Greetings from rainy California! I hope your holiday times, however you spend them have been nourishing.
I wanted my community to know I am declaring the completion of this year, 2022, as the end of the Dominant Era. Because the world around me won’t be declaring that, I am declaring that first within myself. Because I am complete with how we have been living and harming ourselves and earth. Revolutions often begin within, and this one has been building in me all year. You can hear me speak about it in my podcast which I will share more about here and in my upcoming events and participate in your own way.
And you can join me for a call, save the date – The End of the Dominant Era and the beginning of a new one…what will we call this next phase? Join me on Thursday, January 5 at 12pst for a livestream. Then this Friday, yep two days from now, I am leading a daylong class about remothering ourselves called Matrica.
Part of the inspiration for this class and stream is in response to things like Father Christmas and the Deer Mother….a story that is so shocking…and yet not at the same time.
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But, let’s begin with beauty…..
A Solstice Visitation
If you ask her, she will come to you.
She will sit with you
and remind you of who you are
and what you came here for.
She will ask you what you choose to release
and what you are willing to claim.
She will show you the places to soften
and the places you need to gather strength.
She will show you how to lay your burdens down.
There may be tears shed and likely a few laughs.
Most importantly you will feel seen.
And in that seeing learn how to see yourself
and see others with clearer eyes.
Everyone will know that
She who gives birth to light has visited you
because your face will be radiant.
Who knew that you would embody
the return of the light so beautifully?
She did. Blessed Be!
~ Shiloh Sophia
Red Thread Letter #904
Declaring the End of the Dominant Era and Honoring the Deer Mother
and Misfit Christmas
Photo from our Musea Misfit Christmas Party. A wonderful visit with chosen family in pajamas –
keeping their names anonymous but aren’t they just the cutest?
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Deer One,
I feel it is time for some new/ancient holiday traditions, yet I don’t quite know what they are yet. Jonathan and I have tried a few new things this season. With our parents already walking into their future and not having children of our own, what do we do? What does this cycle mean at this point in our lives?
I visited with my sister. We had lunch with chosen family. We had champagne and caviar while listening to Jazz on Christmas Eve, and we hosted a Musea Misfit Christmas party for those who didn’t have a place to go or that wanted to be with us.
We had a potluck and pajamas. We sang songs, and we had a circle with passing a deer horn, sharing what we were present to. I made Sue’s famous “Philo Chicken” and so much more. Everyone was a different tradition – and it was the end of most people’s big holiday stuff on December 25 – so we were indeed a bunch of misfits!
As you well know, Rudolph was bullied for being different and eventually runs away with a misfit elf who wants to be a dentist rather than make toys. An example of misfit toys would be a spotted elephant, a train with square wheels and a water pistol that squirts jelly. Sounds like some friends I would want to hang out with. In the first version the misfit toys were not saved, in future versions, they were.
The beautiful children of my deer friends were with us and that was wonderful. And if you look at the image above, you can see part of a picture of deer that my Grandmother Eden McCloud embroidered for me – she thought deer were my main animal connection. For years our family fed families of deer and ravens, long after the goats and chickens were gone.
From now on I know that a part of this time of year for me will be honoring the stories of the Deer Mothers. Just like on ‘Thanksgiving’ we tell the updated story of Native Americans and Colonizers and the US being occupied territory. We don’t tell this ‘alt’ story to be a downer at parties, but to tell the truth as we now understand it. To bring justice to so many of these ‘holy days’ that are often take-over stories.
Father Christmas and Rudolph are thought to be, based on historical evidence, a take-over from stories centered in the feminine. For me, these stories are worth being told and it is a part of my own geographic heritage.
I am not going to duplicate the text, it’s in the audio. However you honor and celebrate these times – I hope you will look into the not so distant past and find the missing mother, who isn’t missing at all. We have been behaving as motherless children, and we are not. Not at all.
I declare the end of the dominant era in my own life. From here, we heal. I call this journey and this information – Matrica. I have to start somewhere. Why not start at the source, the mother. I often use existing words, and then shift them to create a linguistic portal to represent a specific change in consciousness. Matrica is a shifted word – that for me is a call to remothering ourselves through archeomythology and releasing the dominant era from our cellular structures through rituals of self-expression.
I often teach classes when I am on the edge of something meaningful for me, that is what Intentional Creativity is all about, self-expression rooted in transformation – join us on Friday for Matrica if you want to paint in ceremony with me around these topics. We are painting Our Lady of Mushrooms and Mycelium. Yes, a combination of the Divine Mother for you and her connection in nature.
To continue reading and listening about reindeers, why Rudolph is a girl, and a 2500 year old Siberian Princess tattoo, come over to my podcast.
I am so grateful for YOU today and every day,
