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July 29, 2015

Celtic and Crone Wisdom
Blessed Solitude, Blessings, Soul Friends

Dear Friends:
 
I have been reading my own Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women(2003) and Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom  and To Bless the Space Between Us, by John O'Donohue, picking up other books from my shelves and tables, grazing on poetic words - - -Mary Oliver's,  Michael Kent's Meow Te Ching. many others. I have time to do so -- on a day of blessed solitude. 


The most wasted of all days is the day we have not purred.
 
-If you are too busy to purr, you are too busy.
 
Beneath the wisdom and courage of all great cats lies
the heart of a kitten.
 
------Meow Te Ching by Meow Tzu 
(Author Michael Kent) 

Celtic Wisdom 
 
 If you never think of your soul but confine it to some vague region of spiritual fantasy, you squander an infinite energy at the heart of your life. Once you awaken to your soul, you know that you are no longer alone; nor are you at the mercy of your own frailty and limitation. Awakening to your soul, you begin to learn another way of being in the world. . .the silence of landscape conceals vast presence. . .the earth is full of soul. . . Solitude is luminous.

When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are our inner senses. Infused with silence and solitude, they bring out the mystery of inner landscape.



Crone Wisdom 
 
A New Perspective on the "Crone" Word
 
The Thirteen Qualities
1. Crones Don't Whine
2. Crones Are Juicy
3. Crones Have Green Thumbs
4. Crones Trust What They Know in Their Bones
5. Crones Meditate in Their Fashion
6. Crones Are Fierce About What Matters to Them
7. Crones Choose the Path with Heart
8. Crones Speak Truth with Compassion
9.Crones Listen to Their Bodies
10. Crones Improvise
11. Crones Don't Grovel
12. Crones Laugh Together
13. Crones Savor the Good in Their Lives
 
and
Exceptional Men Can be Crones
Crones Together Can Change the World
Musings

In Spanish: Las brujas no se quejan (Witches Don't Complain)
Click Here to purchase Crones Don't Whine 




Maybe the desire to make something beautiful
        is the piece of God that is inside each of us.
--Mary Oliver from "Franz Marc's Blue Horse" in Blue Horses.
Anam Cara
 
Anam is the Gaelic word for soul; cara is the word for friend. So anam cara means soul friend.
 
The soul needs love as urgently as the body needs air. In the warmth of love, the soul can be itself. All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes into your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. 
 
Friendship is always an act of recognition. In the moment of friendship, two souls suddenly recognize each other. . .  a flash of recognition and the embers of kinship glow. . . a sense of ancient knowing. You come home to each other at last. . . A friend is a loved one who awakens your life in order to free the wild possibilities within you.
 
--From Anam Cara by John O' Donohue

I came across Traveling Light by Brian Andrews of Storypeople.com in an airport. Whimsy and wisdom, funny drawings, and primary colors!  He cuts to the chase, it isn't poetry, no excess words: 

What color are souls? She said 
& I said, Color isn't 
that much of an issue
when you're
talking souls. 
--from Color Blind
 
I don't think of it
as working for
world peace, he said.
 
I think of it as
just trying to 
get along in a 
really big strange
family.
--Big Strange Family
 
How many people
can you love before
it's too much? she said
 
& I said I didn't think
there was any
real limit as long
as you didn't care if
they loved you back.
-- Real Limit
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Descriptions & More Details
 
 
August 16-21 - Big Sur, CA 
Esalen Institute 5-Day Workshop
Your One Wild and Precious Life: A Deepening Gathering for Women
Click Here
 
September 2-6, Siracusa, Sicily
Art & Psyche in Sicily – IAAP Conference
 
October 15-19 - Salt Lake City, UT
The 2015 Parliament of The World's Religions
Terry Tempest Williams and Jean Shinoda Bolen in Conversation 
Deepening Conversation, Finding Common Ground: Circles with a Spiritual Center. Workshop led by Conveners of the Millionth Circle Initiative (pending)
http://www.parliamentofreligions.org/
 
November 3 – Los Angeles, CA
USC Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
Presentation: Tuesday Noon – 1:00 pm
The Mythology of Artemis and the Psychology of Women who Personify this Archetype
Keck School of Medicine, USC
Los Angeles, CA
 
November 27-28 – London, England
C.G. Jung Club London
Friday, November 27:  Evening Lecture: 
Artemis the Archetype Liberated by the Women's Movement
Saturday, November 28:  Seminar: 
Path with Soul/Path with Heart: the Inner Compass
Details TBA, not yet posted
 
December 1-3 – Barcelona, Spain
Editorial Kairos Book Presentation
Spanish Edition of Artemis Media & Event
Details TBA for Publisher Click Here
 
December 4-6, 2015 – Rome, Italy
IAAP – Analysis and Activism Conference
Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology
Details: TBA Click Here
 

December 4-6, 2015 – Rome, Italy 
Casa Editrice Astrolabio Ubaldini Editore, Piu Libri Book Fair
Sunday, December 6,  between 4-7pm: Introduction to
Italian version of Artemis, The Indomitable Spirit in Everywoman 
http://www.astrolabio-ubaldini.com/
 

February 11, 2016 – Houston, TX
Houston Grand Opera, The Ring Cycle - Siegfried
Evening lecture. Details TBA

February 19-20, 2016 – Happehatchee, Florida
Happehatchee Center
Friday, February 19, Public Lecture
Saturday, February 20, Workshop 
Details TBA      http://happehatchee.org

August 16 - 21, 2015  "Your One Wild and Precious Life: A Deepening Gathering for Women" The premise of my Jungian, feminist, and spiritual perspective begins with the certainty that it matters what we do with our “one wild and precious life,” a quote from the poet, Mary Oliver. To find and live our personal myth, is to be true to who we are. In this week, there will be time to hear stories and myths that are about us, time for self-reflection and perhaps to discover sources of meaning in our lives. Esalen is a most beautiful place. 

http://esalen.org

 


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With best wishes and blessings, Jean
 
"What is a blessing? A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal, and strengthen." 
 From To Bless the Space Between Us, (John O'Donohue's last book): 


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