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Midsummer love to you here in the North, and for Midwinter down South 💛🖤🌝🌚 . The juncture of the solar peak offers us a great potential for realising our wholeness. . Working with the tensions of opposites and polarity is foundational for this process and our work with the unconscious reveals the genius out of the shadow, and the gift out of the core wounding. This isn’t just an investigation or enquiry practice, it’s a profound and altering alchemical process born through archetypal relationship, allowing the daimon or creative muse to inform and engage, and the emergent soul work of the deep Self. . We are not only peeling back to the unknown as a process of expanding and bringing to consciousness but our journey to wholeness is dependent on us bringing our realisations into form, through the action body, as a process of self-actualisation. . Our arrival into Midsummer is a potent opening for our realisation and integration of our own wholeness and the revelation of our dark matter during this pinnacle of infusing, penetrating light. At this juncture, the full and deep scope of the meta and concretised fabric of our Being is so deeply activated, illumined and enlightened. . Here, we are also learning how to absorb the truth that our wholeness, our True Wholeness, must include our brokenness – just as our light cannot be expressed as totality without our dark. The very direct, pragmatic details of this are significantly galvanised during this phase. . We get to see what this means for us intimately, personally, uniquely and what it actually looks like on-ground. The possibility to realise our wholeness or totality is always present but the cycle of Midsummer shines a bright, far-reaching flood-light to illuminate the fine weave of this, making it possible to SEE to a profound degree the full scope of our whole Being and the naked ground of our living lives. . *Text extract from Homecoming program. . . . #midsummer #homecomingwithannuandjulie #summersolstice #ceremony #illumination #bringingtruthintoform #polarity #tensionofopposites #freeingthegenius #cominghometoSelf #integration #thesolarlightofLove #becomingtrue Transparent Image
As we approach the Solar Peak of Summer Solstice here in the North, the radiation-light penetrating and illuminating the dark and hidden places is showing up in a rapid-fire of Seeing and revelation, and it can be quite overwhelming. . Big Eye 👁 is on the inner-outer escalation and dismantling, and the transformational fire that is offering the opportunity for life-skins to be shed and something so very new and unknown to emerge from the subcutaneous matter, and from the core wound itself, as it’s exposed to the light of Love & Truth. . For me this is showing up as the tone of the Sleeping Phoenix, which is about awakening to the ashes of a life we don’t really belong to, a life that isn’t truly awakened and enlivened, a life that’s been generated from reaction to the wound itself. We wake to those unconscious and reactive mechanisms, finding that the real voice of genius is trapped inside the protective loop. . What once offered a sense of safety, according to what was possible at that time, is now revealed as thick dead skin that aches to peel off, despite the risk and vulnerability that is essential to the equation. From the destructive ashes, fortified foundations, regenerative growth and conscious directionality can emerge in a much truer way. . The most effective practice here for me is grounding the body and anchoring as Presence and Innocence in the Now. Now. Now. . . . Thanks to @juliegibbons who shared a beautiful grounding nature mandala practice for our Homecoming Summer Solstice Ceremony 🌸🌼🌸 . . #midsummer #homecomingwithannuandjulie #solarpeakofconsciousness #thesleepingphoenix #corewounding #realisingwholeness #groundingthebody #groundingasNow #ashestoashes #kaliyuga #innocence #receivingyourselfaslove #naturemandala Transparent Image
Storm Hector rolling in here at the Breakwater. Happens to be the same name as my maternal grandfather, who was a dodgy old pirate himself. I’m wrapping an arm around the Lighthouse railings and taking in the Roar, which is good and sharp medicine today. And, in this moment, it feels like it’s shaking the foundations of the earth. . The inner-outer world reflection is a constant. . New Moon, Roar of the Storm, Fatherly Medicine, and a sting to the cheek... just what is needed. . . . #wildnature #masculineteachings #fathermedicine #pirate #uranusintaurus #chironinaries #opening #transformation #truthanddare #takeastand #stormhector #elementals #waterairalchemy #newmooningemini Transparent Image
Alchemical Nigredo : the psychic dark night that will always show up as the consistent Rhythm and Response to premature unions encountered on the transformational path. . The agony and ecstasy of it is that we’re literally made for Union, and thereby for clear Seeing, for the purified Heart, for embodying as Love. The marriage asks for a full surrender of the Body/Matter to God, to Source but this isn’t in conflict to our individuation process - rather this emerges right at the very core of it, from our body. Soul and Spirit ache to align through the dynamic body, the receptive body, as the deep instinctual Ground of Being. . For the dedicated initiate, we find that anytime there is an attempt to surrender to anything less - as appearance in the world rather than the Source of the appearance, be that lover, cause, lifestyle, ideal, belief, fantasy, material success, our practice and even the path itself, we will encounter the Nigredo or the dissolving destruction of the dark night again and again. It’s not a mistake, it’s the Alchemical process. This is simply how we are purified and forged into trustworthy vessels. Through the separation, differentiation, union and mutual-transformation between Light and Dark, the Black Mother arrives as the very Body of our Life. . . #mondayfeels . . #awakeningtoLife #transfiguration #alchemicalnature #embodyingtruth #energybody #blackmother #blacklight #opening #soulspiritbody #transformation #illumination #yourbodyisyourlife #deathandrebirth #unbornundying #initiate #scorpiorising #radicalLove Transparent Image
Gestures of Beauty, Love as Offering. . . #sundayfeels . . #beauty #mandalaofsacredspace #enjoymentbody #harmoniclandscapes #cultivatingpleasure #touchstonesofinnocence #loveasoffering #loveasappreciation #pinkpeonies #tara #altar #embodyingtruth Transparent Image
Suffering is when you struggle with something, when you argue with what is and fight against your true nature, and the rhythmic in-and-out-breath order of Existence. Suffering is when you wrap your identity around feelings and experiences, making them solid, rigid, fixed. But what if we just allowed those feelings and experiences to keep Opening? What if our experience of the deepest pain is just how we are giving birth to Presence-in-Matter, to our true opening nature? . So many times I’ve felt like I’m dying only to realise I was just opening. I say ‘just’ not to make Opening small but to underscore its simplicity. . And I’m receiving my PHD in the fact that there’s actually a choice to ENJOY that opening or to turn it into a sufferable condition. Like giving physical birth to a human baby, we can struggle and fight with the overwhelming primordial force of the experience as the conflict of our mind, or we can just keep breathing deeper, deeper, and root into the non-linear intelligence of the body - because the body knows how to Open - it is not separate from our true nature and it knows how to Roll. Simply put, Life knows what She’s doing and our essence is not apart from that. . Awash in deep gratitude to the teachers of pain, pleasure and suffering for all the ways these states keep showing me the dance of intimacy & freedom 🌀🔥❤️ . . . #enjoymentbody #embodyingtruth #embodyingthemystery #transfiguration #ritesofpassage #initiation #truenature #cyclicalnature #freedomandintimacy #sufferingisoptional #metamorphosis #imaginal #opening Transparent Image
the state of being calcined . : the Alchemical process of subjecting a substance to the action of heat, but without fusion, for the purpose of causing some change in its physical or chemical constitution . . Someone introduced me to this word today and I can say this has been the key-tone of May. Riding the solar wave ☀️ Do I smell like I’m burning?! Because I am. What a strong process it is to be willing to meet yourself in grief and anger, power and ecstasy. No medicines, no running, no distractions (well, there have been moments). It’s taken a lifetime to be able to face aspects of my own Being that I’ve been encountering, embracing and folding-in this past month. There are just some basic feelings for all of us that are almost impossible to FEEL - it’s what trips us over in our human experience: grief, anger, loneliness, ecstasy, vulnerability, power, fear . The power of simply staying put - as consciousness, rooting as awareness really is a Homecoming. Whilst the surrendering into Her cyclical nature is endless, unwinding and relaxing us deeper into the paradox, into this whole Mystery. It’s a marriage of the full-stop and the endless nature. And together they ignite transfiguration. It’s elemental. . . #elemental #rooting #bringingtheexiledHome #alchemicalnature #cyclicalnature #embodyingtruth #calcined #burningdross #forgingdiamonds Transparent Image

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