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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Our first retreat was such a fantastic and fun success we’re doing it again!

A women’s half-day workshop in Santa Fe, NM to explore Pluto’s transformational influence in your chart, with renegade astrologer Emily Trinkaus and intuitive soul sherpa Anné Klint.

Since 2008, Pluto in Capricorn has revealed underlying patterns of fear, control and limitation that maybe, just maybe, have undermined your power, vitality and freedom. Pluto has recently transitioned into Aquarius, but will return to Capricorn for one final visit, from September 1st to November 19th. (This is your opportunity to close out this cycle super strong.)

Pluto’s last death & rebirth hurrah in Capricorn asks:

• Are you living by someone else’s rules rather than your own self-authority?

• Are you trying to manipulate reality rather than trusting the flow of life?

• Do you ever feel like a victim of circumstances rather than the co-creator of your reality?

• And what would it feel like to truly claim your personal power in a new and more aligned way?

In this intimate deep dive into the Plutonian underworld, you’ll work with your personal birth chart to discover which house (areas of life) Pluto in Capricorn is activating. With our guidance, you’ll uncover the blocks still lurking in the basement of that house. Working with the tools of ceremony, writing, art journaling and inquiry, together we’ll alchemize that stuckness into your soul’s hidden gold.

You’ll also explore the house in your chart where Pluto in Aquarius will work its magic for the next 20 years. You’ll plant seeds of desire and possibility for those areas of life, envisioning the most liberated and aligned version of your future self.

If you’re ready for the resurrection that comes after you’ve finally let that sh!t really go, you’ll want to be with us.

Join us to close out the Pluto in Capricorn cycle with radical love and intention, and to prepare for the highest expression of Pluto in Aquarius – freedom, awakening, creativity and community. And who isn’t craving more of that?

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

Grab your ticket here.

Space is limited to 12 participants max.

Early Bird: $125 if you sign up by Friday, Sept 27

Full Price: $140 after September 27

Cancellation policy: If you cancel your registration before September 27th, we’ll refund your payment, minus a $10 processing fee.

We’ll provide snacks, please bring your own lunch. Dress comfy as we’ll be sprinkling movement and creativity throughout the day.

Note: When you register, you’ll receive an automated email with all the details. (If you don’t receive the email right away, please contact Emily.) You’ll be asked to email Emily your birth info, and to bring a personal object for the altar that represents the most aligned (and/or expressed) version of yourself. You’ll take this object home with you after our closing ceremony, alchemically infused with the inspired vision of liberation we co-create in our time together. Juicy!!

After clicking the “take class” button, click the small shopping cart icon in the bottom right of the screen, which will bring you to the payment page.

Meet Your Facilitators

About Emily: Emily Trinkaus fell in love with astrology at age 13 and has practiced professionally since 1999. She also has a background in energy medicine, which infuses her approach to astrology as a healing art. Her gift is to translate astrology into accessible, inspiring and down-to-earth wisdom. Learn more at www.embodiedaquarian.com/about

About Anné: Anné [“Anna”] Klint is a seasoned energy worker and psycho-spiritual healer. Anné’s path to reclaiming her Self and realigning her life has led to a bold body of work she now shares with spiritually-minded midlife women who are absolutely sick of playing small, hiding their soul gifts and prioritizing everyone else over themselves, and are ready to Liberate their Life!

Claim your ticket here.

P.S. The world needs you, me and everyone we know to shed the old ways of being and doing and step heart-fully into this new paradigm we GET to create. If you’re reading this, I’m betting you’re craving more freedom and alignment in your life. This is how we get there, together, in the coming Pluto in Aquarian era. Tickets won’t last, get yours here: https://embodiedaquarian.com/classes/p/pluto-retreat

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Sick of playing by the rules of a game that was never intended for me to win, only to keep you and me on the hamster wheel of doom, ever striving for validation outside of ourselves.

Sick of wearing the happy face, of being the fixer, of always picking up everyone else’s pieces.

Maybe you’re feeling this, too? The rising of flames from your belly or bowels, purifying you from the inside out. This feeling of “Nope – not another damn minute of this!”

This is the call of your inner goddess. Your inner Wise Woman, your beauty, your passion, your creativity. Your pull to follow your very own pleasure principle.

Because if you’re anything like me, you have SO MUCH love inside you waiting to burst forth, you hardly know how to contain it.

Because you, woman, are a force of nature. Your love can transmute every ounce of hate on this planet. Your love can transcend every form of malice, every bit of greed. Your love can move mountains, topple empires. Your love – when channeled in aligned ways – CREATES.

And this CREATION is your birthright. It is also your LIBERATION.

Because sister, your love will not be contained. YOU will not be contained.

If this is you and you’re feeling the call to liberation – of your life, your love, your purpose, your pleasure, your deepest inner knowing and magic – consider this your invitation to ACTIVATE YOUR LIBERATION.

How This Activation Works

Sometimes you need to leave the ordinary world of to-dos and tasks for a time and enter the non-ordinary world of your expanded heart, your soul’s desire, the playground of your inner creatrix.

It’s in this space that you can be really real with yourself. What do YOU most need and desire right now? And how badly do you really crave liberation?

When we meet, you’ll get to spin the Wheel of Liberation where you’ll name and claim those aspects of your life that are truly demanding liberation.

What’ll it be? Are you seeking to expand your creativity? Step into your soul work? Or finally have permission to enjoy real play and pleasure?

Part of my genius is creating safe space for the wisdom of your heart to speak through you, followed by active listening and deeply intuitive counsel.

In this deep dive coaching call, you’ll invite your own inner goddess to bask in my deeply intuitive listening and sacred witnessing so you can get crystal clear on your path to liberation. This is a 90-minute laser coaching session designed to empower you to ignite your own liberated life immediately.

In addition to my expert coaching, you’ll also receive an intuitively selected (read: just right for you) heart activation tool to take with you on your journey to liberation.

What to expect in this deep dive laser coaching session:

1. Identify and give voice to your deep inner longings, those areas of your life that are demanding liberation. Being witnessed is waaaay more powerful than you can imagine and is the first step in creating mastery over your experience.
2. Boldly name and proclaim from your own mountaintop what liberation looks and feels like and what it will make possible for you. Our container will allow you to somatically experience your liberated future, allowing you to create it more easily.
3. Based on your unique reflection, desires and situation, I’ll offer my heavenly-inspired, intuitively guided psycho-spiritual coaching to free you from your past conditioning so you can activate your liberation ASAP.
4. I’ll also teach you a practical yet profound tool to open your heart and resource your nervous system, a tool to help you create the liberation you seek.

Pay in full, save your seat on my calendar ASAP and immediately receive a *bonus* Liberation Activation video to prep for our call: $444

Or make two payments over two months of $222 each (email me to set this up). You’ll immediately receive the *bonus* Liberation Activation prep video and our call will be held once your second payment is made.

My schedule fills fast so if this is for you, get on my calendar ASAP. (I also can’t guarantee how long the price will be this low.) Your liberation will not be delayed!

Activate Your Liberation here. 

Big Liberated Love,
Anné

P.S. Don’t miss this very special chance to get my supremely intuitive laser coaching to liberate your life from the shackles of conditioning that have held you back. Say “No More!” to playing it small and appeasing the powers that be in your life. Liberation is your birthright! And it will not be delayed.

Join me to Activate Your Liberation and receive the guidance and support you need to step firmly onto your Path of Liberation. This is a rare opp to get a single coaching call with me that will change the course of your life. My calendar fills fast so book that call with me stat!

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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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As a highly sensitive, moon-in-Scorpio gal I have craved intimacy my entire life. You could even say I’ve been chasing it, but rarely catching it.

I’m talking about the seeing-deeply-into-your-soul kind of intimacy that you have with someone who truly gets you. Or at least aspires to get you in a fundamentally compassionate, open-hearted way.

I was raised by well-meaning but heartbroken folks who, like the whole entire world at that time, didn’t understand what a highly sensitive, empathic kid needed to feel seen, heard and intrinsically safe.

I got the message that I was way too sensitive; in essence, that there was something wrong with me.

So I did what kids do. I got lost inside myself as a way to protect my tender heart. But it seemed like nobody noticed I was gone. Nobody came to find me.

I carried this wound and this hide-and-please-seek-me coping strategy for decades. In fact, there are new layers that I’m excavating still.

For this is the true healing journey, a spiral that continues so long as we are willing to bring compassion and consciousness to the deep and sacred work of knowing and honoring ALL of our Self.

This, in fact, is Sacred Intimacy.

The unflinching, courageous act of looking deeply into the mirror of your soul, or the soul of another.

It is the greatest gift you could ever offer to yourself or another.

In my own Sacred Intimacy practices, I have been looking courageously at how this wound and a lifelong unmet need for intimacy manifested in codependency, people pleasing and loss of connection to my authentic soul Self.

It has not been easy to see how I unconsciously contributed to the mess in my now-dead-marriage, chose emotionally unavailable partners and how I abandoned myself again and again along the way, ensuring that the intimacy I craved was always just out of reach.

The way through has been a deep Holding and Expansion practice of being with my pain and my lost parts, calling them back, letting them know that someone, finally, realized they were gone and wants them to come home.

I know that a great many of us, in fact probably the majority of folks raised in the west, suffer similar relational wounds.

Our culture does not understand or prioritize attunement and intergenerational trauma perpetuates relational wounds like no other. Add in addiction and a Puritan-inspired workaholism and you have the perfect recipe for an entire nation of walking wounded.

This past Sunday I hosted my Sacred Sundays healing circle on Sacred Relationships.

This is an event in my very special, deeply intimate online women’s circle called the Sacred Sanctuary. And in our recent meeting, I shared about the influence the sacral energy center has on our relationship with absolutely everything and everyone.

The sacral center (or chakra) is the lens through which we seek to control our environment, create loving psychological boundaries for ourselves, and provides a survival instinct for moving through the world. It’s how we create safety.

The primary fears associated with the sacral center are loss of control or power, betrayal, financial loss, isolation and abandonment.

When balanced, the sacral center offers the ability and tenacity to physically and financially survive on your own and take risks. It offers resilience in the face of great loss, including loss of loved ones, health, wealth, occupation and even identity.

It’s been a year since my husband walked out of our relationship unexpectedly. And in this time, every sacral fear has been activated within me, thrusting me into a deep, painful and necessary round of Sacred Intimacy with myself. (And if you are wondering, yes, I work with my own trauma-informed, psycho-spiritual coaches, healers and therapists.)

My willingness and ability to be vulnerable and honest in this Sacred Sundays healing circle about my own struggles with codependency and fears of inadequacy in my marriage created the beautiful opening for those present to open up about deeply impactful aspects of their most important relationships.

We held one of the most open-hearted, conscious conversations about the messiness and magic of relationships that I’ve ever had the privilege of being part of.

Sacred Intimacy truly is humbling, life-altering and life-affirming work. In fact, it is THE path to leading a self-actualized, present, purposeful, connected life.

I closed our meeting Sunday with a sacral energy center healing activation and if this resonates with you, I invite you into your own abridged version now:

Place a hand on your heart and one on your lower belly.

Feel your breath move into your heart and if comfy, allow your breath to expand your belly.

Using breath and awareness, connect your heart space with your sacral womb space.

On your inhale, breathe compassion into your heart space.

On your exhale, allow compassion to fill your whole torso, down to your sacral center, even to your root.

If it feels juicy, go ahead and remind yourself that you are SAFE.

Stay with this cycling of sacral-heart energy as long as it serves you.

If you’d like to know more about what we do in my online membership for women, The Sacred Sanctuary, please reach out. The group is intentionally kept small but I do have a few open seats available at this time.

Here’s to you feeling safe and connected enough to see deeply into the mirror of your own soul. And to let someone else see you and be seen by you.

Big Love,
Anné

P.S. If, like me, you crave emotional intimacy and you sense a shared spiritual practice among like-hearted, grounded, loving women will support and nourish your journey to self-knowingness and a purposeful life, ask me about the Sacred Sanctuary membership for women. The group is intentionally kept small to provide safety and true connection but I have a few spots open. Please reach out to see if it’s a good fit. <3

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