Tea with the Muse

Dear Ones, Generations of women have been taught and programmed to believe we don’t matter. The suicide rate for girls is getting younger and younger. No matter how many articles we write about it and how much therapy tries to address the root cause of the issue of irrelevance, it persists and insists. But not just in young girls. In most of the women we actually know, there is a deeply embedded framework of feeling like our voice is silenced, even and especially from ourselves.This message came through early this morning and is for you. We are in a four day event with women and families from around the world so it is ever so important to share with you. This asked to be spoken. I listened. I hope I am speaking to someone who needs to hear it. I sure did. ~ Shiloh SophiaFor you Grandma and you Mama. I love you ever more each day. Thank you for providing good mothering soil for me to grow up in. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Painting by Shiloh Sophia: CeremonyIntentional Creativity is mindulness in motion Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Oak Tree Covered in Moss at Wild Water Creek, Sonoma Mountain, CaliforniaIntentional Creativity is mindfulness in Motion Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Enter the Portal of CompassionDear OneI often wonderwhy some people care so muchand some people don't care so muchIs it possible to teach compassionor do we have to awaken to itthrough personal experience?Compassion is as mysterious as grace,a gift to the Human Spirit from the Divine SpiritA way to open consciousness rooted in loveCompassion is elusive to teachor to compel, when someone is adverseto this kind of heartful careand loving kindnessAt times we almost seem afraid of it,What might happen if we love that much?Might it hurt? Yes it can hurt, and it can healWhat needs to happen to open the heart?To say to Life and to feel in one's own life"May all beings be peaceful.May all beings be happy.May all beings be safe.May all beings awaken to thelight of their own true nature.May all beings be free."When I sing these words from the Metta PrayerI always cry, because I really really reallyfeel it and really really really mean it with my whole beingIs that so strange to feel? So uncommon?I remember the day my heart openedSince that day I have not ceased to do my partto open hearts too, to a deeper level of caringMostly it is a long journey to teach this,not because people don't care but becausethey are truly busy, truly challenged, truly afraidand find this life difficult to navigateI do understandI want so much to speak of the quiet joythat comes from loving so much evenso much that it hurts sometimesI want to sepak to what is possiblewhen compassion comes to live in your homeI want us to care moreOh I have plenty of places where I amchallenged to care - usually when there islying, cruelty, rudeness, lack of care or witness,addiction without acknowledgementIt challenges me to find new placesas I lean into my edgesIt isn't that those of us who are teaching love,have it all sorted out and can share it with youso you can do as we do - not soRather, those of us in teaching love,learn to love moreand that is pure joyI just want us to care moreand I also want to care moreand allow my actions to follow that careMay the portal of compassion be openedto every being who is ready to receiveMay the portal of compassion be a tenderteacher to every being ready to give more loveMay the portal of compassion show usthe way to be human togetherand fall in love with CreationEverything that is on this earthwas given by grace, given freely,this is our paradise givenOh please let us know this withour whole soulPortal of Compassion - 2022 Painting just finished by Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Dear Hearts,How do you wake up each day? Do you pick up your phone? Listen to the news? Rush to the shower? Grumble about what is before you? The most sacred of all things for humans is the awareness of choice....So today, or tomorrow since you may already awake today lol, may you find a way to wake up slowly and savor.Big Love,Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Dear HeartsI just wanted to extend a soft word of encouragement today - an invitiation to choose beauty. Blessings wherever you are and whatever you are dealing withBig Love,Shiloh Sophia Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Too Much Woman Watch out!A wide load womancoming through!She laughs too loudTalks too longWears too much redWalks too heavyDances too wildHowls too crazy at the Moon.Hips too bigCleavage way too in your faceToo much glitter flyingGives too muchToo big for her britchesToo smart for her own goodHer hair is definitely too bigShe is a too much womanShe apologized too longSo now she’s just too muchBut without the apology partSometimes too much is too goodWatch out! It’s a wide load woman coming through!She’s a piece of work!Why not?Shiloh Sophia#intentionalcreativity#inspirationalpoetry #toomuchwoman#cosmiccowgirls Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Quantum Café This is a quantum cafébetween tomorrow and todayYou will find us herewaiting for you since foreverThis is the Red Thread Cafe located in every place in the worldincluding in the most important place of all,your own heart and imaginationWhen you arrive, you can’t miss me,watch for the cowgirl hat with a red roseand the blue shirtand the kickass red bootsI will be the one with my heart on my sleeveThis is a place to gather yourself up,pull up a chair and have tea with the MuseYou will see, you will be in good companyWe are the Cosmic Cowgirlsgathering in the glory of Intentional CreativityPerhaps you heard the call? There are ancient stories to be told under the smiling moon!There are new stories rising upWe are women from the future!Be welcome here, you may already be a member! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

Behold!The Muse deals in riddles and ritualswhen she invites you to tea with uncertainty.Will you show up?The Muse has a bit of a limp these days,and is only willing to work with thosewho are edge-walkers, fire-breathers, circle-callers and skin-dancers.She will even invite you to sit in her chair.The Muse doesn't have a preferencefor whether you are brave or afraid.Makes no difference to her,only that you show up like you mean it.Between the mythical and logicalthere is a holy wild place anticipating your presence. The imaginal domain awaits your full attention.The Seat of the Muse straddles both worldsIf you are truly interested in what it takes,you will need to position yourself so you can see in all directions at once. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe

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Beyond Punishment and RewardWhen you think of the word and the meaning of up, what's the very next word that comes to mind?Is it down, or something else? And if it was something else, what would it be? When you think of the word…right? What do you think of next? Do you think of the opposite? Do you think of left or do you think of wrong? Where does your mind naturally go to when you consider words that have meanings, that appear to have opposite potentials When you think of the word here,As in I'm here, then where are you?Or where am I? Are we also here? Are we there? Are we over there? When you think of suffering, What comes to mind? What comes to heart? Is it pleasure or the release of suffering? We've largely been living in an enforced either/or construct, even though we're all aware of AND. Every concept has a spectrum of possibility.Yet humans through education and certain religions have come to create a kind of forced polarity competition and separationThis has resulted in a way of thinking and being that could be an illusionWhat do you think? Does it feel like an illusion, the vacillation between the either/or?For this politician or not for this politician, for this vaccination or not for this vaccination, a good person or not a good personEven when we generalize about regions of the world, this state is that color, this state is that color. and that means what?Generalizations about entire countriesas if that somehow impacts the soul of each personDoes it? What do you think?How much sovereignty does the individual have in determining their identity and their outcomes and what is the path of practice or the way to determine one's relationship with one's identity? Can we truly author it or are we just simply stuck with what ended up happening based on our life story? Do we truly reap what we sow? We want to think so, but then we wonder how people who are sewing, terrible things like the poisoning of water, the extraction of gas through the blowing up of rocksWe want to think that, what? What do you want to think about those activities? Have you even made that and either/orhas it informed your activism? The riddle of being is hereWe can't understand how someone who could be a part of extraction that leads to collapse…How could they do that? Don’t they also have a familyand why are they not reaping what they're sewing or experiencing the karmic wheel sooner? Why aren't they stopped before they do more damage? Sometimes we wish it's more quick, whether we acknowledge it secretly or otherwiseWhat way do you live? Do you go about your day from waking, to dressing, to eating, to walking, to working, to being with the pets and the children, and your lover, your mother, your fatherWhat approach is it chosen or a default setting? I don't know about you all, but I'm interested in exploring something other than up/down, here/theregood/bad, left/ rightand the punishment and reward structures that have been seeped so deeply into our consciousnessSuch that we can barely get out from under it to think an original thoughtWhen I think of my path of practice, starting with leaving the corporate world, leaving the corporate education system, going to the mountain to study at the age of 24 now being 52 and what have I got to show for myself other than a chosen approach, but I guess that's what I was looking forAn approach, an approach I call intentional creativity, which isn't just a way of making art, but actually a way of living lifeAnd at the root of it is inquiry to question ourselves, our thoughts, our defaults, our hopes, our dreams, our desires, our relationship with suffering, our very relationship with up and down and not just to arrive at a middle path, a place of neutrality or even inner peace when the rest of the world is at war, but actually to just be at cause for doing the thinking at allFor asking the question, How might I free my own identity from the punishment and reward structures set up by power-over systems, by people I wouldn't invite to my dinner table?Why would I allow the worldview of peopleI wouldn't want to share a meal with,to shape my consciousness any further than I absolutely had to..?There comes a point a reckoning in all of our lives where we simply say enoughI must learn to think my own thoughtsI must discover the way to compassion on my own terms, but not just own as in alone, but on your own within the context of community itself,there's a continuity hereThere's a morphic field been building many, many, many, many years, many thousands of people practicingAnd there's an opportunity for the kind of discovery and waking and being that I know many of us seek because you tell me and because I seek it with youSo let us go forward together on a path of practice, an inquiry, discernment, the awakening of true compassion and the exit in each our own time from punishment and reward.What fertile deep, delicious place might existif we weren't always trying to avoid suffering in this life or the n

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