Hello fellow souls,
Happy post-Summer Solstice and pre-Capricorn full moon. I hope you’ve been sensing and leaning into the energy of new light, joy, and transformation that is this time. After the potent months of stirred-up change, death and rebirth, and inner turmoil from March through May, June has been a month for light, love, joy, and time for play and processing after all that depth.
My leaning into that was a magical trip back to Costa Rica for 11 days with my beloved. Sharing my soul’s home and the grandmother medicine Ayahuasca with him was such a gift. Just grounding back now, and am here to share what’s been guiding and expanding me this month,
What I’m Reading
The Alchemist by Paul Coelho. This came in to reread, so heart and mind-opening and timely. A poetic, archetypal fable of the labyrinth journey of the self towards one’s soul purpose.
Secrets of Divine Love by A. Helwa. I was surprised by how much this pulled me in. In line with my recent magnetism to the history of the ancients, including Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and Persian cultures, I came across this book on Islam and the Qur’an. It’s a beautifully read, poetically transmitted nondual/Sufism/spiritual look at one of the world’s oldest sacred books and belief systems that transcends dogma/religion.
Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library by Kenneth Guthrie. A man that few know yet who developed much of the knowledge and schools of thought of Western culture and influenced the more widely-known philosophers like Plato and Aristotle. Born in Greece in 570 BC, much of his life was spent traveling to the civilizations of that time including Egypt, Persia, India, and Rome, to study with the wisest philosophers, priests, mathematicians, and astrologers across cultures and religions.
What I’m Watching
Silence is the best speech Eckhart Tolle
Summer solstice astrology Pam Gregory
The New World - A 2005 movie on the story of Pocahontas and John Smith
What I’m Contemplating
And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. - John Steinback
You can only receive with an open hand
If you want the moon, do not hide from the night. If you want the rose, do not hide from the thorn. If you want love, do not hide from yourself. - Rumi
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. - Paul Coelho
The sign of whether you are in alignment with your personal legend is enthusiasm. - Paul Coelho
If you don’t fear the unknown, the unknown will be kind to you. - Paul Coelho
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent. - Carl Jung
If you don’t tell the person you love of your suffering, it means you don’t love this person enough to trust her. - Thich Nhat Hanh
Your good intentions are not enough; you have to be artful. Mindful living is an art, and each of us has to train to be an artist. - Thich Nhat Hanh
In Vietnamese, the nickname for a person’s life partner is “my home.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
True power never needs to prove itself to others or the world. True power is only concerned with the job at hand. - Richard Rudd
A writer is a world trapped in a person. - Victor Hugo
The word person comes from Latin, its original meaning is the word mask. The mask that actors used to wear in ancient theater. The word consists of two parts. Per, through and son, sound. The mask through which the actor speaks and sound comes through. Your primary task is to transcend that in this lifetime. Because that’s part of the evolution of the universe, consciousness coming in. - Eckhart Tolle
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. For at the end of all you know is the beginning of your journey to God. - Rumi
What I’m Listening To
Morning guided meditation for higher purpose manifestation Joe Dispenza