Rituals of Returning

Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video! Note: this one is 8 minutes.

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess March 16th: What are you beholding where you are? Can we allow joy? Can we be open to the possibility of bliss? Can we be open to the possibility of delight?

* Resources: Special edition Spring/Áine goddesses in the shop.

* Sacred Forest Oracle: Bluebird. Affirmations: Happiness and ecstasy flow through me wildly and freely. I am open to joy. I say yes to life.

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Allow yourself to softeninto this season of awakeningResist the urge to scurry.Stretch your fingers outto your own life.See what you noticewhen you give yourself time.Quiet now.Let drifts of dreamsappear throughthe mist on the horizon.Greet yourself arrivingat the crossroads.Lean in.Reach out.Listen.Here you are.

Our shop update today includes our very special spring pigment—a beautiful lilac with small flowers. We are using this pigment to honor Áine, the Irish Fairy Queen, who is this year’s featured goddess at Gaea Goddess Gathering. We do know that she is a summertime goddess, but we felt like this pigment was an excellent match for the spring equinox/Ostara and our month of Persephone as well, so we went forward with it!

This week's magic:

* 12 minute video: seeking shelter and leaping forward

Resource Reminders:

* New free series: An Introduction to Goddess Studies

* 1. getting started

* 2. printable journal

* 3. affirmation card set

* 4. portable altar space

* 5. introduction to thealogy

* 6. influential authors in goddess studies (note: publishing tomorrow)

* Reminder: March’s resources for a Year of Goddess Magic are ready! You can hop into this practice at anytime, any day, any month, from anywhere. I promise!

* 101 resources including free printables

* monthly prayerbooks

* I also wanted to share this link from Monique Melton (educator and founder of the Shine Bright podcast and community) for a new debt relief support fund for Black families.

Blog Posts:

* Clarity and the Crossroads

* Deepening into Discovery

* We’re Still Here: a Poem Reading in Honor of International Women’s Day

Life's Bits and Pieces:

* Working on:

* making some sudden edits and formatting changes to the original Goddess Devotional. I realized recently with a jolt of sudden surprise that I updated the Kindle edition to reflect changed formatting, but had not done the same for the print edition. I’m planning to do a “back to our roots” series this summer about practicing the presence of the goddess using this book for an in-depth dive into creating devotional practices and so I’ve been reading it to myself again and finding bits and pieces that escaped my notice in prior printings. I can’t believe it has been six years since this one was published!

* choosing poems for my local poetry reading on Tuesday!

* Sacred Sunday video for this weekend.

* Simple and Sacred ritual outline (note: monthly live circle access comes to everyone on the #30DaysofGoddess newsletter list).

* continuing to record chapters for an audio edition of Walking with Persephone (this will be offered to my Goddess Magic patrons on Fridays for the next couple of months).

* making some more miniature room kits—I find this tremendously soothing and re-setting and I love having something to create just for the joy of it, no sales or publications or objective purpose required.

* brainstorming about future book ideas.

* new goddess sculpt—she’s almost finished and she is going to be amazing. I’m so excited to unveil her soon. Her official release isn’t until June, when Tanit is our goddess of the month, but patrons will get a sneak peek of her during one of our upcoming weekly lives.

* big editions of our Flora/Áine flower goddess sculpt. We did a test and she looks pretty beautiful, but there are a couple of flaws we need to fix before we can make her again. The first test will be donated to this year’s Gaea Goddess Gathering.

* Thinking about:

* getting passports. I wish I’d never let mine expire!

* how nice it is to watch the hawks, listen to the crows, see bluebirds arrive, and discover buds on the lilacs.

* bringing income and expenses into better alignment—as you all know, everything seems increasingly expensive and discretionary spending is down and this spells significant challenge to small businesses like ours from two directions at once!

* Looking forward to:

* more walks in the woods.

* big boys being on spring break.

* going to Warrensburg for student orientation.

* Reading:

* to kids: The Five Kingdoms, book one, Sky Raiders. About a boy who follows his kidnapped friends into another world and ends up being sold as a slave.

* just finished: Enchanted to Meet You. Lightweight witchy romcom fiction.

* just started: Brujas. Nonfiction about modern day brujas (witches with Latinx or African heritage reclaiming their powers/ancestral wisdom and traditions).

* still listening to: One Poison Pie. Lightweight witchy fiction about a woman with magical gifts opening up a catering shop in a small town called “Magic Springs.” Murder and mystery ensues.

Seeking Shelter and Leaping Forward

Reminder: Trust your own timing and inner rhythms instead of feeling rushed or constrained by external pressures. Prioritize self-care, replenishment, and inner work as necessary foundations for growth and renewal. Release self-imposed anxieties about time and instead embrace the belief that you have all the time you need. Restore a sense of wholeness and integration within yourself, rather than feeling fragmented or incomplete. Allow space for the natural cycles of descent and return, darkness and light, to unfold at their own pace.

Affirmations for this week:

* I do what I need to do to take care of myself.

* I replenish and renew my energy.

* I gather my resources around me.

* I take care of the details and create a strong foundation.

* I liberate myself from self-imposed time anxiety.

* I restore myself to wholeness.

* I keep my promises to myself.

* I have all the time I need.

Let us be gentle with ourselvesas we navigate a changing worldand our changing lives.Let us make space for magic,for discovery and delight.Let us make spaceto connect and to reflect,to deepen and renew.Let us claim our own liveswith purpose and determination.We are here to be here.We set ourselves freeto explore.

Much love,

Molly, Mark, + Family

Celebrating International Women’s Day with a special reading of my poem “We’re Still Here” from Weaving Our Way Beyond Patriarchy.

Note: the book is 20% off today through March 9th, exclusively from Womancraft Publishing.

Inspired by tags from Caitlin Gemmell and Jen Miller, I’m editing this post to participate as an offering for IWD Siren Songs, proposed by Laura Durban.

See: Siren Songs. I tag Mary Lunnen and Brandi Auset. <3

Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video! Note: this one is 8 minutes. I’m still trying to hone the five minute format!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess Day 16: What is the balance between effort and ease in my own life? How can I focus my action?

* Sacred Traveler Oracle card: Voyage of the Heart. Where is love leading me? Affirmation: Love flows to and through me.

* Resources:

* New book: The Sacred Flame

* Special edition Create goddesses in the shop.

* Closing reading from The Sacred Flame: Prompt = What do I wish to change? Affirmation: I am my own sacred space.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from In The Temple of the Ordinary 2, page 11: What if you say yes to your own life?

* Resources:

* New book pre-order: The Sacred Flame

* Circe special edition goddesses

* Kali Ma special edition goddesses

* Earth Runes card: The Sun. What is being illuminated for you? What is keeping you warm on long, cold nights?

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, December 15: What is calling your name? What soul song is rising up from deep within? What does this season ask of you?

* Resources:

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* New holiday goddesses in the shop!

* Fourth solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Cailleach, Love, Earth. May there be love.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, December 8: What is your prayer of presence?

* Resources:

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* New holiday goddesses in the shop including new green ornaments!

* Third solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Aphrodite, Joy, Water. May there be joy.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video! And, welcome to December!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, December 1: May we be present with what is unfolding. May we keep company with joy.

* Resources:

* A Year of Goddess Magic on Lulu.

* Goddes Magic community for weekly lives!

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* Cerridwen goddesses in the shop.

* Mother Mary

* Mother Holda

* Second solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Hestia, Peace, Fire. May there be peace.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from Replenish, Day 84: This world is a feast of everyday magic and ordinary delight. May you grant yourself space to see and step into it, even in the middle of a busy holiday season.

* Resources:

* Solstice Prayer Wheel free ritual kit!

* Solstice Sun Wheel exploration from Beth Owls Daughter.

* Glacier blue snowflake goddesses in the shop.

* First solstice candle lighting packet from kit above: Aurora, Hope, Air. May there be hope.

* Reminder: Set down what constricts and confines you. Lean into what expands you, what sets you free.

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Welcome to this week’s Sacred Sunday check-in video!

Three things for the week ahead:

* Reading from 365 Days of Goddess, November 17: What if you could feel that wellspring of joy running beneath your life? What if you come back home to yourself? What if you reclaim your attention as your own?

* Shop update:

* Universe blue goddesses.

* Cranberry red goddesses.

* Sweet song of your own approval poem from our November guidebook: What is the sweet song of your own approval?

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