creating my teaching site on the Kajabi platform, I am taking my own dare to devotion more seriously.

Having rediscovered my extensive library of Human Design Courses . Once I get my calendar set, I will begin with a free class of Living Your Design .  This complementary series will be : Introduction to Bodygraph Basics, the Centers & Types.

The Gene Keys Golden Path integrates with Human Design; both systems illuminating  the path of self knowledge to Wisdom. The Divine Feminine; Stargate Alchemist  lives within these teachings.

Thru various creative processes we shall travel the fractal lines of archetypal mystery  to reveal to ourselves treasures that lie within.

We will begin however, with a bit of conversation over a cup of tea.

 

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If you would like coaching /guidance or a reading:  email me directly at kendall.visionarywoman@gmail.com  , prices are at a sliding scale, please mention that you read my blog post.

 

 

The Thunder, Perfect Mind ^[1]