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
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 
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.
👑 ARE YOU ONE OF THE FEW? 👑
By Lian Brook-Tyler
Our people are the wild ones, the misfits, the magical ones, the neurodivergents, the medicinal ones, the powerful leaders who model loving and truthful ways of living… they’re unique, of course, but the commonality they share is that they didn’t come here to fit neatly and politely into this culture, they came to shake things up… to either herald in new ways or to reclaim the ancient ways, sometimes both, and always aligned with their Soul’s True Will.
It can be a lonely, shadowy path to walk, filled with inadequacy, uncertainty and dead ends, but it doesn’t need to be that way – there are ways to journey with The Few, those rare people who are devoted to this soul-led, open-hearted sovereign way of being.
The next way to join us is through the portal of Waking The Wild Sovereign – it opens this November.
You will be guided, loved, activated, witnessed and celebrated as you illuminate and actualise the unique King or Queen you came here to be… one of The Few.
You already know if this is you, the only question is whether you’ll choose yourself. If you’re ready, let’s talk.
There is NO substitute for the deep work
By Lian Brook-Tyler
There is no substitute for the deep work… the work of descending and integrating your shadow.
And yet, your shadow has every reason to convince you otherwise.
It will whisper that you can meet your needs through the OTHER work… life coaching, breathwork, NLP, Reiki, mindfulness, meditation and most brilliant of all, that there is no self and therefore nothing to see and nowhere to go.
All of which can be beneficial in their own way and yet, they’re no substitute for the deep work.
Meanwhile, you find ways to bypass and numb your fear that your needs are not being met and never will be.
Until finally you realise… there is NO substitute for the deep work.
Which is your first step to true liberation and the fulfilment of your deepest needs… those of your Soul.
Art: Luis Royo
✨ What SUCCESS really is and how to be truly successful ✨
By Lian Brook-Tyler
I sometimes find myself in conversations about “success” and when I ask someone to share their definition of it, they realise the trusty societal landmarks and milestones with which they used confidently to measure success have been left behind on a worn and dusty game board upon which it no longer makes sense for them to place their piece.
This is because although the people who are journeying with me might still feel some of the shadowy allure of approval, security and control (the hidden basis of what’s deemed success in our culture), they know enough by now to know it’s not the game they came here to play.
Yes, they could still achieve our culture’s hallmarks of success… money, power, status… if it’s aligned for them to do so, but if so, it will be a manifestation of something much deeper occurring.
So how do I define “success”?
Spoiler alert: it’s kind of meaningless because it’s absolutely general and yet completely different for each person…
For me, success means living as an embodiment and expression of your Soul.
Absolutely general because this is true for all of us.
Completely different because this will be unique to each of us.
You might think that would make it hard to tell when someone is successful using this definition, given how subjective and individual it is.
But no, we can see it, it’s unmistakable, so much so, our friend Clarissa says this…
“One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul…. Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it.” Clarissa Pinkola Estés
This is being so soul-illuminated we dance through the world like fireflies, entirely of this earth and from a fantastical other world at the same time, lighting the way for ourselves and others.
But the incandescence, just like wealth, position or fame, is a side effect of doing what brings our hearts alive, whether it brings us the trappings of cultural success or not… come what may, we choose to play the only game our souls came here for.
And one last thing, this kind of success is a Divinely-rigged game which all of us can win, in fact, we all win when any one of us wins.
So that’s what I call success… here’s to yours.
P.S. if you’re ready to play, come see if Waking The Wild Sovereign is meant for you.
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