I come from a place where the past and the present are one. There is a timelessness to this being, which is me. I have gathered myself from the elements and the stars and the root system. I have gathered myself from the mythologies, from all the wrongs and all the rights. I have wrapped…
When you are creative, you understand how you fit with what is natural, because being creative itself is natural. It’s really quite natural for us to be able to create, whether it’s painting, whether it’s making poems or making music. ~ Alice Walker Excerpted from Shiloh Sophia’s conversation with Alice Walker earlier this week in…
“Discovering truths hidden within the stories our culture tells us inspires artful activism. Let’s get to the root system where taboo lives and where systemic power-over structures are allowed to flourish without challenge. Let’s expose them gently and artfully and forge a new way forward. So often we are attached, or think we are, to…
What choice do you really have in life? Where are you not being at choice in your life? How does Self-Expression translate into a choice? Come listen and have some tea with the MUSE today! The Most Gorgeous Word #920 Dear Sumaiyah, Today I wanted to bring our awareness to one of the…
Red Thread Letter #919 Doing What Matters Dear One, Thank you for caring about doing what matters. And also – for caring if I do what matters to me too. I get lots of messages and cards hearing that what we do here at MUSEA does matter to you – so thank you. So.…
A photo of the front of the Ranch in Sonoma, California – our museum, campus, kitchen, and so much more! Red Thread Letter #918 Handfasting with Earth Dear One, I am called to bring ceremony as part of my Great Work. I opened the doors to The Cura Council recently, my vision for…
Red Thread Letter #917 Painting as Ceremony Dear One, So metacognition is one of my happy words. It is generally thought of as “thinking about thinking” as well as awareness and understanding of one’s own thought process. When we paint in ceremony, metacognition is the key element because we are in a space…
Greetings! In today’s Red Thread Letter #916 we are exploring Soul-Stuff and the Revealing of Great Work – recorded in the dark of the morning – the time when my soul voice is most alive! I invite you to tune in with a cuppa for 15 minutes and then journal or draw what arises. Cuz’ that’s…
Red Thread Letter #915 Practice of Presence Transmission Dear One, The full moon energy is palpable. What are you noticing? I shared what I was noticing in today’s offering made for you – just now. Today’s offering includes a Cura Meditation Transmission on the Practice of Presence with a theme of :.:=:. choosing…
I speak the truth when I tell you this. When creativity comes through like a thunder bolt and shakes you to your core, there is no mistaking it for something else. Your heart beats, your feet go cold, your head whistles with a big wind coming through. It can be hard to say no, even…
Red Thread Letter #913 Being Here March 26, 2023 Dear Ones, The day is bright and long. The road is curving towards places that are uncertain. Yet we are here none the less. I want to honor that here-ness with you, so I wrote a poem to read or listen to under a…
In Today’s Letter from the Red Thread Cafe #912, I talk about holding the first circle of a 500 Year Circle. You may have heard me say before that we have a 100-year plan to grow into the future together. Well, recently I decided to expand that vision to 500 years! Yes, that’s quite a leap,…
Who is “The Divine Mother” for you? Do you connect with Her in some way? Do you think the “Masculine” is as lonely for the “Feminine” as we are? Let’s explore… Singing to the Mother with Jennifer Berezan This is a painting I did of the Black Madonna when I was 24 years old…
Calls to awakening aren’t always indictments. Calls to awakening can come as invitations that stir the sleeping self into curiosity… Red Thread Letter #910 Medicine Painting is an Ancient & Futuristic Approach to Healing You can read this letter or listen to me read it to you on my Podcast here. Dear Ones, Today…
Come watch the LIVING LEGEND Museum Show featuring 14 years of the Cosmic Cowgirls’ LEGEND course and the artwork of over 100 women showcased, including an amazing display of over 100 legendary images! We are Wild-Hearted Women We are born to love! We choose to be fully self-expressed in this rodeo of the soul! (from…
“The Divine Feminine isn’t returning… We are. She has been here all along. She never left.” ~ Shiloh Sophia Guardians: Red Madonna Painting by Shiloh Sophia 2020 The Red Madonna Sanctuary Spiritual Sisterhood for Women In the Cosmos Online for 13 Moons Starting on Equinox, March 20th 2023 Guided by Shiloh Sophia,…
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept and celebrate those differences.” ~ Audre Lorde A Red Thread Runs Through Us by Phyllis A. Taylor of Pannet Art Studio Today’s Letter from the Red Thread Cafe #908 – Inquiries into loving more + why anti-racism work…
“The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others” ~ Vincent Van Gogh Pure Love of the Divine by Shiloh Sophia, 2013 Dear One, Happy Day of Love from us love birds! Jonathan and I send this with BIG LOVE on a day all…
Humans are so busy trying to simplify and dominate and collate and categorize and articulate that we tend to trim the wild garden. I don’t know about you, but the wild garden is the place where life is happening. In my relationships, in my creativity, in my truly hidden world self, I want a wild…
Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there. ~ RUMI Shiloh Sophia & Jonathan McCloud, in love… Dear One, As we turn toward February, known as the month of LOVE , there are some exciting things happening at our Sonoma Museum and University – both here in person and virtually! For today’s Letter from the…
Red Thread Letter #905 Dynamic Mindfulness I love new beginnings, and I don’t think we have to wait for a new year to have a new beginning. I think we get to have a new beginning on every new and full moon. Every time we choose a new beginning, it is available to us. And…
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…
Many of you have been asking me for years to create an introduction to Intentional Creativity – a starting place. But we are ‘cart before horse’ people for a reason, and this is that story. I will tell you about how we came to be known this way. For us, the cart, which carries…
There are stars under my skin There are rivers flowing in my heart There are people I have yet to meet There are stories we, beloved one, are yet to tell… Jonathan McCloud and our friend, Dr. Lissa Rankin, having a picnic on the land that adopted us. Wild Water Creek – Sonoma, California.…
“The greatest power we have leads to the greatest work we can imagine” ~ Shiloh Sophia Me + Mama Cloud 2018 Cosmic Cowgirls Gathering Today’s Letter from the Red Thread Cafe #902 is about choosing to matter, which is SO important to me, and was to my mom Caron. In her last days in physical…
New Moon Greetings Dear One, I am delighted and I am also something else. Is it fear? Shaking in my boots? Nervous? Not sure what is going to happen? Yes, all of the above as we invite our community (that’s you) to join the first cohort for Musea University! I couldn’t seem to find the…
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” ~ Rumi This is an underpainting called “Kiss of the Arising” and it ended up becoming, later, the painting Cosmic Dreamer (available at Musette Atelier) Red Thread Letter #901 The Death of Effort Greetings Dear Ones! This week I am traveling and celebrating Jonathan…
When I am asked: What is the most powerful act we can take to make a difference in our lifetime? I have one answer. Okay, two. Gather and Practice is the root system for all forms of inspired activism and transformational endeavors. Our 2023 Musea University Cohort is forming and you are invited. We endeavor…
I am celebrating the 900th Letter from the Red Thread Cafe with the topic that started it all…compassion. ~ It was this time of year, I was 24 years old. I had just left San Francisco and my corporate gig and higher education for a life on the mountain with my mother, Caron and Sue.…
There comes a point, a reckoning in all of our lives where we simply say – enough I must learn to think my own thoughts I must discover the way to compassion on my own terms, but not just “own” as in alone, but on my own, within the context of community itself… Humanity has…
Red Thread Letter #898 The Lineage Continues our 3 Ingredients + our Big News Dear One, My mother Caron used to say to me: “Honey, it isn’t just intention, we must be intentional about the intention itself, it is one layer beyond just intending to make something. So put your heart into it, whether…
Blooming Woman by Shiloh Sophia Painted during Temple 2022 in Sonoma Red Thread Letter #897 Connect with your Body This simple ceremony of my body by Shiloh Sophia I say to my body I am sorry, I haven’t been noticing every intricate thing you do for me I say to my body…
Wild Child by Shiloh Sophia from 2010 Come as You Are If you come as you are, will it be enough? Glorious enough to wow the world? Were you made to wow the world? If you come as you are will you be too visible, too eager? Will they wonder how you got in…
Red Thread Letter #895 Dancing Home together Dancing Home Together by Shiloh Sophia I want to remind you You don’t need to know how to do this This life experience we are now experiencing is the stuff of riddles Things are not as they seem THIS is unfamiliar territory and we aren’t…
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…
“In her heart she is a mourner for those who have not survived. In her soul she is a warrior for those who are now as she was then. In her life she is both celebrant and proof of women’s capacity and will to survive, to become, to act, to change self and society. And…
Red Thread Letter #892 Mysteries of the Heart Freedom, by Shiloh Sophia The unsolved mysteries of the heart are always present It doesn’t matter how many times we have been loved or been hurt Still, the heart is a grand mystery We cannot control it we cannot make it do what we want We…
For Today’s Red Thread Letter #891, I am sharing a poem written 2 years ago today called Tend your Temple. An invitation to take care of you. Red Thread Letter #891 TENDING YOUR TEMPLE Dear One, I wrote this poem as an invitation to tend to your own needs. I know this is…
Red Thread Letter #890 INFINITE IDENTITY INFINITE IDENTITY You are a point of access through which the universe expresses itself as you The infinite identity that has taken residence in your sack of stardust is capable of ever-expanding awareness, sensuality experience and specific unique information that is yours Your capacity to receive, give and…
Red Thread Letter #889 Just for Today Dear One, Just for today. We might ask ourselves the question: How is the universe conspiring for good on my behalf? With so many challenging things happening in our lives and in all of the world – we can tend to forget or not pay close enough…
What is the world that you want? What is the world that you ache for? What is the world that you pray for? What is the world you would put it all at stake for? What is the world that you dream of? What is the world that you speak of? What if the world…
All of my life I feel like I’ve been studying healing and how it works. Not only the mystery of spontaneous healing, but also the process by which one could arrive at a healing journey by choice instead of by crisis. I also love the science – what’s actually happening when someone has a healing…
Shiloh Sophia’s Temple painting in process Red Thread Letter #887 The Artist and The Erotic The Artist and The Erotic The artist has agreed to be a co-creator, and in that agreement becomes engorged with potentials: symbols, sounds, senses, and image-incantations that flood the psyche and make the body full. The power…
Red Thread Letter #886 These Are The Words We say we have no words. But these are the words. Each time. Every time. Read the names of the places, the people. Including those who were at cause. This is part of staying awake to what is happening. I know it is hard to…
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home ~ Rumi Today’s Red Thread Letter #885 Enjoy an audio check-in from Shiloh Sophia after moving into her new home and communing with the three sisters… A BIG THANK YOU to those who attended the Red Madonna Exhibit Opening last night! The…
Over ten years ago I remember dreaming up a sacred sisterhood for women on my knees in prayer, and the exact moment the words ‘Red Madonna’ came to me and how it felt in my body and heart. Never could I possibly imagine how much the Red Madonna was needed in the hearts of so…
A call to serve with our gifts in a bigger way is the beginning of everything that shapes us into a whole full human with a life of aliveness. ~ Shiloh Sophia Apply Today MUSEA Intentional Creativity Presents.. RED THREAD TRAINING 2022 Intentional Creativity Guide Certification Training Based on the work of Shiloh…
This Mama Day Blessing is for every woman at every stage of her life in relationship to her own mother, her body, her choice. Wherever you are – whatever you are present to this day – I send my love along the red thread. Mother’s Days are bittersweet when your Mama has walked on –…
Shiloh Sophia at the Cosmic Kiss Grand Opening Event! “When something really matters to me I feel a combination of nervousness and enthusiasm. As the day neared when we would announce the official opening of the Sonoma gallery, there were so many emotions. As you may know, Musette was first a wine bar in Tiburon.…
Red Thread Letter #884 Crossroads Woman Comment in the Cafe Share on Facebook Crossroads Woman by Shiloh Sophia I am not the sound of a clear bell ringing on a clear day that you can hear with human ears I am the slow low…
Red Thread Letter #883 The Power of Summoning Change Comment in the Cafe Share on Facebook Dear One, Do you have these moments in your life when you wake up and you know something needs to change even if you don’t know what it…
Red Thread Letter #882 Wishing Upon a Star – Exploring The Power of a Wish Comment in the Red Thread Cafe Dear Ones, I am thinking of you. Of us. To me, you are so very real, as real as family or water, or the wet ground from the rain outside…
Red Thread Letter #881 Finding the missing piece of myself This is a very personal share about where I am in my life right now as I do my best to look for the joy and magic in my every day… To read and comment in the Red Thread Cafe Classroom, go here. …
The Shape of Desire by Shiloh Sophia The Muse comes to my backdoor I am feeling overwhelmed with life today so I am grateful for the distraction I throw open the door. She raises an eyebrow and steps cooly into the kitchen, I notice she has muddy feet and is tracking grassy prints onto my…
I haven’t been praying the way I used to. Yet today brings me to a desire to pray. Sometimes the only reasonable prayer is an unreasonable prayer. Join me for a cuppa tea? Here are a few of my thoughts. Red Thread Letter #879 Sometimes the only reasonable prayer is unreasonable Dear…
Exciting News! Opening on the Sonoma Plaza A New Shop with an Old History Musette Atelier SONOMA PLAZA 492 1st Street East Sonoma CA 95476 musette@musea.org School www.musea.org Museum www.imusea.org Musette is the new gallery, workshop, film studio, and event venue curated by Sonoma artists Shiloh Sophia and Jonathan McCloud. They are the dynamic team…
Our New Location is opening! Come by for a visit March 18.19.20 from 2-6pm. Shiloh and Jonathan will both be there working on their projects – because Atelier means it is a working studio! We would love to see you. MUSETTE ATELIER Sonoma Plaza 492 1st Street East Sonoma, CA 95476 707-343-1567 musette@musea.org We are…
“Intentional Creativity is not a style of art, it is a lifestyle. To create with intention is the most natural thing in the world – to make a soup with love, to draw a picture of a mountain while listening to the mountain, to write something that serves as a message for encouragement for those…
“We must refocus our collective memory. The necessity for this has never been greater as we discover that the path of ‘progress’ is extinguishing the very conditions for life on earth.” ― Marija Gimbutas This is my work in progress right now, this morning I added the Carpathian mountains to the top as…
Well here it is. The drawing that changed the world. The drawing that opened my consciousness. The drawing that literally altered the course of my life. And by proxy – tens of thousands of lives. By 2007 my work had reached over 100k people. By 2008 the book, Color of Woman that had the…
“There has to be something we can do to rewire our brain for a more holistic way of thinking. A way to access both/and instead of either/or. A way to hold duality without cancellation of either potential.” I said thinking I was sounding rather smarty. “There is,” she said. “It takes a little time and…
The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others. ~ Vincent Van Gough VISIT ALL MUSEA EVENTS Red Thread Letter #875 Honoring a Day of LOVE Dear One Sarah, Love comes in so many different forms, especially when it…
To Join us for Upcoming Drawing Events Visit Our School Page Red Thread Letter #874 Why Drawing Matters Dear Ones, My mother Caron was an illustrator who could duplicate what she saw. She had an innate ability to render real life, even from her mind, without looking at a…
A message from Musea Collective: Dear Sarah, Our Intentional Creativity community is made up of thousands of people around the world who have found us for all different reasons… Whether you have recently discovered our community and feel called to dip your toes in to see what we have to offer… Perhaps you have taken…
COSMIC COWGIRLS CREED by Shiloh Sophia and the Cosmic Cowgirls We are Women Between Worlds transforming Lives into Legends and these are the 13 stands of our community We are Inspired Revolutionaries We do our own work, choosing to do whatever it takes to be truly who we are now and who…
Red Thread Letter #872 Dreams Are Evidence Dreams Are Evidence by Shiloh Sophia Dreams are evidence of the rich inner life of your identity a place where all different levels of awareness dance and create freely, as if, when our eyes close, the depth of our imagination finally gets to play and show us…
What is the construct you are living in? Unless you are conscious about creating your own framework, you are likely living inside of a construct you are not fully aware of, nor did you really choose. In today’s Red Thread Letter, I share a video that invites you to break the spells, both imposed by…
Greetings! In today’s Red Thread Letter, we are announcing an exciting evolution as we begin a new year and cycle of 2022. After an intense two years focused on keeping the doors of Musea open during an unprecedented time in our world, we are excited to share our current focus for this year. Drum Roll……
For many years I have said that our healing arts work could prevent a mid-life crisis and turn it into a mid-life awakening. But now that I am here, 51 years in, I must rub my new tiny whiskered beard and ask myself…with loving yet direct sarcasm… “Well, McCloud, what exactly IS the difference? Do…
When I am well enough I can respond to what is, and offer a contribution from my overflowing well When I am healed enough I can experience my own gifts and share them when I am called When I am in crisis, despair or grief, I know what to do to care for…
VIST ALL MUSEA EVENTS Today I am sharing a recent challenging experience that led me to these questions and reaffirmed why I am calling together an intimate circle of healers, leaders and teachers for Prisma, our Intentional Creativity Practitioner Certification Training in 2022. An invitation to weave Intentional Creativity into your life…
The Muse is at the back door tonight. Click-clack, tip-tap, scritchy-scratch! If she comes in without asking and eats your hot-buttered garlic bread with sticky fingers and a toothy grin, be grateful. If she crashes in after scratching the windowpanes and rattles your kitchen pans, and dares you, you better get moving. There are…
Happy new moon! From over 60 applications, we have carefully selected 20 students to study with us for our 2022 Prisma Practitioner Training cohort. We are being selective in this process and are beyond grateful for the amazing healers, guides, teachers and visionaries who are saying YES to amplifying their offerings through the practice of Intentional…
There is something I feel I have been hiding from you and I want to share it now to invite healing and recovery around it. I’m not sure why but I am starting to cry as I write these words. Maybe because it feels so contra-indicated to share this when I have just come through…
Healing cannot happen without acknowledgment. Acknowledgment cannot happen without the truth. The truth cannot happen if people refuse to see it and speak it. To begin and be a part of the healing you can start here: Sign Good Relations Pledge Today’s Letter from the Red Thread Cafe is for those in the…
Are you an artist, healer, guide, shaman, teacher, trainer, therapist or in a service profession? Or maybe you don’t use an official ‘title’ but feel passionate about offering your healing gifts. How would it feel to become certified in an emergent field of healing arts? For over twenty years we have been researching and practicing…
While I was growing up my family created safe houses for women to run to. In time, I discovered that I wanted to create safe spaces for women to turn to in their experience of themselves. Without that internal sanctuary, would we even survive? Art, Violence and the Voice of the Soul Red Thread…
We danced, we feasted, we painted, we prayed, we played. It was a wonderful experience gathering together with some of our leadership team at MUSEA: Center for Intentional Creativity in Sonoma this weekend for VIVID 2021. Each of these women are certified in our methodology and expressed such a potent experience of sisterhood. Seeing women…
Your body knows what it knows. Our mind does not always reveal what the body knows, in fact it often masks deep knowing. The key to connecting the wisdom within is hidden in plain sight. Inviting body, mind and tummy (gut) to be in an intentional conversation opens the door… Dear One’s, Today’s…
Red Thread Letter #862 A Survivor’s Story Shiloh Sophia’s current work in progress for Ritual 13 Moons Course. Her inner world dialogue is shown on the right of the canvas. Dear Ones, The desire to end violence against women and children is the precious root of everything I do. It links back to…
“How would you suggest we start to listen, to the voice of our own creativity?” I ask “Begin by just looking up at the moon, make contact, and then start imagining how to draw it” She said pointing at the moon. I was looking at her hand and how close the moon seemed to her…
You are a cosmic identity inhabiting a cooling sack of stars Your stardust personae presses through ancient constellations inhabiting a framework of potential You have chosen to colonize this matter What will you do with what you have been given? Red Thread Letter #860 Dear Ones, Do you ever wonder how you really…
“Think of what can happen as each family releases that karma, of what was done by our ancestors or just clearing the energy of the land we live on of any negative history. Find out what Natives once lived on your land…they are all in need of our help. I think it is good to…
I made this video for you! Should my autobiography be called Outlaw? I come from a family of people on both sides who choose to think for themselves. Only one member completed college. Only one of us had a normal day job. Three members of my family started independent schools. Yet, we have teachings to pass on.…
“Be prepared to hear and see things you never thought possible. Don’t be afraid of being overtaken by awe.” ~ Sue Hoya Sellars Dear Ones, For today’s Red Thread Letter, I am sharing an exciting invitation to a Livestream Reading and Teaching from my new book, The Feast Table of Love. Join me…
Let us leave the gateway of the known shore the familiar door we have gone through before. We shall sip star milk from the cradle cup of the new moon see it there just coming over the horizon sip to remember a way not lost yet not known sought for since you began… …
My Elders have told me they have never experienced anything quite like this time. No matter where you stand on the hot topics of today, one thing is clear: You are still the author of your own unfolding life story and life work. You are still in charge of how you shape your future. The…
Today we are sharing a special video interview with Shiloh Sophia and one of the first-ever graduates of the Legend Cosmic Cowgirls Course, Amber Kuileimailani Bonnici. Amber said yes to the Legend journey because she was going through a sad time in her life and wanted to feel truly happy. That simple intention…
Dear One, Someone recently asked – isn’t all of creativity intentional? Perhaps indicating that the need to emphasize intentionality was irrelevant since all of creating comes from an intention to create. At one level when we create, we intend to ‘make the food’ ‘write the post’ ‘weed the garden’ ‘paint a painting of a mountain’…
The Legend of her own becoming Red Thread Letter #854 Dear Ones, Just a month ago we re-opened MUSEA after a year and a half. Then just last week I returned home from my two-week revisioning time at the sea. I loved having time offline to rest and be with my love Jonathan…
“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.” ~ Rumi Red Thread Letter #852 The Stardust Dreams CONTINUE READING LETTER HERE May love be at the center of all choices.
Red Thread Letter #851 YOU ARE : An ode to our students YOU ARE the terrain where transformation happens YOU ARE the place where consciousness is shaped YOU ARE the story telling itself through you YOU ARE the connection that you are seeking YOU ARE a co-creator with all of creation YOU ARE…
Choose the Artist’s Lifestyle Art isn’t just for artists. Art is for everybody. Art isn’t just for those who are gifted or show promise with skill. Art is a soul language that speaks to us from within. Art invites us to be intentional about how we live. To choose an artist’s lifestyle The intentional artist…
Women’s work and lives are often invisible masterpieces. We seek to bring our masterpieces to the center of the table, the wall, boardrooms, galleries, courts, museums and all the places women’s voices have been missing. We will achieve this in our day, and indeed we are, through lifting up women’s voices and work. Together we…
Unfold Your Own Legend A legend is composed of fact and fiction and poetry. And it is our business what combination of the three we choose to express. We are not static. We are not a brand. We are evolutionary beings, cyclical, mutable, changeable and relentless explorers of the luminosity found in the inner…
Clearing the Air The Muse is at the back door tonight. She comes in without a sound, startling me. I was at the fridge, looking for more food to eat. The ‘eat less during the pandemic’ meal plan isn’t quite working out for me. When I turn my gaze to her, her eyes are…
JUNE 20.21.22.23. Prima Materia : Medicine Painting A Ceremony of Liberation Summer Solstice 2021 On-location in Sonoma, California at MUSEA : Intentional Creativity Museum with Co-Founder and Curator SHILOH SOPHIA Gather with us, we are opening again after one year and three months. Your presence is requested! GATHER WITH US Dear Ones, The…
Hello Everyone! I am so excited today to let you know that MUSEA Sonoma is planning our Summer in-person events! After over a year and three months of being closed, we are finally able to invite you to come and see us. We are truly grateful. While registration is not yet fully open – save…
Dear Ones, I am thinking of you today. I woke up with this message in my soul a few days ago and wanted to share it with you. New Moon Greetings to each of you… Uncertainty has a cadence to it We don’t know the dance steps We say we are unfamiliar with just…
Today’s poem is in honor of my birth mother, Caron McCloud, the mother of my heart, Sue Hoya Sellars, and Spirit Warrior Carmen Baraka, who mothered the women in our community and in the world. These beautiful women have walked on to their future and are forever present in my soul, my work, and the…
I am the color of your stardust blood proving your ancient lineage The ancient Mothers know me as the good red road, the umbilical cord! The ancient Fathers know me as the blessing of destiny The ancient Animals followed me all the way to today – Excerpt from The Spirit of the Red Thread Special announcements about the Red Thread! MUSEA is featuring a complimentary 4-part Red Thread Series in May with Shiloh Sophia RSVP at musea.org/redthread Doors are OPEN for Red Thread…
Today would have been Caron’s 84th birthday. We are celebrating her with sharing her Obituary and Life Celebration. You can also make new comments here for her, her family, and her husband, Jim Wilson Caron Laverne McCloud POET April 25, 1937 – March 29, 2021 “Like a bird on a wire Like…
We are going through her portfolio of drawings, some of them being over 60 years old. I am admiring more than ever, the curve of her line. The precision, the arc, the clear path to beauty that her pen and pencil take. Having been at this a long time now, drawing that is, I am…
On the first day of the Hospice interviews my mother Caron was asked by the nurse: “What seems to be the problem?” Mama, smiling kindly, but with a bit of her famous attitude replies “I am having an identity crisis.” To which the nurse replies “Okay then. What about bowel movements?” “Did you know I…
Will you join us for the Apothecary Medicine Painting Course starting April 15th? We invite you to watch this video to experience co-teachers Shiloh Sophia and Jonathan McCloud as they candidly share about the inspiration for this class and why you should consider joining us for a 3-week support circle. Learn more: www.medicinepainting.com If you are feeling…
A poem for my mother, Caron McCloud. I wrote this on the morning, of the same day my mother flew into her future on the evening of March 29, 2021 Gossamer Crossing Her identity is slipping across the veil. The very first thing to go were the memory based nouns. Soon the verbs and…
When we are fully engaged, as we often are with creativity – we can experience heightened awareness, intuition and connection to the inner healer. A relationship begins to form, that with practice, can give us continued access to the deepest insights we have available. ~ Shiloh Sophia Is there a lingering trauma, story…
Dear Ones, I remember the day I first painted women dancing together. I was 22 years old. I can feel it as if it was yesterday. I was living in an apartment in the Castro district in San Francisco with my friend I met at art college, Norma Jeanne Maloney. We were both artists…
Laundry Rebellion + Edgewalker Green By Shiloh Sophia from the WISHBONE : The Muse at the Back Door Stories (coming Spring 2021) The Muse is at the back door tonight. I hear her peculiar knock-scratch-scuffle when I am drying the dinner dishes. I drop the dishtowel on the floor. I open the door as…
“We must move into the future, creating it as we go. We have been placed on the edge of history too long now. We have always been here.” ~ Sue Hoya Sellars I grew up going to the museum. Sue, my Co-Mother and Teacher made sure of it. No one in my…
Could you use a hot date with the Muse? How about time to splash paint and let loose? We think it’s time for a reset. What say you? Our Muses will meet us. and light the tips of our paintbrushes! IN OTHER WORDS, LET’S PLAY. This is also my only painting class on the books…
“The call to honor the mothering we have received in our lives is the sacred work of community. If we do not know where we come from, how can we know where we are going?” ~ Shiloh Sophia I am sitting by a small but mighty tree. I am listening to the branches.…
There is an oak tree out my studio window named Eleanor. I didn’t name her of course, she just told me one day, just like that. “My name is Eleanor.” I sit with her every day, most often starting in the dark of morning and the moon glow. When I come to the studio chair…
Cloud in an Evening Gown I often say, explaining Intentional Creativity is like trying to put a cloud into an evening gown. How lovely and luminous that would be! Yet many sacred things defy a proper image or metaphor because only the real thing will do. Things like breath, the sea, the smell of…
“I am so proud to be indigenous. I know we have an innate spiritual sense, a great reverence for Mother Earth… and this keeps us in the arms of our Creator.” Aho Mitakuye Oyasin – we are all related! ~ Carmen Baraka Honoring Native American Elder in our Community Carmen Baraka Spirit Warrior…
Stardust Transit by Shiloh Sophia “I have been traveling for some 70,000 years to arrive at this point on the path, on the Earth,” she said, as if it were the most normal thing in the world. I replied, “That is quite a long time—have you brought your cherished beliefs along with you?” “No” she…
My mother Caron used to tell me to choose creativity at all costs. When I was younger I wasn’t sure what that would really mean. Now at 50, I see what she was saying. That at many times in our lives, other paths might seem easier, more lucractive, less challenging – than making a…
The Roots of the Mother Tree : Part Two (if you wish to read Part One first, go here) “The tea,” she says, “is from the roots of the Mother Tree,” as if that explains the flavor. “Go easy,” she says. Then I am floating above my house. I see the white picket…
White Picket Fence Around My Laughter The Muse is at the back door tonight. I hear her scratch-tap as I am sweeping the linoleum. My heart races a caterpillar of fear up my spine to the top of my head. I turn around in slow motion, never sure what I may find with her.…
Women Woven Together Musea Art Call is Open! Women artists are invited to participate. Entry is open Today through February 28th. LEARN MORE A message from Musea Curator, Shiloh Sophia Dear Ones, I’m sending blessings on this day of Imbolc in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the mid-point between winter…
“I see creativity as what weaves Soul into my body and my daily life, what connects me to an enlivened relationship with my Ancestors, and what allows me to be a co-creator of the world I want to see and leave for my great-grandchildren.” ~ Semerit Strachan Announcing a Musea Membership that is…
Within every woman a mystical template waits for her. Whether or not she searches for it, or ever finds it, is a matter of her own choosing. Self initiations don’t just happen every day. They are chosen. In real time, by real women, seeking a real life experience of being. Mystical Template by Shiloh…
“By going deeper into myth, I go deeper into love, and when I go deeper into love, innately I find morality; I locate a True North in my own heart.”― Martin Shaw JOIN US We are starting today. You are just in time. What are you planning in 2021? Dear One. I am writing today…
If you were to consider straddling the thresholds you might hear a warning ring out “Be careful!” The old ones say this: “Language has skin and color and doorways to other worlds.” The voyage might call you because you are still searching for your secret name. Perhaps you seek a sacred image of you from…
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…
For today’s Intentional Creativity Practice, will you ‘plan’ your creative days on your calendar in 2021? One day a week, two half days, or four two hour blocks on different days. Book your Muse time. Will you? Red Thread Letter #831 Red Thread Cafe, Cave of Stories and Studio Wish List Comment…
There are myths of old that speak to the Double-Sided Self. It is said that until you can make friends, or even better, become lovers with both selves that there will never be peace within. Yet this union is not as easy as simply knowing the paradox exists or embracing the union of opposites. To…
Dear One, I send you Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse exciting greetings this day! If you could see me, I am jumping out of my seat with JOY. Why? Well, fulfilling a lifelong dream in the middle of a year like this feels BIG. Ready for this? In 2021 we are transitioning our…
Today’s Red Thread Letter is specifically for those in the Intentional Creativity community that want to learn more about the Thanksgiving myth and work towards healing in the United States on behalf of Native People and all of us who dwell here. The morning light hasn’t come yet. The stars are still in the…
“The time of no more hiding is when You stop apologizing, making excuses and the past does not define your future There is a joy that comes, a peace that comes, when you aren’t hiding from yourself any more Watch for this bubbling up of pleasure, and embrace it in beauty every chance you get”…
We are all connected by a red thread, shortening the distance between one another until we are finally here, in community, together. Then we will say, “I remember you! I have been waiting for you. I have missed you, my sister, my friend!!” Even if we have never met before… When we feel a sense…
“When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.” – Jimmy Carter Today is voting day in the United States and yet we know it impacts the whole world. The election is happening during a time of great turmoil and division in this country. Our communities and our hearts…
“When women reassert their relationship with their wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guides, suggests, and urges vibrant life in the inner and outer worlds.” ~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés…
I don’t just make art to make art. I paint to know. I write to heal. I get information while I am creating… But how does it all work? Is it just woo-woo California stuff or can the science of creativity reveal to us how it may ACTUALLY work? It will likely surprise you! Will…
“Part of that beauty I found was in the faces of the women who looked at their own Legendary creations. This told me everything I needed to know. I was carrying medicine, and my medicine activated their medicine. My soul-work was to spark their soul-work. And so it began…” Today I am sharing my story…
Have you ever had a nudge from the Universe reminding you that she has your back? That no matter what you’re going through right now, the universe provides… I know so many who are going through hard times right now in different ways. In this era of uncertainty, I am choosing to witness the miracles,…
Dear Ones, I am writing today to explore the idea that the ONLY thing you have any control over is your thoughts. Thoughts that are a combination of the brain and heart collaborating for your good invite the body to participate. A lot of things feel out of our control or even capacity to collaborate…
Red Thread Vow of Connection I am connected to you as you are connected to me I am called to this circle as you are called to this circle I witness your story as you witness my story We each have a sacred responsibility to our own unique piece of red thread May Love be…
This message is sent on behalf of Shiloh Sophia. She and her husband Jonathan are fine, though currently evacuated from their Saint Helena home in Napa Valley. Please reach out to support@musea.orgwith any inquires. Co-Creation with Creator – Prayer during Evacuation Dear Creator, I am where you are You are where I am …
The little girl asked Grandmother, “Do we all come in with a special cosmic bowl?” And Grandmother said, “All the children come in with a special cosmic bowl given to them. It’s shaped from the breast of their mother to represent where they nursed off of the Milky Way. Not all children’s bowls are the…
Dear Ones, Today I am sending you blessings for your day! I can’t stop thinking about you and what you are experiencing as I move through my days. I finally got to rest a little this weekend, and as I rest, my thoughts often turn to you. Today I am writing sharing a personal practice…
This turning towards what you deeply love saves you ~ Rumi I couldn’t sleep last night. I felt jumpy. Every sound stirred me. I was surprised because I rested almost all day yesterday, but wow was it hot in California (103). As I lay there I remembered, that even though I am home now, we…
Dear Ones, Five days ago we were evacuated from our new home in the hills of Saint Helena….The update is our home still stands and it appears fire danger is less, yet we cannot return yet. Each day I take time to write out how I am feeling and update my community. Thank you for…
Upcoming Events with MUSEA Curator, Shiloh Sophia Painting: I Have Always Been With You, 2014 Comment on Facebook A Student of Suffering, A Lover of Joy I arise from an ancient battle Carried forward since the day I catapulted headlong into the womb I have known of it with every part of my cellular…
Move outside of what you know and find the bliss of non-being as you crash into fuller being splashing colors on the past and making a new future… Shiloh Sophia in the Summer Course, ARTIFACT Join us for a NEW Intentional Creativity® Event There is a 10th Muse writing prompt at the bottom of this…
The Muse is at the back door tonight. We are in the middle of dinner and I don’t want the others to see her. I take a chicken wing, and rush to the door. I beg her to come back later. She looks at me suspiciously over leopard print sunglasses. She takes the wing, smacking…
“A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face in the earth, smelling the wild smell. She might have to drive into the wind. She may have to plant something, pull things out of the ground or put them into the ground. She may have to knead and bake, rapt…
(Pat)riarchy Dear Pat, I just don’t think I can do this anymore. I know we have been together a long time. That our families have worked together for thousands of years, but I am just not happy in this relationship. I don’t know if I ever was. Did it ever really work between us?…
“…Grant that I may Not so much seek to be consoled as to console To be understood, as to understand To be loved, as to love For it is in giving that we receive” ~ excerpt from Saint Francis Prayer See all MUSEA events in one place: www.musea.org/school Explore MUSEA Membership: www.musea.org/membership Red Thread Letter #814…
If you want the moon… do not hide at night. If you want a rose… do not run from the thorns If you want love… do not hide from yourself ~ Rumi Six years ago today I said “I Do” to this incredible and inspiring man. A poet, a chef, a photographer, a teacher, philosopher,…
I Will Be Here For the Women of Color I share Life with by Shiloh Sophia I choose you… ~ Last night in my dreams I wrote you a letter My dear sister, my friend, my beloved I told you how much I missed you How my love will never stop loving How my life…
She gave me pens she told me that when I could allow the mountain in my head to travel down my arm and come out the end of my pen then she would be back (You can read it below, or listen to me read it on youtube) Comment in the Red Thread Cafe Classroom…
What happens if women begin to make the images of the future? What if we REFUSE the images of oppression, separation and sexism and make our own images and stories? As far as I’m concerned, we have to. It has long been understood that those who control the images and stories control the culture. We…
This turning towards what you deeply love, saves you ~ Rumi Red Thread Letter #810 Turning Towards What I Love + Curator’s Update with what is happening at the Museum www.musea.org www.shilohsophia.com Dear Ones, When I think about what really truly lights me up – it is art. Painting, writing, dancing, sculpting, storytelling, theater, music…
Get Access to Meridian Join us for Artifact Dear One, Good morning from California! I am getting ready to teach a live class today on pain and paint! In preparation, I fasted yesterday of solid food, went to bed early, and dreamed of the river beneath the river.…
Dear One, As you likely know from our work together, my focus is awakening women. Since my early twenties, I have worked with women to begin seeing what they aren’t seeing. To identify default settings and root out false systems that harm women and the oppressed. Only from a space of awakening for herself can…
#BlackLivesMatter #BlackLivesMatterToMe #BLM2Me As Alice Walker says in this book title, “Hard Times Require Furious Dancing” – that is how I feel now. I wrote the introduction, did the illustrations and painted the cover for this book of poetry over 15 years ago. I have loved living into the combination of art forms, like…
Let Me Show You What I See : She said, He said, We Said She said: Let me show you what I see… He said: What do you mean? She said: I see that we are capable of evolution by choice! He said: You mean like how we can influence our gene expression and our…
“Years as a healer and trauma therapist have taught me that trauma isn’t destiny. The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and…
REVEAL Community Call Recording from 5/27 Support our Vision for a global women’s museum through MUSEA Membership www.musea.org Dear One, Wow! Helloooooooo! We opened a global museum yesterday! It was so wonderful to gather for our REVEAL preview of the website www.musea.org. The MUSEA website has been a six…
Ever since I was a little girl I remember my teacher and mother of my heart, Sue, talking about synaptic junctions and repatterning my brain. She wanted me to understand that creativity was the way I could invite co-creative repatterning. As I got older, we would watch Stephen Hawking and have tea by the…
Light a candle in your window Leave the door ajar to your studio and listen…. The Muse may be finding her way to your back door… ~ New story from the Muse at the Backdoor series – it may take you 5 whole minutes to slow down read the story. So if you a looking…
Dear One, I am delighted to share with you that our first fund designed for our community has come into form today! Our dear Guild member Elizabeth Gibbons gave a generous donation of $14,000 for microloans for YOU and your business. Following her example, many of us contributed to make this fund happen. Applications open…
A Blessing for All Kinds of Mamas Your mother wove the fabric of the universe in which you came forth This day we honor our mamas for giving life to us This is a blessing for all different kinds of mothering! For mamas to be, cradling expectant bellies we look forward…
You are scraping meatloaf off the plates when it hits you ‘This could all be an illusion’ ~ from Muse at the Back Door Series. I am sharing a new story and audio with you today! May Your Day Be Blessed! Would you like to get a cup of tea and join me for a…
Love transcends time, space and place, this love is real, this love is happening now I am a pilgrim in the quantum realm of love ~ Shiloh Sophia Today’s Red Thread Letter includes how I am feeling and a few songs I am loving and a poem called Daily Rituals Become Quantum. Study with us…
In 2020 it is essential that we revision how we show up in an uncertain marketplace. Some of us will not survive this and some of us will define the future. Let’s discover how to evolve together and have a good time doing it, shall we? A Red Thread Letter especially for Entrepreneurs in my…
If you leave a crack in the door of your consciousness for the Muse, She will find you She will bring you her creatures, bad manners, disturb your denial, raid your cookie jar, and reset your default settings, If you are lucky… Visit upcoming events: schoolofintentionalcreativity.org Join me for a free community call? Respond in…
Dear One, Full Pink Moon Greetings to you! I am excited to share this potent and delightful conversation with Leigh J. McCloskey – one of my favorite artists of ALL time. He both delights and amazes with his work. I thought we could use some positive and entertaining creative media right about now! This is…
I turn around quickly, feeling my stomach quiver. All I can see is the end of a fingertip writing on the back door window. My heart races. She hasn’t been here in a while… View All Musea Virtual Events Respond in the Red Thread Cafe Comment or Share on Facebook This is It and Frida…
Dear One, Medicine Painting may be one of the most important teachings I have ever shared with you. I invite you to honor this teaching page with a cup of tea, as that is how long it will take you to read the article, watch the video, and see the images. Slow down with me.…
The Year 2060 “Grandma? Can you tell me when everything got better in the world?” “Oh yes little one, that was the year 2020, when the earth took a big breath, we were able to reverse the damage and heal. No one poisoned the water anymore or grew food that wasn’t good for humans. We…
This is for you if you are feeling overwhelmed or crowded and need to reclaim space just for you. As well as clear other ‘stuff’ out of your field, body and consciousness. Get a cuppa tea and a journal and settle in to honor yourself today. Red Thread Letter #796 from Shiloh Sophia Reclaiming My…
how does healing happen? is it…forgetting a little at a time that which hurts and waking up one morning just feeling a little bit lighter? Painting: Sweet Compassion 2008 by Shiloh Sophia Visit MUSEA ONLINE Events www.schoolofintentionalcreativity.org Red Thread Letter #795 from Shiloh Sophia The Healing Fields – Equinox how does healing happen? is it…forgetting…
“I wonder what toilet paper represents?” She quips with a giggle. “Sh*t hitting the fan perhaps?” I return. “Keep going,” she says “I am afraid because the world may be coming to an end as we know it.” And this is how conversations with the Backdoor Muse go… Red Thread Letter #794 from Shiloh Sophia…
“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks Red Thread Letter #793 Will you choose connection? Dear One, Are you choosing to stay connected? These are curious times and the power of staying rooted in community is essential for well being. Research across the board shows that those who feel connected…
Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace. ~ Kofi Annan who served as seventh Secretary-General of the…
And the Muse said… “You must be willing. Willing to identify the invisible frameworks Otherwise, you will never, ever…. know what you are looking at. Or what frame you are looking through” Red Thread Letter #791 from Shiloh Sophia FREE CALL TODAY for YOU! Let’s LIBERATE ourselves today with an Intentional Creativity® process! Join…
Will you join me in New York for the experience of a lifetime? To show up with others from around the globe to bring your voice to the table on behalf of women everywhere? I would love to have you, and here’s why. Our Intentional Creativity Lineage has its roots in justice, ending violence for…
Muses disturb comfortable minds and comfort disturbed minds. Muses close old doors and open new ones. ~ Shiloh Sophia from Tea with the Midnight Muse Red Thread Letter #789 from Shiloh Sophia My muse woke up grumpy at 4am and her prose called itself, Discordia and Dish Pit – lol She had my attention at…
Dear One, I send this with BIG LOVE on a day all about loving. While I know many of us don’t want to buy into the hype of Valentines, I personally love a day or week when I can see pink hearts and red roses everywhere I go. A day when the calendar asks us…
“Paint like you have all the time in the world” ~ Sue Hoya Sellars I always say, that I had a chop wood carry water mentorship with my teacher, Sue. The way she approached teaching me was slow and intentional. As she was taught to her, by her teacher, Lenore Thomas Straus. We always…
I am going to be direct. I feel women have been asking the wrong question for at least 70 years. I say 70 years only because I know my mom, Caron also asked this question as a very young woman. It is likely much farther back than that… Let’s take a look and see…
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once. ~ Albert Einstein Red Thread Letter #785 from Shiloh Sophia An invitation and poem to Connect to the Invisible… Will you join me for upcoming events this season? MUSEA : Center for Intentional Creativity Upcoming Events Hosted by Shiloh Sophia 1/22 Red…
“I won’t be a rockstar. I will be a Legend” ~ Freddie Mercury Red Thread Letter #784 : To Be Legendary or Not To Be? Ask Yourself… Does the idea of a giant painting make you shake in your boots? Does the thought of re-inventing your archetype light you up? If you are a badass…
“I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint “ ~ Frida Kahlo Red Thread Letter #783 : Creative Community and Connection in 2020 + 13 Moon Calendar Today’s letter is an invitation to consciously plan when you will choose creative time for yourself in 2020. Along with ways to be part…
Move towards that which delights you! This pleasure is an antidote to pain! Pain will come no matter what, yet pleasure must be chosen! What delight is calling to you in 2020? So often we speak to what we are removing… Making goals and setting resolutions, but what if you put soul over goal?…
We love beginnings. We have a hard time with endings. If you want a potent beginning, bring completion with potency to where you have already been travelling. The turning of the Wheel of the Year asks us to pay attention to the path we have been on, to make clear the path ahead! Red…
I just want to remind you we are all a detail in our galaxy. Our galaxy cannot do without each of us. The body we live in is our Cosmic Address at this time. We are transisterized versions of our true size… We are much bigger than we think – as Cosmic Cowgirls we will…
“A disruptor is a person who shakes up or breaks up existing paradigms and offers an alternative to how things are being done. It is often one of the first steps toward making a change within a system; showing where it hasn’t been working and offering an alternative. What comes next is the staying…
Red Thread Letter #778 : Hot Mess Every once in a while it is time to cut loose. To laugh your ass off! I will never forget the day I made this video – and Jonathan laughing behind the camera as I let it rip! If it floats your boat, then plan on joining…
Seven years ago I started a pilgrimage and today, it is complete. I haver proverbial blisters on sore feet. I can say with joy and the depth of sorrow that comes from a long journey, that it was my training and a powerful devotion to wisdom. I love that I am complete on 12/12…
This is where it all started, with my mentor Sue Hoya Sellars. When I headed to the hills from San Franciscos for a chop-wood-carry-water mentorship in Mendocino in 1994, I had no idea this would happen… A mentorship that would last one year, and then go on for 20 years. A conversation that would…
When you think of creating, does fear arise? Does your inner critic get really loud when you pick up that paintbrush or that pen? Do you strongly desire to release the fear and connect more deeply with your Muse? This letter is for you… Red Thread Letter #775 from Shiloh Sophia About Fear arising…
Then she asked me, “What do you care about the most?” Satisfied with my answer – that I wanted to do my part to end violence against women and children – she went on. If my answer had not pleased her, I doubt she would have told me what came next. I doubt she…
‘We are all cooling sacks of stardust’ ~ Sue Hoya Sellars Red Thread Letter #773 HELIX : A Psalm of Human Being A mini-film for you featuring a painting, a poem, a song. A Psalm of Human Being Music by Jami Sieber from the Hidden Sky album [tvideo type=”vimeo” clip_id=”374312533″] [one_half]Watch & Share on FB…
The time for waking is upon us. We can no longer afford to sleep, without concern. What will you do to cause your own awakening? [one_half]Comment or Share – When Women are Awake [/one_half] [one_half_last] Visit MUSEA : Centers for Intentional Creativity[/one_half_last] Red Thread Letter #772 When Women Are Awake This painting is a ‘self…
It is not in knowing ‘things’ that you become conscious. Rather it is in inviting the great mystery to tea, that you find out who is actually doing the asking… InsightExperience.org A date with the Muse that lasts two weeks… It is like falling in love every day! Will you schedule time just for…
We are all connected by a red thread, shortening the distance between one another until we are finally here, in community, together. Then we will say, “I remember you! I have been waiting for you. I have missed you, my sister!” Even if we have never met before… When we feel a sense of belonging,…
“The journey simultaneously holds the contraries of solitary longing and relatedness to community, as Shaw tells us: “It’s an extraordinary, indigenous idea that to find an authentic center we have to wander lonely beaches and sleep under hedges, longing for something we know is lost. To make a place in us for a small,…
If you come as you are, will it be enough? Glorious enough to wow the world? Were you made to wow the world? This message about upcoming offerings is from MUSEA : Center for Intentional Creativity. Musea is composed of the collective of many voices for the work and our teachers worldwide guided by…
I just want to remind you we are all a detail in our galaxy. Our galaxy cannot do without each of us. The body we live in is our Cosmic Address at this time. We are transisterized versions of our true size… We are much bigger than we think – as Cosmic Cowgirls we…
Today’s Red Thread Letter is a call to create on a regular basis, a few hours per month, around every new moon. So often, time for ourselves to paint, draw dance, etc… falls last on the list. We eliminate the thing that will fortify us most in our often too busy lives. We are…
“We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot Red Thread Letter #765 Includes Red Thread Letter – 7 Inquiries on your Sacred Assignment, story about my own experience and poetry by T.S.…
“Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘ It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. ― Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit Today I am writing with two…
Helix: A Psalm of Human Being to the Cosmic Beings I am a cooling sack of stars and you made the stars are you then within me, as me? I am pulled from red soil a song stretched over a frame, aren’t you the one singing me? I am an identity shaped…
With the wild nature as ally and teacher, we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. ~ Dr. Clarissa…
falling in love with the world my sisters my brothers and all my in betweens let’s fall in love again again and again this place we live this very earth is our home, our paradise our mothership extraordinaire! flirt with the beauty summon the sensuality invite the splendor to dance give praise to…
Remember To Tell Your Daughters Remember to tell your daughters To listen to the story their body tells To use their mind mingled with imagination To let their heart show them the way Remember to tell your daughters Their eyes can see the unseen Their ears can hear the rhythm of earth Their…
She Rides the Equal Sign The architecture of my awareness surges Envelope shaped openings fall as cosmic leaves into my mindscape Will I be able to sustain knowing? I mean, direct knowing, as in, full awareness no matter how momentary? Now that I am awake to what is The battle cry dissolves…
Dear One, When you don’t know where to turn that is the time to turn inward You will find someone waiting here for you to hold your hand and mend your mind That someone has always been here a hidden self that has never left you The hidden self is the ally you have…
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray. ~ Rumi Red Thread Letter #756 Includes Unavoidable Tragedy Poem : Honoring the Apothecary Students Red Thread Letter : The Stories We Tell Ourselves Diva X this weekend in Sonoma – a few places…
“If you want to change the world, you have to change the metaphor.” ~ Joseph Campbell Letter #755 Includes This isn’t a test Poem and Painting What metaphor are you living in? with 3 steps: Message from Shiloh Sophia Do you want to join our Intentional Creativity online community, it’s free and on FB…
#saywhatyoufeel #elpaso #gilroyTonight I am writing to share how I feel about the recent shootings in the United States. And in that, to invite you to share with your community, how you feel. I have no idea if this is helpful or not, to share. I know it is helpful for me to ‘do…
Yet if I did not have the eyes to see and ears to hear, I would miss what life was giving me. Letter #753 Includes The Whole Bird Poem and painting ‘crop’ of an eye Upcoming Events including an exciting new gathering called Tree Woman with Jassy Watson from Australia What I heard and then…
Have you had a time in your life when you let too much in? Said yes when you knew it was over-extending your resources?A time you felt you were too open in your energy for too long?Sometimes it can be good to step back, pull in, rest a while…To reclaim your own space for…
Today is Mary Magdalene’s Feast Day – and I thought I might share a few thoughts with you about the power of image and story to shape culture. Share written post and image Watch BIOPOWER Motherboard Video Sharable Facebook links above if inspired to share or watch there. Regardless of your spiritual tradition, the…
These, are another pair of hands Mother Life can use them for her work Gather with Us A Global Gathering of Creative Beings Has Been Called I am one of many colors in a constellation of astonishing beauty. These are my letters. My musings on Poetry, Paintings, Revelation, Revolution, Research and Education have been…
Hello Dear Ones! I am dropping by with a reminder that you can join us for our free class this week – The Illustrative Woman. This class is simple, with only pen and paper, and you will be able to duplicate what I offer you – in your life, and with others. IT is…
Tending My Temple – Prayer for clearing energy May any stagnant energy that I am holding, move along May any heaviness that can move, move along May any grief that I cannot hold, that is ready to move, move May my own troubles not weigh me so far down, that I cannot let the…
“Without the ability to think about yourself, to reflect on your life, there’s really no awareness, no consciousness. Consciousness doesn’t come automatically; it comes through being alive, awake, curious, and often furious.” ~ Maxine Greene, Philosopher HOT Happenings This Week! INTENTIONAL CREATIVITY® In Person with Shiloh Sophia 6/29 : SONOMA, CA BOLD Workshop for…
And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read. ~ Alice Walker Dear Ones, Solstice Greetings to you, from all of us at Intentional…
When we create, we engage with the life force of creation. Creating isn’t about talent. Creating is about feeling more. Expressing more truthfully. Creativity is an active energy within all beings. Even when it appears dormant, it isn’t. ~ Shiloh Sophia We are pleased to share our Intentional Creativity® Calendar of Events for June, July,…
One month exactly from my 49th birthday, some thoughts on aging… coming face to face with my whiskers….and my bold new dress This and a Black and Yellow Dress They said: go for it follow your dreams don’t let anything stop you They said: put love first scale the mountain this world…
She moves from the unseen into the seen Shaking off the skins and veils and inviting something else What the something else is, I have no idea I wait for her to stop moving around I want to get a better look at her Even as I watch, she changes Not what I thought…
Dr. Martin Shaw has come to wake us. His words remind us of what we have forgotten, then quicken us into remembering – whether we agree to that rite or not. Too late. The fin-furred creatures of the deep are already out and sprawling on the kitchen floor. Sometimes I feel like I just got…
Passing on the Wisdom: Painting by Shiloh Sophia 2009 A Blessing for All Kinds of Mamas by Shiloh Sophia This day we honor and celebrate the mamas who have given life to us! This is a blessing for all the women, who are all different kinds of mamas For those mamas to be, cradling…
Does our version of healing, tame us into submission? Is our desire for domesticity, over-riding our call to the wild? How can maintaining originality help us navigate the rough terrain of life with innovation? Is our potential for pleasure, and even bliss, being forced into the background in the name of moderation? “Learning to See…
“Paint like you have all the time in the world” ~ Sue Hoya Sellars ‘Centaur Becoming’ painted by Sue Hoya Sellars for my sister, Shannon Cinnamon McCloud This painting, to me, is astonishing. Just take a moment to pause and look at it. The expression on the horse’s face, the hills, the mist, the hands,…
I was created to create, so my own art making and writing grew as I grew. A glowing warmth nurtured the seed as I shared what I was learning. With time, the seed that arose from my desire was planted in good compost in good ground with great love. When the seed sprouted and broke…
Do you have access to your OWN information? Can you get past the voices that hold you back? Each one of us is a carrier of precious content. Ideas, inspirations and imaginations that guide us from within. A big part of my sacred assignment is to guide women to find the doorway to the…
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead It has been a few weeks since our United Nations trip and I find myself sharing the story about what happened with so many. When I share about it, they…
A Council of Women Women are gathering for circle Our dresses are woven with threads from many lands Scarlet, crimson, magenta and candied orange We are weaving a circle of red threads The fabric for healing is moving through the land From the edge of the forest, the heart of the desert from the middle…
I honor the women who have come before me They created the path I honor the women who walk beside me They keep me company on the path I honor the women who will come after me You are my inspiration to keep going on the path ~ Shiloh Sophia #IntentionalCreativity #ReclaimingHer #InternationalWomensDay This Letter…
Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise. ~ Rumi I Crave the Quickening There are days when you realize that who you were is no longer who you are. This could be a curiosity or a cause for grieving. When we wake up, sometimes there…
The stories we are telling in our lives is part of what runs our lives. So let’s learn to tell a story of healing. We are returning to the United Nations for the 6th time to bring Intentional Creativity to the table. This year, we are bringing Native American women with us to share their…
The thing I asked my husband for on Valentine’s Day, was that we write each other a love letter. This is mine… The Tangential Storm of Love As the moss covered oaks rise greeting the mist of morning upturned branches reach skyward so I rise to greet you, your sleeping face, covering you in kisses…
“The inner narrator (critic), through a lifetime of going unchecked, becomes a default setting that is hard wired into how our brain works. This isn’t just a concept or a function of personality, this is how we have often unconsciously designed ourselves. The good news is we can be at cause for an increased capacity…
This is my truth: I have no idea what is going on. I only know that we must create and keep on creating no matter what. ~ Shiloh Sophia Poetry Reading: After 1000 Broken Vows From my book: Tea with the Midnight Muse About exploring that place in our lives when we are ready to…
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied into a single garment of destiny. We are made to live together because of the interrelated structure of reality. It all boils down to this; that all life is interrelated.” Dr. Martin Luther King How about getting a cup of tea and listening to the…
What’s included in this Red Thread Letter 1. Invitation to join me for a free mini-workshop online: Seduce the Muse & Tame Your Inner Critic – this is going to be a blast! 2. Poem and Painting: Dance with Paradox and Off the Map 3. Letter from me about the hidden inner self and my…
Painting: Catalyze : A Portrait of Intentional Creativity by Shiloh Sophia COMMENT ON FACEBOOK Three Days Deep On the last day of the year the litter glittered doorstep of New Year’s Eve shimmied me I shrugged off an old coat as it fell to the ground, the garment did not cry out Neither…
Many a star has awaited your gazing upon it to glimmer. Many a wave has lifted itself from the past to meet your seaside arrival. You passed beneath an open window when a violin yielded itself to someone. All this was a sacred trust. Did you rise to the call? ~ Rainer Maria Rilke~ When…
All Day We Spoke of Loving All day we spoke of loving Loving beyond reason Reason for feeling obsessed Obsessed but not overly so So we gaze at one another Another day to explore Explore each other and the land Land, that just feels sacred Sacred because of beauty’s kiss Kiss me now before the…
Think about it. What if you are the Oracle you are seeking? So many of us running around looking for THE teacher/healer/therapist/shaman that has the answers we seek. (I am no exception at times.) You KNOW the answers are within you. Yet many of us don’t know how to GET IN to find them. Do…
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any ~ Alice Walker This Red Thread Letter shares my thoughts about this topic, drawn from 25 years of working with women and children in the domain of creativity. My intention in sharing it is to provide a context for…
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton Here I am yesterday, exercising my right…
A tribute to misfits: A fictional creative writing about people who have walked on to the other side. Some passed from suicide, others from disease and age, others from addiction and some might have just been a mistake. I am definitely not in the ‘everything happens for a reason’ camp. I mean no disrepect, I…
Venus and the Gulf of Poets I should like to meet you here Here in the Gulf of Poets Poets who by day sit by the bay Bay filled with enchanted songs Songs which speak of what came before Before all of this, what to make of this This place where temple-turned-church Church of the…
“You may have the universe if I may have Italy” ~ Giuseppe Verde Cafe In Italy + Love Note to come back to the basics of time with yourself Click here to watch on Facebook Click here to watch on Vimeo Dear One, Full Moon Greetings from Italy! I feel so grateful to be…
Decide who you are going to be and do it on purpose – Dolly Parton When one of my colleagues asked about COW, the name that Color of Woman is often called, and how Cosmic Cowgirls came to be named that, I thought I should write down the story and the roots going back to…
So often in our lives we are missing a rights of passage – an experience of having arrived, or having made a transition. We long for the marking of change to say – see, I am different now…..can’t you see it? We aren’t raised to know the way to ritual. For some of us it…
Our ancestors wrote the stories on the cave walls in images, stitched them into clothing, wove them into rugs, painted them on pottery and enacted dramas and songs to live the legends into the future. They worked with image. When we remove image making from the culture, we then are subject to the images and…
Do you often feel fragmented or like there is a disconnect somewhere? Is it in the brain, the heart, our personal story? The answer is yes, all three. We try everything, every workshop and potion and prayer but still somehow the self within doesn’t seem to get and stay aligned with the self we…
Are you ready to be D O N E bringing your past into your future? Do you continue to get similar results no matter how hard you try to break free and practice new things? There is a ‘key’ fundamental happening that brings your past into your future – almost like a default setting.…
ANNOUNCING RED THREAD GUIDE GRADUATES 2018 WHAT WOULD IT FEEL LIKE TO BE HELD IN A SACRED CONTAINER FOR AND WITH A CIRCLE OF WILD AND SOULFUL WOMEN? THE INTENTIONAL CREATIVITY FOUNDATION IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE GRADUATES FROM OUR 2018 RED THREAD GUIDE GLOBAL CERTIFICATION PROGRAM. THESE WOMEN HAVE TOGETHER LEARNED THE WAY OF…
Cosmic Pilgrim Trying to get home You realize you don’t know What or where home really is You might have been there before You can’t quite remember You are certain it exists Certain you have been there Sharing tea and cakes with friends Waking up with sunshine in your hair Soft pillows…
LET ME GATHER MYSELF A Reclamation Prayer by Shiloh Sophia I call myself back from the four and many corners from the curves of the earth and cosmos from the time space place both far and near I gather myself up I call myself back from the hidden domains the places I…
Dear One, Confused how to feel today? Do some research – there are issues with the Declaration of Independence and how today is celebrated. All of these days need background checks. I love customs and traditions, and in order to not throw them completely out, I have to do my own work to…
There is so much shaming going on, it is almost shocking. Certainly it is to our energy bodies and minds. The way it is being done. The energy behind it is like an arrow. Towards even those working to help, if even in their own specific way. Provoking anger and divisiveness. People telling me…
Greetings! Enclosed in this Solstice Red Thread Letter is a new poem + an invitation to a free painting class with me in the Woman Unleashed Free Online Retreat + Access top my art collection at significant saving until July + Information for summer in person classes including this weekend + an invitation to write your own…
Hint: Your life force can just come through you instead of you trying to create life force (exhausting) and willing things into being. There is an incredible way that water knows, and trees know and the way the stars flow and travel through space. When we align ourselves with the beauty and intelligence of science,…
I am an artist. Everything I see, do, create, think and love is connected with beauty and transformation through creativity. The Alchemist’s Brush will be my first one woman show since 2010. My first show since my teacher, Sue Hoya Sellars walked on into the cosmos. My first show focusing on and featuring my teaching…
Intimate Garment of Air Traveling down your hurried road to somewhere very important yet unrelated to soul The softest green wind brushes your cheek You pause, startled You look around there is no one yet you felt someone some…thing…move Where did it come from? You think you are going to be…
On Teachers A good teacher will stand for your ideas above the desire to transmit their ideas to you They will put their information in service to your self-discovery You have your own information You are responsible for knowing what it is On Being Seen Consider giving up the idea that you need to be…
I have discovered that I am from a tribe where women ride wild horses in moonlight (continued below…) Anzac Day sunrise service in Australia – honoring ancestor veterans .::. Intentional Creativity Happenings .::. INTERNATIONAL RETREATS & EVENTS! Bundaberg : Melbourne : Sydney PRISM: Melbourne Australia MAY 3.4.5.6, 2018 ~ Only two seats left! 2018…
“There is a new way of seeing, interacting and being with everything that was already there in the first place. Witnessing is one of the most important and powerful acts you can perform as a living human being. We think of Leonardo Davinci and his ability to perceive density, color, texture and spatial recognition…
I love because I love. Not because I fear what will happen and that will motivate me to take action. I am motivated through unreasonable love for my fellow travelers and that is you… This is my rant for overcoming over-culture, inner-culture, under-culture, an attempt through writing to get free from the proverbial ties…
Let the creation come through you Ride the lightening bolt to somewhere you have never been You are the explorer of your own cosmic happening! Soul Bird Painting in process by Shiloh Sophia Intentional Creativity® Teachings: How it works and why Share and Comment on FB Dear One, You are invited to a…
How will you choose to show up? What can we come to you for? What can we count on you for? What medicine is in your basket, ready for usage by those in need? When things are going too wild to contain, what energy will you choose hold? APOTHECARY BEGINS THIS WEEKEND Medicine Painting:…
Say yes to setting yourself free… Nighttime at the Studio…the Muse was here, preparing for each student to take her rightful place on the canvas! ~ Color of Woman MUSE Gathering 2018 .::. Intentional Creativity Happenings .::. PETALUMA MUSEUM Reception: Women and the Search for Wisdom In honor of National Women’s History Month,…
What if we could turn our wounds into wonders? This is an invitation into the Alchemical Heart of Intentional Creativity… to alchemize difficult parts of ourselves & stories into tools of transformation… Working with the idea of the ‘canvas’ as your apothecary, to create an expressionistic intuitive medicine painting… what will the brush reveal? …
Today is International Women’s Day ~ Let’s Celebrate together! I am writing today with a very special gift for women, a free Red Thread Circle call series to support one another, tell stories and gather! Times may feel uncertain and strange…and so gathering together is something we CAN DO. So let’s do it! Learn…
We are calling together those who desire to be at cause for their own healing, yet know that with support, we are capable of so much more. Each person will choose what they are bringing to the altar of transformation. They will bring that story and energy to the canvas, and to the healers,…
Be not afraid, even though there is cause. What you were born for will be made manifest You too, must say yes and show up In Person Events with Shiloh Sophia Spend this Sunday with me? Starting with church in the morning in San Francisco, followed later in the day by a concert and…
“Can you be with me, where I am, without needing me to be somewhere else other than I am, and without you needing to be somewhere else, that is more comfortable for you?” quoted from my new novella in process, The Animal Queen Intentional Creativity Calendar of Happenigs Events online and in person!…
This Turning Towards What You Deeply Love Saves You. ~ Rumi Does your heart speak to you? Do you listen? What is it like? How does it arise for you? Queen of Her Own Heart – by Shiloh Sophia Comment/Share Image and Poem Every Woman Is the Queen of Her Own Heart by…
Mired in a myth of false systems each person who chooses consciousness is called to ongoing acts of awakening At some point in our lives, somewhere within we know, something, has gone awry At first we may not know where to look The very things we were taught to trust that were…
The future showed up today and invited me to tea I was told to get myself ready and leave my old dreams behind I got dressed and off I went cake was served with the tea while I waited on the future, wondering if I was ready or not When the future finally showed…
Have you been told you are just too much? This is for you. Photo by Jonathan McCloud Comments? Be Welcome! Too Much Woman Too Much Woman Watch out! It’s a wide load woman Coming through! She Laughs too loud Talks too long Wears too much red Walks too heavy Dances too wild Howls…
When myth wakes you up from your slumber, do not hesitate, rise and take up the pen! HOT HAPPENINGS! Red Madonna: Wisdom’s Table ~ Doors Open 1st week in January LEGEND: Oracle and Ally: 6 Week Online Painting Course ~ starts in January NEW BOOK of Poetry by Shiloh Sophia: Shelter of the Sacred…
We are the shelter of the sacred No one is coming to save us from ourselves We are the ones doing the saving We cannot save ourselves by sleeping We cannot save each other by angering We cannot save the earth through complaining Saving begins in the innermost temple In the hidden places many…
A Prayer to the Holy Mothers Illuminate for us what we do not see Resonate through us what we do not hear Reveal to us the sweetness that we do not taste Raise up within us the places we have gone dead Remind us of who we are…
Are you worn out with asking for what you want? Do you wonder what you might be ‘getting wrong’? Do you judge yourself for how things are turning out? Do you desire to serve the Divine but aren’t quite sure how to know what that looks like? Then this is for you. Work in…
“Did you set goals to create the life you have?” They also often talk about how I ‘manifested’ my life work. The funny thing is I didn’t know how I did it, until people started asking me and I started answering. That is how it is for me sometimes, until I give it language…
Do what you desire not because you might die but because you might live Six Generations – Photo by Hobby Parent of her family UPCOMING HAPPENINGS! TEACHER TRAINING & RED THREAD GUIDE Color of Woman Teacher Training 2018 : Applications due Monday RED Thread Guide Global Certificate Program 2018 “You never…
A hidden door opens. A call comes from within. A light illuminates the darkness of your consciousness. Sometimes a roaring in your minds says: This is your time! What is it YOU are WAITING FOR?! A day comes when you finally choose to live in full color. To be fully expressed, no matter what…
In times of great sorrow, may you learn to be with the knowing and not lose your joy. In times of great collective undoing, may you maintain a strong connection to your inner self. In the journey of intense grief, may you feel everything, and not lose your way home. In times when it…
Intentional Creativity has art ancestors the world over, as all ancient peoples created some kind of art with mindful intention. Whether that be for usefulness, beauty or story, they brought their consciousness into their art. IntentionalCreativityMovie.com Honoring Art Ancestors Today is the anniversary of my teacher’s passing. Her name is Sue Hoya Sellars. The…
The morning worship felt threatening. I wasn’t sure what was being threatened; I just had a sense something went very wrong. I had prickly skin and all but no language for what I was experiencing. Emotional electricity lit up my insides like a thunder bolt. What is this? I wondered. Rage? Fear? Despair? Betrayal? I was at church to…
May your mind be illuminated May your your heart be ready May your spirit be delighted May your body be your temple May your hands be creative May your feet find the path May your ideas be inspired May your prayers be heard ~ Shiloh Sophia Share & Comment on Facebook Upcoming…
“I am not a great painter. I am not a great poet. I am not even a great intellectual. Yet I know I have Great Work. So do you. Let’s remove the need to be GREAT in order to say yes to great work.” ~ Shiloh Sophia Coming up! – Roots & Wings…
Jesus stood up and commanded the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind stopped, and it became completely calm. Yo Soy La Virgen de la Caridad by Shiloh Sophia, 2012 SHARE AND COMMENT ON THIS POST ON FACEBOOK Dear Ones, How do you truly BE WITH the great…
This isn’t a test. There are no check boxes that you missed. No arbitrary line that you have already crossed. No way to fail this. This isn’t based on who is smarter and who has more value. This idea is a dangerous illusion. – See Full Poem Below – Upcoming Experiences with Shiloh…
And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. ~T.S. Eliot Painting by Shiloh Sophia from 2008 Share or Comment on Artist Shiloh Sophia A soft green leaf…
She need not constantly seek to heal what is wounded She carries holy wholeness in her unbroken soul With supple shimmer, she slips out of stories worn old Gliding from hidden worlds into the joy of pure presence (keep reading for full writing) In honor of the Eclipse – New Moon – August 21,…
Should the unschooled write? Dance? Paint? Speak? Should anyone who doesn’t know the rules attempt anything new? Should we standardize self expression markers? Should we correct every mistake? Because there IS a right and wrong? Somehow we should all know what it is. And if we don’t know what is accepted as right, we must…
Reorientation to the Universe Here’s how it works: Be utterly fascinated. Walk around in awe at and with the universe. Whisper unrealized dreams into the cosmos. Imagine star shaped ears leaning in. Hanging on your every word. You matter. Sometimes you have to step out of what you know and visit other realms. Creative…
She Will Become Stardust Girl She will forget the fairies for a while. She will try to hide her skinned knees behind longer dresses. She will put down her crayons. She will try to fit in, and begin to hide parts of herself. She will stop singing to birds. She will wonder where…
The less she edited her full range of emotions the happier and more colorful she became when people asked her how she got so free she took them by the hand and led them into the great mystery come with me, she said you will see Shiloh Sophia Comment and…
Dear One, The Red Thread teachings are beings presented at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – we thought you might like to share in the connection. Feel free to share a red thread connection with others in your circle. ~ Shiloh Sophia Shiloh Sophia New York Events Comment or Share this…
Will you? Will you allow access to your deepest story? Will you invite her to a piece of your cake? Will you show her what you have been hiding from? Will you let her make you come alive? Will she? Will she allow you to access your deepest story? Will she invite…
A Love Dare…. A Love Dare Let’s pause and reflect on the power of love. The power to make another person feel seen. The gift of choosing to shine on our loved ones. The courage to offer forgiveness to another. The willingness to consider the barriers we place against the love coming towards us from…
I have been asking myself this question every day as I ponder where to go with my work based on world events : What is THE most essential thing right now? What could I possibly say in a Red Thread Letter that would make a real difference? Is that even the reason I do this?…
Looking for an alternative focus on Inauguration Day? Join 1500 women in a FREE global creativity circle choosing to CREATE the future we want to see, feel, know, hear and dance into! This Friday join us live or watch the recording, lets go colorful instead of ‘going dark’. Let’s get turned on instead of shutting…
Say to your hidden self: I am sorry I didn’t know you were in here. I am here now. (a new writing and the underbelly of a painting in process) COMMENT OR SHARE ON FACEBOOK HERE Say to your hidden self Say to your hidden self: I am sorry. I didn’t know you were in…
This first full moon of 2017 has me thinking in a new direction about why I stand where I stand. Since I have no idea what the TRUTH is – will I stand for nothing, or something, and what is the ‘something’? How do I access it? How do I talk about it and share…
Fort Lauderdale. Marking death. And so it continues – open fire on innocence. Part of my practice this year is full awakeness – which is a personal path for each person to define. I wanted to share my process in case it is helpful in your own processing. Please feel free to share too –…
What is on your easel? In your heart? In your journal? On the page? On the altar? Enclosed in this Red Thread Letter: An Invitation for you to join us for free in Creative Women’s Circle for 2017 to share what you are working on + My personal 2017 ideas + A Story from our…
What does it mean to be truly brave in your creative process? I just found out. And, there are images to prove it! Dear Creative Being, I thought I would share a BRAVE creative process with you!! The class I co-led with Flora Bowley last week was very unexpected and exciting ~ In the painting…
Creativity isn’t divided between creative and not creative. Its not about talent or not talent. We are all creative. We are all makers. We are creations ourselves and live in an inherently creative environment, aka you know, planet earth. To say “I’m not creative” or that “I don’t have a creative bone in my body”…
Things didn’t turn out the way I hoped. Most of my biggest prayers did not turn out the way I prayed. What I thought I wanted wasn’t what ended up happening. So does this mean God isn’t listening? No, it just means God is not my girl friday taking dictation from my desires. ~ SHARE…
Digital temples are real spaces. Release the shame about your creative process, how it works, the time it takes, and your desire to be connected online. It’s ok. We are all seeking connection. We can create it both in the quantum matrix (online) and in physical temples (in matter). What matters is HOW we approach…
I’m not a leader, just a creature, seeking the features of a teacher. Whether you follow or whether you lead All mysterious ways of nature and I’m into it. Changing management. And there are various ways to conquer this monotonous metropolis, my stubbornness is bottomless, my fearlessness is talking sh*t and I’m wide awake and…
The tension between risk and possibility is sacred space. There is something that happens in that fertile in between that those of us who live on the edge thrive on. A palpable ‘somethingness’ that is alive to the senses that calls us mercilessly toward the almost, always waiting potential. We are pulled forward by unseen…
YOU DO NOT SPEAK FOR ME Grieving America If you do not speak for the earth You do not speak for me. If you do not care for the water You do not care for me. If you do not protect our skies You do not protect me. If you do not see our firey…
Mary Magdalene: She receives you where you are, which is where she is. Today is her Feast Day and a good day to honor her and explore the quantum field of millions honoring the feminine within a specific time frame. Dear Ones of the Red Thread Cafe, I had hoped to rise today and write…
Finding her rhythm had been a long and dangerous journey. She traveled beyond the streets of oppression, the valley of inauthenticity, the forest of despair, the river of regret, and the desert of self judgment. She crossed the sea of change, the mountains of transformation and finally, she arrived! In the meadow of possibility. She…
She Eats Lightning for Breakfast This night, She is shedding the skins no longer needed Heavy trench coats shaken off on the dance floor As she moves her body she feels the electricity build A lightening up of all the heavy hearts held inside Turning towards the shadows with wide eyes She says: I see…
From the time we are little children we begin to put parts of ourselves away. So that we don’t offend, stick out, or appear strange. Mostly this is because we fear we won’t be loved and we don’t know who we are yet since we haven’t tried it out. And, the fear is not unfounded,…
….I shed my little mermaid tale once and for all. No more silence and walking on knives and not marrying the prince. I have entered a new part of my journey. I shed the previous tale off the side of the boat….and took up the space of the new mermaid, not a little one. But…
I begin processing grief through bringing how I am feeling into my creations. To allow where I am to be honored. By working first personally I make myself available to love that wasn’t available prior to doing my own work of feeling what may feel impossible to feel. Here are my thoughts from cafe today…
Poor life choices make awesome legends. Our future self is forged in the fire of stories gone wrong and failures we tried so hard to avoid. Include everything within the context of mystic-badass-in-training. Your legend belongs only to you. Don’t confuse failure for sadness and happiness for success. There is so much more to life…
What is your part in the great unfolding? Do you have a piece of the Red Thread that is yours to hold? Ask yourself. Are you a keeper of the sacredness of water? Are you the tender of the flame? Are you the one who turns the soil? Are you the one who listens to…
Creating the future using experiences from the past casts a shadow on the light of possibility. The past provides multiple points of reference for wisdom but does not need to create the context for what wants to happen next. Fear based decision making in a desire to protect ourselves from failure may be keeping us…
Life didn’t turn out the way I wanted. My dreams did not come true. My ideas of how this life goes crashed down. I entered the reckoning cave wearing garments of disillusionment and bringing a journal and many black pens to get it all down and write it all out. It was a fine day…
My Muse woke me up this morning with a list of the qualities of awake people vs. asleep people that really surprised me. She’s like that. Sound like a judgement? Yes. Am I going to get this wrong and piss someone off? Yes. Am I committed to raising this conversation. I think so. This is…
My personal story of showing up and moderating a panel with my sisters at UNCSW60 Commission on the Status of Women: United Nations and afterwards… ceremony outside for Native Women and Girls and smudging the 193 Member flags led by Carmen Baraka. Dear Ones, Here is a little of my story. Unplugged. Raw. Unedited. Uncensored. Share your…
If you choose to be a leader, you will encounter obstacles. Period. This is part of the journey to strengthen you for what is ahead. Do not mistake the obstacles as signs to turn back, rather, learn discernment and use inquiry to scale your mountains. The obstacles are initiations. Stay up to date or join…
Join the conversation and share your gratitude HERE. Blessings to you on International Women’s Day! Thank you for what you bring into the world! Your presence matters. Your voice makes a contribution. Your being you, changes lives. May you feel the blessings being sent around the world today honoring all women, especially you. You hold…
Share your comments with me HERE. Creating this painting changed the ENTIRE course of my life. And my marriage status. The weekend I created this painting, I had been teaching Intentional Creativity at the Institute of Transpersonal Pyschology, and this was my teaching painting. When you teach painting, the art you create you only half…
Something is happening! I stopped waiting for something to happen! I became the happening. I no longer require evidence of love. I am the evidence of love! I am what Love looks like, right now. I have long tired of waiting to believe. No longer requiring the “showing up” of the Blessed One. I am…
How to Tend the Sacred Flame Dear One, Don’t be habitual Be unreasonable about changing your patterns Don’t hide your light Together we illuminate the dark places on the path Don’t keep telling the old wound stories Cause something new to unfold in your life today Don’t keep looking for how you can be right…
“Happiness is not a destination, it’s a method of travel.” St. John of the Cross The morning inquiry that took me on a journey: Why do you want to be good? Dear One, Why do you want to be good? This is the inquiry that put a pyramid sized question mark right into the center…
What are you giving birth to? Do you have a new vow? Christmas and Holy Day Blessings to you Dear Ones! Our Lady of Supreme Tenderness We raise up our hands in praise and in petition. Open up our hearts that we might hear Divine guidance flowing through to us and through us to others…
Special Announcement: A Pilgrimage towards healing is being offered which is dedicated to creating a yearlong journey through intuitive painting, prayer, poetry, inquiry & passion. Access Here This is a rare opportunity for private coaching with Shiloh Sophia (phone and email) + 5 very large major paintings in the Medicine Wheel of the Madonna +…
What would happen if your Muse designed your year? What would be different? (hint: everything) Find out for yourself by joining us here MOJO 2016 Let Your Creative Fire Light the Path for Your 2016 Join us for an Intentional Creativity Online Journey Starts December 4 at 11am pst Intuitive Painting + Movement + Meditation…
Come on over to Facebook and comment on this conversation! When we are children we know how to see with our inside eyes and our outside eyes. Somewhere along the way that connection can get lost and damaged. Often we cease to develop this on-going capacity for true vision, which always sees both inside and…
How do you measure up? How do you determine your value? Do you let others ways of sizing you up inform your ideas about who you are? Who’s holding your measuring stick? Dear One, I work with women that means I hear about this craziness called “measuring up.” That is a wild concept we may…
Dear One, I have lit the fire and the candles and am drinking Jasmine tea in my red thread cafe. My muse woke me up at 4am again. Sheesh. She is wild, that one with her owl and her magic scroll coming out of her cowgirl hat. She wants me to rise when all is…
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has. ~ Michelangelo A Letter from the Red Thread Cafe Lineage of Fire and Water Part 3 Firenze Florence Ghosts of our Creative Ancestors The footsteps of Michelangelo in the early morning haunt me with echoing stones on…
Part Two: Lineage of Water and Fire I fell for you I fell for you instantly Not just a schoolgirl crush Venice, you swooped in, a sea soul bird of pink light Entering my heart without a second thought You are like that knowing most of us will fall for you I find no…
The Divine Feminine isn’t returning… We are. She has been here all along. She never left. A Red Thread Letter Video from Shiloh Sophia Dearest Ones, I am taking a stand for Her. For us. For our earth. We are a people in great need of remothering. We have to start somewhere. The return has…
“There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe.” ~ Teilhard de Chardin ~ Cafe this morning called me from a deep sleep. In the dream I…
Today, I am encouraging you to take a stand for YOUR own personal piece of making peace – which is to know your part. To take a stand and to share it. When you are ready – share it RIGHT HERE Don’t write down what anyone else thinks is brave or humble or noble. Don’t…
A legendary woman has left this earth, although her lineage continues through those who had the privilege of studying with her both on her land, and at the canvas. Sue Hoya Sellars has “accelerated into the future” as she so aptly referred to the aging process. Sue Hoya Sellars Master Painter and Teacher April 20,…
The Festival of the Open Heart Look, there is a festival happening! We are gathering in the streets to be in the space of what excites us! Stop trying to save yourself and instead, choose to enter into the pleasure and chaos of being so very alive. I know you don’t feel like it that…
“Everyone is needed.” ~ Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes Bone Gathering Returning to one’s self after a long voyage into the desert is the work all beings must do one day. The day will come when the absence of the missing bones and the pieces of your heart that you left on the…
