The Story of Sedna Was Written for Times Like These
photo: Flowers on our table
Here are a Few Tips to Help You Show Up and Grow in Your Own Life!
1. The Time for Sedna’s Story to Be Remembered is Now. Seeing things at the level of mythology (otherwise known as story) can help us see the larger universal themes operating in our lives and in our world. In this video, an astrologer shares the story of the myth of SEDNA, that comes from the Inuit people.
In astrology, Sedna is the name of both a dwarf planet and an Inuit goddess of the sea. The myth of Sedna is used to interpret her role in astrology, which is associated with themes of sacrifice, isolation, and transformation.
This story of Sedna is also told in Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ book “Women Who Run With The Wolves” so you may remember it.
You don’t need to be a fan of astrology to receive a powerful insight from this story for these times we are in now. She tells it here.
2. What happens when we die?
This is a question that drives most (if not 100% of us as we are in moment of death!) to SEEK. IN shamanic societies and tradtiions, there are many practices and initiations that help you to befriend death. Thicht Naht Hahn, a Buddhist wisdom keeper (1926-2022) wrote this poem (see below) and it has been put to music.
For a brief empowering meditation on death and life, I invite you to read this first and then listen to the musical version. Its SOUL STIRRING.
What happens when we die?
A universal question that drives us to seek
The unknown, is a feeling that scares us
Let’s take a pause and begin from the start.
Warm in a womb protected by my mother
Every action of body speech and mind
was a direct transmission to this new manifestation
Your breath was my breath
Your love was my
No separation, only interconnection
And when time came, I moved forward
made my first breath, I cry as the cord is cut.
I felt my first feeling of disconnection, separation, loneliness.
My journey for survival has begun.
The wise call this the original Fear!
I look up, seeing a cloud floating in the sky
Through time and space
Morphing and changing
Knowing one day it will be transform
Into rain, snow, mist,
It makes its way home to Mother Earth.
Home here is the present moment.
The cloud has the wisdom of non-fear: it understands it’s always going to be continued in new forms.
No Birth, No death, just continuation.
And I smile, because
A cloud never dies.
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I got a painting started this week with this theme in mind and you can watch that REEL here.
3. Quote that Felt like TRUTH:
“It’s a strange thing how demonstrations tend to solve problems. The other thing is that it’s little known that crime rates go down in almost every community where you have demonstrations … Anytime we’ve had demonstrations in a community, people have found a way to slough off their self-hatred, and they have a channel to express their longings and a way to fight nonviolently — to get at the power structure, to know you’re doing something, so you don’t have to be violent to do it.”
~Martin Luther King, “Showdown for Nonviolence” (April 16, 1968 Look Magazine)
4. We Each Need Something Different Right Now- what do you need? Take it!
I will be doing a silent heart meditation from my home with my husband Mark next weekend. Join us if it sounds fun!
Let it go
Patience
Rest
Discipline
Take Action
Laugh
Gather
Take Time Alone
Make Art
Go See Art
4.
Intention and integrity matter. I am waking up and becoming willing to take steps. I have decided to pause my sharing my Amazon links that earn me a few dollars per month because of their dogged support of the current administration and their stance on DEI and many other things.
I will look for another way to share what books + other wonderful things I love with you!
I am here to support you! You can learn how to work with me and book here. I have now opened up some more Tuesdays! .
with much love,
Sarah
P.S. This newsletter is reader supported! I typed this while sitting in the infrared sauna in our basement, sweating:)
P.S.S. Minnesota FRIENDS!
The Ely Film Festival is coming up in March and I will be teaching a free class!
If you’ll be in or near Ely, Minnesota please come or share with a friend in or near Ely:). It’s free!
If you’ll be in or near Ely, Minnesota please come!!
March 15th 11:45 @ely folk school!
I will be teaching as part of the @elyfilmfest
A Creative Soul Retrieval
Self-expression is an important component to our vitality. Creative practice restores our well being. Together we will endeavor to connect with our own souls to retrieve something important and bring it to life.
“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?”
-Gabrielle Roth
You will learn a simple technique for soul-retrieving self expression that is restorative and healing.
You will spend time in creative community weaving your connection to the whole.
Its FREE
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