The cosmic rebirth you didn’t ask for? (Or did you!?)

 

Beloveds,

Have you been feeling that brain-on-fire feeling of late? Perhaps like me, expending some extra mental energy trying to figure out ALL the things. Attempting to figure out WHY something is or is not the way it is? And how perhaps you can even CONTROL what is happening?

Welcome to Gemini season, made even more spicy by Uranus, which also happens to be squaring the nodal axis. Not to mention what Pluto, Neptune and Chiron are up to (which I speak to in the video below).

All of this to say, there’s A LOT happening in the cosmic playground right now. With the headline being that you, me and everyone we know is at a karmic choice point.

Over these coming months, we get to decide if we’re gonna play small and keep to the oldy moldy programs, structures and familiar ways of living and BEing. Or we get to be like the genius Fool in the Tarot and step into the great unknown, trusting that there’s a greater life waiting. Trusting in the pure potentiality of YOU as creator.

But here’s the rub, the existential pain point. As Papa Campbell said, “You must be willing to get rid of the life you planned so as to have the life that is waiting for you.”

Change is scary. And come on, you planned your life for a reason. As in, it’s what you wanted. (Or at least it’s what you thought you wanted.)

Sometimes change brings you something that is very much unwanted. (Ask me how I know!) Think job loss, rupture in a relationship, a crappy diagnosis, a heartbreakingly empty nest, a home loss, financial strain.

However, when viewed through Campbell’s lens, change also brings you to your greatness – if you choose to step over that threshold and become the hero in your own life.

We are in apocalyptic times. This is undeniable. But please remember the true meaning of apocalypse which is revelation, unveiling, to disclose.

It feels apocalyptic “out there” because the wool is being pulled from our eyes. Because what we believed in and supported and hoped would believe in and support us is false.

This karmic choice point is to stay in that comfort zone of deception and the illusion of safety. Or to create something entirely new with the energies that are here to support revolutionary change.

This astrological configuration last happened in the 1500s. And it wasn’t nearly so exact. And it certainly wasn’t preceded by Neptune conjunct Saturn at 0 degrees of Aries. This year, these energies – they honestly may never have existed before in the history of time. (Whatever time is, anyway…)

It is a very, very big deal. And when that static-y, brain-on-fire feeling happens, it’s super easy to lose sight of all of this, to lose sight of YOU as creator.

What you need now is to slow down, create internal space, hug a tree.

And if you can swing, it, come to Santa Fe for a half-day women’s retreat on 7/11 with my sister from another mister, renegade evolutionary astrologer Emily Trinkaus for Surrender to Your Revolutionary Rebirth. We’ll help you create that nourishing space so you can actually hear what your soul is pulling you towards.

I go into the energies of these times and this epic choice point in today’s Shamanigans. Give it a listen, share with a pal, and receive many blessings! 😉

The Spirit notes in today’s episode:

• Monkey mind, static brain, the Great Awakener strikes again!

• Uranus and Pluto are book-ending Neptune, which squares the Nodes. This is your karmic choice point and there’s a huge opportunity here. And yes, it also feels scary.

• The true meaning of apocalypse and why it feels so damn apocalyptic right now

• Some Campbell wisdom: You must be willing to get rid of the life you planned so as you have the life that is waiting for you

• Fire and wind = very fast change and what you need now to stay balanced

• The importance of making space, leaning in to water (emotions) and earth (grounding) – Join us in Santa Fe!

• Some things to remember: Some trees need fire. You are not who you think you are. There’s no growth in your comfort zone.

“Getting rid of” your old, safe and suffocating life can feel hard. I get it. It doesn’t need to feel so scary, though, because you’re creating something new from the ashes of your past.

>>> If these messages resonate, please share with one person in your soul fam. This is my ministry of love and it really helps if you like, subscribe and share. I appreciate you so much.

Yep, it can be challenging. If you need support navigating this great awakening or your own dark night of the soul, let’s talk. We are not meant to do any of this alone.

Big Love,
Anné

P.S. we need each other

Take it from the Tunes. We need each other now more than ever. Part of the illusion we’re (ideally, hopefully, please for the love of goddess) waking up to is the myth of separation.

There is no US vs. THEM. It’s a lie. And a curse upon us. It’s painful because it requires you to deny yourself, your own humanity and our shared humanity. It’s a means of top-down control and manipulation. A house divided cannot and will not stand.

I repeat. There is no Us vs. Them. There is ONLY US. All of us. Together. On the singular side of love. On the singular side of humans. On the singular side of the earth. We need each other. And the good news is that we have each other.

P.P.S. Join me live in Santa Fe on July 11 with the amazing Emily Trinkaus for a half-day women’s retreat: Surrender to Your Revolutionary Rebirth. Create the inner space and calm needed to listen deeply and nourish yourself deeply. If there’s a tug on your soul, an invitation to expand your Self in (r)evolutionary ways, please join us. We’d be honored if you shared with your soul family as well.

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Please join me live in Santa Fe, New Mexico for an astrology inspired women’s healing retreat.

The amazing astro-guide, Emily Trinkaus, and I are at it again. this time with a series of women’s circles focused intently on deep, radical, juicy connection – to self, to sisters, to earth, to creativity and creation itself.

I hope you’ll join us for one or for all (future retreats in September and November will each be on a different astro theme to guide our explorations).

Our first retreat in July is all about :::

Uranus in Gemini – Know and Express Your Revolutionary Truth

Live and in person, Saturday, July 12, 10am-3:00pm

A women’s half-day retreat in Santa Fe, NM with renegade astrologer Emily Trinkaus and soul guide Anné Klint.

On July 7, Uranus, planet of revolution and liberation, will move into Gemini, the sign of perception, communication and connection. Slow-moving Uranus was last in Gemini 1941-1949, so for many, this will be the first Uranus in Gemini transit in our lifetimes.

Uranus in Gemini wants to shatter old, limiting thought forms, expand your mind into wild new territory, liberate your radical message, and inspire exciting new connections aligned with your authentic self.

At the same time, media inundation and information overload are likely to ramp up to even more extreme levels, increasing the potential for mental anxiety, overwhelm and distraction. Navigated unconsciously, your mind and energy could be scattered in too many directions, that are ultimately not fulfilling, meaningful or productive.

In this retreat you’ll practice owning your own mind and strengthen your capacity to discern your inner truth separate from the external noise. To counter the scattering, staticky potential of Uranus in Gemini, you’ll be guided to ground into your body’s sovereign inner compass.

Together we’ll call in calm and quiet to cultivate your inner witness – the higher expression of Gemini. We’ll slow down to utilize these new frequencies in ways that are fulfilling, creative and aligned with your essence.

What to expect?

• Receive expert astro-guidance to see how Uranus in Gemini is activating your personal birth chart
• Dream into and set intentions for YOUR highest expression of Uranus in Gemini
• Through a plant meditation, invite an herbal ally to help you ground deeply into your own knowing
• Practice embodiment through mindful movement and spark your creative expression
• Be deeply seen, heard and held in your sacred humanness

This retreat is the first in a new series___

Cosmic Navigation to Inner Guidance: Connection, Community and Creativity

In this series of women’s circles, you’ll deepen your connection with self, other soulful women, your creative fire, and the cosmic flow. These gatherings offer a sacred space for being witnessed and nurturing meaningful interactions with other women on a shared path.

Each session will focus on a different astrological theme to align with the current planetary energies. You’ll explore how the astro-influences are activating your own birth chart, and work with writing, art, movement and other practices for self-inquiry, healing and transformation.

You’re welcome to drop in for just one session, or join us for two or three. Each group is limited to 12 women, to create a space for intimacy and depth. The next two circles will take place on September 27 and November 15, with different astro-themes that will be announced soon.

All women are welcome, regardless of prior astro-experience (including beginners).

12 participants max.

Early Bird: $144 if you sign up by Tuesday, July 1

Full Price: $169 after July 1

Save your seat here: https://embodiedaquarian.com/classes/p/uranus-gemini-retreat

Got questions? Hit reply!

Big, Radical Love,

Anné

P.S. You need to be seen and heard and held. You need connection with other humans in real life, in real time. So do we!! Commune with us on July 12th in beautiful Santa Fe to Know and Express Your Revolutionary Truth. Get astro-guidance to navigate these wild times, luscious coaching from me, get in your body, get creative and enjoy the support of an intuitively selected herbal ally to clear your brain clutter and ground into your revolutionary truth! It’s going to be a beautiful day together. Reach out if you have any questions.

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My (somewhat late) birthday gift to you… one helluva sacred and powerful conversation about the Dark Night of the Soul.

I don’t know why this reality is structured in such a way as to provide ample opportunity for experiences such as these; sometimes grueling adventures into the darkest and profoundly deep parts of yourself. But as Campbell puts it, the cave you fear to enter holds your greatest treasure.

Were I designing this simulated reality, I might make it a little gentler. But alas. This is what we’ve got.

That said, it was my extreme pleasure to spend some time in the depths with the fabulous Brandon Thomas over at the Expanding Reality podcast. He held space for a no-holds-barred convo about the dark night experience.

Heads up – this is not something to share with your kiddos (but a HUGE yes to sharing with your inner kids). We use grown up language but also talk about:

• The unique and also extremely challenging aspects of the dark night journey
• Suicidal ideation (and what I learned about menopause the hard way)
• What’s possible (think creativity, expansion and massive integration) when you bring your most expanded consciousness to your dark night of the soul

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As above, so below, as within, so without. We are in a collective dark night experience, so if you are feeling your own inner cave, you’re right on track. This is an exceptionally potent time for real transformation – the kind you have to walk through fire for.

But if my journey’s any indication, it’s beyond freakin’ worth it. Liberation waits on the other side…

If you give it a listen, I’d love to hear your feedback.

And if you’re done with so-called consensus reality, you may want to join Brandon’s community here: https://www.patreon.com/Expanding_Reality

Big Birthday Love,

Anné

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As I reflect on the turning of another solar year, I find myself using the word “courage” quite a lot. I sense I am being pulled towards a great unknown. I’m deep in the mystery, not quite sure where this river is carrying me.

And I bet you are as well, because humanity is being called forward. Being called to expand. To be tempered by heat and grow through challenge. We’re all being asked collectively to cross a threshold. And it’s still mighty dark out there.

It requires a great deal of courage to wade through dark waters. To move forward even and especially when you can’t see where you’re going. Because for real, the unknown is highly un-comfy for us mere mortals.

It requires courage to keep showing up as your most authentic self, to not be swept away by social programming or the expectations to “pick a side” (in a losing battle of separation). It takes courage to take a stand for LOVE.

It feels like chaos “out there” – like a pressure cooker building steam.

Which means we need to triple down on love because LOVE is what will bring us through. Love always and in all ways: love for each other (even and especially those we disagree with), for the earth, for art, for energy and most definitely love for yourself. 

I’ve been at this self-love journey for such a long time now and yet if I’m honest, it’s still a struggle some days. That’s the realness, the messiness of my human story. I am a spark of the divine flame (you are too!), a holy goddess herself, and yet reverence for self can still be elusive.

Some say it takes courage to have these conversations about the real struggle of self-love or the realness of the dark night of the soul. That may be true, but what’s so much harder is living a lie. Denying yourself. Performing just to get along. Staying small and quiet and fearful.

I can’t do it anymore, nor should you. It’s time we get loud with our love. We will not undo chaos with more chaos or drama. We are being called forth to be grounded, to be fiercely compassionate and to be resolute in expanding our consciousness beyond the theater playing out before us. 

To that end, I’m grateful for the opportunity to have these conversations and to be able to share them with you. So in case you missed it, here are two courageous convos worthy of your precious attention (IMHO):

My beautiful convo with Sara Jane about the journey of liberation from performing to please others to finally learning to please your own sacred soul self.

And if you want to better innerstand the dark night of the soul – collectively or individually – then you want to give this no-holds-barred chat a listen.

This is not one to share with your kiddos (but most definitely please share with your inner kids). We use grown up language but also talk about:

• The unique and also extremely challenging aspects of the dark night journey
• Suicidal ideation (and what I learned about menopause the hard way)
• What’s possible (think creativity, expansion and massive integration) when you bring your most expanded consciousness to your dark night of the soul

Special Bonus::: Please join me for a late bday party LIVE and UNCENSORED on Saturday for an Insider Hangout with me, our host Brandon of the Expanding Reality podcast and all the deep divers. 

2pm PDT / 3pm MDT / 4pm CDT / 5pm EDT on June 21st.

In this space I’ll be offering a super potent Torus Field activation, juicy “love seat” intuitive counsel and we’ll be talking about all the mind and heart expanding things that can’t be said on YouTube. 😉 

You can join Brandon’s Patreon with a free trial and spend a few hours hanging out with us. Do that here: https://www.patreon.com/Expanding_Reality

If you give these a listen, I’d love to hear your feedback. I read every email, even if it takes me a hot minute to get back to you.

Big Birthday Love,

Anné

P.S. If you are ready to liberate yourself from the conditions of your past, ready to free your soul gifts, then let’s talk. Your liberation is calling.

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I sense – and I’m sure you do, too – that great change is on the approaching horizon. I lean towards it and feel the thud of the glass wall – the bell jar – that encases me.

It’s the holding pattern. And I am in it.

You know you’re in a holding pattern when you crave forward movement but you feel you’re at a standstill or worse, moving backwards.

You know you’re in a holding pattern when you sense change is coming, yet you’re not quite sure how to engage with it, or what your role is.

Your holding pattern could be writer’s block, staring immobile at a blank canvas, unable to speak up or take the next step on your path.

Your holding pattern could arrive with major life transition, including loss, grief, or upheaval. Or war – inside or outside of you.

Your holding pattern might look like walking in circles, feeling lost or off track, stuck in quicksand. Feeling left behind. Wrong place wrong time, or somehow you’re not living on purpose. Oh, yeah, and what’s my purpose again?

The holding pattern can cause you to forget. It may manifest as exhaustion, confusion, weariness, frustration, impatience and worry that you’ll never get there.

Don’t feel like reading? Rather watch or listen? I feel ya! Enjoy this video that also includes a guided heart-focused practice on radical acceptance of all that is.

Your holding pattern may last 30 minutes or it might last 30 months.

If you feel like this, I invite you to compassionately ask yourself where is there?

Because remember, the holding pattern can cause you to forget.

The holding pattern’s mantra may as well be: the only way out is through (radical acceptance).

Immense change is underfoot and what appears true at face value is likely a farce. Dissonance comes in waves.

The Earth herself is shifting radically. And thanks to cosmic shifts and support from the ethereal, we are too, though it may seem imperceptible to you.

If you’re in a holding pattern, the invitation is to sink into it. Ask deep questions of it and yourself.

The holding pattern is gestational. So why not ask: What beautiful form is waiting to be birthed?

What can feel like endless waiting may just be the most profound creation experience of your life. And radical acceptance of what it is – no matter how comfortable – is the only way through.

The early part of the holding pattern can invite you to struggle against it, to force yourself into action in an attempt to jumpstart your way through it.

But once you’re deep in the squishy butterfly soup, you’ve likely exhausted that pushing energy. Which is good. It allows you to surrender to what is – to a process greater than yourself.

If this is you and you’re in a holding pattern, I invite you to remember this is not so much about becoming your true self as it is about unbecoming your old conditioned self.

The new world awaits, Beloved. And you are birthing it inside yourself. One loving moment at a time.

Big Love!

P.S. If you’d like to be held in sacred sisterhood while you transit your holding pattern, the Sacred Sanctuary might be the perfect place for you to land. The Sanctuary is my sweet, safe and sacred membership for spiritual women on a shared mission to living their soul’s unique purpose. Receive coaching and energy healing transmissions from me, participate in sacred ceremony, meditations and more. Learn more here or send me a message for more info.

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After cruising through southern Colorado, visiting Mesa Verde, soaking in the Durango Hot Springs and cresting Wolf Creek Pass, I was finally heading towards my home state of New Mexico.

I intended to make my way to Wild Rivers Recreation Area near Questa, NM and camp along the great gorge of the Rio Grande, the river at whose edge I spent my first 11 years. I would have a sacred ceremony and burn the Artemesia Tridentata (sage/mugwort) I had stumbled upon and harvested on the way to Utah. I would set sacred intentions for this next decade of my life.

But as my good buddy Joe Campbell keeps reminding me, “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

What waited for me was not a single available campsite. And smoke from a nearby controlled burn fire. And after a long day of driving and an expectation of ceremony, I was not prepared to drive the remaining three hours home.

Wild Rivers is where the Red River meets the Rio Grande, both in their wild states. I had never seen my river in it’s wild state, raging 1000 feet and 300 hundred million years below me. It was humbling to have this view of a river that had only ever ambled by. A river that at times down south is nothing more than a dry bed.

Hoping to find a place to sleep for the night, I made one more pass through a campground on the Red River. Which led to the final adventure on my quest.

Spirit had led me right into the welcoming arms of a merry band of artists who had gathered from near and far to support their retired art teacher, John Wenger, in filming the puppets he had created. A celebrated painter, Wenger has been bringing students to Wild Rivers for over 30 years.

The next thing I know, I’m stirring the pasta pot and we’re exchanging stories of expeditions into Utah, sacred indigenous sites, and the circuitous journey I’ve made from art to spiritual healing.

John had famously led painting students into Utah for 2-4 week excursions. He had befriended the local Mormons who told him where to find water. He knows the locations of incredible sacred indigenous sites, has experienced the way certain rock overhangs will distort sound, a ceremonial tool used by the ancients. He has a deep reverence for the desert and her indigenous inhabitants, evidenced by his wrinkled and tanned skin.

Rather than my intended sacred solo ceremony, I shared a true heart to heart with Wenger and several of his students. We communed over dinner and then breakfast, shared stories of our adventures with nature and art. We shared our hearts.

Wenger lives less than an hour away and has invited me to his studio. If the arthritic pain in his hip will allow it, he’d love to lead an expedition into Utah this fall and he invited me to join him.

When we truly allow Spirit to lead us, when we sense those nudges and follow the breadcrumb trail we never know what to expect. Letting go of what I want for my life, for my marriage, for my business often feels like a major challenge. I tell myself I’m not good at letting go.

Perhaps rather than focusing on the letting go bits, the antidote is simply allowing Spirit to lead. I say ‘simply’ even though it’s not always easy when all the cultural messaging tells us to lead with the mind and override our intuition.

Truly getting out of your own way is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself and it doesn’t need to be a milestone birthday to do it.

I continue to practice tuning in deeply to the cues Spirit is sending. As a result, my work is starting to shift and change as I hone my vision for what’s possible in my life and soul biz… and in yours, too.

I can’t say yet what it will look like exactly but I invite you to stay tuned for the journey of unfoldment.

I thank you sincerely for following along on my quest for inner knowing, for Snake, for divine connection and for the allowing of soul spark to lead the way.

My wish for you is that you listen deeply and allow Spirit to lead the way to your highest and best unfoldment.

Big Love,
Anné

P.S. If you’re feeling stuck when it comes to leading a Spirit-led life where you freely share your soul gifts, we should talk. My approach to holistic energetic healing allows your soul gifts and your path to purpose to emerge. Whether you’re stuck on visibility, clarity or permission to thrive, healing your past will open the door for your gifts to change your life, and possibly the world around you, too.

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After a solid week in a sea of orange sandstone and pale sagey green, my body and soul were ready for a cooler, more verdant experience.

The overriding intention for my quest into the unknown was to practice tuning in more deeply to my intuitive guidance. And when my body said no to another day of heat and wind, I steered the spidery van towards higher elevations.

I visited the lovely town of Monticello, Utah before heading east into Colorado. Prompts from Spirit led me to Dove Creek, where I turned off the highway and onto the very steep road that would lead me into Dolores Canyon.

With brakes smelling quite hot, I finally pulled off the road to find a boat launch ramp on the river. My body wanted out of the van. I wondered what on earth I was doing at this place. But I promised to follow my instincts so I milled about, wondering where the increasingly bumpy road might take me, had I courage to keep driving.

The canyon was spectacular. I had spent a few nights at Gooseneck State Park in Utah, 1000 feet and 300 hundred million years above the snaking San Juan River. Now I found myself at the raging river’s edge, looking up at another 300 million years of erosion.

At this boat ramp I met a retired Mesa Verde park ranger who lovingly invited me to walk down the road with her, whereupon I found the most beautiful BLM campground to park for the night.

However, it wasn’t until much later that I realized why Spirit had led me there in the first place.

Back at the boat ramp, I struck up a conversation with a young man, a river rafting guide, who shared the most incredible stories of his rafting expeditions on sacred Native lands throughout the Southwest. About pictographs and petroglyphs that can only be seen by boat. About singing stones used to summon the gods.

And when he felt ready, he shared his heartache over the death of his co-worker, a woman who had drowned in the raging river just two days prior. The day before her death, he had been asked – and refused – to go out in conditions he deemed unsafe. He felt somewhat responsible for her death, knowing rationally he was not. He was stoic, but I felt his heart. I felt his sorrow. And I held him in that space as tenderly as I could, being a stranger to him.

As the edge-walker, this is what I do. I sit with you in your fear, your sorrow, your joy, your confusion.

I am no stranger to death, real or metaphorical. No stranger to heartache, to loss, to grief that feels like it will drown you in it’s raging river.

In my work, this is what I do best: create a space so tender, so safe, so sacred that you feel able to navigate the waters of your experience to find the shore of your soul’s authentic being. To find that place where peace, calm and neutrality allow you to create the Spirit-led life you imagine is possible for you.

To walk your own edges, weave your own destiny.

Even so, there have been many times in my life that I wished I wasn’t alive. I feel no shame in sharing as I know I am not alone in this.

The truth is, no one really knows (despite what they may say) what happens when we die. One thing is fairly certain, we will never have THIS exact experience again. This morning breeze as I gaze west at the Jemez Mountains. This one-eyed soul companion, Luna, at my heels. This set of experiences to mold a life.

I was reminded of all of this in Dolores Canyon that day. And so grateful to that young man for sharing his heart with me.

What a gift it was to follow Spirit’s nudges to be blessed by sacred human connection and the flowing waters of your soul’s inner knowing.

My wish for you today, whether you are on your mountaintop or in your own canyon of grief, is to remember, or rather, embody, the truth that your life is precious, your soul gifts are priceless and that the river of your connection to All That Is flows and flows.

Big, Flowing Love,

Anné

P.S. If you have people in your life to truly witness you and hold sacred space for your unfoldment, I invite you to send them a blessing from your heart this very moment. If you seek more of this, reach out to me please. It could be that you are seeking what the Sacred Sanctuary offers: safe & sacred witnessing in a loving container of soulful sisterhood.  

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I turned 50 last month.

It was not the birthday I had envisioned some years back. I didn’t dress up as that 50 year old SNL character. I wasn’t surrounded by friends wearing wigs, drinking cocktails and being outrageously funny.

Instead I was in the Utah desert. Alone. Sunburned, parched and enduring a howling, gritty, uncomfortably warm wind.

Some days before the momentous/not-momentous day, I set up camp in the Valley of the Gods on BLM land previously stewarded by the Navajo and other ancient peoples before them.

With adrenals exhausted from treating a chronic tick-borne infection, a bit of over-working and the early stages of divorce mediation, I needed a reset.

What I really wanted was a miracle. Or at least a mystical encounter with my beloved power animal, Snake.

I searched high and low for Snake. In all the shady red sandstone crevices I could find. I sat still. I meditated. I dozed. I walked the arroyo, eyes on the skies upstream, planning in advance where to exit the flash flood zone should rain clouds suddenly appear.

I sang to Snake, whispered to Snake, yet Snake did not appear.

What did appear was an intense longing for my (human) beloved. And heartache over the dissolution of my marriage.

And deeeeep questions to Spirit about what new silky skin was truly wanting to emerge when this interminably long round of shedding was complete. What would my life and next-level soul work look like? Where would I live? And seriously, how long will this process take?

Lizard, with a beautiful spotted neck, came to visit daily. Flies and wild bees of all kind buzzed merrily by. Venus shone overhead each night. Snake never came to visit but I did have a mystical encounter after all…

I never once saw her, but Spider made her unmistakable presence known. Each day I rose to find new bites on my body; hot, itchy and red; belly, ears, scalp and legs.

The transformation was underway. I was becoming Spider Woman in the Utah desert.

According to Animal-Speak by Ted Andrews, Spider reminds you to ignite your creativity and weave your fate. The spider, with its two body segments and eight legs, is mystically associated with the figure 8 or the infinity symbol.

“Spider teaches you to maintain a balance – between past and future, physical and spiritual, male and female. Spider teaches you that everything you do now is weaving what you will encounter in the future.”

Spider’s silky yet strong web reminds us that the past always subtly influences the present and future. Think of that web, shaped like a spiral, a symbol associated with creation, expansion, growth and connection to All-That-Is.

According to Andrews, Spider expresses magic in three ways:

1. 1. The magic and energy of creation and creative power

   2. Spider keeps the (divine) feminine energies of creation alive

   3. The co-creative spiral web energy links the past to the future

Spider Medicine, like Snake, is associated with death and rebirth. Spider Woman, the master weaver, appears in Greek mythology as Arachne, is responsible for creation in numerous Native American mythologies and is a Great Goddess in ancient Mexican civilization. She walks the threads with grace.

I, too, have long walked the threads, walked the razor’s edge. One foot in darkness, the other in light, managing to hold both simultaneously. To express an awakened vision of what’s possible, even as darkness consumes a dying world.

You, as well, hold the past and the future simultaneously. Weaving the threads of your life into the tapestry before you.

All of us weaving our destiny, either consciously or not. All of us dancing with creation and destruction in each moment. Building a beautiful new world out of the ashes of the old.

Spider whispers to you today: Are you expressing yourself creatively? Are you striking that mythical balance between past and future, your own divine masculine and feminine? Are you consciously weaving your destiny?

I’d love to hear how Spider Medicine has arrived in your experience.

Big, Spiraling, Infinite Love,
Anné

P.S. Perhaps mythical spider venom is the secret antidote to an anaplasma and bartonella bacterial infection. According to a recent biofeedback scan, my naturopath sees no sign of that decades-old infection. I can’t wait to see what my new marvel(ous) super powers will be… stay tuned.

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