It’s time again for an Ask Goddess Leonie question!

A gorgeous goddess in ze Goddess Circle shared recently:

I’ve been in love with doing this one thing for a while now. And I totally loved it, and was making a business with it. But now… now… I feel I should be doing this other thing. I’m really excited about it. But I’ve spent so long building my other business. What do I do? Do I stay with the first thing I built my business with? Or do I totally change?

You know, I’ve been talking about this with a few friends lately.

That it’s really, really, really okay to change your business direction and follow newer, bigger passions, and what feels more profitable.

And how do I know this?

Since I started my business six years ago, I have sold (in chronological order):

• t-shirts through Cafepress
• a self-published book
• art prints
• original art
• commissioned artwork only
• retreats
• face-to-face circles
• e-courses
• coaching
• meditation kits
• workbooks
• Goddess School
• Goddess Circle

And that’s just been in six years!

I’ve never just done One.Thing.At.A.Time.

I’ve overlapped them.

I kept doing older, more established, profitable things while I grew new parts of my business to test if they were sustainable, fun & profitable.

And then found the happy balanced middle spot.

Doing what I love & getting paid to do it!

Imagine something for me…

Picture your business like a beautiful tree.

You are the core, the trunk.

It’s up to you what branches you want to shoot out.

You can have as many branches as you feel able to support and nourish from the ground up.

Sometimes you’ll decide to prune back old branches to make space. Sometimes you’ll send out new shoots to see if they’ll take.

Sometimes your tree will be overflowing with fruits of your creative inspiration. Sometimes it will be losing leaves as it renourishes itself from the soil up (that’s kinda what I feel like I’m doing right at this moment.)

The core of your business is you and your essence and spirit. The branches are just different ways you can offer those gifts of you to others.

Your business will change. It will evolve.

It’s organic and shifting, just like you, dearest.

You are magical dearest heart. You have my total love and *squeeing* cheerleader pom-pomery as you grow your business branches, as you work out your path, as you send down those beautiful roots of yours deep, deep down into the earth.

You can DO IT!

big love
xoxoxo

Hola gorgeous Goddesses!

It’s that time of the moon again… an Ask Goddess Leonie question answered  To get your question answered, just add your question here.

This time, a sweetheart asked me:

What do you do to your hair to make all mermaidy?

Aaaaaaahhhh… good question! Let’s get all goddess girly for a moment!

First point: Leonie is not a style guru. And thus makes her style.

I don’t like handbags, shoes, bras, make-up, undies, hairdryers or clothes shopping… and try not to engage with all of the above as often as possible.

I like to call my personal dress style as “hobo-hobo” – as in – bohemian homeless person.

I’m pretty sure my inability to care about all things beauty + style is born out of growing up on a farm in the middle of nowhere-Australia… but seeing as my sisters + mum manage to maintain some kind of style decorum, I don’t know if I can actually use it as an excuse. For me, style + beauty comes out of what happens when you wake up, pull on the closest clothes, rock the bedhead or the ponytail, and run outside to play with puppehs, or do some painting in the sunlight. That’s my definition of high style!

My bestest goddess advice for cultivating goddess hair… is to let it be what it is.

There is nothing more gorgeous than revelling in the beauty and uniqueness of the mane we were given.

Me thinks pregnancy tends to make manes a whole lot more mermaidy too…

Here’s my uber-difficult mermaid-hair beauty-regime:

1.) I brush it once a week. Maybe.

It’s true. I wash it once a week with whatever is in the shower. I comb it when it is wet {oooooh… beauty no-no that Leonie says yes-yes to!l}.

And then I let it go do whatever it wants the rest of the time. Sometimes it is scooped up in a ponytail with fringe-y bits. Sometimes I pull back my fringe with a bobby pin and rock the bed-hair. On days I feel all maiden-squire-goddess-hottie, I have two messy braids.

And that’s about the whole of my hair repertoire.

2.) I don’t cut it. Unless it’s in the backyard.

I think the last time I had my hair cut by a hairdresser was three years ago. And before then, it had been a couple of years. I started not cutting my hair – and about once a year, when I felt like I needed to let go of old energy, I’d stand in my backyard and cut away intuitively – no mirror – just me, my hands, my hair, and a pair of scissors. And all the ends of my hair would catch in my wind and get carried over my garden, and it felt beautiful and good and right.

Sometimes it would happen in the moonlight, sometimes it would happen under the stars, sometimes it would happen under the sun.

And each time would feel like this wonderful, sacred ritual of release, and of transformation, and of tending to my self.

So that time I went back to a hairdresser?

Suddenly I felt all out of place. It was so loud and stark and inside. And the hairdresser kept wanting to gossip, and talk about new styles and how annoying things were. And my hair got cut away, and all my ends got swept up into other people’s ends, and got put in a big bin together.

It just didn’t feel right anymore.

So it’s back to intuitive haircuts in the backyard for me!

3.) I let it be what it wants to be.

No colour. No straighteners. No blow-drying.

I found a haircut style that worked with the natural flow of my hair – lots of layers – and stayed with it.

Evidence: What happens when you ignore what sings to your hair, and force a too-short fringe on curly hair…

Occasionally I make rather hilarious mistakes like cutting my own crazy-short-fringe and hoping that my hair would miraculously change from curly to being straight and edgy. Funnily enough, just because you try and force a style on your hair, it doesn’t mean it will change. It’s just going to do it’s own thing anyway.

So my whole hair-philosophy {and life-philosophy} is not to try and make something different from what it is.

If I can just have the humour, grace & courage to allow myself to be who I am truly – to allow my hair to be whatever it wants to be – then it will all work out beautifully.

That’s the gift my hair teaches me…

around us, there are a thousand teachers, all giving us the chance to learn again and again about love, and about light.

big love you,

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A sweet and shining goddess asked this question:

I just found your website and am very intrigued by your voice. I’ve been reading a lot & soaking it up.  I’ve been thinking a lot about your  ”hello-and-see-you-soon-pregnancy” view.  I can’t help but just ask you.  I feel the need to understand, it seems a gentle way to look at it… but I can’t seem to wrap my head around it completely.

Thank you for your question sweetie… it’s a good one.

We found out we were pregnant at five weeks, and decided to share it with the world.

It is our first pregnancy, and we knew that around 1 in 5 pregnancies don’t make it to twelve weeks. That’s the beautiful mystery of life… not all pregnancies result in a baby.

Does that make them any less sacred, holy, or precious? No.

We wanted to share it because our world was changed in an instant, and our sweet souls were already transforming.

We believed that no matter the outcome of this pregnancy, that we would be changed from it, and that we needed to share our story… the story that often doesn’t get shared… the story that happens to every man and woman when they find out they are pregnant.

We felt our journey was deep and dear to us – whether it ended up with the result of a babe-in-arms, or if it was my body preparing the way for future pregnancies, or if it was leading us the way of a journey we hadn’t yet glimpsed. We believe that our pregnancy is a gift – no matter what the outcome.

We feel that we will be gifted with the right thing for us at the right time.

I don’t believe that what we *want* is always what we *need* for the perfect ripening of our journeys. Great Spirit, and the beautiful universe will give us what we needed.

There’s a few reasons I don’t feel like what I *want* is necessarily what I *need* for the evolution of my soul.

My brother passed away in an accident when I was 14. And it was the thing that I never wanted to have happen. It was the thing I prayed every night would never happen. And yet, it did. And yes, it was incredibly painful at the time, and I grieved losing him for a long, long time. I still do some days. But the thing I learned? Was that I didn’t actually lose him. You never really lose someone who is a part of your soul, your story and your love.

My brother showed me that love goes through all the doors and walls of this plane and the next. Though I can’t see him, I know he is still around, loving, guiding and helping me and my family. He has taught me so much in his passing, and he is still very much my big brother. He likes to talk, and he likes me to listen.

Death didn’t cause the end of our relationship – it keeps on growing, blooming like any other relationship. My brother is just more starry now.

Mostly, I just feel exceptionally lucky that I received my brother to love… for the 14 years I knew him physically, and the thirteen that followed.

So my brother’s passing didn’t end up being a horrible thing for me – it has become a deep and sacred blessing in my life.

What my soul needed to grow, my life gifted me.

My life hasn’t always been a perfect unravelling of all the things I wanted, happening at the time I deemed as being the right time.

Boys didn’t love me back, some dreams didn’t come true, parts of my family created war against each other, car accidents and grades that weren’t as high as I wanted them to be. I didn’t get the pony I wanted. Prince Charming didn’t come flying in on a white horse, without any personal challenges of his own, and he didn’t save me from myself – I had to do that on my own.

Remember my post The Worst Thing In The World Could Be The Best Thing?

All those things that I could have registered as being bad. All those things I could have seen as being a failure of the Universe to provide to me.

And yet, the big, brave, beautiful truth of it is…

Whatever I am given, it is the right lesson and the right medicine at the right time.

It will make me richer and deeper and lovelier and more understanding than ever before.

It will take me to the place I need to be.

I am given whatever it is I need right now. It is my job to find the medicine and the blessings in what I am given, and have faith that I am being given what I need in a way that is so deep and rich and complex that I can only glimpse at it’s beauty.

I know I am in the right place, because here is where I am.

All of my life – both the things I wanted to happen and the things I didn’t want to happen – has brought me here, home to myself, and in a bigger, deeper place of love and understanding about life and Great Spirit.

How do I know I need to be pregnant? Because I am.

How do I know I need to be not pregnant? Because I am.

How do I know I need to sick? Because I am.

How do I know I need to be in this place? Because I am.

My responsibility is:

I can choose with my highest spirit.

I can ask for what I need.

I can take action on my path.

I can choose how I will feel, think about and respond to those things that happen.

An Aboriginal elder said:

You know, The Secret and the law of attraction is all good and everything.

But we have to allow for life to come in and give us what we truly need.

Sometimes we don’t know what is best for us, and we are taught by life who we need to be.

At our Calm Birthing class on the weekend, our lovely teacher said to us:

How will you feel if you don’t have the birth you are hoping for?

And I sat and I thought about this.

And I realised that what I would like most of all is to bring this idea of Great Spirit Gifting Us With What We Need to birth. So whether we birth in a pool or in a surgery, I remember that profound truth:

There is nothing ever truly wrong. We may want things to be a certain way or another, but that we are given what we truly need.

So I just keep on trusting. And believing. And knowing that whatever happens – to me, my love, my little mermaid, my family… that we will be okay. That we’ll learn whatever we need to learn from each swirl of the journey. That it will take us closer to ourselves, our souls, Great Spirit, love, the highest truth and our home.

However things unfold with this beautiful little soul inside my womb… the thing I most want to remember, feel and know is this:

I am incredibly blessed to love and know this soul, for whatever time we spend together. If that’s a life time or a moment, it is all a blessing.

Hola gorgeous Goddess!

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I was playing around on Facebook (I’m here! Come play!) the other day, & was talking about creating my new To Do List book… and one of the gorgeous goddesses asked:

Ooooh! A To-Do-List book! I’m definitely going to make one of my own. Maybe you can do a tutorioral thingy (yes, that’s the technical term) on your blog sometime! I’d love to know how you use it!

And because I’m a total To-Do-List passionista, I did. I love knowing what my big dreams are, and breaking them up into simple, easy things I can do each day to make them come true.

So… I preeeeesent!! My To Do List book tutorial!

Ask Goddess Leonie: The To Do List Book from Goddess Leonie on Vimeo.

Update: Oh my goddess!

Toooo cute for words! I freaking LOVE group participation…

here is the holy-freaking-adorable Goddess SwirlyAnge with her newly created To-Do-List book:

And if you put your backwards-glasses on, you see her words: oh so lovely lists…

That book is like rainbow empowerment right there. Adore!

And she wrote me:
Thank you for the tutorial, I had the most blissful time this afternoon making my book! I made 4 sections – major goals, mini major goals, to do today and life goals (for all the biiiigggg stuff). I LOVE IT! It’s going to be so much easier to stay focused and moving forward.

I added another piccy of my inside cover for you. Underneath the picture of His Holiness it says “Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient…we must become actively engaged”. A good reminder of the bigger picture and motivation for sure I also added a picture of lama who is very dear to me. And there’s a picture of buddha on the back cover. Geeez with those guys on my side I’ll fly through my to do lists hahaha.

I love, love, love this… and love adding some really positive affirmations & quotes & inspiring wise ones to our To-Do lists – so they are not just mindless achievement records, but a holy game plan that we are totally supported with.

And I adore Goddess Sone‘s To Do list book that she shared on her blog!

On to you!

Hope this helps sweetpeas… how do you like to do your To-Do lists?

Every day, in every single way, you are getting lovelier & lovelier,

Hola gorgeous Goddess!

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A fabulous and radiant goddess asked this question:

Dear Goddess Leonie,

I’ve been reading a lot from various sources about space clearing, and would like to do some in my space to prepare for the coming winter.  (I live in the U.S.)  Most of what I’m reading suggests smudging with a smudge stick or incense, either as the main means of space clearing or an integral component.

The thing is, the other people in my house have allergies and asthma, and are thus sensitive to smoke and certain scents, as am I, though to a lesser degree.  So my question–and maybe a question others may have but are afraid or unwilling to ask–is, are there other methods for space clearing that are as effective or similarly effective as smudging with a smudge stick or incense that would be friendlier to those with allergies/asthma/other breathing problems (i.e. COPD, emphysema, etc.)?

I thought I would ask, because I thought that if anyone would know it would be you, or, at least, anyone in my acquaintance.  Please don’t feel pressured to answer or to be in a hurry about it.  I just thought I would put the question out there.

I hope this finds you and yours well and happy!

Love & ((Hugs)),
Rebekah

Thank you for this lovely question! And yus… space clearing is such a beautiful thing – and there are so many ways you can clear without smudge sticks or incense.

There’s a whole bundle of ways that I used to teach in the Making Space for your Goddess to Shine e-course – including sacred sound, crystal gridding, feng shui and angel protection… (The e-course is finished for now… and I’ll eventually create something new with the same tools.)

But for right now, let me focus on one of the simplest and one of my most favourite methods of space clearing: Sprays.

Sprays=space clearing goodness

One of my favourite sprays is what I now call Puppy Calm.

Once upon a time (when we got Angel-puppy earlier this year), in a land far, far away (our house), Mr Lord Hottiecakes

(Chris) decided to research ways to calm doggies down, to help Angel settle in to having a new home, and Charlie settle in to no longer being Prince of the Castle.

He made up a spray bottle of water and lavendar oil and labelled it “Dog Calm”, and whenever the puppies got tense or grouchy, he’d spray it on their backs, and pat it into their fur. And they really liked it. And so did I. hee hee hee

I’ve taken to spraying Puppy Calm all over the house… it cleanses the air beautifully, leaves everything smelling so soothing and restful, and is all round just glorious. I love lavendar so much that if I was a bee, all my honey would be lavendar-tasting. I love lavendar so much that if I was a fairy, I would hang out at the lavendar bush all day, and make my fairy nest between two lavendar bushels. That’s how much I love lavendar.

Make your own sacred sprays

So Puppy Calm is my standby space clearer… it’s water with about 10% soluble lavendar essential oil in it. Make some of your own. Call it Goddess Calm if you like. And spray, spray, spray.

You can also make your own sprays using any essential oils that sing to you. (If you are a pregnacious goddess, be careful which oils you use – lavendar is usually safe for low-risk pregnancies).

For an extra zing of sparkly clarity goodness, pop a piece of crystal in your spray bottle in the water.

And for a double extra magical-zing, label the bottle with the intention of what you’d like to feel from the spray i.e. Calm, Peace, Magic, Goodness, Light, Joy.

Pre-made sprays

I also keep a few pre-made sprays on hand to keep our space flowing gorgeously.

Australian Bushflower Essences Space Clearing spray is completely perfect for space clearing. I also use their Calm and Clear spray.

And the lovely Mama Goddess Birth Shop sent me some of their Calming Spritzer to try out which I completely and utterly love.

Hope this helps, dearest heart… and let me know any gorgeous space-clearing, goddess-soothing concoctions you come up with!

Big love,

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Hola gorgeous Goddesses,

Whenever I can, I answer an Ask Goddess Leonie question. To get your question answered, just add your question here. A sweet and shining goddess asked this question:

I know healing is essential… but sometimes when I start working on issues, it feels like more and more come up, and it becomes so overwhelming and hard and scary that I run away from them, and just ignoring them.

And that’s completely completely understandable.

Because doing inner work can be challenging – and there’s just you, in your own spirit, doing your inner work. It can feel lonely, and sometimes you can get to a point where you’ve run out of inner resources, energy or knowing what to do next.

Which is why I’m a big proponent of all of us finding, having access to and giving ourselves support for healing.

Using outside tools can be really, incredibly helpful to give us the support we need to keep doing the big, powerful, majestic, healing work we are doing.

Here’s some tools to support your healing process

• Crystals
  They might just be pretty bits of earth… but I can’t say enough how much having some crystals around can totally help with healing. Whenever you are feeling unsettled or in need of extra energy, pop some small smooth crystals under your pillow while you sleep, or go to sleep holding a crystal in your hand.
  Choose crystals that sing to your spirit, or look beautiful to your eyes. Otherwise choose crystals like rose quartz, clear quartz or amethyst.
• Meditation
  I know, I know. You’ve heard it a thousand times. So have I. The trouble with meditation is that it’s boring, and no impetus to do it. We all know how amazing meditation can be to feeling more peaceful, calm and centred. We know it can be healing. So let’s just make it really, really easy on ourselves to meditate okay. Load up your iPod with some meditation CDs – you could try out one of mine, Holosync or any other kind of guided meditation.
• Herbs
  There are so many beautiful herbs out there that you can use in herbal teas to help with calming, settling and rejuvenation. Celestial Seasoning’s “Tension Tamer” and “Sleepytime” blends are beautiful – otherwise St John’s Wort, peppermint, passionflower, chamomile and nettle are all incredibly calming. This isn’t just sipping a cup of tea, sweetpeas. This is supporting healing.
• Australian Bushflower Essences or Bach Flower Essences
  I tend to use Australian Bushflower Essences more because they resonate with this land beautifully. I’m a big fan of Transition Essence, Abund Essence and Meditation Essence. I also use their mists around my house – Calm & Clear Mist is beautiful, and Space Clearing Mist is my staple for helping clear old energies and make my space shine.
  If you’re not in Aus, check out the Bach Flower Essences range.
  The Auric Sprays from Feel Good Energy Shift are also magical and uplifting and supportive.
• Healers, Coaches & Intuitive guides
  When I need extra energy, or realignment, or am just feeling really “off” and can’t seem to shake it, I use other healers. That’s right party peoples – I’m a healer, and I go to other healers when I need it. It’s really, really important.
  Here’s who else I can recommend:
  - check out in-person healers in your area. I can recommend Akiah Elan in the Whitsundays and Fiona Wood & Gini Eagle & Tamerah Boffa in Canberra.
  - I go to Tanishka for really grounded, insightful readings (available by phone).
  - If you’re after coaching, I’ve already tried Shannon & Shannon and think they are completely lovely.
  - And I talk about her a lot, but I can’t recommend highly enough Hiro Boga as an emotional, spiritual & physical healer. She is the most gifted, powerful, potent, gentle and intuitive healer I know, and believe in her work so much. She does distance healings by phone all over the world.

I hope this helps make healing a whole lot less overwhelming for you darling, and a whole lot safer, sweeter and more supported.

What are some other tools you use to support your healing process, dearest Goddess?

Big love,

Hola gorgeous Goddesses,

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A sweet and shining goddess asked this question:

Would you consider sharing some ways you focus on cave time?

I talk about having “cave-time” quite a lot… and it’s become even more important for me since becoming pregnant. I think we all need cave time – as women, and as souls, wherever we are on our journeys.

First of all… what is cave time?

When I was a kid, I did a whole lot of cave time – I’d go out into the world to go to school, then come back home and need some solitude to get back to my core again. I was a bit of a sensitive kidling {as I think we mostly all are} – I didn’t really enjoy too many outside connections, found it hard to make friends (I just wasn’t that interested) and would feel overstimulated when I wasn’t at home. I needed some of my own cave time at home everyday. My cave time meant reading piles of fiction books (Enid Blyton, Roald Dahl) , sitting in trees and spending a lot of time with my German Shepherd best friend Clancy, and my horses Dawn & Rebble.

When I went to boarding school when I was 16, I was in a dormitory of 20 other girls – we didn’t have rooms, we had dividers. Holy energy overload batman! I found cave time again by making my own little divided space a sanctuary of my own artwork, photographs, quotes and beautiful things. I’d escape back home to the farm whenever I could to eat hot bread with mum, sleep and be out amongst nature again, away from everyone else. It was like coming back home to myself.

I didn’t have a name for what I was doing – I just did it instinctually.

The Medicine Wheel

I first heard the words “cave time” in my first women’s circles. Finally – a name for that Thing I Knew.

I was taught this:

In the Native American spiritual tradition, the Medicine Wheel teaches us the four directions of life.

North – the place of earth – where we learn to walk our talk out in the world, supported by our ancestors.

East – the place of air – where the new day is born. It is the place of inspiration and new ideas.

South – the place of fire – the place of passion, energy, fertility. The hot summer of the wheel.

West – the place of sea – the place of introspection.

With each circle of the medicine wheel – where we walk our talk, gather new ideas and bring them to fruition, we return to the West, to go into our caves.

When you know it’s time to go to the Cave

Once I learned the teachings of the Medicine Wheel, those feelings & knowings that had always been inside me made sense. And as I began walking the Medicine Wheel within those circles, I learned how each direction felt. I’m a soul who loves to share and be out in the world, connecting & gaining inspiration. But after a while, my spirit begins to feel as though it has been out in the sun for too long. A little bit of soul sunburn maybe? hee hee hee!

How do you know when it’s time to go to the cave?

You might have feelings of rawness, or soul sunburn. You might be taking on too much of other people’s energy/story/worries. You might feel like you’ve forgotten your soul’s own song and that you’ve been listening to others too much. You might feel exhausted and depleted, with nothing left to give to others or yourself. You know you’ve reached Cave Time when all you want to do is pull the blanket over your head, and hide out in bed for a while.

When I have those feelings of soul sunburn, I know it is time to gather my bundle, and head West again… to find my cave, to sit in silence, to be introspective, and feed myself first.

Then… when the time is right, and I feel restored in my soul, I feel the callings to walk North again. After time in the West, North feels like remembering how to walk my talk and stay in my own spirit.

How can you do cave time?

Cave time is a way of honouring your body and soul’s need to not be “out there” in the world permanently – and a way of remembering your own spirit, essence and wisdom.

I’m not a girl who does 100% retreats – the idea appeals to me, but if I waited for the time/energy/opportunity to do a silent, solitary retreat for three days, it just wouldn’t happen.

Instead, I do cave time intuitively, instinctually and as simply as I can. Usually it involves not answering calls, taking a few days away from answering emails, not doing any “shoulds”, staying at home, not reading websites and just being quiet.

Here’s some ways you can “do” cave time:

• Give yourself a break from answering phone calls. Or let the phone go to answering machine, and only pick up if you really want to talk.
• Put an autoresponder on your email explaining you are on retreat and will answer emails in a week (or however long you need).
• Only watch TV that you know will be nourishing to you – watch inspiring documentaries, hilarious comedies or spiritual movies.
• Stop reading other people’s websites. This is a big one. Stay in your own energy for a while.
• Have a total media break.
• Book in HOLIDAY on your calendar for at least a day. This means you can’t schedule anything in on those days.
• Baths. Quiet time. Sitting in the sun. Meditation.
• Feel free to not contact anyone at all. Maybe you’ll still want to contact your small circle of friends. Maybe there will be a circle of people you don’t want to contact at all. Honour what you need.
• Read, write, journal, paint – but not for outside consumption. Just for you.
• Give yourself a big permission slip to not care what other people think or feel right now.
• Have what my love likes to call “LBWs” (Lazy Bastard Weekends). LBWs are sumptuous and fun. The rules: Do only what is lazy.
• Close off as many outside connections as you can to replenish your own energy, and remember your own gifts.

But how do you actually make time for the cave?

Making Cave Time a cycle for you

I forgot about Cave Time earlier this year and had the suckiest of burnouts.

And then I remembered: There are four directions. Instinctually, I need to honour that a quarter of my time needs to be spent in varying degrees to the West.

How I make this a reality is that every month, I have a week where I don’t take appointments. I go to my cubicle job, but I don’t make a crazy to-do list outside of that. I don’t do coaching calls that week, and I don’t do too much work that requires me to give out too much energy into the world. I just get to sit and breathe and look at my journey from the safety, gentleness and protection of my cave again.

Here’s some ways you can make Cave Time part of your cycle:

• Do Switch Off Sunday on weeks that you can.
• Make it a priority. Repeat after me: Burnout sucks. I will not go there.
• Have a LBW at the turn of each season.
• Can you somehow incorporate some cave-time for 25% of your time – a day and a bit each week, or a week each month?

Passing the Talking Stick to you…

I so hope this helps you sweet soul…

and I’d love to know:

What does your experience of “Cave Time” look like? Do you do it? What does it look like when you are in your cave?

brontosaurus-sized hugs,

Hola gorgeous goddesses,

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I’ve still got a couple of questions backed up for me to answer, but here’s your chance to leave a comment and get your questions answered when I can about creativity, spirituality, spirited business, being a goddess, how I got to be doing what I do, living a joyful life – anything you’d like to know.

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So much love & magic to you!

Hola gorgeous Goddess!

I wrote some posts nearly a year ago about some of the fears goddesses were having around enrolling in the Creative Goddess e-course. And since it’s less than five days until Goddess School begins… and new goddesses are having exactly the same questions and fears and worries… so I wanted to revisit, re-hash and re-dance over some of our soul-spas about those fears.

These soul-spas are the space to look at our fears around creativity and being a goddess. It’s all about shining a little light on the fears that keep us away from being our Creative Goddess selves. We can bring our fears out into the open, and let them be gently melted away, by the softness of light, soothing waters and connection… our community here attended by spirited, sensitive, wise, deep, precious, kind-hearted goddesses.

I’ll bring the apple cider and chocolate chia pudding. You bring your beautiful self, as wildly creative or hiding in the cupboard as you like. It’s all perfect, dearheart.

Today’s Creative Goddess Fear

This one isn’t actually just for the Creative Goddess e-course. It actually works for all the Goddess stuff I do.

This question pops up alot – Will this work with my religion?
I get this one, I really do. Because I get this question *a lot* whenever I meet someone and tell them I’m a Goddess.

So if you’re asking this question, I gotcha back sista

“About this whole “Goddess” thing… I don’t know if it works with my religion”

And maybe from an even simpler level… “what is this Goddess thang all about?”

So, to make it simple.simple.simple, here it is:
The Goddess thang is about remembering that we are all divine. It’s about knowing that inside us, there is a wise, joyful, creative Goddess – a Wise Woman – who is waiting to help us on our journeys.

The Goddess thang is about reclaiming every wild, precious, profound, fabulous, creative, radiant part of ourselves, and *living* that.

It’s about getting to be joyful, and shining, and creative, and authentic.

The Goddess thang is about seeing, finally, with clear eyes, how utterly beautiful we are.

So that’s what I’m doing here. Creating ways for everyone to experience that, and feel that too. Because, damn it’s a good thing to feel.

And will it work with your religion?

Yes. Because it’s not about believing anything but the possibility that you.are.beautiful. And precious. And divine, profound and wise.

Women have been circling together for aeons, and it’s only been in recent centuries that we stopped coming together to share, create, learn, listen, grow and love together. Coming together again feels like a miracle, and a memory reborn.

I remember when I took my Mama to her first women’s circle. Previously, she had been concerned that it was too “witchy.” She said to me afterwards “Leonie, I don’t know why I thought it was such a fuss before! It’s the most natural thing in the world!” That it is. Natural and beautiful and profound.

I’ve circled with and done Goddess work with women from all kinds of faiths – Christian, Hindu, Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist, Atheist, Mormon. And it works. Being a Goddess is a way of being – not an exemption from believing. I reckon we all just need to believe whatever makes our hearts sing.

I received the loveliest email a couple of weeks ago from a gorgeous Goddess who bought my Divine Dreaming Meditation, and is now signed up for my Creative Goddess ecourse at Goddess School. She said:

“I just wanted you to know that I loved every second of the divine dreaming meditation – and I also wanted to say that I am a person of faith, christian faith specifically, and found the meditation to compliment my beliefs. I know you wrote about this in your FAQs for the meditation, and it was true!”

So… that for me, was such a beautiful affirmation about how this work – women’s work, Goddess work, can reach out and touch each of us, wherever we are.

And what do I believe in?

I believe that people are good. And that the world is deeply beautiful. The rest is constantly evolving.

I believe there’s a Goddess in me, and a Goddess in you… that inside of us is all the beauty, love and goodness we’ve been looking for.

And that we are loved, just as we are.

Any more questions sweetheart? To the comments circle away, dearhearts!

I’m so grateful that you are here… and that we are doing this precious soul-work, together.

Big love you,

P.S. Goddess School begins on Monday! Check out the beautiful e-courses on offer this term!
And let me know if you have any questions, dearheart… I’m here to help!

Hola gorgeous Goddess!

A lovely goddess asked me a couple of days ago if she was smudging the right way.

With all these things – just trust your beautiful intuition, and set the intention to clear your energy or space, and that’s perfect.

Here’s just one way you can smudge yourself…

How to Smudge Yourself : A Goddess Guide from Goddess Leonie on Vimeo.

Begin with a smudge stick – you can purchase these from new age bookstores, health stores & online. Smudge sticks are made from dried herbs – common herbs include sage, sweetgrass, lavendar and pine.

Light it with a candle until one end is fully lit. Then blow gently to extinguish the flame until the smudge stick is smouldering.

Using your hand or a feather, waft the smudge stick all around your aura. Smudging helps to release negative energies, clear away anything that is old or stuck, and bring you into the present moment. SO beautiful!

Keep smudging until you feel cleansed and clear. Remember to smudge around your hands, head and feet as well.

After finished, I like to give a prayer of thanks.

When extinguishing, use sand or a terracotta bowl to ensure all the burning embers are extinguished.

Hope this is helpful, precious soul!
Big love,

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