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July 19, 2013

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Last selfie as a married woman in the courthouse bathroom yesterday...
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After 23 years, it's complete, the contract is dissolved and I begin again, as usual, always the beginner, and happy to do so, leaning in and feeling all the juxtaposed, contradictory and duplicitous feels, deeply, the holy ache and cavernous joy, the exquisite sorrow of loss and regret and heralding freedom with pulsing amplified pleasures, the rollercoaster grief and a nervous system wanting to settle, all the feels, poignantly, specifically, yesterday, today, tomorrow and the next day, and so on, life tugging at me, stay woke, take the next right step, then another, but go slow, notice, pay attention, lay on Mother Earth, offer Her your dirty bundle of troubles and treasures, that you've kept gathered in an ol' bandana tied to the end of a found stick, like a vagabond hobo this last long while, and breathe witch, breathe, you got this, you're gonna be ok, keep going. -
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Note to self: I behold you, beautiful one, I behold you child of the Earth and Sun, let my love watch over you, let my love wash over you.
#divorce #divorceselfie #loveswhatigot #feralambrosialstrange #earthmybody #watermyblood #airmybreath #firemyspirit #griefwalker #behold #witch #witchcraft #witchwork #breathewitchbreathe #natureofmygame #complete

Last week at #soulodgemedicinegathering when I wasn't teaching/guiding our four directions #grimoire #ecobundle workshop with @jen_gray I was either stringing roses in the #juniper forest or sunbathing buck ass naked in the #sacredmeadow - like I do.
What a glorious restorative and deeply healing week of being cocooned in the #soulodgeranch magic portal with beautiful women. The singing, the fire, the #Solstice, the sun, the food, the land, the women, oh, the women. Just fucking epic.
Gathering with women in creative/spiritual pursuit is where it's at, sisters. Next spring, @alisha_sommer and I will coven with what is looking to be an incredible group of women in #sonoma for our #feverdreamscollective gathering. We are giving you plenty of time to plan but don't wait too long as spots are filling. If you feel called to collaborate, create, restore and connect with other creative kindreds, pop over to our website and check it out. Www.feverdreamscollective.com.
We want to explore with you. Together. 😘🌈🖤🦄🐝💃🏼💕
#witchwork #witchcraft #women #earthmybody #watermyblood #airmybreath #firemyspirit

Home from the glorious sun session of #spiritweaversgathering and yesterday was a #rattle glazing day in the clay cave. I love the meditative process and sound of bird song in my ears with the garage door rolled up and my garden full of #honeybees just beyond. I love this #witchcraft #witchwork and today there is more of it. I've been picking all the #rosebuds everywhere and stringing them for our #feverdreamscollective gathering next Spring. @alisha_sommer and I are feverish with excitement, to #coven and #create with 14 magical creatures in #Sonoma April 25-29th, 2018. If you feel called to join us, all details and registration info are available at www.feverdreamscollective.com Come throw your dreams into space with us. 🐝

#spiritweavers2017 #spiritweavers #spiritweaversgathering2017 #spiritbeavers #honeybee #clay #pottery #stoneware #claycave #shamanictools #magicalcreatures #beepriestess

Hittin' the road to gather with other #wildwomen in #cavejunction #Oregon to practice my #ancestralskills while attending #spiritweaversgathering. 🐝🌈🌞🏕🥑🌙🌾🕸💃🏼😍🖤🔮 It's my first #summer #roadtrip of the season and the #stationwagon is loaded with #soulpad , lambskins, rugs, pillows, clothes, food and a ton of #cauldronandhive goods for my #tradeblanket, yahoo shadoobie! 🙌🏽 Speaking of #womengathering, @alisha_sommer and I have been kissed by the #muse and manifested #feverdreamscollective , an intimate gathering for a small group of our #creativekindreds in #sonoma #california for next Spring. We are eager to share sacred space with y'all and create, make and explore together. Check out www.feverdreamscollective.com for more info and join us if you're called. Registration is now open and We love lovin' on women and would love to love on you! 😍😘😍 #spiritweavers #spiritweavers2017 #spiritweaversgathering2017 #maketomend #mythstream #songline #dreamtime #thisisjustmylifenow #natureofmygame #loveswhatigot

$So dreamy.... Fever Dreams Collective coven is gathering at @westerbekeranch next Spring and we are eager to offer just one sweet private room amongst the rustic luxury of shared, wheelchair accessible, and camp-like cottage and cabin accommodations, to whomever claims it first... If you are on our FDC mailing list, you will be receiving registration info and gathering details by May 24, right at the new moon in earthy Taurus. If you are not yet on our mailing list, check out our vibe at www.feverdreamscollective.com for details. {image captured at Westerbeke Ranch by my myth mapping partner, @alisha_sommer } #feverdreamscollective #coven #feralambrosialstrange #witchcraft #gathering #womencreatives #mystream #songline #dreamtime #constellation #intersection #guadalupe #ourladyofguadalupe$

Air, Fire, Water, Earth.
East, South, West, North.
Bits and pieces I learned at or after, during or since, Orphan Wisdom School as a People Who Come Through Rain and Rune Scholar:
I'm remembering what it means to be a human being, while also unburdening myself from my motivations, wanting to feel more, not better, or less. Sanity is the first casualty of our sophistication. There is no safety, we are safety-less. I can't be talked out of what troubles me most, and I won't be force fed inspiration or affirmations to fake-soothe my soul. You can't go to a learning environment and be you, the you you put on, with the mask and the costume, and the know it all bravado - it's doesn't work. Our competence addiction insists that we be dominate and controlling. Discipline is the midwife of learning. Intent is the midwife of thought. Education means to lead out, to undo indoctrination. Madness is not a consequence of culture, it's a syndrome that feeds on culture. Every solution that does not carry the poverty of what it's trying to solve, won't work. Confused = the end of suppleness, end of assuming a position of wonder. The antidote to confusion is obligation, alignment. Obligation = two things will remain separate but are brought into temporary relation, enabled. We don't need self improvement. Persistence is fertile while insistence is futile. Life is a mystery. When I slow down long enough to become acquainted with the poverties I seek to learn, my repertoire for sorrow will be enhanced and sorrow, my friend, is the road to deep reckoning. Learning is so hard on knowing, it makes us uncertain, then ambivalent. And ambivalence is the capacity to entertain contending ideas without collapsing one. It is not an affliction or vacancy of knowledge. It's not something to choose between. I have a willingness to learn and not know. Where is the home of my deep learning?... there is my sorrow. I went there with a right to know, a self designated seeker with entitlement issues. My way of seeking will determine what I find, my approach is everything, my intent leads to consequences, which precede me. I have a longing, a yearning, for rabid reverence. Cont. below...

This kid. 22 today. I took this photo of him in #bocasdeltoro #panama when he was a teenager.
Currently we are at the top of each other's shit-list, what's new, but my love for him is cosmic, oceanic deep, and everlasting.
He resists being mothered in the way I know how, and am capable of, and I just keep loving him anyways, loving him through the trenches, loving him through the tough times, through the holy ache of divorce and growth and way finding, I keep on keepin on, because he is worth it, so worth it.
We are alike in so many ways, both full of creative angst, pushing back and rubbing up against the gains and restraints of freedom and suppression. And yet, unlike me, he is a young man in this crazy snake ass world we inhabit... such a challenge to find footing in it... for the sensitive and empathic like him, even more so.
I love you August Rainbow, my first born man child. Happy birthday, son. Wishing you peace, health and serenity this year. You are everything Gus, and I adore you.
#loveswhatigot #natureofmygame #august #augustrainbow #gus #shitlist #happybirthdayson #happybirthday #youaremysunshine #youaremysonshine #22 #1995

Fever Dreams Collective... This sensual photo was taken by a @westerbekeranch attendee, at the gorgeous ranch in Sonoma where we will be gathering next Spring to coven and commune and create, and make art and make love and make poetry and make out and make waves and make to mend, and eat the most delicious meals... Details and registration provided at the new moon, but for now, if you'd like more info and a chance to register at the the best/lowest price we're able to offer, get on our mailing list at www.feverdreamscollective.com
Be with us. Let's be. Just be. 🖤

Headed to Orphan Wisdom School in Ottawa, Canada, to study with Mr. Jenkinson and my cohort of fellow scholars. I'm going to "learn my sorrows and supplications, in a place of mystery and catastrophe, and very good food and fine views of the sunset and dumbfoundedness and blistering clarity of the unsought kind. I've no obligation to know everything. Or anything. As certainty, I am bound to relearn, like understanding, is overrated in the noble arc of learning." I'll be making holy, with offerings of seasonal songs and sultry attention, in this time of diaphanous veils between the worlds, cleansing and renewing, shedding and calling in. I am a galactic ocean of contradiction and expansion, so deep, and full of possibility.
#orphanwisdom #orphanwisdomschool #stephenjenkinson #ottawa #canada #feralambrosialstrange #natureofmygame #thisisjustmylifenow #loveswhatigot #magic #witchwork #scholar #griefwalker #thelawofdreams #diewise (Image borrowed from web, uncertain which amazing photographer to credit...)

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