Week 1 Spring Renewal 2021

Dear Friends,

How are you feeling this week? Our live call and shared meditation work was such a beautiful start to my week. I truly hope it brought a moment of calm and inspiration to you, too. If you were not able to join us during the live call, hopefully, the recording that went out via email worked well and helped you feel connected to our shared journey this Spring.

The days here have been gorgeous! The weather switches between cool spring temperatures to warm hours under the bright sun to rainy periods followed by vivid greens in the garden as plants seem to stretch taller and taller by the minute. Lilac blooms are saying their good bye's, but the roses are showing an abundance of rosebuds preparing to open and ray out their blessings very soon. Of course, even the posts about our shared Spring Renewal Journey are imbued with the healing magick of the Rose. This week The Rose has been reminding me of the next steps on the journey of learning and discovery she has taken me on a few years ago. I promise to share more about it in the summer. Listening to her (The Rose's) inspirations and messages, a book filled with deep renewing food for thought and an incredible number of questions, has come my way. It speaks of invisible mysteries, of the divine feminine, of the rosary, of the invisible and visible worlds we live in ... it brings to the heart and mind the knowings of the times of long ago and the questions of present and future. Somehow, it feels so clear that the quest in the year ahead on the path of studying the healing blessings of The Rose will unveil answers and understandings that I cannot even perceive at this time. Such is the way of continuous striving to learn with the heart open to love, wonder, beauty, and joy. Filled with ever-evolving questions, challenges to overcome, lessons to learn ... yet, in each one feeling loved, guided, and awed by the wonders and joy of all that is, was, and is yet to be.

Have you created time and space for your watercolor journal this week?

If you feel open to sharing your artistic journal entries and reflections this week, it would be such a blessing for the group to see them. In the sharing and connection, something almost magical seems to happen. Our work transforms into a small drop of inspiration for another person who might find just what their soul is seeking in that moment as they gaze at the colors dancing on your page. Every week, you can share them via personal emails and/or below in the comments to the weekly blog posts I will share along our renewal journey. Below is one of my little painted contemplations from this week.

Have you been spending time with a special plant from your surroundings this week? You can imagine that one of the plants calling my attention is the rose, but not surprisingly, bee balm and echinacea have been gently singing from the garden beds calling for attention. Yet, one plant that has been reaching out to share and teach this week specifically has been Red Clover. She has been growing in a few garden beds in our little garden for a while now. Stretched tall and grew abundantly in her space. She is preparing to bloom this year and has many healing lessons to share and inspire.

Red Clover blooms are greatly valued in medicinal herbalism practices and even more valued by those who tend to the land. To avoid making this post too long, I will save her healing lessons and inspirations for a separate post. In the meantime, I would love to know which plant has been singing to you this week!

And last, but not least, it is important to ground our renewal journey experiences through which we have been weaving together the strands of spirit, soul, and etheric bodies; and to remember that the physical earthly body strand is just as important. How will we bring the inspirations, guidance, and living imaginations into our earthly life? How will we create and share beauty and joy on our paths filled with love and compassion for ourselves and the living beings we share our lives with? What simple action in our doing can we intentionally will into this week's experience to bring our renewal journey to life in all realms of our existence?

Personally, I feel called to the woods for a longer hike to breathe with the trees and to feel the earth below my feet.

I would love to know where your week is calling you in your own doing.

Blessings of joy and gratitude! See you on Monday for or 2nd Live Call of this year's Spring Renewal Journey.

Create Beauty. Experience Joy. Inspire Compassion.