This week the medicine is in moving together. It's about connecting with the living fire in each of our bodies. Tears, rage, booty shakes - these are signs of LIFE, and every gesture can be a reminder that we are here together and the future is still unwritten. The soundtrack is George Michael's Freedom! 90, because we won't let ourselves down, we won't give up on freedom, we've got to have some faith in the sound. Turn it up loud, feel freedom of being your true self shimmy through your bones and awaken your lymphatic system, your internal world of resistance.
In this week's podcast episode, I wrote about a practice I'm practising, developed based on words from Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry and inspired by the larch tree:
Most trees only do "free growth" when they’re young, usually for the first 20 years or so. But larch trees keep doing it even when they’re old, all their lives they can push past what was planned to surge into new heights.
I’m still alive, my community is still here, still needs me, so like a larch I’m still growing, still shedding, determined to make lamp light instead of poison from the sap of my magic.
Witches we are larch kin, we show the world our brilliance. When the time is right, we signal the turning of the tides.
I’ve been repeating a spell adapted from Robin Wall Kimmerer in The Serviceberry:
I am flourishing and all flourishing is mutual.
Repeat it with me, join me in muttering this at subway turnstiles, gates and crossroads. Every doorway, every gate forming a portal to better brain magic:
I am flourishing and all flourishing is mutual.
I am flourishing and all flourishing is mutual.
I am flourishing and all flourishing is mutual.
I stop in the door and push my arms hard into the frame, do it with me, pushing, repeating:
I am flourishing and all flourishing is mutual.
I am flourishing and all flourishing is mutual.
I am flourishing and all flourishing is mutual.
Push with all your strength into the hard resistance, and then step out of the frame and feel the way your arms rise of their own volition, feel the way uplift just happens, trees grow like this and so do you, we will dismantle the cages of the world that insist upon the lie of poverty and inequality and we will flourish.
Here's to pushing past limits, amplifying and strengthening each other, insisting upon our freedom, flourishing.
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Meet Danielle Dulsky - Bestselling Author and Founder of the Hag School RSVP
Monday, Apr 28, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Danielle Dulsky is the author of The Night House and numerous other titles including Woman Most Wild, The Holy Wild Grimoire, and Bones & Honey. A heathen visionary, painter, poet, storyteller, and word-witch, she teaches internationally and has facilitated circles, embodiment trainings, communal spell work, and seasonal rituals since 2007. She is the founder of The Hag School and believes in the emerging power of wild collectives and sudden circles of curious dreamers, cunning witches, and rebellious artists in healing our ailing world.
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Thursday, May 10, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM EDT
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