Posts by Janet Conner
What happens when god changes pronouns?
The year of the body–Week 37 in which She whispers through the mists of time: I am here. I never left. Come find me. Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I write these Notes from the Field on Saturday. I’ve learned over these last 9 months in this year of the body, that…
Read MoreChaos calms when we listen to what wants to be heard
The year of the body–Week 36 in which we swirl in chaos until we find our footing in the threshold–and listen to what wants to be done Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, This past week has been over full with chaos, pain, and suffering. We watched in horror as the last plane left Afghanistan…
Read MoreCross the Threshold: Radical new Writing Down Your Soul intensive in ten days
The year of the body–Week 35 in which we discover how we seed miracles in the world Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, As you read this Sunday Notes from the Field, I am in the Closing Ceremony for The Return of the Witches pilgrimage, where you can be assured something magical is happening.…
Read MoreOur hearts all want to know: what can I do?
The year of the body–Week 34 in which our hearts break for Afghanistan and we ask ourselves, what is mine to do? Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Our hearts are breaking over what is unfolding in Afghanistan. Everyone I know is worried about women and girls losing the small freedoms and education…
Read MoreDeep soul writing just got more miraculous
The year of the body–Week 33 in which our creative capacity grows and grows some more–and something surprising emerges Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Since we spoke last Sunday, I’ve had a glorious week of deep soul writing discovering new events for 2022 in the Theatre of the Miraculous. Creating events that help…
Read MoreA radical proposal for Lion’s Gate
The year of the body–Week 32 in which we dance under the Lion’s Gate portal and a few things change around here! Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer If you are reading this on Sunday, August 8, you are reading under the conjunction of an ancient portal called “The Lion’s Gate” at 15⁰…
Read MoreWhen you say yes and the Feminine Sacred sends her approval!
The year of the body–Week 31 in which we say yes and get a giant leap of confirmation Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, We are in the 31st week of the year of the body, a 5 year. Five we know is change, divine change, feminine sacred change moving in and through and…
Read MoreWhy is deep soul writing so radical?
The year of the body–Week 30 in which we remember that deep soul writing was once banned and the book was burned Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, In 1310, a woman was burnt alive because she wrote a book. She had the audacity to write a book about the mystical life, in…
Read MoreI asked an angel for help and he said…what!?
The year of the body–Week 29 in which an angel reminds me who I really am–and who you really are Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I turned in the manuscript for Writing Down Your Soul on November 11, 2007. For a couple weeks, I sat in my soul writing chair and stared at the…
Read MoreLove in Action: How soul writing guides us to find home
The year of the body–Week 28 in which we find our way home Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, A lot has happened this week, hasn’t it! Perhaps we could blame it on the evocative dark moon we are under right now in Cancer. What is Cancer? Home. Hearth. Heart. Intimacy. Security. Comfort. Community.…
Read MoreWriting Down Your Soul: When you write, who is writing?
The year of the body–week 27 in which we explore the mystical question: When you write, who is writing? Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Shortly after prayer artist arrived, I had a startling revelation that prayers are really lyrics—lyrics to the love songs of your intimate and rather ecstatic sacred marriage. You and…
Read MoreYour divine voice: learn to hear it OFF the page, too
The year of the body–week 26 in which a giant grasshopper hints at what’s to come Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, For me, deep soul writing started on the page in 1997 and stayed on the page for several years. I was flabbergasted when a voice on the page started responding to my…
Read MoreIt’s my 73rd birthday and your 73% gift
The year of the body–week 25 in which I celebrate my 73rd birthday and give you a birthday gift Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I turned 73 this week on Wednesday, June 16. On my birthday, I did some soul writing. Nothing surprising there, I do some soul writing every day. But given that…
Read MoreWho does your divine voice say you are?
The year of the body–week 24 in which I look back at my first entry in my first soul writing journal 24 years ago and get a bittersweet surprise Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Twenty-four years ago, on April 23, 1997, I picked up a pen for the first time and something happened.…
Read MoreEpisode 35: Mary Magdalene with Sophie Strand
Sophie Strand writes wild and glorious essays that upend everything we think we know about our myths, legends, stories, and beliefs.
Read MoreWhen witches start speaking, magic starts flying
The year of the body–week 23 in which witches start speaking and magic starts flying Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, The Return of the Witches Jeanne d’Arc Listening Pilgrimage has begun. We had a profound Opening Ceremony with Sabin Bailey on Friday and met Queen Jezebel at the foot of Mt Carmel on…
Read MoreEpisode 34: Queen Jezebel with Allison Charron
Thanks to the bible story, Jezebel’s name became a slur that strikes terror in a woman’s body. There are a lot of surprises in this conversation with Allison Charron.
Read MoreThe one question our sacred ancestors want us to ask
The Year of the Body: Week 22 in which a Cathar woman from the 13th century reaches across time to hand us the one question we most need today Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, How much possibility can one week hold: We had an intense lunar eclipse that will reverberate all summer and…
Read MoreEpisode 33: Cali White
Cali White has done the work: explored the history, found the wounds, and led women’s healing circles across the UK and Ireland.
Read MoreWhat miracle will you find at the end of the pilgrim road?
The Year of the Body: 21st week in the 21st year of the 21st century in which #21 shows us the integration and unification waiting for us at the end of the pilgrim road Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Today is the day. The hour has come. The invitation is yours. For…
Read MoreWhat’s the real reason witches were murdered?
The Year of the Body: Week 20 in which the sacred feminine and sacred masculine give birth to a big and holy child Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, This is a most sacred and pregnant moment. And I think it’s not an accident that it is happening during the 20th week of this…
Read MoreEpisode 32: Perdita Finn
It’s been 9 months since the last show. And it’s not Covid’s fault. Or is it?
In this episode, you’ll discover what happened last August that brought the show to a screeching halt, why Janet is proud to embrace the once-terrifying label “witch,” and who Joan of Arc—the greatest witch of all time—might have been.
Read MoreWhat mystery connects your body, Mother’s Day, and Joan of Arc?
The Year of the Body: Week 19 in which we step into the female body and discover a mystery or two lurking there Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Today is Mother’s Day in the United States. Mother’s Day is a fraught holiday with deep tendrils in the transition from honoring the female body…
Read MoreI asked Perdita Finn for a message. She sent a story.
The Year of the Body: Week 18 in which we return to 1431 and hear women whispering about the return of a mystery Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, You have heard me sing the praises of the magical mystical Perdita Finn. From the moment I opened The Way of the Rose: The Radical…
Read MoreWill the real Joan of Arc please stand up.
The Year of the Body: Week 17 in which we begin to unravel the mysteries of the most famous mystic witch of all time Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Who was Joan of Arc? There is perhaps no more mysterious or amazing woman in history. She is the only person condemned by a…
Read MoreWhat’s your natural rhythm of time? Ask your body.
The Year of the Body: Week 16 in which we take the first sip of the Bottle Labeled Drink Me…and notice something Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Welcome to a new lunar year with the rather startling Chandra: A bottle labeled drink me The force of events sweeps away who we thought we…
Read MoreIt’s day 1 of a new year. Are you ready to open the bottle?
The Year of the Body: Week 15 in which the body stands under the dark moon and ponders a new year Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Happy New Year! Today is day 1 of a new lunar year. It is the perfect moment to look back at the wild lunar year that just ended…
Read MoreA personal message from April McMurtry
The Year of the Body: Week 14 in which the body feels the urge to return once more to life and to love Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I always ask the mystic who will be leading our next prayer intensive to write a message just for you, the readers of these Notes from…
Read MoreHow does seeing time as circular alter your experience?
The Year of the Body: Week 13 in which the body notices the difference between linear and circular calendars Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Like all well-educated Western thinkers, I use a calendar. This was never a conscious choice. It just came with the territory of growing up in a linear left-brain…
Read MoreWhat will happen when you open a door with an ancient carved moon?
The Year of the Body: Week 12 in which the word witch reveals her ancient and holy meaning at the perfect moment–the Equinox Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, On December 26, 2019, I was awakened in the night with a new prayer, The Queen’s Love—a prayer that I am only now, on this…
Read MoreP is for Perpetrator. But who is the perpetrator?
The Year of the Body: Week 11 in which the body reveals the secret spot where the perpetrator is buried Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, I have spent the last week thinking about perpetrators. Not because I want to. Who wants to focus on the pain one person inflicts on another. But…
Read MoreA personal message from mystic Tanya Taylor Rubinstein about Somatic Writing
The Year of the Body: Week 10 in which the body experiences miracles Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, This has been a week of miracles. Not the miracles that look like buckets of money or anything tangible like that. But miracles nonetheless. I’m inclined to think these ephemeral miracles—the ones that cannot…
Read MoreWhat stops you from creating what you long to create?
The Year of the Body: Week 9 in which I receive the biggest mystical assignment of my life, discover and melt the trauma hidden in my body, and… Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, On Thursday, I celebrated the 3rd anniversary of being awakened in the night with the assignment prayer artist. That assignment…
Read MoreWhat story does your body want you to hear?
The Year of the Body: Week 8 in which deep soul writing meets deep body writing and falls head over heels in love Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, When people hear my name, their first thought is: oh, yes, that woman who wrote a book on soul writing. And that is me. I did write Writing…
Read MoreYour body knows something valuable about you
The Year of the Body: Week 7 in which our bodies reveal the true source of our value, great ideas, and confidence Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, I’m not a big fan of Valentine’s Day. In theory, it’s a sweet holiday but in reality, children’s hearts are broken when they don’t receive many valentines.…
Read MoreLet’s talk about that icy black puddle you keep stepping in…
The Year of the Body: Week 6 in which Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow and winter continues…or maybe not! Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, This week was ripe with mystical dates. Dates that, if it weren’t for the humorous celebration of Groundhog Day, I would have missed. And I bet you missed them too.…
Read MoreA message from Perdita Finn–and the Dead!
The Year of the Body: Week 5 in which we laugh again, sleep again, and discover the last thing the Dead want is to RIP Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, What is it with January? Typically, January is presented as little more than a commercial moment in which to purchase new diets and exercise…
Read MoreYour dead are calling. Do you know how to listen?
The Year of the Body: Week 4 in which our bodies exhale, our hearts celebrate, and our prayers resuscitate the dead Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, And we thought 2020 was intense. Ha! In just three Wednesdays, we’ve reeled from watching a live insurrection on TV, to applauding the second impeachment of a…
Read MoreIt’s time to Take Back the Magic
As we enter week 3 in 2021, the year of the body, we can’t help but wonder what will happen now? None of us knows for sure; we’re all holding our breath. You may not be conscious of it, but you probably haven’t taken a long sweet cleansing breath since you saw a crazed right-wing mob…
Read MoreYour body knows what really happened this week
We just lived through the first week of 2021. A year, I said in last Sunday’s Notes from the Field, would be the year of the BODY. And what a first week! We watched an angry mob of white male bodies screaming and circling the US Capitol building, crash into the building and crush the…
Read More2021–The Year of the Body
Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, and everyone lining up to welcome 2021, As we say goodbye to the wild four years of 2020, I’m reminded once more that the numbers themselves hold a lot of wisdom and magic for us. The four isn’t actually departing. She kicked off a whole decade of four, so each…
Read MoreA radical Astrology forecast for 2021
Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, and everyone waiting with bated breath for the 2021 forecast, As I sit down to write this final Notes from the Field for 2020, my internal eye skims over the 50 letters I’ve written this year. In the stillness, I listen for a theme, a story, a song to…
Read MoreIs tonight the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?
“Stop being so small. You have the whole universe within you.” Rumi Friends, soul writers, lovers of prayer, Tonight, Sunday, December 20 is the eve of a most auspicious Winter (Summer down under) Solstice. For the first time in 800 years, Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets in our solar system, are coming so close that…
Read MoreThe heavens invite us to learn to fly this Winter Solstice
“Many thousands of years ago ancient seers understood revering the Sun as the highest symbol of divine consciousness and its light the spiritual source of creation” The Path of the Spiritual Sun, Belsebuub When Rabbi Tirzah and I followed a shared intuition to offer a winter gathering to release 2020 and welcome 2021, we were focused…
Read MoreWhat wants to be reborn on Winter Solstice?
On this first weekend of December, I am reminded that the Winter Solstice always ushers in something I’m not expecting or requesting. It is a gift. A gift that is sacred, wise, and holy. And always—always—it is a surprise. Even though I know this is a sacred time of rebirth as we await the return…
Read MoreAre you ready to Exhale!
Before you read this Notes from the Field, stop for a second and notice how you are breathing. Smooth and gentle? Fast and thin? Perhaps a bit short or rough around the edges? Until someone calls us to notice our breath, we’re pretty oblivious. In addition to being oblivious to our personal breath, we tend…
Read MoreDancing in the threshold between worlds
I’ve been navigating the threshold between worlds for 24 years. I just didn’t know it. Or rather, I didn’t know that’s the name for what I was doing. But I do now. And having a name, a clear, descriptive, and rather delightful name for dancing in the mystery makes me very happy. I first stumbled upon…
Read MoreHow did the mandala I made in January know what would happen?
In a year of one magical and mysterious week after another, this one was a topper. And in a way I never, ever expected. This week, I was reminded just how alive the mandalas we create in The Lotus and The Lily are. You’d think I’d know this. After all, I’ve led Lotus and Lily…
Read MoreThere is one question that must be asked
Has this not been the week to cap all weeks? And not just for Americans. I’m in several international groups and everyone everywhere has been holding their breath. On Saturday at noon, as Celtic author Sharon Blackie welcomed 300 people around the world to the second class in her Your Witch Will Come course, she…
Read MoreThe 9 Mothers of Stella Maris prayer
In Sunday’s blog, I promised to give you a special prayer to carry us through to the end of the year. It’s called The 9 Mothers of Stella Maris. I will be setting it up as a podcast episode with lots of extra goodies, but for now, I simply want to get it into your…
Read MoreNow, about that bat bite…
Well, this has been quite the wild week, hasn’t it! How much misery and mystery can one week hold? In the Misery department: The US government admitted that the parents of 545 immigrant children can’t be found. And anyone with a heart cried. A judge who is the diametric opposite of everything Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
Read MoreA Lotus and Lily like no other
The emails have begun. I get a flurry of them this time of year from people anxious to register for The Lotus and The Lily prayer intensive that opens in mid-November and always sells out. But this year your emails have a more frantic tone. For 10 years, mystic souls around the world have gathered for 5 weeks starting in mid-November…
Read MoreWhat I learned about prayer from the Hamilton cast
Saturday was the third day of the dark moon. The dark moon is a time of divination. Of illumination. Of healing. And this dark moon was no exception. She delivered quite the gift, and I’m pretty sure it’s as much for you as it is for me. Although we now live drenched in artificial light,…
Read MoreI prayed and my prayer beads exploded
Stella Maris, Star of the Sea First light, Last light Guide us all safely home The 9 Mothers of Stella Maris Can you pray too much? Never thought I’d ask such a question! I’m pretty sure the answer is no, but I did have a week so full of prayer that it seemed that a…
Read MoreThe dots that connect prayer, miracle, safety, home
“Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Roald Dahl I prepare to write these Sunday Notes from the Field by spending Saturday reviewing all that happened in the last seven days in my deep soul writing journal. Even after 23 years, I am surprised by what surfaces. Bits and pieces that seem unrelated suddenly…
Read MoreI found my home! What’s yours?
In this strange strange year, we’ve spent a massive amount of time at home. For some, this has been a blessing of sorts. For most, it’s been a struggle. On all fronts. Every part of our lives has been altered. Work and what we used to consider to be important or valuable work has changed.…
Read MoreWhen we cannot see the path…
This has been a most extraordinary week. I know it seems I open every Notes from the Field with this sentence, but this has been a most extraordinary year, hasn’t it. And this past week felt like it encapsulated the whole wild story of 2020. On Tuesday, we held the first Mother Moon Yoga on…
Read MoreIs yoga prayer? Is Mother Moon Yoga a prayer intensive?
I am a Prayer Artist. Not because I decided I was. How could I? I’d never heard of such a thing. And neither had anyone else. I know this because when I googled prayer artist, nothing—I mean nothing—came up. But I clearly heard those two words whispered in my left ear in the wee hours…
Read MoreAnxiety? Disturbed sleep and digestion? Mother Moon Yoga is coming!
I have much to share with you today—the big news is that Mother Moon Yoga will be open later this week. But first, I have a question: Do you feel a slight tickle on your cheeks? That’s me! That’s all the kisses I blew at the computer screen as I read email after email from so…
Read MoreShe called me a witch…
“Most men have never had to fear sticking out from the crowd far enough to elicit the heart-stopping accusation of ‘Witch!’ Ancient female wisdom–medical and otherwise–accumulated painstakingly over eons went up in flames along with the ‘witches.’ How to calculate and comprehend how much European civilization lost when its men nearly annihilated its wise women?”…
Read MoreHow to hear the story that heals
“When I read the finished poem, I realized that I had never written anything like it before. The normal buffer between the inspiration for a poem and the poem itself was entirely absent. I wasn’t sure how it had happened, and I wasn’t sure I could do it again. Two days later, having failed to…
Read MoreEpisode 31: Clark Strand
This is a conversation like any other on Praying at the Speed of Love. Because the conversation isn’t really with Clark Strand. It’s with Ma Kali herself. And she’s quite the conversationalist!
Read MoreWhat really happens when you make one tiny choice to write
Writing Down Your Soul, the book you all know and love, was published 11 years ago on January 1, 2009. This was not the date I planned. I turned in the manuscript on November 11, 2007 and thought she would come out the summer or fall of 2008. But the timing was clearly divinely appointed.…
Read MoreThe opposite of patriarchy isn’t matriarchy, it’s …
This has been and continues to be a most extraordinary year. And I don’t think we have even begun to understand what is afoot. We came into 2020 with a knowing that everything was about to change—every astrologer has been saying that. They’ve been beating the drum of change since 2015. Each year has had its…
Read MoreSorrow is Speaking
In last Sunday’s Notes from the Field, I shared a few radical truths that I received at the center of the labyrinth and promised to tell you what happened on Saturday, July 25 that explains the direct parallel between what patriarchy has done to women and what patriarchy has done to prayer. However, I’m going to…
Read MoreWhat was done to women is what was done to prayer
I was awakened in the wee hours last Sunday morning and clearly heard: “What was done to women is what was done to prayer.” I thought I understood—at least a little—what that meant. Because I’ve been studying what was done to women under patriarchy, and, as a prayer artist, exploring how gorgeous prayer was before…
Read MoreThe 5 prayers in the lost mystical tradition
I had a lot of plans for today’s Notes from the Field. In fact, I had so many delicious topics related to the labyrinth that I was having trouble picking what to write about in this last newsletter before we open a new prayer intensive on Tuesday. I thought I might talk about the labyrinth…
Read MoreThe labyrinth has a voice and she is speaking to you
Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, The labyrinth has a voice. And I experienced it this morning. Here’s what happened. In the night, I saw myself stepping onto a labyrinth for my daily anointing practice. I didn’t write anything on the yellow pad that is always in bed with me, so I think I…
Read MoreEpisode 30: Amy Grossblatt Pessah
Prayer really comes alive in this conversation as we meander through the relationship with the divine as a relationship with a wise loving parent.
Read MoreWhat will you discover in the Mother’s embrace?
Describing the first time she walked the labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral, Lauren Artress wrote: “I feel we had touched the Holy Spirit. Each of us had ventured to the center of our beings in the Chartres labyrinth that day. I received the embrace of Mary. I had, unknown to me at that time, ventured into…
Read MoreWhat will you hear when you stop, really stop?
“The labyrinth in Chartres Cathedral is created out of 272 stones inlaid in the floor of the nave…each stone representing one day of human gestation in the mother’s womb.” Lauren Artress, The Sacred Path Companion Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, There is so much bubbling up right now. And I’ve had to…
Read MoreSolstice and Eclipse and Dark Moon…oh my!
“This is the most important week of the entire year.” Emma Kupu Mitchell Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, This week has been extraordinary for everyone. Everywhere. And for many, it feels like too much. Too much unknown. Too much chaos. Too much betrayal. Too much exposed all at once. Too many dark truths…
Read MoreEpisode 29: Christine Valters Painter
This conversation with Christine Valters Painter is perfect for a time of pandemic and quarantine. Rich insights, a gentle mediation, and more await you!
Read MoreTwo gifts for you: “Breathe” and my birthday sale
“I can’t breathe” George Floyd Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, Last Sunday I introduced the first Prayer Vigil with Kahu Lahela Johnson chanting Oli and leading us in Ho‛oponopono, the ancient Hawaiian prayer of forgiveness. I’ve written about how much I love this prayer for several years now. But, like all original ancient prayers that…
Read MoreThe perfect prayer for the 1st Prayer Vigil to “make love visible”
“We are all awakening to a new dawn, a sacred time to break the spell of slumber that has separated us from the Divine Goddess who breathes life into us, who nurtures and loves us unconditionally. We are urged to reclaim our sovereignty and authenticity, cut the cords of constraint and control, and take back…
Read MoreMake Love Visible prayer practice Ho’oponopono
Explore Ho’oponopono for yourself, your ancestors, and the whole world. Kahu Lahela and Janet Conner invite you to join a global prayer intensive.
Read MoreTake back your power and restore wholeness with Ho’oponopono
“Hoʻoponopono cuts the negative cords that bind us to our past and energetically releases us from all wrongdoings, giving us a new sense of freedom to live our lives in a state of reverence for one another and for all of life, essentially reawakening the Divine Goddess within.” Kahu Lāhela Johnson Friends, soul writers, and…
Read MoreThe miracle of Ho’oponopono returns in our time of pandemic
“Ho’oponopono is a spiritual-soul method of purification that cleanses us from fears and worries, destructive relationship patterns, and any religious dogmas and paradigms that oppose our personal and spiritual development.” Ho’oponopono, Ulrich E. Dupree Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, Ho‛oponopono is a miracle prayer. My son—and I—are living proof. In last Sunday’s Notes from…
Read MoreThe strange gifts of quarantine, pilgrimage, and prayer
“What matters most on your journey is how deeply you see, how attentively you hear, how richly the encounters are felt in your heart and soul.” Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, This has been a truly strange yet wildly magical week. Once upon a time, I had big…
Read MoreEpisode 28: Phil Cousineau
This conversation is a feast of history, meaning, and possibility. Just the food we need to transform quarantine to radical pilgrimage.
Read MoreWhat makes an “original prayer” original?
“Creation has been left incomplete, and human beings, that is all of us, are needed by creation–and the Creator–to do the ongoing work of completing it.” Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, The Receiving Friends, soul writers, and lovers of prayer, What makes an original prayer, original? There’s a question I never expected to ponder. It’s not a question…
Read MoreA personal message from Rabbi Tirzah Firestone
“In mystical terms, each of us is an entire world or garden unto ourselves. And just as there was a healing tree at the center of the Garden of Eden, so each of us has a healing tree at the center of our individual psyches.” Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Fellow Carriers of the Original Starter, (keep…
Read MoreWhat Kabbalah can tell us about the meaning of Covid-19
“It strikes me as ironic that the coronavirus was given the name COVID-19 by the World Health Organization. Strangely, COVID bears the same consonants as Cavod or Kavod, the ancient Hebrew word for glory, honor, or divine Presence.” Rabbi Tirzah Firestone Fellow Pilgrims, And yes, I do believe we are all pilgrims now. In the past,…
Read More4 mystical practices for our pilgrimage of transformation
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy Greetings companions on the radical pilgrim road, On this pilgrimage that we are sharing—this radical pilgrimage, this radical alchemical pilgrimage that asks nothing less of us but total transformation—we can, if we…
Read MoreEpisode 27: Estelle Frankel
Dropped deep into The Mystic, Estelle led us into wordless prayer, cries of the heart including howling, and the three octaves of unknowing.
Read Morethe radical power of 16 leads the way on our pilgrimage
Note: (From Notes in the Field, published 4/12/2020) I think it’s not an accident that today is Easter, commemorating a sacred transformation of love from death to life. At the same time Passover is ending, honoring an incredibly difficult pilgrimage of an enslaved people walking in faith and trust toward freedom. And Ramadan is coming,…
Read MoreIt’s not a quarantine; it’s a pilgrimage
Greeting precious friends, Time is moving in such a strange paradoxical way. If we consider the outrageous flow of information, especially misinformation, and the constant breaking news, and the tsunami waves of panic and fear, then time appears to be moving at a whole new speed. And it doesn’t feel like the speed of love.…
Read MoreEpisode 26: Robert Corman
Meander through a mystical forest hand-in-hand with a wise and warm guide. Guest Robert Corman introduces us to a few of those guides and leaves us hungry for more, much more.
Read MoreCan a pandemic be a pilgrimage?
Greetings precious friends from my home to yours, Everything has changed, hasn’t it? In a blink. How many days has it been since your world was completely upended? Here in the United States, the governors of most states, including my own, are still unwilling to acknowledge the public health reality that we simply must separate…
Read MoreThe Doctor Is In–a special event with Dr Christine Page
If you’ve been reading these Notes from the Field for a while, you know that Sophia, the name of the divine feminine for me, is not an idea. She is real. She is alive. She is present. And She is in constant communication. And not just with me. She longs for every one of us…
Read MoreEpisode 25: HeatherAsh Amara
Follow HeatherAsh’s journey from Thailand and India back to the US where a dream changed her path to becoming a powerful author and teacher of the heart.
Read MoreWhat chaos can teach us about HOME
On December 5, 2016, I was ushered into a room in dimensional time—a room neither Lauralyn Bunn (the brilliant Akashic Record consultant) nor I had ever been in before. The room was lit only by the flicker of tall candelabras. In the hush, I was ushered forward to a chair surrounded by masters and teachers—beings…
Read MoreWhen fear is in the air, double down on this
When Movement and Mystery Initiation Artist Keren Brown and I talked this week about the wild vortexes of fear swirling everywhere, she reminded me of the powerful healing wisdom of the Dark Moon ritual that women have used since the beginning of time. As I listened to Keren, I realized I want to share what…
Read MoreEpisode 24: Neil Douglas-Klotz
Everything you think you know about the “Our Father” or “Lord’s Prayer” goes up in smoke as Dr Neil Douglas-Klotz guides us into the sound and meaning of the prayer in Aramaic.
Read MoreThe rosary has one BIG problem…
The rosary has a problem. A big problem. It’s the number one issue holding people back from picking up a rosary and trying it on for size. The problem is the opening prayer. You might know it as the “Our Father” or “The Lord’s Prayer.” If you were raised in any Christian church, it’s imprinted permanently…
Read MoreA personal message from Our Lady
Whether you are conscious of it or not, we are now under the magical shadow of the Dark Moon. Saturday, was day 1 of the dark moon, the day we release our worries and fears into the ground to be received and transmuted by Mother Earth. Ever since I learned about the power of the…
Read MoreEpisode 23: Mark Nepo
In this intimate conversation, Mark invites us to feel what he felt singing the Torah and experience his grandmother’s living presence in a dream. There is wonder in every moment of this sacred conversation.
Read MoreOsprey died to deliver this message 20 years ago…
Mystical awareness comes in pieces. In the moment, you might think you understand what is happening, but in truth, you don’t. It may take years for an experience to unfold sufficiently for you to see the depth and breadth of what happened then, and is happening still. That’s why I track important dates. Year after…
Read MoreThe radical prayer of the goddess hidden in the rosary
Two years ago this month, I was awakened in that precious 3-4 am “hour of god,” which I now call the “hour of the goddess.” I wasn’t concerned. I’m so accustomed to being awakened in the wee hours that I sleep with paper at hand. In the dark, I have heard and scribbled down newsletter…
Read MoreEpisode 22: Dawna Markove
On one level, this is a beautiful conversation with a beautiful woman about her evolution. But on another, it’s a conversation with a ghost.
Read MoreThe Queen’s Love–a mystical prayer for a mystical day
Today is such a fun day. It’s the numerology joke of the century. Actually, several centuries. Today is a palindrome. When you say “February second” you might miss the fun, but when you look at the date written out like a credit card expiration: 02-02-2020, you can’t miss it! Today’s date reads the same backward…
Read MoreToday is the perfect day to begin a new relationship with Mother Moon
Yesterday was the first day of a new lunar cycle. And not just any lunar cycle. It is the first full lunar cycle of 2020. The last lunar cycle was born in the dark moon days of December 24, 25, 26. During those three days I received clear (if slightly terrifying and certainly breathtaking) instructions…
Read MoreThe Magdalene calls us to trust in Love again. But how?
When Meghan Don led us in our first meditation in the May intensive, Praying with and as Mary Magdalene, Meghan took us someplace. Someplace sacred and holy. Under the spell of Meghan’s gentle knowing voice, we dropped quickly into the mystical theta brainwave state, the veil between worlds opened, and Mary Magdalene walked in. The Magdalene…
Read MoreEpisode 21: Peter Booth
If your heart is hungry for love—big love, mystical love, life-altering love—this conversation with Peter Booth is for you.
Read MoreCould Love be a brainwave?
This has been, and continues to be, an astonishing Solstice, Eclipse, new year/new decade moment. And it’s all culminating today in a conjunct of Pluto and Saturn that hasn’t happened in 500 years. What!? Five hundred years ago we were birthing the Renaissance. So now it looks like Pluto—the underworld, the unknown, the unseen, and…
Read MoreThe ORIGINAL power of prayer
Last week I shared what happened to me during the three days of the Dark Moon on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day—Dec 24,25,26. In that brief dot of time, I received a detailed description of a 9-book series about the return of the divine feminine in the form of MLV Dragon. MLV stands…
Read MoreThe Divine Voice loves to speak in the Dark
As this intense solstice season draws to a very pregnant and sacred close, I find myself called to be even more still, more silent, more open to the wisdom of Our Mother of the Dark. And thank goodness, because boy has she been talking!
Read MoreThe Astrology Forecast for 2020 is huge!
Happy Solstice! Do you feel it? Although our modern world gives a lot of names to various winter celebrations, you are right now being bathed in the dark light of the first and most primal celebration, the Winter Solstice. And your body knows it. You are designed to live in a world of ebbing and…
Read MoreEpisode 20: Strand Clark and Perdita Finn Part 2
Clark Strand and Perdita Finn take us on a deep dive into the Rosary to uncover her ancient mystical goddess secrets hidden in plain sight right under the nose of the patriarchal Catholic church.
Read MoreWhat if what you want isn’t what you want at all?
If you’ve read my books, you’ve probably noticed that my understanding of and relationship to asking has changed. Dramatically. ASKING A decade ago, I believed what all the books and teachers on the so-called law of attraction taught: get clear about what you want, focus on it, smell it, taste it, see it, and it…
Read MoreA 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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