Courting the Divinity of Pleasure: The Fire Has Already Been Lit

Today we explore the sacred threshold of endings and beginnings.

We dive deeply into our vision and trust with the poem:

The Truth About Gathering Joy

There is a story I will tell about not compromisingliving a life of big lovetrusting truththis story is rooted in magic beautiful but not always prettymoments down on the ground wailingprayingemptybegging do not be fooledthese times are perhaps the (w)holiest I will build a circle of sacred for youto embody the desire you are holdingthis is the medicine for all of us nowallofusnowthe fire has already been litmany are waiting for usto join them therewisdom keepers are pouring gifts through the dense mists of fearyou will hear how to love your passion into creationtaste the truth perched on your lipssome of what you love will choose a new formyou will let your sadness want youfloat in your blood like eager lanterns of hopeyou will close your eyes and trustyour hands know what to hold onto and how to let goyou will let your desire council you visit the place where longings liveoftenyour soul will make itself known in your bodya new song will emerge from your bonesthis is how you will know your own fierce storythe only one you can liveso many of us making new storiesfrom the ones already undonesometimes it’s closer than you thinkthis is a story about deep love.~Wendy Candida Havlir Cherry, 2020Holding hope and fear, joy, and sadness at the same time.Working with trust and the ways your body knows what to do. What will you hold onto from this year (and your entire life) and what will you let go of?How will you be held?A short guided meditation—flowing with the divinity and grace of your breath—available right here, right now, in the home of this moment.The sudden uprising of yes in your inhale & the rest and letting go in the descent of your exhale—and the pause in between.In the length of our longing, belonging arrives.The Mistress of Longing comes to us as a dear friend and companion of deep love. She is hope and a reminder that we are never alone.Moving into a deeper relationship with your life—and permission to (be)long. Imagine moving beneath what you perceive you long for and into the holiest and wisest doorways of your soul’s true knowing—an oceanic love—longing is an ever widening expansion into true home and union with the sacred.Life is a constant divine invitation—a divine hand reaching for you—how will you reach back? What parts of yourself will you step toward? What parts of yourself will you no longer reject but instead gather and embrace? With wild and holy abandon?Wind & Water poem from my first book, The Reach is (W)holy.As you move toward 2021, how are you holding death and life? And the idea that grace is infused in every moment, even when you feel dismantled? Meeting ourselves and others from a place of compassion and messy alchemy. Writing prompt: How am I wild AND holy? When have I felt wild and free, liberated, holy, truly myself? When have you chosen yourself regardless of what might be the result? What is true about you now? What are you willing to choose no matter what? How is life asking you to come out of the darkness and say yes to something new and into the light? What am I willing to no longer compromise?May you know boundless blessings. Thank you for listening. As always, YOU are sacred. This moment is ceremony. You do get to live your wildly naked truth. May it be so! Big love & rose petals,Wendy