Imagination is the only weapon in the war against Reality - Lewis Caroll

Did you know that In our heavens we mostly have to relate to masculine archetypes? Think of Jupiter God of Sky and Thunder, Saturn, Cronus the God of Time, Mars the God of War, etc. There is only the Moon the lunar luminary and the planet Venus Goddess of Love which relate to the feminine archetypes. This may not be a big deal on a rational level, but symbolically and more importantly in our subconscious it amplifies how hard it is to find and build our feminine psyche and why myself and so many of my clients feel they have to justify and explain themselves to the masculine. It's as if we have to come out of ourselves to try to understand how these masculine energies relate to us. It's the same with the world's view of all the religions in the world having a patriarchal figurehead. It reenforces the feminine to continually have to match up, prove, go the extra mile - it's exhausting, time wasting and frankly dull as ditch water to prolong.

What is exciting at this new light of the Vernal Equinox is that we are being offered up a whole new way of showing up in the world with the feminine leading all the way. Not only is Venus in Taurus (her natural resting place) asking us to soften, get into our most sensuous, to love the earth, to tend to the inner hearth and deepen our commitment to our hearts, but she's pressing against the North Node (asking the whole world as our collective destiny to step out of individual love into universal love, to end wars and conflict and small over-mentalised thinking).

There's going to be fire in our bellies as well as six planets sit in Aries: The Sun, a new Moon, Neptune, Mercury, Chiron and Jupiter. This is a time to step into a a new healing of the feminine In ourselves: to heal her, release the old scripts and communicate from a new framework because whatever you are focusing on Jupitarian energy will for sure amplify. It's an impulsive time where things can get trigger happy if we aren't grounded deep in the feminine. Mars is square to Neptune which on a wold level could mean war at seas or certainly conflict there, or high storms, severe weather patterns. Things are certainly getting shaken up and we are being made to listen.

For the Vernal Equinox this week here's a beautiful healing and expanding ritual to do: Interestingly, way back in 2003, a dwarf planet was found some 8 billion miles away from Earth and was named Sedna after the Inuit Goddess Sedna who is goddess of the sea. The Inuits do not believe in divinity, to them the gods and goddesses are alive and part of this world, not dead and in heaven as we tend to think of them in the Western model. Well Sedna as an astrological aspect is back making an aspect this month in Taurus and is also here to amplify the feminine.

The ancient myth goes like this: Sedna and her father are out on the seas fleeing from her husband who had treated her poorly. He and his friends turn themselves into giant winged birds and create a storm with massive waves to try and punish her for escaping. Her father is so frightened that the storm will fill his kayak with water and that he will drown in the icy waters that he throws Sedna overboard. He thinks that this will get the birds to stop flapping their wings, but it does not. Sedna does not want to be left in the water, so she holds tightly to the edge of her father’s boat and will not let go. Fearing that she will tip him over, the father cuts her fingers off, one joint at a time. From each of her finger joints exquisite and beautifully different sea creatures are born. They became fish, seals, walruses, and whales. Sedna sinks to the bottom of the ocean and becomes a powerful spirit. Her home is now on the ocean floor. If you have seen her, you know she has the head and torso of a woman and the tail of a fish.

Journal: Where do you go with this myth? What symbolism does it attract or repel in you? What are you drawn to? Where do you feel the story 'talks' to you'? How do you interpret the symbolism with regard to your own narrative? What does it teach you about the masculine/father/patriarch in our own men/fathers, society's, the world energetic we find ourselves in? Now close your eyes and imagine you are Sedna - journal how it feels to let go and let the metamorphosis you feared would not be there actually takes over when you fully give yourself. What is your subconscious inviting you to let go of? What is your ego/intellect still clinging to? Draw images, paint yourself as this story, doodle Sedna and on the night of the equinox March 20th 9.24pm (GMT) light candles, make an offering to Sedna (use salt water to cleanse yourself), and ask her to come forward to you in your dreams....make notes of what happens...feel free to email me if you get stuck or find interesting things start to happen.

The varying legends of the Sedna myth, each give different rationales for Sedna's transcendence, but in each version, her father, or 'the people', take her to sea in a boat and throw her overboard. In each she clings to her old life and her fingers are chopped off before she lets go. And in each version she sinks to the bottom of the sea, becoming the sea goddess, worshipped by hunters who depend on her goodwill to supply food.

This is the time to let go of the safety of the patriarchal boat and strong protective masculine you think can save you: material stuff, intellect, control, perfectionism, overly critical ways, forced power. Instead imagine you have finally let go of that boat and you float and become free of what you were tethered to and instead you take on the archetype of the maverick though the feminine lens: less controlled; less forced; less justifying has to be related to not talked to; break all your crayons and pencils and create with the stubby broken pieces (ie be less precise for a bit as in that chaos comes true gifts and new avenues); stop competing from ego to another's ego drop down into their vulnerability and call that; stop needing to be right and make the other therefore wrong, be grey; own your outsider and outlier-ships (which is the feminine - she is an outsider even to women) and be thankful that you don't fit the norm. Get your pioneering spirit boots out of the cupboard, dust them down and walk a mile in her boots - by the end of this season of light you'll be so glad you did because you will learn things about yourself you never knew possible.

In the Motherpeace tarot deck, a good friend of mine, the goddess sits atop the Tower she knows is ready to crumble. She is struck by lightning, so already her world has changed. A Solar eclipse is happening, and the people below are scared and waiting for her instructions. Sometimes illumination hits hard, throwing everything in life into confusion and chaos. But this allows a period of restructuring based on what the truth in life is now, releasing the personality from depression and being untrue to themselves. The authentic feminine is no longer to be seen through the lens of the masculine.....

as Mae West once said:

"A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love."

Journal

KING MAKING AND THE INNER PATRIARCH

We are at any one time a mostly unconscious ecosystem of variable energetics and changing internal climates. My consultation room gives space for the expression, sometimes incarnation, often letting go with kindness and thanks to those energetics that have previously been driving us or are waiting to be birthed. Hindu spirituality talks of the true self or the higher self but to be honest there is no hierarchy - we are all colonies of self, selves and disparate forgotten parts that need re-membering literally back to our greater wholeness.

LET YOUR DESERT BLOOM

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Time to rewire and rev up your inner witch

Women who dream of flying are connecting back to their innate desire to be free and connected to their birthright of the numinous. Supernatural flying women date back from prehistoric times when people postulated the radical divide between earth and sky. We created myths and rituals to bridge this separation, incense and fire to create smoke to connect the earth to the heavens and evoke spirit. Women have always flown to take refuge from the concretised captivity of earth's gravity and the mental plane that, when overly lived in, constrains and constricts.

The Ethereal News: CULTIVATING EROS - 'IT FEELS RIGHT TO ME'

“Beyond the superficial, the considered phrase, "It feels right to me," acknowledges the strengt...

Governments and institutions need to come together to find common ground, to collaborate, to understand and empathise with, whether that's the government departments of your body, mind, heart, spirit and soul or external governments in the world right now....we need a new song for March....crank up some Sister Sledge and get kitchen dancing with your tribe....love of your inner world will save the day:

Learn + enjoy the process of becoming

'Please hold me during this time. My transition, my awakening is precious and sacred. Please move me slowly and lovingly into newness and allow me to stretch my wings and feel into new spaces within me without judgment or fear.'

The Good, the Bad, and the Wild

A client came to me saying she had a dream where her best friend was flirting with her boyfriend in a very provocative way and as she watched the scene unfold she felt strangely voyeuristic to it and turned on. And the more her man was turned on the greater she felt it amplified in her too. We talked about her own sex life, what she liked/didn't, whether she initiated, role played etc.

Couples Work

But the discord is where the magic is, it’s where the friction is saying ‘notice this’, ‘deal with this’ ‘bring it to the forefront for your combined and individual growth.

The importance of dreaming

Here's a beautiful rounded example of what we mean in this world of 'working on ourselves' or doi...

Helping women to help themselves

Opening to Pandora's box

The spinning Wheel of Life and how to navigate it's highs and lows

useful stuff we don't learn at school We often think we are on a straight line trajectory - birth...

Some Information about Jane

Jane Kersel is recognised as one of the most distinguished embodied movement, yoga and consciousness teacher in London. She is a teacher’s teacher and was a much loved teacher at The Life Centre, Yoga Campus, The Bio-medical Trust + Triyoga (where she trail-blazed and invented their Hot yoga offering and the design of their studios). Now she works in her new vessel the Ethereal Gym teaching consciousness through the visceral body and private one to one and couples consultations sharing jungian analysis techniques and healing modalities.

My Philosophy and intention for all who study with me

to see life as a spiritual investment as much a material one - invest in love, harmony, inspiration, creativity, beauty
to commit to our own happiness - not waiting for someone else to sort things for us
to create rapture - channeling venus energy - to live as the dream of the lover and mystic
to let go of the patriarchal model and ask for the dream

Aphrodite

At that moment, the door to my studio opened as if a gust of wind had gotten behind it (this so often happens when working with spirit).

We both smiled, it was as if her lover had walked into the room there and then, his energy had arrived.

Move

In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions.....

The way to do is to be

There is no need to run outside.......

Being Mothered

But what if you, being a swan, had to pretend you were a mouse?...

Creating space

It’s important in our work together that we never over-ride these ‘primary’ parts - the parts of us that are out there in the world functioning and getting things done. However, without the understanding and integration of both of these polarities - the doing with the being, the feeling with the thinking etc

A useful perspective

360 degree health - mental, physical, emotional, physiological, spiritual, energetic To discove...

creating inner space

To observe and do shadow work, we need the experience of being centered in a higher self. That is why our spiritual practice is so pivotal. Without space inside our minds to observe forbidden feelings and behaviors, they take over. When they do, we feel controlled and overshadowed by them.