[Video] Be a Lighthouse

This week we travel in a new mythopoetic space, exploring the pull of journey language and how to determine new direction. I took some time away with multiple projects and several programs beginning. This has been an excellent time to get in my studio and stretch out to rest…I needed that respite.

Poem Shared:

Peregrina

O mother of the sea
lend me a wave that is strong and true
to carry me from this Age which unbinds me.

I do not need a ship, mother,
but make it a buoyant swell
to bear me up and float me on the sea’s dreaming
then beach me on some lighter shore.

When I land there, mother, give me warp and weft again,
and an urchin quill to remind me
how the prettiest barb can lodge under your skin
and leave you undone.

Only lend me a loom and I will
take up the threads of this unravelled life.
I will weave a braid from three strands of seaweed
I will wind it three times around my finger
I will dig my salt-encrusted hands into the soil
and wed myself to the thirsty

brown roots of a new beginning.

-Sharon Blackie

 

Perhaps you are also listening, attuned to your inner wisdom yet unsure, taking some time “in” or being called to explore your stories or embark on a journey in unexpected ways. It is always valuable to enter a creative space with a few powerful questions.

Here are some of the questions I have been traveling with…

 

• What does it mean to be a lighthouse?
• What kind of lighthouse do I want to be?
• Explore the tension of opposites…
• Notice what you feel as you move materials on the surface of a new creative page…
• Explore and express…
• Be a lighthouse.
• See what happens as you engage the creative…
• Ask your art: Where you are being and how you are becoming…
• Keep your council, take some space and be.
• Find a way to see far beyond what is visible yet.

Below I share my Tower/Lighthouse…just a small part of a larger journey.

 

As modern mystics or artists of life many of us seek to reconnect through images and symbols. The Mythopoetic approach is companioned by curiosity, being open, noticing and the willingness to explore your story (personal, communal or collective) using words/images/color/texture/form, to seek and find your own knowing.

As I was feeling into this topic I also thought about the many ways we travel, deepen the journey and how we choose different ways at different times.

I am taking an overseas travel sabbatical right now but have several super exciting programs and retreats planned for this coming year. Each is a deeply connected opportunity.

 

Here is a short and sweet list of THREE ways to create with me, in the coming months:

EXTRA SAVINGS ONLY THROUGH Dec 5th!

 

#1 Choose the Three in One JourneyCircles™ + MoonCircles Facilitator Training and receive a deep discount on the training, plus you will get free “big box” materials kit and save an extra $300 off the January 2025 Visioning Retreat for Depth Coaches and Facilitators! Three payment plan can be arranged for this bundle.

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#2 Choose Wisdom Rising 2025 and receive immediate “Solstice Savings” savings with deposit. This is the best of personal path work in a specially designed co-created container. For those women who are ready to deepen their inner connection, and travel further, you will explore elemental alchemy, mystery traditions, creative depth, ceremony, embodiment, art as ritual and initiation. This collaborative community is designed to promote cycles of experience, this year the program includes a Bonus Retreat in October 2025. Perfect for women mature in experience, dedicated to depth and ready to expand their journey work.

OPEN in January 2025

 

#3 Travel with 12 Nights of Solstice, open now through end of December. Each night a Lunar Doorway invites you to move through…honoring Midwinter and experiencing a contemplative creative journey! Daily prompts and guided journey is offered each night beginning Dec 9 – Solstice. You are invited to explore beginning as we gather for a Zoom on December 7th, just before we each embark on our 12 Nights Journey! This is an opportunity to create and gather in our global interactive classroom and community… as we begin the Midwinter (or Midsummer if you live down under!) dance of deepening, discovery and delight.

OPEN for December 2024

 

Posted originally on A Mythopoetic Life with Cat Caracelo | Substack