Constellation: Overview. Follow butterflies, listen to bees - become a dandelion, face turned toward the sun.
Experience the aliveness of the illuminated encounter when everything becomes visible, when everything is revealed
This is a New thing I’m doing.
Starting right now, with this email, TODAY! I’m bringing all of my teaching, all of the workshops to this space. This is the first one: Constellation: Embodied, Illuminated Awareness.
We will workshop together (at least) four times a year. The full curriculum. All the good things. Embodied Imagery, Story Alchemy, Time Travel and Conversing with Past and Future Selves, Intuitive Guidance, Sacred Biography and more more more.
Can you tell that I’m excited?
I am excited!
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In this email, paid subscribers will find the link to the first module of
Constellation: Embodied, Illuminated Awareness
A six-week experiential workshop.
In this workshop, guidance is everywhere. It’s not about mastering a new deck of cards or memorizing the names of angels. It’s about the state of the receiver. Guidance is arriving every moment. When we turn to listen, it’s there.
This week’s module includes a bit of my history, a journey through a full illuminated experience and step by step instructions to initiate a conversation with guidance - by noticing the world around you.
Let me offer a simple example.
Something that happened yesterday.
In the run-up to these workshops, as I’ve been doing all the work and all the dreaming, I’ve also been doing just a little bit of worrying. What if this is a dumb idea? What if no one comes? All the vulnerable sore spots of a sensitive soul playing tug of war with my heart.
I so want to do this. I am also a little afraid.
A week before launch, I noticed a strange swollen lump on the left side of my throat. No other symptoms. Just this tender swelling. A day before launch, I lost my voice.
Ah, tender body.
Through the lens of this work that I do — the symbolic, the mythic, the imaginal — I could read my symptoms clearly.
I was about to speak to a lot of people (you) about something big and shiny and important. I was having mixed feelings (excitement and vulnerability, readiness and hesitation) and my body was translating those conflicting emotions into one straightforward symptom. No voice. One simple message: Shhhh.
So, though I promised I would launch on Thursday (yesterday) I decided to trust what my body was telling me. Give it a minute.
Then, I had this dream . .
I am being presented with the Silk Robes of Three Gods. One red. One blue. One purple. There may have been a fourth robe, a bright emerald green. The garments were of the highest quality, beautifully made; but as they floated across the field of my awareness, I noticed stains at the hems. The robe were ceremonially folded, stacked like a pile of laundry and placed in my arms.
I woke up, already understanding the dream’s message:
When I focus on flaws in myself and my work I miss the beauty. I know what to do with stains. I will honor and integrate them. I will bring them into the light. I will admit that I’m afraid, imperfect. I will honor myself, too. Allowing that I am worthy of receiving the ‘Robes of Three Gods’.
By bringing my own story - including the ways that I still struggle to speak about all of this sometimes - into the work (and into the light) I am honoring the lived experience of a human being - becoming real.
I took my symptoms to Catherine, my acupuncturist. She led me to the treatment table. She walked around my body, placing her needles in mysterious places. She wrapped me in soft sheets and filmy silks. She turned off the lights.
I lay in my cocoon and I dreamed . . .
. . . a child in a white gown floated up beside me. She placed a kiss of joy on my left cheek, right above the swelling. An Asian woman (Goddess? Acupuncture Guide?) gave me the gift of an enormous jewel. I think it was red. I caught a glimpse of the Green Man, his twinkle-smile, his costume made of leaves and branches. As I opened my eyes, I felt the angels shimmering and fluttering around me. I sensed their support and encouragement and. . . Are you excited? I asked them. More shimmering. More fluttering. You are! I giggled.
The angels are excited about this, I realized. They want this work out there - and they will support it (and me) in getting it to you. I lay on the table feeling so blessed. I mean, seriously. How lucky am I to be invited to do this work? By the angels, by you - reading my posts.
I closed my eyes one more time and it was all just Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you, angels. Thank you, Catherine. Thank you, me and my willing heart. Thank you every reader who makes the time to open my emails, to subscribe and respond to what I offer. It is because of you that I do this — that I CAN do this work that I love. Your support as a free or paid subscriber keeps me going.
With your likes and little hearts and private notes sent to my inbox, you call this work through me. I am sending you all the thank yous, all the fluttering and twinkling. A kiss of gratitude, a jewel in your hands.
So many thank yous.
xxoo
So, now….
Let’s talk about this workshop and what I want to offer to you.
I want you to follow butterflies. I want you to listen to bees - I want you to feel the freedom of becoming (for a moment) a dandelion, your face turned toward the sun. I want you to experience the aliveness of the illuminated encounter, when everything hidden comes into view, in vivid color and texture and detail. When everything is revealed as itself, as it always was. Including you - including me. I want you to become real.
This is a workshop about that. All of my workshops are about that.
This workshop includes a community, which will build around the work, in the comments at the end of each module. If you’ve never participated in a workshop on Substack, you’re in for a surprise. Things feel different here - fresh and clean and friendly. This positive energy is nourishing and enlivening and you’ll notice blips of inspiration and real solid guidance popping up around you.
In this email, paid subscribers will find a link to the first of six modules in the Constellation workshop. There will be one module each week. There will be audio meditations (as soon as my voice returns).
. . .And if you love Zoom calls, you can gather with me the first Sunday of each month to do the work together. On these calls, I offer gentle coaching, guided meditation, discussion and sharing. We get to know one another, offering and receiving the support that all gentle souls need along the way. To join the Zoom calls, join School of Magic.
In this first workshop, I’ll teach you to ‘constellate’ powerful meaningful readings out of thin air. You’ll call for signs and when they come, you’ll see and receive them . . . because there’s a qualitative difference between seeing a sign and fully letting it in.
Receiving a sign is an acknowledgment that you are in engaged, active relationship with the invisible, with a mysterious and benevolent presence who listens when you call out for help, for guidance, for comfort. A presence who responds to your prayers.
We’ll talk about that as we deepen our connection to the mysterious, the completely real, everyday magic that’s all around us and available to everyone - when we open our eyes to see it, when we open our ears to hear it.
I’m excited to begin. Let’s go!
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Paid subscribers will find a link to the full week one module below.
All the love, all the blessings.
xo xo
Amy