Mystical
What did you read this year that cracked you open?
The year of the body–Week 48 in which we remember the books that mattered Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Thank you for all your sweet supportive emails and comments on Facebook and YouTube about my experiences moving through this massive birth portal time of eclipse and looking back. It’s lovely to hear that…
Read MoreYou’re not exhausted, you’re being birthed
The year of the body–Week 47 in which we let go of the life we thought we wanted and enter the birth canal into the life we really want Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Are you feeling exhausted? Bone-deep exhausted? There’s a reason. Ever since I stepped off the corporate hamster wheel of…
Read MoreDo you really know what happened in 2021?
The year of the body–Week 45 in which we ask ourselves what really happened in 2021? Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, Do you know what happened in 2021? You’ve walked through almost 11 months of this five year. What has it all meant to you? Before you attempt to answer that question,…
Read MoreThe Lotus and the Lily is open: uninstall patriarchal thought patterns
The year of the body–Week 43 in which we realize that before we can create a beautiful life, we need to uninstall the patriarchal thought patterns planted deep in our psyches Friends, soul writers, mystics, and lovers of prayer, For 11 years, mystic souls around the world have gathered in mid-November to complete and integrate…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 MoreYour natal chart Moon holds the answers to 3 questions
You know that phrase: When the student is ready, the teacher will come.
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 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…
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