It has been a very long while since my last newsletter and people have been contacting me wondering what I’m doing and what changes my trip to Africa has brought to my life and my life’s work. The questions that come to my mind are how many times can a person transform themselves? How many times can they experience the fires of initiation and rise from the ashes? How many times can one reinvent oneself?
I am discovering the answer to that is many, especially if you have a life path number of 9 – in numerology it is the number of completion. In real life it means one must get used to a constant circle of friends coming and going as lessons are learned and hearts experience healing.
It means life directions can change and evolve dramatically with each completion of an astrological cycle.
I am approaching one such end and a new era begins in a few months and while I felt in my soul a time of completion following my journey in Africa the time since then has been spent honouring my trip’s teachings and following my heart’s desires to beginning anew.
Shedding the old, learning new (or should I say ancient) ways of living in harmony with my inner self and our Earth Mother.
While it’s exciting it’s also extremely challenging. I was looking forward to this past winter with plans of reading, researching and listening to the call within while taking refreshing walks in the snow to celebrate our variety of seasons. However, some troubles I had been having with my leg in the last few years intensified to the point of being unable to walk for any length of time.
I didn’t mind at first but as the winter wore on so did my patience and disposition. My saving grace was continuing to explore the ways of the old and caring for my plants. The two began to intertwine as I contemplated my experiences in Africa and our group leader Dean Liprini’s teachings that particularly spoke to me from deep within my being.
I feel my soul yearning to live more simply and deeply connected with nature. A couple months ago one of my dreams delivered a message – it was time to let go of my attachment to my comfort foods and take the next step to eating a live raw food diet.
This idea felt liberating and I jumped in whole heartedly – well, it’s having its moments but the challenges have been revealing some interesting insights into the areas where I still hold fear and pain and how we use food to both stuff our emotions down to avoid dealing with life and block our senses to keep us living in the boxes we’ve created for ourselves.
While my body is becoming cleaner, my mind clearer and I now have orthotics to help correct my leg imbalance my excitement is growing and I am becoming more and more passionately convinced that in order for us, as a human race to live in our fullest expression and create peace on earth we must rediscover our love and connection to nature – She gives us live, feeds us, strengthens us, and sustains us. We must learn to live in harmony with Her, in reverence of Her – the giver of life.
My research has led me to learn about permaculture, sustainability, eco-living, herbalism, aromatherapy and the amazing healing qualities of plants in their simplest form. I am astounded and amazed by the advancements (or should I say return) in these areas around the world and my heart is calling me in these directions.
I have ideas brewing on how to integrate this wisdom into teachings and pass them along which I hope to announce in the near future but in the meantime I created a fun blog a few months ago chronicling somewhat my adventures into the raw food living world – I hope you will take a few minutes to visit or even subscribe to my updates. Here’s the website www.awakenedaphrodite.com
Prior to my trip to Africa I had relegated my spiritual growth and the Great Awakening of the Divine Feminine to something I can only describe as being etheric – out there – in the stars, galaxies and cosmos but Her presence in the land, mountains, trees, plants and oceans of Africa was so palpable to me it was like she was right there as a living breathing being; walking with me, holding my hand in love and joy.
I am discovering the answer to that is many, especially if you have a life path number of 9 – in numerology it is the number of completion. In real life it means one must get used to a constant circle of friends coming and going as lessons are learned and hearts experience healing.
It means life directions can change and evolve dramatically with each completion of an astrological cycle.
I am approaching one such end and a new era begins in a few months and while I felt in my soul a time of completion following my journey in Africa the time since then has been spent honouring my trip’s teachings and following my heart’s desires to beginning anew.
Shedding the old, learning new (or should I say ancient) ways of living in harmony with my inner self and our Earth Mother.
While it’s exciting it’s also extremely challenging. I was looking forward to this past winter with plans of reading, researching and listening to the call within while taking refreshing walks in the snow to celebrate our variety of seasons. However, some troubles I had been having with my leg in the last few years intensified to the point of being unable to walk for any length of time.
I didn’t mind at first but as the winter wore on so did my patience and disposition. My saving grace was continuing to explore the ways of the old and caring for my plants. The two began to intertwine as I contemplated my experiences in Africa and our group leader Dean Liprini’s teachings that particularly spoke to me from deep within my being.
I feel my soul yearning to live more simply and deeply connected with nature. A couple months ago one of my dreams delivered a message – it was time to let go of my attachment to my comfort foods and take the next step to eating a live raw food diet.
This idea felt liberating and I jumped in whole heartedly – well, it’s having its moments but the challenges have been revealing some interesting insights into the areas where I still hold fear and pain and how we use food to both stuff our emotions down to avoid dealing with life and block our senses to keep us living in the boxes we’ve created for ourselves.
While my body is becoming cleaner, my mind clearer and I now have orthotics to help correct my leg imbalance my excitement is growing and I am becoming more and more passionately convinced that in order for us, as a human race to live in our fullest expression and create peace on earth we must rediscover our love and connection to nature – She gives us live, feeds us, strengthens us, and sustains us. We must learn to live in harmony with Her, in reverence of Her – the giver of life.
My research has led me to learn about permaculture, sustainability, eco-living, herbalism, aromatherapy and the amazing healing qualities of plants in their simplest form. I am astounded and amazed by the advancements (or should I say return) in these areas around the world and my heart is calling me in these directions.
I have ideas brewing on how to integrate this wisdom into teachings and pass them along which I hope to announce in the near future but in the meantime I created a fun blog a few months ago chronicling somewhat my adventures into the raw food living world – I hope you will take a few minutes to visit or even subscribe to my updates. Here’s the website www.awakenedaphrodite.com
Prior to my trip to Africa I had relegated my spiritual growth and the Great Awakening of the Divine Feminine to something I can only describe as being etheric – out there – in the stars, galaxies and cosmos but Her presence in the land, mountains, trees, plants and oceans of Africa was so palpable to me it was like she was right there as a living breathing being; walking with me, holding my hand in love and joy.
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This was a momentous realization and a life transformational healing; to experience Her as everything and everywhere, right here. This glorious, magnificent and fertile planet that blesses us with a variety of seasons to experience the different phases of life, death and rebirth – the joy and wonder of moving through cycles of retreat and contemplation, planning for the new year, planting of seeds, time of fertility and finally harvesting our rewards. Cycles that our bodies yearn to acknowledge and live by to be in harmony with Her.
Know that it is She – our Earth Mother who is calling to us during this time of planetary change – it is She who beckons us to transform our ways. It is She, in connecting and honouring Her who will guide us and protect us. There is no need to fear the changes taking place around the world no matter how devastating they may seem to be; both the natural and man made ones for they will ultimately lead us to find new ways to live - in harmony with Her and each other.
I’m waiting for the weather it to warm up a bit so that I can go and find a special place in the valley to lie down on the grass – belly to belly – with my cheek pressed up against Her, to give Her an embrace and express my gratitude for the life that She gives me and the love we share.
Know that it is She – our Earth Mother who is calling to us during this time of planetary change – it is She who beckons us to transform our ways. It is She, in connecting and honouring Her who will guide us and protect us. There is no need to fear the changes taking place around the world no matter how devastating they may seem to be; both the natural and man made ones for they will ultimately lead us to find new ways to live - in harmony with Her and each other.
I’m waiting for the weather it to warm up a bit so that I can go and find a special place in the valley to lie down on the grass – belly to belly – with my cheek pressed up against Her, to give Her an embrace and express my gratitude for the life that She gives me and the love we share.
Many blessings and love,
Kiernan
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