The Yummy List pt 2 🔥
What I have learned this year/What I have taught 🤍
This is the conclusion of my Yummy list & it’s from the depths of my soul & process to you 🤍 I know you didn’t ask for it but perhaps you find it comforting or at the very least interesting. This is for all members ~ paid/free ~ why not you treat yourself to a paid subscription & receive all the secrets from beyond my veil (tarot pop-ups, secret messages, lunar transmissions & more). . . I would love you a little bit extra, as if that could be possible . . .
Also, TONIGHT is the Holy Days Breathwork . . . . the perfect start to the New Year, there is still plenty of room for you & there will always be a recording 🤍
AND NOW > > > THE YUMMY LIST Pt. 2 . . .
The two most important things I paid attention to this year :
Palestine above all else ~ & before you shrug this off as hyperbolism or synchronistic activism, let me explain to you what this particular round of love & awe of the Palestinians has brought me right now . . .
Let me start by saying that my love of the Palestinians is 40 years deep & strong. I was part of a Palestinian community while in art school & the stories then were the same, the fear, the marginalization, the lack of resources, the refugee camps left for dust. I will let you fill in the images, pieces, history.
However, as heartbreaking as the events of the last 80 plus days have been, what I am paying attention to NOW are the larger puzzle pieces coming together in our minds & hearts, on a massive scale, above all the crumbling illusion of the good of capitalism & the striving for more & better ~ how far this has led us astray from Life. How self involved much of the western world continues to be, none of us exempt & how it has atrophied not only compassion & generosity but the ability to envision, & more importantly TO CREATE, a world that survives, a world that does not exclude the right to life from ANYONE.
At a time when any woke term that comes along is tarnished & trashed by overuse/misuse, what I paid attention to this year is the emotional intelligence that came along with, yes, waking up. I saw you all & heard so much beauty in the last months, beauty in the face of horror but beauty & love nonetheless.
And I am paying attention.
The second thing is more personal but perhaps connected: My ability to pay attention at all. The daily flood of information & night after night of restless dreams would seem to prove otherwise, but I find myself reading more & more & staring into the mystery with more & more acuity. It doesn’t make sense but I am grateful & yes I am paying attention.
Other Things I Am Understanding /Integrating/Feeling
The feeling of release: how many times in my life I think I have it & then realize I am still holding on. This year: hitting a deeper bottom on the daily since breaking my ankles on Halloween & shimmying free. That is a very good thing.
That the world truly does not care if I don’t go to the party.
Aging is a deep intrigue. Mysterious & full of Awe.
I am no longer preparing or presenting myself for Love.
I am already Safe (this is HUGE & TRUE).
When the Fear seeps in around the edges, the understanding that it is not mine (not the first time by a long shot but able to navigate but again with more skill/acuity).
The ability to swallow frogs on the regular (do the mundane calls, paperwork, organizing). No Big Deal. WOW.
Bending Time & Space (don’t worry I’m gonna teach you all how to do it too).
Drawing my circle closer, with such delicacy & beauty it deserves to be in an exquisite reliquary for the ages.
Things I taught this year:
I refined the way I teach over the last few years.
I love to teach more than anything. I remember asking a poetry teacher years back, George Starbuck, a well read & published Beat poet, who he admired & the told me about this gardener who had a PBS show CROCKETT’S VICTORY GARDEN (1975-2011) & he said that he formed both his writing & teaching philosophy from James Crockett. I never watched the show but even as an awkward punk rocker, I got the message & have never forgotten it.
I keep honing & sculpting to make the things I teach & the methods of transmitting them as close to breathing & loving as I can. Something like effortless but I still gotta type & make memes etc.
This year I also went back to my old school devotional practices, 40 Day Sadhanas (or daily practice) with specific themes. I offered these up by donation & held them daily for the whole world on Instagram Live & it was the best, truly, for me anyway. The first practice was this summer for the Venus Retrograde & it was, of course, about loving & being loved & the second, just finished on the Solstice, was about the fine line between Death & Deathlessness, our relationship to the Vastness & being together. I’m not sure when the next one is coming but I will let you know.
On that note, I also taught a 4 class intensive on HOW TO BUILD A DEVOTIONAL PRACTICE, for those that caught the bug of Sadhana & wanted to continue on their own. It will definitely be an ongoing thing, keep your eyes peeled.
OH & LAST BUT NOT LEAST: this Substack, started on my Equinox birthday & just a baby project so far. I believe. I believe. I believe.
What’s Next 💞
2024 Astro/Numerology/Tarot consultations: I rarely give one off astrological readings but I think this year will take a bit of discipline & planning so I’m clearing space for a bunch this January. Working with your natal chart & transits & also with the numerology of this year & the corresponding tarot. Do not hesitate to contact me if you are interested. Space is limited. $300/session (90 minutes). Write me: theloveartist@gmail.com
Learning to Pray with the Moon: One continuous month-long Lunar Prayer beginning on the first New Moon of the year (January 11 & including one meditation with written prayer each day). Time commitment can be as little as 10-15 minutes a day. You decide your level of participation. MORE INFO COMING SOON.
The Love Immersion in Costa Rica (2/19-24): 6 days of extraordinary presence & devotion in a femme-centric, trans/nonbinary inclusive ritual space, grounding the orgasmic frequency of the femme force with a commitment to ordinary & extraordinary ceremony.
Looking forward to this new year- with prayer and wit. Great intersection, in this time.