Greetings and welcome to A Year & a Day - a 13 month journey through the cyclicity of women’s lives through storytelling & emergent collaboration. With this New Moon in Libra post we are going deeper into the cookpot of the Mage, the Magah ( not MAGA!), the Matriarch.

Joining us again on A Year & A Day is Cultural Architect, Adriana Forte as we continue soaking in the gifts of this powerful, subtle & liminal archetypal phase.

If you are new to the phase of the Mage/Magah have a listen to Adriana’s post last month on A Year & A Day, and also the emergent collaboration with Judith Tamarah. Also here are the stories we’ve been weaving with in praise of the Magah: The Descent of Inanna & Fox Woman Becomes.

My whole body is still responding and integrating all the gold Adriana and i tapped into in our unscripted, non linear & lush dialog. Gratitude in all directions for Adriana’s offering here and her voice in the world!

Here are just a few of many, many the treasure spots we soaked in:

* The Matriarch is highly attuned to the realms, to the mysteries, to the portal of life and death, and all that kind of stuff that modernity has tripped us from.

* Part of the potency of Adriana’s work/passion is to help give some language to the inexplicable, subtle and changing qualities of this extraordinary (and disregarded for centuries) phase in women’s lives.

* How the phase of the Magah relates to the luteal phase of women’s menstrual cycle (though without the bleeding bit) and how this phase has been vilified and othered by modernity… Not really new info folx, just super validating to name it and allow it to be a portal for any grief that needs to come through and be felt.

* Being newly arrived into the Matriarch phase is the beginning of Elder Hood.

* The gravitational pull of the Mage’s energy, is lower in her body. Her intuition is really sharp, she’s in in the magic phase of reality and is more present to the veil’s thinning.

* This is the phase to tend to the brokenness within ourselves, our lives, our families, ancestors & communities (whew!) and Kintsugi ** it with compassion, healing and deep loving acceptance. The Mage can offer deep healing in the whole mess, in all directions. Hell yes!

If you feel called to lean deeper still into this soak with the Matriarch, Adriana and I are offering a delicious virtual offering in December with a 2.5 hour virtual workshop: Myth, Magic and The Magah.

Some of the details are still coming together. Here’s what we know now.

Date: December 2, 6-8:30 pm CST. Space is limited to 12 participants to keep things intimate and connective. Tiered pricing with 2 partial scholarships available. To learn more and/or express your interest - here.

Thank you for resting your attention here and please, please do share any experiences you have regarding this post and/or your journey in the realm of the Magah in the comments below. I love, love, love reading and bearing witness to your experiences!

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* through this exploration of the Mage, I will use multiple words to identify her; Mage, Matriarch and the especially loaded one, Maga(h) because each word carries its own subtle flavor of her shifting & mysterious nature.

** Kintsugi serves as a powerful metaphor for healing and personal growth, reminding us that our scars are part of our story. Each crack repaired with gold signifies a moment of overcoming adversity, making the object—much like ourselves—more beautiful for its imperfections.

Adriana Forte is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. She aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring. Above all, she’s a mother to two amazing girls, a partner to an awesome guy, and an apprentice gardener living off-grid in a community in Australia. She is deep in process writing her first book. Stay tuned to all the details of that and to tap into some of her written work, please visit C-Lab.

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