An essential toolkit for women in all stages of life transitions, the Moon Divas Guidebook offers accessible, fun and interactive support. Whether you are changing careers, beginning or ending a relationship, parenting, healing, grieving, birthing, graduating or longing to create your best, most possible life, Lara and Deva have developed self-care and sustenance practices to nurture positive, proactive transformation. PLUS: Art and writing prompts, delicious seasonal recipes, garden remedies, cyclic celebrations, community creation tips and MORE! Lara Vesta, MFA and Deva Munay, CMT are teachers of writing, self-care, ceremony and spiritual practice. This book is born from the Moon Divas workshop series they co-facilitate.
An essential toolkit for women in all stages of life transitions, the Moon Divas Guidebook offers accessible, fun and interactive support. Whether you are changing careers, beginning or ending a relationship, parenting, healing, grieving, birthing, graduating or longing to create your best, most possible life, Lara and Deva have developed self-care and sustenance practices to nurture positive, proactive transformation. PLUS: Art and writing prompts, delicious seasonal recipes, garden remedies, cyclic celebrations, community creation tips and MORE! Lara Vesta, MFA and Deva Munay, CMT are teachers of writing, self-care, ceremony and spiritual practice. This book is born from the Moon Divas workshop series they co-facilitate.
A guided journey of empowerment and healing through life’s difficult passages, with practical tools, including embodied rituals, writing prompts, seasonal self-care practices, and community creation. The journey of the Dark Goddess is a natural part of any difficult rite of passage. These transitions are often thought of as negative—death of a loved one, job loss, home loss, chronic illness, divorce—but even so-called “happy” transitions, such as marriage, the birth of a child, or retirement, can come with unexpected instability, grief, and a need for integration. In our culture, we may often feel like we should "move on" or "get back to normal." In studying myth, however, we come to understand that the purpose of challenging life transformations is not positive or negative. Year of the Dark Goddess provides an anchor and a roadmap for navigating the disorientation of life transformations and offers resources for embracing changes as initiations that strengthen us and make clear our purpose and power. The book is modeled on ancient rite-of-passage ceremonies and journeys to the underworld and is structured as a four-phase rite-of-passage process: Preparation, Separation from the Known, Transition-Initiation, and Return-Integration. The book provides readers with practical tools—embodied rituals, writing practice, seasonal self-care and community creation—to ground and empower positive transformations in times of challenging change. Readers may use the book as both a linear guide through the initiation year, or a nonlinear tool for structuring their own unique rite-of-passage journey. Readers are invited to create personal challenges, reframe their rite-of-passage through myth work and sacred art, and create a potent and effective rite of passage ceremony to integrate their change. The self-initiation process in Year of the Dark Goddess follows a ceremonial year, each quarter section is structured with the following: An interactive brief of themes and objectives for the quarter, such as making an altar, writing with the ancestors, creating herbal infusions, and storytelling. A seasonal ceremony template appropriate to the rite-of-passage phase. A unique retelling of an ancient myth or fairy tale and instructions for deep myth work. These tales contain the formula for how to successfully navigate rites of passage, consciously and unconsciously. Journaling prompts for reflection and projection, making visible the initiation journey.
The runes are many things-symbols, letters, sounds, instruments of magic and divination-but they are also vital beings with whom we can forge a relationship. Author Lara Veleda Vesta shares an interactive practice that enables readers to discover the unique ways that the runes speak to them. Featuring a detailed thirty-three-week practice designed to help you develop a deep personal relationship with each rune, Wild Soul Runes invites you to establish your own wisdom connection with the runes. It introduces you to the history of the runes, both in myth and through their connection with Old European archaeological findings. This history offers evidence for the idea that the runes have a feminine origin, deriving from the well of the Norns, the triple goddesses who represent the Fates in Norse myth. You will learn how to do the following: Make a rune altar, Develop a daily ritual practice with the runes, Craft a rune set and develop rune ceremonies for divination Book jacket.
Profiles fairies from ancient mythology, folktales, classical paintings, and international literature, and looks at their place in legend and folklore.
"Runes Revealed: The Wisdom of Cards and Their Meanings" is an essential guide for students of runes and esotericism, exploring the depth and symbolism of Norse runes. Through runic interpretation, Norse mysticism, and ancestral wisdom, this eBook offers runic spiritual practices and rituals that connect readers to their essence and destiny. Immerse yourself in the rich Norse culture and discover how runes can serve as a powerful runic oracle, revealing paths of self-knowledge and transformation.
Building on experience from 60 countries worth of independent travel, the author takes you on three journeys to places you may never have considered visiting, although you probably should and you definitely could. Learn about a low-budget cruise to Antarctica, understand what the Trans-Siberian Railway really is like, enjoy the natural wonders of Southern Africa. The book is a fun read, but you will also learn about far-away destinations and about how to travel independently anywhere. It's not a travel guide or a travel journal, it's both!More details, including free downloads, available from http://bjornfree.com/
With its breezy reviews and insightful advice, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go encourages women of any age to see the world — in a group, with a friend, or solo — and inspires them to create their own list of dreams. Based on her own explorations of many countries, states, and regions, and on interviews with travelers, award-winning author Stephanie Elizondo Griest highlights 100 special destinations and challenging activities — from diving for pearls in Bahrain to racing a camel, yak, or pony across Mongolia; to dancing with voodoo priestesses in Benin and urban cowboys in Texas; to taking a mud bath in a volcano off the coast of Colombia. Divided into such sections as “Places Where Women Made History,” “Places of Indulgence,” and “Places of Adventure,” this guidebook includes timely contact information, resources, and recommended reading. “Ten Tips For Wandering Women” features safety precautions plus pointers on haggling, packing, and staying parasite-free. Vivid portraits of free spirits like Frida Kahlo (“A tequila-slamming, dirty joke-telling smoker, this famous artist was bisexual and beautiful”) help travelers expand their experience.
