Dreaming Awake the Goddess

The highlight of my week has been an art/planning date with the energy power house that is Carol Newmarch

Carol and I are going to be running a series of Goddess workshops and we really needed to get down to business and do some planning.  We also needed to get to know each other's way of working as we haven't facilitated a workshop together before. 

So we decided on an art date/planning session. 

Productive!

Creative!

The best idea!  

Work but fun!!

Highly recommended - right brain planning, getting to know your co-facilitator and having a laugh... (and I forgot to mention the cups of tea and party bag chocolate buttons, thanks Carol)...

I can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon.

For those of you who live in the north east of the UK, the first of these goddess workshops, Dreaming Awake the Goddess, is on Sunday 30th March - and you can sign up here to be kept in the loop about in person workshops in the UK.

How do you run your planning or business sessions?  Or your team meetings? Wouldn't it be great if big biz did this?

From my heart to yours

Rachel xox

ps don't forget - if you would like to be kept in the loop about my upcoming ecourse - sign up here and for in person workshops here xxx

And the launch of 21 Secrets 2014 is drawing closer - more details over here xxx

Imbolc blessings to you

 It's the 2nd February - Imbolc or Candlemas or Brigid's Day - bright blessings to you.

Today is the midpoint between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. It is the day we celebrate the small signs that Spring is approaching; snowdrops, hyacinth and crocuses blooming, daffodils in bud. These all herald the return of the Goddess. (Not that she ever left here...)

I'm chuckling a little to myself as I write this because this is a Fire festival (!!) and Brigid is another Fire goddess.

Brigit is Lady of the Sacred Flame, the Flame of Inspiration, the Flame of Creative Consciousness. Her bright, fiery energy is the energy of creation. She is patroness of all creatives - poets, writers, metal workers and crafts people. She encourages us to tap into our own inspiration and our own creative power. Brigit reminds us that we are connected always to Divine Inspiration and the creative Source.

I started this painting on the Solstice; family time at Christmas and a busy January with my other business meant that it has been neglected. But inspired by Brigit this weekend, I have reconnected with the fiery red energy. It feels so luscious and rich and I'm ready to finish this painting and its sister canvas that I started at the same time.

It's still winter outside but Brigit's energy brings brings hope, renewed enthusiasm, renewal, and new beginnings; Whichever way your spirituality lies, today, whatever the weather, take a walk and look for those small signs of the goddess - perhaps some green shoots appearing or snowdrops in bloom.

And to honour Brigit's fire, llight candles around your home tonight and celebrate with her.

I'm off to Yorkshire Sculpture Park with my beloved for this week's art date to marvel at the Henry Moore's and see the Angie Lewin exhibition.  But also to look for celandines and crocus and the goddess.

From my goddess heart to yours

Rachel xox

ps don't forget you can read all about my Glorious Goddess course for 21 Secrets here

fire in the hold

I hope you are settling into 2014. I've just got time today to squeeze in my (very belated) New Year wishes to you.  And it is The Chinese New Year today, so maybe I'm not so late after all, maybe I'm right on time! 

Welcoming in the Year of the Horse (and I surely am in for the ride) - Gung Hai Faat Choi! May this year be full of prosperity, wealth, health and happiness! May your rice bowl always be full!! (Stealing this from my lovely friend Tina Fu.)

January is usually a slow time of year for me - and as I live in the north east of the UK, this is just as it should be; we are still in the depths of winter. It should be hibernation time - and that is partly how I feel, I just want to cosy up on these dark days, but rippling away beneath the surface, there is much activity...

I'm still dancing round the fire with Vesta.

 

The fire goddess is still informing my daily journal practice. My thought on this is that pre-Christmas and on the Solstice, Vesta was helping me to be in the moment, get cosy and stay home, but now I'm stoking the fires ready to fuel the year ahead...and there's so much coming up I really need this injection of fire energy.

I'll let you in on this activity, what's happening now, coming up and in the planning: 

• I'm preparing my Glorious Goddess workshop for 21 Secrets
• I have a series of workshops planned at the Healing Touch in Staintondale, North Yorkshire - there will be more at my home too, dates coming soon
• I'm planning a series of Goddess workshops with the energy packed Carol Newmarch - more news on that very soon too
• AND Carol has invited me to co-teach on one of her Tuscan Retreats! (I said yes!)
• last but but not least, I'm planning to write my own ecourse - if you'd like to be kept in the loop about that, please sign up here 

Phew!

How's 2014 shaping up for you? Are you still in hibernation mode? Or are you busy busy? I'd love to hear...

I'd also love to know what ecourse you'd like to see me develop. What aspects of my work would you like to know more about? Colour? The Goddess? Art journaling?

From my heart to yours
Rachel xox