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- Yesterday17 min
My kryptonite and my superpower
Listen, I’m issuing a warning.Be careful if you choose to come near my orbit.The gravitational pull of my naturemay cause you to do unreasonable things.Give birth to books.Say yes to your sacred work in the world.Leave damaging relationships.Choose heart over money.Manifest a life in alignment with who you already are.Not who you’re becoming later when you improve,but who you are underneath all of it.I am a force of natureactivating others who are readyfor the pattern interrupt of a lifetime,but be careful.That centripetal force is a real pulltoward the center of what matters.There’s a cost when we say yes.But I know as well as you dothat there’s an even greater cost when we keep saying noto what we really want.So Dear Ones, I want to talk about inner kryptonite. When your superpower is connected to your weak spot, we’re going to touch on unreasonable love. We’re going to touch on calling down the lightning. And there’s an invitation to join me for Stardust Lineage Legend or for a year-long mastermind for women ready to make powerhouse choices unlike anything I’ve ever offered before with my dear friend Amy Ahlers. But first, let’s explore the glowing green stone.Have you ever noticed that your superpower may also be the underbelly of your biggest challenge? I have. Today, it’s all coming through to me.Do you remember how wonderful it was to watch that first Superman movie? We saw someone take on supernatural powers we wish we had, like flying and saving the world. And then we felt that collective sigh as we watched him become absolutely powerless in the presence of kryptonite.Kryptonite, that glowing green mineral made of fragments from Superman’s destroyed home planet, Krypton. I can’t help but notice that it comes from the place he’s from, from the destroyed place of home. And that destroyed place of home drains strength and leaves him powerless.It didn’t begin in the comics. It started on the radio in 1943. And it’s curious because there’s a much-loved story that kryptonite was invented so the actor who voiced Superman on the radio, Bud Collyer, could take time off. A weakness invented so a hero could rest. That is very apropos.The image of kryptonite stuck with us. It’s used in business and in relationships. And we may not always know what our superpowers are, but a lot of us know what our kryptonite is.This theme of the weakness of the hero goes back into the Greeks too. Remember when Achilles was a baby and his mother, Thetis, the sea goddess, dipped him in the River Styx to make him invulnerable? She held him by one heel. So, maybe most of us have a weak heel. Maybe most of us who carry a superpower also carry our version of kryptonite. I know, I certainly do.And I believe there is power in knowing what yours is and then letting it shed light on the gifts that you’re carrying. That’s what we do in Intentional Creativity. We create experiences to show you your power. And then we invite you to see your kryptonite and make it a part of your personal legend.If your kryptonite makes you powerless and your superpower makes you powerful, and the two are not tracking each other like two sides of a coin, then you’re subject to sudden weakness, to blaming others, to being surprised and dysregulated.And maybe, unlike Superman’s, your kryptonite isn’t some kind of enemy at all. Perhaps it is inner kryptonite. And isn’t it curious to think that it comes from a home planet on some level? We think often about our weakness coming from outside, but it comes from inside: our story, our trauma, our tendencies, our quirks. And sometimes, like Superman’s stone, it is made from the pieces of where you came from.Hmm, me being a force of nature? You bet. I don’t think anyone who knows me would deny that I am a force of nature. When a vision becomes clear, I have enormous, sometimes to me and others seemingly supernatural, capacity to bring it into form. Sometimes the things I’ve been able to create amaze even me, and those around me comment on what happens when you get into Shiloh Sophia’s orbit.I’ve created gorgeous things. I’m a big dreamer, and some of my dreams are so big they scare me. You know what I mean? What makes me a force of nature is my greatest gift. My superpower is unreasonable love. And yes, it’s my downfall, my green stone, my kryptonite.So, one of the biggest obstacles I see for people making things happen in their life is bringing ideas into form. We are certainly not lacking ideas. We are not lacking content. We’re lacking the ability to bring it into form. This is most people’s kryptonite that I work with as private clients or students. How to make the vision real. That’s my superpower.And for those new to the language of brainwaves, beta is our norma
- 3 weeks ago4 min
I am scared and we are starting soon
Hop on into my NeoShamanic Painting class NOW right here for 7 weeks starting today!Why I get afraid deep in my stardust bones when I’m about to teach intentional creativity to new people…is because after over 33 years, I stand in absolute astonishing awe at what painting makes available. Having nothing to do with talent. Nothing to do with knowing what you’re going to create.Nothing to do with any version of anything we’ve ever known before because painting in this way is like riding the edge of the unknown while you still Get to stay securely fastened into the seat at the mothership. Because I’ve guided thousands and thousands of people through these processes. But it always humbles me in awe.I believe Creator gave all beings access to intentional creativity. And it is my good fortune this lifetime to have said yes when asked. I was given this sacred assignment to bring the transmission of intentional creativity through the Stardust lineage where teachings have been passed from hand to hand and heart to heart since the early thirties.I said yes under one condition. That Creator would make it very, very clear what my next step was. I ask that it be so clear that it be put right in front of me on my path and that if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t act. I have stayed true to my vision and so has Creator. I understand myself.As a collaborator with creator and creation and painting image and story, language, symbol, codex and code is the activation of the creator energy within me, my shared responsibility to serve in this great turning. I just said, To a group of women who have been here for five days, if anybody knew what this work actually does,they would run to this door because once you get started, you can’t stop because it’s so sacred and so wild and so infinitely illuminating that it knocks your cowgirl boots off every time. But today, In less than an hour, I will be sharing neo-shamanic painting with a new audience through the Shift Network.I am rightly terrified, but it’s not terrified that something bad will happen. It’s because there’s so much power in creating in this way. And honestly, here’s a not-so-secret secret. If I knew how to paint well or follow instructions or a new perspective or lights and darks and shadows, if I knew how to do anything realistic whatsoever,we would never have gone this route. It’s because I don’t know. It’s because all these years later and hundreds of thousands of dollars of painting sales later, I still can’t control what I make. I can’t bring what’s in my mind as a vision to the canvas. I can only bring how it feels.And however that is, blesses me and I hope it blesses you.Shiloh SophiaUnedited transcript Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe
- Oct 2, 20268 min
A Case for the Muse
Making a Case for the MuseWell, it’s a silly thing to have to explain,making a case for the Muse,because anybody who’snavigating an insurance claimfor a fallen tree or received a speeding ticketbecause the Rolling Stones came onand you just couldn’t help but danceand you pressed so hard on the pedal.I just can’t get no, no, no, no... satisfaction.I mean anyone who forgot to renewtheir driver’s license and got turnedaway at the airportunderstands the need for amusement!Come on, just look at the text thread.You are perusing through right now.Almost every other text isasking you for something.How about the peoplewho got a hold of your phone numberand won’t stop inviting you to applyfor that job or apply for a loanthat you already qualified for or better yettell you that your mother lost her phoneand she’s trying to reach you.And she died three years ago. Rest her soul.Can you see how much the muse is needed?Can you see?If we don’t start laughing more...and soonThis whole thingwill try to convince usthat this is reality. Imagine that!And still you wonder, what if it is Mother,reaching from the other side?You light a candle for her just in caseThere is definitely a need for the Musewhen suddenly you have moredoctor’s appointments thanlong lunch dates with girlfriendswho call you darlink’ and batttheir eyelashes at you, like Marlena Dietrich.It’s just rough these days.When you finally gotinto a routine of happy hour andfound a beverage that tastes just rightand makes you chill out immediatelyand then your doctor tells youit’s going to turn to sugarand you just can’t have sugar anymore.WTF is going on here, people!And then there’s all the paperworkand the whispers of divorceand diagnosis all around youand the password hell? Don’t get me started.Right now, there’s more than one friendwho’s having delusionsand the dementia articleswon’t stop showing themselves.You can’t help but clickon that one tip that will keep youfrom forgetting your dog’s name.Do I need to convince youthere’s a need for the Muse,for goodness sakes?How about this? The reality thata woman can grow a mustache in her 50s?Uh huh. Overnight!And suddenlythere’s more hairon your inner thighs. Ew.And you’re just so gratefulif you happen to have a loverwho appreciates you gettingmore furry becausethere’s more fur coming, you know?The hair in your eyebrowsmigrated to your chin, andthat is just no good!Then there’s that innocuous molethat you like to call a beauty markthat has one black hair andone white hair growing out of it andthey seem to appear overnight andyou don’t have white hair or black hair.I mean, what the actual flying F!If you keep them there for amusement,they will eventually curl at your chin!Sometimes I wishI could talk to God andask Them about certain things.Do you have a list like this?God, do you have a moment? Please.Couldn’t you have made it so thatwe don’t have violence built into usas a possibility and we couldstill have free will?Couldn’t you have madethe instructions for healinga wound a little morereadable?Why would you allowbizarre things likeextractive capitalism to evenenter our minds?I mean, the list goes on and on, y’all.What’s on your list?Yet more than a list of complaints,I have a list ofgratitudes that runs all day long.Dozens upon dozens of anemoniesin my garden, soft magenta, yellow centers.The regal Valley Oak and thelarge Band-Tailed pigeons from California,and that the sun is shiningthrough my window, even thoughone of the trees had to be taken down,the neighbor asked me, and I did,and it’s sad, but now I can seethe mountain and the sun.The gift that when my heart is hurting,my kitty will come and sitright on top of my heartand purr without being petted.It’s far longer, the list of gratitudesthan the list of complaints.There’s definitely a need for the Musebecause amusement is medicinethat everybody needs. The muse alwaysprefers leopard over beige.She definitely has a preference forrhinestones over buttons.She really likesfried chicken and mashed potatoesin
- Sep 30, 20262 min
This is no time to turn back
Ancestor Ceremony - 24X48 if you are interested, it is available at 40% off. Please let me know!All upcoming events including in person circles, and free classes and book launches are available at www.musea.org Join us for the Elements of Grace book launch - with Bethany Zare - I illustrated the cover and the inside art. No Time to Turn Back This is no time to give up on what matters to you. This is not a time to surrender into despair. The signs of the times are not a sign to stop. We are weary and it is good and normal to admit it. These times are also not a sign to use all of your energy in fight mode.We need to reserve our strength. To choose ever so wisely how we will steward our life force and where we will put our resources and how we can live our lives not in constant reaction. The power over structures and constructs want us to be caught up in their power struggles. Women’s voices shouting into their deafening silences.We are rightfully dismayed and disgusted but we will not be stopped for our sacred work.What you love and care for and desire can still be at the center of all of your choices. Each day we choose again and again to serve the highest good while not exhausting ourselves. We can choose to find the beauty everywhere while not turning from the suffering.We can cultivate the depth of community that we long for and not wait for someone else to do it. You do it and I do it and we do it. Call the circles or come to those of us who are calling them ourselves. These are hard times indeed. Our grandmothers warned of them.My grandmother called this “the end times”. These are times where goodness is alive because we are co-creating it. Move forward according to the power you have in your heart and body. Each day, whatever it is, is enough. Trust that power in connection with the sacred and the natural world.Choosing always what is right and good for you before any other choices. Many of us, oh so many, are here beside you. Sound women with sound voices and sound medicine are gathering now. On the mountaintops, in the forests, in the valleys. We are always gathering. We’re gathering each other. Now. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 26, 202611 min
When I stop trying to be more…poetry happens…
BE HER NOWThe sun is setting over the soft magenta anemoneswith golden centers where the bees drink.And I can’t stop wonderingabout where all of this began,this narrative to be more,do more,become more,achieve more,more,more than you are.More.More than you need to be.More.By someone else’s standards.More.To the degree that you losewhoever you already were.For a time, of course —whoever you already were can never be lost,because that’s all within you anyway.But the narrative of strive and driveand carry the burdens of the ancestors’ crimesis too much to ask.The band-tailed pigeons are fluttering in the valley oak,both of them on the watch list right here.I listen to the sound of their wings.And when the ravens come and the squirrels run,how they all communicate together.I can’t help but wonderwhere that whole narrative started.Whose grandmother’s grandmother’s grandmotherfirst had to step out of the matriarchal frameworkinto the dominant framework in order to survive,and how this errant thoughtthat there was something better over there to become.Something better over there to have.Something better than what she had.Something better to achieve,to receive,to compete for.To even ask for,but worst of all,to want for.To want for something other than what there isin one’s own self and life and being.Something betterstirring us to look outside of ourselves.And I just can’t help but wonderabout those moments in each of our lineageswhen we are striving towards something better,which really makes whatever we have seem somehow less,and us seem somehow less as a result of it.The hummingbird is pausing at the rose,red-trimmed white petals bloomingbeside the golden sun-kissed tomatoesand the mint,the basil.Everything wants to be enjoyed.It doesn’t want to be compared.It wants to be appreciated for what it is.The tomato and the rose and the mintdo not have a story of needing moreor being better.They become the fullest versions of themselvesin this sun,in this full moon energy.And I’ve been writing for days,decades,to articulate the unarticulatable.To share that which I cannot find the words to share.There’s a sacred urgencyhumming in my stardust bones.And it’s about this:how everything we really need is already here and innate.It’s with us.We don’t have to earn it.We don’t need more.It doesn’t need to be better.But the riddle isthat isn’t how we experience it,and it’s not what we’ve been taught,and it’s not how it feelsin the daily struggles of our lives.And yet there’s this sacred unhooking that happenswhen we realize,or just to come from,for a cycleor an afternoonor an houror the length of a poem walking through your heart,that everything that is needed is innate.That there’s no place else to get to,nothing more to add,and nothing better to become.And that doesn’t mean we don’t wishfor a small patch of grassto lay on our back and look at the moon.That doesn’t mean we don’t wishfor sturdy, solid bootsthat will last for more than one wet winter.That doesn’t mean we don’t wishfor everything to be organic and sustainable,and the salmon to not be farmed,and the strawberries to not be GMO’d.We do wish for these things,but it’s how we internalize them,how we make it mean somehowthat we’re something less.Everything I’ve been moving towardis toward this ideaof revealing ourselves to ourselvesas the ultimate act of sacred sovereignty:to not need more,not be better,not need to be seen and acknowledged.Not need to have a title or a designationor an affirmation by others,but to simply acknowledgethe innate majesty of who we are.And the journey, really,of recovery,of making new promises to ourselves.Not promises about more and better,but promises about being.Not promises about needing to belong somewhere else.Not promises about needing to heal some ancient woundthat happened before we were ever bornthat we’re trying to heal this lifetime.And not just to simply be here now either.More likebe her now.Like even for a couple of seconds.Right now.Right now.As the butterfly bush dieswith the purple rain-
- Sep 20, 202610 min
A creature with features
Good morning everyone! I dreamed all night about the ranch. Here are my rambling thoughts about what Rose and an invitation for you to relate to where you live in a new way! Have a beautiful day! Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 16, 20265 min
What’s the point?
Good morning! In today’s episode, I’m inviting you to design a point for yourself. To fall in love with the tedium. And to do five things today with With Me. Tune in to find out. Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe
- Sep 11, 20269 min
Micro-bursts of Pleasure .:. A Muse Dare
How is your relationship with pain dominating your life?Do you create the space for pleasure?Today's podcast recorded from the convertible today on the way to the "spa" aka gym is a dare to do this practice three times today. The Muse is asking - will you listen? Get full access to Tea with the Muse at teawiththemuse.substack.com/subscribe
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