“Women and Being a Fiery Shakti Sage”

During the past 18 years, our family and myself personally have gone through many “ups and downs, backwards and sideways”, including more than a few major traumas. We have become intimately aware of the sadness of depression, the restlessness of anxiety, the pain of losing a loved one, the devastation of addictions and…the healing fire of pain, anger and hurt transmuted into unconditional love and forgiveness.

If one “googles” ‘goddess of fire”, we read about Pele, the Hawaiian goddess of fire, who is both a creator and destroyer; about Arani, the Hindu goddess of fire and sexual energy; about Freya and Aodh, Sekhmet and Vesta. In every ancient tradition, there is a goddess of fire.

One of of my designed “shakti sage” sub-qualities of power is fire. Consider these phrases: the fire of burning desire, a heart on fire, “the most powerful force on earth is a soul on fire”. Your “fire” is your internal life force.

Fire can also show up as anger, or powerful “aggress energy” (as my friend Gina Dingwell refers to it). Anger can be amazingly energizing and cleansing if it is “purified” through a soft and loving heart, filled with forgiveness.

The qualities of wisdom, unconditional love, integrity and gentleness balance the amazing power of our internal fire and I find with many of my coaching clients, during a coaching conversation about fire, it helps to also bring in the balancing qualities. Keep this in mind as you consider your internal fire!

Ayn Rand from Atlas Shrugged says

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.”

Wonderful luscious fiery shakti sages, don’t let your fire go out, this week, ponder and play with the idea of you as a fiery woman.

Self-care Enchantments:
1. Can you feel your internal fire?

2. What does it feel like, what does it taste like, what colour is it?

3. How has your internal fire “shown up” in your life?

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Namaste,

Zoey

Zoey Ryan

life & business coach for women

inspiration * clarity * wisdom * enchantment

http://shaktisage.com

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This poem fell into my life again after an absence and I love it!  Let me share it with you:

The Guest House by Rumi

This being human is a guest house
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still treat each guest honorably.
He may be claring you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughting,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

This is one of the most powerful poems I have read!  What learning and messages do you get from this?

namaste,

Zoey

Inrageous/Outrageous Self-Care Enchantments for This Week

One of my favorite poets is Mary Oliver.  I don’t read or write much poetry any more, I sure did when I was a teenager and in college.  I have included a “zoey ryan” original, (written around the age of 17 and full of teenage angst) at the bottom of the enchantments.  I also remember first year college, Poetry 101 and long winter evenings in Camrose, Alberta, reading romantic poetry with my boyfriend.  I was attracted to ee cummings as well as some of the Victorian era poets.  I was also attracted to my boyfriend and the whole idea of reading poetry together.

Back to Mary Oliver, poet and Pulitzer prize winner and her wonderful poem:

The Summer Day

“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean–
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down–
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
With your one wild and precious life?”

So, in the spirit of Mary Oliver, the summer season and poetry the self care enchantments for this week are all about poetry!

Self Care Enchantments for the week:

1.  Read some poetry while sipping mint juleps on the veranda (oops, getting carried away, let’s leave it at “read some poetry”).
2.  Write a poem!
3.  Spend time outside, simply sitting “idle and blessed” watching grasshoppers, or bees or dragonflies!

“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in beauty and joy each day.”

- Native American Proverb

Please share about your learning and exploration with these enchantments on www.thepowblog.com in the comments section of these enchantments !

namaste,

Zoey

Zoey Ryan
coach . catalyst . shakti sage
life & business coach for women
“Coaching for your heart & sou and the heart & soul of your businessl”
www.positivelyoutrageouswomen.com
www.entrepreneurialsuperstars.com
604-323-3700

Laughing

“Sometimes I laugh,
So as not to cry.
Funny isn’t it?”

- Zoey age 17

“Freedom is a bigger game than power.  Power is about what you can control.  Freedom is about what you can unleash” – Harriet Rubin