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Red Tent Dreaming

Scene from the Red Tent film: Things We Don't Talk About
Women's Voices from the Red Tent

Do YOU remember the Red Tent? I have dreamt of a lifetime where I was inside the ruby glow of the Red Tent, in my dream the energy felt like it was in Siberia, I remember it was a preparation time...  Recently I was invited by my beautiful sisters at The School of Shamanic Midwifery to speak on a panel at The Red Tent Dreaming event here in Melbourne on Saturday, 6th October 2012. I am honoured to be a part of this potent and deeply nourishing event and to share knowing of the deep bindings we have carried as women when we made past life promises to be hidden and to be silent. We not only carry the vows we have made but beliefs taken on around what it means to be pure or chaste, what is taboo...

I welcome this emergence of the The Red Tent back into our world at this time of innovation and change. We are on the threshold of the new world where we will honour the old ways in a new expression. The focus of The Red Tent Dreaming event will be on the film: Things We Don't Talk About - Women's Voices from the Red Tent and it will be a day of immersion into the Divine Feminine through dance and ritual and the power of the Feminine Voice. By remembering our pasts and sharing oral histories we can gain clarity about the reality we wish to create and then speak it into existence. I look forward to sharing this day with you all.

The Red Tent Dreaming events are happening all over Australia and you can read more about them here: link to Red Tent Dreaming page on FB 

What is a Red Tent?(from the School of Shamanic Midwifery)
The Red Tent has been, and in some places remains, an actual place. It may also be referred to by its Native American name - the Moonlodge.
In our modern western patriarchal culture it has almost disappeared in terms of its social acceptability; however it remains in our hearts and souls as the place we retreat to during our bleeding time.
In the old times before electricity and when we lived together as a community, the women all bled at the same time, the dark of the moon. They would retreat together to the Red Tent, and enjoy their bleeding time free of the chores and concerns of their lives. They usually spent 3 days away from their families, just with the other women. They would talk together, rest, dream, care for themselves and each other. It was a nurturing environment that they all loved and appreciated. Many of the women would have prophetic dreams during this time. The women would be blessed with a vision on their third day of bleeding and this would be shared with the whole community on their return. The community hugely valued and relied on these visions the women would return with and used them as instruction for direction and focus for the community.



"Things We Don’t Talk About: Woman’s Stories from the Red Tent is a ground breaking 72-minute documentary film by award winning filmmaker Isadora Gabrielle Leidenfrost, PhD. Spontaneous and organic, a Red Tent is a red textile space where women gather to rest, renew, and often share deep and powerful stories about their lives. The Red Tent movement is changing the way that women interact and support each other by providing a place that honors and celebrates women, and by enabling open conversations about the things that women don’t want to talk about in other venues. Things We Don’t Talk About weaves together healing narratives from inside the Red Tent to shine a spotlight on this vital, emergent women’s tradition. The film provides us an opportunity to remember, to listen, to know, and to find what it is we need to bring back to our communities to help awaken the voices of women."

Get your tickets here! 

link to Red Tent Movie: Things We Don't Talk About - Women's Voices from the Red Tent

The Swan Returns

Hello Bright Ones, we have just returned to Melbourne after sharing The Swan Blessing with so many beautiful healers, artists & mystics in Sydney. I was born in Sydney and spent many years there in my late teens and early 20s - it was  wonderful to return to the cottage in Glebe surrounded by the harbour and the most amazing Moreton Bay Fig trees. An enormous thank you to all of the beautiful souls who came to share and release their past life stories with us. I am so excited about all of the incredible healing, creative and inspiring work you are all getting ready to birth in this new time. 
Oceans of love to the fearless healers & artists of Sydney and we will see you all again very soon, here are some photos we took along the way xx 
Invitation: Moreton Bay Fig in Glebe Point Park Sydney
Anchoring in Sydney with Rory
Listening to the Land
Rory working his familiar magic in the Circle of Arrival
Visit with my mother to her dreaming pool 
as she told me we were mermaids a school of dolphins swam by

Sunset on Blackwattle Bay

The Seer Awakens - Water Witchery

Hello Bright Ones, last week of the Imbolc Eve I prepared new essences and aura veils working with the beautiful natural spring water that we draw by hand from The Wombat Forest in Victoria, Australia. I have created a limited blend of Spirit of Avalon containing water from The Chalice Well, Glastonbury UK lovingly brought to me by our dear brother John Hare healer, scholar of the Grail Mysteries from Tree of Life. I have just 39 bottles of this very strong essence to give you courage to step into your dreams. Please see the special dosage requirements below. I have also created an essence The Seer Awakens to activate our innate intuitive gifts and to see with clarity the Truth.

Spirit of Avalon    $40 (limited essence)
The Seer Awakens  $25
Aura Veil (personal energy protection)  $30
Sacred Space (environment protection) $30

If you feel called to experience the water blessings of these essences please get in touch soon as they are already travelling out to your all very quickly and the Avalon essence is very limited. Please below for more information on ingredients and how to use these new essences.

Dark Moon Dreaming

Dear Dark Moon Dreamers, 

today we are in the last 24 hours of the Dark Moon before the New Moon in Gemini tomorrow - a beautiful astro for reinvention of the self! A big thank you to all of the women who attended the Black Moon Lilith workshop last night for those of you who missed out there will be another Lilith workshop in July see here for more details. Just minutes after our beautiful workings with the Shadow last night I received this inspired Lilith piece from my dear friend Melody:

Thank you, Creator-Destroyer Mother, for the certainty of rebirth. I know the trial is 
not done, the loss not even over let alone healed, but I listened to your deep wisdom 
and I am alive. I am whole in my brokenness, grateful through my tears, ecstatic by my 
sword-split heart. I am on the path. I surrender to your power, and so step into mine.

by Ursula Ferriera


I hope it helps you to surrender to your own power today and tomorrow. 

For those called to work with their creativity this weekend of the Winter Solstice I will be holding the last encaustic art workshop in Melbourne for a while before I go on tour interstate with The Swan Blessing. This workshop will be focussing on creating your own beeswax oracle and channeling the message through writing. Please let me know if you feel called to join us,

Oceans of love, Julia

Honouring the Super Moon & Radiant Sun

This morning I felt called to check in with the birds at this time of such a huge Full Moon. Williamstown is a sanctuary for seabirds but I've never seen as many gathered together as I saw at dawn this morning. I love looking at the city from this side of the world - hello Melbourne!

On Friday on our walk I was being mindful to follow my hearing. I could hear a tree rustling and walked over to this tree. As I stepped closer I Tony pointed out that there was a flower inside the hollow - it was in fact 2 pink roses, side by side. I love the secret stories and mysteries revealed. Where is the love? Everywhere x

Forgiveness at the Dark Moon

Forgiving others does not mean that you need to do anything or take any action. It is an attitude of love that does not judge or condemn. Forgiving others does not mean condoning or approving of their behavior, nor does it mean that you feel superior. Forgiving others releases the negative energy within you, and frees you to love as your soul. Every time you choose love, you are the winner. As you forgive others, your body grows healthier, you feel better about yourself, and you have more energy to put into yourself and your life.

— Orin