Posts Tagged ‘Cathy Stevens Pratt’
What happens when prayer has transcendental power?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 33: What happens when prayers hold original transcendental power? Beautiful Magicians, When mystic oracle and artist, Cathy Stevens Pratt, and Minotaur-initiated shaman, Tony Goncalves, and I opened Praying in the Dark: How Visionaries Pray in a Time of Collapse in July, we described the purpose on the registration page this way:…
Read MoreWhat memories is the Solar Eclipse revealing for you?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 32: What memories is the Solar Eclipse this Wednesday revealing for you? Beautiful Magicians, This is a big week. BIG. On Wednesday, August 12, there will be a new moon Solar Eclipse in Leo at 20° 1’. At first, that may sound like nothing more than a fact. A…
Read MoreThe 5 crimes patriarchy commits against men
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 31: The 5 crimes patriarchy commits against men Beautiful Magicians, Last week, I began what is turning out to be a long and profound healing journey walking beside the wounded Minotaur—the poster child for the abused and vilified masculine. And in the process, find myself stumbling upon unexpected discovery…
Read MoreWhat happens when the Minotaur heals?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 30: What happens when the Minotaur heals? Beautiful Magicians, What happens when the Minotaur heals? Have you ever asked yourself this question? Or even thought about it? Do you even know who the Minotaur is? Or why he needs to, or wants to, heal? Or why his healing might…
Read MoreIs the darkness itself calling the light forward?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 29: Barbault’s Basket. Is darkness itself calling the light forward? Beautiful Magicians, You’ve undoubtedly heard astrologers and friends talking about what’s happening this week in the cosmic skies. In short, four outer planets, Jupiter, Pluto, Uranus, and Neptune, have moved into a very unusual and perfectly balanced geometric pattern that looks…
Read MoreWhat happens when sacred medicine prayer enters your body
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 28: what happens when sacred medicine prayer enters your body Beautiful Magicians, Last Sunday I talked about meeting The Song of the Morning of the World rosary for the first time and noticing how radically different it is from any rosary or other prayer beads I’ve ever touched. And I’ve touched…
Read MoreThe first rosary without religion is radical, beautiful, alive!
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 27: my rosary for Praying in the Dark arrived, I put it on, and something happened Beautiful Magicians, Yesterday was July 4 in the United States, a day intended to celebrate American independence. A day 250 years ago, when a cluster of wealthy white men in thirteen American colonies decided to…
Read MoreAstrology in the Summer of our Collapse
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 26: in which we ponder the intense astrology in this summer of our collapse Did you find me in your spam folder? Please put my domain email in your address book janet@janetconner.com All newsletters will come from this email address from now on. The old one with tampabay.rr in the…
Read MoreRemembering real male-female partnership
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 25: in which we remember what real masculine-feminine partnership looks and sounds like NEW EMAIL Did you find me in your spam folder? Please put my domain email in your address book janet@janetconner.com All newsletters will come from this email address from now on. The old one with tampabay.rr in…
Read MorePraying in the Dark is here!
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 24: in which we see the dark and decide to pray our way through NEW EMAIL Did you find me in your spam folder? Please put my domain email in your address book janet@janetconner.com All newsletters will come from this email address from now on. The old one with tampabay.rr…
Read MoreThe first rosary untainted by religion
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 21: in which we find we need to pray a whole new kind of rosary, a rosary untainted by religion Beautiful Magicians, Things are converging. Disparate things. Things that didn’t feel connected in any way when they were happening. But now, as I stand—and you stand—in this strange, exhausting,…
Read MoreThey lied about the Bull
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 20: we pause under the dark moon of Taurus, look up, see the Bull, and realize we’ve been lied to Beautiful Magicians, Yesterday, Saturday May 16, was the day of an intense new moon in Taurus. That energy continues through today and through the entire lunar cycle, so I…
Read MoreThe Song of the Morning of the World
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 19: we have studied the five crimes and begun to pray the five Goddess prayers that heal them, now what? Beautiful Magicians, This is the seventh of what is turning out to be an on-going story that began with enumerating the five crimes of patriarchy and praying the five…
Read MoreThe 5th crime of patriarchy—murder—and the prayer to transmute it
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 18: in which we study the fifth and final crime of patriarchy—murder—and speak the Goddess prayer that heals it Beautiful Magicians, This is the sixth of what is turning out to be a seven or more-part Notes from the Field series on the five crimes of patriarchy and the…
Read MoreThe 4th crime of patriarchy—greed—and the prayer to transmute it
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 17: in which we study the fourth crime of patriarchy, the crime that underpins the entire structure–greed–and speak the Goddess prayer that transmutes it Beautiful Magicians, This is the fifth of a six-part Notes from the Field series (there might be a seventh) on the five crimes of patriarchy…
Read MoreA 144 year miracle happened on Friday, February 20th
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 9: in which bombs fall and people cry AND a miracle 144 years in the making comes to fruition Beautiful Magicians, I have to make a big decision today. It’s 1pm on Saturday. Today, the US, under the TIC (thug in chief) bombed Iran. He is gleefully calling it a…
Read MoreThe Good Bunny and the Bad Guru
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 7: in which we can’t miss the sharp contrast between the very good bunny and the very bad guru Beautiful Magicians, What a wild week. For me personally it was another week of wacko computer issues. The second screen went black and stayed black. Email did wonky things. I…
Read MorePlan A or Plan B?
Theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 6: in which we realize the profound relationship between the sign in our windows and the sins of our fathers Beautiful Magicians, Thank you for your messages wondering where I was last Sunday and if I’m OK. It is heartening to be reminded that hundreds of you wake up…
Read MoreWhen in the course of human events…
2026 theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 3: a response to all the things that are happening in the neighborhood Beautiful Magicians, So much has happened in the last seven days, that I had no idea where to start this Notes from the Field. The field is on fire. There’s no pretending anything else. The…
Read MoreWe ask what this year portends. The Oracle answers.
2026 theme: Magicians Reporting for Duty Week 2: The Oracle arrives with a dual message for the year Beautiful Magicians, My plans for this Notes from the Field have just been completely upended by attending the first gathering in Emma Kupu Mitchell’s Ignite Change: the Astrology of 2026. It was a rich rich gathering. Emma walked…
Read MoreA whole new kind of forecast for 2026
Week 50–in which we wonder what the astrology of 2026 has in store for us Beautiful Ones, I have offered subscribers the opportunity to register for the next year’s astrology forecast for…let me think…a decade! How wild is that. I, who am so not an astrologer, have created a deep dive forecast for you ever…
Read MoreCelebrate Solstice bathing in “audible light”
Week 50–in which we stop at Solstice to be bathed in “Audible Light” Beautiful Ones, At the four turns of the wheel of the year—the solstices and equinoxes—Jennifer DeVille Catalano invites us to rest in the healing wisdom and beauty of her Crystal Tones Alchemy singing bowls. An experience Jennifer calls “audible light.” This coming…
Read MoreWhat has this year been about?
Week 49–in which we pause at a year’s end before considering a beginning Beautiful Ones, You may have noticed that there is a theme for each year’s Notes from the Field. I don’t remember when the themes first began to surface but now, as December dawns, I can’t help but look back at the theme…
Read MoreThe mystic field hiding in plain sight that holds your 9-year story
Week 47–in which we discover the mystic field big enough to hold the story of an entire nine year cycle Beautiful Ones, Last Sunday, I showed you the startling mobius strip graphic of time that Cathy Stevens Pratt created for us in The Lotus and the Lily intensive. That image awakened something in you. A…
Read MoreThis sacred moment will not return until 2035
Week 46–in which we stand at a moment that will not come again until 2035 Beautiful Ones, I have led The Lotus and the Lily prayer intensives for 16 years. So you might think that I’ve seen it all, experienced it all, understood what it’s all about. Nothing could be further from the truth. And…
Read MoreHow beautiful people enter Equinox, New Moon, and Eclipse
Week 38–in which we enter an Equinox, New Moon, and Eclipse, carrying and renewing our beauty Beautiful Ones, I have returned from my son, Jerry, and daughter-in-law, Maura’s, wedding in New York filled with exquisite stories, memories, and experiences. I feel deeply blessed to have been welcomed into a beautiful family and a vibrant anti-fascist community.…
Read MoreWhen does it end, you ask. Hyldemoer answers
Week 32–in which we ask “When does it end?” and Hyldemoer of Wyrd answers Beautiful Ones, I have spent every moment this week—waking and sleeping—remembering ancient Minoan Crete. Cathy Stevens Pratt and I just finished preparing a massive visual presentation on Crete for our first Learning Gathering in ART 6. A surprising thing happened that I…
Read MoreHow did we live in peace? Can we again?
Week 31–in which we ask how our ancestors lived in peace… what did they know that we’ve forgotten Beautiful Ones, I’ve spent the last several months immersed in books by historians, classicists, mythologists, anthropologists, and historians who studied how our ancestors lived in peace for thousands of years before patriarchy. All in preparation for our…
Read MoreIs there a model for living in beauty, reverence, peace?
Week 30–in which we wonder if humans have ever lived in beauty, reverence, and peace Beautiful Ones, It’s hard to even start writing this Notes from the Field. Because the Field is splattered with so much blood. And tears. War and death continue and continue and continue. Children die. Infants starve. Mothers weep. While politicians…
Read MoreFinding comfort in laughter and crows
Week 29–in which we find comfort in laughter and crows Beautiful Ones, It has been another week of chaos, cruelty, and heartbreak, capped by CBS (once respected for newscasters like Edward R Morrow and Walter Cronkite) firing Stephen Colbert, a truth-teller par excellence. This is the standard fascist playbook. First they go after the professors…
Read MoreLife is fragile. Handle with Reverence.
Week 27–in which we remember that life is fragile and we must handle it with reverence Beautiful Ones, It’s been a week when even glancing at the news breaks your heart. What have we become when ICE militia round up farm laborers in the fields at night and send them to concentration camps in a Florida swamp.…
Read MoreART 6 Reverence and Devotion is full of surprises
Week 27–in which we listen to what wants to be created Beautiful Ones, For the past several weeks, Cathy Stevens Pratt and I have been completely immersed in the creation of the 6th of 7 intensives in The Witch Sequence. The title of all these intensives is long but every word matters. Here’s the full name: The ART…
Read MoreWhat’s coming next—and how to prepare
Week 25—in which we get a taste of what’s coming and begin to prepare Beautiful Ones, It has been the most delicious mystical week. Not because of anything happening in the world. Yee gods and goddesses to all of that! The dread I spoke of last Sunday is, if anything, even more intense. The entire world is on…
Read MoreWe laugh, cry, take responsibility—and pray
Week 23—in which we laugh, we cry, we pray, and we take responsibility Beautiful Ones, What a week this has been! Are you laughing? Or crying? Or both? Maybe at the same time! Like you, I’m alternating between laughing and crying. How can we watch the total insanity of schoolyard bullies calling each other names, flailing…
Read MoreYour questions about deep soul writing
Week 20–in which I address some of your most frequent questions about soul writing Beautiful Ones, Before I dive into sharing the questions I have received since I began teaching deep soul writing in 2008, let me say, or more accurately shout—THANK YOU! I am floored and honored and humbled by the astonishing response to last…
Read MoreMy final deep soul writing intensive
Week 19–in which we deep soul write–with friends! Beautiful Ones, On April 23, 1997, my life changed. Totally. Completely. Irretrievably. I think we all have these fulcrum markers in life: before and after. Before the diagnosis, after the diagnosis. Before the breakup, after the breakup. Before sobriety, after sobriety. For me it’s before deep soul writing and…
Read MoreHer Council of Love has Begun
Week 18–in which we gather around Lady Freedom Beautiful Ones, Last Sunday, I hosted the opening ceremony for Her Council of Love global prayer practice. It was precious. So precious. Thank you to everyone who came. It was recorded and is now posted on the prayer page on my site so everyone can experience opening…
Read MoreNow is the time to pray
Week 17–in which we pray Beautiful Ones, I am overjoyed to announce that today Sunday April 27 is opening day for Her Council of Love Global Prayer Practice. My creative partner, Cathy Stevens Pratt, and I have been listening to what wants to be created and bringing it to life for several weeks. Because my zoom can only…
Read MoreIn praise of Courage
Week 16–in which we honor voices of courage Beautiful Ones, When chaos seems to unfurl the next layer of crazy every day, sometimes every hour, it’s hard to know what to do. And sometimes the very best thing to do is nothing. Stop. Pause. Rest. Look at the flowers. Speak with a friend. Go for…
Read MoreWhat the world needs now: Joy Drops
Week 15–in which we must, we simply must, take some Joy Drops Beautiful Ones, At a moment like this, as the building blocks of what was once considered a bastion of democracy and stability are smashed to bits, we find ourselves straddling the chaos by swinging from anger to despair and back again. Where do…
Read MoreOur shocking Chandra for our new Lunar Year
Week 13–in which we take our first steps in a new Lunar Year guided by a shocking Chandra Beautiful Ones, Every year, on the day the New Moon slips into Aries, I stop what I’m doing, study the Chandra for that degree, look around, and pay close attention to what is happening for me and for…
Read MorePlanting seeds in The Long Dark
Week 12–in which we are reminded of who we are and where we are and why we are Beautiful Ones, You know how there are some people whose posts on social media are food, real and necessary food, for the soul? One of those for me is artist Suzette Clough. Today Suzette wrote something that…
Read MoreI 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,…
Read MoreFortuna: Oracle of Oracles reveals her face and voice
Week 8–in which we realize we all have access to analeptic memory. Beautiful Ones, “Analepsis or the process of remembering and recovering forgotten knowledge—a technique used by poets, historians, mediums, and others—is an inheritance available to all of us who succeed our shamanic ancestors.” Caitlin and John Matthews, Walkers Between the Worlds In the course of my…
Read MoreThink you’re not an oracle? Your natal chart begs to differ.
Week 7–in which we realize we are all oracles. Just ask our natal charts. Beautiful Ones, Divination is not a skill you learn, it is a latent talent that has always been in you waiting to be acknowledged, tapped, and developed. And there couldn’t be a more perfect moment to awaken this latent talent than…
Read MoreYou have two brains. Which is in charge?
Week 4–in which we notice what happens when we change what we are noticing Beautiful Ones, What a week we have lived through! What was, is no more. Who we thought we were, is dissolving faster than salt in water. We who care are facing some tough choices. One option is to crawl back under…
Read MoreWhat to do when you can’t bear to look
Week 3–in which we must not look away Beautiful Ones, Today, Sunday, January 19, feels ominous. And not just because it’s the eve of what many of us perceive as a victory march of toxic, hyper-masculine, abusive power. We mystics, witches, myrrhophores, priestesses, and oracles remember. Somewhere deep in our bones, we remember what this…
Read MoreThree fires. Three antidotes.
Week 2–in which we consider the nature of fire Beautiful Ones, This moment is fraught with fear and worry and loss. But paradoxically, it’s also alive with possibility and hope. It’s all happening simultaneously in three very different fires. The first fire is the one we are all watching: the fires in Los Angeles. I lived…
Read More2025 begins with sales, surprises, and beauty
Week 1—in which we: step into a year full of impossible things blink at a nonverbal theme listen to whispers from beauty explore how to partner with change Beautiful Ones, “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…
Read MoreRing in the Light: Inaugural Crystal Alchemy Bowl event
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 51–in which we realize that singing bowls and astrology do the same thing! Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, My plan for today was simply to invite you to join the first ever Ring in the Light Crystal Alchemy singing bowl concert coming to…
Read MoreA year like no other calls for a forecast like no other
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 50–in which we begin to realize that 2025 is singing a song that has never been heard before Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, Whether you mark the new year on Winter Solstice, January 1, or any other auspicious date, we humans…
Read MoreIs this death throes or birth pangs…or both?
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 45–in which the shock of the moment pulls back the curtain and reveals something else Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, It’s been a brutal week. For me. For everyone in my prayer intensive communities. And probably for you, too. But this…
Read MoreHow will you prepare for 2025, the first 9 year since 2016?
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 42–in which we take a moment to consider how to complete 2024 and prepare for 2025, the first 9 year since 2016 Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, First, an apology for not being here last Sunday. I was just back…
Read MoreDoes anybody know what grace really is?
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 35–in which we ask what grace is Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, Last week, I shared the invocation I received for The Return of the Witches pilgrimage early in 2021. Little did I know that that profound event, in which we met,…
Read MoreWhat is this radiant blue light trying to tell us?
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 30–in which a radiant blue light arrives, stops us cold, and leaves us wondering what just happened Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, The central mystery and totally unexpected surprise at the heart of the upcoming A.R.T. 4 intensive on Myrrhophore…
Read MoreMagdalene reveals her fierce voice and face
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 29–in which Mary Magdalene’s FIERCE VOICE shakes Emma Kupu to her core Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, My dear friend and sister-witch collaborator, Emma Kupu Mitchell, and I have partnered on dozens of prayer intensives. Emma is my go-to on…
Read MoreThe radical difference between learning and remembering
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 28–in which we ponder the difference between learning and remembering Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, I’ve been pondering what it means to remember—in contrast to the patriarchal command to learn and use what you learn for profit. Although I didn’t know it, this…
Read MoreThe labyrinth reveals more of her mysteries
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 27–in which the labyrinth insists we notice a few more of her startling secrets Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, It’s been an intense week. Intense! All because the anointing oil for the 4th intensive in The Witch Sequence on Myrrhophore…
Read MoreMary Magdalene has a few things to teach us about anointing!
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 26–in which we realize that anointing–original anointing–is more ancient, miraculous, and powerful than anything we’ve ever been told Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, Emma Kupu Mitchell and I have a long delicious history of creating powerful anointing practices that amplify…
Read MoreAsk salmon to help you find your way home
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 25–in which we ponder the mystical wisdom of the salmon Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, In 2016, I invited artist, author, and activist Mary Ann Radmacher to be a guest teacher in a course I called “Express Your Soul’s Beauty.”…
Read MoreIs it reckless or holy to dare to redefine sacred words?
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 20–in which we ponder: “Is it reckless or holy to dare to redefine sacred words?” Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, I spent this past week in a sacred circle of sisters. My younger sister and her wife flew down from…
Read MoreTotality and prayer initiate our new lunar year
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 15–in which a new astrological year arrives with a total solar eclipse and a radical new prayer Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, In last Sunday’s Notes from the Field, I shared my way of honoring the wisdom and beauty of the…
Read MoreThe mysterious reset hiding in the Aries Equinox
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 11–in which we pause at the Equinox to reset the past and glimpse the radical future to come Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, Tuesday is the Aries Equinox—the beginning of spring in the Northern hemisphere and fall in the Southern.…
Read MoreHow to write a prayer on this last New Moon of the year
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 10–in which we step into the final New Moon of this astrological year and welcome a prayer to get us dancing around a lovely pagan fire Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, Today, Sunday, March 10, is the final New Moon…
Read MoreDo you know how extraordinary you are? She does.
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 6–in which She reminds us just how extraordinary we are Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, It’s been another wild week hasn’t it! If your January felt like a whole year of change and chaos squeezed into one month, know that…
Read MoreOrigina leads the way to 3 radical new prayer experiences
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 5–in which Origina creates 3 radical new prayer experiences Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, I’m writing this Notes from the Field late on Saturday after introducing the first ever death ceremony, “The Labyrinth Carries Us Home,” with early registrants for ART 3. It…
Read MoreTwo astonishing things your body knows about prayer
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 4–in which we discover two astonishing things our bodies know about prayer (but we were never told) Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, I’ve been carrying the call to be a prayer artist for six years. From the moment I heard those words,…
Read MoreWhere are you on the map?
2024 a year of sacred memory, dreaming dragons, and original prayer Week 3–in which we find our spot on the ancient map of the safe path through chaos Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, Chaos is afoot. That’s clear from even a cursory glance at global events. And it’s even clearer when you check in…
Read MoreThe Theatre of the Miraculous reveals her true colors
2023 the year we learn to listen to life Week 39–in which the Theatre of the Miraculous reveals her true colors Friends, soul writers, mystics, witches, and lovers of prayer, On this first day of October, a day that whispers a hint about the magic of the year to come, I’d like to tell you a…
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