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Happy Pachamama day 🌿 Gracias, the Andean told

Happy Pachamama day 🌿

Gracias, the Andean told goddess who embodies Mother Earth and her abundant, fertile creative force, the sustainer of all earthly life.

We are about to crawl into another vientre de pachamama, to pray, sing, heal and celebrate this beautiful life She sustains.

Praying for the healing of our inner and outer landscapes and holding the wise words and Celtic tales of Sharon Blackie’s ‘If Women Rose Rooted’ closely in my heart today.

Photo by @fifthgod in the abundance of the cloud forest in Mindo, Ecuador 🦋

Belonging… I feel guilty, almost consistently,

Belonging…

I feel guilty, almost consistently, about not belonging to a place as an immigrant or traveller.

Although my movements are slow and respectful, there’s a greener way and that’s to be still, on one land and connected to earth and community in a deeply woven, action lead capacity.

The pandemic pushed a year of stillness on the land of my ancestors, walking the hills and forests, growing food, drinking spring water and slowing my creative, explorative fires down.

But craving for adventure, conscious community and whispers from the deep symbols of my dreams tugged at my heart again.

And now, I find myself settling into the abundant flow of storms, crisp mountain sunlight, grand creeks, forests and the vibrant art packed town of San Cristobal de las Casas, having spent a few months here.

A worldly Mexican elder I’ve befriended was visiting for tea and I confessed I feel I should be cultivating earth inspired change and action on the land of my ancestors.

‘Darling!’ She uttered, ‘The land of your ancestors is on the Pleiades!’ and with a grin, ‘and that’s rather far away… so focus on life here on Earth for now’.

So I want to express deep, deep gratitude for this land and for the people who have been carved from it, for their warmth of heart, smiles and laughter. For the beautiful, interesting people who find themselves here with the same itching to create a life closer to nature.

I pray the travelling party culture riddling Latin America shifts with consciousness as the demand brings violence and unrest to previously peaceful places - a recent problem here.

Thank you life, for bringing elders who see me, and land that feeds and holds me as I continue to learn and cultivate my place in the world. In this body, breathing this air, with long days of walking barefooted along river banks and clambering ancient stones, I’m learning to trust

that I do belong.

Remember… a time when we could drink from the r

Remember…

a time when we could drink from the river we bathe in

long days bare footed, shamelessly embracing all senses in nature

bleeding with the moon and offering our blood back to the earth

gathering in sisterhood as weavers, witches and culture makers

a time where song and dance were ecstatic celebration for the awe of this existence

a deep connectivity with life, birth and death

REMEMBER…

our innate, powerful wisdom

what is feels like to express freely, fully and authentically

the unique medicine we each bring to the world

Remember a gentleness…

A feminine approach to productivity and exploration

One of expansion and contraction

Where we escape the perpetual growth model that has never served us

It is time to remember

So that we can rise up
fully rooted
in the TRUTH of who we are.

🌿 Join us this September in Italy for our ‘Deep Remembering’ retreat 21.9 - 26.9.21 (link in bio)

With love X

Photo by @vertical.eye

Roots... When I was little I used to have a recur

Roots...

When I was little I used to have a recurring dream where I’d climb through roots into the earth and emerge into a dark abyss. I’d fly through the black air as colourful entities appeared around me, leading me towards a distant glowing land...

And in waking life, Mexico greeted us as we ventured deep into ancient Mayan caves, where pottery, doorways and stone walls sit amongst huge stalactites and stalagmites, millions of years old.

We drank from the same water as the Jaguars and ancestors of this land.

We sang into the sacred chamber of the Mayan underworld.

And as land is bombed to create open cenotes for the rapid development above ground, this sacred, alive land and the roots journeying deep into Mayan history remains secret and protected.

I pray this land stays connected to the descendants that honour it and that the animals can stay wild and unchained.

I pray for this water and her memory to stay pure and untarnished by resort capitalism.

Thank you for showing me your roots, great earth and spirit... and for the permission to enter such an otherworldly place.

Healing this body of mine... With medicine of the

Healing this body of mine...

With medicine of the earth, water, air and fire

With the touch of the Mayan abuelas

With honey from the sacred bees, given so gracefully

With plants that speak

And masters of ceremony and song

With biomagnetic therapy, kinesiology and pranic shifts

With deep friendship, community and platonic touch

Thank you for these blessings, for the gift to heal and feel connected again, thank you for my life, for the wisdom keepers and the magic of land, sky and spirit.

I pray I can continue to honour this process and trust in my choices

Trust in the synchronicities, the guidance of elders and in my inner calling...

🌱

Thank you @fifthgod for capturing me in this time in such a gracious way 📷

Ecuador, Chapter II... A deeper remembering and h

Ecuador, Chapter II...

A deeper remembering and honouring of these beautiful traditions, where earth speaks through the ancestral wisdom embedded in ritual and ceremony.

Crawling back into darkness, where our minds open and the drum beats our hearts into one. Un corazón.

Lead here by dreams, symbols and timeless friendship, I am so grateful to know community, touch, support, creativity and exploration in this way. To heal, grow, sing, learn and to simply be alive in this beautiful place - the cloud forest in her constant shifting cycles, where water of life blesses us everyday in powerful glory and where mutual respect with the land and her many beings is held sacred.

I would like to share this healing journey with you, one of re-wilding inner and outer landscapes and seeking another way beyond invasive medical treatments that have been pushed on me since birth.

I honour the systems we have in place for emergencies, yet I take great leaps to return to the plants, water, air, food, habitat and patterns that can heal the very roots of being.

If you are called in any way to this path of remembering, to plant wisdom and sacred ceremony, please know I am open to speak, share and listen.

Chapter II continues...

Shadow... The stars shone so, so brightly over So

Shadow...

The stars shone so, so brightly over Somerset last night. The dry, cold air clears the space between land and sky and the constellations decorated the vastness... which patterns capture your attention the most?

Using the stars as our guide home, like the dung beetle across the desert, we can honour the darkness that houses them.

The opposing forces within our psyches and within the collective experience are complex. It is through this dance with darkness and light that we have been granted free will.
Let’s gather to share some moments of introspection, also honouring these shifting times, and allow our dreams, hidden stories and suppressive masks to surface.

So we can stand bravely in the world, accepting our own paradoxical natures, knowing when to act and when to surrender to the cosmic depths.

Join me this Monday at 6pm GMT in circle. It’s free to join - Link in bio or DM me directly and I’ll send the info across 🌙

With love,
Roni X

Journey to the Inner Jungle tonight with us at 8pm

Journey to the Inner Jungle tonight with us at 8pm GMT 🌱

🌙 Find your inner wild sanctuary for deep healing

🌙 Meet different elements of your essence and access their wisdom

🌙 Drink the medicine of the jungle in astral ceremony

🌙 Enter trance and release subconscious patterning and embodied pain

🌙 Discover a deeper presence with your inner and outer nature

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