March forth: Woo Corner and other vitamins
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Good morning, glories! If you're here for the functional Woo, you'll find it at the bottom of this email. Otherwise, grab yourself a beverage and stay awhile. This is the space I use to update you on all the haps that are happing in all the corners of the internet I whisper to. What's happening now:The Audacity Project, Cycle 28, is open to the public and enrolling this week only! This much-loved program is my flagship course for working artists (or those who would like to be) to get their shit together and take possession of their place in their world. It's been tried and tested since 2017 with excellent results- it works. In about a year, this program will be morphing into a self-led study, up to and including Cycle 30. I say this because I'm aware some people follow me for 5+ years before they feel ready to take the project. I want to be upfront about it and give you all the time and information to make your choices. You can schedule a quick, comfy 15 minute call with me to talk about whether or not you're a good fit, or you can enroll at the button below and save your place:
Cycle 28 is about halfway full from the waitlist, so there's plenty of room for you at the table. You can read all about it at that link, or respond to me if you have questions. I'm here for any and all of them. On the Podlycast in February:
On the Patreon:February saw two updates for your leisurely perusal. The first was recorded while watching what I can only describe as the beginning of government collapse from a foreign country: The 2nd was a fun and silly little "day in the life" video, as a palate cleanser: An excerpt from this post, because I mean it: "Life has it's plans, a household needs onions replanted and food restocked and dad's pills refilled and doctor's appointments. I was just saying to Jenny not 5 minutes ago, you can easily spend your entire life taking care of a household. And yet, we artists invent time to sit in a room and think up some shit that has never existed before. I've always been in awe of artists, and that feeling only gets more pervasive with age and experience. I know now how easy it would be to just...not. Except that I could never. If it seems like artists are fighting for their lives, it's because we are. You are. And I thank you immensely for it." As always, to my patrons who make this and so much more possible for me, THANK YOU for believing in me. With every heartbeat, I remember and thank you for believing. and without further ado: March's Woo Corner:I know you will all join me in welcoming- This gives me a moment to invite you to do something I think is really very much called for right now. Most people will admit they would like to have more wealth and security, especially lately. But almost no one can tell you what wealth actually means to them. Like...how much wealth? What exactly quantifies that desire? I don't mean just the numbers in the bank that make you feel easier in your life, I mean what is/would be the experience of wealth for you? How would the way you move through the world change? What would you do differently? How would it change how you eat? What smells would accompany this wealth? And since wealth can't ignore the number in the bank, what IS that fabled number in the bank that would make you feel the you had enough? I'll quote my wise friend Jessie Rard here, because this quote lives in my head rent-free: "The opposite of scarcity isn't abundance- it's enough." It is no secret that the accumulation of wealth can be an addiction in which no amount can slake that thirst. Here's another quote for you from the late great Dorothy Parker, "if you want to know what god thinks of money, just look at the people [she] gave it to." It's well documented that plenty of people with what we would call wealth are not happier than we are- let's take the time to prepare ourselves for what wealth actually means to us. So...what's enough? No really, what exactly would that be? This is something for you to take to your morning pages/doodles/voicenotes, or chat with your dearest about. The 10 of disks is not only a portend of increase in wealth, but an invitation to know wtf that actually means TO YOU. And I'll quote directly from the Thoth deck booklet here, because reasons: "Completion of material fortune but nothing beyond final solidification unless there is devotion to creativity." Wealth will be what we make it. And unless we know what it is to us, we won't recognize it even if it's sitting at our table. We'll just keep looking for it out the window even though it might be in your sitting room. We get to decide. CARD #2: Mixing it up this year, I pull an extra card fresh every month to dignify the first. I'm away from home at the moment, but I still have my trusty Thoth deck with me. And this month's extra card is: If you've been here a minute, you'll recall that The Empress was the card for last month. You can read that full description here, from February's Woo Corner. To summarize, the Empress represents the embodiment of the divine feminine. It's an invitation to know what the divine feminine feels like IN YOUR BODY. You have permanent access to all of these things, it is your birthright to access divinity, femininity, masculinity, and swim in the sea of of all the combinations of these spectrums. This card appearing, yet again, tells me one thing very clearly. It's dignifying the 10 of disks like this: if we want wealth, we need to know what enough is. And we need to know what wealth feels like IN OUR BODIES. Desire without embodiment is just thoughts. The transformative power of desire comes from its embodiment. Invoke the embodiment, invoke the thing itself. That's what magic is. And you are magic. Don't go back to sleep. xoRachel ps. Don't forget The Audacity Project is open for enrollment this week only, until midnight on Friday. You can book a quick, easy call with me here, or enroll at the button below. If you are a BIPOC creator, there is a scholarship fund the belongs to you, especially entry to the arts in the US has a long history of being melanin deficient. It already belongs to you, just reply here to me to claim it.
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