Shamanic Craftswoman Circles

These monthly Shamanic Craftswoman Circles will be hosted by Joan Carpenter & others offering a variety of practices to enhance your life’s journey.

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The Circles will include practices such as Shamanic Drum Journeys, Crafting – like leather, felting or other materials and may include aspects of the Woman’s Life Cycle such as her Rites of Passage. This could be expressed for instance in making Symbolic Dolls for each Rite of Passage.
Let me explain what I mean by this:

Maiden – Menarche or First Bleed, Mother – Motherhood, Maga – Peri/Menopausal Time of a Woman’s Life, and Crone – the later years of Elderhood.

These phases and information below are referenced from Jane Hardwicke Collings and The School of Shamanic Womancraft:

https://janehardwickecollings.com

The Four Phase Feminine Way

Evolution from the Triple Goddess

The Triple Goddess of ancient times lives on, as relevant now as in the Matriarchal cultures of “prehistory” (before 1000BC). She is the Maiden Mother Crone, Persephone Demeter Hecate. These three phases of a woman’s life were reflected in the Earth’s seasons. Maiden – spring, Mother – summer and autumn, Crone – winter. Each phase or season of a woman’s life has a rite of passage that set its theme and gives information to the woman about how her particular culture values her new role and what is expected of her.

The developments and discoveries of our modern scientific and medical technologies have over the last ten centuries given us another life season. Simply put, we live longer than our ancestors. In the time of the ancient Triple Goddess we had babies at 14, were grandmothers at 30 and dead at 45. Now if we are well, we can live to 100 plus years.

The ancient Triple Goddess now can be extended to the Four Phase Feminine Way.

Exploring these phases can help you to better understand yourself, your way of processing life, how you think and respond to life’s situations. It can be very revealing as in our patterns, beliefs and informative -emotional at times  as the “aha” moments appear.

Let these Shamanic Craftswoman Circles be an unfolding of what is presented .. some are already formed others are not…an organic process because I work with flow not push, the Healed Feminine Way…not formally structured 6 months in advance. Perhaps you will follow your intuition, pick a date & see what follows. See below for the next practices. The content will be added as it arises.

Sent with peace & love

Joan

Wednesday 18 September will be a Drum Journey and Crafting Your Mother Doll with Joan Carpenter

A Shamanic Drum Journey is a deep meditative session guided primarily by the drum beat after a grounding meditation has been received. This will be held either in the Hearth Room of the farm’s Wellbeing Centre or out in Nature within the womb-like Luna Tent – all yoga mats, blankets, cushions, eye pillows provided.

Following this Drum Journey you will have time to journal your thoughts, images, feelings from this experience.

We will then have a short sharing Circle before continuing on with the Craftswoman part of the session – creating your own Mother Doll from natural fibers (all supplied).

Snacks and cuppas provided.

This is presented during the Full Moon phase of the Luna Cycle, symbolic of the Full Bloom time of a woman’s life as a Mother in full Motherhood or perhaps in the Full Bloom of her career or whatever place she is currently on upon her Life’s Path.

The Rose has been used as a symbol of the phases of a woman’s life:

Maiden – Closed Bud

Mother – Full Bloom

Maga – Changing of the Petals

Crone – Rose hip

More of this is explained within these Circles.

So if you feel called do join us. If you have questions reach out to Joan via email (thefarmforwellbeing@gmail.com) or phone (0438717079).

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