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I reflect therefore I am...aware of the cycles that ebb and flow. Through me. In a time of review-a milestone of 5 years attending LIB, I wonder if I have come any further or if I have wandered any farther from my truth. If the only foundation is certain transformation how can I trust the ground will be steady beneath me? LIB was all uphill for me this year. From the ride in, battling the harsh onset of my period and hearing the painful news of Dream Rockwell's absence from the festival. Perhaps in the power of the new moon was the opportunity to face this darkness. To realize I was never in it just for the party. It's always been about the feeling of hope and possibility for positive change that infused the entirety of this movement. Yet just as there were clouds present for the first time in the sky, the sense of overcast echoed throughout my experience of the weekend. What is my role in all of this? And how will I rise to fill it?

For one, I renew my commitment to shining my light as embodiment of the divine feminine. In a profound meditation led by Goddess Rising Sisterhood, I was gifted the encouragement to adorn myself in honor of my body as a celebration of the feminine cycle as sacred.

I am appreciative of the synchronistic alignment required to partner with festival wear creatrix Prancy Kat in this time of profound need for reclamation of my body as an altar to the Goddess. Thank you for allowing me to adorn myself in your kaleidoscopic swimsuits.

More reflection to come. Beautiful structure created by Shrine On. 

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You Who have Lived the Highest Heights and Felt the Lowest Lows You Who have Fought for Your Voice, for Your Intuition, for Your Pleasure.

Woman In Bloom, Carrizo Plain, CA

LA, come see our work live this Thursday as we present this series as part of the upcoming Self Care exhibit curated by Pussy Powerhouse!

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Cherish the Altar Between Your Legs Put Her Above All

See the full series, Woman In Bloom, now live on Wildspice Mag!

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See our full series, Woman In Bloom, as featured today on WildSpiceMag.com!!!

HAPPY BELTANE!  

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Your Blood is Sacred.

Your Healing Ripples through Generations to come.

Woman in Bloom, Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, CA

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Kick your Heels up,

You are only as Strong as your Level of Commitment to Self Care

Woman in Bloom Carrizo Plain, CA

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You are the Journey

The Wheel of Timelessness Turns in your Womb Moon after Moon.

Woman in Bloom Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, CA

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Dear Womb, I stand with you. I promise to serve you and put you above all else. I will stop at nothing short of ultimate healing and cycles seamlessly flowing with bliss. This I vow. Thank you for your strength, courage, creativity, and for being the epicenter of my intuition. Thank you The Lifestyle Spa, Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts, and Goddess Rising Sisterhood for urging me forward in this commitment.

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Woman In Bloom,

It is time to Dance in your Power.

From Rupture to Rapture and back again,

You no longer fit into Yesterday.

Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve, CA

🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼 Introducing our new series, Woman In Bloom, photographed in various locations of the California Superbloom. Just in time for the New Moon, we release this series into the world as evidence of the transformation taking place within each of us as Spring awakens us. Today gives us the opportunity to truly reflect on what our Soul is yearning for at this time in our lives. We gather the seeds of our dreams and bury them with trust that they will rise if we are careful to nourish and honor the Goddess within every step of the way. 

Exciting news: we will release the uncensored version of this series on @wildspicemag this week!! Stay tuned!!!

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To be Woman is to be ever changing. To be Goddess is to embrace that. Surrender to sensations of the eternal now. Allow the sun to permeate your skin with its sun drenched daydreams. Let the moon whisper the right time to take action. Kotor, Montenegro

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Today I stand in my shadow like never before. Fearlessly. Ferociously. In the darkness of this New Moon I sink into the pain and sorrow in my womb with understanding and compassion rather than dread and denial. Seeking healing in a major way has lead me on this path of ever evolving Transcendent Feminine Wisdom. Today I begin/ continue on a 2 month journey with @priestessesofthemoon. I look towards this remembrance of the ancient practices of our ancestors, witches, wombmen to nourish my Soul and thus my Creation. I look forward to sharing my truth more deeply with you... 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑 Kotor, Montenegro Thank you @goddess_rising and @woman.rising

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“They heard me singing and they told me to stop. Quit these pretentious things and just punch the clock” - Sprawl II by Arcade Fire

Kotor, Montenegro

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We long for over there yet we cannot be there if we are never here. And now. If we do not process this moment we will have no space to receive the next. Desire, yes. Yearn for more. Yet don’t miss the chance to savor before nostalgia sets in and paints a new picture skewed with rainbow colors. Meanwhile all you see today is black and white. Don’t forget to recognize this moment for the deep spectrum that it holds and the important step it is on the path to the next now. Dubrovnik, Croatia

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The quiet spaces in between reveal what makes our hearts beat. What is sweet. What is savory to our senses. Seek the quiet. Remember to reflect. Otherwise all that is beautiful will fade from your reality unrecognized and all that is sorrow will resurface at just the wrong times. Digest. Show your gratitude. And watch your abundance grow. Kotor, Montenegro

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Have you ever witnessed the material of your soul radiate crystal clearly？ As if the sea met the sky without interruption. Fluidly, without awareness of its permutation. Soul meets body. Mind merges with sea. Free. 

Kolimbithres, Greece

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In Minoan Thera, now modern day Santorini, the Goddess was worshiped above all. “She was the ...perpetual motion machine that woke the dead and spun the earth on its axis with her erotic energy.” This erotic energy was venerated as the essence of “cosmic vitality”. At the center of Minoan culture, sacred feminine sexuality. Elaborate rituals and rites were dedicated to the Goddess, and these practices were mirrored in rites of passages and archetypal role models that exalted womanhood at large. Before the rise of the patriarchy and villainization of female eroticism, worship of the ways of the Goddess was the widespread norm… 

If 13 years in Catholic school taught me anything, Its that the patriarchy does NOT deem female sexuality holy. Nor the female body at large. She is not seen as the “heiress of the primeval creatrix” as women were in Thera, but instead as the “origin” in original sin. Her body up for debate, demonized. Her fire vanquished before it can spread in all its glory. In my high school “morality” class, it was even demonstrated to us that female sexuality is a flame, like that of a candle. And if said female chooses to pleasures herself, or decides to have sex outside of holy matrimony, she is extinguishing this flame, never to be replenished. Truly disempowering lessons to teach a 16 year old girl as she comes into her age of pleasure. 

In other words, the fall of the Goddess continues to reverberate far and wide in the way we bar and ban our women from fanning the flames of their innate feminine wiles. The feminine everywhere has been subjugated and devalued for too long. 

Its high time we reclaim our throne on the throes of rapture. Its time we own our sensual limitlessness and the mesmerizing nature of our curves. Its time for the Goddess to rise again.

Santorini, Greece

Quotes via the incredible book "Seductress” by Betsy Prioleau

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How decadent it is to drape my body over the edge. To let my curves ease into their presence. How glorious to arch my back towards the sky. To feel my hear reaching for the sky. How free it feels to reveal myself. To claim that what has been mine all along is, in fact, art. And nothing short of it. 

Fira, Santorini

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We have been living in reverse. Leaving the nipple in the shadows of our puritanical past. Censoring and blurring it out as thanks for the nourishment and pleasure it provides. One of society's ways of shaming and silencing the feminine. Denying her as the erotically powerful being that she is. So we join forces in solidarity. We dare one another to step up and break free from taboo. We claim our rightful place amongst the Earth, Air, Fire, and Water as Free Women. 

Oia, Santorini 

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