I didn’t know what to say, so Fortuna stepped in
Week 9--in which we are shocked, horrified, frozen...and Fortuna steps in to speak.
Beautiful Ones,
I am writing, or rather trying to write, this ninth Notes from the Field for 2025. I notice the number. Nine. The completion of the story of all the numbers from the independence and new beginning energy of the one, all the way to the fullness of the divine feminine in the nine. Nine reminds me that what I say in this newsletter matters. It has to somehow tell a story that leads to wholeness or fullness or completion.
But it’s almost dinner time on Saturday, March 1. And I still don’t know what to write. But I do know why.
After watching the shocking bullying in the oval office yesterday, I feel a strange mix of emotions. Starting with horror. And bone-deep fear. How did my country become a cabal of middle school bullies pummeling the short, quiet, smart kid. The kid who has all the qualities they know they’ll never have. Vision. Intelligence. Knowledge. Bravery. Kindness. Courage. Respect.
My body felt personally attacked. I know this feeling and I sense from the reactions of people in my communities and online, that those feelings are universal. Or at least universal among people who respect intelligence and knowledge. People who hold a vision of a world of kindness and hope. People who honor the values of courage and bravery.
People who are beautiful. That’s you.
I was struggling to write because I didn't know what to say in this moment of horror to the beautiful people who read these letters.
I’m not obsessed with the open rate, but week after week, I see that half of the four thousand people who get these letters read what I’ve written. And every week I get sweet emails letting me that what I said mattered. So I know you’re there. I can feel you waiting for this letter. I can feel you hoping I will say something that gives you some hope, some sense of meaning, perhaps even a touch of beauty.
Do you remember what I wrote on the first newsletter of 2025? It is worth revisiting.
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“Beautiful people do not just happen.”
That’s one my two guiding mantras this year. It reminds me of the depth of wisdom and beauty in the people who cherish my writing and come to my intensives. It’s why I now open my letters addressing you as Beautiful Ones. I hope when you read that salutation, you feel seen.
My other mantra is “I am beginning to remember what I never forgot.”
It’s a bit more cryptic than the first. I wrote it, or more accurately, it wrote me. It is the closing line in one of the earliest prayers that arrived in 2018 after hearing prayer artist in the night. When that prayer, called This Moment, arrived fully formed on the spring equinox that March, I did not understand it. I never altered the words, and I’ve performed it many times in churches and online, but I did not really understand it.
That is, until Cathy Stevens Pratt and I began our four-month preparation to create ART 5 to awaken our gifts of “prophetic, oracular, divination.”
In an early conversation, Cathy said something, I don’t remember what, and I suddenly stopped her, practically shouting, “Wait, wait, wait a minute.” I reached for my notebook and read her This Moment.
We stared at each other. This Moment is prophetic!
What else can I call it. I wrote it in March 2018 and yet, it wasn’t until 2025 that I understood what it meant. Just think, that prayer has been waiting seven years for me to be ready to understand it. When I read it with new ears, I realized it was THE prayer for ART 5 on Divination.
So I thought I might give you This Moment in this newsletter, but that didn’t feel quite right. It’s a very sacred prayer and pregnant with mystic possibly. To give you a sense for its prophetic power, Cathy and I listened closely and following its guidance, created a sacred Remembering Ceremony with which we will now open our gatherings. That ceremony includes the prayer, opening the library of the elements, filling the morphic resonance space of all the oracles past and future, and more. It's a goose-bump inducing ceremony for sure.
NOTE: If you’ll be with us today for the opening ceremony at 2p eastern, you’ll get to experience it. If you can’t be with us live, don’t worry, it will be recorded and on the Resource Page on Monday. Here's the link to register
It wasn’t until I met with Cathy a couple hours ago to finalize the content for our opening ceremony, that I finally knew what to say in today’s Notes from the Field.
We met to fill in the one gap in our content for the opening ceremony. We were missing a message from Fortuna, Oracle of Oracles.
Well, in perfect synchronicity, it turns out that as the American thugs were abusing an actual hero, Fortuna was dictating a special message for our opening ceremony.
When Cathy read it to me, I asked if we had Fortuna’s permission to put it in this letter. Thankfully, we do!
I recommend reading this slowly and several times. And if you can step outside as you read it, all the better.
You do not have to understand it. In fact, you can’t.
If you think you understand it, your attention is centered in your left brain, the one that’s been saturated with patriarchal, linear, power-first thinking.
If you want to “understand” Fortuna’s words, consider the verb. Stand under her words. Under the elements, under the sky. And let your brilliant creative right brain, the hemisphere that sees wholeness and beauty play with the meaning.
Fortuna speaks to Cathy Pratt
February 28, 2025
"Everything you need to hear is available to your eyes, ears, fingertips, breath, tastebuds.
You only have to be present and pay attention.
This word, Attention, will become very sacred and of vital importance. Your humanity is on the brink. Only your attention will save you.
Follow the magic, your magic, to your right attention and all will be well.
An important event is happening in the heavens above you. Your first oracular task is, please, go outside and listen to the cosmic dance. Whether you do this in the dark, or light does not matter. You must be outdoors. Do you know you are being gifted star particles in every breath when outdoors. Sit outdoors, listen to the tiny lights in the sky twinkle their wisdom into you."
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Fortuna has given you a wee taste of the exquisite adventure of Divination.
- If your heart longs to practice a whole new kind of attention,
- if you want to learn how to listen with all your senses
- if you feel magic beckoning you to step forward,
- if you know, and you know that you know, that we are on a brink,
- if you want to do your part to heal the wasteland,
then you are ready to say yes to awakening your own precious oracular abilities.
Beauty awaits.
to radically changing our attention, awakening our mystical senses, and helping humanity step back from the brink
Janet
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