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Good Thoughts, Bad Thoughts
Lyrics by George Clinton

Travel like a king
Listen to the inner voice
A higher wisdom is at work for you
Conquering the stumbling blocks come easier
When the conqueror is in tune with the infinite
Every ending is a new beginning
Life is an endless unfoldment
Change your mind, and you change your relation to time

You can find the answer
The solution lies within the problem
The answer is in every question
Dig it?
An attitude is all you need to rise and walk away
Inspire yourself
Your life is yours
It fits you like your skin

The oak sleeps in the acorn
The giant sequoia tree sleeps in its tiny seed
The bird waits in the egg
God waits for his unfoldment in man
Fly on, children
Play on

You gravitate to that which you secretly love most
You meet in life the exact reproduction of your own thoughts
There is no chance, coincidence or accident
In a world ruled by law and divine order
You rise as high as your dominant aspiration
You descend to the level of your lowest concept of your self

Robert Greene, in his book The 48 Laws of Power, states that we are constantly altering the patterns we have inherited from previous generations, and these changes are signs of life and vitality. Our fear or avoidance of success and abundance (what I call richer ground) can also be a pattern that we have inherited from past generations.

For many, we started out in the essence of our power. In our youth we showed immense creativity in expressing something new or inventive through unbridled thought and vision. The problem comes later, when we grow conservative and possessive—loyal to the status quo, for the sake of acceptance.

i had an epiphany yesterday: i should be treating myself like the lover i'm supposedly waiting on!
the bathroom is clean
i've shaven things (or not shaven them)
my body smells like palm kernel & coconut oils
i'm playing pleasant music and burning incense
i have on my sexy around-the-house wear
i threw on my tallest shoes just to go get a glass of iced tea

things like this, we're told we should do for a potential or current (or even an ex!) lover, but what about us. we are the lovers of so many other folks & all these outside things . . . but what about US? we're important too, right?

treat yourselves, sistren, the way you'd want a lover to treat you or even the way you'd treat them!
why?
because it's nobody's job but yours to love you. :D

Words others have used to describe me: reserved, modest, motherly, homely, humble, organized, nice, sweet, kind, friendly, fiesty, approachable, aggressive, arrogant, attractive and sexy.

Me Sun in Cancer and Me Luna in Virgo, the Virgin, and the tune in me head, Like a Virgin by Madonna...and some moons ago I was touched for the very first time by a Virgo Sun, was madd and muy loco behind that Virgo too - it was them doe like Bambi looking eyes and them thin cool fish lips - Cove was his name, me first love.

I remember the union...Sade playing in the background...candles...window was open and believe it or not that moon was shinning. I recall the breeze from teh fan and them crisp white sheets. Missionary was the position and the stroke, it was nice and slow like rock me baby! It hurt but it was a good hurt, hurt like give me some mo of that, I can take it...oooole Coveeee I learned a lot from him.

i have recently been having alot of trouble loving my body the way that it is...
wading through negative thoughts about various parts of me

and so as an act of self love...i have decided to create myself a private myspace page and fill it with pictures of my body...i'm making albums for different parts of me...

i don't think there will be any face shots on the site...and i may not even have any friends on there...

and i'm going to blog lovingly about my body and all of her/my parts and see what happens...

peace and bliss y'all

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.

Moon be near full and the light bright

Tides high

Rain and wind with leaves on the ground

Sun behind the clouds

Tune in me head, Al Green, Take Me To The River…and wash me down, wont you cleanse my soul, put my feet on the ground…take me to the river, dip me in the water, won’t you wash me in the water…wash me in the water…wash me in the water

"Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results."

-ANON

Okay, I'm singing this tune in my head...Anticipation

1st quarter be near and the moon be in Scorpio
Scorpio governs the sexual organs (menstruation, ovulation, copulation)

I’ve noticed that when the moon be in the water signs (Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio) that rain tends to fall or the perception be heavier than normal.

Also when the moon is in Scorpio me boobies are full and tender to the touch and the vulva be a tad bit enlarged; thus forth singling ovulation.

My identifier be 4 and Pisces be me day.

Speaking of Scorpios, I tend to attract Sun/Moon/Rising Sign males and I don’t know what it is with the females, but we tend to bump heads, kinda be like a love/hate relationship. Me ex best female bud was a Sun Cancer and Moon Scorpio and I had to cut ties with her because she was in love with me. I am not bi or curious but I am open and respectful towards others who are.

Another thing I’ve noticed with the females within my circle: Sun/Moon/Rising Sign Scorpios be having nice firm hineys and they are well versed in certain areas pertaining to sex.

Peace & Blessings Sisters,
I'm on Day 7 of my 40-day Spiritual Journey. The past seven days have been ... interesting. Each day has brought about its own revelations.

I started this journey with the hopes of fasting. My weak spiritual body didn't make it one day with that High Hope. I also set out to pray a certain number of times each day. Again, being so far from where I hope to be, my ideals are far from my grasp.

Day One, I got so discouraged that I couldn't make the fast that I enjoyed far too much wine. The other days, I ate fried chicken wings like it was my last meal. If someone from Bojangles or the other spots left out my requested hot sauce .... uhmn, it could've gotten ugly.

I didn't and never want to make a mockery of fasting. I need God to work a miracle in my life so that I can breathe again, smile again, laugh again. How ugly is it when you're blessed with all of life's riches and you're still not happy. I am in need of nothing and I know that there are others who would easily trade shoes with me. But, I'm not happy. Am I mocking God? I do not intend to. It's just that somethings missing. I want to BE DELIVERED.

i turned 39 years old in june and i realized at that time that i am still "growing up!" at times it has been an incredibly painful journey and i didn't think i would make it thru but here i am...my dad always told me that i didn't want to stop growing but at times i really miss being a child when i had someone to guide me and make the daily decisions for me...at times i miss being married and having a partner to bounce stuff off with and pick up the slack when i felt overwhelmed...but i wake up everyday, thankful for the opportunity that God has given me to continue and make it happen...despite how hard if feels sometimes....

i was folding clothes on saturday
and having a conversation with Oshun
and i came to the realization
that i just don't think that marriage is good.
there isn't anything about it that i have seen that makes me believe
that it is worth it.

i have paid lip service to the goodness of it from time to time
i have imagined myself married to some wonderful human being
and i have gotten to the point that i would consider having a wedding
(cause i used to not want one of those either...OR any of the accompanying bridal hoopla)

and i was sittin there...
and it fell on me
that i just don't believe it's good
i WANT to believe it
but i don't

and i was FLOORED...cause i hadn't been honest wit myself

years ago i remember tellin my mom (i was in either middle or high school at the time) that i thought that marriage is just something that christian people use to legitimize sex and when the heat is gone then you're left with two people who don't even like each other.

i can't say that my view on marriage is EXACTLY the same...

Today I am another year wiser. I have been an "active" member of this network for about 8 months and the wisdom, support and love of the Sistahs here has definitely helped to make me a better person. Again, thanks to you YMIB Sistahs and a special thanks to Sistah Soulliving for birthing this space.

Peace and Love!

Have we always been single mothers? Is it a new concept, a post modern concept, a consequence of enslavement or any other social analysis....? I wonder...When my son arrived on July 20th of last year, though at that time bonded with my husband, delivering him into this universe was a singualry, undescribable experience of both pain and blessing...and when my son cried or stirred for a good month, I insisted on being the one to care to be to go despite exhaustion.

Then I think of this culture in which we live and give to as if "normal." The separation of labor, the emotional investment in the nuclear family, in what we have been taught is the way of being....I wonder..

I never dreamed of being here...going through a divorce...a single, technologically married woman with son...working to pay daycare, even needing daycare, underpaid teacher...but I am here.

Much like my ancestors, women folk who cared not only for theirs but all children...much like my mother, my grandmother, many of mine who raised children with love and principle without support only a community of like energy...

Today is the last day of the seventh month of this year, July, it is also the last day of a waning moon cycle. So tomorrow when you awake the name of the month will change and the moon will be in a new course. There will be a lot of fresh and new energy in the air.

The new moon will occur in Leo on 8/1/08 at 6:12am EST.

A new moon in Leo will be a time of EGO. Leo, marked by the lion , is the sign that represents the ego. Leo is ruled by the Sun. There is a lot of passion, heat, pizazz, dignified, and dramatic energies associated with Leo. In Leo you feel the reign of the lion. The lion is a sign of royalty, often referred to as the King of the animal kingdom. Yet at the same time it is deemed king because of its ferociousness. In Leo we must challenge ourselves to remain balanced because the pull of the ego can be extrememly STRONG. However the beauty of the pull of the ego is that it often brings us actually closer to our soul in our spirit, as we realize its presence and pull.

As the brightly lit Sun sits in Leo, the dark Moon mirrors its sign - can we say Solar Eclipse...

Been busy like the bee...

Tomorrow, be sacred, and Mother Earth be thirsty. In my trials I've discovered/learned that the blood keeps the scavengers away! Oh! how I love me sacred well, for she is never dry!

Day after tomorrow, I'll be getting another tattoo: the ankh, because its time to retire the bracelet.

Rest day, when the Moon be in Virgo, imma wash/retwist me locks and pluck me eyebrows.

By the time Full Moon arrives, school will be starting. Time to make the donuts!

I keep a deck of Power Thought Cards by Louise L. Hay at my desk at work to keep the positive thinking and inspiration flowing. I keep one taped to my computer until I feel the need to refresh its space with a new one. Today was that day.


Like I always do, I closed my eyes and allowed the spirit to move me to the right card. This is what it said.


The front said:


I am open and receptive to new avenues of income.


The back said:


I now receive my good from expected and unexpected sources. I am an unlimited being, accepting from an unlimited source, in an unlimited way. I am blessed beyond my fondest dreams.


I so needed this right now, as I am launching a new business and saving for a new house.


We always have exactly what we need.

Blessings Goddess Women!

I enjoy the sharing that women do on my show Wisdom Talks and the latest to share are our very own Sexual Griot, Angelique Shofar. We had such a wonderful time talking, sharing our wisdom with one another and breathing in Sensual SiStarhood.

...and then, I had a conversation with another awesome SiStar whose name is Opeyemi Parham. She is a former medical doctor who turned Ceremonialist to help women especially to heal their wounds. That interview will be up either today or tomorrow.

You can tune into the show anytime at http://www.mosaradio.net/Wisdom%20Talks%20PL.htm

...and if you want to download the interviews to your iPod, you can do so by going to http://www.mosaradio.net and you will see the banner that leads you to that.

Please enjoy the conversations with these Wise Women. I know I did!

Blessings Goddess Women!

Okay, I just finished reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein for the third time and I love that book. Such wisdom within science fiction.

In the book, the Man From Mars, Michael Valentine Smith says to his 'water brothers' (that includes women) "Thou Art God!" In this day and age, we have heard many say Namaste or we have said it ourselves. In essence both greetings say the same thing.

So, here is a thought. If the Divine Essence was to personify itself in human form and visited your home, how would you treat that essence?

Can you accept saying and believing the terminology Thou Are God/dess?

Even though we are all of the same essence there are those who refuse to live to the highest standards, i.e, murderers, rapists, pedophiles. These are types of essence that the Man From Mars would blink away, sending them back to the beginning that they may remember and advance in Higher Knowledge. Oh, if only it could be so simple. :-)

I often feel like I have an invisible wall around myself, a shield that keeps me from the barbs that can be thrown at you from the various encounters I face every day. I suppose a good amount of shielding is a little necessary--it's important to guard our hearts and not let other people's issues become ours. At the same time, though, I feel I do this a little bit too well...I don't always feel as though I am living as authentically or vulnerably as I could be with those in my circle.


I saw a friend on the train last week and we had the best conversation we ever had. We talked about our issues and our hopes and our fears...and in such a public space as the Broad Street Line made the experience that much more liberating. After our conversation, I felt really elated and wished that I could have even more conversations with my friends like this...that I could just break down the walls and truly let people in...not worrying about how I look or what people will think.

Don't forget your strength...

These are words that a dear sister friend wrote on a pink sticky note to me before heading back to her then-temporary home in Houston when I first moved to San Antonio. These are words that have constantly repeated in my head and resonated within my Spirit over the nine months since she has written them. Why is it that as women we get so caught up in maintaining the perception that others have of us and in the process, forget our own strength? I asked myself this question only after realizing that for the past nine months, I had stifled and second-guessed myself so much so that I had forgot what it was that made me… Me. And if I didn’t completely forget, I at least aborted it in those moments where I thought it would be better to trust everyone else except for me.

Sisters:

I am doing a bit of soul-search/research about the Feminine Essence that each of us women possesses, and would appreciate your thoughts and expressions on the matter.

As I have grown older and matured as a woman and a mother, I recognize how powerful the feminine essence truly is; that potent inner substance that is uniquely female and in-sync with the very roots of nature and cosmic rhythm---and expressed externally by the natural beauty of the feminine physique.

I am inspired by the work of Akua Auset and Yes Lioness (M. Borgella) on the subject, and want to capture your thoughts as well on the following:

1) just what you perceive the Feminine Essence to be

2) what it means to you

3) how you connected with it i.e. what experiences opened your eyes and your spirit to the awareness of your personal feminine power

4) how your awareness and embracing of it impacts your conscious and unconscious living at all levels, mentally, physically, spiritually and in relationship with others (sisters and brothers)

I look forward to your thoughts!

SisterSpeak

SisterSpeak Online Magazine
www.sisterspeakonline.com

so i was watchin snippets of joseph campbell's the power of myth on youtube.com
i believe it was part 6 of the bliss and sacrifice portion of the piece

and he was talking about sacred space...and he spoke on it as not necessarily a tangible space like a room or a section of floor...but he said that sacred space can be a time that you observe each day.

and that blew my mind...he was basically like erybody should have a time each day in which they don't know what happened on the news or who their friends are...and he said that that is where creativity will take hold...or something to that effect

he said that you may not notice anything happening in the beginning but trust that it is working.

i've also taken some space for myself AWAY from other people including my boyfriend. this has assisted me greatly in not feeling so overwhelmed. now if i could manage to make myself go to bed at a decent hour...who KNOWS what might happen!

"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever." -Psalm 23

What a Week! I try to not discuss too much of my personal life, but I will attest to saying that the past 7 days have been FULL:
FULL of LOVE
FULL of FEAR
FULL of LEARNING
FULL of LAUGHS
FULL of SURPRISES
FULL of EMOTIONS
FULL of HAPPINESS
FULL of FEELING
FULL of LIFE

I am coming into a better understanding of this season I am in, and appreciating the journey and many twists presented along the way. I am remembering to remember and in the process, am becoming more confident in my Self completely. I must cease questioning that which I already know or, as a close sister-friend of mine said to, "Don't Forget Your Strength." I am learning more and more how to trust, embrace and accept Self. It may have taken some time but I am grateful. I give thanks to God for the amount of time because obviously, it was what I needed. No regrets here, just an overwhelming calm and peace; and to that I say, "Ase, Amen."

Lately I have been feeling so free and with this lightness, I feel myself wanting to offer up words of thanksgiving and praise non-stop. I feel that I am returning home, not to a physical destination, but to my Self. I can only relate it to seeing a relative after so many years and the amount of joy that emanates from the family upon his/her return. So this is what love feels like... free. This is what communion with the Most High feels like... a permanent returning.

How sweet it is to be in this Space; how sweet it is indeed...

The map of your soul contains so many secret paths and unexplored territories. Would you like to trace its path and uncover its ecstatic riches and hidden treasures?

Come….enter into a sacred space, with bare feet explore the spine-tingling sensations of moving your body free-ly. It is your sensual playground. Come move, dance, sweat, stretch, unwind, release, sigh, shout, laugh, make believe, release, connect, change, transcend, come fuse …mind, body and soul!

Soul Fusion is an ecstatic fusion of yoga and dance.

You are invited to celebrate life and play!

SOUL FUSION - (Integrating Yoga & Dance)

&

TANTRIC ACTIVE MEDITATION - (Peace & Sensuality in Motion)

Visit the following link for more information:

The Sexual Griot Playbook
http://sexualgriotplaybook.blogspot.com/2008/07/sensual-living-playshops...

As I have been learning how to live in my power of self-permission, I have collected a list of slogans over the years. My most recent is: "The Strength of My Words, The Power of Your Will." I recently had a conversation with Spoken Word musical artist RhapsodE regarding her upcoming CD and she shared with me a recent poem she wrote-birth out of a pruning of the heart that produced growth. I was moved by it because it is a testament that while there is strength in words, the greater power is in the will. ENJOY!

Blessings SiStars,

The newest interview is ready for your listening pleasure http://www.mosaradio.net/Wisdom%20Talks%20PL.htm

It is a conversation with DeAnna L'am who is Blood SiStar who has been working with the blood mysteries for the past 13 years. She visited Israel and gathered both Israeli and Palestinian women together in the Red Tent.

If you would like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do so at http://mosaradio.net you'll see the banner on the right hand side of the site. This way, you can listen on your iPod.

Enjoy the sharing.

Divine Intelligent Vulvically Awakening orgasmic wombn are what we in the Temple of Wombn have come to know ourselves to be. I've written periodically about this temple and have shared an interview I did with the Chief Priestess--Nut Tmu Ankh Butterfly with the sisters here on YMIB. This is a temple which honors, believes in and supports the "Beauty Way"--a way that embraces bliss as a natural way of life. Right now, Diva Mama Nut, as she is affectionately called is offering an ongoing circle opportunity for wombn who identify themselves as healers and who wish to cultivate all of their magicks and Divine potentials in a place which honors them. Here's more about the invitation:

http://thetempleofwombn.com/WWHC.htm

Look forward to your presence there!

Greetings Beautiful SistahGoddesses!!!

I am in my birthday month - yes I am making it a whole month celebration of my life. As I look back on all that happened in this past year - I am saying WOW! I made it through. This year I ended an abusive marriage, lost all I had (materially) in a wicked divorce (but thank Goddess I was out that mess) and then a friend gifted me with a trip to Tanzania (my first trip to Afrika). On that trip I connected with the most Ancient part of me - I climbed Mt.Meru (the spirit mountain), I baptized myself in the waters of Mami Wata and I came home different...I was no longer a victim of life but a strong warrior Goddess who came to do the work she needed to do...And I am doing it...