“We humans have so much more creative juice than we realize. Our intentions create our lives and so the more conscious we become in making our choices, the more we can shape our individual lives and attend to the reclaiming and healing of our world.
We need to feel empowered to effect change. When we partner with nature, through plants and through acknowledging the cycles of the sun and the moon that guide us, magic happens. This is the most empowering and readily accessible source of strength I have discovered thus far.”
~ Robin Rose Bennett, Wise Woman Healing Ways, author of Healing Magic and The Gift of Healing Herbs in an interview with Meryl Ann Butler. Read the full interview here.
This can be true any time, but since we’re in the super-energized power portal connecting the Taurus Full Moon and Samhain, it’s a perfect time for reflecting on these very Taurean-Venusian archetypal themes:
• Regaining a sense of our deepest, truest values;
• Returning to our ancestral inheritance of deep, stabilizing connection with Nature and the Earth;
• Becoming present to conscious, values-aligned intentions; and with these,
• Feeling empowered and centered to effect change in the ways that are uniquely our own, and doing that together.
Why not reflect and renew your own experiment with deep connection and deepened meaning?
How can you effect change by being uniquely you while centering yourself in the deep, true, healthy, life-affirming values shared and championed by your Earth-allied ancestors?
Jamie has long been an inspiration partner and lantern-holder for her fellow transformation leaders, change catalysts, and creative nonconformists who are living, inspiring, and (intentionally or not) leading the way in these chaotic times.
When she's not tending and stirring the Sophia's Children cauldron, she's following research trails, and serving as the Director of a Repro-Justice-oriented women's health center in her community, co-creating a safe, in-person compassionate care environment in a world that increasingly seems to lack that.
Jamie is a long-time servant of the Muse, a writer and author, an intrepid walker and feline-tender, and is passionate about the healing power and relevance of reclaiming ancestral-wisdom and healing (or at least understanding) ancestral (and other types of) trauma. She has great appreciation for dark chocolate and cooking other nourishing, delicious meals -- often plant-based -- to nourish her partner and her peeps, and otherwise doing the same day to day things we all do.
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My sense of value and worth — very much Taurean energy — especially of the self and as it relates to my calling and purpose has certainly come up for me in weeks leading to these intense, powerful times. Exciting times we are in indeed! Thanks for a lovely post — as always!
You’re most welcome, NadineMarie. 🙂 Very Taurean, those deepest and truest values. Post-Chiron-Return calling and purpose really is up, isn’t it? Intense, powerful times, indeed! I’m glad you enjoyed the post (and I appreciate your comment!). Love, Jamie
November 5, 2014 at 1:16 am
Hello! I am happy to have nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Please pick your award up at http://idealisticrebel.com/2014/11/04/versatile-blogger-award-8/
November 5, 2014 at 3:36 pm
Thank you for nominating my Sophia’s Children blog! I so appreciate this lovely honor. xoxo Jamie
November 6, 2014 at 12:20 am
My sense of value and worth — very much Taurean energy — especially of the self and as it relates to my calling and purpose has certainly come up for me in weeks leading to these intense, powerful times. Exciting times we are in indeed! Thanks for a lovely post — as always!
Much L <3 ve Jamie…Blessed be.
<3 <3 <3 NadineMarie <3 <3 <3
November 6, 2014 at 12:22 am
Oh and my Sun sign is in Taurus, my moon is in Scorpio, and I was born during the full moon. So, are these powerful times or what? 😉
November 6, 2014 at 12:39 am
Well this really is your time then, isn’t it? It’s a power-portal, that’s for sure! 😉
November 6, 2014 at 12:39 am
You’re most welcome, NadineMarie. 🙂 Very Taurean, those deepest and truest values. Post-Chiron-Return calling and purpose really is up, isn’t it? Intense, powerful times, indeed! I’m glad you enjoyed the post (and I appreciate your comment!). Love, Jamie