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Reading of the Red Guild book of the Graduates of Intentional Creativity-since 2014 we have been signing this book at in person gatherings, this is at Wild Water Creek.

Graduation as a Curate - being blessed by a red stole embroidered by Naa Kwarley and given to me by Liz. This is at Stardust Ranch. The ring of roses is the circle the graduates stepped into….including me.

On the Cusp of Equinox: A Turning of the Lineage

“You will be bathed in stardust” Carmen Baraka to Caron McCloud

We are on the cusp of the equinox and the new Spring moon.

The cherry trees are blooming, and a fine yellow dust from the oak trees settles over everything—including me, if I sit here long enough.

I’ve just come back from a swim. I’m sitting in the sun. And as usual, my thoughts turn to you. Yes, you.

The Love That Chose Another Path

I didn’t get to have children.

After many miscarriages, I found myself holding so much love—so much desire to nurture—and nowhere traditional to place it.

I had been so deeply loved, so well nurtured, that consciously or unconsciously, I chose to channel that love into community.

But I didn’t want something temporary. I wanted something enduring. Not people who came and went—but people who might stay for a lifetime. Or maybe even longer.

Our Elder Carmen Baraka used to say, at the most meaningful gatherings:“Maybe we agreed to meet here.”

I’ve always loved that idea. This idea weaves into the ancient knowing of the red thread—that we are already connected, already called. That each of us carries a piece, and that we are here to witness one another’s stories.

Today, I invite you to witness mine. A personal and professional graduation.I recently got to Graduate with the last graduating class for Color of Woman (as it now exists). I graduated with 80 women (who will be acknowledged during the Equinox Ceremony. I am officially now carrying my title as Curate with many other women.

Becoming the Matriarch

This is the evolution of a sacred feminine entrepreneur into a matriarch.

I’m a few months away from turning 56. I still don’t have children of my own, and my relationship to community is changing.

But something else has settled in. A wisdom. An elemental wisdom.

It feels both deeply sacred and completely essential—so basic, and yet strangely elusive.

Completing a Cycle

I’ve just completed a body of work that began in my early twenties with Color of Woman—a journal filled with the images that awakened me. That became 25 years of art galleries and eventually the Intentional Creativity Teacher Training.

In the coloring book, the first images are where I came into myself.Where I said yes to my sacred work.

That cycle is completing.

What a joy.What a challenge.What a gift.

Because the truth is—

I am an artist.A poet.A ritualist.

I am not a COO.I am not a president.I don’t even resonate with the word “founder.”

I am a Lineage-Keeper.

The Teachings Are Simple

What I carry is both from this lifetime and from the ancestors.

And what I teach is incredibly simple:

Make what you make with love.Place your intention into it.When you bring your focus to what you are creating, it changes—and so do you.

Everything is frequency. When you attune your frequency, your world shifts.

This language is my mother tongue. And when women hear it, they remember:

“Oh yes… I know this.”

It is easy to understand. It takes practice to live.

What Was Taken—and What Returns

There was a time when this knowing was not lost.

But over thousands of years, systems of domination stripped women of their innate knowing. We need to restore that knowing from within our stardust bones. This is the Pathway of 9 Promises that I teach.

* Shaping who we are and who we are becoming: Identity and Living from Source