Tea with the Muse

Today’s message is just a quick hello and invitation to more pleasure!

Thanks for turning in❤️

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Dear Ones,

I think a lot about what women have experienced in our lives and the evolution of our rights. I am grateful to be raised by women who were laborers, carpenters, seamstresses, potters…even plumbers.

My mom Caron used to brag that her mother Eden could plumb a whole house and shoe a horse lol. She could also fix most machines, made our clothing and could feed us from her garden. I think about how the brain development of our ancestors and grandparents would be so different than it is today, simply based on the way we use to labor. I love to labor and use my body and I know it is because of what they taught me - to use my hands and my body. I do not know the origins of this photo but I read that they are in men’s overalls - I have a pair like those myself, and that they are Dutch women. Today’s episode is just a teensy story about remembering to truly hold the vision and how Intentional Creativity can help us do just that.

Shiloh Sophia

Who wears the pants: On May 28th, 1923, the US Attorney General declared that it was legal for women to wear trousers anywhere. Women dressed as men for many reasons: practical necessity, fighting in wars, independence, safety from rape and murder while traveling, orientation or identity, etc. Legal restrictions and punishments were necessary because, “by wearing pants, women appropriated male dress, and by association, male privilege, and power.” Punishment ranged from burning at the stake to prison time and using sexist character assassination: for wearing Turkish trousers, Frances Wright (1795-1852) was called “The Great Red Harlot of Infidelity, The W***e of Babylon, The Voluptuous Preacher of Licentiousness, The Priestess of Beelzebub, Miss Epicene Wright,” etc. Dress codes were used as a loophole: female senators were banned from wearing trousers on the senate floor until 1993. (Fischer, Gayle V. ""Pantalets" and "Turkish Trousers": Designing Freedom in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century United States." Feminist Studies 23.1 (1997): 111. ProQuest. Web. 10 Apr. 2023) LINK

“Good mental health and clear thinking depend upon our ability to store and manipulate thoughts on a sort of “mental sketch pad.” In a new study, Yale researchers describe the molecular basis of this ability and describe how a breakdown of the system contributes to diseases such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease.”

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Hello! Today I am sharing one of our root stories with you and inviting you to StarSong - our annual community gathering! https://musea.org/starsong/

Event Horizon By Sue Hoya Sellars

Dear One,This is one of my favorite Sue paintings. For those of you who don’t know, Sue was my other Mother, I call her my Earth Mother, she was also my mentor and my painting teacher. She is the one I learned about Intentional Creativity from. To really see what is going on this image you need to look really close - see the trees at the top of the Event Horizon, then the one at the edge on the right is starting to bend. According to sources, the event horizon is the spherical outer boundary of a black hole, loosely considered to be it’s surface. Nasa says that the gravitational influence becomes so great, that not even light is fast enough to escape it. In a black hole, the escape velocity is equal to the speed of light. The theory of general relativity that we are familiar with says that nothing can travel faster than light….at the speed of light….Therefore nothing inside the event horizon can ever cross the boundary and escape beyond it, including light. In other words if we happened to travel there - no message would be able to get back from where we came. But then….who knows? We are learning more and more as we discover the James Web imagery with such granularity. I love comparing the Hubble images, which I grew up with, with the Webb.

Theories say that anything which goes beyond the event horizon is simply added into the black hole. Also since time distorts close to the boundary, it appears to be moving slow. Black holes result from the death of a big ole’ star.

Why am I telling you this today and how is it connected with consciousness? Good question. I can’t say for sure to be honest. I woke up today thinking about this painting of Sue’s and how she as always reconciling the cosmic sciences with spirituality. If she was here to ask a question I might say - Can you map the reality of the event horizon with awakening? What is the correlative.I know she would have an answer. I however do not. It is like this sometimes. I have a feeling in my body, then I see an image. Then I think of you. Then I turn on the recorder. Sometimes it is a clear prescription and a clear map and others, like today will leave me in deep inquiry about the connection between the event horizon and waking up, or as I said in the spontaneous transmission, waking in.

Perhaps in this offering on the altar of the great mystery - an answer - or at least a better question will occur for me, or for you. Perhaps you know - what might the event horizon have to teach us about what it means to wake up in this body and navigate this wild experience of soul? I have heard it said if you can’t find the answer, ask a better question. Working on it. Because I am concerned at the level of consciousness I see, and I know there are more options, and I am committed to discovering the path to awakening with my work that anyone who chooses can take. I am here to wake and waken. It’s an honor. As I say in the transmission - awake for me means you are as awake and aware at any given moment as you can be - according to your soul’s invitation. There isn’t a hierarchy, it is individual and personal according to each person. Can I tell if people aren’t awake yet? People ask me. Well usually yes, but only according the level of my own awakening journey. Mostly you can tell in what people say - and how fixed their beliefs are - how rigid their worldview - how they treat others….I have a whole list but that might be for another day and another event horizon.

Blessings to you and big love on the edge of awakeing,

Shiloh Sophia

Me and my cousin Bridget, that I was raised with like a Sister. Here we are at Wild Water Creek on the new moon.

Callings come with a thump

They rattle your dreams

Startle you to attention

Callings don’t creep up all quiet and nice

They don’t ask if you are ready

or wait for an invitation to arrive

They aren’t concerned so much

with the dramas or the traumas

that you use as your reason…why not

What is the reason why anyway?

The reason you hesitate or

Will not say yes to the call?

Callings come with a bump

They stir up your mediocrity and

Summon your courageous parts

Callings come through you

Lightning sparks in your

darkened bone-house of being

Suddenly you are turned on

and tuned in and shaking

in your cowgirl boots

Callings can scare you and certainly 

will dare you and they do require 

your attention and devotion

Callings don’t go away, dear one

Callings come from inside

The nature of callings is to arise

Arise! Arise! Arise!

There is a risk if you say no

It might go dormant for a month or 2

Or 10 years, Don’t miss this, baby!

Callings request a level of presence

In the one being called

They are temper-mental creatures!

So if you are brave enough

and you make an offering on

the altar of Big Change

Or you can also call the

Muse for tea and see if she

Is in the mood to help

I will warn you though

Once it starts to arise

it will begin with a thump

You will feel that throat lump!

Your heart will pump it up!

And you are off into the stars baby!

I will see you there! I work in the

cosmic callings department

Here at the mothership of life

Perhaps you have seen me?

A mystical muse-infused character

Here to activate sacred assignments

I have been waiting for you

I knew you were coming onto the path

How then, shall we begin?

Arise! Arise! Arise!

Shiloh Sophia JOIN us for our annual community gathering centering on callings and community and your earth-star being nature.

This painting is my “work in progress” for ORIGINS Intentional Creativity Guardian Training at MUSEA University.

Do you ever feel like the life you have doesn’t quite fit who you are? Are there these moments where you question everything you know? This episode is a call to honor the wild one within in the “safe” and sacred container of creativity. Get a cuppa tea and join me in an inquiry 🌿

Good morning to you 🌈☀️💧

The spontaneous spoken word of this episode is inspired by a quote from my mother, Caron McCloud! It’s an imagining of my teen self speaking to her….

“The point is you have to design a point for yourself”~ Caron McCloud

image from Flow Nouveau painting on Equinox

Dear Ones ~ What is your relationship with time, rest and renewal? I am sharing my practice that I have worked with since my early twenties about chosen and bracketed rest. As well as I work with painting in relationship to this choice. I also share the qualities of FLOW that can be chosen. And how I sometimes move between the computer and the easel - there is goodness to share with you here.If you want to join us this weekend to “REST” into creativity and experience flow with Jonathan and myself - either in Sonoma or virtual. This is how we are spending our Equinox - with our community - Flow Nouveau - we call it Medicine Painting.The above photo is from last week, at Wild Water Creek with my dear friend Amber.

with heart,

Shiloh Sophia

Here is the painting I am working on - and the kind of painting we engage in to induce chosen flow….

Hello everyone! Today I am sharing about my relationship is the time and rest!

Dear Ones,

Every day of our relationship since 2013 Jonathan and I have Cafe’. Cafe conversation is what happens at Tea with the Muse and I learned it from Sue Hoya Sellars. In this case, we are are both the Muse sparking the inquiry. The idea is to pause in your life and see where the conversation takes you…to allow the Muses to have their way with you. To see what arises. We were having an early morning cafe (in Napa yesterday) and I was talking about how much cause I have or don’t have in my life at this time and how that feels. Lots of things seem able to be influenced (mood, exercise, creative time) and lots of things don’t seem to be able to be influenced (taxes, inflation, world news). And he started responding with some interesting ideas so I said - Can we film an episode? Sometimes he agrees, and sometimes he does not lol. Cafe is not structured, we talk about everything under the sun, and the moon!Blue Moon Blessings to you! We share this with you from our heart and cafe to yours. Shiloh and JonathanA few links for you

Color of Woman Applications Due nowOur upcoming complimentary seminar Ultra MetacognitionOur class happening virtually and in Sonoma that he mentioned: Flow Nouveau LEGEND Clan Cura - October 1 Blue Moon Meditation - lives on The Cura Council Podcast and you can also see the wheel of the year there that we use.

He took this photo and we just loved how to sun arc came through….