Gaia Community: Jamie's Blog

Tele-Circle: The Emerging Feminine - Transmuting Fear & Anger

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:14:31 GMT

If you're feeling the call to re-embrace your Inner Feminine, step into a greater authenticity, and embody and express it in the world -- with the energy and spirit of a long line of kindred-spirit wise-women -- join me in this tele-circle.

As we've heard, 'where two or more are gathered', amazing things can be energized, inspired, seeded, and born.

We'll explore the opportunities, energies, and some of the ritual, practices, and approaches that help us to facilitate the great shift to the Heart that's taking place.

In this Emerging Feminine tele-circle:

A message that keeps arising is how to work with the fear that's being generated everywhere -- more than one person has called it an 'epidemic of fear'.

A sister issue that many women are asking about is 'what do I do with this anger I'm feeling' -- the great suppressed emotion! What gets repressed goes depressed, so how do we transmute the fire of anger into fuel for conscious action?

We'll call in energy and practices to address these issues in our upcoming call.

Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 7 p.m. Eastern (U.S.) and by audio MP3 after the 'live' circle

Fee: By donation (suggested donation $10-$20)

Learn more and join us...

Blessings and Good Juju,
Jamie

Tags: Sophia, Magdalene, divine feminine, sacred feminine, emerging feminine, fear, anger, fierceness, transmuting, alchemy

'Recessionary Creativity' & 'Consumption-Fasting'

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:14:44 GMT

In the last week, several people have asked about a post I wrote a couple of years ago, highlighting a 'consumption-fasting' challenge a wise mentored assigned to me. It was quite the eye-opening adventure.

Now, even more than a few years ago, the topic seems ever more timely, when 'creative resourcefulness' and fear-reducing practices are pretty relevant.

At my neighborhood cafe this morning, in a chat with a friend whose small-business it is, the topic came up yet again, tucked into a larger conversation about the state of the economy, her observation that many people coming into the cafe were 'digging deep' (as in, in the couch cushions) for spare change and using change and dollar bills rather than the $20 bills more typical of a carefree economy. As with hair salons, local coffee cafes are a wellspring of on-the-spot insights about how 'national issues' are lived locally.

We got talking about some of the more esoteric insights about 'why money stops flowing', as well as personal practices of creativity, resourcefulness, mindset/heartset-awareness (aka choosing something other than fear, anxiety, and panic as your default setting), and other infinitely practical issues that help us choose and cultivate quality of life regardless of transient circumstances.

So given the interest in such things (and Ivy Sea Online is rich with resources related to these topics), here is the link for my previous 'consumption fast & conscious consuming' post .

And here's another article about a creatively resourceful idea that came to my attention yesterday, from Tom Atlee's email on 'heartening tidbits'. In Estonia, people have established a 'Bank of Happiness' -- a creative service exchange crossed with a type of local currency -- as one creative response to cultivating community, wellbeing, and expression-exchange when there is a recession in the 'traditional economy'. It's an idea worth duplicating here in the U.S. (and perhaps elsewhere, if people resonate).

Times of change and challenge can be opportunities for renewal, creativity, resourcefulness, visioning-anew, and reaching out to cultivate community and new ways of exchange and getting needs met while sharing one's own gifts and services. Not to mention taking back our authority that we've delegated to 'the System'. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

Blessings and Good Juju on the Way,
Jamie

Tags: consumption, conscious consumption, consumption-fasting, creativity, recession, resourcefulness, community

Reclaiming Your Creativity, Authenticity, and Authority

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:26:25 GMT

With seeming chaos, comes the opportunity for amazing creativity, authenticity, fulfillment, and leadership. If you're feeling fearful and uncertain, it's creative opportunity knocking, and inviting you to step into your own fullest expression.

As we look around now, we do see a lot changing, or wanting to transform. Though fear and feelings of insecurity may tempt us to cling to the familiar, there is little that can thwart the change whose time has come. And often, the change brings unexpected gifts and blessings.

I know from personal experience just how excruciating that creative passage can seem! And I know that the gifts of it abound if we tap into wellsprings of love, courage, and vision.

If we choose find ways to see through the fear and the 'monsters' that it creates, we can use the age-old gifts associated with the Feminine archetype which lives within each of us: the gifts of inquiry -- asking into the opportunities, imagination, vision, focused intention, and aligned action to dance with the forces of creation around us and bring new and wonderful things into being, within us, through us, and around us.

Read the full article in my Ivy SeaZine...

Blessings and Loads of Good Juju,
Jamie

Tags: authenticity, authority, creativity, imagination, vision, Feminine, chaos, change, courage

Called Into Authenticity

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:17:00 GMT

Going with the inspiration this afternoon, and watching butterflies flit back and forth across the window, I posted two new entries at my Sophia's Children blog: one on being called back into remembrance of our authentic nature and being; the other an expansion of Cicada's message about transformation and emerging from our old shells.

If it interests, you'll find them here.

Blessings, and thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts!

Jamie

Tags: Wisdom, Sophia, emergence, transformation, authenticity, animal totems, imagination, intention

Emergence: Leaving the Old Shell Behind

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:51:38 GMT

The cicada, after her emergence.

Greetings, all.

I've just posted an upcoming tele-class on 'Moving From 'Obstacle' to 'Opportunity', to share some of the positive and empowering practices and approaches to help people shift out of the fear and 'stuckness' that seems epidemic these days.

If you or someone you know might benefit from joining us, you'll find more information on the tele-class here.

On another note altogether, my partner and I witnessed the most amazing 'totem' of transformation recently - a cicada moving out of its old shell and revealing a new, iridescent green shell and perfect, delicate wings that unfolded right before our eyes.

The photo above (taken by Phil) is the cicada's complete emergence, with her old shell next to her. It was amazing - we felt so lucky!

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: opportunity, obstacle, manifestation, vision, intention, cicada, transformation, totems

Artemis and 'the Sacred Season'

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:06:16 GMT

After receiving a lovely bit of inspiration in this morning's email, I included it in a new blog post: Artemis & 'the Sacred Season'.

You'll find it here.

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: artemis, divine feminine, sacred feminine, intention, vision, inspiration, sacred

True Vision, True Prosperity - Clearing the 'Derailers'

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:36:18 GMT

Did you ever wonder why things seem to come up to derail the manifestation of your vision, or why you'd get close or even accomplish parts of it only to watch it 'wash away' in a series of events or waves?

Have you wondered why things like the Law of Attraction don't seem to work for you, even though you articulate your intentions and say your affirmations regularly?

Or have you experienced a sense of impending doom, dread, or loss even when things seem to be going well?

I did, and I saw (and see) it frequently with friends, colleagues, clients, and family members, too.

Read the full article in the latest SeaZine.

Joyful Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: vision, manifestation, law of attraction, energy, intention, vibrational healing, vibration, body mind, body wisdom

Women Healing the Earth - add your mojo to our 7/28 tele-circle!

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:53:12 GMT

Gathering the women for tomorrow's Women Healing the the Earth tele-circle.

It's a free/by donation communing to tap into a long lineage of Wise Women, seed and energize the Feminine Within, co-create energetically for those who aren't able to attend and need the good juju, and take new juju and inspiration into the world.

Spread the word and add your mojo!

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: women, women healing the Earth, Feminine, Sacred Feminine, Mary Magdalene

Pushed by pain, or pulled by vision?

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:04:20 GMT

I've always loved a saying that an acquaintance shared with me years ago -- and he was passing it along from a mentor of his: Pain pushes until vision pulls.

With so much shapeshifting and change afoot , it seems a very good time for vision that pulls!

This was the inspiration for an article I posted this morning as part of my Ivy SeaZine. You'll find it here.

Wishing you a compelling, heartful vision that pulls you forward into Life in Abundance!

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: vision, inspiration, wisdom, engaged spirituality

Mundane or magical - which do you choose?

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:15:59 GMT

Given that we're frolicking in some wild and creative eclipse and new moon energies (currently in the dark-moon phase before either comes about tomorrow night in the U.S.), it seems a fine question to consider whether we live (or wish to live) in a mundane or a magical world.

Jesa MacBeth's lovely article guides you. What's your choice?

Love and blessings (and lots of joyful magic!).

Jamie

Tags: mundane, magical, magic, joy, magical life, manifesting

Women Healing the Earth: Authentic Feminine tele-circle

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:38:55 GMT

This tele-gathering is inspired by Llewelyn Vaughn-Lee's powerful 'Women and the Healing of the Earth' talk, and the power of coming together in circle and connection with others.

Join me and a long lineage of ancient Wild-Wise-Women ancestors on the celebration day of Mary Magdalene, just one day after the new moon and solstice - it's powerful communing and conjuring time!

For women feeling the call to step into a greater authenticity, re-embrace the Feminine, and embody and express it in the world -- supported by a circle of kindred-spirit wise-women -- join me in this tele-circle.

We'll explore the return of Wisdom - via women - as well as the opportunities, energies, and some of the ritual, practices, and approaches that help us to facilitate the great shift to the Heart that's taking place.

When: Tuesday, July 28th at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Time U.S.

Cost: Free/By donation - suggested donation $15-20 - all welcome.

Learn more and register...

Tags: divine feminine, authentic feminine, sacred feminine, women, women healing the earth, tele-circle

The 'F Word' as a vision clarifier?

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:26:51 GMT

Greetings, Gaians.

Yes, it's a true story - an incident involving 'the F word' ended up being an unexpected 'clarifying angel' recently. I share the story in the Ivy SeaZine I just posted.

And for women feeling the call for community *and* into the Way of the Feminine and authentic leadership, join me for a 'by donation' tele-gathering on July 21st. Learn more and register here.

If you're needing to clarify your own vision and build or empower your momentum, join me for the Clear Vision, Build Momentum tele-workshop series, coming up soon.

Hoping you're all very well!

Lots of love,
Jamie

Tags: clarifying angels, the 'F word', sacred feminine, women healing the earth, divine feminine, vision

InspiraLogue on the Emerging Feminine - Jamie with Kathe Schaaf

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:42:23 GMT

Greetings, Gaians.

I just uploaded a new InspiraLogue that I recorded yesterday with Gather the Women co-founder, Kathe Schaaf. Kathe and I explore the Emerging Feminine, what it means, what it looks like, and how it's really different from old-paradigm ways of doing!

Pour a cup of tea, gather lunch (or breakfast, or dinner, or snack) and listen in.

You'll find the InspiraLogue here.

Love,
Jamie

Tags: Divine Feminine, Emerging Feminine, Sacred Feminine, new paradigm, consciousness, engaged spirituality, women, gather the women, women's spirituality, women's circles

Healing Magic and Other Wonders

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:02:26 GMT

Greetings, all!

I hope you're all enjoying a beautiful Springtime (or Autumn if that's your season).

I've just posted a new edition of the Ivy SeaZine, with links to two wonderful audios -- one with Robin Rose Bennett, author of Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guide to Conscious Living, and a link to an Institute for Noetic Science (IONs) Shift in Action radio show, which features my dear friend and long-time co-creator, Lawrence Ellis. There's also a link to a new 'Energy of Change & Transformation' portal. Lots of inspiration and good juju.

Here's the intro and the link to the rest of the SeaZine, including the above-mentioned links.

If you've seen the Austin Powers movies, you may remember when Austin awakens to find that he's lost his 'mojo' -- his magic, his unique Divine essence and thus his true gift and source of power in the world. And, of course, the world needs it!

Healing Magic might seem a strange title for a newsletter that includes work and business topics, yet healing magic is precisely what's called for, and what's available to us, from a multitude of Wisdom Wells. You see, many of us -- individually and organizatinally -- have lost our 'mojo', and have to reclaim and re-embody it. As with Austin, the world needs that essence, that 'mojo'!

You'll find the rest of the SeaZine here.

Joyful Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: healing magic, green witch, herbalism, Nature, Gaia, Wisdom, magic, inspiration, change, transformation

Patterns & Purpose in Deep Transformation

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:47:12 GMT

We are, individually and collectively, being called well past old, established comfort zones and ways of being that have been centered in fear, scarcity, and competition (which itself is an outcropping of a fear-and-scarcity world view).

This goes well beyond change, and more the territory of deep transformation. Yet there is both purpose and pattern -- and hidden magic and joy -- in the seeming chaos.

Read the full entry in my Sophia's Children blog.

Joyful Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: Divine Feminine, transformation, change, chaos, joy, magic, Sophia, consciousness

The Divine Feminine and Abundance

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:47:28 GMT

Venus in Spring

Join me for an upcoming tele-class on The Divine Feminine and Abundance, the perfect antidote to tax-season stress and focus on economic woes.

There is so much more to abundance, and to us, than that!In this tele-class, we'll explore the Divine Feminine tradition and how to connect with and cultivate an awareness and experience of abundance that goes beyond dollars-and-cents (though includes that, too).

You'll also find the current edition of the Ivy SeaZine -- on The Energy of Change and Communication (where energy and shamanic work meet how we go about transformation and communication) -- at Ivy Sea Online, along with a wealth of other inspiring resources.

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: Divine Feminine, Abundance, change, transformation, energy work, shamanic practices, Indigenous Wisdom, Sacred Feminine

Sophia, By Any of Her Names

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:14:54 GMT

As with many things, there are many ways people reference the Divine Feminine. Some connect with Her as The Great Mother, others resonate more with Isis or Mary, or the Black Madonna, and a host of other 'faces' from traditions that grew from the earliest traditions. For me, Sophia seems the most powerful.

Read the full entry in my Sophia's Children blog.

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: Sophia, divine mother, goddess, Divine Feminine, Sacred Feminine

Intuition and Energy for Work, Life & 'Crazy Times' Tele-Class

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:55:48 GMT

Without healthy intuition and energy management practices, we might easily find ourselves feeling murky, unclear, confused, tired, and anxious.

It might seem as if things are 'stuck' or 'leaking energy'. These 'lower vibrating' states of being make it difficult to access our higher guidance, vision, sense of abundance, wellbeing, intuition, vitality, and momentum.

With good practices, we have easier access to our intuition, Higher Guidance, inspiration, vision, and a greater sense of motivation, calm, and response-ability!

What we'll cover in this tele-seminar:

This 75-minute tele-seminar will review foundational energy and intuition practices for:

* clearing our energy field,

* disconnecting from and clearing disruptive energy coming from others,

* connecting with Source,

* accessing vision, intuition, and higher guidance to navigate change, challenge, and conscious co-creation, and

* using life as a 'mirror' that provides clues about your energy field and what's needed at any given time.

Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 2:30 - 3:45 p.m. Eastern Time U.S. Audio-class MP3/audio-link of this tele-seminar will also be available for listening at your convenience.

Learn more and register for Intuition and Energy tele-class (or to receive the audio-class).

Check out other Ivy Sea tele-classes on 'The Way of the Feminine and Abundance' and 'Imagination Lab: Working with Imagination to Energize Your Purpose and Vision'.

Tags: intuition, energy, renewal, inspiration, vision, energy management, energy clearing, shamanic practice

The Fine Art of Surrender

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:20:34 GMT

Flow

Greetings! The 'fine art of surrender' seems strange to our Western minds, trained as we've been in 'efforting' -- planning, doing, rolling that boulder up the hill, and swimming against the currents.

And that can be pretty exhausting, and not a little frustrating, can't it? It can feel like you're traveling incognito -- pretending to be someone other than the unique and radiant being that you are.

What does it mean to surrender? What are we surrendering to? There are many answers, no doubt, from many traditions.

Really, the fine art of surrender is a skill and gift we cultivate because something within us knows that there is a more effortless way. It seems impossible, doesn't it, particularly in challenging times?

Yet challenging times are precisely when new ways of approaching and seeing things are most needed -- when the 'old ways' just don't seem to be working, personally or collectively.

The art of surrender calls us to release what we might think is 'the best way' of doing something so that we can open to a more truly inspired way. Surrender is when we let go of swimming against the current and learn to go with the flow of life. We surrender limited thinking and too-small visions; we surrender what isn't who we truly are.

This can seem pretty frightening, can't it? I mean, really, what will happen? Our 'fear-tracks' play over and over again in our minds, saying "You have to DO something!"

Not really. More and more, being is the new doing.

Surrender and being with what is, we stop fighting it and are able to see through it. We open to inspiration, grace, intuitive guidance, and new ideas.

But don't we have to 'do something', you might ask?

Of course, we take action, yet instead of taking action out of old models of thinking and doing, so often driven by fear and scarcity, we allow 'right doing' to follow the inspiration and intuitive guidance that arises. We let go a bit, and allow synchronicities to come into our lives, resolving things in ways we might never thought possible.

It is an art. As with art, we cultivate and practice to gain greater comfort and mastery with the craft. Yet it's also a simple practice.

To what do we surrender? That might depend on a particular tradition of a Higher Guidance, whether our own, Infinite Spirit, God, or other greater awareness.

I recorded an audio InspiraLogue (inspiring dialogue) on the topic of Surrender with a mentor of mine, Lynda Terry, a meditation teacher and author. Such things always help me back to center when I've been overly dispersed!

You'll also find an upcoming tele-seminar on Inspired Marketing -- how to combine intuition and higher guidance with traditional marketing strategy to help those who need your help to find you.

Here's to surrendering to a more inspired way, so that we may more effortlessly and gracefully find our way through the challenges we face -- and so that we might enliven a greater vision that lives within us!

Blessings on the Way,
Jamie

Tags: surrender, the art of surrender, engaged spirituality, flow, grace, Feminine, intuition, Higher Guidance, inspiration

Break on Through to the Other Side

http://ivysea.gaia.com — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:59:14 GMT

Greetings!

Do you remember The Doors song lyrics, 'Break on through to the other side'?

This concept fits perfectly with the opportunity and invitation brought to us with the 'new energies' -- a special delivery to you from the Universe.

In the face of challenges, we can choose Divine Love over old fears, reclaim the power and energy we've given away, and step into a greater capacity to create the lives and experiences we desire.

In some cases, it's a shift in thought and perception; in others, that shift ripples outward into more effective, graceful action. Either way, our experience changes.

Right now, many of us are challenged to choose something other than the fear, gloom and doom we read and hear about. There is a choice, and everything in the Universe is conspiring to help us to choose from our highest potential rather than from fear.

If you want to learn more about these energies, choices, opportunities, and practices, tune in to the upcoming tele-classes or schedule a personal consultation.

Learn more about the upcoming tele-classes on 'break-through' practices, inspired marketing, the Way of the Feminine, and other musings to help navigate the times with Grace and Joy.

If you have questions, feel free to email me!

Blessings,
Jamie

Tags: inspired marketing, authenticity, break-through, mastery, inspiration, new energies