The Heart of Winter Full Moon Women's Circle

Hello Bright Ones, we are drawing up to the full moon and in this month's Full Moon Women's Circle we are honouring the spirit of our ancestors. Please bring a photograph or personal object that helps you to connect with the energy of your own ancestors as well as that of the Ancestral Realm.

This is a photograph of the hut that my grandmother grew up in on the banks of the Hawkesbury River in NSW. Her life is a mystery, so many secrets and untold stories... without this knowledge available to me through the surviving members of her family I must search the Ancestral Realms for my own answers. I look forward to sitting and talking with my Grandmother in the Deep.

Oceans of love to you all in this Full Moon week, Julia

Give 10 for a Ted - Koala Initiative

The wonderful Colleen Wood and her volunteers at the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter do such an amazing job without any government assistance at all. And they have just launched the easiest way possible for you to help support the hundreds of koalas they have saved along with other orphaned and injured wildlife. The new initiative is: 'Give 10 for a Ted' - become a loyal follower and help out one of the beautiful koalas needing assistance for just $10. 
Here's a message from Colleen:
Good Afternoon Team Koala... 
Southern Ash is launching the “Give 10 for a Ted” initiative. 
Via our social media outlets we will pick a monthly date and each month announce to our loyal followers that it’s time to “Give 10 for a Ted”. 
By 10, we of course mean $10 donations. You can make a donation for one month, every three months, or every single month if you prefer. It’s not a direct debit system so it’s entirely up to the generosity of our supporters. This money will be used for the daily operations of the shelter such as milk supplements, transport for sick animals, vet bills, medications and medical supplies.
Direct debits can be made to:
Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter Public Fund • BSB: 033 128 • Account #: 186132
So Team Koala.... Its time to GIVE 10 FOR A TED! :) 
Here is a link to the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter Facebook page - it's so easy and very needed. A big koala hug for you all today xx

Threshold Creatures - Between Land & Sea

I am beginning to feel that the Platypus is the Australian Otter - I adore both of these threshold animals that can survive just as well in the water as on land. The Celts had such reverence for animals who guarded the thresholds. Otter is an ancestral totem for me and I am only just discovering and learning more about the platypus.

Here is the platypus pool at the Southern Ash Wildlife Shelter - looks like heaven to me.

Dreaming in Beeswax at Winter Solstice

'She Wandered as if in a Dream' - Encaustic Oracle created at Winter Solstice

 A hearty fire-filled thank you to all of the participants who shared their creativity in the WInter Solstice Encaustic Workshop on Saturday. I have never seen the beeswax talking so clearly to the artist through image and symbol. And I am already so excited to see how the wax will speak and move in our workshop on magical Mount Tamborine in QLD next month. Golden dreams from the blessed bee.

Oracle making in front of the fire

The Weekly Familiar - Emu

The Weekly Familiar - an Animal Message from Tony

This week's Familiar is EMU.

Emu: The emu is a very inquisitive bird. It's message is one of constant learning and searching all avenues. For emu, it does not matter who is teaching as long as we are learning, therefore the emu shows us that we are all student and all teachers in one way or another. The emu shows us there is never just one way to go, not one path but many. By gathering and learning as you go, you make your own path to follow. Treat everyone and everything as a teacher and embrace learning, in doing so you will create a path that is right for you and will become the teacher for yourself. The Emu.

Be Wild!

Tony

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

Touring with the Swan

Deep in preparation for a tour with The Swan Blessing - Clearing Past Life Sacred Vows and Karmic Contracts. I will be offering these sessions from the magical Mount Tamborine in Queensland from 13th - 16th July, returning to Melbourne for sessions for a couple of weeks and then flying on with the Swan to Sydney for the week of 14th - 18th August. You can read more about these sessions: Freeing the Fearless Healers here. For all of our Queensland and Sydney friends please get in touch if you feel called to receive beautiful and freeing healing as I am already taking bookings for both cities.

Oceans of love, Julia