Posts by Janet Conner
A Solstice gift to help bring your sacred desires to life in 2020
I have a special invitation for you that couldn’t come at a more perfect time—Solstice! We are all getting ready to create not just one new year, but a whole new decade, the decade of 4. I’m immersed in this myself, not only with the Lotus and Lily community that is getting closer to creating…
Read MoreEpisode 19: Clark Strand and Perdita Finn
How do an ex-Buddhist monk and a woman raised to be agnostic fall head over heels in love with the rosary? Meet Clark Strand and Perdita Finn in Episode 19.
Read MoreCelebrating 5 years of the Divine Feminine with a gift for you in December
Five years ago yesterday, on December 1, 2014, I entered a 40-day and 40-night initiation. Only I didn’t know that is what was happening. Initiation was the last thing on my mind. I thought I was sick. As I was finishing leading The Lotus and The Lily community in the “Release Your Prisoners” meditation, I…
Read MoreHow the world looks through Theta eyes
Last week I talked a bit about the theta brainwave state as the brainwave of love. This is a nascent idea, not only to me, but to the world.
Read MoreIs there a brain wave for love?
This is a question I have not pondered before. But it asserted itself this week. All day and all night this question kept tapping me on the shoulder.
Read MoreEpisode 18: Stephen Post
Janet and guest, Stephen Post, take a wild ride filled with mystery, love, and prayer. And we get to take it with him in God and Love on Route 80.
Read MoreChange your brainwave. Change your world.
It’s only in the slow gentle Theta brainwave state that you have access to things you do not already know.
Read MoreChoose: your cart or the horse
You know that moment when an idea penetrates your being, rearranges your brain, and everything—everything—changes before your eyes?
Read MoreEpisode 17: Hallie Iglehart Austen
Hallie and Janet discuss the dramatic difference when divinity looks like our bodies, what is transmitted when we gaze at a goddess image, and what happens when we embody a goddess’s pose.
Read MoreWe are in a sacred 66-day passage between decades
2019 has been wild, hasn’t it? Almost everyone I know has experienced some kind of unexpected upheaval. Wild new possibilities tapping on the window.
Read MoreWhat is it about November 11?
November 11 has always been sacred ground for me. Eleven Eleven. The master number of the Divine Feminine 2. It is a mystical adventure.
Read MoreEpisode 16: Kimberly Marooney
Janet’s guest discusses how prayer transformed her life. A radical prayer opened the path that took her from financial consulting to angel consulting.
Read MoreOctober–the month to see what has been hidden
I followed where the writing wanted to take me. Even though it was painful to see all the ways in which I consciously and willfully looked the other way rather than name what I saw and confront it.
Read MoreA personal message from Mary Magdalene as the Black Madonna
The words are so much more than words. They are a direct open flow of love from her sacred heart to your heart—and you feel it. You feel it in your whole body.
Read MoreEpisode 15: Mandara Cromwell
In this episode with Mandara Cromwell, your ears will open to a whole new love affair with the sacred power of sound.
Read More2020 begins in October under the protection of The Magdalene
The Magdalene is returning to get us ready for 2020, a sacred year of collapse and rebuilding. And she’s returning not just in any form, but as the Black Madonna herself.
Read MoreMary Magdalene returns–as the Black Madonna!
My heart started thumping in recognition of something I couldn’t name. My heart kept telling me that the Black Madonna is THE Madonna.
Read MoreEpisode 14: Mallorie Vaudoise
Join Janet and her guest, Mallorie Vaudiose, as they discuss ancestors beyond their bloodlines and how to venerate them and receive their blessings!
Read MoreSeeing yourself again—for the first time
That’s the way most of us walk through life. Scarred and scabbed but looking okay enough on the surface to just keep going—and going and going.
Read MoreHow to find your true center of gravity
As you explore the creative beauty of your womb, releasing all the restrictions placed there by patriarchal attitudes about blood, menstruation, childbirth and menopause, you’re going to find your true center of gravity.
Read MoreEpisode 13: Dr Christine Page
Join Dr Page and Janet as they discuss wombs, moon cycles, and embracing their dragon power.
Read MoreMeet the woman who will awaken your goddess power
Healing your three wombs may be the most powerful, important and foundational work you will ever do as a woman and a mystic.
We have forgotten how to do this but in Healing Your 3 Wombs we will re-member it.
Read More2 gifts to start the MOVEMENT of healing
Your female body knows at some deep visceral level that your body is sacred. Your body is holy. You are the embodiment of divinity.
How does your body know that? Simple. Movement.
Read MoreEpisode 10: Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
This intimate conversation with Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, author of Wounds into Wisdom, drops into a whole new place—a holy and sacred place.
Read MoreCleansing and clearing your powerhouse—your womb
The hour has come to cleanse and heal our wombs and resacralize our relationship with our bodies.But how, I wondered? I should have known Sophia was ahead of me, lining up the perfect teacher.
Read MoreThe mystical power of the gaze
The heart of radical prayer is forgiving everyone. Everyone. We begin by gazing. We gaze with love at those we find hard to love.
Read MoreEpisode 12: They Are All Our Children
Please join me in this alchemical prayer of radical love and forgiveness to transmute the consciousness that creates, perpetuates, and profits from this political system of separation and fear.
Read MoreLove is loud and clear in her numbers
“Consent draws down grace.” I am proof that it does, because with my one-word consent, the intensive itself comes to life. It starts to take over, and it leads me where I need to go. And lately, I have to run to keep up.
Read MoreA Personal Message from Depth Numerologist Emma Kupu Mitchell
When you have a better understanding of yourself, you can live life at a deeper soul level, creating a richer and more meaningful life. By understanding the relationship with yourself, you have a greater understanding and harmony with other relationships in your life.
Read MoreEpisode 11: Elizabeth Cunningham
Join us for wild stories, hair-raising biblical quotations, and spontaneous goddess songs.
Read MoreDecoding Numerology—the love language of The Mystic
No matter how much I learn about this love language of numbers, the more I notice, and the more I want to know.
Read MoreDo you see your pattern of life and death?
This July is a wild one. Are you feeling it? Two new moons. Solar Eclipse. Lunar Eclipse. Six planets in retrograde. Even if you don’t pay attention to astrology, your body does.
Read MoreEpisode 9: Celeste Yacoboni
This gorgeous conversation will evoke your own prayer memories and it may well cause you to fall in love with prayer.
Read MoreA Love Song for me and for you
There’s only one thing that is the same in all the stories. In the end, they’re all love stories. Love letters. Love songs.
Read MoreThe moon, soul writing, July, and you
I was called to offer a new way to learn soul writing, helping people to fall fast into The Mystic. And what a whole new way it is turning out to be!
Read MoreHow can answers come before questions?
I realized I had just received the ANSWER to an essential question, but it was a question I never asked. Not on the page. Not even in my mind.
Read MoreEpisode 8: Briana Saussy—finding magic in prayer
Questions sparked this juicy, funny, slightly erotic conversation between a magician and a prayer artist and created a new magical definition of prayer.
Read MoreHow to break through creative resistance
Writers are creators. And all creators share the creative process. Whether you are a musician, author, speaker, actor, dancer, chef, singer, weaver, gardener…there’s no end to this list…you are called to enter into an intimate relationship with the divine creative energy that has chosen YOU to express it.
Read MoreTwo Surprising Elements in a Mystical Practice You Will Love
This week I was blessed to record a very real conversation with Timothy Frantzich and Carin Vagle about their prayer lives. Something happened in that conversation that deepened how I think about, talk about, and personally experience deep soul writing.
Read MoreEpisode 7: Sofia—the music of prayer
A truly magical conversation about the mystical music of prayer.
Read MoreThe first ever Deep Soul Writing intensive!
After ten years of teaching soul writing, this is the first time I’ve offered it as a prayer intensive. And it is completely different from all my previous courses.
It has to be.
Because Prayer Artist changed everything. Including how I understand and teach deep soul writing.
Read MoreWhat I learned from Mary Magdalene
I had other plans for today’s post, but The Magdalen wants me to share what I learned. And make no mistake, when The Magdalen speaks, you obey!
Read MoreEpisode 6: Alessandra Belloni and the Black Madonna
This conversation transcends the word “conversation.”
Read MoreCherish your body through Original Prayer
My body is more than a temple for the divine, my body is divine.
This is beyond an idea. This is a living sensation. A deep body knowing. You can’t learn that your body is holy, you feel it. And you feel it in your body. So how do you get there?
It’s my birthday—and the gift is for you!
I want to do something on my birthday that applauds my soul for making the outrageous choice to come into this world. So the gift is for you!
Read MoreEpisode 5: Kahu Lāhela Johnson
How does one become a kahu—keeper of the ancient Hawaiian Shamanic ways? Lahela Johnson shares her amazing childhood talking to plants, ocean, mountains, and animal spirits.
Read More1st and only Original Prayer Weekend Retreat
Just as I am redefining prayer, it looks like I’m also redefining retreat. The Original Prayer Weekend Retreat is unlike any you have experienced.
Read MoreMary Magdalene’s mystical sacrament of anointing
The sacrament of anointing is all about the wholeness of love. It’s a prayer practice that floods your visible body with invisible love. It brings The Mystic, The Imaginal into the physical in a real, tangible, transformative way.
Read MoreEpisode 4: Mirabai Starr
Mirabai Starr and the Wild Mercy of the Divine Feminine
Read MoreThe Mary Magdalene we were never supposed to meet
Who was Mary Magdalene? This question has simmered below the surface for two thousand years. This is not a Mary Magdalene we were ever supposed to meet.
Read MoreWhat would happen if you were unleashed?
There is a vital connection between creativity and mysticism. To make art is to make love with the sacred.
Read MoreEpisode 3: Meghan Don
Meghan Don meets Mary Magdalene
Read MoreThe Sabian Symbol for the new Lunar Year is…
New Year’s Eve (that’s lunar new year’s eve) was Thursday. The first day of the new lunar year was Friday. And Saturday was a lovely day to rest and digest and integrate this birth.
And it was quite the birth, wasn’t it!
Read MoreThe surprising relationship between the Moon and your health
The more aware you become of your body moving in rhythm with the natural phases of the Moon, the more elegantly you can move with, and align with, life.
Read MoreEpisode 2: Emma Kupu Mitchell
From praying in a cathedral in England to communing with sacred land in Hawaii, Emma shares her prayer journey.
Read MoreYour natal chart Moon holds the answers to 3 questions
You know that phrase: When the student is ready, the teacher will come.
Read MorePraying at the Speed of Love is BORN!
Praying at the Speed of Love Podcast is born! My first guest is….me. Because I have to tell you the stories behind this show and behind prayer artist.
Read MoreEpisode 1: Janet Conner, My Prayer Podcast Story
The Story Behind Praying at the Speed of Love
Read MoreHow you can grow younger in the second half of life
When Susan Matyas sent an email inviting me to speak at her “The Ageless Woman” summit, I started laughing.
Not at her. Or at her summit. But at this crazy synchronicity.
Read MoreA call to transfiguration on this sacred 333 day
Do you know what today is? March 3, 2019. Our solar year is a 3 (2 + 1 + 9 = 12 which reduces to 3). Today is a 3-3-3 day. A triple 3.
Read MoreFirst—maybe only—invitation to Ho’oponopono for Mother Earth
After 4 deep personal experiences with Ho‘oponopono, we are turning our love and prayers toward our shared mother, our One Mother, Mother Earth.
Read MoreWhat is prayer?
What is prayer? Have you ever asked yourself this question?
I never did.
Prayer was simply what we did as a child.
No one sat me down and talked about what prayer is or who we’re praying to or why. It was just assumed. It was in the air.
And I didn’t question it.
Read MoreWhat happens when we pray…together?
When I first heard the words, “prayer artist” in the night, I didn’t have a clue what it meant or where it would take me. And it scared me.
Read MoreA personal letter on healing from Kahu Lāhela on Ho’oponopono
When Kahu Lāhela and I created the first Ho’oponopono prayer intensive, we couldn’t see the beautiful future. But we knew with all our hearts that this prayer is alive and leading the way.
Read MoreCan Ho’oponopono heal your body?
2013 was a strange year. How could one year be filled with so much sorrow–and so much grace and possibility.
Read MoreThis is what happens when you say YES
When I clearly heard “prayer artist” in the night 11 months ago, I had a choice. Even in the dark in the middle of the night, I knew I had a choice. But here’s the problem:
My body voted one way. My heart another.
The Romance is 10 years old and it just got better
My first book, Writing Down Your Soul came out ten years ago on January 1, 2009. Eleven days later I gave my first public talk at Wings Bookstore in St Petersburg Florida. I had taught a live course on deep soul writer at First Unity in St Pete a few months prior, so I had quite a…
Read MoreA Winter Solstice Prayer
Last Sunday I spoke about how sacred December is for me. Every year, December ushers something in, something I’m not expecting or requesting. It has happened so often that I am certain that Something else guides each of my new beginnings. Something Sacred. Something Wise. Something most Holy. My job is simply to prepare.Prepare and…
Read MoreTune into December’s Voice with your body
You don’t have to strip your holidays down as radically as I do. To find what’s right for you, tune into your body. If you’lre not excited about something, turn to your gut and see if you really want to do it or if it’s more of an obligation.
Read MoreThe Speed of Love
Things are moving so very quickly aren’t they? Everyone is talking about how things are changing in their lives and changing at a speed they’ve never encountered before. It does seem that the time ofconsidering change,contemplating change,incrementally moving in a new direction–that time has ended. Although no one knows exactly why or when. It just seems to have…
Read MoreAre you ready to hear the Love Song of your life?
This year is turning out to be full of mystical surprises, isn’t it. And with each surprise we find ourselves travelling roads in The Mystic we have not walked before. Roads most of us didn’t even know were there. That is certainly happening for me. And I love it, even though I don’t often understand…
Read MoreThe Beloved is Singing a Love Song to Your Body
There is a current of love-energy that flows between Earth below and Sun above. The central channel of your spine is the riverbed. The streaming is as delicate and powerful as the tingling touch of lovers.The Radiance Sutras Dear deep soul explorer, Our bodies respond to the movements of the planets and stars whether we…
Read MoreWhen the Soul Starts Singing Love Songs
Last week, I told you the story of how love found me lying on the floor in savasana in yoga. (If you haven’t read it, January 14 sets the stage for today’s Part 2. I have a feeling this is the opening chapter of a love epic.) There is one paragraph in that Notes from the Field…
Read MoreHow are you going to come alive in 2018?
I drive two hours every Thursday to attend a devotional yoga practice that activates the divine feminine. Even I think it’s a crazy commitment, but Kali Natha Yoga is an essential element in my mystical life. Last Thursday, the beauty and wonder of this yoga opened me to a cosmic experience. I’d like to share…
Read MoreMy son went to prison–and I learned to pray
The mystical practices of soul writing and Intention Mandala were birthed in trauma. As I began Soul Vows, there was no trauma in sight. Would I finally get to write a book without pain? Trauma, as you’ve probably discovered, can be a divine invitation. Not one you want, of course, but a divine invitation nonetheless. That’s…
Read MoreAm I the Mikey of the mystical life? (Are you?)
Thomas Merton said, “It is not we who choose to awaken ourselves, but God who chooses to awaken us.” In that case, our only option is to say yes. I confess, I’m getting pretty good at this game of yes! When Writing Down Your Soul came out, I didn’t see any particular pattern. I was grateful to have…
Read MoreMeet the Owl
Welcome from Janet The owl on the cover of Writing Down Your Soul and My Soul Pages is not an accident. It is not an accident that it is an animal and an owl in particular. This owl is so much more than just an owl. This cover is a sweet divine mystery. Let me…
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