"We are all wanderers on this earth...our hearts are full of wonder, and our souls are deep with dreams." ~ Gypsy proverb

Monday, October 1, 2012

Full circle II and a giveaway

Things come full circle more often than I can notice. And yet when I do remember to look for them, the symbols that signify the completeness of our present life are everywhere. In a bright, swollen, full moon, in a lone blooming rose, an empty birdbath brimming with sunshine, and even a foamy cup of mocha...slight but ever present things that I can lose and find myself in. In these eloquent circles, I remember that life is good, oh so good.

My mother and brother flew in from FL this past weekend. To have the closest of my family see where we live and how satisfying our lives have been since we moved from FL, gave me a sense that another circle has come to a close. An easiness comes with the special people that have known us our entire lives. This is something I will always miss about not being near my own tiny family. Regardless of how much we change, the ones we grew up with remember us in ways that no one else ever will. We can look at each other knowingly and marvel at how we have grown. We can look at each other fondly and recount memories that seem to surface only in each other's presence. Thank you Mom and Brian, for your love and laughter, and for seeing me in ways I forget to see myself.

And there is one more reason to celebrate coming full circle. This week is Wander Wonder Discover's 2nd anniversary. My deepest gratitude goes to you this week, for seeing me, encouraging me, and gifting me with your presence in these pages and in yours. Because of you, I have sought and found the fearlessness needed to live a creative, passionate and abundant life. To write what I need to write, temper what I need to temper, and to reflect carefully and honestly, on my forever, sometimes wandering, search for meaning in "Self".  With heart, mind and soul, I thank you.

What I am giving away this week is a spot in Pixie Campbell's next Soul Lodge  e-course: Gold Mining the Shadows with Black Panther. Please click the link for details. The session will start next Monday and runs 5 weeks.
From Pixie's website, this session:


"The watery West and lunar Panther have aligned to help us:

  • Infuse our spirits with the Moon's feminine energies 
  • Honor our intuition and the subtler aspects of the heroic quest 
  • Acknowledge the innate seer within
  • Release confining, restrictive models and patterns born of repression
  • Reclaim power lost during childhood wounding
  • Connect with the Thunderbeings- the Spirits of the Storms, to embrace the necessary polarity of light and dark
  • Transmute negative energy: re-membering the positive in all that lies underneath the light of consciousness
  • Allow shadow to become a Fertile Well of Creativity
Special guests will be sharing tools for diving into the darker aspects with grace and support by your side."


I will be taking this course as well and would love for you to join me. If you are interested in entering, please leave me a comment telling me what has come full circle for you recently. I will randomly choose and announce a winner this Friday, October 5th.




Welcome beautiful October and much love to all of you my friends

 xoxo

p.s. I have been listening to the new Mumford and SonsBabel, over and over again...If you haven't heard it yet, here is a sliver....

Whispers in the Dark by Mumford & Sons on Grooveshark

22 comments:

  1. happy second blogiversary! your blog, this space for your voice is a true treat and something i consistently look forward to. your growth over the last year and the way you bravely stretched your wings has been such an inspiration to me.

    full circle...i feel like i've come full circle with the announcement of kindred, gone back to my roots of putting together zines and chapbooks only a bit more polished now ;-)

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    1. Thank you friend, and I can only say the exact same about you. Watching you evolve has been a sincere pleasure and honor...and I am thrilled about Kindred
      xo
      ps. I should have something for you soon...

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  2. So beautiful!! Happy anniversary. You and you family look so lovely. I am happy that you are feeling settled and coming around again! Glorious!
    xo,
    Ang

    PS I am still creeping around my circle. ;)

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  3. Happy Blogiversary! So glad you got to see your family. I too am LOVING the new M&S album. :)

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  4. Happy 2 years! I am so glad you're here. :) xo

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  5. MJ, what a beautiful picture of you! You look as if this move, despite the challenges and long transition, have been oh so good to you.

    Congratulations to you on your anniversary! I think it is an important milestone to recognize not just the passing of time, but the change and growth that is is reflected on one's blog!

    What a wonderful space you create here...thank you dear blog friend!

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  6. dear mj, the photo of you and your mom made my heart tear up a little. so very special.

    happy blog anniversary! my own passed this milestone recently too.
    thank you for offering the giveaway, but please don't add my name to the hat, we've got more travels coming soon.

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  7. congratulations. I totally missed my 2nd anniversary :)

    full circles, you ask. there have been so many lately. the most important one is probably having fallen back into writing with such force that I don't understand what made me stop in the first place. it feels like I'm 19 again and life is full of promise and excitement. just that now there is a lot more existential fear and apprehension involved. the naivete of my teens is gone.

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    1. Your growth has been by leaps and bounds lately Petra, and your writing, in all its depth and angst--I love reading it!!
      xo

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  8. Happy Anniversary!! Goodness, such an amazing gift to give.

    I'm not sure what has come full circle for me. I think I've just been doing so much growing, learning, and searching the last couple of years

    xoxo

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    1. You have, and I am fortunate to be a witness to it...
      xo

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  9. Happy anniversary! and many many many more! I love getting together with my family and beginning where ever we left off. What has come full circle for me was starting off in marriage as two people and now with the kids at university we are back where we started, just the two of us. I cannot describe how nice it is to be a couple (even though we miss the kids).

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    1. Oh wow, it's wonderful to see where you are Karen...I often wonder about this phase that you are entering, how it will feel...I look forward to reading more :).
      xo

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  10. I can't believe I missed this, I'm sorry, and happy anniversary MJ. The class sounds amazing and something I would love to learn from. What has come full circle? I don't know because my life has changed so much recently and I don't know the face that stares back at me in the mirror each morning. Life is so unpredictable and right now I am just trying to hang on.

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    1. Thank you for this honest comment Tracey. My heart goes with you, and yes, there is change and growth all around you. It's just hard to see sometimes when we are spinning so wildly....hugs my friend.
      xo

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  11. Happy Anniversary! You've put this past year to very good use ... lots of growth and adventure! Thank you for the opportunity to take this class. What's come full circle? Perhaps I have. Getting used to being alone. Learning that life goes on even when ones best friend, husband has left me behind to go on to the stars. Life can be tough, but the sun comes up in the morning~

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    1. The strength in your reflections have always been inspiring Snap, thank you so much for sharing...
      xo

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  12. honestly I cannot think of a full circle recently, but I must share the most profound circle I have yet to encounter. When my daughter was born (almost 12 years ago) I had a very long labor, pushed for 4 1/2 hours and then had a c/s. I was devastated and blamed myself completely. "what if I pushed harder, longer, what did I do wrong". Well my son blessed us 13 months later; there I was again, with the same midwife and as I pushed and felt him move through the birth canal I understood so profoundly that I had done nothing wrong! He delivered quite easily and I came full circle with my midwife, husband and baby this time without the O.R. and peace of mind that I did everything right with both babies, one just chose to present herself differently.
    that is about as short as I can make the story, but it is with me every day.

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    1. Beautiful story Angie, and what a wonderful realization and experience...
      xo

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  13. Hey last week was manyslices 2 year anniversary, though i always forget to mention it. I always click on wanderwonder whenever i wanna sink my teeth and mind into something a little deeper.
    Cheers,
    Leah

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  14. congratulations on the success of your move (from another florida stuck person) and your anniversary.

    i have come full circle because i had certain whisperings of ideas and dreams in my journal for the last 10 years and recently they have started coming to fruition. it is time and am i doing no matter what. failure does not scare me, nor does judgement or ridicule. i am just singing my song.

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