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Fall Storytelling Intensive at Literary Arts

Mindy Nettifee September 8, 2020

Fall Storytelling Intensive: Stories of Healing/Healing our Stories October 15, 22, 29 & November 5, 12, 19 Thursdays, 6:00 p.m. …

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Fall Storytelling Intensive at Literary Arts

Mindy Nettifee September 9, 2019 Leave a Comment

Fall Storytelling Intensive: Stories of Healing/Healing our Stories November 6, 13, 20 (3 workshop sessions) & December 4 (final session …

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October 2020
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Feeling ripples today (((((( )))))) as I soak in t Feeling ripples today (((((( )))))) as I soak in the Saturns-day contraction vibes and allow myself to slow down, rest, make small moves, and play a little with tuning forks (sound massage 🙌🏼). Hope you’re out there getting some of what you need. Tomorrow the four-week Moon School poetry writing workshop begins through the Awful Good Writers portal. It’s not too late to sign up, if you happen to be reading this and catching a wave of wanting to belong to that, we are cooking up some self-connection self-expression channel magic ✨ Thank you to the amazing @patternity and to surrealist Jung-Yeon Min for the visual inspiration.
The moon is brand new today at 12:32pm PST at 23° The moon is brand new today at 12:32pm PST at 23° of Libra. All hail balance. All hail the right use of judgement and power. All hail justice. All hail the seeds that are planted in the soil of justice and actually have a chance to grow peacefully. All hail peace. All hail beauty. All hail beauty. All hail beauty. All hail the Libran vibes we so desperately need, bringing us easy intimacy, granting us the grace to disarm and warm and welcome and transform difficult relationships. Yes to harmony and resonance and elegant cloaks and impossible tact. *breath* The Libra new moon is normally a refreshing reset. It’s often a time to rest from all the harvesting and rigorous socializing to get quiet and do some initiating and intention setting. This new moon, however, is nested in the hard astrology we’ve all been living. It’s neighboring a retrograde Mercury in Scorpio and staring down a retrograde Mars in Aries, all of it slowed by a square with the Saturn Pluto Jupiter party in Capricorn which is still handing out final exams. So it might not be the best time to start something new. But it’s still a good time to pray, whatever that means to us. We can pray that this tension proves creative. We can pray to stay open to this harsh but also oddly magical moment. We can pray in the form of voting, and helping others to vote. I’ll personally also be praying for assistance remembering how to play, in the middle of this epic Capricorn assignment of discipline and effort, so that I don’t shrivel up any further into meanness and martyrdom, amen. Good luck to all of us as the chaos continues to reign. Photo regrammed from @theknowculture 🙌🏼 with the deep Libran wisdom of Desmond Tutu.
Happy Mercury Retrograde friends 💜 I know we ar Happy Mercury Retrograde friends 💜 I know we are all exhausted but we’ve never needed a redo more in our entire lives than we do this election season, so chins up. While this chaos inevitably deepens, may we not forget about the power combo of adrenal support vitamins and whatever music keeps us power walking through hell toward the light 🙌🏼
Just a reminder that the lightning struck the Wash Just a reminder that the lightning struck the Washington monument back on planet June. Even though too much has happened since then to name, and time has origamied into an unrecognizable doomanimal, and no one is counting their chickens because now we know better, watching Kamala Harris debate Mike Pence reminded me of this actual Tower card moment in this Tower card of a year. May the whites supremacist patriarchy and its myths of dominance and isolation and scarcity continue to crumble before our eyes 🙌🏼 thank you Kamala for your service, we want to live 😭 If you are learning the symbols of the tarot, the Tower card heralds a kind of cataclysm or cleansing fire, internal and external events that serve to collapse and bring down old beliefs, structures, systems, and institutions - all the towers that we build, including our own egos or self images. The Tower is the great breakdown that necessarily preceeds breakthrough. It potentially speaks personally to a purging or cleansing at every level of your being. It is, putting it mildly, disintegrating. It is also profoundly liberating, particularly for the imagination. As the Zen saying goes, “My barn having burned down, I can finally see the moon.” Is there a better symbol for the energies of this gd year? One thing is certain: after this massive breakdown, we will need as many humans as possible serving the projects of breakthrough, healing, repair, and reinvention. I am personally committed, no matter what this chaotic Fall brings, to staying present and curious and and responsive, to listening, to nurturing my own and others’ bodies and imaginations, to taking naps, to learning new things, to fighting for our sanity and our lives. Please sign up for one of my workshops, or book some one-on-one time, if you want to connect and commune. As of a few days ago, I know there were 2 or 3 spots left in both personal storytelling intensive and the poetry workshop. And if you want to go even deeper with me, there are 3 more spots in the Western Mystery Schools study group. You can find all the links on thecultofmindy.com 💛 & no matter what, please vote my friends, and please use your talismans.
Starting on October 18th, just after the new moon Starting on October 18th, just after the new moon in Libra, I will be teaching a four week generative poetry writing workshop tailored to the moon cycle with my better half / dark side / actual husband / poet genius Brian Ellis. The first two weeks as the moon is on the wax, we will be gently entering altered poetic states and doing somatic writing practices and writing poems that might also be stories or spells, all the way to the full moon in Taurus. In the second two weeks, as the moon wanes and darkens, we will be focusing on editing and preparing pieces for publication and/or performance, while also probably heavily using poetry to emotionally survive this election. This will be the only poetry workshop I offer for a hot while - so if you are feeling it and long to have a container for a month, we’d love to have you. You can find more info on my site or register at awfulgoodwriters.com 🌑🌘🌗🌖🌕🌔🌓🌒🌑 Today’s inspirado - “Ascend” by Felipe Pisano @the_invisible_realm, baby Yoda as me taking in these October news headlines, flyer from Awful Good Writers, moon actual, eclipsing 100 years ago.
The moon is full today at 2pm PST at 9° of Aries, The moon is full today at 2pm PST at 9° of Aries, the holy shit starter. Mars has been retrograde in Aries for three weeks already, creating a crisis for our inner warriors, so if you’ve been feeling both addicted to intensity and in conflict with it, if you’ve been struggling with frustration and despair, this moon is singing your song. Aries is also hosting Chiron, the wounded healer, and all of it is forming a painful square to the Saturn / Pluto / Jupiter constellation in Capricorn that has been guiding this death portal of a year. So I think you already knew this - but this month is going to be hard my friends. Progress will be slow and exacting. Core cultural wounds will be activated (even more). With everything going on in the collective, with the pressure building in the U.S. as we near the November election, we are being asked to cultivate hope, spread love, and nurture political agency all while under direct assault by a threatened, freaked out white supremacist patriarchy. Plus we have some personal shit going on. Triggers are extra sensitive. What we say and do now and how we say it and do it is extremely potent. It’s best to slow down, ground, get in firm connection to the body and tuned in to the relational field before acting or speaking. That goes triple for any full moon fire ritualing 🔥 I just keep reminding myself this year, this is what I’ve been preparing for. This is what all the healing and capacity building was for. For this opening. With this full moon, and with Saturn finally gone direct, the sun is truly setting on a war I’ve been fighting within myself / with myself. I can release the war that’s kept me from the real fight. Aries also reminds me that my instinctual self has never abandoned me, and never actually led me astray. It’s calling me now, to follow it again into the radiant dark, to learn more about how to live the kind of life that leads to a good death. A death that spikes the punch for generations. A death that leaves behind only love.
Happy equinox friends, we made it to fall - respec Happy equinox friends, we made it to fall - respect 🙌🏼 This particular equinox feels like a powerful reminder that balance isn’t static or necessarily peaceful. Balance requires constant change and adjustment, constant receptivity and humility. As the darkness catches up with the light and prepares to overtake it, the sun in Libra is sitting directly opposite a retrograde, agitated Mars in Aries, and Mercury is squaring Saturn & Pluto. This astrology is not smooth jazz. It’s ready to unearth fresh challenges. It’s ready to humble us. It’s here to show us our new growth edges, possibly in the dark, by having us feel what’s sharp and painful. But I don’t have to tell you that, you’re living it. Same! Hi. Yeah. Fuck. This is not a time to give in to despair. Nor to pretend to a strength we don’t have on our own. This is a time to stick together, gather support, and remember our basic practices - slowing down, focusing on the out breath, making art, resisting voter suppression, turning out progressive voters, forgiving ourselves so we can keep going & doing better, etc. If you want to take a workshop with me while this abyss continues to peak, all my fall workshops are all up on my site, and there’s a link to my fall newsletter is in my bio. There’s a storytelling intensive for Literary Arts starting October 15, a poetry workshop for Awful Good Writers I’m coteaching with husband genius Brian Ellis starting October 18, and a fall/winter cohort of the Western Mystery Schools study group starting in November. If any of these are oddly pulling on you, tapping your soul glass, I would love to work with you - sign up through thecultofmindy.com. And thank you to Mary Oliver for the reminders and the fuel, regrammed from the high vibes of @rob.brezsny._.truthrooster ✨
All hail, all grieve, the great Ruth Bader Ginsbur All hail, all grieve, the great Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who carried liberation forward, has died.
The new moon reaches peak darkness Thursday mornin The new moon reaches peak darkness Thursday morning at 4:01 am PST at 25° of Virgo. How tired are you? How also strangely grateful? For all my fellow left coasters, how is the summer ending in literal flames going for you? How nice would it be to get a lungful of fresh air and curl up on a bed of moss in a forest of tender spirits that “get it” and are downloading new powers directly into you and also bringing you exact instructions for what to do next with your life? This Virgo new moon is coming near the end of Virgo’s time ruling with the sun, just as its finishing its work transitioning us out of one season and into the next. Virgo is a deep systems analyst, a master diagnostician. Virgo has a deep sense of the right way to do things, what’s needed to heal a system, how to optimize a spiral of growth. Coming just before next Tuesday’s equinox, the official start to fall in the northern hemisphere, this new moon gives us an opportunity to set an intention for how we want this next descent to go. Is there a personal or collective pattern you long to heal and let go of? A new practice or vibe you long to deepen? Are you interested in liberation? In designing systems that enable everyone to share in our collective prosperity and sufficient bounty? In building authentic communities of radical and practical eccentrics, where love and accountability nourish each other? Let’s all use the small fraction of our minds we can control, to influence the quantum potentials, to stack the deck in our favor. Let’s plant seeds of healing, justice, peace, love, enoughness, joy. X-ray of a nautilus shell by Julian Köpke, transcend art by @ryancarlostudio, Cooper forever, wisdom repost from the brilliant @tash1ko.
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