“YOU HAVE NO RIGHT”

The Right. You think that God gave it to you, The Right… NO, no He didn’t. You can show me how many times the bible tells us so, that women and earth are subject to male law and still I will say NO, no you don’t have the right. You are not right in any of the forms you have built to maintain control over women, over their hearts, minds and bodies, from fairy tales to high heels, from “girls can’t…” to “a woman’s place…”

YOU HAVE NO RIGHT.

The sexiest man on the planet knows that he has no right to any kind of power over me or any woman. He knows that his real, owned, honest power comes from an internal source connected to Earth, not God, Will, Mind or Money. This Man knows from his humble core out that WE are all in this together, one earth, one race. He is with the rest of us looking to the how of using all the solutions we already have.

You, beautiful woman, you have a bone within, a “YOU HAVE NO RIGHT” bone. Find it, use it, break free of the cultural shackles that have you all shades of fear, for ever using this power. The more you use it, the stronger it gets. Carve out a space around you, within you, to build the safe passage to the Love you are beloved woman. For alongside that stunning man, or another kick arse woman, that knows power within, we have work to do. Turning as a balanced unit, raising our children in this glow, we get to change the writing on the wall, in the halls of power and in those outdated books.

The very first Earth Lodge was amazing!

The shedding of self.

A threshold was crossed, a moment in time was finally experienced and I had been waiting for this to happen for such a long time, but you can’t rush a shedding.  That is what I know, so far, of what the lodge is for. My sneaking suspicion is that there is indeed so much that is possible in an Earth Lodge.

This Earth Lodge had myself and a student of mine in attendance. We did what we could with what we had to create the pitch black darkness that is a Grandmother Lodge. We mostly nailed it. We prepared a fire, readied the copper for the earth. My student had dug part of the hole out herself, which I feel is an important part of the process, to make room for yourself. Each person to enter the lodge will need to dig a bit of that earth as a way of introduction.

The next morning, with just a little water in the system we began a gentle descent and just kept going. So many singular moments of gentle holding and being held. Opening and dissolving. Descending. Allowing ourselves to feel that which is our containment, our bonds, and let them go. There was an exquisite moment of understanding of being a water bearer, by virtue of my blood medicine and that the water is an intrinsic part of earth. To build that soft place of bringing the sacredness to water, to the drinking of water, to the being of water, these too are part of the Earth Lodge.

As this was the very first, we had no idea how long we would be there, what would be happening, we just gently stepped off the edge of our conscious minds and allowed ourselves to be still. To be held by the warm earth.

We learned so much that day. Earth in an old copper heats quickly! and Earth can be VERY hot. We would probably need some more old coppers as we grow in number. The Shedding takes as long as it takes, and then it is DONE. We both popped out of it at about the same time, feeling really done.

After lodge that day we moved straight into creative expression, writing for me, and clay for my student. It was perfect to give the self that kind of pathway, of going there, deep within and then returning unto the expression tools we have for sharing where we have experienced.

I have met a part of my path that is intrinsic in creating the community that will create the Womb Temple. This ritual, this ceremony will be cornerstone to building of so much in our world here. Softly, gently, with Her.

Let me know when you are ready to enter the lodge.

Moving on…

What will be, one day soon!

There is a moment when you just have to let go and trust. When you know that EVERYTHING must change now, and it does. When I launched the indiegogo I was in a relationship with a man I loved, but I was trying to build the space between us to mean something to us both. I was desperate to share the love, build with it, create a future in which we were both up for the getting really muddy and joyous in the earth. But it was not his dreaming, it was all mine.

Tis ok, now I have let go, in fact it is real honest and present to what can now be, now that I am not forcing that vision upon him. He’s got his own visions to create and I am grateful we both live that now. Turning towards and truly owning that this is my vision, perhaps partially shared with Mum, tis her land after all for now (until I actually buy out my sister, asap.) BUT it is land. 50+ acres of loving possibility. With profound dreaming that builds upon the raw and real beauty of this blessed Earth… and that is what I want to share. The building of sanctuary. With cob and stone, round wood and strawbale. Studio’s, basic accommodation, Our Womb Temple… 

The thing is… I still want to build this all WITH… not that notion of having to have a man to do it with me… but with the community that this beloved work honours, deepens, expands as we share the love of the blood, the love of alignment with our cycle, our moon, our earth and how that is lived in our lives. I know there is much to be shared from here, this sanctuary, to inspire and open this conversation with our blood, with our whole menstrual cycle.

Let me know how you want to be a part of this… I’d love to hear you!

Finding the worth… when we are told there is none.

Mama is an abundant state. Being with our Earth, our natural Earth, an overflowing cornucopia of goodness, a type of abundance that feeds everyone, freely… That’s the thing about Love, tis given freely or not at all. To be with the Earth is to be with Love. To find worth there, deep sustaining worth in and of the Earth, is to feel that love. If there is no worth, no value… where is the Love?

I have quested for the worth of Woman most of my adult life. The worth of being ALL that we are, reaching deep into our nature, and finding that we are connected to our blessed Earth in such a core way, such a profoundly beautiful way… tis just that all this noise has us forget who we are, what we are made of, where we actually live. All these song and dance routines outside of self that seem to consume our attention, our time, our energy… they are not why we are here… to make more shit that we don’t need, consume more excitement than our calorie controlled intellect can possibly process, in fact all we have done with this noise is create a sort of barrier around us. A dampening field that has us numb to the real value-able parts of our loving Earth.

Perhaps if we stopped, let go, breathed the deep breath, heaved the big sigh… the one for those that are fed up, over all the BS and just wants to go home now. Turn from the noise of it all, turn off the telly, burn the paper, switch off the radio… even try putting you smart phone in the bread box for 2 hours… then just get out there… into Her, feel the earth beneath you, the sun above, the wind and water moving through everything… You are the centre of the Circle… every where you go… the elements, the directions, are just waiting for you to acknowledge them, respect them, find value and worth in knowing you are a part of these primary elements of life. As women, we have a belly full of worth, a profound part of this dance of life moving through us each cycle… do we know this worth?

May today be the day you find real worth in being a Woman. May today be the day you find real worth in the Women around you. For me, this is my work, my coalface…