2022 Goddess Apprenticeship

A four and a half-month journey into the deepest recesses of who you are as we awaken the Goddess inside of you! Each month we travel through a different Divine Feminine Energy.   This is not JUST about painting, this is a Woman Empowerment Spiritual Journey.

...It was May 1988 and here is my story of that glorious Beltaine:

I climbed farther up the rocky crevice. There in front of me lay my place of dedication. The waterfall and the crystal-clear pool. The sun sat just over the lip of the cliff above.

I took off my dress and anded out to an exposed stretch of sand in the center of the calm pool. Standing there, I closed my eyes and breathed deep as if taking all the life, all the elements that surrounded me. 

Kneeling, I purified my body by washing in the cool stream. I became an open vessel, a chalice, and began filling with the Mother's life force.

The sound of my voice broke stillness and yet seemed to become part of the lyrical exchange between the water and the air.

I called forth to Goddess. I opened my heart and was blessed. I was of the Earth and the Earth was of me. There no longer seemed a distinction between myself or anything else in nature. I felt my body connect and merge with this supreme solidness.  "Earth of my earth," I whispered.

Above where the water flowed over the cliff lingered a fuzzy white shine, the life force, I thought; it seemed as if I grew ten feet tall, rising up to meet the life force resting above on that cliff. All the emotions and all the wonders of the world exploded within me. I understood them. Everything became possible in that moment of realization.

"I Am," was repeated over and over as I entered the realm of my Queen... .As I sat there, I heard the drone of a hummingbird flitting around my head and opened my eyes to see it frozen not more than 12 inches before me. Again, I listened and saw butterflies dancing in pairs. A sparrow dived down and somersaulted before the waterfall. Lizards crept out to the edge the rocks, sunning themselves in the warm Spring sun. Life was everywhere. I was alive.

I looked deeply, fully, richly at all things surround me and stepped through the transformation into my new skin. I became the Priestess of the Queen of Heaven, the Priestess of Mother Earth, the Opener of the Womb--Goddess awakened.

As I left the waterfall and climbed back down to the campsite below, I knew that somehow this had been my wedding day, but not to a mere mortal. I had married my inner Twin Soul, surrendering to the life force and had, in essence, become the bride of life.

                           [Kisma Stepanich, The Gaia Tradition, pgs 89-91]

The Dance of our woman empowerment, our Goddess Awakening, our Sacred Sisterhood will visit each aspect of the Triple Goddess. We will open to Her four-fold nature within us and explore those aspects within our own natures through invocation, inquiry, teaching and a painting.

OUR SCHEDULE

June 6 ~ Opening Red Thread Circle

June 20 & July 18 ~ Maiden Goddess - We will explore the sweet, wet, wild, wise one within.

August 1 & 15 ~ Mother Goddess - We will explore the nurturing love that flows into you and from you.

September 5 & 19 Wise Crone ~ We will come to rest within the sacred center of our holy circle and welcome the Wise Crone to the council fire.

October 3 & 17 ~ Shaman Goddess - We will explore the fierce authenticity of the Healer and awaken into Medicine Woman.

October 31 ~ Closing Celebration Red Thread Circle

This is not just a series mediums & techniques cover Intentional Creativity 13-Step Method, Watercolors, Mixed Media and Oil Pastels Paintings, this is a journey of Invocation, Inquiry, Teachings and Goddess Awakenings in a deeply personal connection!

I personally invite you to share this experience with me this year! 

The apprenticeship also includes:  Invitation to the Goddess Moons Red - COLORS OF THE WIND tribe that meets Fridays at 12 pm Pacific, but special private events,  Playdates, Popup art sessions and more!

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