Oh I am so excited about this theme! I was JUST talking about beauty last week with my husband and even my brother after coming across this quote by John O’Donohue: “There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may wake up to the urgency of life, how short it is. Then the quest for truth becomes the ultimate project. We can often forage for years in the empty fields of self-analysis and self-improvement and sacrifice much of our real substance for specks of cold, lonesome factual truth. The wisdom of the tradition reminds us that if we choose to journey on the path of truth, it then becomes a sacred duty to walk hand in hand with beauty.”
It sent me down a rabbit hole... remembering hearing Dr Zach Bush saying we are here to witness the beauty, and and then just being fed up in general of all the lists and rigid rules. I realized I craved beauty. The poet Goethe was once asked by a friend what he would suggest as a daily exercise for spiritual betterment. He said:
"I would like to read a noble poem.
I would like to see a beautiful picture.
I would like to hear a bit of inspiring music.
I would like to meet a great soul.
And for my fellow men I would like to say a few sensible words."
Oh my goodness Mihaela this is so beautiful and SO spot on for this months theme 😭😭😭😭 I feel it in my bones 🤍✨ I might share some of these quotes over on the October page for the studio too if you don’t mind. Thank you for your generosity in sharing!
Thank you, and of course, please do share. I have been delving deep into this theme this last week. There is also this book I love called “One Thousand Beautiful Things” compiled by Marjorie Barrows which I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys reading beautiful poems, stories, inspiring passages and beautiful essays. I browse through it every day and just read a couple of pages or more if I have time. And another favourite book on beauty that I am re-reading is “Beauty-the invisible embrace” by John O’Donohue.😊
I became a dog person even after loving cats first as a child because liking cats seemed too girly and lame. Although I do genuinely love dogs having a cat now I’m remembering how much I loved them 😍
Omg this is SO INTERESTING!!! I remember when I was like... 10? I had a purple sparkly dolphin watch that I had loved so much but asked for a black digital watch for Christmas because I was embarrassed and thought it was uncool 😭
Emmie, as an astrologer myself, I totally feel you about getting thrown for a loop by the astrology at times 🥲 it’s a very big part of my practice to make sure not to just reiterate things that are catchy or attention grabbing; not everything is going to “stir shit up” or “throw you for a loop”-- one thing I’ve found is that when we live life mindfully, and use astrology as a compass for how to live in these times (as opposite to the whole map), it becomes clean and powerful 🤍⭐️🥹 Sending you so much love! And I’m so excited for the theme in October, I have suppressed my silly girly feminine nature for so long, time to set her freee 🌸
A compass as opposed to the whole map 🥹 Love that so much. Life is so much easier when we see astrology as gentle guidance instead of something we are victims to or “ruled by”
Emmie, I'm so enamored by this month's theme and all these loving offerings🥹. If I could teleport continents, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'm carrying this intention, everywhere I go: "This month, can we continue along our path of self discovery while still being the person we’ve always been?"
I've also been wondering about the intersection between 'feminine' and soft business. I want to have a business & I also want to sell all my belongings, move to an Italian mountain town, and live an extremely simple life maybe baking bread and arranging wildflowers. Maybe this is not in the same direction as what you're sharing, but my definition of femininity is in simplicity. This doesn't mean not being "girly" or "cute" (my Italian dream includes a wardrobe of flowy, foral cotton dresses and blush to keep my cheeks ever-rosy.) But it's simple in the refusal to take carry the societal expectations that can be so heavy. And I'm coming back around and maybe this is exactly what you're saying? I don't want to be cool. I don't want to hustle and be hung up on a traditional, masculine narrative of success. And there's a dissonance here - I want to live simply but I acknowledge that existing is expensive. I'm not sure if this is AT ALL related to the invitation, but thank you, as always, for giving me a place to share. xx.
Also, maybe this is exactly what you're sharing.
am currently working on a long essay here for the paid subscribers community about the long standing war many of us have waged against our ‘girly’ ‘feminine’ ‘cute’ or ‘high maintenance’ sides and interests in order to be seen as smart, cool, serious or spiritual.
The talk in the full moon rest class about going back to the girly, childlike and silly joys was so deep for me because it took me SO long to actually remember what felt like that for me? I had buried it in so deep maybe haha. I also feel a little weird and funny to admit that my childlike joys can be a little dark lol - the twilight series and vampire anything 😂 But I so loved having the invitation and inspiration to explore this.
I’m a Pisces Sun too and guilty of taking Astro content way too seriously. Reading this post made me remember how there was a time when I did new moon and full moon rituals without even knowing which zodiac the moon was in or caring about it because I didn’t have the time to dive into that as yet, and honestly, even without the zodiac energy angle, those moon rituals worked so deeply and beautifully for me. I had no idea about eclipse season coming in and I was like “Ugh, again?? Didn’t we just have that” 🤣 Guess I need an Astro-fast too.
October feels so magical, grounding and season of the witch to me and I’m just too excited for it. I just come so alive whenever there’s spooky and dark and witchy vibe stuff afoot and that might just be my joy to anchor into 🥹 Can’t wait for this theme and so excited about it having soft business!!!
Omg I'm a Pisces Sun too!! ♓️ and I feel you on the "twilight series and vampire anything" – I was 13 when I remember reading Twilight for the first time, this was before it went viral so I was searching everywhere on the Internet to find people to talk about it with, and when I couldn't find anyone, I thought it must be a shameful thing to like something so weird and girly. It's wild how much we are conditioned by society for these things!!!
P.S. I loooove that you're so excited for spooky/dark/witchy tings~ Do you have a lot of Scorpio/8H in your chart by any chance? 🌝
I wrote this about my journey around exiling the girly within to embracing her, it’s heavily in the context of fashion, my relationship with wearing colors and masculine-feminine energy, I’m going to leave it here 💕 I can’t wait to read your long post about it when it comes.
Oh I am so excited about this theme! I was JUST talking about beauty last week with my husband and even my brother after coming across this quote by John O’Donohue: “There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may wake up to the urgency of life, how short it is. Then the quest for truth becomes the ultimate project. We can often forage for years in the empty fields of self-analysis and self-improvement and sacrifice much of our real substance for specks of cold, lonesome factual truth. The wisdom of the tradition reminds us that if we choose to journey on the path of truth, it then becomes a sacred duty to walk hand in hand with beauty.”
It sent me down a rabbit hole... remembering hearing Dr Zach Bush saying we are here to witness the beauty, and and then just being fed up in general of all the lists and rigid rules. I realized I craved beauty. The poet Goethe was once asked by a friend what he would suggest as a daily exercise for spiritual betterment. He said:
"I would like to read a noble poem.
I would like to see a beautiful picture.
I would like to hear a bit of inspiring music.
I would like to meet a great soul.
And for my fellow men I would like to say a few sensible words."
Oh my goodness Mihaela this is so beautiful and SO spot on for this months theme 😭😭😭😭 I feel it in my bones 🤍✨ I might share some of these quotes over on the October page for the studio too if you don’t mind. Thank you for your generosity in sharing!
Thank you, and of course, please do share. I have been delving deep into this theme this last week. There is also this book I love called “One Thousand Beautiful Things” compiled by Marjorie Barrows which I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys reading beautiful poems, stories, inspiring passages and beautiful essays. I browse through it every day and just read a couple of pages or more if I have time. And another favourite book on beauty that I am re-reading is “Beauty-the invisible embrace” by John O’Donohue.😊
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I became a dog person even after loving cats first as a child because liking cats seemed too girly and lame. Although I do genuinely love dogs having a cat now I’m remembering how much I loved them 😍
Omg this is SO INTERESTING!!! I remember when I was like... 10? I had a purple sparkly dolphin watch that I had loved so much but asked for a black digital watch for Christmas because I was embarrassed and thought it was uncool 😭
Purple sparkly dolphin watch sounds lit! Would have gone well with my pink Powerpuff Girls watch haha
Emmie, as an astrologer myself, I totally feel you about getting thrown for a loop by the astrology at times 🥲 it’s a very big part of my practice to make sure not to just reiterate things that are catchy or attention grabbing; not everything is going to “stir shit up” or “throw you for a loop”-- one thing I’ve found is that when we live life mindfully, and use astrology as a compass for how to live in these times (as opposite to the whole map), it becomes clean and powerful 🤍⭐️🥹 Sending you so much love! And I’m so excited for the theme in October, I have suppressed my silly girly feminine nature for so long, time to set her freee 🌸
A compass as opposed to the whole map 🥹 Love that so much. Life is so much easier when we see astrology as gentle guidance instead of something we are victims to or “ruled by”
Yes yes yes!!!!!! 🥹🌟
Emmie, I'm so enamored by this month's theme and all these loving offerings🥹. If I could teleport continents, I would do it in a heartbeat. I'm carrying this intention, everywhere I go: "This month, can we continue along our path of self discovery while still being the person we’ve always been?"
I've also been wondering about the intersection between 'feminine' and soft business. I want to have a business & I also want to sell all my belongings, move to an Italian mountain town, and live an extremely simple life maybe baking bread and arranging wildflowers. Maybe this is not in the same direction as what you're sharing, but my definition of femininity is in simplicity. This doesn't mean not being "girly" or "cute" (my Italian dream includes a wardrobe of flowy, foral cotton dresses and blush to keep my cheeks ever-rosy.) But it's simple in the refusal to take carry the societal expectations that can be so heavy. And I'm coming back around and maybe this is exactly what you're saying? I don't want to be cool. I don't want to hustle and be hung up on a traditional, masculine narrative of success. And there's a dissonance here - I want to live simply but I acknowledge that existing is expensive. I'm not sure if this is AT ALL related to the invitation, but thank you, as always, for giving me a place to share. xx.
Also, maybe this is exactly what you're sharing.
am currently working on a long essay here for the paid subscribers community about the long standing war many of us have waged against our ‘girly’ ‘feminine’ ‘cute’ or ‘high maintenance’ sides and interests in order to be seen as smart, cool, serious or spiritual.
I am so exciting to lean into this month's theme with you! Lets reframe beauty as a natural force within us rather than a standard to aspire to xo
The talk in the full moon rest class about going back to the girly, childlike and silly joys was so deep for me because it took me SO long to actually remember what felt like that for me? I had buried it in so deep maybe haha. I also feel a little weird and funny to admit that my childlike joys can be a little dark lol - the twilight series and vampire anything 😂 But I so loved having the invitation and inspiration to explore this.
I’m a Pisces Sun too and guilty of taking Astro content way too seriously. Reading this post made me remember how there was a time when I did new moon and full moon rituals without even knowing which zodiac the moon was in or caring about it because I didn’t have the time to dive into that as yet, and honestly, even without the zodiac energy angle, those moon rituals worked so deeply and beautifully for me. I had no idea about eclipse season coming in and I was like “Ugh, again?? Didn’t we just have that” 🤣 Guess I need an Astro-fast too.
October feels so magical, grounding and season of the witch to me and I’m just too excited for it. I just come so alive whenever there’s spooky and dark and witchy vibe stuff afoot and that might just be my joy to anchor into 🥹 Can’t wait for this theme and so excited about it having soft business!!!
Omg I'm a Pisces Sun too!! ♓️ and I feel you on the "twilight series and vampire anything" – I was 13 when I remember reading Twilight for the first time, this was before it went viral so I was searching everywhere on the Internet to find people to talk about it with, and when I couldn't find anyone, I thought it must be a shameful thing to like something so weird and girly. It's wild how much we are conditioned by society for these things!!!
P.S. I loooove that you're so excited for spooky/dark/witchy tings~ Do you have a lot of Scorpio/8H in your chart by any chance? 🌝
Gwen I am a scorpio rising! Hahaha.
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I wrote this about my journey around exiling the girly within to embracing her, it’s heavily in the context of fashion, my relationship with wearing colors and masculine-feminine energy, I’m going to leave it here 💕 I can’t wait to read your long post about it when it comes.
https://open.substack.com/pub/oorjacircle/p/the-self-denial-arc-with-wearing?r=1n5h64&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post