I just had a deck interview with The Beautiful Rebellion Tarot. It is like going on a first date with a new deck. You have to get to know each other before you make an intimate connection. I am so excited to work with this gorgeous deck as I am a big fan of master artists from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edmund Blair Leighton, John Collier and John William Waterhouse. There are so many [...]
My innate gifts & challenges An astrological journey At the moment I am meditating, listening in, delving deep into myself to discover what my deeper reason for being here on this Planet at this moment is. Life is nice and quiet at the moment, which is really welcome after years of stress and upheaval. But to be honest, it is also kind of dull. Not that I crave a lot of excitement, but I do feel I am not living to [...]
At this moment I am trying to uncover where I want to go in this phase of my life. I am trying to get a clear picture of my innate gifts and talents and somehow find some purpose and meaning in my life. As I am multi-passionate and am quite skilled in a lot of things, I have sort of lost track of what really makes me spark and that I would like to pursue in years to come. I feel [...]
Lately I am very much into Yin Yoga. I still love Kundalini Yoga, but I feel really drawn to receptive and restorative postures at the moment. To lean in and just be. Be with it all without resistance and stretching my comfort zone. I have a need to balance all the yang of day to life and I find peace and clarity in Yin yoga. It helps me stretch my boundaries in other ways (not better) than Kundalini yoga does. Kundalini [...]
Turn around, look at what you seeeee'... It's 1984, I am 9 years old and I walk out of the cinema mesmerized. Now the year 2019 and I must have seen this film over 50 times and I know it by heart. Other films I loved as a child (and still do) were Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Looking at these films now I find some of it a bit disturbing and dark, filled with a lot of occult symbolism. Definitely not [...]
Last week I was away for a workshop week in Niedersfeld Germany (near Winterberg in Sauerland). This was a Self Knowledge retreat hosted by Pateo (Johan Oldenkamp). The location was at Savita, It is a meeting place and a place of inspiration for "seekers". People with the desire to give their lives more depth, the desire to break through restrictive thoughts and patterns, to experience more love, to get a better grasp of their own lives, to get more contact with [...]
Today is the commemoration of the dead in The Netherlands. A moment to be still and silent. This day is not only to remember those lives lost in the war, but everyone who has past on. At this moment of silence I always think of those in my personal life that have crossed over before me, such as ancestors, parents, grandfathers, grandmothers, uncles, aunts, friends, colleagues, pets … If remembering brings up feelings of mourning, don't push it away. Take this [...]
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs? Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is one of the most well-known theories in psychology regarding human behavior and what motivates our actions. The concept was first coined in a 1943 paper called “A Theory on Human Motivation”. Named after its creator, Abraham Maslow, this theory focuses on the idea that human beings have certain needs in their lives and that these needs can be organized into a hierarchy based upon how primitive or advanced these needs [...]
Hello, how are you? Are you feeling the Venus-Cheiron conjunction? This time brings up relationship wounds and shows us yet another layer of healing. Cheiron is the Wounded Healer and this time is an opportunity for feeling the emotions (instead of pushing them away and numbing them down) and loving ourselves and supporting ourselves more, for being more ourselves, without needing the approval of others. Because deep down we all have a need to fit in and be approved of. Or [...]
Last weekend I travelled to Amersfoort for the annual SoulCollage® facilitator get-to-gether. Amersfoort This year's theme was Our Sun & Our Moon and was hosted by fellow facilitator Renée. We did a constellation with our Sun and Moon so to actually feel these work through us at this moment. For this we don't even need to know which sign our Sun and Moon was in at the time of our birth. However I do know, Libra is my Sun sign and [...]
