June is my Birthday month and I was definitely feeling into my Cancerian energies around my birthday as I said goodbye to last year and hello to a new one. I welcomed in the summer season by having lunch in the park on my birthday, feeling the grass and the sun, and a little fawn ran by me.
I have to admit that the heaviness of the news this week and the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe settled into my body. I felt a heaviness in my body and a brain fog in my mind that lingered for several days. It’s only now starting to lift.
Earlier this week, I guest facilitated an arrival practice for the 2022 Mindfulness Facilitator Certification cohort via Zoom. We spent some time looking at this painting below by Leonora Carrington titled ‘And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur.’
Leonora Carrington, And then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur, 1953
Things in my art studio continue to move towards mixed media. I’m making objects out of acrylic skin and air dry clay, and thinking about adding in some mesh to shape the clay. I’ve also been playing with spray paint finishes and thinking about ways to make small sculptures that incorporate all of these elements together. Below is a view of my work table. I tend to make lots of piles of things and work on top of a pile!
Closing journal prompt for the week:
What areas in your life do you feel you are thriving? What areas in your life do you feel you are surviving? And does this feel like a spectrum where some items exist in both places?