Finding your Joy - Embracing the Enchantress
Embracing the Enchantress archetype is nothing less than controversial
So, you are in your mid 40’s, 50’s or 60’s and something extraordinary is happening to you - every day.
You have frequent realisations about your mind, your body and your spirit.
Based on TRUTH, because the illusion is falling away in an effortless way.
It’s hard too.
Because living the life you have had up until now has relied on you being predictable, compliant, understanding and at times all giving.
To the detriment of your own creativity.
And as a woman, taking some strange steps to becoming somehow more holy, more innocent, more quiet.
The Enchantress challenges ALL OF THAT.
Why are women supposed to fade away?
Only because it is a distraction from the total truth, that women get more womanly, more of themselves, they become greater RIGHT NOW.
The how happens as a process, but the total truth is there in its raw honest form, if you can just surrender to its beautiful inevitability.
Because the Enchantress is sexy, bold, loud, confident, mystical, spiritual, wild, adventurous, creative and authentic.
She walks upright, takes long strides, wears bright colours, is not afraid to be happy, angry, tired, energised, and break with convention completely. In fact she is pure liberation, she is FREEDOM.
There are two choices, you stay in the outgrown life or you step out of the comfort zone and grow into this Enchantress that will lead you to Crone.
Enchantress medicine is waiting, she is ready to take you on the best journey so far.
Angie Litvinoff is a Life Changing Rites of Passage Guide for Visionary Women, a Modern Medicine Woman, Mentor and Artist.
She helps women FIND THEIR JOY AND REBIRTH in Menopause and Beyond.
You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
photo by Nux Photography
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brutal honesty
So beginning to love yourself is about getting brutally honest.
What do you really feel, really want, really think?
And what do you really want to say?
Thanks to a conscious perimenopause I have homeopathic support which allows me to be in tune with all my changes.
And many of the physical and emotional changes are a direct reflection of my history so far (more on that another time).
I mention this as I know when I feel emotional and cry because something is so damn beautiful, or that my swearing is rather abundant on certain days, or that I need extra time in bed as exhaustion hits me.
And then the times of productivity when I feel a frenzy of creativity.
Amongst all that is this brutal voice, brutal truths.
Because its just too tedious to sugar coat my opinions any more and I don’t have time for bullshit.
When did this directness begin and get so prolific?
When I realised I had had enough of wasting time on something less than 100% honesty. And similar to when my children where very young and they didn’t hesitate to say it how it was - my actions speak even louder than my words, here lies brutal honesty in its full and most potent form.
You see, voice is not just words and truth is about carrying your message into your daily life.
I decluttered my life in every aspect.
So that I could get brutally honest with myself, so that I could carry through the passion and dreams which felt so urgent.
They ARE urgent. Living life for you is urgent.
Having boundaries is urgent.
Starting now is urgent.
Getting acquainted with the Wild Wise Woman in You is urgent.
Yes - you are sacred, sacred and divine.
Finding your voice so you can really hear it, so it speaks from your heart and so that you choose when and when not to speak will change everything.
What are you ready to get brutally honest about with yourself and with others?
The time to embrace this sassy soul of yours is HERE.
Angie Litvinoff is a life changing Rites of Passage Guide for Visionary Midlife Women, a Modern Medicine Woman and Artist.
She helps women FIND THEIR JOY AND REBIRTH in Menopause and Beyond.
You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
photo by Nux Photography
how to master the power of no
Blog: how to master the power of no. Boundaries and self worth.
The most important thing that I have learned so far on this journey is the power of no.
So how did I embrace it and why did it change so much for me?
When you think about it, it doesn’t seem so hard, but dig a little deeper in you, and get honest.
How often in life have you found it hard to say no to someone? And what stopped you from doing so?
Boundaries are everything when you are addressing themes and challenges around self belief, self esteem, self worth.
And not being able to say no often goes way back in our lives, to a time when we felt either forced or obliged to do something without putting ourselves first, as a given.
When our needs were not considered to be a priority, or our voices were not being listened to and acknowledged.
And so putting others first and what they want becomes an altruistic act of indulgence that we assume as the only way to be.
And people get used to it.
I’m saying a lot here in a very short space of time, read it through and let it sink in, see how you feel about what this all means to you.
So, what happens when you stop all this? When you stop putting others first and start voicing your own needs as a priority?
Firstly, you may become surprised at how people don’t reciprocate your behaviour, they don’t put. you first as a given, they have less trouble than you saying no. In fact you may even feel a little resentful that they are not checking in on you. And be prepared for people not liking the change in you straight away.
After all, it is so convenient to have an altruistic friend / partner / colleague / parent / child.
Guilt can keep you there. Fear can keep you there.
What if I am letting them all down? What if I disappoint? What if I make someone angry?
Well, what if you are angry for being so damn obliging for so long? Start with you. You deserve, you are enough, you are worthy.
So master it this way - today, reschedule your entire week based on your needs on paper and see how it makes you feel. Then explore those feelings closely and accept that they have a basis, a reason, a history.
Then pledge that you will do one thing at first with more to follow, which will put you first. Sacred self care to gain your sense of self, to honour who you are, to create that shift.
Powerful.
And it’s a process. Don’t be harsh on how you learn, just give thanks that each day you get better boundaries. I’m learning all the time and each lesson is a gift.
Angie Litvinoff is a life changing Rites of Passage Guide for Visionary Midlife Women, a Modern Medicine Woman and Artist.
She helps women FIND THEIR JOY.
You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
photo by Nux Photography
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hear yourself live
There is a moment of sudden realisation where it really hits you.
You can hear yourself think and you are straining to get all the full audio experience, because its new.
It’s a new frequency of listening, it takes dedicated hearing time, it is the voice that speaks for YOU.
What more can this newfound voice do? As it tells you things, wise things, new things, insights, angry things, joyful things, as it throws up the past, as it stops you and asks you to check in with your previous responses, it creates a job firmly in your mind.
This job creation anchors your life firmly to the direction of your dreams, and is sorting out the fine details before you set sail on this momentous journey. The job is also to be your gauge.
The bullshit gauge, the check in gauge, the gauge that gives you the truth of whether its good enough, or not good enough for your newly found sense of self.
Your newly found sense of worth.
And the voice is delivering a clear message to you loudly, so loud you feel everyone could possibly hear this, even though its only meant for you.
HEAR YOURSELF LIVE AS WELL AS HEAR YOURSELF THINK.
See the evidence that you are starting to create the life you truly want for yourself.
I’m not saying a life hyped up with expectations and the old story, I’m saying the life you want from your heart, a life which is in dialogue with your soul, transcending the old paradigm and letting go of limitations so you are feeling the freedom to express yourself. As a changing woman this will be key to a joyful new beginning.
Tell me, what is the ONE thing you will do today, which starts this? Hear yourself live Goddess, hear her, see her, celebrate her TODAY.
Create a little bit of heavenly joy in your life right now and laugh and dance whether nobody is watching or whether everybody is watching.
You ARE the Creatrix.
Angie Litvinoff is a life changing Rites of Passage Guide for Visionary Midlife Women, a Modern Medicine Woman and Artist.
She helps women FIND THEIR JOY.
You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
photo by Nux Photography
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Why You Need Tarot
You may be surprised to find yourself reading this.
After all what on earth has tarot got todo with menopause and beyond?
It’s not just tarot however, its oracle cards in general.
Before you finish reading this, I want you to feel inspired to act on what I’m about to share!
Tarot and Oracle cards and me have a long history.
Through the height of my workshop addict phase, I bought many packs, each one representing where I was at.
I’m a bit minimalist these day, yes I use just two, and that is what I call discipline!
In midlife, there is something that I would describe as a calling to be answered. Whilst that is not the calling of tarot as such (it might be, but bear with me here), it is a deep longing to come home.
Home to yourself. And home to your gut.
Your gut instincts, your intuition. They start craving your attention. They want and need you to listen to voice within that has all the answers.
And so developing your intuition is a powerful aspect of reconnecting to your true self, of stepping into your power.
As you reach out for tools, you get experimenting with the things that bring you joy in this enriching process. You get bold.
In my shamanic journey group workshops for women as well as in my Rites of Passage Immersion, I use oracle cards to help you gain insights to your life.
The cards are like mirrors that you hold up to you and catch your reflection, reflecting aspects of you to be explored, glimpses of conversation that help to assist and empower you.
And begin a dialogue which grows as you begin to establish greater levels of trust in yourself and your ability to see truth. You see, its. the opposite of everything you have been taught, this is based on your own truth, not a dominant tyrannical paradigm. Yes, getting yourself a deck of tarot cards is a radical act.
And so you have an opportunity to grow with this and trust yourself more and more, and you WILL LOVE IT.
Let me know how you get on.
Ax
Angie Litvinoff is a life changing Rites of Passage Guide for Visionary Midlife Women, a Modern Medicine Woman and Artist.
She helps women FIND THEIR JOY.
You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
photos by Nux Photography
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The Day of The Woman
Happy International Women’s Day 2022 - this is your day
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMAN’S DAY 2022
At this time of great tension in the world, the way we care for ourselves has got to hold the key to a sustainable way forward for us and for others.
And in your midlife, there has been no better time to reflect on how best to do this.
This is because quite often, you can feel that certain things in your life, the decisions you have made up till now, are greatly affecting the way you feel about yourself and life in general.
So today, I honour your great reset, and dedicate this blog to BEING ENOUGH.
By this point in time, if you are not in a war torn country or living in difficult circumstances, you are likely to be looking at your lifestyle, your diet, your health, your wellbeing, and also very likely to be reviewing your relationships, career or vocation, direction in life, identity and self worth. I don’t say any of this lightly, I was born into a military dictatorship in Chile and raised by a single mother in poverty.
And with this in mind, we need to go back in history for a minute.
As a feminist, and as your GUIDE, I look behind me quite often. How can I not, the male dominant white paradigm is wreaking havoc constantly with the way we see women, every second of the day. This history has created a dynamic through time which sets women up to fail, if you don’t feel like this and doing quite well, its likely you are doing so within the paradigm.
I now invite you to look at life OUTSIDE the paradigm.
A life where women are not afraid to walk the streets at night, where rape, domestic violence and sexual abuse are not issues that dominate women’s lives, a life where having or not having children, and abortion can all be supported accordingly, a life where each and every woman’s brilliance can be celebrated. Where each woman can be supported to grow and fly and shine. Where poverty, oppression, racism, inequality and discrimination have no place - because it is not a hierarchy designed to keep people down.
Where your body, your mind, your spirit are cherished and valued from the second you come to be.
Today is a day that highlights so many things, that celebrates women in a way they should be celebrated every day, indeed celebrates you in a way you should celebrate yourself constantly.
And today I invite you to think about your place in the world, to take that first step to claiming your voice, truth, vision, you as the CREATRIX, you as the embodiment of a powerful DIVINE FEMININE, you as you are now, in total self acceptance.
Every line, every stretch mark and every grey or white, every sassy bold empowered delicious wayward part of you and the aspects to cherish creating the woman you are becoming.
And your own place in creation, in the world. Because you belong, in a new story, a new paradigm which is supportive of you, one which is there to guide and hold you, to walk alongside you and honour you.
And subsequently gives you time to engage with a greater relationship to life itself, to the way we interact with environment, with mother earth, a way forward which is harmonious to life and to the earth, which merges our pulses, rhythms and cycles in a holistic way. One where we listen to nature, to her teachings and her ways, where we respect her. Sowing the seeds of potent new beginnings.
A path of understanding lies ahead of you which makes your experience profound, complete and empowered.
I celebrate your potential to do it YOUR WAY, for all women to do it their way.
I wish you the most amazing day of resilience, resistance, rebirth and recognition of all that you are and all that is possible within you, because that energy radiates outwardly and inspires others to do the same, self worth becomes peace, truth and harmony, flowing and strong, powerful and sustainable, supportive and nourishing, kind and wise.
Angie Litvinoff is a Rites of Passage Guide for Midlife Women, a Modern Medicine Woman and Artist. She helps women FIND THEIR JOY. You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
identity
In my family we talk about identity all the time.
My sons are Afro Latino British, my husband has roots in his Afro Caribbean ancestry + from other places too, and was born here. I am British Chilean - an immigrant Latin American with ancestry in Chile, Catalan, Basque and much more.
My son's identity is theirs, what they wish it to be, what they wish it to become. They are not my husband or me, they are forming their own identity.
That is where the empowerment is.
Because identity is way beyond where your family came from, where you were born, what people think you are, what social class or where you live or grew up or cultural heritage or what's on your passport.
So now I invite you think about you - and the identity that each one of you can own.
And that isn't a label someone else gives you, its an identity which YOU ultimately hold the power decide is best for you, because it resonates on a soul level.
My sons have many more years ahead exploring who they are, not only their ancestry and heritage so rich and abundant, their roots, as it is about looking at the NOW and what it all will mean to them as they grow, what they are stepping into, their future selves, how they wish to definite themselves in so so many ways.
I am hugely excited for who they are and what they will claim as theirs. Also our experiences of racism - which is everywhere - means that our eyes are well and truly open to the world.
They will rise beyond the limitations of societies views, beyond the dominant paradigm or what people assume of themselves and others when they don't question what they really want, what really resonates with soul.
Claim what is yours. Reclaim your right to the life you want and need, your place in creation.
Powerful.
Ax
Angie Litvinoff is a Rites of Passage Guide for Midlife Women, a Modern Medicine Woman and Artist. She helps women FIND THEIR JOY. You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
photo by Nux Photography
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A sacred ritual for Samhain Weekend
Samhain ritual
SAMHAIN
HALLOWEEN
THE DAY OF THE DEAD
and also known by other names, creates an opportunity to reconnect to creation.
Phenomenal Soul,
The circle of life and death brings us to a completion here, this weekend, the most potent days being 31st October and 1st and 2nd November.
Here, the veil of the two worlds is at its total thinnest, and the venture into the realm of ancestors is accessible and powerful.
It is a time to both remember those who are no longer here and go deeper into our own death, death of cycles, seasons, letting go and accepting impermanence so that we can see just how fragile and wondrous this short sweet sacred existence is.
YES.
It is a time to appreciate every sacred breath, and to know life is a gift.
Celebrate this through. establishing your own connection or reconnection with life, death and rebirth.
A SACRED RITUAL FOR SAMHAIN WEEKEND
You will need a candle, some time alone and something to carry your finds back in.
Go out into nature and collect fallen leaves, earth and sticks.
Mindfully ask our earth mama if you can take, and give thanks as you do.
As you collect set the intention to be guided to connect to your ancestors, wherever they maybe, that this sacred earth represents our existence, our blood, flesh, bones.
Once you have gathered your nature tools, find a quiet space where you can be alone, either indoors or out.
Create a piece of art, a mandala, or spiral, or picture laying out the earth, soil and sticks.
Connect to each feeling the textures, memories and echoes of each, sensing with your intuition how this connects you to the land, and beyond your immediate situation.
Meditate by holding your hands to the ground, then to your solar plexus, then to your heart and finally to the sky.
Set the intention to open dialogue with all the support from your ancestors, pledge to be open to the love that life itself gives and provides, in abundance.
Send love to anyone you wish who has already passed over.
Also send love to your death cycles, to your rebirth and your life.
Then light your candle, igniting that timeless connection with SOUL and EVERYTHING.
Stay in stillness, with your heart and mind open.
Then celebrate in JOY.
Angie Litvinoff is a Rites of Passage Guide for Midlife Women, a Modern Medicine Woman and Artist. She helps women FIND THEIR JOY. You can find out more about how to work with her and to subscribe to this regular blog here: https://www.angielitvinoff.com/
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