Category: Spirit Whispers

Sneak Peek: A Short Excerpt from the Wild Essence Book

How are the wild whispers of your soul reaching out to you today? Are you finding ways to listen and flow with the needs and desires of your inner wilds?

As you may know, I’m super excited that my new book, Wild Essence, is finally being released into the world. So today, I thought I’d share a short excerpt from the book to give a little taste of things to come. I hope that you enjoy it:

The Universe always wants you to remember. In the eloquent words of self-starter Danielle LaPorte, the Universe keeps asking you, ‘Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?’ So it sends you reminders, clues and sacred messages to decode. In instances of stillness when you stop searching and allow yourself to be, these sacred messages and reminders permeate your consciousness. They unveil themselves in your life in various ways – through people, in places that you explore and experiences that unfold around you. They find you as signs, synchronicities and miracles which remind you that a greater power is at play. In my world, more often than not I’ve found them in Mother Nature. The wild Earth writes love letters on the fine threads of each feather that drifts gracefully to the Earth. I find maps to my inner treasures encoded in the veins of each leaf. Each message leaves me wondering, ‘How much more amazing would the world be if I gave myself permission to let my wild essence shine?’ Can you imagine the impact that allowing yourself to be who you are fully would have on your life and the world? The answer is so obvious it may even come across as cliché because the likelihood is that you would have heard it several times before, yet I feel compelled to reinforce this beautiful message – Liberating your wild essence would have a profound impact on your life and the world, because something of such tremendous value would be returned to its rightful place in the greater scheme of things.

GAIA LOVE

Writing Wild and Some Reasons to Celebrate

Happy Monday to you all!

How are you kicking off the magical and festive month of December?

Some pretty exciting things are happening in my life today, especially in the writing sense. For one, the final proofs of my book are done! If you don’t know already, Wild Essence is a book about liberating your spirit from the shackles of fear and domestication to return to the peace and freedom of your inner wilderness. It’s a book that comes from my heart and I see it as a love letter to the women of the world – women like me – whose souls have been broken in to submission to remind them that they are essentially wild creatures of profound beauty who are meant to be and express all of who they are, not lurk in the shadows. Below is a picture of what the final book cover looks like. So right now, I’m waiting for my author copies to arrive.

wild essence cover

I’m not sure how long that will take considering that there has been a four month long postal strike going on in South Africa. Although staff have recently returned to work, things aren’t fully resolved yet. But that aside, I wait in anticipation for the arrival of my first batch of books. I so look forward to holding the paperback books in my hands. This is a life-long dream that is finally coming into to being. And for that I am so grateful, humbled and am floating in dreamy state of bliss. I’m looking forward to doing a few book giveaways too.

In other news, today, the lovely and inspiring Jen Saunders, the founder and editor of Wild Sister Magazine launched their new Wild Sister Mag book. It’s called Wild + Precious a beautiful resource pack with stories and tips about self-love. I’m happy to share that my own contribution is also featured in the book. I wrote a piece about my experiences of self-love  and healing while dealing with health issues over the last couple of years.

wild and precious

Exploring the Lunar Cycles with Tea and Tarot: New Moon

New Moon blessings to you all!

What seeds are you planting this cycle? What does your wild essence call you to?

The Tea

I’ve decided to explore the new lunar cycle in with tea and tarot, intuitively selecting a tea for each phase of the moon, and drawing one tarot card for guidance and meditation for each phase too. Since the new moon is a time of seeds, intentions and setting dreams in motion, the tea that I felt called to work with is Chai Spiced tea. It felt fitting and symbolic to draw the energies of a tea made up of bits of bark (cinnamon), root (ginger) and most importantly – seeds (cardamom and fennel) – into my body at this time. And it helps that the warm and deliciously spicy aromas of chai tea always put me in a dreamy mood too, which is the perfect space to get into when setting intentions and painting visions for future manifestation. The words that come to mind when I look inward to draw out what it is that my wild essence desires to see more of in my life are specific and simple – Finding the Goddess in everyday, Resting in the embrace of inner peace and De-cluttering and releasing whatever stands in the way of the vibration of simplicity that I crave so much.

The Tarot

The tarot card that I drew for the new moon is – Father of Earth. This card brings messages about groundedness, connecting with the earth to find stability and inner firmness, finding satisfaction in the discipline of soulful work and thoughtfully focusing on your strengths and self-confidence to complete unfinished projects in order to harvest the benefits. The earthy masculine energy of the card gives me a sense of a provider who is focused on their purpose, with clear set intentions and a sureness that comes from being grounded in the present and grounded in their inner truth. Looking at the card, the clay bowl full of grains in the earth father’s arms stood out to me. I got the sense that the grains are the harvest, the fruits of our soul work, but they are also seeds. While we enjoy the bounty we reap at the end of one cycle, some of what we harvest needs to be stored and planted for a new cycle. Each completion is also a new beginning. Some of the rewards we gain from completing a project need to be invested wisely into a new cycle of production. To sustain ourselves we need to keep something for to replant and continue the cycle of life. We need to invest in ourselves, in our dreams and in our well-being.

This tarot message resonates a lot with me, especially in the context of self-care and my writing life. So I am taking the guidance to heart.

Crystals and Essences

Two other things that are accompanying me through this new moon journey are crystals and African Tree Essences. I’m working with clear quartz and amethyst crystals. They always help me connect with my inner world, visualize and bring the intuitive visions of my wild essence to the fore. The Platbos African tree essences are my all-time favourite flower essences to work with. Platbos is an ancient forest along the Western Cape coast of South Africa. So the wisdom and energetic vibration of the essences made from the blossoms of these ancient trees always have a profound effect on me. For the new moon, I am working with the Pock Ironwood essence, the essence of intuition, to draw out my wild intuitive resources and to allow greater receptivity to the wild whispers of Goddess.

lunar tea new moon