Moving to Bellingen has facilitated a shift in me from simply observing the moon and taking a intentional yet superficial involvement in my lunar rhythms, so deepening my understanding of how Mama Quilla (the ancient Incan Moon-Goddess) influences me, and how surrendering to the flow can enrich my life, and create space and peace therein.

This new moon just passed, I was invited into a circle of women to share a meal, some feminine support, and to voice our intentions for the coming month. I was moved deeply by the gathering, and feel a special connection to each of the women over and above the bond I already have with them- some of my most beloved friends.

My intentions for this moon revolved a lot around healing issues- not so much situations, but energies below the surface that were creating situations. I feel now that through my intentions and actions to clear those issues, I have created space to re-vision my life and start living with more intergrety and bliss.

A couple of days ago, thanks to a weekly child minding swap I have with a dear friend, I had the time and space to spend a  day engaging in self renewal and eliciting love for myself and my life. From this organically came my “visions for a beautiful life”.

Now, as the moon approaches fullness, I am going to write this synergistic vision down, not so much as a speaking of intention, but of a commitment and pledge to shift into this life, as the moon gives me her power to bring my life, too, to total fullness.

Self Renewal and Actualization

• Chakras well balanced
• Aware of and acting within universal energies
• Constantly seeking deeper consciousness, awareness, wisdom and insight
• Creating space for renewal and actualization
• Balance being and doing
• Strong connection to nature
• Strong connection to the Divine
• A unique individual who is part of the Divine Whole
• Embrace femininity, divinity, community and creativity
• Use resources wisely and gratefully
• Cultivate inner and universal peace
• Raise my vibrations and those of the earth
• Communicate clearly and non-violently
• Goddess consciousness
• Synergistic life

Wellbeing

• Live in my body mindfully and with awareness
• Using natural, gentle and wholistic health whenever possible
• Utilize preventative healthcare
• Fulfilling exercise that develops more than just the physical
• Full understanding and conscious action of my responsibility to my body
• Honouring my body as a divine earthly temple
• Whole food, ethical, nurturing, slow and delicious nutrition
• Honouring the blood mysteries, birth and the female body
• Synergistic body-mind-soul-heart health
• Resilient and peaceful mental wellbeing
• Release of habits and beliefs that keep me overweight
• Within a healthy weight range
• Utilization of positive eustress, release and learning from negative stress
• A beautiful body with gorgeous, unique clothes and adornments, long lustrous hair with beading and wraps, the return of my nose stud, and tattoos of the tree of life and a positive affirmation
• Optimum digestive, immune and other systemic health

Mothering

• Grounded, centred and loving as a mama
• Conscious and connective mothering
• Three children
• Growth of my self (and my children) through mothering
• Peaceful and transformative births
• Honouring and holding the space for their individuality and self actualization
• Connecting with and deepening my partnership and own and children’s wellbeing through parenting with Zai
• Healthy, aware and loving childbearing continuum
• Deep involvement and holding the space for their education, both through natural learning and the Steiner system

Career

• Birth Counsellor and holder of the space for conscious and enlightened childbearing continuum
• Sucessful, resilient, creative and passionate business owner
• Further studies in counselling, holistic psychology, sociology, birth/women’s development, and doula/childbirth education
• Holistic childbearing continuum centre
• Both financial and soulful abundant rewards
• Continuing personal and professional development and reflection, enjoyment and fulfillment

Writing

• Expressing threads of the whole, especially self renewal and actualization, through writing- the key to synergy
• Novellist
• Birth history book and other birthing works
• Social consciousness writer
• Birth consciousness writer
• Further studies in writing- balancing the art and craft of writing

Community

• Sustainable, resilient life with awareness and integrity
• Strong links, love and involvement in the community- cherishing and nurturing Bellingen
• The Peaceful Birth Collective
• Online/IRL Bellingen childbearing continuum community
• Traumatic birth experience awareness and healing
• Peace activism
• Birth activism
• Womens/human rights activism
• Active Greens member
• Active Transition Bellingen member
• Gateway Festival
• Bellingen Baby

Social

• Being a loving Allomama/aunty
• Close relationship with my mother
• Release of the negative energy surrounding my birth
• Nurturing the relationships I have with my extended family
• Tribal definition of family and involvement therein
• Loving group of women as a catalyst for connection and personal growth
• Non violent communication
• Honouring the present interaction as sacred, connective and a source of depth
• Release of sexual trauma and closed heart
• Lovingly intimate and deep sex life with Zai
• Partnership embodying depth of connection, respect for the individual and partnership, holding space for growth, love, enjoyment and emissaries of Divine universal love with Zai

Enjoyment

• Hiking, camping, biking and nature
• Great fiction and non-fiction book collection
• Great music collection
• Four festivals a year
• Domestic and international travel, connecting with culture and place (combined with writing)
• Lots of local community events and shared meals
• Skills and supplies in arts and crafts
• Drumming, fire poi and belly dancing
• Soulful internet interactions

Home and Finance

• Sacred, wise, and well managed use of space and time
• Frugally and wisely used material and monetary resources, and grateful for their abundance
• Living simply and sustainably
• Some kind of communal/collective living
• Earthy hippie home in a beautiful natural place
• A mutual sense of ownership and belonging to home