Dear One,
Full Moon Greetings to you on this glorious Supermoon!
Today I am sharing a Personal Message following the LEGEND 2022 Clan Cura experience about how the Intentional Creativity process translates into day-to-day life and awareness. This is a claiming of Self and honoring of my journey to this moment that I wanted to share with you.
There is also a more creative non-ordinary myth that goes with this painting that I will share when the time is right. For today, this is what is present to me: How LEGEND impacts one’s experience of one’s self in life itself as well as in the imaginal. This is all about me lol, but then I know you love me so I share it with you too.
My Legend painting is not ‘me’ it is archetypal regarding the LEGEND of community and my part in it. I am but one part of the archetypal nature of this clan of wild creative women and Cosmic Cowgirls.
~ Shiloh Sophia
Red Thread Letter #894
Create a Handmade Life
Healing Arts Matriarch
Legend 2022 by Shiloh Sophia
Create a Handmade Life
by Shiloh Sophia
I have arrived
I am the legend
I have been telling
Curating a path of revolutionary art-making
for over 30 years
I have a devoted daily practice
that has forged me into me
I am initiated
I have arrived
as the matriarch
of my own life
The year is 2022
I started this journey at the age of 22
I am 52
I have been studying and practicing
image, language, women,
earth, energy, relationship
the Divine Feminine…Mother Life…
I have studied and curated
a path of transformation
that can be shared by one
and multitudes
I wanted to be a part of the solution,
and I didn’t know what shape that would take
I just said yes and began to labor
I saw through the systems that bind
I walked out of corporate trappings and temptations,
colonized education and consciousness subjugation
I left behind certainty and embraced legendary
I have not stepped one foot off
of this path of heart
I have failed over and over and learned
I was down but I didn’t stay down
I have achieved stunning connectivity
over and over to affirm the right path
I have become
who I have become because
I just kept going even without knowing
where I was going
Who I am in the eyes of others
hasn’t been my focus
I needed to become who I am for me,
for my own soul’s satisfaction
My mother said I was called, indeed,
but aren’t we all? Aren’t we all called?
We become a danger to default society
when we refuse their invitation to conformity
and say yes to the calling from the earth
to rise into what’s possible for each of us
Answering a call is the hardest thing
and the best thing, and the only thing
for me
I was called to this journey
and I have been holding on for dear life
trying to discern
the instructions at
each fork in the road of initiation
I have done the work to read my own codex
I have painted, written, danced,
prayed and made it my business to make art
I have invited many to join me,
in a mystery school for misfits and mystics
where we can practice
our craft and become who we are,
the great revealing of our own stories
is in our own hands and hearts
We can all arrive
This takes time
and we have, time
All the time we need
Time is on our side
I became who I am
because it was mine to do
For the sake of my mothers
and for the children
whose lives are touched
by awareness of
their innate creative prowess and potential
and for my own sweet sake too
I became the steward
of what my mothers knew and shared
and what the ancestors are requesting:
Make what you make with love
Create a handmade life
Name it with language
and mark it with image
and sprinkle it
with holy water from the well of women
Share it with those
who are called to your circle
And yes call a circle, a big circle!
The circle I have called is quantum
How my two mothers
became who they became
is because they each had a mother who
also had a handmade life
and a courageous spirit
They passed it to me and ensured
I understood what I was carrying
I passed it to as many as I could reach
Hundreds of thousands have touched into
this red thread woven by women’s hands
And what is it that I am carrying?
Consciousness and Creativity
The gateway to it within myself
accessed through the curation
of Intentional Creativity
I am carrying regenerative resourcefulness
available to all who are called
and so do you, all of you
We are all called
The best gifts can be easily passed
on from hand to hand
from heart to heart
Cosmic and earthy community,
a gathering of women and their families
is my greatest joy and greatest efforting
Our community is and shall be
no one and nothing can take this
away from me
or from you
who choose to gather here
We are a chosen lineage
designed to last for hundreds,
perhaps thousands of years
To the women who have walked beside me
who have held me in your arms
and guided and stewarded me and the work,
thank you will never tell the truth of it
although I am telling you now
Without you, this circle wouldn’t be here
and I pray you too, have found
what you are looking for along the way
Today I have become the legend
I have been telling
because it is simply time
to know it in my fullness
To claim that I have accomplished
what was set before me to do
I claim this sacred work and stewardship
I am the woman who
gave birth to a museum
with many midwives
and a school with many guides
Mother life showed me the way
every step, guided by unseen hands,
here child, here, their child, there
She told me to give away everything
that she gave me
and I have
She told me when I did
that she would give me
something else,
and that something else
I now know is my own SELF
I know how rare and precious it is
to be one’s own self
The awareness of who I am
to the full extent of what I can know
The inhabitation of my own identity
and the life in this body temple
Resting in the awareness of my
soul’s journey in this dimension
of space-time, place and grace
Yes I am a cosmic agent and a curious cowgirl
Yes I am the one who called the circle
Color of Woman school of teachers
and CLAN CURA gathering of healers
Nothing, nothing
will ever be the same for us
We are different, shaped, healed,
Curated and chosen
We are the creatives and healers
come to bless ourselves and all
We have chosen ourselves
and one another and our path
We are creating the world
we believe is possible
and we are just getting started
When each woman inhabits herself
we form a constellation
of alchemical transformation
and so it begins again
Today I claim myself as an
Healing Arts Matriarch
of my own life
Joining the Lineage of Matriarchs
who have walked on
while I am still just walking in
I am just getting started
Mothers, may I do honor to your teachings
Sisters, may I offer you a paintbrush and a pen
a ball of red thread and a cuppa tea?
I will see you on the mountain
I will hear your stories and hold your hand
We will BECOME together
No matter what else is happening in the
great unfolding around us,
when we know who we are,
we are unstoppable
We are the healers we have been seeking
and the cura is here
and love is the center of my choices
With great heart,
