Pretty hurts.

Perfection hurts.

So does comparison.

High standards.

Arbitrary timelines and deadlines that fill you with guilt and shame.

The expectation to give and keep giving when there is simply nothing left. 

2023 has been a hard year. Not just for me, not just for nearly everyone I’m close with. But client after client has landed in session for 3rd House readings looking to hack their way into meeting their own wildly high standards and expectations for creative production. It is often, then, my job to reframe the conversation around centering themselves and their own needs as the artist. 

Surprising, how resistant so many of us are to considering our own needs in the making of art.

As if art exists independent of the artist.

Perfectionism is a poison, and the propensity to work ourselves into even more of a frenzy when what we desperately need is rest is indicative of how deep the socialization goes.

I often write about creativity coming in seasons. And it can be well and good to read about the idea of creativity functioning like a field lying fallow. But what happens when you are the field lying fallow, surrounded by others who are seemingly producing? When you are not writing, and not writing, and not writing? When you feel burnt to a crisp? 

Especially in a society that does not build in space or time to honor seasons of rest, that is built to extract every little bit of you that’s available. 

Not writing as much as I would like, but more so, experiencing the projects I’m working on change and shift beneath my feet every time I work on them.

Patience is required in such times.

These last months, I’ve also served as a doula, and sometimes as the actual midwife, for many others’ journeys to creative nourishment.

The idea came to me months ago, slowly and then all at once.

At one point, I entirely let go of this new offering, thinking, someone else will do this, there’s simply no way I can facilitate it with everything I have going on.

But she came back, insistent.

This 6-week container, informed by Venus’ retrograde, offers an oasis of restoration for creatives who are burned to a crisp. Here, we divest from production and invest in creative inputs and community to fill our empty cups to overflowing.

Week 1: Desire (Sat July 22-Sat July 29)

Week 2: Descent (Sun July 30-Sat Aug 5)

Week 3: Doorways (Sun Aug 6 - Sat Aug 12)

Week 4: Death (Sun Aug 13 - Sat Aug 19) featuring special guest and my dear friend, astrologer Diana Rose Harper

Week 5: Rebirth (Sun Aug 20 - Sat Aug 26)

Week 6: Renaissance (Sun Aug 27 - Sun Sep 3)

This is designed to be Choose Your Own Adventure: do what feels best and most restorative for you

Daily 

Weekly

Super Duper Optional, Group: 

Super Duper Optional, Solo: 

This week, June 30-July 7, the container is on pre-sale, for those who absolutely know this is for them. The price goes up next week, although there will still be a payment plan.