Five years in a Goddess’ life (and blog)
Posted by Goddess Leonie on November 5th, 2009. Filed under: Joyful Goddess Life.I’ve been blogging for over five years ago… a true journal of my journey.
Tonight I went back and found one post from each of those Novembers that are signposts from my journey.
In November 2004, I walked a labyrinth.
It was my first time in a woman’s gathering, and we walked a sacred labyrinth in the bush on a divine, womb-like retreat.
Joining that women’s circle is the single thing that has changed my life. It awakened within me a knowing that women’s work was what I would do for the rest of my life.
Blissful and soulful and true.
In November 2005, I had my first day at work as an artist.
After wandering around my dreams, I took a big, deep breath and a leap.
I started working part time so once day a week I could paint, and write, and grow, and share… doing the thing that filled my heart with bliss.
In November 2006, I celebrated my birthday on a mountain.
(Picture above)
I had started running my own circles, and was becoming my own best friend.
I did what any best friend would do, and organised a birthday celebration in the mountains.
In November 2007, I posted namaste from India.
My dream come true.
I remember writing that post:
We were staying in a marble hotel in Agra, the home of the Taj Mahal. Across the road, there were families living beneath tarp, and dredging the gutters with water buffalo. The internet access was a tiny shack beside the hotel where most of the computers didn’t work, and the internet kept dropping out.
All my life, I knew I had to go to India.
And I was finally there.
In November 2008, I ran my first Creative Goddess workshop here in Canberra.
After running my first three-day retreat, then one-day retreat, the Creative Goddess workshop was born in Canberra one year ago.
It was a precious day filled with paint and children and circles and revelation. Pure joy.
That workshop became the inspiration for the online Creative Goddess e-Course, which began Goddess School… and the beginning of a whole new story for me and my spirited business dream-come-true.
All these things… all happening in November, my birth month.
From one small labyrinth, a whole journey of spirit and art and love and dreams-come true unfolded.
I couldn’t have known how my life would be changed in five years, and what blessings I would find.
And I cannot know where the next five years of this journey will take me either… I only know that wherever it takes me,
it will change me,
and it will all be perfect.
It’s true.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
you’ve been such an inspiration to me these past 5 years. i truly adore you!
November 5th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Motherhood will most definitely change you. Continuing your artistic Goddess path will change you, too. And although I’ve only known you since last year, you have changed my life as well. I look forward to changing with you in the next five years!
Great big hugs to you beautiful Goddess!
November 6th, 2009 at 12:00 am
I join in the adoration!
November 6th, 2009 at 3:06 am
Wishing you a very Happy Birthday and a wonderous new year with your baby. I’m sure you will be enjoying every moment :}Fondly, Roberta
November 6th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Goddess Leonie, you have been such a treat for my spiritual journey lately and I am adoring this parallel delight!
I feel as though I have changed so much since October 2005 and find that what I most wish to experience in the next few years are:
*Sharing in a Women’s Circle -a Sacred Retreat
*I too, desire to go to India (Mumbai) and visit a specific orphanage I have in mind, as well as see some of the sites! The passion grows stronger every day! Just reading what you shared almost gave me goosebumps! and I smiled! I can’t wait!
Blessings to you ! Namaste! ~Jenn
November 6th, 2009 at 3:57 am
November is the 11th month, and 11 is a very magical number.
This November the 11th will be the 11/11/2009 (2+9=11)! I’m going to spend the night in Montserrat, a holy mountain near here, with maybe thousands of other people. It’ll be beautiful
Happy birthday!
Andrew
November 6th, 2009 at 5:14 am
Happy Birthday!!!
November 6th, 2009 at 6:27 am
Sweet goddess … I have only been coming here for a few weeks, but my life has changed immensely because of you. Your words, your journey, your passion is such a source of inspiration, support and encouragement to me and so many others. I read this 5 year review and get goosebumps: my dream is/has been to travel to India (I got waylaid by China ♥); I am making changes in my life to allow for more time/space for creativity; I just blogged yesterday about wanting to create a women’s circle here (any tips/advice?) I can see we Scorpio goddesses think a like
Blessing to you as you celebrate your birthing. This world shines brighter with your Light and Love. I bow down in gratitude, love and awe. {{hugs}}
November 6th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Leonie,
I am so moved by this post of yours today. Your journey has been so beautiful, and it sounds so precious ~ and the new journey you are beginning with your little merchild, WOW… it’s gonna be even bigger and more awesome, for sure.
You know, I love to check in and read about what you’re up to, although I never comment (why?), because my journey sort of started for me with a Women’s Circle in Australia, back in 1996. I had just left college, in England, and wanted to return to explore my Australian connections, so I went to stay with an older cousin of mine in Tasmania. She lived in a wonderful wooden, hand-built house, in the hills above the Huon Valley, south west of Hobart. I thought it was the most beautiful place I had ever seen.
For six weeks I soaked it all up: the scent of the trees in the rain (it rained nearly every day), the simple kindnesses of the people in those parts. My hands, rough and raw from picking apples every day in the orchards, soaked through to the bone by the cold and the wet. And I found the wild medicine woman inside me that I hadn’t known was there before.
I came back to England, and felt so cut off from the life of my Soul, that it took me a long time to get back in tune with myself and my Path. I feel you are so very blessed to be so young and so clear about your path ~ and really living it and doing the things that I dreamed of back then. Well done, dear Goddess Lady, for I know it can’t have always been easy.
Many blessings along the way.
{you can see some pics of my Tassie Mountain Home here:
http://theeverydaywitch.blogspot.com/2009/08/happiest.html}
November 6th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Oh Leonie,
What a gorgeous e-mail. And I love the photo in sepia tones. You truly ARE such a Goddess and inspiration to so many people.
I am sending you love, love, love from the coast of NC…
Gentle sweet hugs,
Maitri
November 6th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
On the day of my 24th birthday, living redefining moments in my life and not always being able to balance them with grace, I open this page and those words appear before me. Deep breaths.
“Thank you for being born” The feeling instantly sinks in.
And then, to read about your beautiful journey.
This entire post was tremendously wonderful. Remembering (now that I have finally gathered a few hours for myself, to just be, after weeks following other rhythms) what matters.
I have written something very similar to your last words of this post, just a few days ago. And was needing to remind myself of it again.
Thank you for the clarity and inspiration to act that you have brought me in these first hours of yet another year. For being a catalyst, for being pure, for being the most true to yourself as you can be, even when it is difficult. There is nothing more courageous than that.
My words have always seemed to me too little to express what I feel after reading yours, which always move me immensely and have an effect of some kind. But this in particular, in this moment, was so important.
Happy Birthday, my fellow eagle scorpio.
My soul reaches and hugs yours, all the way from Portugal.
November 6th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Gorgeous. Just like you!