Month: September 2013

Synergy And Balance

On By SibylleIn Hag12 Comments

We’ve had a few days of beautifully mild and sunny weather over the Autumn Equinox weekend and so I decided not to have my traditional potluck but something a little lighter –  brown and wild rice with leafy spinach, organic canned tomatoes, mushrooms, and a bit of grated cheese. It was delicious.
I hope you had a beautiful Equinox!
In the meantime, it’s become truly autumn. It’s foggy and grey, and I feel the urge to spend my evenings reading or gaming wrapped in a woollen blanket and drinking tea or a glass of red wine (both warming!). The moon is waning too, and I don’t really feel like going out, so I’ve been spending my time on the new Tribal Community which is well on its way by now! People are still a little shy to post, but most of them have arrived in the forum and some have introduced themselves. I’m hoping for many new conversations there soon!
The next step will be enrolling everyone into the workgroups or e-course groups they’d like to join. Impatient hag that I am, I can’t wait for the messages to pour in, but I’m reminding myself that people also have other things to do (unbelievable!) and that it’ll take a few more days. What a lovely little lesson for me there.
Of course what all this means is that this is the perfect time to join if you haven’t already! This community is shaping up to be amazing. The people who’ve joined so far are beautiful, wise individuals, and just imagining what synergy they’ll create when they all start sharing and learning together, gives me shivers (the good kind). If you want to be part of this amazing synergy, sign up here!
What else is going on? I’m stuck in the last week of the business year at work so I’m still very busy, protecting my sleep, and taking it easy otherwise. For Saturday I’ve booked a massage and a hair cut, and I’ll go to the Bray Pagan Moot to nourish my soul – which is very very important these days in order to keep in balance.
Balance. It’s the theme of this time of the year. Day and night, the warm and the cold season. Can you feel it? If you can’t, then now is a perfect time to introduce more balance to your life. The universe will make it easy for you, reflecting on the outside what’s going on inside of you. Hmmm… this might be the time to dig out last year’s project of creating a series of guided meditations. I gave up on the project for a while, but I still have the first drafts. It was meant to be a journey to balance, recognition, and love, a while life journey really in the form of metaphorical wanderings. Maybe that would be something for the Tribal Community?
We’ll see.

Tribal Sign-Up And Why I Don’t Need More "How-To"s

On By SibylleIn Hag12 Comments

After yet another long break in blogging (I’m going to spare you the list of excuses, but believe me, it’s long and impressive! Haha), I’m finally really, truly back. How have you been? Me: busy, in almost all areas of life. I’m not sure why but my brain is almost in overdrive, I have SO many ideas, I don’t know where to start! At the same time my daytime job is very tiring these days with the end of the company’s business year coming up, and in the world of hobbies, WoW just released a new patch and raid and I’m learning fight strategies and spend 2-3 evenings a week with my friends fighting new internet dragons.
In between, I try to find time to re-read the entire Harry Potter series for the xth time and write some stuff – and of course, start up my community! Because it’s really time now, finally. Yay! Here’s what’s happening this week and how you can be part of it:
In the next days, I’ll send emails to anyone who’s done a Witchcraft 101and/or 102 and/or the Free 7-Day ecourse with me in the past 2 years, inviting them to become part of the community. At the same time, everyone else who’s interested – meaning YOU – is invited to sign up here! In a few days, you’ll receive an invite to actually register in the forum. But you’ll only receive this invite if you have signed up first!
The parts of the community that will be open straightaway are the communal forum which everyone can see and chat in, the forum exclusive to those who are doing the Free 7-Day Course, and the Book Club for book reviews and recommendations. We’ll expand it from there, day by day and week by week. Joining the community is completely free, and so is quite a lot of the content and workgroups. The paid courses still have a price, and you can decide whether or not you’d like to join one of those.
So what else is new? I’m settling into the end of summer and preparing the Autumn Equinox edition of my Sabbat Newsletter. I spend my evenings wrapped in a blanket because the heating isn’t on yet in my flat (it’s controlled from the main house) and it’s become quite cool lately. Apparently this stimulates the aforementioned brain activity though! Expect more news to come.
In terms of business, I’m going through what you might call an emancipation process. I love inspiration and learning from others, but I think there is a culture out there which tries to sell you just one more ebook or expensive course in how to be successful, and the stories all start with “Once I was broke, but then I found the way and I’ll teach it to you too!” Now, I’m not saying these courses are useless; I’m sure they help a lot of people. But in the end, the reason why anyone became successful is that they found THEIR OWN THING and figured things out on their own. There are no shortcuts. Or, to put it a little more bluntly: If you aren’t able to figure it out on your own and learn as you go along, you’re not cut out for success anyway. Incidentally, I believe that everyone with an IQ which exceeds their shoe size IS able to figure it out, and without “expert advice”.
I don’t require anyone to agree with me, it’s just something I happen to believe in very strongly. That’s why I’m a Coach who works with people individually (instead of giving group talks over the internet/phone and calling it “Coaching”), and why even my e-courses are full of practical assignments to encourage you to gain experience and draw your own conclusions, rather than copying what I believe in.
So much for hagish philosophy today. Go and sign up for the community!

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