25/01/2024
Healing Recapitulations for 2023 - Part 1
We’re well into 2024 already but a recapitulation of 2023 still felt needed. A journaling of sorts, for healing and processing through word and image, rather than a “what did I achieve” list.
What a whirlwind of a cycle, with the ripples of so many events, breakthroughs, tragedies, highs and lows all in one mix, still moving. Here’s just some of 2023, in parts and in no particular order.
Death has been close over the last few months, with the loss of a number of friends, mentors and family members, including 2 of our fur kids... So many are leaving this earthly realm at this time. It feels like those of us still here are being called to pick up the pieces, rebuild and stay as centered as possible as we move through layers and layers of both individual and old collective grief in this transitional time. And to remember that we are not alone. We’ve got this. Sometimes we haven’t, and that’s ok. Then we do again, and the cycles continue.
The year was also one of expansion, committing in a bigger way to transformation and my soul’s higher calling, in many ways by embarking on a number of collaborations. Co-creating, and laying down foundations, seemed to be themes.
-An overnight Embodied Dreaming Retreat at 3 junctions over the course of 2023, co-facilitated with a dear soul sister. Our commitment and journey together required we do our own inner work to bring balance to our friendship and work collaboration.
-Tentatively opening up to singing and playing music again, with another sister, after a loooong time. Phew I’m rusty, and still needing some soul fragment retrieval around that surely 🤦🏻♀️
-Coming closer to finding, seeing, accepting truth and dropping layers of the masks in relationships, inner and outer, through intense and potent experiences 🎭☯️
-Creating a powerful online event called Dreaming the New Earth, featuring many amazing speakers and facilitators was an extraordinary and challenging creative process that began almost a year before it went out into the world, and turned out to be a truly initiatory experience in so many ways. Couldn’t have done it without the incredible support of 2 other phenomenal women in my life. Despite the huge effort and feeling pushed way out of my comfort zone, I wasn’t put off. There will be more, as well as other kinds of Alkhemical Dreaming offerings already in the pipeline for 2024. The downloads and creative spark are strong right now. There’s a mailing list with occasional updates, if you feel called to join, more reliable than social media 😬
-The plants have long been calling and I’ve been on a journey of communion with a couple of the subtle master plants, remembering what it is to be with them in sacred ceremony.
-Continued the reconnection process with my archery practice, also picking it up again after some time. There’s an ancestral memory for me in holding a bow and arrow that’s undeniable, and just feels natural… 🏹 That’s when something sticks and I know there’s something deeper to uncover through it.
All of the above has been pushing me a tad further down the birthing canal on this particular cycle of life’s journey 🦋 As many are feeling in these times. We are in that time of in between, or “when the end is falling into the beginning”, as I recently heard, quoting the Kogi elders. A time of purification for the New Dawn we are at the brink of. Not an easy time, yet here we are!
Thank you to all the beings, physical and not, that have supported along the way. Those soul connections that show up at just the right time, to show just the right thing… Deep bow ✨🙇🏻♀️✨
