You make me cry. And my heart swell.

I announce the Ittybiz Benefactor Program, & I pray pray pray that we’ll be able to help as many as we can. I pray pray pray that we won’t have to say no to goddesses who are aching to be in sacred space.

And what happens?

We get women who say Yes, I need the help of an earth angel. I need to be sponsored.

And we also get women saying I would like to be an earth angel. I want to help. Let me know how I can sponsor other goddesses into the Goddess Circle.

If anyone ever, ever, ever asks me how I know miracles and angels and Great Spirit exist, I will send them the link to that post and tell them to read the comments.

If I ever ever forget to have hope in just how incredibly beautiful this world is and how utterly divine and good people are, I will read the comments over and over again.

So, dearest hearts, I am sending you a wicker basket of love and homemade melting moments and tiny sparkling cushions as a Thank You from the top and bottom and sides of my heart. Thank you for helping make people believe again.

We have over 60 applications from goddesses who need an earth angel for sponsorship – we’re trying our ding dang hardest, but it’s more than we can possibly fill. If you were wanting to be a “glitter level benefactor” {as one of the gorgeous goddesses called it!}, and would like to donate some or all of another goddess’ Circle membership, I’ve set up a donation button below.

Earth angels UNITE!!!!

big love you so much,

This morning, just before the sun rose, Ostara woke up.

We fed in bed, and I left her with her Daddy.

I let the fluffy puppies outside, and followed them.

Outside, barefoot in the dewy grass.

I kneel down to plant my hands in the earth, and give thanks for the day.

I look up, and the stars and moon are still out, glowing.

There is one that seems particularly bright. It shines at me.

And for no particular reason, I heard a voice inside me say:

Miracles are going to happen today.

I pad back inside.

I kiss my love + babe.

I open my laptop, and start answering emails.

I check Facebook, + start chatting/swearing/swapping passionate words of endearment with one of the kindest hearts I know – who also happens to be my favourite business coach – the adorable Naomi of IttyBiz.

And we talk about unicorns and babies and hot husbands and telegrams and love. And then she said to me:

What the F*** Leonie? $99 for your Goddess Circle memberships? I f***** thought they were $1000! What are you f***ing doing?

And I said:

Dude, I got told in a dream that was how to do it. That goddesses needed it.

And there was a little moment of quiet.

I could hear the tiny whirrs in Naomi’s head. I could feel that golden heart of hers getting big.

I waited.

Dude, I want to sponsor goddesses. People who can’t afford to do it, but really need your stuff anyway. Like a goddess benefactor. But one who swears a lot and wears thigh high stripey socks.

And just like that, the miracle had come.

I hadn’t expected it to come so soon, or so big.

But there it was. A miracle of utter love + kindness, all before 7am in the morning.

So my dearest hearts… the angels are at work today.

There were goddesses right now who need the Goddess Circle. Who can’t possibly afford it… but who  utterly need a tribe of goddess sisters to lift them up and all of the soul medicine I can muster up. They might be going through a dark night of the soul. I know that more than anything, they need a reminder that they are loved. That good things do happen. That there are angels around them. That there are earth angels too. That more than anything, things are going to change. Things will get better. That miracles do happen.

Is this you dearest heart?

Please leave a comment. Or email me. Let us know.

I’m not sure how many can be sponsored or how we could even possibly choose.. but the angels want to help!

You are loved more than you could possibly ever know,

Today’s the daaaaaaaay!

I’m so so so excited… I was up before the sun rose to be outside and give thanks…

That new big, wild, beautiful dream of mine is out in the world…

I’m so blessed + excited to announce that the Goddess Circle is OPEN!

Over $600 of my e-courses, meditations + workbooks for under $100 (that’s like… um? A 70% discount or something?).

A total toolkit of everything I’ve created to support you on every part of your journey.

I wanted to offer you everything I’ve made – EVERYTHING – so that you could get all the resources to support you right when you needed it.

A year round Goddess Circle. A sanctuary, a haven. A place to come home to yourself, to the beautiful, tender, shining soul inside you. A temple to find your goddess sisters.

A Business Goddess Circle.

A Mama Goddess Circle.

A Goddess Book Group.

A Goddess Penpal Group.

My six week Creative Goddess e-course to help you discover your creativity + infuse it with spirituality (includes SIX full length meditations + creative projects).

My six week Create your Goddess Haven e-course to help you turn your home into a Goddess sanctuary (includes how to do space clearings to clear away negative energy! Woo!)

My 21 day Radiant Goddess e-course to help you shine again in mind, body + spirit (includes nutrition plan, delicious scrummy healthy recipes, a movement plan, meditations + soulful goddess projects!)

My Releasing Fears meditation kit.

My Chakra Healing Goddess meditation kit.

My Divine Dreaming meditation kit to help you cure insomnia, get to sleep easier + have amazing dreams.

My 2010 Creating your Goddess Year workbook + planner.

At least two new e-courses over the next year.

Including a Business Goddess e-course to help you create a beautiful business for your dreams.

Any new meditations + workbooks I create over the next year.

Everything, everything, everything I have to give you… to help you, support you, inspire, heal, get intuitive, be wildly creative, glowing, radiant, shiny, joyful, wise + true.

All my smartnesses + wisdom + medicine.

It’s my way of being able to lavish love + goddess wisdom on you for a whole year.

So that you can be supported. So you can have a whole circle of sisters to support you. And a massive medicine bag of tools to use at every step of your goddess journey… with whatever comes up + whatever you need help with.

I don’t know how I could make the Goddess Circle more wonderful, generous, supportive, helpful than it is.

And it’s as super-affordable as I could make it.

My dream is that I want as many goddesses who need this stuff to be able to get it. I want whoever needs a Goddess Circle + a tribe of goddess sisters + a medicine bag of calming, inspiring, rejuvenating goddess classes + meditations to be able to find me + feel safe in knowing this is right for them. My dream is that every woman will know that they will be welcomed with wide open arms, with love. My dream is for them to be utterly supported. For them to know there is a haven just for them. My dream is for every woman to know they are a Goddess, and that they have a thousand sisters by her side.

My dream is big and wide and turquoise blue and shining.

Here is my offering, dearest heart.

With all of me.

love,

Hola gorgeous goddess!

I want to talk more about spiritual stuff here. I mean – everything I talk about is spiritual, really. But I want to talk about the practical parts of spirituality too. How I actually DO spirituality, ya know? And I want to learn from you. How you do your spirituality too…

But first: I want to do ze religion talk first, for any new readers who might not be aware of Goddess Guidebook’s Official Spiritual Buffery Policy. {I just made that up but I LIKE it! Let’s pretend it’s all official + everything!}
So: Policy = You are totally + utterly welcome, celebrated + honoured here, no matter what religion you feel called to.
I’ve circled in Goddess circles with women who are atheist, Christian, Muslim, Mormon, Pagan, Hindu + Jewish.
It’s not about the religion’s name. We’re all searching. We’re all wanting love. We are all headed for God, no matter what we call it: Great Spirit, Buddha, God, no god, G_d, Allah.
The Dalai Lama says there are six billion paths up the mountain to God. We each take our different path, but we are all headed in the same direction.

I’m a Spiritual Buffetist: I fill up my plate of faith with delicious morsels from many different spiritual traditions. Whatever feels right to my spirit, I listen to.

And whatever feels right to your spirit? Is utterly perfect for you. No matter what.

So, religion talk aside, I want to talk about lightworking… something which I believe is applicable to all spiritual traditions!

I’m way intrigued by lightworking and lightworkers at the moment.

There’s two reasons for it: Through Different Eyes (ze book I have been in love with lately) is an adventure story of two people travelling around the world to do lightwork. And ze second reason? I know with a sureness in my bones that part of the reason I’m back here in Proserpine again is to be an earth lightworker and help the land here open up and glow. I want to help raise the energies here. Here, people are intrically connected to the earth. Super super grounded. Very base chakra. Which can be a really wonderful thing. I go to sleep every night with the soles of my feet buzzing and tingling from being barefoot out on the earth so much. It can also mean people can be not as open in the upper chakras, especially the third eye {intuition} + crown chakra {connection to spirit}. So I want to help this beautiful little town become really open again. And I just have this strange {well, not so strange, nothing’s reaaaaally that strange} vision that Proserpine needs to connect up to the big golden grid of light around the world. The vision tells me this grid all around the world helps people to heal… and that Proserpine will help to heal people in so many places by joining up.

Anywaysies, I’m now wanting to learn more more more!

And where else to go but to my favourite, wisest goddesses I know? Right here! You!

So… tell me dearest heart…

Let’s have a share in the comments…

Do you consider yourself a lightworker?

How do you do your lightwork?

I’d especially love to hear the techniques you use + how you know when + where to do lightwork too! And anything else you feel called to share would be beautiful too!

Tee hee hee… can you feeeeeel da light being emitttttted from my magical fairy hands???
Don’t tell me that you don’t tie rainbow fairy wings to your head too?

Can’t waaaaaait to read your sharings!

You are so so so loved dearest goddess!

big love,

Goddess Circle opens in… da da DAAAA… only two days, my sweetest pea!

As a Goddess Circle member, you’ll get ALLLL my classes + meditations {worth over $600} plus a year-round Goddess Circle to connect with me + other goddess sisters… for only $99. I’ve made it as affordable as I possibly could… I really want to be able to give you everything I create to totally support you on your gorgeous goddess journey…

For more information + to sign up, just head over here dearheart!

I love waking up at my parent’s farmhouse.

While me + Starry were bunking it there, we would wake up at dawn every morning.

Not because we had to. Not because there was an alarm clock telling us so.

Because that was when the light was golden.

This is the view out our bedroom window.

As soon as my Wild Centaur Dad hears us awake, he comes in for early morning baby cuddles + smiles.

The Wild Bushman turns to Goo and Giggles whenever there is a baby around.

Then we decide to take the party into Mama & Dad’s room to play a rousing game of “Four in the Bed.”

ADORE.

The view out their window is even more gorgeous.

When Dad finally decides to head off into the morning, me + Mama would stay in bed for another hour to cuddle Starry.

And when the sun’s up enough, it’s time for breakfast. On picnic blankets. Shooing away the miniature horse from eating your chia pudding.

A pretty normal morning all round, me thinks!

Ever wonder why I was so obsessed with moving back to the farm + country?

WONDER NO MORE.

Come and visit.

miss you! love you! thinks the ground you walk on is heavenly!

P.S. Goddess Circle opens Wednesday! Would love to have you there if you are called!

Hola darling hearts!

Happy SoS day!

Consider this your official invitation to switch off this Sunday!

You can switch off for an hour, an afternoon or go the whole unicorn and do ze whole day!

Here’s the Masterlist of SoS glorious things to do to get you dreaming…

What about you dearest?

How will you spend your luscious SoS?

I’d love to hear your plans!

big switched off love!

|| Just *three (eeeeh!)* days until the Goddess Circle opens!

You’ll get all my courses, kits, meditations & workbooks PLUS a year-round Goddess Circle for only $99.

Everything you’ll need to support + inspire you on your goddess journey…

You can sign up to be a Goddess Circle member here. ||

Three things today. Each has its own magic spell to give you.

THIS WILL MAKE YOU HOWL WITH LAUGHTER:

hungover owls

{warning: swears a whole dingle bundle}
(thanks to that hottie muse marissa)

THIS WILL MAKE YOU GASP AT THE BEAUTY OF VULNERABILITY:

what is real :: mama moments by liz elayne

on july 14, we found ourselves in the pediatric ICU with our five-week old baby girl. i snapped a mirror photo in the mirror in the “parent apartment” we stayed in during her time at the hospital in an attempt to honor what was real in that moment. and then i did it the next day…then the next…i close my eyes and think about what is real in this moment and let my face relax to wherever that truth lies. then i snap the photo

so now i am capturing the real (no smile required) moments that make up this journey…

THIS WILL MAKE YOU GLOW:

(thanks sweet sara for passing this on! i adore you!)

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What’s rocked your day, gorgeous goddess?

you complete me all jerry maguire-like,

|| Just *F O U R* days until the Goddess Circle opens!

You’ll get all my courses, kits, meditations & workbooks PLUS a year-round Goddess Circle for only $99.

Everything you’ll need to support + inspire you on your goddess journey…

You can sign up to be a Goddess Circle member here. ||

I wrote this the first night I arrived here in Proserpine 27 days ago… I couldn’t post it at the time due to ye olde farm internet stick-out-the-window… but tis here now! Yippee! Belated! Just pretend I sent it via snail mail instead… in a turquoise glitter envelope!

Here I am.

Sitting in my old bedroom, in the only home I ever knew as a child.

It is 6pm, and I am nursing Ostara to sleep. There is an antique duchess in front of me. In the dim of this winter’s twilight, I can see myself and my daughter reflected in the mirror.

The evening sea breeze is twirling around the windows.

I just bathed Starry in the same shower I stood in when I first saw her before me when I was 16. And now she is here. She is not just a vision anymore.

The energy here is wild and strong.

Last night, while Starry slept beside me, my big sister Bek and I curled up on the bed and whispered long into the evening. It was just like we were 14 and 16 again… And that only a moment has passed since that one and this.

I pour out everything on my chest to my sister. All my fears, all my grief, all the things I don’t understand. I talk, she listens, then gives me that sage Capricornian wisdom I’ve been needing. Finally, all the talk is out of me, and all my questions have been answered.

In that moment, my body lets go. Every tense part of me suddenly relaxes, and I sink deeper into the bed.

“I just felt you relax finally,”
My sister says.

Today me, sister and Starry visited our cottage, for the first time seeing it not as my grandmother’s home, but my own.

(My grandmother is ridunkulously happy in a set of adorable apartments just a street away from us for strong, sassy elders.)

We eat salad wraps on the porch. We dream up where furniture may go, what memories will be made here.

We smudge it with pine, sweetgrass and lavendar, cleansing away anything that needs letting go of, inviting in blessings and peace. Chris’ adorable cousin turns up. She had an intuition we would be there. She ensconses us in cuddles, then her little pixie son does his own round of smudging through the house. We plant tigers eye crystals along the boundary for protection.

I collect a month’s worth of mail from my new-old post office, just three boxes separating ours from my parents.

I walk the same stretch of street I always have.

There are new faces and familiar faces. There are faces that look just like me – the joy of living in a town where most of its inhabitants are related to me.

Driving the road between the farmhouse and town, my sister says “I know this road so well I feel I could drive it with my eyes closed.”

I know exactly what she means.

In this moment, I hear my dad, the Great Big Gruff Wild Black Bearded Bushman. He is downstairs, cooing at my sister’s new cat, trying to coax him out of his hiding spot. This is not like my dad. There is a change going through this land, and I can see it in him too.

In the early mornings there is a mass migration to my parents bedroom for a rousing game of Five In A Bed And The Little One Said ROLL OVER!!! Does anyone else play this? Anyone still play it as adults with their parents? We do. It’s just how we roll (ha! Roll! Punny!)

It’s just this time there is a new little one. This little pork chop has her own little pork chop. I look in her eyes, and I see me. I see my love. I see my past, and all the love that has gone before.

Everything that was old is new again.

Here I am.

I am missing my love, and can’t wait to smell his neck when he arrives.

Here I am.

I left this town a Maiden and return as a Mother.

Want to know if I have fears?
By the bucketload.
Want to know if I have all the answers?
I don’t, but I trust that I’ll get them as I need them.
Want to know if I’m human?
Utterly so.

Am I glad I am here?

Over and over… yes.

love infinite,

***

|| Just *F O U R* days until the Goddess Circle opens!

You’ll get all my courses, kits, meditations & workbooks PLUS a year-round Goddess Circle for only $99.

Everything you’ll need to support + inspire you on your goddess journey…

You can sign up to be a Goddess Circle member here. ||

Between moving in + re-arranging my bookshelves {my favourite thing to do! i sort by themes! you?} + our first family roadtrip + doctor’s appointments {everything all perfect! yippee!} + family gatherings + a gazillion naps with the cutest mermaid around…

I’ve been working on this… my soul work’s true love…

… thinking of all the ways to make ze Goddess Circle as powerful + divine + joyful for goddesses as possible!

I’m making a download centre where goddesses can get all their goddess goodies + e-courses + workbooks + meditation kits…

* My e-courses *

* My kits *

PLUS!!!

coming up with all ze extra gooooodies…

I really, really want goddesses to not just discover the goddess inside them… but KEEP ON discovering her, coming back to her, and LIVING as a goddess!

So the pluses are…

::: a year round goddess circle

::: a MAMA GODDESS circle for pregnacious goddesses + mama goddesses to share wisdom, moments, insights + support each other (also open for maidens who want to learn mama wisdom in advance!)

::: a BUSINESS GODDESS circle for goddesses who are turning their heart’s dream into a business… whether you are just starting out or are already there. This will be a circle to share resources, business smartness, brainstorm, talk about delicious marketing + getting the word out about your wonderful gift. A place to make your huge business-dream-idea come true!

::: An ACCOUNTABILITY CIRCLE to help you get your to-do list done… from the small habit changes to the big i’m making my magnificent dream come true! changes. Accountability circles are definitely one of the tools that have helped me turn my gorgeous hobby into our family’s gorgeously abundant income… enabling us to move back home to tropical paradise.

::: A GODDESS PENPAL CIRCLE for goddesses to resume that ancient art of letterwriting… and making envelope-wrapped BFFs all around ze world! We’re bring it baaaack + I’m excited!

ANNNNNNDDDD>>>

You also get EVERYTHING I create over the year as well… including:

::: at least TWO new GODDESS E-COURSES including my BUSINESS GODDESS COURSE for starting + growing your gorgeous dream business

::: the 2011 Creating your Goddess Year workbook + planner

::: any new meditation kits I create!!!

Question time!

Got any ideas of how to make it even more delicious + delirious + divine?

What are you ahankering for? Want a specialty circle set up?

Tell me sweetpea… and I’ll see what I can do!

We are in ze business of making dreams come true!

Sooooo excited about it beginning… next Wednesday circle opens!!!

For more info + to grab a membership, just pop on over thissssaway.

Okay my darlinghearts…

Time to vadamooooosh before Lil Miss Starry wakes up again!

you are so so so so so loved + special + divine,

Hola deeevine hottie cakes!!

I’ve written about this before, but it warrants repeating.

Your life needs you away from your email inbox.

Confession: I used to have an out-of-control inbox. Like: EPIC.

And then one day I having a panic on the phone to a dear friend about my 300+ emails that I hadn’t answered yet that had been sitting there for months that I was feeling guilty and stressed over. She got all interventionist on me, and made me go to my computer and delete all of them. I only got to keep ones that were HIGHLY HIGHLY important {ummm, like three}. The rest got deleted.

So, I think step one is having a clear out NOW, so you don’t have residual guilt about it. Delete, delete, delete unless it is HIGHLY HIGHLY important. Ever since, I’ve been working on ways to deal with the inbox everyday so I don’t get overwhelm, I still feel connected and it feels flowing.

Here’s my top four tips:

1. Unsubscribe from newsletters and mailing lists that you don’t really like, or that you keep filing away for reading and never end up getting to because it feels like a chore. Only keep things that you will read the day you get it.

2. Unsubscribe from getting email notifications every time someone responds to your forum messages and Facebook stuff. Then, when you do your rounds in the morning, just use the Search button to see what activity has happened around your name, and respond if you feel like it, don’t if you don’t.

3. When you read an email, respond to it that day, or make it an actionable item on your To Do List, and file it away. That way, when it comes to doing it, you can just search if you need the info from the email again. In terms of To Do List tools online, I recommend using either Gmail’s Task List if you are using Gmail already, or www.todoist.com. I use Todoist. Love it!

4. I can’t stress this one enough: respond to emails when you open them or at the very most, that same day. Deal with them then and there. If you are going to respond, respond. If you aren’t, file it. And just be done with it. My motto is: Less Stress. More Good Times. Less feeling like you HAVE to respond. Follow your gut, and let it go.

Now… go get started. Go delete. Let go. Release. Your emails are sick of living in your inbox. They want to be set free! They want you to be free too!

Report back here if you need to. Group hugs and sloppy puppy kisses to anyone who gets to zero.

Then go do something else. Make something. Create something. Love something. Remember who you are under the sky.

It will do your heart and soul good.

Trust me!

I believe in you!

***

|| Just *five* days until the Goddess Circle opens! You’ll get all my courses, kits, meditations & workbooks PLUS a year-round Goddess Circle for only $99. Everything you’ll need to support + inspire you on your goddess journey… You can sign up to be a Goddess Circle member here. ||