She Gathers Beauty | Living Your Wildly Naked Truth

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Today I share some channeled messages that keep coming through from the Mistress of Longing and what it means to “leave rose petals at the gate.”

—choosing to honor the arrival of your longing as an attunement to soul and soul’s calling.

—how longing will show us deep wisdom through the gateways of body, mind, heart, and spirit.

—longing is a form of love & life’s reach for us; life longs for us and has a wild desire for us to reach back.

—leaving rose petals at the gate is a devotional offering to life—one that says “I welcome you, come, show me what you have to offer.”

—Roland, my beloved furry four legged demonstrates the cycle of creativity—which includes longing and belonging—you might hear the pitter patter of his paws and the striking of his tail as he “hunts” one of his favorite toys.

—the Divine is available and moves through us during the entire cycle of creative flow—asking us to open our love, feel our love even more than we believe we can.

—a sacred invitation from the Mistress of Longing.

—when your sadness reaches for you, will you reach back? 

—being with grief/working with titration/loving and trusting our wisdom to navigate sorrow and the unknown

—the possibility of rejoicing in wanting to be wanted—this is a very (w)holy and basic desire.

—creating healing stories

—whatever you feel, it’s an expression of love reaching for you. 

—longing as an expression of love.

—love is a constant invitation & you have not been forgotten.

—if we want to embrace our longing, we must first begin with what is already here and longing FOR us

—a guided heart meditation.

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Today I talk about how YOU ARE A PLEASURE CENTER. There are so many ways to invite in pleasure, turn yourself on, and choose ecstasy when you can.

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I share the poem “She Moves With Fire” and we look deeper at the sacred rite of passage of experiencing hot flashes and night sweats as an auspicious rewiring & rewilding.

Ideas & Knowings Explored:

-what the body knows

-coming into balance with body, heart, mind, spirit

-living in the river of passion with wisdom rising

-longing’s gift of pushing us, often just beyond our limits, redirecting us toward home—the inner home—the inner flame of hope, knowing, desire, and belonging

-letting the changes and messages from body be a healing story of strength and our inherent capacity to be a pleasure center

-rising with divinity via this sacred body

-a message from the Mistress of Longing about presence and pleasure

-moving the body to return to a state of softness, clarity, and flow 

-holding many truths at once and the power of possibility

-a few ways you can turn yourself on.

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Today’s episode is an invitation to celebrate the truth of living wild & holy and arriving in the possibility of each fresh moment. 

The gift of impermanence and the nitty-gritty delight of rites of passage. Words as altars; prayers to the divinity of presence. Resting in what is true for you now.

Altering the chemistry of this moment—of your body, heart, and mind. 

Practicing arriving, again and again, in each new doorway of connection, compassion, and with blessing. 

A poetic dive into love and homecoming. I read from my first book, The Reach is (W)holy. I share the poems Protection, Polishing the Heart, Chispa, Wind & Water. 

Honoring the first Full Moon of 2021 in Leo on January 28th and some suggestions for rituals. The energy of this Full Moon will continue to inspire for several days after it reaches its fullness. No matter when you listen, even years later, you can still call upon this life giving source meet you where you most need it.

Ways to create an altar. 

Trusting your fire. Letting loose your voice be free to take up space.

A spontaneous singing of a poem/song.

What kind of altar would you need so that you can embrace and welcome every little bit of you? Every feeling, thought, emotion? Whatever you are feeling, however you are being—you ARE wild, whole, and holy.

Go out into a sacred grove of trees and let them show you how your wild is (w)holy.

If you’re interested in ordering my book of poetry, visit https://www.amazon.com/Reach-holy-poetry-inspired-sacred/dp/1979257876.

You can also find my second book, The Mistress of Longing, more about me and my current offerings at www.shegathersbeauty.com. Visit me on Instagram @shegathersbeauty for an almost daily dose of poetry and love.

Today Wendy shares a vulnerable and empowering heart moment about falling in love—with herself—deeper than she ever expected, as a result of being in a committed relationship.

Intimacy with the intricacy of self and how it can enliven our capacity for intimacy with another.

The journey home—through the wildness and liveliness of breathing a life—a heart’s knowing.

A quote from Henry David Thoreau. The wish to live deliberately. 

Creating space for your heart’s voice and holding the wholeness of everything living there.

Practicing self-love can be held in relationship and in fact, can add to and strengthen it—making it a feast that feeds your life, the life of your partner, and the life of your love.

I share a poem I wrote for the woman I love—“where communion lives”—along with the tender truth-telling it brings to the surface of me.

The no-choice choice.

Confronting the places of heart we’re afraid to hold.

Letting the heart’s voice be the loudest.

Sacred boundary with self in relationship. Being/seeing the mirror.

Creating a new love language—sculpting an intimacy in service to love for ourselves and each other.

Questions that can bring sweet relief: “what do I need right now? How can I give it to myself? In what ways can I be with this other human being in co-creative truth?”

Scared is sacred often confused. 

Scared seeks safety. It’s one of the most powerful and sacred emotions we have to deliver us back to center—where communion lives. This is a form of longing and is an exquisite navigational tool. 

Sacred is always at the center. 

Gathering beauty as a way to make contact with and cultivate home.

Let your body find something soothing to soften upon.

Ways to look at all the ways we are in relationship daily. 

Somewhere inside of you, you know what’s needed for communion. May it be so. 

You do get to live your wildly naked truth.

YOU ARE SACRED.

This moment is ceremony.

And so it is.

Wendy shares an exciting announcement about an offering coming this Valentine’s and Spring in The School of Wild & Holy—dedicated to your YES, feeling luscious in your bones. It’s essential now, more than ever, to rest inside pleasure. 

We explore what it means to say yes—what does saying yes mean to YOU? How can you trust yourself to know what your yes is? How can you deepen into what is true for you?

Your inhale is a sacred yes to life. Use the constant invitation of your breathing to affirm what is real and true for you.

The importance of locating your inner authority, your sovereign self.

The importance of the exhale, the release, the letting go. 

We are ever and always approaching intersections of choice; knowing this can support the constant change that is inevitable. Knowing what to hold onto and what we believe in is such a worthy investment and helps us let go of what doesn’t feel in alignment.

How would you answer the following:

I believe ____________________

I stand for ______________________

I am willing to rise up for __________________

I want to feel ________________________________

I long for ____________________________

I know ________________________

I trust __________________.

I believe your breath is a prayer.

I believe words are prayers.

What words do you wish to hold close to your heart?

What clues does your body make available for your knowing?

What captivates you? Draws your attention to it? That’s a yes. How might you give yourself permission to move closer to it? 

I explore what the Mistress of Longing means by “leaving rose petals at the gate.”

Whatever you’re saying yes to is what you are inviting into your life—what are you opening yourself to? Are the ways you are saying yes that are no longer congruent to the life you want to live?

Discernment is a key to unlock your heart’s true vision and let it in.

We “grow into” who we already are by listening, uncovering, acknowledging, embodying. It’s a process. A practice. A life’s journey. 

We are growing into our own inner authority—this is part of the Great Call Back for our collective, our world. Knowing and living what is in alignment with our own inner authority, it serves the whole. 

Becoming is coming closer to our soul—coming home to that which is true. 

Using “first thought, best thought,” as a practice. At least as a place to begin in order to understand and know your yes.

At any time, the one word prayer “ensename,” as given by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, is a powerful way to learn what your yes is. It means “show me.” There is great strength and medicine in asking to be shown.

Messages from the body and heart and the truth they reflect. The body came knowing what is true—what is a yes. If for any reason that is triggering or not available to you from current or past events in your life, please do reach out for support and safety. You are sacred and worthy of having the life you long for.

How do particular words FEEL when you say them? That’s an important exploration. Words are a prayer when we use them and say them. If you are working with a word(s) for the year—consider how that word is a prayer, an altar, a sacred space to hold what you believe in—your yes.

I share my poem entitled Catch the Stars. I also relate back to the previous episode when I channeled the Akasha and the Great Star Nation for the month of January. If you haven’t listened yet, you might want to check it out.

 

”catch the stars, drink down their light, say

 

I am rooted

I am real

I am holy delight.”

 

Thank you for listening. May you know boundless blessings.

 

If you feel called to explore your yes in more depth with me, visit my website here to learn more https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/.

You can order The Mistress of Longing here https://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Longing-Wendy-Havlir-Cherry/dp/1910559512.

This is the first episode for 2021! I channel the Great Akasha for January’s sacred message. We are shown the natural state of the heart, possibility, love, and liberation, and are provided with ways we can soften into the call of what is really wanting us, and what we really want. The theme for the month has everything to do with permission—our own. And, permission is a co-creative act—those that would like to assist us in living our heart’s mission also need a yes from us in order to do so.

We have undergone a great “reset” and are being guided by a divine hand to explore the biggest possible vision for ourselves. We are merging a new innocence with ancient wisdom. 

May you remember to bring awareness to the elegance of your breathing, find your feet, and turn your eyes toward the stars each night.

Today we explore the sacred threshold of endings and beginnings.

We dive deeply into our vision and trust with the poem:

The Truth About Gathering Joy 

There is a story I will tell 

about not compromising

living a life of big love

 

trusting truth

 

this story is rooted in magic 

beautiful but not always pretty

moments down on the ground 

wailing

praying

empty

begging 

 

do not be fooled

these times are perhaps the (w)holiest 

 

I will build a circle of sacred for you

to embody the desire you are holding

 

this is the medicine for all of us now

 

all

of

us

 

now

 

the fire has already been lit

many are waiting for us

to join them there

 

wisdom keepers are pouring gifts through the dense mists of fear

 

you will hear how to love your passion 

into creation

taste the truth perched 

on your lips

 

some of what you love will choose a new form

you will let your sadness want you

float in your blood like eager lanterns of hope

 

you will close your eyes and trust

your hands know what to hold onto 

 

and how to let go

 

you will let your desire council you 

visit the place where longings live

 

often

 

your soul will make itself known in your body

a new song will emerge from your bones

 

this is how you will know your own fierce story

the only one you can live

 

so many of us making new stories

from the ones already undone

 

sometimes 

it’s closer than you think

 

this is a story about deep love.

 

~Wendy Candida Havlir Cherry, 2020

 

Holding hope and fear, joy, and sadness at the same time.

 

Working with trust and the ways your body knows what to do. 

 

What will you hold onto from this year (and your entire life) and what will you let go of?

 

How will you be held?

 

A short guided meditation—flowing with the divinity and grace of your breath—available right here, right now, in the home of this moment.

 

The sudden uprising of yes in your inhale & the rest and letting go in the descent of your exhale—and the pause in between.

 

In the length of our longing, belonging arrives.

 

The Mistress of Longing comes to us as a dear friend and companion of deep love. She is hope and a reminder that we are never alone.

 

Moving into a deeper relationship with your life—and permission to (be)long. Imagine moving beneath what you perceive you long for and into the holiest and wisest doorways of your soul’s true knowing—an oceanic love—longing is an ever widening expansion into true home and union with the sacred.

 

Life is a constant divine invitation—a divine hand reaching for you—how will you reach back? What parts of yourself will you step toward? What parts of yourself will you no longer reject but instead gather and embrace? With wild and holy abandon?

 

Wind & Water poem from my first book, The Reach is (W)holy.

 

As you move toward 2021, how are you holding death and life? And the idea that grace is infused in every moment, even when you feel dismantled? 

 

Meeting ourselves and others from a place of compassion and messy alchemy. 

 

Writing prompt: How am I wild AND holy? When have I felt wild and free, liberated, holy, truly myself? When have you chosen yourself regardless of what might be the result? What is true about you now? What are you willing to choose no matter what? How is life asking you to come out of the darkness and say yes to something new and into the light? What am I willing to no longer compromise?

 

May you know boundless blessings. Thank you for listening. 

 

As always, YOU are sacred. This moment is ceremony. You do get to live your wildly naked truth. May it be so! 

 

Big love & rose petals,

Wendy

This is a channeled episode and part of a special series, Courting the Divinity of Pleasure, dedicated to the Mistress of Longing.

Consider how you are living your wildly naked truth and/or how you would like to?

We explore a poem from my first book, The Reach is (w)holy, entitled Blessing Bowl.

Move softly in

caress your strength

it doesn’t have to be hard

write a new story

rest inside that place

where grace and fierceness reside.

 

How can your softness be fierce? How can you be a blessing bowl for your life?

How have your own ancestors taught you about strength? What alchemy is calling you to transmute that which feels hard?

There’s no part of you that isn’t holy. 

Each story of you is part of the great book of life. There is a remedy in every store. 

The difference between a nightmare and a dream.

The New Moon & Solar Eclipse—how darkness mantles the light and then makes it better known—something new is being revealed as another line being added to the story, to the blessing bowl, of your life.

Channeling the Mistress begins at 13:18.

Moving past closed doors and taking the leap into the now.

“Darling, this is a rebirth.”  

This is a new fresh life.

Connecting with the earth and being bathed in a new vision. Mirrors that connect us. The Mistress of Longing pours healing ambrosia over us—

this is the nectar of Hummingbird medicine. It is time for our voices to quiver and release the sweetest sounds of truth, love, and grace to be in the fullest expression of who we are.

We are wearing the coat of a Hummingbird.

Let the doors that are closed be closed. Open your eyes to the new life around you now. 

What is the wildest vision for your life at THIS moment? 

Trust what you see/feel/know now.

An invitation to play with a blessing bowl practice for the rest of the month (or as long as you wish) to activate, call in and live your wildest, most expansive truth with reverence and attention.

Working with the both/and space—two more short poems shared, “heart door,” and “wild woman within,” from The Reach is (W)holy.

For the rest of December, I’m gifting a signed copy of The Mistress of Longing when you purchase a “she wants you to know” session. These are channeled sessions from the Mistress of Longing specific to you and your life. These are great gifts, too! 

https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking/she-wants-you-to-know-a-channeled-session-with-the-mistress-of-longing

May you remember that you are sacred. This moment is ceremony. And you do get to live your wildly naked truth.

Thank you for being here.

Today Wendy channels a message from the Mistress of Longing about surrender and being held.

Surrender is a sacred practice and one where ultimately, we can find softness.

We are reminded that we are Spirit in human form.

We are invited to step into the stillness of surrender now.

We are given a release ceremony—

—effortlessness is available

—we are being held

—despair = des|pair is to be severed—or a perception of being separated—which leads to a coming back together

—longing is what leads to re-union.

”Surrender is what happens in the great cathedral of life. You came here to live and have this experience as fully as possible.”

”I am here smoothing the worried wrinkles on your forehead.”

If you’d like your own copy of The Mistress of Longing, you can order here https://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Longing-Wendy-Havlir-Cherry/dp/1910559512.

If you’d like to dive into a deeper, more personalized channeling, you can sign up here https://www.shegathersbeauty.com/booking/she-wants-you-to-know-a-channeled-session-with-the-mistress-of-longing.

—for the rest of December, I will include a personalized, signed copy of the book as a complimentary companion to your session. 

May you know every blessing. May you remember you are sacred. This moment is ceremony. And you get to live your wildly naked truth. So may it be.

Today I channel guidance from beyond. We are provided with a guided visualization, ceremony, and a new way of seeing.

Guidance and ceremony begins at 3:38 minutes in. We are crossing over a bridge and into a new threshold. There is reclamation here now. We are being courted by and choosing the divinity of our own pleasure. This reclamation is an act of baring one’s soul and confronting the fears that are masquerading as truth, keeping you from moving through to the next part of your path. This recording is a ceremony for you.

There is a wall you have been bumping up against. A glass wall. Look down at your feet now, you’ve been shattering this wall and the pieces are there to be cleared away. We are opening into the vision of the heart to help us understand what it is we are clearing away. What has already died and is ready to be dead?

You are ready. Stand in your nobility. The wall is removed. You have done so much work. Step into the new part of your life. What newness is running toward you? What experience feels complete inside you? What do you wish to experience completely? Softly? Freely?

A sacred water blessing ceremony is given.

A poem within the journey arrives:

“Be fragranced by your love. Your inner smile is your regalia. All this time, your deepest longings have been the holiest of prayers.”

You are being ushered through a doorway of hope. This is just the beginning. Let yourself begin to wear this familiar newness. 

A journal prompt to respond to the guidance that came through your ceremony.

Stand in your victory.

Giantess: a poem.