Aug 04 2023 34 mins
NOTE: this episode was originally recorded in 2018, so not everything I say is current! There are deer to your left,
the sun is to your right,
spring is singing to the sky,
it is possible to make good friends with a rock.
There are truths about living
written in the patterns
of leaf shadow upon stone.
Please take a few moments to breathe and pause and call yourself in, into this time and into this space. Into your body and your breath and the beat of your heart. In this recording, I share some thoughts about stillness, about daily practices, about the freedom found in finding your own center, and about white space or the process of creating margin in your days.
“I fear our modern world does not honor our need for stillness in the midst of nonstop busyness. Can we learn to be still enough to embrace the inner self and all it contains? The inner self is calling for balance. Can we practice a wholeness that allows for silence, nature and breath? My hope is yes."
—Genevieve Mitchell (@goddess.ink)
Hungering for your own wisdom and naming it as worthy is a radical and revolutionary act.
Our card of the week from Womanrunes is The Winged Circle. Do you feel free? What color are your wings? Can you expand yourself, stretch your wings, take chances, leap into the unknown? What are you liberating, shaking loose, unfurling?
Where do you need revolution? What IS your revolution?
This rune may emerge in affirmation or encouragement of your own freedom of spirit or it may emerge when you are feeling bound or trapped and desperate to break free, to shake everything off and fly. It may show up when you need to free body, mind, or spirit from something that constricts you. Or, it may show up in celebration of the freedom you have claimed.
May you spread your wings, may you have the courage to be soft and tender, and may you be new in your bones.
And, now the rattle passes to you...
Do you feel free? What is your revolution?
Where do you have white space?
NOTE: additional companion resources for Margin/White Space may be found in this older Goddess Magic post.