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Any society that shames EMOTIONS as a lack of self control will serve to solidify the control of the powerful and privileged.

It’s a TRAP.

It is a form of controlling the masses to accept the situations that make them feel oppressed and blame themselves rather than those in power.

Because–everyone has emotions and should have emotions.

But those in power have fewer people to hold them accountable or punish them for showing it, even when it harms other people. It’s easier to stay calm when you live a privileged life, but even if you are an emotional mess, there is less oversight keeping you in line like everyone else.

And people in less advantaged positions feel more strong negative emotions because they are being oppressed! And they get to feel the consequences of behaviors spurred by emotions of the privileged, and the powerlessness, sadness, or anger around not being able to do anything about it. If they try to say the other person lacked emotional control, it will just be thrown back into their face for being even more emotional. They are emotional because they have been victimized, wouldn’t anyone feel that?

The only way to escape this paradigm is to FORGIVE YOURSELF for having emotions and stop trying to control them. CHANNEL them.

Step one: Write. Make art.
Step two: Meditate
Step three: Tell someone SAFE who will not put this oppressive point of view on you that there is anything wrong with your emotions.
Step four: Repeat or take conscious guided actions to change your life like getting away from toxic people, having boundaries, making amends, or seeking legal counsel.

Below is the message for the End of July up until August’s Full Moon to help you to make faster progress and always know what to do next because you can hear your intuition and trust it

I pulled Page of Wands Reversed, as well as Two of Pentacles Reversed, for the next moon cycle.

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book of interpretations for the whole Tarot deck. Take a moment to be open as you read and take big breaths.

I’m doing something a little different this month–during the course of moving to Japan I accidentally picked two cards, so I’ve combined the readings here. 🙂

This is a time to listen to yourself. Your ideas may be buried under other concerns. You may trying to be two different versions of yourself or get a lot of things done.

It’s time to retire who you have felt you need to be for other people’s sake or the things they might want you to do. Just concentrate on being fully yourself. Create time for what really matters to you and let go of other obligations as much as possible.

Stop juggling. If you take on too much at this time, some items may fall from your plate with a crash or you may become ill.

Know your limitations. Get rest. Await perfect timing for all things. Trust what you feel like doing. Put yourself first and be kind–to yourself and others.

Release pressure and attachment; and yet, allow yourself to dream. Be peaceful. Find time to go inside. This is a good time to wait before beginning other projects or continuing towards goals. What is really important to you at this time? Not others–you. Start there. Slowly. Baby steps are just fine. So is taking no steps at all–if that’s what supports how you want to be right now.

Focusing inwards may take some effort. It may help you to be in motion such as taking long walks, journaling, or other kinds of exercise and travel.

Be careful what you promise at this time or delivering on your promises may become impossible.

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You are the sovereign of your life. The most important person in it is you.

You get it make it your way

This is my final note in a series that I’ve called, “It’s not about you,” so maybe you are thinking, “Hmm…how can I be the most important AND not make it all about me?”

Yes…life is funny that way, hehe. It’s a PARADOX.

It’s all about the energy. You will learn there is a way to do everything in an energy supportive of your purpose, and a way to do things in a way that just cycles your ego mess over and over again. You can make love in a healthy way, or with the wrong person. You can go for a jog or become anorexic through exercise.

Back to you being sovereign: You were brought here on the planet for a reason. Everyone has a unique purpose and path. I think you have a lot of choice how that takes form.

Being a spiritual person is not about surrendering and always being told what to do by a disembodied voice up in the sky like a slave. Especially for you women and service providing men. This isn’t the same world Joan of Arc lived in.

You are allowed to want, to desire, to yearn, to need. In fact it’s really helpful information for you to understand what is it that you are wanting with greater and greater clarity. It’s just where you look to for fulfillment of your needs and what you do with your feeling that can cause problems if it is misguided.

That’s why I recommend you seek guidance. Submit your desires to a higher force, breathe, and before you go out and get what you seek, just enjoy the pleasure of imagining what all of that would feel like coming true. Enjoy it now. Be in your feminine and draw it out as much as you can.

And then let it go.

How do you “do you,” and be a spiritual person? You must be human.

Again: You are allowed to want, to desire, to yearn, to need. Being a spiritual person is not about surrendering and always being told what to do by the divine.

Make the act of enjoying a ritual. A ritual to honor the Goddess within you. Even men have this force inside and it is healing to tap into, but I am speaking to women a little bit more right now. How to do this?

Put on some sensual music, put on something satin or cozy, whatever lights you up, dance around your space. Be sexy if you want to be sexy.

Or if you want to be free and light like a youth, go outside and do something silly: look at everything with the awe and wonder of a small child seeing it as something new.

Or be creative and use your imagination in a fun way. Go to a craft store and run your fingers over all of the paints, like they are delicious little keyboard keys you know how to stroke to make the greatest symphony (even if you don’t, even if you never paint).

Daydream and imagine possibilities, all while looking at your ceiling for hours. Play. Enjoy.

Do something totally pointless and fun on the side of your “main gig.”

Take a day to do whatever you feel like doing, write if you feel motivated, or watch TV, go for a walk, stop on a store. Be inspired and allowed to change your mind.

There’s time for this, too, and, if there is not, make time. You need this to thrive.

It’s not about you. It’s about how you are made: human. And humans are made from men AND women. Your creative process and whatever you want to get done is both feminine and masculine.

You must enlist the feminine to be the most powerful in completing your tasks.

The feminine requires your pleasure, power, and sovereignty to rise and unfold in this very moment, so that you can keep going, keep being motivated, keep having FUN.

Otherwise, if she’s not being honored, she will go float away and you will feel trapped in a life that always has something missing no matter what you do or what goals you accomplish or how perfect you are.

Decide to do it another way.

It’s not about you! Go feel good.

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As May turns into June, here is a clip from my upcoming book on Tarot and a message to guide you to make faster progress. Based on the card I pulled, High Priestess for the next moon cycle.

Keywords: Authentic, Intuitive, Connected, Prescient, Wise, Consistent, Unerring, Wholeness, Divine Being, Elevated Consciousness, Royal Spirit, Inner Power, Healing, Body Wisdom, Inherent Intelligence, Feminine Power, Solo, Sensitivity to Working With Energy, Weaving

This cycle change denotes a shift where we have had some recent realizations on how to free ourselves from weight borne from the previous cycle. Now we are reconnecting to our own personal power and vision in a new way.

The High Priestess knows deep within her what her path is. She doesn’t need anything to guide her beyond her intuition. She releases the need to follow traditions if they do not serve her. She does not feel confined the way things have always been done. She can stand alone.

You may find yourself in situations that test you. These are opportunities to rely on yourself more and to decide how you want to express yourself.

Although you may be focused on creating something in your work or life, the High Priestess knows that her value is not in her achievements. It just is. She knows how to release attachment from everything outside of her, including to her goals or materialism.

Whether or not an outside source comes to match her desire in real form, she understand the power of her desire as energy. She understands the power of wanting what she wants, holding a vision, and being flexible with the winds of time. There are always other possibilities for how the energy can take form.

She is whole and stable. In herself, she finds all she needs. She knows she is connected to all, yet One with herself, alone. She is strong, and yet surrenders to the divine calling she feels guiding.

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Headed to my 10 year reunion I can’t help but remember when it all changed…

I studied political science at an elite women’s college. I shouted, “Down with the patriarchy,” with my sisters. And one day, after graduation, I realized that the one person standing in the way of my happiness was myself, because I did not allow it of myself.

I didn’t believe I deserved to feel good because I wasn’t “far enough” in my life. There were so many reasons not to feel good. I wasn’t “done” lining up the career, the job, the boyfriend, friends were mad at me, my apartment had a crack in the ceiling, I didn’t make enough money, I didn’t know who I was yet, etc.

There was always something saying inside of me, “I can’t feel good now.”

I finally let go of why or how that limiting belief got there, whether it was the patriarchy, capitalism, classism, something about me or the people who had treated me badly, and I just took responsibility upon myself and said, “I’m sick of this. It’s time to feel good. As good as I can, like it’s the goal. It’s the project.”

Nothing anyone else told me was working. I had taken action on the typical roadmap to happiness, the hard work, good grades, great college, etc. But instead of being sore about how I put all that work in and it didn’t seem to amount to anything that made me feel good, I decided to try to figure out my own way.

I always pray that it will be in the healthiest, most highly aligned way, with no harm to other people…but in the end it comes down to am I willing to feel good?

And when I say, “YES, I DESERVE TO FEEL GOOD SO I WILL,” I know, this isn’t even really about me. This is my higher calling. This is rising above the cycle of endless suffering.

This is the true revolution for all of us as human beings.

May we learn through joy from now on, and no longer need suffering to guide us on our spiritual paths. It’s a new day. A new order. And I choose love. I choose to feel good. Will you?

Feeling good is not about you. Self love is NOT about you. When you love yourself, you give others permission to do the same, and you inspire them to feel better. By helping yourself, you change the world.

On my path to feel good, I learned that feeling healthy pleasure is about embracing, channeling and joining with the divine feminine.

The divine feminine is my jam. I’ve always been much more attracted to divine feminine energy than the masculine in spirituality. I feel it is my mission to write, express and be in this energy as much as possible. That’s my gift to the world. That’s the secret we’ve been looking for. It is the medicine our society needs.

It’s because our culture is so masculine.

I’m not speaking about patriarchy, although, ask me to and I will surely wax on for hours. I’m talking about the drive to produce. This is something I have naturally had in me from a young age: the urge to be of use in some way, to be productive, to produce results, to progress to the next level in a goal or in a project. I didn’t feel right unless I was working towards the completion of the goal. This is a very masculine drive and I’ve naturally integrated it.

To be honest, often I met my goal and then felt nothing: no lasting satisfaction. This is a bad sign. This is a sign that the goal was not led by spirit, but by ego. Ego doesn’t feed the spirit.

My spirit demanded more feminine!

To complete a project so that it is satisfying and rewarding, there must be both feminine and masculine components.

If you make a living writing, creating and/or serving others, then you have to sustainably find a balance between these different forces or you will burn out. You just can’t tap into spirituality, creativity and empathy without the feminine sustaining you. Which means you’ll fail to produce good work or help people anymore if you don’t receive feminine pleasures in your life.

And yes, okay, maybe, you don’t *need* to do this for work. For some jobs, you *can* burn out and still keep going through the motions…but then that’s sad—isn’t there more to life? Why not feel good in your body? Why not embrace feeling awesome as a higher calling?

Of course your ego will tell you, “I would, but I can’t because…” Yes, there are people around the world starving, suffering, who really can’t change their lives at all…but I’m going to guess if you are reading this then you have a modicum of choice. And if you still don’t think like you have power to feel any differently than you do now, because it is just that bad, give this a shot:

Decide to see it a different way. Just decide to be open.

Here’s a prayer you can use to help you be more open to solutions on this:

Goddess, how can I enjoy my life more? How can I end the things that cause me suffering? How can I be open to see that I can have more pleasure in my life and enjoy it all the more? Is it possible for me? Help me to see how.

Or modify it for your words to make sense to you. Prayer is feminine to me because it creates openness. When you are just the tiniest bit open, amazing things happen.

That’s what the feminine is all about. It’s about manifesting desires you didn’t even know you had, in a way that’s better than you asked and prayed for. It feels so good.

To me feeling good is about feeling beautiful, sexy, successful, and accomplished—just for breathing air, just by being myself. It’s that feeling of, “I made it!”

I’ve found this place also creates better writing and creating, and draws a crowd.

Find a way to feel good to help others. It’s not about you.

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Have you ever wanted to write a book?

As a healer, consultant, coach, or entrepreneur, having a book can launch you to a new level in your career.

You’ll gain more speaking gigs, marketing opportunities, and high level clients.

You’ll find more people want to enroll in your courses and buy other offerings.

Overall, you will make a bigger difference, a bigger impact, and make more $$.

But a lot of people have a number of obstacles standing in the way of finishing their book. They think, “Who am I to write this book?” or, “Am I really a good enough writer?”

That’s actually very common and I go into what to do about these obstacles in the video below!

My colleague Karen Strauss, publishing and marketing expert for authors, has asked me to do some interviews on the topic of writing a book, below. (She’s another teacher of the course, “8 Weeks to Published Author,” starting soon.)

This interview will help you to understand the main stopping points for authors and how to eliminate them.

These are the obstacles that keep you from starting, or keep you stopping and starting as you struggle to finish writing a book on your own.

Here’s a list of some of the obstacles we cover:

“Who am I to write this book?”
“I’m not a very good writer. I can’t spell or use grammar right.”
“I’m not inspired.”
“I’m waiting until I go on vacation/retire.”
“But what will my daughter/my sister/my mom/my boss/my colleagues/my clients think?”
“My book is a mess.”

Learn more about these obstacles and what to do about them in the following video!

https://www.facebook.com/kbstrauss/videos/10157014145528444/

Whether you’ve been in the game for the short term or you are a seasoned professional, having a book makes you stand out. You’ll instantly become an authority in your field.

And what if it didn’t need to take years?

What if you could write a book by the summer, so that you can start making money off of it this year?

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I’ve had the pleasure and honor of being asked to open for a wedding! Last week, on April 27, 2019, I played a show at Teavolve in Baltimore. The couple wanted to celebrate their love publicly by making their wedding at the open mic!

To make it all about love, I wrote an original song for the occasion, which I call, “Spare a Moment.”

It was my job to introduce the pair, say something about love, and do my “Sofia Wren” thing.

I was joined by a few other attendees at the Open Mic, who were amazing on piano and djembe (drum). Grateful for them, as well.

Here’s the recording of the Love show! In the videos:

1. I start the first video on my song, “Spare a Moment.” This is my first ever performance of this new song. You can rewind the recording if you’d like to see my opening remarks about the cute couple.
2. This was followed by my cover of, “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” by the Beatles. Both songs are in the first video below–I want to hold your hand was cut, so it continues into the next video.
3. Keep watching the second video if you’d like to hear the bride and then both love birds play ukulele. Enjoy!

And the rest of the song…

Here is your message for the month as we move forward from the Full Moon. This is for the next moon cycle. It’s inspired by the card that I pulled from the Tarot for us now, the Ten of Wands.

This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book of interpretations for the whole Tarot deck. Take a moment to be open to any positive shifts that may occur as you read this sacred writing and remember to breathe.

Keywords: Weight, Heaviness, Overload, Overwhelm, Details, Cords Pulling, Obligations, Deadlines, Multiple Projects, Irons in the Fire, Chaos, Full Todo list, Compact Schedule, Heat, Nerves, Stress

Let go. Let go of the details. It’s all too much. The Ten of Wands appears when there is a recurrent vibe of too much going on–whether it’s energy coming at you from other people, obligations, items on your schedule, or things to be done, it’s a lot.

You can only access the solution to the problem at hand when you let go of everything, and in doing so you embrace something new. With so much energy already present this moon cycle, it may surprise you to think that the solution has anything to do with adding something else to the mix. But this something is an entirely different element that will balance your situation.

So I ask you, when there are so many details seeking order in your life in the coming month: Can you be something deeper? Bigger? Can you hug all the pieces to yourself and add an extra, missing, ingredient to glue it all together?

That ingredient is soul. It is the breath. It is mindfulness. It is divinity. It is something bigger. It is self love. It is patience. It is belief in the grander things and in yourself. What is missing for you? Whatever it is, that’s the important element that you need.

Start where you are planted: what is the obvious next step or what do you feel called to do? Trust yourself, as any lack of trust of your inner voice will only increase the weight of your burdens. Don’t listen to what you “should” do, or what the rules say you ought to do; listen to what you want to do, what you feel, or what you know you need to do. Hopefully your experiences over the last few months have helped you hone this intuition down to a science.

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