Let us be generous
with ourselves.
Let us rest
well and wisely.
Let us listen
to the yearning in our souls.
Let us leave space
for wonder
and space for delight.
Let us create and nurture
wide margins for magic
in our lives.
Let us trust the call we feel.
Let it lead us to leap
in the direction
of desire.
Welcome to this week’s Rituals of Returning newsletter! I hope you enjoy a sweet Sacred Sunday pause to deepen into this week’s resources. This week’s shop update features assorted colorful one-of-a-kind goddesses and a few color experiments. We also have a restock of our gentle, beautiful blue Compassion goddesses and have restocked some of our wonderful new goddess blessing prayer flags honoring some of our most popular goddesses.
This week's magic:
11 minute video: flourishing and finishing.
New five minute video: mini prayerbook flip-though
free booklet printable referenced is in this past newsletter
Resource Reminders:
I’m offering a special Gentle July sale for new members on Patreon until the end of this month. Get 40% off on Goddess Magic community membership with code “COMPASSION” this month!
An Introduction to Goddess Studies continues this week with another free post in this unfolding online class series.
Most recent additions:
Life’s Bits and Pieces:
In each year,
some things flourish
and some things finish.
Be patient with yourself
as you listen
to your own life.
Reading:
just finished: Time Anxiety. This book was good enough that I ended up making a whole 30 minute audio for the Goddess Magic patrons about it!
to self: Bog Child. This is historical fiction set in Ireland during “The Troubles” of the 1980’s. It is about an 18 year old boy whose brother is currently in prison on a hunger strike as part of the IRA. The boy discovers a “bog body”—a girl who was murdered during the Iron Age and whose body was preserved in the peat bog. The book alternates perspectives between the 1980’s boy and some dreamlike excerpts from the perspective of the girl from 2000 years ago. While this is theoretically a YA read and even got an award for “best children’s book” in the UK, to me it does NOT read as a kids book at all and I wouldn’t really recommend it for anyone under about 16. It is pretty intense in a lot of ways.
just got: The Smoke Theives. This is YA fantasy fiction that I got as another prize from the summer reading program at the library. I read like two chapters and became distracted by the Bog Child instead.
to kids: Time Jumpers. Book five in the Five Kingdoms series! In this one, the kids start traveling through portals and re-visiting all of the other kingdoms that they previously adventured in.
listening to: A Wish in the Dark. Kids audio book—final book for Tanner’s fourth grade curriculum (yes, we’re a little behind and finishing up during the summer). Inspired by Les Misérables, but set in Thailand with Thai influences and elements.
Looking forward to:
next small circle with my friends
book-making class at the library
making a Kuan Yin guided mediation for my patrons
Cauldron Month series currently in progress for August sharing!
making another mini house kit. I just finished a tiny bakery and it is SO CUTE!!!!
Flourishing and Finishing
Reminder: Allow things to flourish and finish naturally, nurturing wholeness with compassion as you are present for life's unfolding.
Note: expanded edition with practices and printable companion cards is here.
Journal questions to consider:
What patterns are you noticing in your own life right now?
What is flourishing for you?
What needs to be finished?
What are you sitting with?
How are you offering compassion to yourself?
Where are you feeling inspiration?
Where do you need more energy?
How are you neglecting abundance in your life?
Affirmations for this week:
I allow things to flourish and finish in their own time.
I nurture wholeness with compassion.
I feel what needs to be felt.
I allow myself space and grace.
I am abundant with love, happiness, and gratitude.
I cast off my constraints.
I am present in this moment.
I honor my journey of becoming.
I am supported by divine energy.
It is now that we remember
we are here to be in love with living,
not to exist for production
or performance
or to please
the electronic rectangles
of approval and discord
that we carry with us through our days.
Here, now,
curled in a green cocoon
of becoming,
we remember how it feels
to treasure our place on this earth,
raindrops sprinkling our shoulders
and starshine in our eyes,
feet planted on the earth,
arms lifted toward the moon.
This is what is sacred now,
being alive
in the real.
Much love,
Molly, Mark, + Family
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