Your Creative Sparks:
- There's a FINE LINE between CRAZY and GENIUS. Many an artist has walked it.
- APPEARANCES are not at all what they SEEM, and not as important as we make them out to be.
- In the Land of Infinite Possibilities, when you open yourself to the possibility that ANYTHING can happen, anything CAN happen!
Of Legend and Lore and mystical Lands, in this episode we join Lobsterbird and Kelli Reese in glorious green Glastonbury, communing with two ancient tree creatures named Gog and Magog and preparing for the imminent pilgrimage. A new group of pilgrims are arriving to awaken and deepen their unique gifts and skills, to immerse in and surrender themselves to the flow of energy, and to open their hearts and their imagination to a new, magical perspective. Leave us a Rating & Review!
Your Travelogue
- The energy of the gnarled old oaks called Gog and Magog is extremely grounding. A fire nearly destroyed them, but something powerful and resilient remains. Death and Rebirth. [4:30]
- Driving by yellow fields growing barley, so bright, with a smell that is incredibly familiar, Sophia can see the elvin jumping. She experiences a deep, visceral knowledge of being supported - by humans and by beings of another realm. We all have that support, if we open our hearts to what's available. [11:11]
- Planning pilgrimage involves having a framework AND being open to letting the pieces fall into place. We humans want to plan. We want to feel like we are in control of everything. But that's what keeps us stuck. Letting go releases us into the flow, synchronicity, and magic. [14:54]
- Sophia walks through a portal and meets a Druid. Kelli acknowledges that she and Sophia were Druids in a previous life. Power principle: We have access to many different forms of information and many different ways of being. [23:06]
- We have to see the blood in order to access the beauty. We must allow ourselves to crack open with a willingness to let go and forgive. "The wound is where the light enters you." ~Rumi [26:26]
- The Gift the druid gave Sophia – the gift of ceremony. [32:18]
- Time Warp - Fast Forward! Sophia and Kelli begin the recap of their journey. Picture an indoor spring. A dark cave. A private ceremony. Chanting and singing. Twelve bodies in a circle, lit by candles, their hearts blowing wide open. [33:33]
- The pilgrims become the students of poetry and movement in a workshop by Deborah Black and Alyson Hallet called "Embodying the Line." [49:04]
- Butoh-ic Shamanism? Sophia learns of this healing practice and embodies her new knowledge in an improv performance in the redwood forest around a fire circle. The Gift of Ceremony is revealed! [51:31]
- After a Reiki healing ceremony at Stonehenge, the pilgrims head to Avebury – the feminine version of the standing stones. Here they were guided by Georgina, a high priestess of Avalon. [54:20]
- Healing abounds among the pilgrims at the Manor of Chippenham, a 13th century house with crooked stone floors, clawfoot tubs, and spaceship showers. [58:36]
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Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com.
Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, leading her latest Vision Quest in the emerald temperate rainforest known as the Pisgah, the "Cradle of Forestry". Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest.
For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero's Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.
✨The newest pilgrimage is happening in Colorado in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, shoot an email over to magic@lobsterbird.com for more details!✨
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