The Truth of who we are and why we are here is rising sister, let it bubble, let it spill over and out of you, freedom beckons on the other side of these retrogrades.
What a great purge of “who we are not” before the new year! A final gallop into the direction of our hearts. The path may be rocky, but the destination is more calm, more connected, more satisfaction in life.
You’ve got all of the answers within you, if you listen. If you slow down for long enough to allow that innate wisdom to speak it’s beautiful poetry to you. A poetry only you will understand, because it’s your soul, no one else’s.
It’s easy not to listen, to be distracted and sucked into the, often chaotic and rushed, experience we call our “everyday”. We’ve been asked to disconnect, directly through fear, and indirectly through fear! It is time we returned to love, that’s what will save us, that’s what will save our communities, our planet.
We’ve been asked for hundreds of years to disconnect from “down there”. It’s been implicit in the majority of things we consume and have consumed on a day to day basis. Whether it’s between the lines in books, in unconscious micro aggressions from people in public, or outright sexism and misogyny in our media. The untethering from “who we are” begun a long time ago, maybe even before the torturing and murdering of the people who were connected to their, and the Earth’s, innate wisdom, power and magic.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our desire because it’s too sexy, too lustful, too devilish like Eve. To be in control of your sexuality, experiencing pleasure for yourself and not as a gratitude or pleasing for the man is to be in your power. And to be free has not been the goal.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our periods, to ignore the pain, hide the blood, don’t let it out, stuff a stick up there that can kill you if you leave it in too long, exposing you to all types of toxins. Certainly do not free bleed on the earth and share your healing and nutrient dense fluid because it’s dirty, gross, unnatural.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our feelings, our emotional fluctuations that ebb and flow with the natural cycle of our hormones. Do not be angry, do not shout, scream or cry. Be quiet, smile, say please and thank you, and don’t be difficult. Don’t say no when someone else wants you to say yes. You are here to serve and please the community and your family. Remember your place, you have to hold it all together and make it look effortless. Be grateful we need you for this.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our desire to be comfortable, remain in your Spring season, cute, innocent, thin, pretty, energised. And as you start aging, well don’t. Make-up. Injections. Surgery. Diets. Starving. Gym routines. Filters.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our desire to follow our natural rhythms and cycles of our body. You shall live by the Gregorian calendar that ignores the cycles of the moon and earth. You shall live by the 24 hour cycle of the man’s hormones, get up the same time everyday, achieve the same things every week, don’t be resting when bleeding or beating us when ovulating. Don’t be lazy or too successful.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our experience of being pregnant in the first trimester, don’t share the news, don’t share your anxiety or joy. Pretend you have no symptoms, keep forcing yourself beyond your means to not give the secret away. And certainly don’t get relatives hopes up. Don’t create a community of people who do know around you, who maybe there to support you if your baby doesn’t stay this time. Don’t protect your mental health.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our natural desire to form friendships and communities with other women. To create bonds and meaningful relationships where we share through talking, singing, dancing and eating. Powerful connections that are intergenerational. Gatherings and interactions that help us produce oxytocin in our bodies, reducing anxiety and depression. Group bonding that helps us to feel seen and heard, that helps us to feel safe in this world, helping to calm our nervous systems. Assemblies of women that help us to remember and reclaim our courage, self belief, and the word “NO”.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb the discontent with following our dreams to end up working for a company that doesn’t trust, care or pay us enough for our energy, time, skill or talent, not near enough to pay our bills.
That money that is being made by us is not for us.
It is to fund more research on erectile distinction than endometriosis. It’s to do safety tests on men and not on women for new vehicles. It’s to build seats and sofas that don’t feel comfortable for you because they’re too tall for the length of your body and legs. It’s to do medical research using only male humans because female humans are too “unstable”. It’s to build and manufacture weapons and bombs, to fight and kill people across the planet, not for funding maternity departments, we don’t need empowered mothers. We do not need women feeling well. Their ability to feel good dosen’t affect the livelihood of our children, the future of our societies and the longevity of our planet.
Except it does.
We’ve been asked to mute and numb our wisdom, the wisdom that lives deep within our bones, that flows around us in our blood, that links us to every other woman, and to our Mother Earth. A wisdom that’s millennia old. A wisdom that cuts through the bullshit and gets to the truth. A wisdom that answers our doubts, fears and questions in life. A wisdom that transcends time and space, that can live in our hearts, and all of the hearts. A wisdom that knows your truth, no matter what.
We’ve been coerced to disconnect from our wombs. To cut off our hearts from a whole world that lives “down there”. Never sending love to her, never thanking her, and never ever trusting her.
So now, it’s time, to reconnect.
It’s time to reclaim and remember our power.
Our wisdom.
Our natural rhythms and cycles.
And live a life of freedom.
Of our choosing.
And it’s so simple.
Join me for Womb Yoga.
Join me in deep rest, sharing, and moving together, on a mat in Circle.
An invitation to return home to your truth. Your natural rhythm and cycles and your innate wisdom. Live a life of freedom, confidence and magic.
We begin on Tuesday 10th November at 7-8:30PM in Walthamstow at Sona Space.
If not now, when?
The timing of these sacred weekly gatherings have been purposefully planned in response to the planetary movements and of our shifting of Season.
Let us utilise the retrogrades and the Scorpio period. Join me under the New Moon energy, in just over a week.
At the end of our final Womb Yoga Circle on 15th December many of these planets will have returned direct, Winter Solstice will be imminent, and we will have moved into Sagittarius.
Be held and guided in releasing and healing from the old and anything no longer serving you, which may arise during these retrogrades.
Be held and guided in the turning-down of hustle and output as we transition towards our shortest day of the year.
Be held and guided to ignite and activate your portal of magic “down there”! So you are ready to plan and conjure up your desires for the new year.
I will see you soon.
Much love,
Siân x
