Sharing Blood Space…

I am so excited to hear this morning that the Michelle Buggy’s project has been funded! Please, continue to fund the project, as the more women/artists that line the edges of this delicious Red Tepee the better!!

I love that as part of making this dream a reality she created this beautiful little felt red tent with her children. An incredible inspiration for us all making manifest from our hearts to the real thing outside of ourselves, with our children part of said creating!

I love this project for many reasons. The first is the tepee space itself, for anyone that hasn’t stepped into a tepee before, it is just delicious. You really feel like you have stepped into another world, and it holds you there quite gently, away from all else.

The next would be the art… expression, deep blood expression that truly needs to be shared, from the core depths of our bloodmind, our bleeding space that we enter when we truly dissolve and allow that blood to flow through us, out into the world in a such a way as to touch, inspire and give permission to other women to travel here, to the honest blood lands where we are doing no wrong, committing no treason, to turn within and source ourselves thus… Blood Art is what I call a Howl Back, an offering made to the world that feels so good to give that you wish only to give it again, and when you do, the feedback is so powerfully good as to open to even deeper expressions, allowing even more women to know and share their sacred flow.

Then there would be the bit where this is intended to be used to share with young women, that they may have some image, some moment where their arriving blood is a good, strong and loving experience to enjoy! I truly look forward to inviting this powerful blood space down here to East Gippsland that we may share it with the young women of this area!

Viva la Love of the Blood Space!

 

Creating Sisterhood Circle…

So, once we have the desire to live with circle in our lives, to share with women, how do we build that?  This is this simple, just begin. Sit down with a cup of tea and feel it out… write a list of the women that you love and admire, women that you trust, and even if there is only 4 women on that list, start it anyways! It will grow. Invite these women to your dreaming, ask them to see the bounty and beauty of being held in circle. Enrolling your women to the vision, for bringing a circle to life is all about holding open the space. Drawing women to it and allowing it to stay. Using just one’s own lounge room, and sharing the hosting around makes for an opportunity to be with even deeper, although the idea of having one at our own place can feel a little daunting but can become special as we make room for women that we adore.

Remember that you are building a vessel, a circle. Like any partnership or agreement between people, there needs to be edges to the vessel, the decisions of “this is what it is”, “this is what it’s not”. Now some of these will be just because of who you are, and how you live, so probably wont even need saying out loud. Some of these parameters you may find are best left to decide till there is a mass of you, till you have a sense of how many are willing to commit to the process, the creation and then maintaining of the circle. Once you have decided to open it, you may find that you have some very clear intents that you wish to explore, and that is what you are doing here, inviting others to come with you to share those emotional realms that most don’t make the time to explore, or even acknowledge.

Once you have a quorum, a core of women in the center, may I suggest a code, a creed, a written expression of who you are, what you are committed to and how you want to do that.  Having a drafting process, to make sure your words are deeply useful, and then building a beautiful copy that you all in pride of place in your homes, makes for a very strong manifesting of EXACTLY what you collectively want. A powerful expression of what women can achieve together when they put down the swords and shields.

In time you may wish to hold a more open space, an invitation to the Red Tent. Building a big beautiful sister space, like the one in the picture is a dream of mine soon to be realised, and the notions of the Red Tent are deepening, with a whole movement unfolding beautifully…it is incredibly inspiring!

But please, if I may, begin with a circle. Give yourself and your sisters the time you ALL deserve to hold gently your hearts and lives in the soft gentle glow of a candle, of shared tears and the many warm hugs. We deserve this beautiful woman, we all deserve to be heard, held and seen in our true selves.

Please use the comments to this post, to share what is in the way, what is stopping you? Why can’t you have circle… when we say it out aloud, sometimes we can really see these obstacles for what they are… When circle is so juicy good, why would we not?