Enjoy this episode on writing, the womb and community healing. Special thanks to our friend Jeff Hinshaw for editing and putting this podcast together! Let us know what comes up in the comments.

We see Capricorn energy as an expression of earthly, sacred sexuality—a devotion to our deepest desires. It is the wild woman dancing with Saturn, Father Time, embodying the structure that allows creation to flourish. (I can already feel the swoon of meeting Saturn in the temples of India…)

The contraction necessary for the seeds of our heart’s desires to germinate within protection and peace—however uncomfortable or resistant we may be to it—is an essential and natural part of the process.

In Tantra, we do not suppress desire; we surrender it to the Divine. We honor the unseen, fertile potential before it manifests into something tangible, something we might seek to extract from.

We practice standing together in the vulnerable terrain of our weak-kneed triggers, and we rest in the fertile soil of our shimmering truths. It is messy. It is meant to be.

Do you know what drains us most in our sacred creative and relational work in the world? The refusal to consciously offer it to the infinite Source of Love Herself. This withholding exhausts us more than the labor itself, for creation without surrender becomes separation—a forgetting of the divine thread that runs through all we touch.

{this is what we’ll be doing in our 21 day miracles and madness course - writing daily and offering our desires to Love as a radical devotional act. not just to get more, but to be a part of giving in a way that is receptive and regenerative. join us we being january 1st!}

This practice invites us to remain whole even amidst the experiences of physical and chronic illness, emotional and physiological challenges, ADHD, and all the beautifully "neuron-spicy" ways we perceive and move through the world. Special thanks to Alexandra, Maia and Jacky for sharing their wisdom, strength and hope with us.

What systems and structures are you releasing under this Blessed New Moon in Capricorn? I’m quite literally leaving the U.S. (heading to India—yay!), which, while bittersweet, always feels so deeply liberating.

Thank you for being a part of our Body Temple Community. Sending you all the space for compassionate inner reflection during this transitional time, and if you want some gentle but firm support to make the time and widen your oracular training - we are here for you.

Warm and well wishes,

Adriana and the Body Temple Team

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