May you have the courage to stand in your own knowing.May you find the grace to let go of striving for perfection, and instead embrace the sacredness of your imperfect, human journey.May luminous moments of optimism and possibility guide you,even as you move through gray times of despair and doubt.May you have the wisdom to choose differently, to prioritize what truly matters,creating a legacy that lingers. May you always find solace in the holy ground beneath your feet,the sacred presence that dwells within and all around you.Shine your light, dear one,your small, precious gifts are needed in this world.

Happy Spring Equinox! I hope you are enjoying a gentle leap into a new season. Our own weather has been erratic and wild, including nearby tornadoes that wreaked havoc on our town. And, then, today, as I work on the newsletter, sporadic power outages at our house cutting off my internet. As such, this newsletter will be a little shorter than usual with only a brief audio edition. I’ve gotten very off schedule this week! Our shop update today is an eclectic one, featuring assorted divine imperfections, “Luna” one-of-a-kind goddesses, and some red winged Nemesis goddesses (by customer request).

We also still have assorted goddesses in our very special spring pigment—a beautiful lilac with small flowers. We are using this pigment to honor Áine, the Irish Fairy Queen, who is this year’s featured goddess at Gaea Goddess Gathering. We do know that she is a summertime goddess, but we felt like this pigment was an excellent match for the spring equinox/Ostara and our month of Persephone as well, so we went forward with it!

This week's magic:

* 8 minute video: beholding delight.

Resource Reminders:

* New free series: An Introduction to Goddess Studies

* 1. getting started

* 2. printable journal

* 3. affirmation card set

* 4. portable altar space

* 5. introduction to thealogy

* 6. influential authors in goddess studies

* 7. audio retreat: spots of time (note: publishing Saturday)

Blog Posts:

* Ritual Reading for Spring Equinox (A Spring Ritual of Returning)

* Clarity and the Crossroads

Beholding Delight

Reminder: Let us be open to delight. Let us be open to wonder. Let us allow joy. Let us be open to the possibility of bliss.

Journal prompts for the week:

* What is calling to you? What doorway are you sensing?

* What are you saying yes to? What is your ritual of returning?

Affirmations for this week:

* Happiness and ecstasy flow through me wildly and freely.

* I am open to joy.

* I say yes to life.

* I listen to the call.

* I allow an expansive dream or creative quest to emerge.

* I find the small sacred moments in my daily life and let them sustain me.

* I walk my path with presence and intention.

Goddess of quiet knowing,help me to make a space for stillness,to guard a place for peace.Remind me that stillness and motionare a constant interplay,the beat between notes,the space between raindrops,the pause between breaths,the silence between heartbeats.The nature of the body is to be in motion,the constant unfolding of a whole universewhirling within our cells,the still spaces in betweensomehow holding the whole together,as in stillnesswe move.

Much love,

Molly, Mark, + Family

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May you have the courage to stand in your own knowing.May you find the grace to let go of striving for perfection, and instead embrace the sacredness of your imperfect, human journey.May luminous moments of optimism and possibility guide you,even as you move through gray times of despair and doubt.May you have the wisdom to choose differently, to prioritize what truly matters,creating a legacy that lingers. May you always find solace in the holy ground beneath your feet,the sacred presence that dwells within and all around you.Shine your light, dear one,your small, precious gifts are needed in this world.

Happy Spring Equinox! I hope you are enjoying a gentle leap into a new season. Our own weather has been erratic and wild, including nearby tornadoes that wreaked havoc on our town. And, then, today, as I work on the newsletter, sporadic power outages at our house cutting off my internet. As such, this newsletter will be a little shorter than usual with only a brief audio edition. I’ve gotten very off schedule this week! Our shop update today is an eclectic one, featuring assorted divine imperfections, “Luna” one-of-a-kind goddesses, and some red winged Nemesis goddesses (by customer request).

We also still have assorted goddesses in our very special spring pigment—a beautiful lilac with small flowers. We are using this pigment to honor Áine, the Irish Fairy Queen, who is this year’s featured goddess at Gaea Goddess Gathering. We do know that she is a summertime goddess, but we felt like this pigment was an excellent match for the spring equinox/Ostara and our month of Persephone as well, so we went forward with it!

This week's magic:

* 8 minute video: beholding delight.

Resource Reminders:

* New free series: An Introduction to Goddess Studies

* 1. getting started

* 2. printable journal

* 3. affirmation card set

* 4. portable altar space

* 5. introduction to thealogy

* 6. influential authors in goddess studies

* 7. audio retreat: spots of time (note: publishing Saturday)

Blog Posts:

* Ritual Reading for Spring Equinox (A Spring Ritual of Returning)

* Clarity and the Crossroads

Beholding Delight

Reminder: Let us be open to delight. Let us be open to wonder. Let us allow joy. Let us be open to the possibility of bliss.

Journal prompts for the week:

* What is calling to you? What doorway are you sensing?

* What are you saying yes to? What is your ritual of returning?

Affirmations for this week:

* Happiness and ecstasy flow through me wildly and freely.

* I am open to joy.

* I say yes to life.

* I listen to the call.

* I allow an expansive dream or creative quest to emerge.

* I find the small sacred moments in my daily life and let them sustain me.

* I walk my path with presence and intention.

Goddess of quiet knowing,help me to make a space for stillness,to guard a place for peace.Remind me that stillness and motionare a constant interplay,the beat between notes,the space between raindrops,the pause between breaths,the silence between heartbeats.The nature of the body is to be in motion,the constant unfolding of a whole universewhirling within our cells,the still spaces in betweensomehow holding the whole together,as in stillnesswe move.

Much love,

Molly, Mark, + Family

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from In The Temple of the Ordinary 2, page 11: What if you say yes to your own life?

* Resources:

* New book pre-order: The Sacred Flame

* Circe special edition goddesses

* Kali Ma special edition goddesses

* Earth Runes card: The Sun. What is being illuminated for you? What is keeping you warm on long, cold nights?

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, December 15: What is calling your name? What soul song is rising up from deep within? What does this season ask of you?

* Resources:

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* New holiday goddesses in the shop!

* Fourth solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Cailleach, Love, Earth. May there be love.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, December 8: What is your prayer of presence?

* Resources:

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* New holiday goddesses in the shop including new green ornaments!

* Third solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Aphrodite, Joy, Water. May there be joy.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video! And, welcome to December!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, December 1: May we be present with what is unfolding. May we keep company with joy.

* Resources:

* A Year of Goddess Magic on Lulu.

* Goddes Magic community for weekly lives!

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* Cerridwen goddesses in the shop.

* Mother Mary

* Mother Holda

* Second solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Hestia, Peace, Fire. May there be peace.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from Replenish, Day 84: This world is a feast of everyday magic and ordinary delight. May you grant yourself space to see and step into it, even in the middle of a busy holiday season.

* Resources:

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* Solstice Sun Wheel exploration from Beth Owls Daughter.

* Glacier blue snowflake goddesses in the shop.

* First solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Aurora, Hope, Air. May there be hope.

* Reminder: Set down what constricts and confines you. Lean into what expands you, what sets you free.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, November 17: What if you could feel that wellspring of joy running beneath your life? What if you come back home to yourself? What if you reclaim your attention as your own?

* Shop update:

* Universe blue goddesses.

* Cranberry red goddesses.

* Sweet song of your own approval poem from our November guidebook: What is the sweet song of your own approval?

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, November 10. Let us remember there are goddess-loving people all across the land, standing together under the same bright moon.

* Shop update:

* Icy Gleam goddesses

* Evergreen goddesses

* Morrigans

* Divine Discontent prayer from the inspiration oracle cards I create for Goddess Magic. Where does your divine discontent lead you?

* Past audio exploring the concept (which did come some Sarah Ban Breathnach in Simple Abundance).

* Related quote: "[If] there were none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach for anything better." --Florence Nightingale

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from October’s #30DaysofGoddess prayerbook (all prayerbook volumes available here). How are you collecting the fragments of your year? What are you brewing from your many pieces?

* Shop update:

* New holiday ornaments!

* Special membership offer in the Goddess Magic community—25% discount with code MAGIC2024.

* Card from Womanrunes: The Cauldron of Dancing Women. Where is your loyalty? To what are you committed?

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess—welcoming November. May you be willing to grant yourself space and grace, time and tenderness.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess: How might you sink into the welcoming arms of waiting?

* Shop update:

* Alchemy OOAK goddesses!

* Freya mini grid.

* Special membership offer in the Goddess Magic community—25% discount with code MAGIC2024.

* Card from the the Self-Care Wisdom deck: Breathe. How can you slow down? How might moving at your own pace help you?

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Here is another brief Sacred Sunday check in video for you! I once again did go a little longer than three minutes and my three things have some nested sub-topics. ;) Maybe I should switch to four things in four minutes!

Three things:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess: how are you making a space of refuge for yourself, allowing yourself what you need?

* Shop update:

* Big cloaked goddesses

* Bog water goddesses (and minis!)

* Special Samhain sale!

* Bog Water Bloom Goddess

* Card from the Sacred Forest Oracle: The Daffodil Fairy. What whisper of a new beginning is calling your name? What is changing for you?

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May you have the courage to stand in your own knowing.May you find the grace to let go of striving for perfection, and instead embrace the sacredness of your imperfect, human journey.May luminous moments of optimism and possibility guide you,even as you move through gray times of despair and doubt.May you have the wisdom to choose differently, to prioritize what truly matters,creating a legacy that lingers. May you always find solace in the holy ground beneath your feet,the sacred presence that dwells within and all around you.Shine your light, dear one,your small, precious gifts are needed in this world.

Happy Spring Equinox! I hope you are enjoying a gentle leap into a new season. Our own weather has been erratic and wild, including nearby tornadoes that wreaked havoc on our town. And, then, today, as I work on the newsletter, sporadic power outages at our house cutting off my internet. As such, this newsletter will be a little shorter than usual with only a brief audio edition. I’ve gotten very off schedule this week! Our shop update today is an eclectic one, featuring assorted divine imperfections, “Luna” one-of-a-kind goddesses, and some red winged Nemesis goddesses (by customer request).

We also still have assorted goddesses in our very special spring pigment—a beautiful lilac with small flowers. We are using this pigment to honor Áine, the Irish Fairy Queen, who is this year’s featured goddess at Gaea Goddess Gathering. We do know that she is a summertime goddess, but we felt like this pigment was an excellent match for the spring equinox/Ostara and our month of Persephone as well, so we went forward with it!

This week's magic:

* 8 minute video: beholding delight.

Resource Reminders:

* New free series: An Introduction to Goddess Studies

* 1. getting started

* 2. printable journal

* 3. affirmation card set

* 4. portable altar space

* 5. introduction to thealogy

* 6. influential authors in goddess studies

* 7. audio retreat: spots of time (note: publishing Saturday)

Blog Posts:

* Ritual Reading for Spring Equinox (A Spring Ritual of Returning)

* Clarity and the Crossroads

Beholding Delight

Reminder: Let us be open to delight. Let us be open to wonder. Let us allow joy. Let us be open to the possibility of bliss.

Journal prompts for the week:

* What is calling to you? What doorway are you sensing?

* What are you saying yes to? What is your ritual of returning?

Affirmations for this week:

* Happiness and ecstasy flow through me wildly and freely.

* I am open to joy.

* I say yes to life.

* I listen to the call.

* I allow an expansive dream or creative quest to emerge.

* I find the small sacred moments in my daily life and let them sustain me.

* I walk my path with presence and intention.

Goddess of quiet knowing,help me to make a space for stillness,to guard a place for peace.Remind me that stillness and motionare a constant interplay,the beat between notes,the space between raindrops,the pause between breaths,the silence between heartbeats.The nature of the body is to be in motion,the constant unfolding of a whole universewhirling within our cells,the still spaces in betweensomehow holding the whole together,as in stillnesswe move.

Much love,

Molly, Mark, + Family

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This is an experimental new concept. Hope you enjoy this brief Sacred Sunday check in video. It did go a little longer than three minutes and my three things have some nested sub-topics. ;)

Three things:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess: What are you making space for? How might you create a “space of renewal” for yourself?

* News update:

* Heart Centered Planner Giveaway on Instagram/Facebook.

* Visioning audio with bonus cards.

* New Samhain Alchemy orange goddesses in the shop.

* Special edition Hecates in the shop.

* Card from Womanrunes: The Sisters. How are you tending to your friendships? Are you keeping your promises and honoring your vows? How are you making space to tend to the bonds of love?

Note: We’re strongly considering moving our newsletter over to Substack from Mailchimp. One reason being that there is increased functionality on Substack, like the ability to add quick videos like this one.

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May we embrace the cycles of life,releasing the need to finish.We tumble with the turning,knowing this is where we belong.We pause and attune ourselveswith the rhythms of the earth,finding peace in the present moment.May we live in harmonywith the wild and wise unfoldingall around us.Happy October! In this week’s shop update, we are excited to offer some more beautiful new Fall OOAK (one of a kind) goddesses as well as our special edition Patron kits for October and also some assorted bits and pieces, including some beautifully witchy cinnamon red goddesses.Before I go on with the rest of the news, I would like to honor the people experiencing such devastation in North Carolina and Florida (as well as Georgia, Ohio, and Tennessee too) after the hurricane. Our hearts go out to you.And, as you know, continued atrocities and sorrows abound with escalating conflict in the Middle East. I have been paying attention to what Jewish Voices for Peace has to share about this devastation. Despite the complexities and the confusion and the conflicting opinions, we do have to keep paying attention. I know that sending love and meditating for peace is not enough. And, yet, it is what we have. That, and monetary donations, are what I can offer from my own small spot on the globe.Note: extended print edition of this newsletter is available here.

This week's magic:

* Nine minute ritual video: letting go and entering the depths.

* Claiming Your Magic free event announcement and information!

* I also have a free "Magic of Daily Practice" series going on on Patreon this month! It starts today! Feel free to invite your friends to join with the free membership option.

* I’m so incredibly stoked that planners are BACK from Danielle LaPorte this year! Can’t wait to get my hands on my copy. I also have a special discount code for you to use: MOLLYRLOVE10 if you want to order one too!

* I actually have one copy to give away to members of my Patreon too, so patrons...make sure you're at our community practice Live on Monday for that giveaway! And, I’ll have another copy to give away on our Instagram + I have 10 gift tickets to give away for Danielle’s Visioning workshop in January (#affiliate)

* October's #30DaysofGoddess practice is ready for you! Twenty minute practice video, free printables, and more are all right there on the home page.

* Three minute welcome to October.

* If you want more, I enabled single post purchase on the Patreon expansions for this month too.

* Hecate Goddess Guidance Club

* October expansion (includes amazing guidebook!)

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Need a spot of time to nourish your soul? Our next free Replenish retreat is coming up September 23! The companion home page (with all past replays) has been updated with nurturing fall companion printables.

And, as a special bonus, I’ve also made a free mini coloring book to accompany it! A brief flip through of the mini book is embedded above.

Resources:

* Join the Creative Spirit Circle group (free) for future live event notices.

* Subscribe to our free #30DaysofGoddess bimonthly newsletter for lots more resources, printables, and support.

* Companion home page with printables including coloring book as seen below.

* Replenish devotional companion book

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Note: I'm still keeping this newsletter pretty short this week as I step out of steeping and choose what to pick back up and what to leave behind.

This week's magic:

* Twelve minute ritual video: tapping in to what lies beneath

* Our free Autumn Replenish Retreat is coming up on September 23! The website is already updated with companion printable cards AND also now a mini coloring book. Note: it was a big pain to size the mini book correctly and it is still a little off, so this is the first and only time that a mini coloring book will accompany a retreat!

* I'm running a "Step into the Flow" video series on Patreon on Fridays. Joining at the $5 level gets you access to this series as well as to our weekly live community practices! Well worth it for the boost of nourishment and inspiration. We will explore together what it means to step into the flow, to be responsive to our own lives, AND how important it is to keep lifting that small fist of resistance. This four week series offers spots of time for your soul and sacred pauses to reflect in a gentle retreat-style container.

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I pause and invite clarity
to descend once more,
clean edges
and clear paths.
I invoke a sense of peace,
of inner quietude,
space for listening.
I let this moment
be a prayer of presence.

⁠⁠Print edition with accompanying links is ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠⁠

You can also find me:

• Creating goddess magic and community practice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Goddess Magic community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


• Offering free support for building devotional practices: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#30DaysofGoddess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.


• Writing weekly for my (free) newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Spirit Circle⁠

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As you move forward and grow, may you be gentle with yourself, cradling yourself in the belly of each moment. May you find the courage to reach for what you truly crave, and may your innate wisdom lead you on your sacred journey.

⁠Print edition with accompanying links is ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠.⁠⁠⁠

You can also find me:

• Creating goddess magic and community practice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Goddess Magic community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


• Offering free support for building devotional practices: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#30DaysofGoddess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.


• Writing weekly for my (free) newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Spirit Circle⁠

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As you move forward and grow,
may you be gentle with yourself,
cradling yourself in the belly of each moment.
May you find the courage
to reach for what you truly crave,
and may your innate wisdom
lead you on your sacred journey.

Print edition with accompanying links is ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠.⁠⁠

You can also find me:

• Creating goddess magic and community practice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Goddess Magic community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


• Offering free support for building devotional practices: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#30DaysofGoddess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.


• Writing weekly for my (free) newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Spirit Circle⁠

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May you trust in the stability and security around you. 
May you embrace flexibility and gentle release.
May you reclaim your lost soul skin and wild authentic nature.
May you claim your power and keep promises that nourish your spirit.
May your journey be one of liberation and sovereignty.
May you live your life with joy.

⁠⁠Print edition with accompanying links is ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠.⁠

You can also find me:

• Creating goddess magic and community practice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Goddess Magic community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


• Offering free support for building devotional practices: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#30DaysofGoddess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.


• Writing weekly for my (free) newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Spirit Circle⁠

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May we listen to what stirs creatively
within us, letting that bring more joy and curiosity to all aspects of
life. May we have the courage to set forth on our own path of discovery
as we follow where our longing leads us. May we grow, learn, and explore
while grounded and centered in expansive, exuberant inner quietude.

⁠Print edition with accompanying links is ⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

You can also find me:

• Creating goddess magic and community practice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Goddess Magic community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


• Offering free support for building devotional practices: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠#30DaysofGoddess⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.


• Writing weekly for my (free) newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Spirit Circle⁠

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I pause to honor the
potent energetic cascade
of summer’s flourishing.
I recognize its tug
within my own body and spirit.
I continue to pace myself with love,
celebrating
the vitality of creation
and the necessity of restoration.

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You can also find me:

• Creating goddess magic and community practice: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Goddess Magic community⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠


• Offering free support for building devotional practices: ⁠⁠⁠⁠#30DaysofGoddess⁠⁠⁠⁠.


• Writing weekly for my (free) newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Creative Spirit Circle⁠

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May you have the courage to stand in your own knowing.May you find the grace to let go of striving for perfection, and instead embrace the sacredness of your imperfect, human journey.May luminous moments of optimism and possibility guide you,even as you move through gray times of despair and doubt.May you have the wisdom to choose differently, to prioritize what truly matters,creating a legacy that lingers. May you always find solace in the holy ground beneath your feet,the sacred presence that dwells within and all around you.Shine your light, dear one,your small, precious gifts are needed in this world.

Happy Spring Equinox! I hope you are enjoying a gentle leap into a new season. Our own weather has been erratic and wild, including nearby tornadoes that wreaked havoc on our town. And, then, today, as I work on the newsletter, sporadic power outages at our house cutting off my internet. As such, this newsletter will be a little shorter than usual with only a brief audio edition. I’ve gotten very off schedule this week! Our shop update today is an eclectic one, featuring assorted divine imperfections, “Luna” one-of-a-kind goddesses, and some red winged Nemesis goddesses (by customer request).

We also still have assorted goddesses in our very special spring pigment—a beautiful lilac with small flowers. We are using this pigment to honor Áine, the Irish Fairy Queen, who is this year’s featured goddess at Gaea Goddess Gathering. We do know that she is a summertime goddess, but we felt like this pigment was an excellent match for the spring equinox/Ostara and our month of Persephone as well, so we went forward with it!

This week's magic:

* 8 minute video: beholding delight.

Resource Reminders:

* New free series: An Introduction to Goddess Studies

* 1. getting started

* 2. printable journal

* 3. affirmation card set

* 4. portable altar space

* 5. introduction to thealogy

* 6. influential authors in goddess studies

* 7. audio retreat: spots of time (note: publishing Saturday)

Blog Posts:

* Ritual Reading for Spring Equinox (A Spring Ritual of Returning)

* Clarity and the Crossroads

Beholding Delight

Reminder: Let us be open to delight. Let us be open to wonder. Let us allow joy. Let us be open to the possibility of bliss.

Journal prompts for the week:

* What is calling to you? What doorway are you sensing?

* What are you saying yes to? What is your ritual of returning?

Affirmations for this week:

* Happiness and ecstasy flow through me wildly and freely.

* I am open to joy.

* I say yes to life.

* I listen to the call.

* I allow an expansive dream or creative quest to emerge.

* I find the small sacred moments in my daily life and let them sustain me.

* I walk my path with presence and intention.

Goddess of quiet knowing,help me to make a space for stillness,to guard a place for peace.Remind me that stillness and motionare a constant interplay,the beat between notes,the space between raindrops,the pause between breaths,the silence between heartbeats.The nature of the body is to be in motion,the constant unfolding of a whole universewhirling within our cells,the still spaces in betweensomehow holding the whole together,as in stillnesswe move.

Much love,

Molly, Mark, + Family

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May you tap into your sense of the infinite. May you lean into the limitless. May you feel how you are carried, held, and supported as you live. May you be alert for interconnections and for forbidden fruit. 

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May joy lead you this week. May you tap into beauty. May you connect with the landscape and with the animals around you. May you return again and again.

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This is the poem.
We are living it now.
The unfolding is the story
and the path.

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Today,
take a moment to soften
and to center,
to feel the sweet breath
of presence sweep over you.
Today,
return.
Meet the sacred
where you are.

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We welcome Beltane,
Beltane is here.
We celebrate
the turning of the wheel.

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May we remember
we make our own path by walking,
that the temple

is wherever our feet are.

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May we draw inward to reflect.

May we confront our lives as they are.

May we treat ourselves with softness

and gentleness.

May we know peace.

I'm bringing Goddess Works out of retirement to share our weekly audio newsletters!

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We all deserve some of our own best.

This brief audio is a musing about daily practice and the best of ourselves. I have shared before that, for me, daily practice creates a reserve that you can draw upon to fuel the rest of your day. Daily practice also helps us acknowledge the wholeness and fullness of life in its realness and imperfection. Life doesn't always feel perfectly smooth and engaged and inspired and connected and creative and all those kinds of things, but creating a space every single day where you can feel your best and you can be your best is so life-renewing and so fulfilling. And, this sensation then filters into the rest of the day. I find that the more wholeheartedly I walk a path of devotion, the more all of those good aspects of practice filters into and extends into and expands into the rest of my life. At the very least, we all deserve at least some moments of our own best every day.

We all deserve some contact with the fullest expression of our own beingness in every single day, if at all possible. For me, that is what #30DaysofGoddess brings into priority/center. It has made it possible for me to experience some of my own best in every day.

Practice homepage: #30DaysofGoddess

NOTE: this is my last podcast episode here as I'm retiring this podcast effort to make room for new work in 2024.

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• Creating goddess magic and community practice: Goddess Magic community


• Offering free support for building devotional practices: #30DaysofGoddess


• Writing weekly for my (free) newsletter: Creative Spirit Circle

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“We live on a steady diet of the illusion that when we get everything done, then—and
only then—we will be able to relax and do some of those things we’ve
always wanted to do, both for ourselves and with those we love...”
—Anne Wilson Schaef, Meditations for Living in Balance

Do you feel fuzzy or uncertain? Sometimes it is important to sit with
those feelings and sometimes it is important to slice through them, to get clear and focused and to be assertive with your own powers of choice, action, and reasoned decision-making. Where are you having trouble making decisions or taking action? What needs your attention and focus?

This audio was originally created for a class called Everyday Magic and was later used in Living the Questions. I offer it to you now, during this season of going and doing, as an invitation to focus...or...to expand your vision, to let it go a bit fuzzy and uncertain as you pause.

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NOTE: this audio was originally recorded in 2020 for our Goddess Magic community.

“It was excruciatingly easy to lose touch with the inner life of the soul. There was such a profusion of demand and complexity, so many to-do lists, the unceasing compulsion to accomplish something. When I read that the Chinese pictograph for busyness is ‘heart-killing,’ I felt the truth of that in my bones. In the midst of this struggle to care for my soul, I read Wordsworth’s poem, ‘The Prelude,’ in which he writes about ‘spots of time’ that nourish and repair the soul. I believe he was referring to brief, concentrated moments—little epiphanies—that inflame us with a sense of the holy. I began to search for spots of time here and there in my day. I found them by stopping. Just stopping....I began to ‘come away’ to a nook somewhere in the house or the yard where I would spend five minutes or less sitting still and receding into the quiet core of myself...caring for my soul turned out to be simply that—spots of time in which to be.”

—Sue Monk Kidd, Firstlight

This brief audio is about simple magic. I hope you find it interesting and supportive! (Note: I accidentally say "summer equinox" at one point instead of "summer solstice.")
I also wanted to share this quote from Yoga for Witches, which I reviewed here. 

 “In yoga class, I often remind my students that we can be peaceful and powerful, calm yet strong—all in the same breath. I think there is a peace to be found in the acceptance of all of these contradictory powers within us. Finding a way to stand within this unknown and unknowable. We are gloriously complex and contradictory in a world that loves boxes, snap judgments and 100% certainty. People may find this inability to define you uncomfortable, but this is a reminder that you do not owe anyone an explanation. Your rich inner world needn’t mean anything to anyone but yourself. A person can be called a witch for merely knowing, and for owning her knowledge. And to some, for strange reasons that may include fear, power, jealousy, a woman who ‘knows’ is dangerous indeed...Communicating *I am knowledgeable, powerful, and I can make choices about how I use these strengths...can be a real challenge to the status quo!”  

—Sarah Robinson, Yoga for Witches (p. 93)

May you feel centered
in your place of power.
May you know you
have this wholeness
to draw upon when needed.
May you remember that sometimes
the taste of tea
is truly what you need.
Much love,

Molly 

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May you have the courage to stand in your own knowing.May you find the grace to let go of striving for perfection, and instead embrace the sacredness of your imperfect, human journey.May luminous moments of optimism and possibility guide you,even as you move through gray times of despair and doubt.May you have the wisdom to choose differently, to prioritize what truly matters,creating a legacy that lingers. May you always find solace in the holy ground beneath your feet,the sacred presence that dwells within and all around you.Shine your light, dear one,your small, precious gifts are needed in this world.

Happy Spring Equinox! I hope you are enjoying a gentle leap into a new season. Our own weather has been erratic and wild, including nearby tornadoes that wreaked havoc on our town. And, then, today, as I work on the newsletter, sporadic power outages at our house cutting off my internet. As such, this newsletter will be a little shorter than usual with only a brief audio edition. I’ve gotten very off schedule this week! Our shop update today is an eclectic one, featuring assorted divine imperfections, “Luna” one-of-a-kind goddesses, and some red winged Nemesis goddesses (by customer request).

We also still have assorted goddesses in our very special spring pigment—a beautiful lilac with small flowers. We are using this pigment to honor Áine, the Irish Fairy Queen, who is this year’s featured goddess at Gaea Goddess Gathering. We do know that she is a summertime goddess, but we felt like this pigment was an excellent match for the spring equinox/Ostara and our month of Persephone as well, so we went forward with it!

This week's magic:

* 8 minute video: beholding delight.

Resource Reminders:

* New free series: An Introduction to Goddess Studies

* 1. getting started

* 2. printable journal

* 3. affirmation card set

* 4. portable altar space

* 5. introduction to thealogy

* 6. influential authors in goddess studies

* 7. audio retreat: spots of time (note: publishing Saturday)

Blog Posts:

* Ritual Reading for Spring Equinox (A Spring Ritual of Returning)

* Clarity and the Crossroads

Beholding Delight

Reminder: Let us be open to delight. Let us be open to wonder. Let us allow joy. Let us be open to the possibility of bliss.

Journal prompts for the week:

* What is calling to you? What doorway are you sensing?

* What are you saying yes to? What is your ritual of returning?

Affirmations for this week:

* Happiness and ecstasy flow through me wildly and freely.

* I am open to joy.

* I say yes to life.

* I listen to the call.

* I allow an expansive dream or creative quest to emerge.

* I find the small sacred moments in my daily life and let them sustain me.

* I walk my path with presence and intention.

Goddess of quiet knowing,help me to make a space for stillness,to guard a place for peace.Remind me that stillness and motionare a constant interplay,the beat between notes,the space between raindrops,the pause between breaths,the silence between heartbeats.The nature of the body is to be in motion,the constant unfolding of a whole universewhirling within our cells,the still spaces in betweensomehow holding the whole together,as in stillnesswe move.

Much love,

Molly, Mark, + Family

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NOTE: this audio was made in 2021, so still touches on the pandemic experience.

How are you tending to your soul’s garden? 

This audio is 26 minutes and is multi-thematic. The first part is a brief check in opportunity about the impact of the pandemic on our lives. Feel free to drop a note below letting me know how you are--how are you feeling, how are you doing, what is your life like? The second part is about tending to your "soul's garden" (additional notes about this below)--kind of a mini-meditation moment. After this meditation is a good stopping point (about 12 minutes in), or you can go on and listen to me muse about current books I'm reading and current things I've been listening to. 

Notes about Soul Gardens!

I found a little book at a thrift shop last week called “The Woman’s Book of Soul” which is a page a  day meditation book. In one of the early pages I loved this quote/concept and it inspired this month's audio:
“Taking little soul  seconds—one small prayer, a few-minute meditation, a short burst of  gratitude—helps immeasurably to revive our thirsty spirits. We don’t  have to join a convent or live in a cave to attend to our souls,  although I admit that it sounds appealing sometimes. Luckily, our souls  flower and grow when nurtured with consistent rays of attention  interspersed among the busy hours of our days.”
--Sue Patton Thoele, The Woman’s Book of Soul

Affirmation: “I pay attention to the needs of my spirit. I make time to quench my soul’s thirst.”

Note: Good Ancestor podcast mentioned is here.

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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.

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This audio was originally created for our Goddess Magic community.

May you know a place that holds you,
a place that weaves you whole,
a place that cradles your body,
a place that restores your soul.

Created as a driveway musings, this audio is about listening to what your body is saying:

• What is your body saying to you right now?


• What does your body say to you at this time every year?

These questions were inspired by Tree Newby (@mamatree17)

May you rest well and wisely
and rise into your work
renewed and restored.

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Note: This audio was originally recorded in the fall of 2020 for our Goddess Magic community on Patreon.

“Yoga (and indeed witchcraft) invites us to peel away the layers of life and discover: Who are we when we are not afraid? When we are not stressed? When we are not distracted by concerns of emails, schedules, timetables...? Of course, these layers build up and that’s okay, this is part of being human. But take some time as often as you can to peel away, step out of your layers and reconnect to your essence, energy, magic: your body, breath, and heart.”  

—Sarah Robinson, Yoga for Witches (p. 77) 

This audio explores the theme of JOY and also rest. I did want to note that I see the irony in how as I was discussing rest, I started to undermine my own self by explaining that I'm not just sitting on the deck "doing nothing," I'm still doing XYZ. I realized it as soon as I stopped the recording and wanted to make sure to acknowledge that! This resistance to rest instead of rest as resistance is very baked in!

Resources mentioned:

The Nap Ministry 

Tracee Stanley, Radiant Rest

Karen Brody, Daring to Rest

One Commune online class platform (Tracee's Deep Relaxation class link)

Inner Field Trip (Leesa Renee Hall)

I also made set of 24 different Joy and Rest cards to accompany the audio. The full set is available on our Patreon and a sample set is available for free to all.

Feel free to use these to create a deck for yourself or to glue into journals or onto other projects. :) 

May you grant yourself
endless moments of joy
and may you delight
in the revolutionary act
of noticing.

Much love,

Molly

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This is an audio edition of our weekly newsletter. For the text and all of the links to resources mentioned herein, the print newsletter is here.

For daily practices and monthly circles, come join us at #30DaysofGoddess and for devotional community at Goddess Magic. And, our upcoming Claiming Your Magic retreat is free! Sign up here.

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Our May podcast episode is from the archives--all the way back to May of 2017! However, I think it still speaks of something of which I continue to write: may we savor normal days and blue skies. This is where the magic is.

"When life feels too big to handle, go outside. Everything looks smaller when you’re standing under the sky." 

--L.R.KNOST

In the recording, I share a story about Mark and I setting off through the woods to the bigger spring, even though we technically didn't "have time" and "should" have been doing something else. We didn't have anything with us (except for some goddess figures...of course!) and we weren't really prepared for a hike through the woods, but we did it anyway. I am in love with discovery. I love observing the world, feeling it, breathing it, being it. As we walked, the air was literally scented like roses and I was so alive as we explored. THIS is it to me. This is goddess. Life in the palm of her hand.

“Don’t just read about the Goddess, LOVE HER, listen to Her, reflect
Her as the Earth and Moon reflect the Sun.  Don’t just study Nature,
put your hands in the dirt, your feet on the forest trail, turn your
face to the wind and breathe Nature in and out of your lungs.  Feel the
connection.  No books required.” 
--Esra Free, Wicca 404: Advanced Goddess Thealogy

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from
you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of
some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not
always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in
the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more
than all the world, your return."
--Mary Jean Iron, in Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much

Affirmation for the week: I am as free as I allow myself to be.

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If you believe the world
is made of magic,
you will find it
everywhere.  

This audio originally created for our Patreon community (in 2020) focuses on the symbolic and practical use of the wild edible plant Chickweed. The audio includes some musings about what chickweed has to teach us on a spiritual and symbolic level and then discusses awareness and engagement with the "small magic" of the world beneath our feet. 

Our good friends Mike and Cara have a botanical education and supplies business: WildWise Botanicals and provided us with this Chickweed Pesto recipe to share with the rest of the community. At our own house, we have been making this almost every night to go with dinner, which is an amazing way to enjoy some fresh greens from the very dirt beneath your feet that otherwise be viewed as "just weeds." Do make sure chickweed grows in your area and that you can identify it before eating any! It is has small starburst like white flowers and often grows near violets and dandelions in front yards as well as beneath trees and in creek-type areas. Chickweed is a sprawling plant with little white flowers that have 5  double-lobed white petals. The stem has one line of hair,  when you pluck a piece of the stem from the plant, there is no milky substance.

Chickweed Pesto Recipe

1/2 cup nuts of your choice
(Mike and Cara's note: we like walnuts. Molly and Mark's note: we like pecans!)
3 cloves of garlic
3 cups of chickweed loosely packed
1 TB of lemon juice
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
Place all ingredients in a food processor and process until smooth.

Make sure to follow WildWise on instagram where they share recipes, videos, and informative posts on foraging and wildcrafting your own remedies.

Additional note from Molly: we have been eating our chickweed pesto on tacos, with  pizza (dipped crusts), and even on top of bratwursts! 

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"...Listen

Hear what they say to you

We struggled

We held out our hands and touched each other

We remembered to laugh

We went to endless meetings

We said no

We put our bodies on the line

We said yes

We invented, we created

We walked straight through our fears

We formed the circle

We danced

We spoke the truth

And dared to live it."

—Starhawk (Truth or Dare)

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and in daily practice: #30DaysofGoddess

Please take a few moments to breathe and pause and call yourself in. 

This month's episode was recording several years ago and draws upon The Box from Womanrunes, rune of boundaries. Where might you need to set firmer boundaries in your life? There are a lot of social messages to think “outside of the box,” but sometimes the Box is exactly what we need! It can also show up for me almost a type of “chastisement”--as in, "girl! you've got to work on those boundaries!"--but more often is a helpful reminder or reinforcement of what I already know needs to happen. This rune may indicate that you need to say "no," but it is also often about discernment: checking in with your center, with your place of power and then wholeheartedly expressing either your Sacred Yes or your Holy No.

May you experience time as dancing, flowing, and sparkling for you this week. May you make time to draw lines when needed. May you be flexible when needed. And, may you check within--into your place of power--for that Sacred Yes and Holy No, and listen to your heart.

Right now, gift yourself with a pause for three breaths.

There really is no place else to be but here.

And now, the rattle passes to you...

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Perhaps if I wait,
hands empty,
mind stilled,
the tides will bring it
back to me
as they often do,
steadily returning
the parts of me
I thought were lost.

This month's podcast episode is a musing about taking breaks, particularly in conjunction with self-employment, but I hope applicable in other lifestyle circumstances as well.  One of the things I want to emphasize in this idea/message is that sometimes  we might feel like we’re having a “breakdown” when we are really on the  verge of a breakthrough. Sometimes we might feel it when we really just need to take a break.  Taking a break, a temporary unclenching of your  life, is not the same as “giving up” nor is it a permanent surrender.

Referenced in the audio is this past audio about Stopping (http://www.brigidsgrove.com/stopping/) 

Resource for ongoing support, audios, printables, and practices: Goddess Magic community (http://patreon.com/goddessmagic)

Resource for daily practice (free!): http://30daysofgoddess.com

I also had two additional things I want to note about the audio:

1. I spoke in it of my own almost compulsive level of self-motivation and self-direction. I should have acknowledged or spoken to the fact that other people do not feel that way and need ideas, resources, and support for getting motivated rather than "shutting off" motivation for a time. I do have some ideas for how to become more motivated if you struggle with self-motivation and self-direction and I don't mean for this audio to make you feel left out or unheard if my own motivation "overload" is completely different than your own experience (this audio is available for the Goddess Magic community on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/audio-motivation-38272682).

2. I also wanted to add on that when I mention "where might you need to 'take down some chairs'?" you might also want to ask yourself where to want to put up some chairs. Maybe you need to add chairs instead of taking some away.

There are days when the sky
holds its breath
and dreams seep up
from the skin of the world
and into my feet.
Much love,
Molly

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May you have the courage to stand in your own knowing.May you find the grace to let go of striving for perfection, and instead embrace the sacredness of your imperfect, human journey.May luminous moments of optimism and possibility guide you,even as you move through gray times of despair and doubt.May you have the wisdom to choose differently, to prioritize what truly matters,creating a legacy that lingers. May you always find solace in the holy ground beneath your feet,the sacred presence that dwells within and all around you.Shine your light, dear one,your small, precious gifts are needed in this world.

Happy Spring Equinox! I hope you are enjoying a gentle leap into a new season. Our own weather has been erratic and wild, including nearby tornadoes that wreaked havoc on our town. And, then, today, as I work on the newsletter, sporadic power outages at our house cutting off my internet. As such, this newsletter will be a little shorter than usual with only a brief audio edition. I’ve gotten very off schedule this week! Our shop update today is an eclectic one, featuring assorted divine imperfections, “Luna” one-of-a-kind goddesses, and some red winged Nemesis goddesses (by customer request).

We also still have assorted goddesses in our very special spring pigment—a beautiful lilac with small flowers. We are using this pigment to honor Áine, the Irish Fairy Queen, who is this year’s featured goddess at Gaea Goddess Gathering. We do know that she is a summertime goddess, but we felt like this pigment was an excellent match for the spring equinox/Ostara and our month of Persephone as well, so we went forward with it!

This week's magic:

* 8 minute video: beholding delight.

Resource Reminders:

* New free series: An Introduction to Goddess Studies

* 1. getting started

* 2. printable journal

* 3. affirmation card set

* 4. portable altar space

* 5. introduction to thealogy

* 6. influential authors in goddess studies

* 7. audio retreat: spots of time (note: publishing Saturday)

Blog Posts:

* Ritual Reading for Spring Equinox (A Spring Ritual of Returning)

* Clarity and the Crossroads

Beholding Delight

Reminder: Let us be open to delight. Let us be open to wonder. Let us allow joy. Let us be open to the possibility of bliss.

Journal prompts for the week:

* What is calling to you? What doorway are you sensing?

* What are you saying yes to? What is your ritual of returning?

Affirmations for this week:

* Happiness and ecstasy flow through me wildly and freely.

* I am open to joy.

* I say yes to life.

* I listen to the call.

* I allow an expansive dream or creative quest to emerge.

* I find the small sacred moments in my daily life and let them sustain me.

* I walk my path with presence and intention.

Goddess of quiet knowing,help me to make a space for stillness,to guard a place for peace.Remind me that stillness and motionare a constant interplay,the beat between notes,the space between raindrops,the pause between breaths,the silence between heartbeats.The nature of the body is to be in motion,the constant unfolding of a whole universewhirling within our cells,the still spaces in betweensomehow holding the whole together,as in stillnesswe move.

Much love,

Molly, Mark, + Family

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Happy New Year! This podcast episode includes a companion set of nourishment cards: https://brigidsgrove.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/nourishment-cards.pdf

Resist the fracturing.

Defy the fragmentation.

Reclaim wholeness.

Reclaim holiness.

Rename yourself

sacred

and embody your joy.

Originally recorded two years ago for the Goddess Magic community, this theme emerged as I was sitting on the back deck thinking about recipes for my kids' homeschool cooking club and about how you have the power to change your own recipes to meet your needs. I then thought about it as a metaphor for life—for being your own authority, for making your own magic—and I ended up spontaneously recording an audio about it. When I re-listened to the audio, I was struck by my own closing words: trust that you know the kind of nourishment you need and from there I spontaneously made a small set of nourishment related affirmation cards as a gift for all of your. Print these on card stock, multiple cards to a page, for best use. :)

Essay referenced: To Bless One Another.

Re-collect yourself,

re-source yourself,

restore yourself.

And, remember, you have the power to create your own recipes for living!

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What is a word of the year? How do you find one? How do you know what it is? Many people opt to choose a "Word of the Year" as they enter a new year. This sacred word becomes a touchstone, an affirmation, a statement of values, and a source of strength, encouragement, focus, and direction for the year as a whole. It is a powerful talisman--a vow and a spell all in one single word.

I've created a 30 card sacred word deck for you as a companion to this audio to give you inspiration/ideas and it may be accessed via our newsletter: https://us3.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=4f7233481d8eb86675b7978b6&id=032c8be601

Daily practice home page for everyday enchantment: http://30daysofgoddess.com. 

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Be wise to your ways.
“Know thyself,”
is engraved into the chamber
at Delphi,
and beyond that lies the temple
smoky,
dark,
and powerful,
filled with ancient whispers
and the stony, determined steps
that lead into the heart of things.
This past Patreon community audio is based on some content from the book Untamed by Glennon Doyle. It is about unlocked doors in our lives, how we might be keep ourselves in knots/trapped/restricted/bound by old habits and patterns.
Here is a quote from Glennon in an interview with Marie Forleo:

"To remember how tricky my ego can be by keeping my brain busy trying to  solve the unsolvable puzzle about why I don’t feel worthy and enough and  how to feel worthy and enough.  My truest and most beautiful story is  being in touch with the real me behind the ego, the authentic, real,  wild, fierce me.  Unlocking the cage and letting myself think the  thoughts I am worthy and enough and feel the feelings I am worthy and  enough.  The cages are real, they are our own making now in our thoughts  and remembering that the door is unlocked is powerful!  Maybe it comes  from survival instinct not to become prey and to belong for safety back  in the day.  Or maybe it comes from current societal conditioning to be  accepted so we go along with conventions to avoid fear and shame and  being excluded from the group...."
May you remember that the doors aren't even locked.
Much love,
Molly
Resources:

ongoing #30DaysofGoddess daily practice: 30daysofgoddess.com
ongoing Goddess Magic community: patreon.com/goddessmagic

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Restoration is the antidote to depletion. 

This new audio retreat/reflection encourages you to take a pause to consider where you’ve become depleted—this has been a hard year—and where you might need restoration, as well as how you replenish and renew yourself. 

Resources: 

• #30DaysofGoddess is a perfect practice for daily restoration and renewal


• Goddess Magic community for companionship, support, sharing, and weekly lives  


• The essay this episode is based on can be found here

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