Lotus & Lily 2025

What is The Lotus and The Lily
Harvest 2025 & Seed 2026

“The Buddha said…when conditions are sufficient, there is a manifestation”
You Are Here, Thich Nhat Hanh

“Here Jesus says…when we pursue a right relationship with the Universal One and allow that relationship to realign our lives, we produce a condition of receptivity in which anything we need to help us complete our purpose in life will be supplied by the universe.”

Blessings of the Cosmos, Neil Douglas-Klotz

2026 is a 1 year—beginning of a whole new 9-year cycle

What is The Lotus and The Lily: Harvest 2025—Seed 2026 prayer intensive?

Let’s begin with the bizarre back story

When Writing Down Your Soul came out January 1, 2009, churches and bookstores across the country from San Francisco to New York City invited me to visit. I accepted every invitation, thrilled to introduce deep soul writing to thousands. But as a new writer published by a small press, it was all at my expense and by November I had to face the reality that I was bankrupt. I needed to do something—and fast.

At the time, all the manifestation teachers and books preached the law of attraction with instructions to focus relentlessly on what you want. And if that didn’t work, and most of the time it didn’t, they suggested it was probably because you weren’t focusing hard enough. I knew lots of people, myself included, for whom the law of attraction wasn’t working. And I didn’t have time for another failure.

So I put down all those books, picked up my deep soul writing journal, asked my beloved divine Voice what to do, and received startling and strict guidance:

• Soul write at the deepest level every single day for the entire month of December
• In the first week, prepare for radical possibility by expanding and strengthening your mystic abilities
• In the second, look back at the life you’ve already created, uncovering all you have ignored, neglected, misunderstood
• In the third, recognize that all your crusty old stories are preventing a beautiful new future from reaching you, so let them go, forgive at a level you have never experienced
• In the fourth week, you will finally be ready to begin to imagine a beautiful abundant life—but what you want will surprise you

None of this was in any standard-issue prosperity book, but I had nothing to lose. So I plunged into thirty days of the most intense, surprising, and wildly healing deep soul writing of my life. On January 1, I felt ready to call in a beautiful 2010. But something odd happened. Instead of picking up my journal, I picked up Thich Nhat Hanh’s You Are Here and stayed glued to my chair until 3 pm, when I stumbled upon the sentence that changed my life, upended our understanding of manifestation, and birthed this prayer intensive you love so much:

“The Buddha said when conditions are sufficient there is a manifestation.”

I shot out of my chair screaming: “It’s not about the manifestation! It’s about the conditions!” With that, the law of attraction flew out the window and a radical and far more beautiful and ancient truth flew in. In deep soul writing, I asked for my conditions. Because I had spent a month preparing to ask this question, my conditions came quickly. I recognized immediately that these six sentences describe perfectly how I want to live—how I consciously choose to live. To make sure my conditions stayed front of mind, I made a simple mandala and wrote them in the center. Then starting the next day, I stood in front of my mandala every morning, stared at it, and spoke my six conditions aloud.

On February 6, I met with the bankruptcy attorney. He explained the process; asked if I had any questions. “Yes, I said, I made $18,000 in January, is that a problem?” He got up, escorted me to the door, and said, “You’re not bankrupt. Call me when you’re bankrupt.”

I didn’t understand how my mandala worked, but I knew it had. So I set out to learn about mandalas. It’s a profound mystical education that continues to this day. The more I learned, the more astonished I became by the power of this ancient, yet incredibly simple, sacred geometric form.

I needed to share this magical process, so I wrote about what had happened in my Notes from the Field Sunday newsletter and invited a few subscribers to join me in the first intensive of what eventually became The Lotus and the Lily.

The Lotus and the Lily becomes a book and ever-evolving intensive

The Lotus and the Lily became my 2^nd book. It was published October 2012 and is now in thousands of hands. I continued to teach the process every fall, always incorporating expansive new ideas. When we gathered in November of 2020 to look back at that astonishing year of covid and quarantine, we realized we needed much more time to look back. Luckily, Emma Kupu Mitchell had just completed her labyrinth facilitation certification and she introduced a truly radical and magical way to look back at the past 11 months of the year on a medieval 11-circuit labyrinth. After walking the labyrinth to look at the past, we got the wild idea to walk the labyrinth a second time, to see if we could hear whispers from the future. Surprise, we did!

In short, The Lotus and the Lily process is alive. It is constantly showing us new and even more magical ways to integrate the life we’ve lived and prepare us to welcome the life that wants to be lived in the year to come.

What will we explore together?

Gathering 1—Why and How We Look Back
We will initiate our intensive listening to the teachings of Buddha on the primacy of creating the conditions that create a fertile environment for the life that wants to be lived. This truth is radical, thrilling, and ignored in the mainstream.

We will look back at the 11 months of 2025, listening for each month’s song and noticing how each month formed and fed and changed us in ways we didn’t recognize at the time. To help us get started, Cathy Stevens Pratt will teach us how to make a simple 3-circuit labyrinth. Then, in community, we will walk that labyrinth, capturing January’s harvest song in colors or words, or perhaps a phrase, image, or symbol.

During the following week, each of us will make 3-circuit labyrinths and listen for the harvest songs of February through November.

Gathering 2—Listen for the Harvest Song of 2025
We will record the words or symbols of the 11 songs of January through November on a medieval 11-circuit labyrinth, and then, we will walk that labyrinth together, listening for 2025 to reveal her overall harvest song.

This experience is always a revelation and often a complete surprise. This is the moment each of us realizes what the year coming to a close has really been about. With clarity about the meaning of 2025, we will then look back further through all that has happened in the 9-year cycle that began in 2017.

This will be the richest looking back experience of our lives.

Gathering 3—Create Space for 2026
A foundational teaching in The Lotus and the Lily is that if you want to create something new, you must first untie the knots of the stories and wounds held deep in your body and psyche.

Forgive is a far richer word than we realize. In Greek, it means “untie the knot.” In Hebrew, “to make empty.” In Latin, “to give away without reservation.” In a shared deep soul writing experience, 2025 will ask us 9 sacred questions. Then 2025 will invite us to identify and shed all that is too small for us and return it to the earth in a ceremonial and sacred way, cleansing and clearing our bodies to prepare to create the year to come.

This week of release and forgiveness is the secret to the magic that is The Lotus and the Lily.

Gathering 4—Listen for the Seed
Having untied old knots and shed what has constricted us, we are ready to begin the process of creating 2026 by tuning into what we really want.

We ask our hearts to reveal our most precious values, and the sacred medicines we long to embody, embrace, and share. To hear our hearts speak, we will share a journey experience led by Cathy Stevens Pratt. We will step into the center of the 11-circuit labyrinth, aware that we have dropped into the Divine Womb where all creation begins.

At the center, the seed of the life that wants to be lived in and through and as you in 2026 will whisper something just for you—perhaps a symbol, image, or phrase. It is always a mystery.

Gathering 5—Create Your 2026 Mandala and Prayers
We will talk about how to create a Soul Day—a personal retreat to tune into the conditions that will nourish the seed of the life that wants to be lived—and how to create a Mystic Mandala that holds your seed and the conditions that will generate an abundant and beautiful life. As we make and name our mandalas, we acknowledge that we are not making the mandala, our soul is. The mandala is the physical expression of the core principle: you are not praying, you are being prayed. You think your hands are making the mandala, but in truth, it is making you.

You won’t really know what your soul has put into form until next November, when we gather once more to look back at the year ending. That’s when you will discover the inner meaning of your 2026 mandala. And it will be a surprise. A holy and sweet surprise.

Gathering 6—Celebrate and Bless our Mandalas
We have no gatherings for several weeks so that everyone can enjoy the Solstice and holiday season. During our hiatus there will be plenty of time to revisit your looking back and release experiences, and hold your Soul Day and create your 2026 mandala.

We gather on Sunday, January 11, 2026 to share, bless, and celebrate our 2026 mandalas. In this final gathering, we will listen deeply to how Neil Douglas Klotz translates the short and cryptic “seek first the kingdom” into a 17-line ecstatic mystical poem from Yeshua’s original Aramaic.

And we will talk about how to keep our mandala and conditions alive all year long.

Then, we will watch in awe as the life that wants to be lived in 2026 emerges in ways more magical and exciting than anything we could have planned.

You will leave The Lotus and the Lily with an array of prayers including:

• A Magician’s Anointing Spell
• Prayer of a Strong Container
• Your Harvest Song of 2025
• Your Seed for 2026
• The Name of Your 2026 year
• Your 2026 Mystic Mandala
• Personal Conditions and Chant

What will you receive?

Six 2 ¼ hour live sessions with prayer artist and mystic witch Janet Conner, Her Sacred Image artist, oracle, and labyrinth guide, Cathy Stevens Pratt, and depth numerologist and shamanic astrologer, Emma Kupu Mitchell.

Access to a password-protected resource page with recordings of all sessions in both video and audio formats, a special Getting Started PDF section with Welcome and Prayer Handbooks, two-piece large 11-circuit labyrinth, 3-circuit seed pattern, plus bonus videos:

• Numerology of 2026/10/1 with Emma Kupu Mitchell and Janet Conner
• How to Make a 3-Circuit Labyrinth with Cathy Pratt
• How to Use a Labyrinth to Look Back with Emma Kupu Mitchell
• How to Make a Mystic Mandalawith Janet Conner
• Seven Steps to Get Into Theta with Janet Conner
• Theta Music to support your soul writing and labyrinth walking
• Membership in a private Facebook discussion group (optional)

Our Schedule

We meet on TUESDAYS at 6pm Eastern Standard Time.
7p Atlantic, 6p Eastern, 5p Central, 4p Mountain, 3p Pacific 1p Hawaii,
Wednesday morning daylight savings time in the Pacific Rim

All sessions are recorded and available within 24 hours on our Resource Page

To support our friends in Europe, Janet will host a UK/EU watch party on Thursdays at 2p Eastern which is 7p UK/8p EU/9p Eastern Europe. Everyone is welcome, no matter where you live

To ensure everyone can come to our mandala celebration, it is held on Sunday January 11 at 2pm Eastern

Tuesday November 18, 6:00-8:15 pm Eastern

1. Tuesday, November 25, 6:00-8:15 pm Eastern
2. Tuesday, December 2, 6:00-8:15 pm Eastern
3. Tuesday, December 9, 6:00-8:15 pm Eastern
4. Tuesday, December 16, 6:00-8:15 pm Eastern
5. Sunday, January 11, 2026, 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern—Mandala Blessing and Celebration

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Registration

If you require financial assistance, Janet invites you to choose the self-selected scholarship option.

If you wish to support this initiative, which has made it possible for hundreds to join intensives at a significant savings, please consider adding a donation of $55 or more to your registration. Note: The $55 is not a registration option, it is an additional gift to support others.

$ 226    if this is your first intensive in 2026
$ 190    if you were in ART 5, ART 6, or DSW with Friends
$ 145    self-selected scholarship
$ 55      additional donation to support scholarships

Guides

Janet

Cathy

Emma