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🖤 WHY WE NEVER FEEL READY 🤍

By Lian Brook-Tyler

It’s a myth that one day we’ll feel powerful enough, courageous enough, resourced enough, healed enough, supported enough, protected enough, enough enough to feel ready to be the fullness of who we came here to be without any pain, fear or risk.

The truth is we’ll never feel ready if that’s what we’re waiting for… there will always be detractors, losses, and prices to pay.

The question is… will you choose to allow your soul to live through you fully anyway?

Will you submit to Divine Will, to your deepest desires… without the need for approval, security or control?

The truth is… that’s a choice available to you now… and one you’re ready to make if you decide to.

And when you do, all the support, guidance and love you need will rush to meet you.

“This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.” Terence McKenna

The abyss will always be an abyss, therefore it will always feel scary… Will you choose to let go and fall anyway?
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Art: Julie Bell 🙌

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LIFE ISN’T FAIR ✨

By Lian Brook-Tyler

The topic of fairness is showing up a lot in the Wild Medicine circle and with 1:1 clients… these are powerful men and women who came here with big soul missions, constricting, judging and repressing themselves in the name of fairness.

But much as we might want life to be fair, it isn’t.

(And I say this as an autistic Libran who spent most of her life rigidly *obsessed* with trying to make things fair – if anyone has resisted and stress-tested this truth, it’s me).

Look at nature… is it fair?

With all of nature’s wondrous diversity, how would you even begin to measure fairness between the sun and the badger, the emerald and the oak, or even between two of the same species… two wolves, for example? One is stronger, one is more beautiful, one is fertile, the other is not.

The truth is, life is not fair and when we try to keep ourselves (or others) small and dimmed to attempt to make it so we’re just arguing with reality.

You might have more energy, less money, more support, less trauma, more intelligence, less power, more connection to spirit, less empathy… whatever your unique combination of all the possible ways a human can be, you are a necessary and perfect part of the whole.

The more we shine unashamedly big and bright, just as the sun, the badger, the emerald, the oak, and the wolves, the more the world can benefit from the unique gift we came here to be.

And paradoxically, the more fair life feels.

Art: Lucy Campbell

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✨ What’s your context for life? ✨

By Lian Brook-Tyler

I recorded a podcast episode yesterday with a lovely chap, a psychotherapist, called Paul Leslie.

Part of our conversation was about the idea of a “context” for our lives, meaning the frame or perspective we live our life from.

This context acts as a filter for how we see the world and it also acts as a boundary for what we can create within it.

Some of the common contexts we touched on are:

A problem solving life
I’m here to make a difference
Life’s a struggle then you die
Life is about survival
A magical existence
People are out to get me
Life is about helping others

From within each of those contexts, we will see and create our lives completely differently.

As much as I spend so much of my own life thinking and talking about things like devotion, gifts and soul purpose, this feels like a slightly different lens, one I suspect I’ve looked through before but not for a while.

It got me pondering what my life context is and if it’s different to why my soul is here and if so, whether they work together…. Where I’ve got to so far is here:

I already know that my deepest devotion is to Union (the Union of all kinds of polarities, especially the magical Union of Masculine and Feminine) and my context is something like “Walking in beauty”

With beauty before me may I walk.
With beauty behind me may I walk.
With beauty below me may I walk.
With beauty above me may I walk.
With beauty all around me may I walk.

These words are from a Navajo prayer, and from my understanding (albeit possibly limited due to domestication I’m still liberating myself from), it’s more than a prayer, it’s a way of being… I first read about this way of being in the excellent book “The Way of The Human Being” and it immediately felt like home.

And for me, Union is the quintessence of beauty so I guess it makes sense that this devotion and context are jiving together in this particular karmic soul/body occurrence called Li.

Btw, I’ve shared before that my top strength on the VIA Survey of Character Strength is “Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence” – that makes me chuckle as it could sound so shallow and yet, it’s so accurate for me, it really is the filter through which I see and create everything (Mr B agreed, and he’s the best BS filter this dream-soaked sprite could ask for).

I’ve just remembered too, a recent conversation with a dear friend when we were out in London for cocktails about “If we had a rickshaw…” and she said “Well, I know yours would be beautiful.”

So beauty, it is. What do you think your context is?

P.S. Here’s the VIA assessment if you want to give it a whirl too.

Art: Golden Girl by Frank Frazetta

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Consent to be played with… ✨

By Lian Brook-Tyler

For anyone caught up in trying to live life based on our culture’s conditions, it will feel meaningless and hard much of the time… for neurodivergents and magically-gifted people (often one and the same), this goes double.

But life is always inviting us to stop, look clearly and fall in love with its magic… it won’t force us though, it works on consent.

When we begin dreaming more, loving more (especially ourselves, and especially our darkest, weirdest parts), playing more, marvelling over synchronicities, creating what brings our hearts alive, wandering more, wondering more, taking only the action that’s aligned with our souls…. We’re giving consent for life to have its way with us, to pour magic into our moments.

Like I said, this is true for all of us but if you’re ND and especially wired for magic, life will keep trying it on because it knows what you won’t yet admit to yourself, not fully… that you have a burning hot desire for a magical life, because it’s the life you came here for.

I remember my shamanic teacher telling a story how Spirit is like the Mafia, it will keep returning to knock on your door, ever harder, ever more persuasive, until it gets the answer it wants, which btw, is YES. That was *exactly* my experience and I wouldn’t recommend holding out as long as I did… until Spirit comes on heavy.

Which is the deeper reason why if you’re made for magic, life won’t give up on you, until it’s time for you to leave it.

And it’s still up to you to give consent… or not.

P.S. our upcoming crucible Waking The Wild Sovereign is an incredibly potent way to give your consent for life to play magically with you… if you’re ready.

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