What I'm Loving: August

Sat Nam loves and happy August, here’s what’s alive in me this month.

Tomorrow begins my favorite time of year, Burning Man. A week in the desert with my love, my tribe, my music, medicine, and freedom. A week for radical self-expression and embodiment. For movement and play and dance on the world’s biggest adult playground. A remembrance of both my raw, primal human and my liberated, unified spirit. All ignited and cleansed within the harsh elements of the Nevada desert.

This month has been one for rising into my divine feminine, purging and shedding wounded maiden energies and patterns, and learning and communicating my pleasure, my desires, and my boundaries.

A month for deepening my conviction and commitment to follow my own inner truth and bliss above all else, fearlessly and unapologetically.

This is what ‘s come through to inspire and support that process,

What I’m Reading

Maiden to Mother Sarah Durham Wilson

Mirrors in the Earth Asia Suler

Polysecure Jessica Fern

What I’m Watching

Astrocartography - Live and travel where you’re meant to
Full Supermoon in Pisces

Outlanders

What I’m Contemplating

A woman embodying the Divine Mother is unconditionally loving, compassionate, wise, intuitive, infinitely creative, strong, sensual, serene, capable, fierce, gentle, reliable, a lover, and a queen. A woman stuck in her wounded Maiden can only try to survive in the waves; in calling on the Mother, we become the ocean. The woman with an inner Mother braces herself. She closes her eyes. She breathes. She returns to the throne, the place of internal power. She roots down to the Mother Well, where all is deeply well. She asks for the strength and wisdom and power of the Great Mother Goddess. She doesn’t react. She waits for the answer, and then she responds. She pulls up the faith inside of her like buried treasure from the Earth. She symbolizes the middle of life, the afternoon, the summer solstice, the full moon, and the flower in glorious bloom. As the Mother, as the woman at midlife who midwifed her own rebirth and has unlearned all she’s been taught, I learned to tend to my inner cries, so I can tend to the outer cries of the burning world. Life happened to you in Maiden. But life happens through you in Mother. Sarah Durhan Wilson

Orgasms to move stagnant energy. Orgasms to manifest your dreams. Orgasms to reconnect with your body and center. Orgasms as a spiritual practice. ISTA

The day came when the risk of remaining tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Elizabeth Appell

Do not force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own. Pluto

A gem could not be perfected without friction, nor a man without trials. Seneca

The sheep will spend its entire life fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd. African Proverb

Look for the answer inside your question. Rumi

Like our stomachs, our minds are hurt more often by overeating than by hunger. Petrarch

You stop explaining yourself when you realize people only understand from their level of perception. Jim Carrey

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. Rumi

You asked for wisdom, you were given problems to solve.

I felt in need of a pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days. Hafez

Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher. Rumi

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau

Now is the time to know that all you do is sacred. Now is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but grace. Hafez

What I’m Listening To

Burn ‘23 playlist 🔥

What I’m Using

RBDSM communication practice

One Golden Thread duster

Le Labo candles and lotion

Sesame body oil

Time Passages astrology app

Silk and linen kimonos

Chinese medicine herbs and acupuncture