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June 29, 2016.Reading time less than 1 minute.

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Today is one of those days where I realize she grew up overnight. She’s able to communicate more, comprehend more, express more, do more... While looking for a spot to sit for lunch, I explained what I was looking for: by the lake + in the shade. After walking for a min, she points to a shaded spot by the water + says, “how bout here?” I damn near cried before I could reply that it was perfect. . If you need me, I’ll be in the car crying while “big + chunky” plays on repeat bc it’s the only way she will nap today + even though I’m super emo bc don’t want her to grow up + leave me, I also don’t want her to wake up + ruin this quiet time where I can cry alone about missing her while she’s in the backseat. Motherhood is complex.

Ra-Isis, Daughter of the Sun 𓇳𓆃. . I used to say, “the light always finds me” + now I know how true that really is... Some of you are awakening... coming into yourself, coming into your gifts, coming into spirit... this isn’t a coming into, but a returning to. SOVEREIGNTY is your birthright. This is a reminder that you are a DIVINE being. This is a reminder that you are a SPIRIT having a human experience + this experience is part of your soul’s evolution. This is a reminder that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be. This is a reminder that the light will always find you✨.

Takeaways from today’s LIVE with @thisishappyhour. Its on their feed if you want to catch it! Warning!! Language is... colorful! . 1. Be more like the moon. She only shines once a month. The rest of her time is spent resting + evolving. Cycles are necessary for alignment. . 2. You can’t Love + Light your way through healing or to wholeness. You MUST do shadow work/ego work/inner child work. They are all the same: suppressed energy that we operate from when we are out of alignment. . 3. Triggers are love notes, “hey bitch, you need to work on this!” Start the work there. . 4. When attempting to fill all the roles in your life, focus on staying present rather than seeking balance. . 5. The journey is long + very. very uncute. Release judgement. Some days you will kick ass, other days will kick your ass. . 6. Seek to pass all words, actions + thoughts through Unconditional Love, Universal Compassion for all, Grace for yourself + others, and your Truth. . 7. You are the authority on all things you. Period. Don’t seek externally for something that only exists internally. . 8. It is your birthright + not a spiritual gift to be in direct contact with source/god/the universe/spirit. . 9. Spiritual gifts are not “supernatural” by nature. They are your birthright abilities, personal characteristics + developed skills that are channeled in a way, that is unique to you + intend to serve the collective. . 10. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” Pablo Picasso... This journey we all speak of, has 2 parts... the first is to come in contact with Self + your gifts. This gives us meaning. The second is to come in contact with Spirit + use those gifts for the collective. This gives us purpose. You must do the first in order to get to the second... . BONUS: All of this is subject to change! As we get to know self at the deepest levels, our awareness expands + allows us to experience... MORE, thus expanding + ever-evolving our truths. . Best wishes on your journey! Speak your truths. Stay brave. Choose you💚.

Whenever I want to give up, pull back or walk away, it is in that very moment that I know I’m meant to give in, push through + walk forward. . Learn to to know the difference between your trauma + your intuition. They use similar words, but speak in very different tones✨.

Teaching her to take a deep breathe, release all energy that does not serve her or belong to her + send it back to source/god/the universe, with love... . I’m not doing this through a conversation, not to say that kids can’t understand! I would argue that they’d get it quicker than a lawyer, sales manager, or therapist... sorry, that was petty. Y’all are a lot on my heart + 👌🏽 close to getting up-charged😂. But I’m showing her as a way to connect, lead by example + hold myself accountable. Part of breaking patterns + creating new ones is being intentional + aware of how we share them. . Moving forward, we are no longer carrying that which does not serve us or belong to us, in any of our bodies. We are not meeting the needs of others bc they are unable to meet those needs themselves. We are not relying on others to meet needs for us, that we should be meeting ourselves. This is Freedom💚. . What cycles are you working on breaking, in the name of Freedom?

Spent the morning... . Resting Recuperating Recharging Reconnecting . This is essential to the work we do here... creating life, nurturing that life with our whole being (aka feed them your Mother’s Day cake even though you are thoroughly over them bc they used the last of your eyebrow pencil to draw), and then setting that life free... . Sending love to all the beings who have breathed life into the space that rests between this world + the others, who have come back from that space changed... somehow empty + somehow whole... you are the magick in this world. May you feel that today + every day. Happy Mother’s Day✨

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Today is one of those days where I realize she grew up overnight. She’s able to communicate more, comprehend more, express more, do more... While looking for a spot to sit for lunch, I explained what I was looking for: by the lake + in the shade. After walking for a min, she points to a shaded spot by the water + says, “how bout here?” I damn near cried before I could reply that it was perfect. . If you need me, I’ll be in the car crying while “big + chunky” plays on repeat bc it’s the only way she will nap today + even though I’m super emo bc don’t want her to grow up + leave me, I also don’t want her to wake up + ruin this quiet time where I can cry alone about missing her while she’s in the backseat. Motherhood is complex.

Ra-Isis, Daughter of the Sun 𓇳𓆃. . I used to say, “the light always finds me” + now I know how true that really is... Some of you are awakening... coming into yourself, coming into your gifts, coming into spirit... this isn’t a coming into, but a returning to. SOVEREIGNTY is your birthright. This is a reminder that you are a DIVINE being. This is a reminder that you are a SPIRIT having a human experience + this experience is part of your soul’s evolution. This is a reminder that you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be. This is a reminder that the light will always find you✨.

Takeaways from today’s LIVE with @thisishappyhour. Its on their feed if you want to catch it! Warning!! Language is... colorful! . 1. Be more like the moon. She only shines once a month. The rest of her time is spent resting + evolving. Cycles are necessary for alignment. . 2. You can’t Love + Light your way through healing or to wholeness. You MUST do shadow work/ego work/inner child work. They are all the same: suppressed energy that we operate from when we are out of alignment. . 3. Triggers are love notes, “hey bitch, you need to work on this!” Start the work there. . 4. When attempting to fill all the roles in your life, focus on staying present rather than seeking balance. . 5. The journey is long + very. very uncute. Release judgement. Some days you will kick ass, other days will kick your ass. . 6. Seek to pass all words, actions + thoughts through Unconditional Love, Universal Compassion for all, Grace for yourself + others, and your Truth. . 7. You are the authority on all things you. Period. Don’t seek externally for something that only exists internally. . 8. It is your birthright + not a spiritual gift to be in direct contact with source/god/the universe/spirit. . 9. Spiritual gifts are not “supernatural” by nature. They are your birthright abilities, personal characteristics + developed skills that are channeled in a way, that is unique to you + intend to serve the collective. . 10. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” Pablo Picasso... This journey we all speak of, has 2 parts... the first is to come in contact with Self + your gifts. This gives us meaning. The second is to come in contact with Spirit + use those gifts for the collective. This gives us purpose. You must do the first in order to get to the second... . BONUS: All of this is subject to change! As we get to know self at the deepest levels, our awareness expands + allows us to experience... MORE, thus expanding + ever-evolving our truths. . Best wishes on your journey! Speak your truths. Stay brave. Choose you💚.

Whenever I want to give up, pull back or walk away, it is in that very moment that I know I’m meant to give in, push through + walk forward. . Learn to to know the difference between your trauma + your intuition. They use similar words, but speak in very different tones✨.

Teaching her to take a deep breathe, release all energy that does not serve her or belong to her + send it back to source/god/the universe, with love... . I’m not doing this through a conversation, not to say that kids can’t understand! I would argue that they’d get it quicker than a lawyer, sales manager, or therapist... sorry, that was petty. Y’all are a lot on my heart + 👌🏽 close to getting up-charged😂. But I’m showing her as a way to connect, lead by example + hold myself accountable. Part of breaking patterns + creating new ones is being intentional + aware of how we share them. . Moving forward, we are no longer carrying that which does not serve us or belong to us, in any of our bodies. We are not meeting the needs of others bc they are unable to meet those needs themselves. We are not relying on others to meet needs for us, that we should be meeting ourselves. This is Freedom💚. . What cycles are you working on breaking, in the name of Freedom?

Spent the morning... . Resting Recuperating Recharging Reconnecting . This is essential to the work we do here... creating life, nurturing that life with our whole being (aka feed them your Mother’s Day cake even though you are thoroughly over them bc they used the last of your eyebrow pencil to draw), and then setting that life free... . Sending love to all the beings who have breathed life into the space that rests between this world + the others, who have come back from that space changed... somehow empty + somehow whole... you are the magick in this world. May you feel that today + every day. Happy Mother’s Day✨

It is no secret that I have a close + personal relationship with death + grief. I have learned so much from my loss, but what stands out the most is that outside of the wake + funeral, our culture doesn’t really really have true funerary customs that elaborately honor the dead + offer true closure. There is no wailing, no pounding of the breast, no elaborate lamentations or outpouring of grief in the streets. Instead, we are taught to quietly cry, bottle it up + move around... . This is why I have publicly shared my grief. I know for some it seems like “the most,” but for me, it has facilitated a cathartic experience of feeling every feel to the point of exhaustion. And at the end of that exhaustion, I realized that I have moved through + not around. . At the beginning of last year, I began working on a grief journal that offers prompts for others to also move through + not around. I never finished it or shared my work for fear someone would take it before I was done👀. But I have learned two things in the first quarter of 2020... The first + most important is that I no longer operate from a space of fear. Periodt. The second is that almost every woman I have connected with, in the past 3 months of readings, is moving through, paralyzed by, or suppressing some form of grief. This makes me very sad, but also motivates me to share what I do know, right now. . The following slides are a compilation of my journal prompts for those of you moving through + processing grief. I hope they offer an opportunity to wail, beat your chest + elaborately lament your loss. You need to. You deserve to. Wishing you all the best on your journey back to you💚 xok

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