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In the last piece, "Where did The Logos go?" we saw God in our mitochondrial DNA, passed down to us through our mothers.

I recall hearing God say while diving in, "The way you will see me is by seeing you."

I looked at myself in the mirror, like the one in the background of this piece, and I responded back:

When I really looked, I saw you within me.

I saw you in my creations.

I felt you in my emotions.

I see you, I hear you, I feel you.

I love you.

See you in 2024.  I will be taking a brief break from the series as I honor my cycle and my own transformation.  Look for the next 3 month's upcoming pieces in my next book. 💌

P.S. I didn't use AI to write this

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Our freedom lies in our willingness to be seen.  When we are hiding or putting forward a projected image of ourselves, we become slaves to it.  When we are inauthentic, we are slaves to that inauthenticity.  Illusions and untruths require energy put into them to keep them alive.  Giving it our energy becomes an exhausting job.

In this final luteal phase as we transition to menstrual, just as the seasons transition, we are visited by the rare luna moth in this piece. 

"To meet one is a special gift, for when she is in her adult moth stage she only lives for approximately one week...Their cycles are short, as are our years while we are here...She speaks of our connection to the Feminine, our inner spirit, and our trust in ourselves.  We learn of the importance to find the balance between light and dark, the seen and the unseen. She is a reminder that when all is said and done, our healing and sense of love are the ultimate journey."
- Chloë Rain, @exploredeeply

I have had the privilege of meeting several luna moths, mainly at night, one even coming out of the Earth.  The natural eye markings on the wings made for the perfect motif for the message of this piece, as well as the transition in size upwards with the background mirror symbolizing our inner sight and the process of looking within during the luteal phase transition. 

Sometimes, our various pains can feel like death rather than a transformation, just like the transition from caterpillar to luna moth.

But really, there is nothing to fear.

Sharing what is real for you is where all your power lies.

Allowing yourself to have your needs as a result of being vulnerable--now that's power.

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Every Phase #45 - #Lutealphase

Luna vision
original cyanotype
 

Most people look on the outside for who they are on the inside.
They go on trips to find it.
They buy certain clothes.
They vote for certain people.
They make more and more money.
They define themselves by these things but still don't know who they are.

Through my journey of healing myself from endometriosis, I developed a mission:  a mission to show others how to face their pain and see themselves for who they really are.

It's a 1-2 step, as first you must actually face your pain, your bullshit & all parts of yourself, in order to see the truth of you.

Seeing yourself for who you really are.  Meaning all the things that will remain with you when you leave this world.

Not for the illusion or projected image we put out.  You know, all the things that most people define themselves by, but actually have nothing to do with who they are. 

Most of the time, if you have to wear it on the outside, you probably don't have it on the inside.

However, to truly see yourself, you first must allow yourself to be seen.

One of the biggest hurdles in healing my endo was facing and transcending my sexual abuse.
Before this trauma, I was wild & free.  Young, curious & expressive, unconcerned with what others thought of me.

Afterward, I really held onto the pain of that experience.  The pain of not getting the help I needed, the pain of being looked at as a powerless victim. I wanted to hide out of fear that being 'seen' again would result in more unwanted experiences.  So I didn't let myself be seen any longer. 

I did this because I thought I would be safe from the pain.
Instead, it anchored me to it.

Being seen & heard are my deepest needs, and critical for all of humanity.
We have more ways of looking at others & ourselves (youtube, Instagram, social media) than ever before, but very few of us are ever actually seen. 

Because rarely are we even willing to be vulnerable enough to be seen for who we really are.

I decided:  I am ready to be seen, to be free, vulnerable.

...continue reading on next post

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In the last piece, "Where did The Logos go?" we saw God in our mitochondrial DNA, passed down to us through our mothers.

I recall hearing God say while diving in, "The way you will see me is by seeing you."

I looked at myself in the mirror, like the one in the background of this piece, and I responded back:

When I really looked, I saw you within me.

I saw you in my creations.

I felt you in my emotions.

I see you, I hear you, I feel you.

I love you.

See you in 2024.  I will be taking a brief break from the series as I honor my cycle and my own transformation.  Look for the next 3 month's upcoming pieces in my next book. 💌

P.S. I didn't use AI to write this

Loved the conversation with this woman @shinefreelyvicky 🙏💫
We keep it real in this episode, as we discuss pain, art, sex, and the wonders of the female body.

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#pain #art #sex #womenshealth #femalehormones #chronicpain #painmanagement #sexualhealth #sexualtrauma #femalebody

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As discovered earlier on in the Shots Fired piece:
Your power lies in your ability to receive.  If you look back in history, and even today, every lie and just about everything evil have 1 thing in common: diminishing the feminine polarity (within both men & women), specifically the aspect of receiving. It's very appropriate that their end will actually be the awakened feminine polarity in both men and women.  If you never receive you can never truly give. If you never receive, you can never really 'get' anything, which is why there has been such an effort to diminish the feminine throughout time.  If no one ever really feels like they should receive (because it is selfish, etc.), they won't, and they won't give or be generous either: A very intelligent, covert way to control a population.

As we begin to prep for the next phase, the menstrual phase, with this 2nd luteal phase piece, it's a good practice to begin diving into what we have created.  It's the phase of facing your shit and taking care of it before the 'winter'.  And by being a part of your own creation you are securing the future of it, just as during the luteal phase, the Progesterone secures the environment for a pregnancy by creating a thickening of the uterine lining.  Your metabolism also increases, making you hungrier because your body needs more calories.  If you don't feed it what it needs, you will start to crave sugar, which will throw off your blood sugar, impacting your hormones, the next phase, and the rest of your cycle.  When we allow ourselves to receive what we need, our confusion melts away.  When we bulldoze + deny what's actually there, everything goes to shit.

As we look at the world today, the question rings more:
Where did The Logos go?
The same place as the mitochondrial DNA.
The same place as the forgotten names of our ancestral mothers,
The same place as what you have rejected or bulldozed.
Where no one was looking.  

As you see depicted here, The Logos is art, diving into our physical life structure, our cells, our mitochondria.

I heard it say while diving in, "The way you will see me is by seeing you."
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#Mitochondria are the little power plants of our cells that carry DNA, and this only comes from our biological mothers, not from our fathers.  Therefore, we inherit more genes from our maternal line meaning our mother and her mother and her mother before her, because it's the egg, not the sperm, that hands down all of the mitochondrial DNA. In addition, the X chromosome, which women have 2 XX (forming a 'W chromosome') and men have one X (they are XY),  is five times larger than the Y chromosome (which only men have), and has 10 times the number of genes.  

The way we live in our patriarchal Western society is actually completely backwards from the biological truth, with men being viewed as the progenitors in almost every aspect of society, especially with the male's name being passed down in family lines.  In reality, the truth of our biological ancestry is more dependent on who our mothers were, than our fathers, you know, the ones with forgotten names.  Men were protectors of this maternal ancestry until the rise of colonialism & Luciferianism cloaked in the marketing of modern-day religion.

The Father the Son and the Holy Spirit - who is left out of that?  That's where the logos went.  The mother, the daughter, basically anything having to do with women.  They also removed the 'Mother' from Mother Father God. 

We are now excluding the mother in even the birthing process, now calling them 'birthing people' -- the metaverse (as opposed to motherverse) and we actually use it as an insult (motherf*ker).  However, our only power does not lie in creating.  But by creating, we can realize that we have both masculine and feminine polarities within, just as The Logos does, which is our true power within.

They have sold a lie to women that their only power lies in their body's ability to create a pregnancy and become a mother or to end it.  They have made men believe their power lies in being 'alpha' (no such thing), bulldozing & controlling others, and being emotionless. The truth is the opposite...

...continue reading on the next post

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Every Phase #44 - #lutealphase

'Where did The Logos go?'
original #cyanotype

When you create anything, art, music, dance, a meme, you can see, taste, smell, touch, hear, or sense what you are creating.

Imagine diving into and living in that creation.

Well that's the story about what The Logos decided to do....

One fine luteal phase day in the universe, the entity we know as 'God' aka Creation aka 'The Logos'  decided to physically manifest into its own creation & incarnate on planet Earth.  In the understanding that all is one and all is creation and 'The Logos' already, this added a whole other layer of 'cosmic security', if you will.

Creation decided to dive into it's own creation, scaring the crap out of some people.  And the unanswered question echoed- "Where did The Logos go?"

By that having happened, no one can know who or what 'The Logos' is other than the understanding that all things are it.  It is one thing and in all things.  It's in a discovery, in this writing, it could be an ant, it could be water, it's in the air, the trees, and most of all, in the mirror. 

When it comes to us physically existing here, we all of course inherit genes from both of our biological parents, but it's far from a 50-50 split.  

"All people are more genetically related to their maternal line, not just their mother but their whole matrilineal line, essentially - so their mother, their maternal grandmother, and so on and so forth."
-Dr. Jennifer Cohen, Duke University

In fact, we inherit all mitochondrial DNA from our mothers, and 0 from our father, which is why we can only actually trace back our biological lineage through our mother's line...

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As discovered earlier on in the Shots Fired piece:
Your power lies in your ability to receive.  If you look back in history, and even today, every lie and just about everything evil have 1 thing in common: diminishing the feminine polarity (within both men & women), specifically the aspect of receiving. It's very appropriate that their end will actually be the awakened feminine polarity in both men and women.  If you never receive you can never truly give. If you never receive, you can never really 'get' anything, which is why there has been such an effort to diminish the feminine throughout time.  If no one ever really feels like they should receive (because it is selfish, etc.), they won't, and they won't give or be generous either: A very intelligent, covert way to control a population.

As we begin to prep for the next phase, the menstrual phase, with this 2nd luteal phase piece, it's a good practice to begin diving into what we have created.  It's the phase of facing your shit and taking care of it before the 'winter'.  And by being a part of your own creation you are securing the future of it, just as during the luteal phase, the Progesterone secures the environment for a pregnancy by creating a thickening of the uterine lining.  Your metabolism also increases, making you hungrier because your body needs more calories.  If you don't feed it what it needs, you will start to crave sugar, which will throw off your blood sugar, impacting your hormones, the next phase, and the rest of your cycle.  When we allow ourselves to receive what we need, our confusion melts away.  When we bulldoze + deny what's actually there, everything goes to shit.

As we look at the world today, the question rings more:

Where did The Logos go?
The same place as the mitochondrial DNA.
The same place as the forgotten names of our ancestral mothers,
The same place as what you have rejected or bulldozed.
Where no one was looking.  

As you see depicted here, The Logos is art, diving into our physical life structure, our cells, our mitochondria.

I heard it say while diving in, "The way you will see me is by seeing you."

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#43 The Sound of Freedom in Blue
#cyanotype

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This points to the two most precious things worth protecting:  your sacred sexuality and your childhood.  When we ignore our bodies and run ourselves over, we 'traffick' ourselves.

Human Trafficking doesn't get to perpetuate in a world I'm in.

Instead of a percentage of my sales going to an art gallery or museum, I have chosen to give 13%  of all my profits to @ourrescue  every month to end child trafficking.  I have created a fundraiser goal to raise $13,000 by October 13th, 2024.  When you purchase art or any of my services, you are helping this mission & our humanity.

We traffick ourselves when we sell out on our integrity.  When we ignore something we know is happening.  When we say or do nothing in the face of tyranny. 

The more me I become the more I will attract friends and the more I will be known by my enemies.  Who you are is up to you.  It isn't defined by what's between your legs, or what's happened to you.  It is defined by your actions, what you stand for, and what you stand against.

Finding and claiming who you are is that freedom no one can ever take away.

What is worth that fight?

See you in a moving August. 💌

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