THE COVEN

 

 

Don’t ask what the world needs

Ask what makes you come alive

and go do it.

Because what the world needs

is more people

who have come alive

– Howard Thurman.

Welcome!

In this final chapter, as we honour the returning of light, we welcome the future and tune into our capacity for creativity. We invite life to speak to us, as we allow ourselves to dream into the oncoming cycle…

Dreaming

A guided embodiment practice to support visioning for this next cycle

Welcome to this practice of gentle poses and intuitive movement, holding space to listen and vision with your whole being, not just the mind. Coming into your roots and foundation, sensing into your heart and gut as ways to listen. Feeling into questions like “what makes you feel alive” and staying with the felt sense of it. Opening to guidance and opening to trusting the goodwill of the unknown.

I offer you a phrase “all my relations” as a backdrop to the visioning. A phrase from Native people of North America honoring the interconnection between all of life and guiding humans to live in reciprocity, respect and harmony with all forms of life – other people, animals, birds, insects, trees, plants, rocks, rivers, mountains and valleys.

PROPS: one blanket that can be rolled up, blanket/pillow to support the head.
Liina

Which goals and intentions do I have for this year in the realms of:

> Personal

> Relationships with others

> Professional

How can I be more loving to myself?

How could I be more loving to others?

How can I be more loving to the planet?

What is one thing I’ve been avoiding that I feel ready to own this year?

Journaling Questions

 

What nourishes my soul, that I want to invite more of, into my life?

What makes me come alive?

What matters to me the most? What do I want my guiding north star to be?

How do I want to reshuffle my priorities and what things do I set the intention to do differently this year, accordingly? How might my life look different, when I take these into account?

Which learnings of the past year do I want to take with me and anchor into this year?

What do I feel ready for?

What do I feel guided to embody more of?

In which ways can I use my sensitivity to make life more wonderful?

What do I want to make more time for?

What would I like to allow more in?

What do I want to commit to?

Rituals & Creative Practices

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We connect to our heart

and our capacity to feel.

To our body,

as a vessel for spirit

so our dreams and visions

are aligned in divine will

and anchored into manifestation.

In gratitude & trust

that when the heart speaks:

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it is heard.

 

 

 

 

Desire Meditation

 

A powerful way to connect with your dreams is to do a desire meditation. This is most easily done in pairs if that’s possible for you.

Choose someone you feel safe with, as this can be quite an intimate experience.

Each person has a turn. If it’s your turn, you can either sit or lie down, and close your eyes. Your partner then asks you the same question over and over again, giving you space between each time, to answer.

The question is:

What is it you desire?

Sometimes the desires might bubble up quickly, or sometimes they may take a while. Accessing our desires can feel like peeling away the layers of an onion, and can take us to some. very deep places. You may also reach a place ‘beyond desire’. Pay attention to the feelings in your body as you feel in and answer each prompt, and pay particular attention when you feel strong emotion. Our feelings are like rocket fuel for our desires, supporting their manifestation!

When it feels complete, you can change roles.

The power of words

How do you want to feel?

Meditate and enquire into what three words you would like to bring with you into this new cycle. Write them on pieces of paper and add them to your altar (and your magic box – see below).

You can also write your own personal manifesto, that you can keep coming back to, which helps you live life fully and in alignment with your values. Read it every day for the first week and then as often as you need to.

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Some suggestions:

  • Make it uplifting & focused on the positive

  • Be clear (not wishy-washy) and make it short enough that you can read it every day

  • Write it in the present tense

Make a magic box

Create a little box for your altar that you can place your dreams, or words or letters for your future self in!

Playlist

A selection of music to support dreaming…

Creating a Vision Board

Whether it’s painting, drawing, a collage or a noticeboard, carve out time to get creative with your dreams!

Begin by creating the container for yourself: light a candle if you want, adjust the lighting, smudge and have inspiring music playing. Take a moment to quieten your mind and center yourself, and offer a prayer from your heart that you offer yourself as a vessel for dreams!

Connecting with your future Self

Meditate and invite your wisest, most loving future self to connect with you and see what they have to say. Write a letter to yourself from that place.

Tara Mohr has a ‘connect with your inner mentor‘ guided meditation that you can access here.

You can also write love letters to your future self, which you could for example read on the Summer Solstice, or this time next year. These can also be short, or even words, that you can keep on your altar, as gifts for your future self.

Connecting with and creating gifts for your future self is powerful magic!

Create your own personalised ritual

Once you have come into contact with a particular dream, how can you get creative around anchoring it into reality? How can you combine it with movement or an action?

While there is always the possibility to follow someone else’s instructions or idea, you have an inner witch/magi within you, that can tap into inner guidance!

Here is some inspiration, but see if you can enquire inside and get creative! There is no right and wrong.

* Create a container for yourself (set aside undisturbed time, prepare the space & set the intention) and then use music and movement and dance your dream until you feel it in your bones.

* Invite the feeling of your dream already having manifested. Explore doing an everyday action with that embodied feeling 

* Choose to wear clothes for a day/period of time that connect to your particular dream (e.g wearing yummy underwear if your dream is to call in a lover!)

* Have an abundance themed dinner to call in more connection to abundance

* Create a power object (see Chapter 3) or a piece of art while connecting to your dream and place it on your altar

Planning for the cycle ahead

Get practical! What would be a gift for your future self if you were to plan ahead? What do you wish you’d done last year in your planning that you can now do?

If you struggle to feel a balance between work and play and free time, how would it be, to already commit to and block time off now?

Sometimes we might plan time off to rest, but what about time specifically for play or learning?

You could also block some time off around the Summer Solstice to do a mid-year assessment of how your year is going.

If you realised throughout the Coven journey that you wish you had less to do around this time, write it in your planner for 2022.

Do you get annoyed that you miss people’s birthdays? Put them in your calendar along with reminders now!

“For millennia, there have been human beings who could hear the earth’s song, and who sang it back to her, who could feel her hum of Thriving Life under their feet and who responded with dances for Life, mirroring hers. By following her lead, humbling ourselves to listen deeply, carefully, we, a humanity, became agents of abundance here in this place. Our presence caused, contributed deeply to, the flourishing of All of Our Relations here in this place, and throughout this continent, a single organism of vitality. 

– Pat McCabe