Author: Jodi Sky Rogers

Jodi Sky Rogers is an author, content creator, coach and founder of Fertility Books South Africa, an online bookstore (now archived) that catered specifically for women who are trying to conceive. She is passionate about nature writing and specialized in creating soulful fertility, mindfulness and self-care resources that support women on their fertility journey. She has authored several fertility-focused books, including ‘Fertility Calm for the Two Week Wait ’, the ‘Fertility Calm Creative Journal’ and ‘Mending Softly – Finding Hope and Healing After Ectopic Pregnancy Loss’. Her book, Mending Softly, won ‘Best Fertility Book’ in the European Fertility Society’s 2021 Fertility Care Awards. Earlier works include women's spirituality books, Wild Essence and Flowering Within.

Wild Stories and the Heartwood Beneath the Bark

The Earth weaves wild stories from gossamer threads of Divine wisdom. She does so with the grace of Goddess and the skill of an ancient storyteller. She whispers lessons and speaks in metaphors, her tales always a source of guidance for our spiritual paths.

I love collecting pieces of her wild stories. Since childhood, I’ve found them in stones, under rocks, among fields of flowers, between the fine threads of feathers, in the sound of crashing ocean waves and whispered to me in the wind. I’ve always collected feathers, leaves, pebbles, raw crystals, shells, driftwood and mental pictures of the stars. It wasn’t until I came of age and started keeping a Nature journal while studying an Environmental degree, that I consciously began a deep study of the Earth and learned to hear her wild stories.

With each new insight that Mother Earth shared, I’ve found myself reaching deeper into my inner wilderness. The mystical magic of her poetic wild tales were teaching me return to a natural essence – the essence of my long abandoned feminine soul. Each day I get better at embodying this aspect of myself. I’m learning to explore and intuit the Earth’s wild stories in new ways every day too. The more I uncover her arcanes and integrate their lessons, the more my desire to share and teach grows. This is why I am so excited to be offering the Spirit Wilding eCourse.

This weekend, while exploring some of my favourite Nature spaces to see what Autumn has to share, I found myself collecting pieces tree bark. They told me tales of how like trees, we too build thick protective layers of bark and barriers around the soft heartwood resting at our centre.

At times, these barriers form the shield that we need to protect our fragile interior from harsh external forces and negativity. Its armour gives your inner world, your creativity and your wild feminine essence a safe space to exist and grow. However, just as a tree sheds its bark from time to time, we too need to know when to release old defences once they no longer serve us. What shielded and protected you at one stage of your life may no longer be necessary when circumstances change. If you hold on to old barriers, they keep you trapped in outmoded behavioural patterns or locked in fear. It stifles your growth. Chokes you. Suffocates you. Keeps you small.

Shedding your bark and exposing the soft wood of your interior may leave your feeling vulnerable. But often the smoothed trunk revealed beneath the hard exterior is a magnificent work of art. Unveiling the elusive wild soul for the briefed moment in time brings you face to face with the incredible beauty that rests within. One cannot help but want to stroke the smooth surface and marvel are the marbled wood shades of the masterpiece that it is.

So, If you are interested in looking deeper at the smoothed wood of your own wild soul beneath the bark , then join us for the Spirit Wilding eCourse. Today is your last chance to sign up for the Early bird special at $33 (50% off the full cost): BOOK NOW!

New Moon in Aries + Free Moon Journey Download

I woke up in a prayerful mood, giving thanks for my blessings and feeling centred in the presence of Goddess. The morning is young and the Earth still and quiet as I set out to greet the garden. Little pleasures like the dew soaked grass under my feet and the cool air filling my lungs brings e home to my body.

It is a New Moon today. Although the sky will be dark tonight, the air is field with the hope of new beginnings. My heart is full of feelings, ideas and dreams that it desires to craft into being over the next few weeks. My writing is flowing. I’m doing the final touches on the Spirit Wilding eCourse. I am releasing clutter and baggage, all the while simplifying my life. And I am finding ways to stay open so that fresh energy can flow in.

“NEW MOON in Aries heralds in a powerful new start. It is the beginning of the Astrological New Year and a momentous time in history where the ripples of transformation have been seeded and action to bring in the new is being called for now. Each of us plays a part in this collective rebirth. It is time to find and trust our own unique expression, and use our voice, our being, and our vibration to embody the changes and the energies we wish to experience”.

~ mysticmamma.com

What are your intentions for the Aries New Moon? How will you honour what is deep in your heart?

As we contemplate these things and plant new seeds, here is a little gift for you. This free download is a worksheet companion for journeying with the moon through its different phases: Journeying with the Moon

Reclaim Your Inner Wilderness with SPIRIT WILDING eCOURSE

WHAT ARE THE WHISPERS OF YOUR WILD FEMININE SOUL CALLING YOU TO?

I’ve come to love the word WILD. It touches something within that brings me closer to my instinctual and natural self. It also reminds me that I am Goddess made and part of the wild Earth.

For many years, I heard whispers stirring in me like quiet echoes sounding in my heart. They were subtle, soft and mysterious, yet there was something wild and unbridled about them. The whispers were never demanding.

They were gentle and asked only little things of me. Things like, “Love yourself.” “Nurture your soul.” “Create sacred spaces to invite Spirit in.” “Seek the mystery in all things and allow it to fill your heart.” “Come out into the garden barefoot after the rain. Feel the damp earth against your soles.”

After a while I began to realize that this was the voice of my Wild Feminine Soul, or the Wild Mother as Mandy Steward calls it. Each time I followed its prompts I felt nurtured as my inner essence grew.

Then, two years ago, the voice became louder. It began asking big things of me. It asked me to walk away. Away from a stressful job in a toxic environment. Away from things and people that did not serve me. Away from whatever doused the fire of my Spirit. It asked me to walk forward. Towards creating an authentic life aligned to the purpose and desires of my wild soul.

So I gathered my courage and began walking away from all that stifled my essence. I began walking forward towards what Mary Oliver described as my “ONE WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE.” It wasn’t easy. I didn’t always understand what was going on. Sometimes I lost my sense of direction. And it triggered the need to do some intense inner healing. In a previous blog post, Re-wilding the Spirit, I mentioned how embarking on my spiritual journey was essentially a form of re-wilding. This is because it has meant unlearning years of conditioning and its resultant limiting beliefs, and unshackling the chains of domestication that have restrained my wild soul. In the past couple of years this has been truer than ever.

The process of undoing and redefining led me into a deep study of my inner wilds and ideas of wilderness. I’ve been exploring what it is and what it means to me. Along the way I deepened my soul connection to Goddess and the Earth, who have come to my aid with profound lessons and guidance each time I’ve asked how to keep releasing the barriers that restrain and suppress my natural essence. Guidance on how to find ways not only to journey deeper into the vast untouched expanses of my inner wilderness, but also how to maintain my connection with this place by giving it room in my daily life.

Naturally, as a Spiritual teacher, I have a deep desire to share my experiences and lessons with others, in the hope that it will inspire them on their own journey. So right now, I am very excited to be gathering my lessons and preparing to share them through a new e-course that I will be offering – SPIRIT WILDING. I’d like to invite you to come along for the journey.

SPIRIT WILDING is an INVITATION to COME HOME TO YOUR SPIRIT and RECLAIM YOUR INNER WILDERNESS –the wild, radiant, instinctual essence of who you really are.

But that’s not all. I’m having a 50% off Early Bird Special if you book before 31st March 2014. Want to find out more? Then visit my website for details.