Beginning a Goddess’ year
Posted by Goddess Leonie on January 2nd, 2010. Filed under: Courses and Kits, Joyful Goddess Life.
Hola gorgeous Goddesses!
It’s been a big couple of days… filled with some things not going as beautifully as I would have hoped. I can’t share about it here yet ~ until things are lovely and sorted again. But yus… I’ve had moments of being a prickly pear & a warrior goddess as we try & get things sorted.
Another good reminder for me… that when things feel rough… it’s time to create even more softness, gentleness & self-love in my life.
So that’s what we’ve been doing the last couple of days.
Yesterday was a pillow & book picnic under our pergola. That’s my sun lounge for meditationapping on, our collection of succulents & our fairy & her cottage.
Today, in the late of the afternoon, I needed another goodness top-up. I was procrastinating doing it – why do we procrastinate doing the things that make us feel good?
I decided to turn it into a ritual instead.
I went to our bedroom, and made it feel all cosy and light, without any clutter. Out came my sacred tools… my workbook, put on a CD called “Grace” by Snatam Kaur Khalsa & sprayed the room with Calming Mama Goddess mist. I got out my favourite crystal (a glowing blue obsidian) and settled in.
With a bit of structure & support ~ it became easier to do the thing I knew would make me feel better.
And things started flowing out, as they do. I asked my angels & guides to let me know anything I needed for 2010.
Some of the words that poured out stunned me in a lovely way… they felt like just the things my spirit needed to hear.
This is what it looks like to write from my perspective. tee hee hee!
And yes, I now do have an outie!
I want to introduce you to someone special. It’s Tiny Tim! The cute little mole who has lived inside the cave of my belly button for all these years… and now, for the first time in 27 years… my Tiny Tim is now living in the sunshine. Welcome to the world, little moley! I hope you are having so much fun down there 
And then… I got jumped on by my three furries… Charlie, Angel & Mr Hunky. Bedroom officially raided with love. So my little nest of self-comfort became a family nest of comfort. Angel leaning up against Chris as he read Attachment Connection… Charlie resting up against me as I continued on.
This was my favourite page to do… and I’ve left space in it so I can keep on adding to it. Thinking about, collecting and writing down all the tools I can use whenever I need a lift… walking, calling my mum, making something, reading my oracle cards, asking my angels for help, eating something green, using the medicine wheel, meditating…
I know this year is going to be transformative… in three months, I’ll become a mama when our little mermaid arrives in the world. I’m finishing up working in an office. My whole, beautiful life is changing. And it’s all things I want… and yet… I know I need support. Tools to use when I need them… This sacred act of gathering into a medicine bag just lit me up.
I’m not alone. Neither are you, darlingheart.
And the last thing I wrote in my medicine bag was “Foot Soaks.” And then my love called me into the bathroom, and he’d run a foot bath for the two of us. That man amazes me. So in tune! So we sat in chairs over the bathtub, reading books, patting puppies.
Giving our beautiful souls just what they needed to glow again.
So that’s been my journey… the journey of my days, of self comfort, of the beginning of a new year, of working with my workbook & witnessing all the beautiful, potent things that come up during it.
I’ve been adoring reading other goddess’ journeys with their 2010: Creating my Goddess Year workbook & planner, including:
- Ebenezer’s Scribe
- My Magical Existence
- Creative Everyday
- Spiritual Semaphore
- Goddess Sunshine
- Ink on my fingers
- Lefty by default
- Jennifer Lee
- The Queen of Creativity
- Dandelion Seeds & Dreams
- Aus Animal Goddess
- Antithete
- A Desire to Get Creative
- Domesticated Gypsy
- Veda Sun
If you’re wanting to share about your workbook journey on your blog, you are welcome to use this banner:
And do let us know in the comments your link so all the rest of us goddesses can read it too
The beautiful Goddess Tangerine Meg said the loveliest thing:
It’s quite amazing… whilst I was making the collages, and filling in the pages… to think of so many other Goddesses all doing their own ones too at the same time!
Amen to that. There are over 250 goddesses out there in the world… all doing the workbook… dreaming up their goddess year… and that gives me beautiful, delightful shivers of joy. We are dreaming up divine things together, dear goddess sisters. Of that, I am sure.
May your days be filled with love, rainbows, kindness, foot soaks & gladness…
because you deserve it all, sweetpea.
I adore you,
P.S. Gentle reminder: Goddess School begins in 15 days!
January 2nd, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Greetings from a frosty ol’ England. So glad I clicked on the button on Em’s website. I love the way you think! 2010 is definitely going to be a more spiritual, Goddess-like year and although I’m slightly strapped for cash this week, I’ve put in my diary a reminder to buy your 2010 calendar next week!! Can’t wait to start it. Take care of the little mermaid; you’re in for a wonderful ride!
January 3rd, 2010 at 12:54 am
AWWWWW leonie, sending you lots of love and healing vibes for whatever may be troubling you….
I LOVVVVVE these photos that you have posted – pretty pleaseeeee you gotta keep posting these photos, i love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Love how there taken from your persepective!!!
What camera do you use and how do you put a dreamy blueish tint over them? xxxxxxxxx
January 3rd, 2010 at 1:21 am
Sending you support and love from over here , I can;t wait to get started on my workbook, I am starting out the New YEar with quite a cold so I have not started it yet…
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:25 am
I have started blogging about my workbook too! The first blog entry is here:
http://adesiretogetcreative.blogspot.com/2010/01/ced-january-1-2010-creating-my-goddess.html
I will be posting more pictures after I work on filling out the first few pages. It’s 11:24am January 2 here in New York, and my goal is to do the 2009 reflections pages today.
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:57 am
I’m sorry things weren’t going as beautifully as you’d hoped. Maybe what you did here will turn that tide! Also, just so you know, I am terrible about putting off doing things I KNOW make me feel better, too. (Isn’t that human nature, to an extent?)
I loved this little peek into your new year! Thanks for letting us in.
Also, I wanted you to know that I came up with a little project of my own using your 2010 planner and ideas for the To-Do List Book and Scrap Journal. I posted about it today: http://spiritualsemaphore.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/a-little-project-ive-been-working-on-since-new-years-eve/
Seriously, thank you for everything you do. ((Hugs))
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:31 am
Hi, Goddess Leonie! Sorry you are having a rough time of it…wishing you all kinds of goodness that things are resolved for you!!! I have posted a bit on my blog about your magnificent 2010 goddess workbook – thanks so much! The link is http://www.leftybydefault.com/2010/01/02/happy-new-year/
all my best to you!
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:54 am
Oh Please add me to your list! I am getting started this weekend
January 3rd, 2010 at 11:42 am
Wishing you a better day tomorrow. I’ll be blogging about my journey with the workbook too. Here is my first entry http://thequeenofcreativity.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-word-for-year-is.html
January 3rd, 2010 at 2:12 pm
I am so excited to join all the other goddesses who are working on this! I have been needing something to pick me up and push me back in the direction of my dreams…. and this is so perfectly it! http://domesticatedgyspy.blogspot.com/2010/01/goddess-guidebook-and-life-update.html This is a link to my blog where I’ve started sharing about my journey. I’m so excited to see all the growth, and so so so excited for you to reach all the wondrous women out there who need this!
January 3rd, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Thank you all so much, dearest goddesses, for your love and support… and I am *loving* reading all your blogs
I’ve added all your links in 
I *adore* this!!!!
With the oof-bluck-yuk… thank you so much for the support… feeling *so* much better today. All I needed to do was remember my word I had for 2009:
F A I T H.
Faith that everything is working out perfectly… even when it looks a little lopsided… it will work out beautifully. Of that I am sure.
And why the heck I am so sure? Coz it always has
I just need to remember this when I’m a mega prickly pear! tee hee hee
*GROUP HUGS*
January 3rd, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Hey Goddess Leonie and Goddessisters!
Glad it’s sorting itself out.
My post with 2010 intention list and a little about my process is at:
http://tangerinemeg.com/2010/01/01/live-bold-list-11-bold-again-in-2010/
I like it how when you are not having so much fun you still honour that with the kind description ‘prickly pear’! LOL
January 4th, 2010 at 10:48 am
Dear Leonie, Thank you so much for creating this wonderful workbook! I have a journal where each December I look back over the previous year and look ahead to the coming year…but this workbook is so inspiring and so much fun to fill out, I know I will have a much more fulfilling and successful year! I am halfway through and can’t wait to work on it again tonight! I am so enjoying seeing others’ workbooks and journeys and plans as well. Love your website and creative meditations/workbooks. Thank you so much!
January 5th, 2010 at 10:59 am
Hi! I came via kindovermatter.blogspot.com…and it took me very little time to choose to download the Goddess Guidebook! I’m very excited about starting this year right as the end of 2009 was a difficult one.
I’m planning to post about this on my “goddess” blog: goddesscecilia.blogspot.com.
But I might also do a little bit on my personal blog: greenestmermaid.blogspot.com
Thanks for this awesome opportunity!!!
January 6th, 2010 at 2:41 am
Yipee!! I’ve started a blog just for Goddess School.
And of course, my puppy decided that he should be part of it too. Thank you Goddess Leonie for being the perfect inspiration and the perfect kickstart for this time in my life. *hugs & sparkles&
January 6th, 2010 at 10:58 am
Hello!
I have just discovered your blog and I would like to say I think it is magical, inspiring and creative!
Happy 2010!
yasmina