How are you navigating these times?

Yes, I too am concerned about what appears to be an incoming dictatorship in the United States in an undemocratic process! I need to choose how much I focus on that. I need to keep my eye on it, but I need to focus on other things too. My life force needs my attention.

Do you need to rescue your nervous system from the hijacking of the narratives of force?

Are you willing to collaborate with your chemistry towards something that you love?

Exotic Creatures begins on Friday - come create feminine alchemy with me

Tomorrow we have a live ritual - join usDear Ones,This is the finaly promised Re-Imagining Women’s Mythologies. Seems like I am just getting started!Today’s episode isA rejection of the normaliztion of rape stories

A call to action out of reaction

Rescue of life force from the power over structures

Touching on women’s stories where we were mis-informed

Invitation to choose your consciousness

Paint with me this weekend and talk to me tomorrow!

Shiloh Sophia

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Re-imagining Women’s Mythologies continues today with

* a look at the perilous life of Little Red Riding hood

* a call vicitims to ask when we are no longer victims

* the dead grandmother wolf archetype

* the dead mothers in stories

* transcending the need for rescue

* a general call to go beneath the layers of weapons into a pre-conquest state.Join us to paint your wild free woman archetype in Exotic Creatures starting Friday. No painting experience required.

Part Two in the player above.

Then I have included two additional audios - the 2:52 one is just a breif note on Baba Yaga. The second 42 minute audio is a re-telling of the Selkie story released earlier this year.

OK, here we go. I’m diving in. I’ve already been to bottom recently. I’m not here to save the day. Just FYI I’m mostly gonna stir stuff up. I’m not here to change your mind. I don’t need you to respect my opinion. It’s just time to speak about the sacred cow within mythologies centering the feminine psyche.

It’s true. I take the mythologies way too literally. I do.

But when I look at the state of the world, I can’t help but wonder how these dominant narratives have shaped us into the culture We are today - where women are in need of rescue. But who will rescue us if the rescuer is also the perpetrator?

Enough.

Shiloh Sophia

PS To learn about the Exotic Creatures course go to intentionalcreativity.life We would love to have you paint with us.

Hello Everyone! This three part series starts RIGHT here. I will be sharing an un-hinged view of the changes I am hoping we can make together regarding women’s stories. Three podcasts in three days breaking it DOWN. So we can bulid up something living.

Those who are called to become the Shereo of your own story and who want to experience my new work - join us for Exotic Creatures - no woman ever regretted spending a few days listening to the new story that wants to emerge AND making a painting that goes along with the narrative that is ready to emerge

Photos taken yesterday at Wild Water Creek by Michelle, the beauty on the far right.Norma Jeanne, Shiloh, Vicchi, Naia and Michelle. We shared a lovely day together in ceremony, story and creativity.

Hello Dear Beings!!

I hope you can join me live today! Change your schedule, move the world, and or get the recording! Luscious is here, just click the button below to register as a gift.

Today we will reclaim all of our senses! Yes there are more than five! Let's count them together and let them speak to us!

Shiloh Sophia

I am an exotic creature

precious, rare and endangered

Yet today

My paws remember the ground

the Earth rises to meet my path

My whiskers sense the unseen

the unseen remembers my scent

My keen ears listen to the wind

the wind whispers her stories through me

My shiny pelt grown dull

with too much to feel

reminds me how to glisten my sheen

My eyes look towards the stars

the stars look back, daring me!

The blood in the soft animal of my body

stirs with ancient stardust codes long dormant

My lips are cracked with decoding lies

Then the white hot kiss came to find me

The animystic kiss of all Creation

landed one right on my heart!

My calling flares up as a thousand suns

urging me towards a new direction

claiming my territory!

Hesitating...I step back

then leap forward into the unknown

Not with faith

but fear present!

Not with hope

but rigorous tenacity!

Not all pretty-like

with raw feral vigor roar!

Not pretty, not nice, not apologetic

I am an exotic creature grown weary of

the shenanigans of men with weapons

of every kind seeking to tame my spirit!

I shall not be tamed

I step out of domestication

I shed colonization

I release too busy to rest

I remember my sovereignty

I claim my saced path now!

I am already on my way

to find my feral sisters

I shall remind them too

if they have forgotten

their shiny pelt and sharp teeth

We shall howl under that moon

we shall walk our sacred path

we shall not turn back again

or spend our lives in reaction

Instead of being endangered

I will become dangerous

to systems that bind, trap, ensnare

Releasing false selves on the forest floor

We will create what we prophecy

We are exotic creatures

remembering our true nature

with power, pleasure, prowesss

and passionate flaming hearts!

And so it already issssss.

Curate Shiloh Sophia

Fresh of the press poetry that's been brewing for some time. A metaphoric framework for how it feels to be a woman in a dominant culture.

Exotic means is strikingly unusual or strange or unfamiliar. The word comes from the Greek, Ekotikos, meaning foreign or outside. The process I will guide you through in Exotic Creatures will be unusual. Outside of the way you have been taught and have thought all your life. We are going to step outside the normative and into the imaginal.

In my life, I am on a bridge right now. Having ompleted my first sacred assignment at 55 that I have worked on my whole life. The other horizon is yet to be revealed. I must wait and be patient.

There is a bridge between my sacred assignments that must be walked to get where I am going and take as many of you with me as is called.

That bridge is called Exotic Creatures. This is new work, fresh energy, advanced approach to medicine painting and a neo-shamanic painting and power ritual over three days. Join us on four different dates dates, Livestream, Sonoma @MUSEA, On-Demand and in Miami @COSMICA

Link in the comments. xo PM with questions.

Painting by Shiloh Sophia 2024 Animystic Kiss of Creation

“My first day with the Muse was in 2018 and it changed my life, awakened something in me that has brought so much color, solace, movement and pleasure to my soul, and it continues. “ R.A.

Dear Ones,

I would love to have you join us on Friday for Muse of Magics.

This is my only day long class until the late Fall. It will be broadcast live from MUSEA Center in Sonoma with people painting in person. The images above share the evolution of the process we call Intentional Creativity.

Painting isn't about painting. Painting is about discovery.

Painting good is not the point, at least when you paint with our community. We are in it for the revelation. We are here for the ride. Those who want to learn to paint 'good art' can find lots of teachers to show them how to improve. We aren't here to improve our painting, not at first. We are here to break free.

We are here to reveal locked rooms. We are showing up with brush in hand to set caged birds free. We are braving the unknown by diving into the dark recesses of our psyche without a flashlight. Cuz we can. Cuz there is magic in those hidden places. Cuz something has been asking us to wake up even more.

Once we get access, there is magic waiting for us.

Yes...waiting...as if it was there all the time anticipating our arrival. This process of Intentional Creativity cannot be spoken in words, you have to expeirence it for yourself.

You don't need any actual painting experience. You won't need a flashight since what we are looking for isn't something outside, it's something inside. Stop saying you don't have a creative bone in your body, every bone is creative. It may not be 'talented' at painting, but it IS creative. You are creative, we can prove it.

The Muse she waits for you. She flirts with you. She scares you into waking up already! She is the part of you that you are often afraid to reveal because she might disrupt your current paradigm. Yet she stirs you through play, through color, through adventure. She isn't gentle though - so be warned she will request your full attention and a day of your life, focused on her medicine. It is always worth it.

The Muse, she cracks the critic code just long enough to bypass that part of the brain that keeps you stuck in those loops. So if you are open to something new and you are ready for change that challenges you in fresh new ways. Come on then

Do I think one day can do all that? I don't think so. I know so.

But it is for you to find out.

Muse of Magics is happening Friday. Make a date with the Muse if you dare. See you in class!

It isn't a zoom it is a high quality livestream - wear your pajamas and sunglasses and bring a cuppa tea and chocolate for the Muse!

This image shows the evolution of a painting in less then 5 hours. This isn't about good art, this is about feeling GOOD about your self expression and getting messages that are trapped inside, revealed.

Shiloh Sophia

Hello Everyone,

The greatest human power begins here, with step one. Step one is a choice for consciousness and for navigating your own narrative. Around here we often call it,Tea with the Muse. A time to listen for your own voice above all the others.

Join us for On Uncommon Grounds this weekend, it’s a gift here

Join us to paint the Muse of Magics

Shiloh Sophia