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Embracing Life and Death: A Journey of Surrender

23 Aug

As its most elegant expression, our Moon Cycling facilitates a way to understand/experience ‘being with’.
Being with… the span of our lives, long or short, birth to death- and the beauty and terror we are capable of holding/encompassing as human beings.

Being with our Experience, our lived experience of the events of our life as they occur to us…present, before thought, before our concept of :how: things ‘should’ be in order to maintain our often narrowly conditioned narratives and labels.

I am learning again and again to surrender into a darkness that holds not terror, but healing, a darkness that is ultimately the bearer of light-

It’s a surrender to the depths, in the depths, to that which is, that which holds me regardless of who I am, what I’ve achieved, how i am or the choices I make…unconditional….. ultimately, of course, we name it love. It is not romantic. It is a rough passage. A dark night.The descent is not for the faint of heart.Religious? Goddess? Spiritual? Christ? Pieta? Yes, yet just more labels.

Experientially, for me, IT is what is, and it holds with such grace and partnership that slowly I am unfurling. Allowing -this- IT – mysterious darkness bearing light- to be the Maypole I find myself joyously dancing around as my life is woven into such rich beauty around me.

Witnessing my moms passing is the wildest, scariest inconceivable leap into the unknown yet. (She is still here, but hanging by an ever more worn thread.) No one ever really prepared me for this one, this particular event. This is my Death Doulaness, the Death Cafe – allowing/creating an opening so I (which has become a WE) can be present with the darkness and learn to seed into it vastly- relying on the immanent- and eminent possibility -of life- to continue uninterrupted in its daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, rounds.Talking helps. Soothes. Normalizes. Allows the hard to be easy(er). Community. We do better together.

To me- every religious teaching hints at the embodied expereince of this leap of ‘faith’- The ancient Mysteries, Bohm’s implicate and explication order, every Labyrinth, Newgrange Spiral, Tarot Fool, Eschers’ discontinuity, Geb’s flip, Minoan Bull Leapers-, YingYang, the Resurrections – a whole world of countless motifs call to us across all humanity- all singing the same ancient song…dancing, because well, IT all ends and begins with Love- which is a passage. A movement. A twist, a leap. It allows us the womb and the tomb, the Pieta, who holds birth and death in her arms and says a vehement yes to both, not knowing how the hell it will unfold- but knowing it will, and she will be shaken, not stirred —– more powerful and present for the holding of opposites as they resolve themselves again and again in her arms.

🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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The Energy of Asking: How to Create Opportunities

10 Aug

A Field Guide for Possibility

How about an ontological approach to requesting, inviting, and creating flow? – (this from deepdown in the back 80 acres of my mind, where I’ve been away vision-questing for some while now. this being prompted by the Soul Collab I’m co-facilitating with Andreas Mannal. It makes sense to me, but/and I am very conditioned by the Old Mode. hard to shift old habits: teaching causes me to learn: sharing results in dialogues of possibility. That’s pretty much my end-game. We get some new energy going around all the things.)

Well, isn’t that special?

1. The Old Mode: Why Fear & History Don’t Work

When we ask from lack, fear, or “historical data” (past disappointments, proof it won’t work, stories of failure), we:

• Narrow the field of possibility to what has already been.

• Invite resistance (in ourselves and others).

• Unconsciously signal I already believe the answer is no.

Ontological translation: Being “history-bound” is being closed. The world can only show us what we have already known.

2. The Shift: Being Before Asking

It’s always very matchy-matchy… the people, situation, circumstance or event vibes along the ley lines of the energy you bring.  (plant tomato seeds=harvest tomatoes, garbage in, garbage out, etc.)

The same is true of any “ask.”

The ontological order is:

1. Be — step into the stance of openness, curiosity, and invitation.

2. See — perceive from that stance (possibility, not probability).

3. Speak — let the words carry the energy you are already being.

Your “ask” is simply the spoken surface of an already existing energy field you have stepped into.

3. The Stance of the Ask

Think of three energetic postures before you open your mouth (or type your words):

• Possibility: “This could be a doorway to something we haven’t seen yet.”

• Generosity: “This is an offering, not a demand.”

• Adventure: “Let’s find out what happens when we say yes to the unknown.”

These stances change the feel of the ask from “take from you” to “expand us both.”

4. An Ask Formula (Ontological Edition)

Step 1 — Declare the context

Name the shared possibility you’re standing in.

Example: “I’m exploring ways to bring more [beauty / connection / transformation] into the world.”

Step 2 — Invite participation

Frame the ask as a co-creation, not a transaction.

Example: “I’d love to explore with you how we might…”

Step 3 — Leave space

Don’t load it with expectation or attachment to the outcome.

Examples: “What comes to mind for you?” or “Does this feel like something you’d be excited about?”

This creates an open field rather than a binary yes/no trap.

5. The Energy Check Before You Ask

Ask yourself:

• Am I trying to get or am I creating an opening?

• Does my body feel tight or expansive?

• Am I speaking from now/future or from past data?

If the answer is “past,” pause, breathe, and re-enter the stance of possibility.

6. Why This Works

When you are being the possibility, the ask is no longer a test of your worth — it’s an extension of the reality you’re already inhabiting. People, the situation, circumstance or event (all the things) respond differently because:

• There is an invitation rather than cornering.

• There is space co-creativity.

• The energy is light, not needy. Resonant. Redolent. Radiant.

7. A Practice to Rehearse

Before each ask, speak this to yourself silently or softly aloud:

I am the opening
I invite adventure
I release history
This is an invitation to create what was not possible until now…

Then make the ask as if the possibility is already real.

Let me know how this goes for you. I’m in curious/wondering, just because of the possibilities. And, since it’s the Full Moon, and I’m all about that, here’s a mandala I drew, for the full moon. Download and print onto card stock, then color. (There is for sure some shadowing, my erased guidelines. Once colored over, I didn’t notice them anymore.)

“Doing” art is an ancient and rather proven recipe for calming (tf) down. Have at it.

Janet’s Full Moon Mandala Download

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