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.
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The world may begin to race forward.
Yet, you don’t have to.
Others may return to life as usual or with a vengeance, but you don’t have to.
The traffic is heard in the land again.
We are on the slow but steady return. Yet we are changed.
While this return is eventually inevitable, I cannot help but wonder…
How many have awoken that were once sleeping?
Has the earth had enough of a rest? Have we?
Has our global connectivity created a bond?
Red Thread Letter #803
Praying for the End of Suffering
Dear One,
As I rise this morning I am thinking of you. Of us. Of earth. I rise in the dark and I begin by listening to the sounds of life around me.
Today, the sound of the traffic is competing with the birds for the first time in close to seven weeks. I wish that I had faith that we could change for the good regarding our planet. That in seeing how the earth has breathed, the ecosystems are repairing, and the animals could have a conversation without raising their voices above ours.
Howling at the moon every night at 8pm with the Bay Area community has been my only contact with them and it was a good one! Thank you, can we keep howling?
There is so much loss to grieve and so much compassion to feel.
Yet my bigger personal feeling is about the earth. About the resting. About a connection I feel with Earth as a being. Water as a being. The Cosmos as a being. And all of us being with these beings and learning appropriate relationship to these beings. Who knows how it all works? I don’t. Yet I have an experience of the intelligence of these beings and my desire to collaborate with them in my life.
I have loved seeing the humor and the creativity of our global community – this has been heartening, and at times joyful! WOW what an outpouring of art, music, connection!
I have read and heard many things like – maybe this will slow us down – or now that we can finally see the impact of pollution on the planet – or now we can prove climate change in a new way….and this gives me the most sinking feeling of all.
I would love to think that we have changed or will change. Some of us have. But I just don’t think we are awake enough yet, even with all of this. This makes my gut feel tight and I can’t catch my breath and my tears rise up. I know we can awaken, I have seen it with my own eyes over and over and over. Yet we have to be ready.
Maybe we have forgotten who we are – where we come from. That we rise up from this ground, which we now so easily poison. How could we not know? That we fear food and water and air and earth is the great tragedy of my lifetime. That we are being experimented on by things beyond our control…at the dangerous EMF level.
That it is our lungs which are speaking, gasping for air – mirroring the lungs of earth – showing us what we knew. We have forgotten where we come from.
Painting by Sue Hoya Sellars 1970ies – see the Nuclear power plants in the background?
If I am honest, I will tell you this.
I am a student of suffering. I will NEVER cease to pray for those suffering. Praying for suffering brings peace, not more suffering. Therein lies the riddle of beauty. So I guess you could say, I am in it for the peace.
I am also a student of joy. I feel boundless joy every single day – why? I am as awake as my soul is ready for me to be. I can hear my own voice. I know my mind. I listen to my heart. And I spend my life force sharing what I know. When you already are who you are, you can easily find joy. I am not waiting to become me – one day. I am already me. This freedom is what allows me to do what I do. I want the same for all beings.
I am a student of true love. As long as I am able, I will try to make love at the center of any choices I can. But there is this thing about true love, it only wants love that is true.
My work is to awaken sleeping souls through self expression. Our art movement finds that self expression is one of the fastest, cleanest and most efficient pathways to leaving the slumber of our lives and awakening to the potential right here, right now.
As long as I am well enough and living, I will pray to end suffering for all beings. As well as do my best to show up for my red thread in the sacred weave of life.
The changes will keep coming….the crises will come and go….how can we learn to be more and more of who we are during this? What is this showing us about who we are?
What do you need today?
Do you need to put your bare feet on the earth and feel how it feels now?
Do you need to spend the day outdoors listening to the song of the trees?
Do you need to grieve and let yourself feel sad with me about how….gulp…tears… Paradise is right here and we won’t choose it.
I believe paradise is right here, right now. I choose it.
“There is nothing wrong with life, it is how we live it” ~ Sue Hoya Sellars
What’s Happening with Us
I am working a lot – more than usual. I already have an internet business and have for over ten years. There is work to be done to stabilize our mothership during these times. Not to be business as usual – but to stay consistent as long as possible with the way we work at Musea.
We have an incredible team and I want to acknowledge those who are SHINING during this cycle to help us bring goodness to our red thread members.
My incredible team who held steady with me – Jonathan, Mary, Jena, Sarah, Amber, Jassy, Emily, Hobby, Uma, Trish, Elizabeth, Rosie, Ilona & Julie. Along with my behind the scenes humor team – Shannon, Elizabeth, Amy, Trish, Jena, and Jonathan, thanks for keeping me laughing.
I also want to acknowledge the Intentional Creativity Guild – who for nearly two months have been hosting daily Intentional Creativity experiences for our online circle of women in the Red Thread Cafe to provide a safe and creative place to not be bombarded with bad or fakes news. Instead, to be greeted by hundreds of women creating and providing hours of free education for our community. As well as the teachers getting a chance to share their gifts in this way. If you are not a member of our private community, and you are a creative join us here.
This last weekend we had a wonderful surprise turnout for our business class Dancing Entrepreneur with hundreds of women showing up to create with us on their business for the future. This felt so good to gather and stay strong on our path. Those who could, paid. Those who could only pay partial or not at all were met with the compassion of our team. Thank you, all of you, who came to dance and paint with me.
Also, for one week we are open for those who want to become Red Thread Circle Guides – we will have a focus on leading online circles – as well as basic Intentional Creativity painting processes that you can offer in your circles. We start next week!
Last weekend I was supposed to have my first art opening in two years. The show is hung, yet we did not gather. I will do an online show at some point or reschedule.
Our MUSEA website was supposed to launch our membership, but the entire focus has shifted, so we are redesigning our approach. On May 27 we will have a big REVEAL of the website – and share what we are working on with you.
On the week of my teacher, Sue Hoya Sellars, birthday we hung her show of unfinished work. We also scattered her ashes after 6 years, sewed with wildflowers onto the hills of Mendocino County – her beloved home, Terra Sophia. (altar below)
Oh dear heart, I have so much I want to say to you today. To share my heart with you would take volumes of parchment and a feather quill with endless ink to tell you how I feel about you, about us, and this earth.
Tears flow as I write and watch the sunrise…
I have put on my hot pink linen dress from Italy. I have washed and braided my hair. I have made my bed. I have had conversations with birds. I have said my prayers. Things are not returning to normal. There is no normal I participate in. I choose to live in the extra-ordinary and to make it so with my life, my art, my community.
I am praying for the end of suffering today. That doesn’t mean I think it will end. It means I participate in the awareness that it can end. And whenever possible I end it within myself.
I have one more important thing to tell you. I will continue to share my work with you as we go along…but I don’t want to be a leader responding to THIS current topic. I have stuff to say but I just really want to focus on what I do best. Make art and teach others to make art. There are LOTS of great leaders saying great things. Is it okay if I don’t this time? If I just make beauty instead? Because making beauty is the way I teach people to respond to suffering. No matter what the current crisis or trauma is – my response is the same.
Know yourself. Once you remember who you are, help others remember too. Usually inviting them to dance is a great way to begin.
Now I shall have café with my beautiful husband Jonathan and face the day with a face of love…
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Sharing Music to help ease suffering and in time, increase joy.
I want to share two songs connected with bells – that I listen to over and over, and that are good medicine for today.
- One is the Great Bell Chant – The End of Suffering from the Buddhist tradition, it is one hour.
- The next one is a Vespers song from the Orthodox tradition of my ancestors Ormylia Greek Orthodox Nuns Hymns of St. Mary Magdalene – this one is two hours.
Both are great to just BE WITH as you allow yourself to feel how you feel and enter the sanctuary of the heart. Give it a try!
The next one is a great one to listen to out loud, or play on a zoom call with friends, family or guests, The Main Squeeze – A Little Help from My Friends – wow!
This is a great one for two hours – to just tune in and tune out – Xavier Rudd, Spirit Bird
Daily Rituals Become Quantum
As I pray to the Lady
I ask for healing for all beings
and for my family
As I make my bed,
I pray we all get enough sleep
and the loving we desire
As I drink my morning tea
I send peaceful times to all
giving thanks for cafe time
As I water my garden,
I imagine there is clean water to drink
and to make food grow
As I scoop the cat box,
I give thanks for our furred family
and the comfort they bring
As I fold the clean laundry
I give thanks for what I have
and that my house is cleanish
As I put on my clothes,
I thank the Muse for more pink than black
in my closet
As I say my prayers,
the circle is cast far and wide
including all who suffer
and all who celebrate
As I feel a burst of sudden fear,
I attempt to transform it
and send love to all who fear
As I clear my field, I imagine that
as I heal myself, the world is healing
along with me
As I paint dots of prayer, heal scars with gold,
alchemize pain through paint,
I pray pray pray pray pray
As I honor what I have been given,
I become aware of all those who are not safe
and I send powerful love for courage
As I feel fragile
and not capable of doing enough
I send compassion to myself
and to all who feel this way
As I set the art studio and classroom
for a future gathering
I am imagining all of your faces at the table
As I pray with my drum my song reaches
all who are listening
and we join in song
As I wear the red thread with joy,
I send my love to each of you
on my red thread
and those you love
My prayer for the end of suffering
begins in my daily ritual
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
All of this matters, we are matter
and at the heart of the matter,
every good thing counts
Shiloh Sophia
Sue and my mama Caron both had birthday’s last week – how lucky I feel to have them….
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