Welcome to the Dare to Blossom Newsletter
Time Sensitive: the Monday evening monthly circles are restarting on 28th April at 7.30 pm UK, and the first will also be a celebration of the Your Compass Rose Speaks audiobook, see more below.Reflections: Peace
'Embracing Joy' four week Zoom series from 7th May
Monday and Saturday Dare to Blossom monthly circles
New Substack series for the Time for You cards
Reflections: Peace
For me, today, my first response is 'yes please'. I imagine every human being longs for peace, in our personal lives and in the wider world around us where there is so much conflict. The colour for me brings thoughts of warm summer sunshine (as I write today it is very cold and grey here in Cornwall so that would be most welcome), with blue skies and calm seas.
If you would like to join me in reflection, ask yourself the questions here, and write in your journal. Or, if you prefer, read on and come back later.
- What is your first response?
- To the word? To the colour?
- What else is there?
- And, what else?
- What is your response to the words together? How do all the colours connect?
What else is there?
Peace is the same shade of blue as Beauty from two months ago, and brings the same feeling of Rest and Ease also.
And, what else?
The 'what else?' for me today is hard to put into words, other than those I use so often when I share the Your Compass Rose Speaks' meditation poem: "My centre point is Peace, grounding, balancing."
What is your response to the words together? How do all the colours connect?
In addition to my thoughts above, when I look at all the words and their colours, I feel a sense of gentle flow. The colour that is a little more bold, although not bright, is that of the Authenticity card - maybe that is just how it should be. Authenticity may enable be to show more of my true unique self, rather than blending in as the other colours do.
As always, these are simply my first responses, today. another time they would be different and so will yours be. There are no 'rights' or 'wrongs' to this process with the cards, simply what is present here today for me, and for you.
'Embracing Joy' four week Zoom series from 7th May
In these troubling times it can feel hard to find any joy in life. Yet it is there - in the flowers blooming as spring arrives, the birds singing, the blue skies and clouds overhead, the laughter of a child, the gentle touch of a friend's hand.
Join me in a simple four week series of Zoom gatherings on Wednesdays at 11.00 am UK time, beginning on Wednesday 7th May running through to Wednesday 28th May.
The fee is £80, with payment in two instalments available if that helps, and I also have some concessionary places at £60 (or another amount, by negotiation), contact me to discuss.
If you are in the UK, payment by bank transfer is good, if you prefer or you are overseas,there is a PayPal link on the website page. To ask any questions, simply reply to this email.
The flow of each Zoom gathering will be similar to other sessions you may have attended, opening and closing with Your Compass Rose Speaks, drawing Dare to Blossom Cards for each of us, and taking us on a Magic Carpet Ride guided visualisation. The circle is a quiet safe space to hear yourself think, and to share as little or as much as you would like - we are all here to witness for each other and be companions along the way for a while, walking our way home together.
There will be no Facebook group for this programme so it could be ideal for you if you prefer not to interact there. I will send photos of the cards, and a private link to the recordings of each Zoom call to you by email or via Messenger, whichever you prefer.
Monday and Saturday Dare to Blossom monthly circles
I am restarting the Monday evening monthly circles now that the evenings are lighter. The first event, on 28th April at 7.30 pm UK time, will also be a celebration of the launch of the audiobook version of Your Compass Rose Speaks. It has been a big project both in the narration, which I undertook myself, and in the preparation of the files for Audible by my lovely publisher Alice from Golden Dragonfly Press. Please contact me to request the Zoom link for Monday evening if you would like to join us.
The next Saturday gathering will be at 11.00 am on 3rd May. It would be wonderful to welcome you to either or both of these events.
New Substack series for the Time for You cards
For those of you who have been following my musings on Substack - which include a version of this newsletter as well as about the Wisdom of Wild Cornwall Cards, I have just begun a new series of pieces, one for each of the Time for You Cards. (You can sign up to receive each piece in your email, or simple pop in occasionally - whichever suits you best - here is the link.)
Some of you may remember that I mentioned using the Substack pieces to create a companion book for the Wisdom of Wild Cornwall - I may well do that at some stage but the time has not felt quite right for that yet.
Thank you for joining me here this month, any thoughts, feedback, or questions are always welcome.
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