Dear one -

Life is messy and uncertain and full of things we didn’t ask for and, given the choice, might not have chosen.

Life is also profoundly, heartbreakingly beautiful and full of things we wouldn’t have been wise enough, creative enough, or brave enough to imagine or choose.

So, on this journey, what guides us through it all? What keeps us oriented when we can’t see the big picture? When our personality self feels small and scared?

Cultures all around the world for thousands of years had ritual and ceremony, community and guides/ medicine/ spiritual support people, to maintain harmony within individuals, the community, and our wider relationship with the numinous.

It’s a connection with all of those, a healthy web of call-and-response with life in all its forms, that become the constellations we navigate by on this wide ocean.

It’s feeling ourselves a part of the universal frequency: Divine Love.

My tarot cards told me my main theme to pay attention to for 2023 was becoming more skillful in playing my instrument.

We are each an instrument and as the winds of life move through and around us, we sound.

By saying ‘yes’ to the invitation offered by my cards, I’ve been releasing and recalibrating, continually arriving at the point where my most essential nature meets The Mystery.

So when I said ‘yes’ to a quiet invitation to return to Shine Yoga, in Winchester, VA, perhaps for a retreat, my decision came from Spirit *and* me, from a sense of the larger tides.

And with each person who has signed up, I feel my personal joy *and* the sacred responsibility and blessing of being an instrument through which the larger tides can work in their life.

Sunday is quickly approaching. The fire is lit in the subtle planes, the circle has begun opening, and the threads of our individual and collective medicine have begun weaving themselves together in preparation for our gathering. This is how it works. A portal is opened, we say ‘yes’ and then open ourselves to the unfolding.

There are a few more spaces, a few threads, I feel calling a few more of you around the fire for Sunday. I don’t know which of you are hearing that call, feeling the gentle tug, or which of you will say ‘yes’. That’s your part to do, not mine.

I do know today is the last day for early bird pricing, so this is a good time if you are feeling the call.

I also know we would be honored to have you and the medicine you bring wherever you go.

​Join us at Shine Yoga in Winchester, VA this Sunday, June 4th.

A day for recalibrating your instrument so your voice sounds more clearly and the winds moving through you are those of Love, not something more limited and fearful.

There is so much magic possible.

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With much love,

Kate

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P.S. If you can’t make it in-person with us in Winchester, we have our monthly online community circle coming up on Tuesday, June 13th at 5:30pm ET. It won’t be as deep a dive as a day-long retreat, but it’s another way to gather in sacred space together for more connection and harmony - personally, collectively, and with the greater Mystery. Eventually these gatherings will be open only to our podcast Patreon members, but for now you’re welcome to come as a Patron or to check it out first, for free. Either way, reserve your spot around the fire here.

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