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Winds and Wildflowers
My Seeds Are Stirring
“I can feel the seeds within me stirring, calling and pulling. . . . Asking me to listen, to follow the path they wish to to grow for me.
Wistfully | look at what I have grown, the path I have made already that stretches out behind me.
I see it’s medicine weeds, the richness of soil, and I also see where it has become run down, the earth dry and the roots weakening.
I know the path is changing, I know my soul is calling for something new, and I watch the brave shoots of green, the buds on tree branches and I wonder if I have the same bravery, the same courage to let these new seeds of mine take me.”
~ Brigit Anna McNeill
Let the World Hear You
“Be loud, my sweet girl.
Make some noise if you want.
Let the world hear your voice—strong, clear, and full of all the things that make you you.
You don’t need permission to take up space.
Care deeply, my darling.
Put your whole self into what you love.
Let your heart stretch wide, even if the world doesn’t always understand.
The depth of your kindness, your passion, your love—it is your gift.
Be brave, young one.
Bravery doesn’t mean you won’t feel fear.
It means you step forward anyway, even with shaky hands and unsure steps.
Your try is always a great feat.
You are beautiful.
You are gentle.
You are kind and sweet.
You are bold.
You are creative.
You are perfectly, wonderfully, uniquely you.
You are so many things—and so much more.
Never let anyone define you but you.
Because right now, in this very moment, you are exactly who you are meant to be.
And that is enough. Always.”
from Be Brave Mom
Art: Leap of Faith
by Lucy Campbell
💦Watery Full Moon 💦
Emotional full moon in watery Cancer.
Make space to nourish Self and Soul.
You’re worth it.
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Mystical Gemini Full Moon
In honor of this full moon in Gemini, a magical poem by Mary Oliver…
Moon and Water
I wake and spend
the last hours
of darkness
with no one
but the moon.
She listens
to my complaints
like the good
companion she is
and comforts me surely
with her light.
But she, like everyone,
has her own life.
So finally I understand
that she has turned away,
is no longer listening.
She wants me
to refold myself
into my own life.
And, bending close,
as we all dream of doing,
she rows with her white arms
through the dark water
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Art by Georgia O’Keefe
Earthy Full Moon
Full moon in earthy Taurus and things are crazy! Everything is stirred up and nothing is as it seems.
Ground, ground, ground.
Get outside and walk, sit or lie on the Earth.
Breathe and ground.
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And the bees have a message for us:
Hush now. The wounds run deep,
but the bees are full of knowing.
They know the hive of your heart,
each crooked curled chamber
each hopeful hidden curve,
each darkened holding cell.
They have come with wings and song and pollen.
They have come to harvest each mistake
each broken vessel, to touch the jagged edges
of betrayal and lost chances,
to collect your failures one by one,
making honey from the bitter
making music in the void
making wings where there were wounds.
Hush now. Sleep well.
The night is alive with forgiveness
and your heart is a hive
made for honey made for love.
~Angi Sullins
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Potent Full Moon in Aries
I went out into the dark,
the night was soft and full of its usual wonders,
but tonight, I wanted the Moon.
I raised my hand,
thinking I could hold its silver light,
thinking I could keep it close.
But it slipped away, as all wild things do,
leaving only its quiet glow on my palm—
a reminder that some gifts
are not for taking.
Still, I stood in its light,
content to listen,
to feel the world turning,
and to understand
that some beauty is meant only
to guide us home.
~Rivers in the Ocean on FB
Catching the Moon
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Photo by NancyL