Tea with the Muse

Making a Case for the Muse

Well, it’s a silly thing to have to explain,

making a case for the Muse,

because anybody who’s

navigating an insurance claim

for a fallen tree or received a speeding ticket

because the Rolling Stones came on

and you just couldn’t help but dance

and you pressed so hard on the pedal.

I just can’t get no, no, no, no... satisfaction.

I mean anyone who forgot to renew

their...

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All upcoming events including in person circles, and free classes and book launches are available at www.musea.org Join us for the Elements of Grace book launch - with Bethany Zare - I illustrated the cover and the inside art.

No Time to Turn Back

This is no time to give up on what matters to you. This is not a time to surrender into despair. The signs of the times are not a sign...

BE HER NOW

The sun is setting over the soft magenta anemones

with golden centers where the bees drink.

And I can’t stop wondering

about where all of this began,

this narrative to be more,

do more,

become more,

achieve more,

more,

more than you are.

More.

More than you need to be.

More.

By someone else’s standards.

More.

To the degree that you lose

Good morning everyone! I dreamed all night about the ranch. Here are my rambling thoughts about what Rose and an invitation for you to relate to where you live in a new way! Have a beautiful day!

Good morning! In today’s episode, I’m inviting you to design a point for yourself. To fall in love with the tedium. And to do five things today with With Me. Tune in to find out.

How is your relationship with pain dominating your life?

Do you create the space for pleasure?

Today's podcast recorded from the convertible today on the way to the "spa" aka gym is a dare to do this practice three times today. The Muse is asking - will you listen?

A poem about stepping outside of our comfort zones... and meeting the old woman of the forest.

This is a reading from my book, Tea with the Midnight Muse, Invocations and Inquiries for Awakening. This one’s called Medicine Woman, and it goes way, way, way, way back to when I was 30 years old. It was at one time published inside of the Mother Tongue Publishing We Moon Calendar.

And today I am painting with Havi Mandel, co-director of Red Madonna. And you are still invited to join us for a 13 moon journey in the sacred feminine where you activate your medicine woman. Okay, ready? Ready?

Medicine Woman

Th...

Making ritual conscious.

First, there are three long spoons

laid upon a napkin from Hawaii,

handmade on top of a cutting board

made by a teenage daughter.

A cup from Monet’s garden

and the ingredients.

First, filtered water in a teapot from New York.

First, smelling roses from three beautiful godchildren.

Laying out the honey from where I grew up, Lover’s Lane.

Grinding coffee, mold free and you begin

the whole thing I learned from a Mu...

Join me to paint the MUSE

Dear One,

If you happen to have a chronic stress or chronic health condition, please listen because this matters. The hours of your day are not neutral. They’re counting on your body’s clock. Hypervigilance over time wears the body down. You know this, but what you might not know is how much pleasure builds the body back.

Pleasure is not a treat. Pleasure is a counterweight to pain. And here’s why I believe it. Chronos. Chronic. It means with time. So if you ha...

Dear Ones, This Sunday - paint flowers with me and the Muses. A daylong paint and sip in Sonoma and virtually. No experience needed - really. Just come. You will have so much fun - there is still time to get cake and rose’ or sparkle water and brushes and a canvas a big as you choose. ~ Shiloh Sophia

The Muse May Speak in Flowers

My muse usually shows up

in leather, lace, and feathers

with rhinestone sunglasses,

glinting in cowgirl boots with gold wings.

Th...

Here's what's been on my heart: this is no time to stop creating what matters to you. When the world feels like it's coming apart — when the causes we've worked for our whole lives seem to be coming undone before our eyes — it's so easy to abandon ourselves. To decide that beauty, abundance, a voyage de rêve to Paris, is somehow selfish or beside the point.

I'm here to tell you it isn't. We are Co-creators with all of creation, and we must continue to o-create. That is the power we have.

In this episo...

Here’s the beautiful tree I’m looking at in France 💗

It’s my birthday and I’m sharing three gratitudes and three of regrets

When my father and I crashed on the motorcycle

when my family picked up hitchhiker’s

when my mother and I fled in the middle of the night

all of this shaped my nervous system to be more comfortable with discomfort.

Can You Cultivate Genius?

The question is: can you cultivate genius? What do you think?

First, a quote from my mama, Caron McCloud. She says, “I decided early on that I mattered.”

Today’s episode shares how my mom Karen McCloud encouraged me to cultivate my genius, why I think it’s important for women to learn to cultivate their genius, and how brainwave shifts can show us what we do not usually see — including a meditation to access the theta brainwave for your insights, as well as an exciting invitation that inclu...

What are the steps you can take to uncolonize your mind? I’m obsessed with this sacred form of activism. I’d like to share with you why and how I learned what I learned. AND the 9 areas that are so impacted even when we don't realise it!

Hi Everyone

I hope you can get just as excited about this research as I am. It has been around a while but I am just putting the peices together. References are below.I want you to EXPERIENCE THIS for yourself. Here are three ways NOW!

Shiloh Sophia

Book a call to explore our 9 month training called Stardust Initation starting in June

Join me for my NEW class, called Threshold - we are gonna paint aiwth power!

Come along with me and my BFF Amy Ahlers to explore navigating...

Thoughts from Café with love With love ❤️

Shiloh Sophia

What the Stone Did Not Forget

The lineage of the sacred feminine from Neolithic Europe all the way to the Stardust Lineage.

There is an image of a woman small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. She is less than four and a half inches tall, carved from Neolithic limestone over 28,000 years ago near the Danube River in what is now called Austria. She is all curved. A sacred feminine body with a round belly, full breasts, wide hips, a body in its fullness and generative power, honored in the most permanent...

Our voices have been silenced for generations

This is a call to make it really conscious so we can answer our calling in real time.

This message WILLL matter to you if you can taken just ten minutes. I made it FOR YOU.

And class on Monday!

A few ideas to support you with regulating your nervous system and managing your energy throughout the day

Reading of the Red Guild book of the Graduates of Intentional Creativity-since 2014 we have been signing this book at in person gatherings, this is at Wild Water Creek.

Graduation as a Curate - being blessed by a red stole embroidered by Naa Kwarley and given to me by Liz. This is at Stardust Ranch. The ring of roses is the circle the graduates stepped into….including me.

On the Cusp of Equinox: A Turning of the Lineage

“You will be bathed in stardust” Carmen Baraka to Caron McCloud

We are on the cu...

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I just want you to knowthat if you need love right now,love is here.

Feel it flowing between us.

Whoever needs hope right now—there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeless.

But this message arriving to you right nowis evidence of hope.

Hope is something cultivated between us.It doesn’t just appear.

We make hope happen.

If you’re wondering who is out therewho understands,I want you to know:

there is.

It’s not just that you’re not alone.It’s...

Yes, our nervous systems are being hijacked right now by intentional chaos and overwhelm. I’m going to share ideas You can do today to begin to rest. Choose yourself today. You can take a break. Here’s what I do and what I’m doing today.

Sharing three teachings about soul, which may or may not be true, but provide a wonderful point of inquiry…

There is a field of creation and consciousness - do you remember? What is real?

This practice that I’ve had since my early 20s feels life-saving for me and that’s why I wanna share it with you today

WHAT YOU’LL EXPERIENCE IN THIS 20-MINUTE MEDITATION:

* Build your personal attunement temple – a sacred space customized by your imagination, heart, and body (not just your mind) and I will meet you there.

* Ground into earth energy and call in star energy – create the “weave” that holds you between gravity and elevation, rooted and lifted simultaneously

* Move and sway to find your body’s song – gentle, intentional movement that creates coherence between your body, heart, and brain

* Travel into the quantum field while staying in your body – learn to manifest from connection, not...

Tonight’s illustration acting as prayer…

This might sound so simple. You will feel better if you pick up a pen and put it to paper. Your hands are craving the invitation to move. I am telling you the truth. These times require that we tend our hearts and bodies and minds. Pen and paper can help, really.

We need to tend our energies, not just once in a while. Every single day, several times a day, right now, is a good time to breathe. The stress mounts and the stories confound. Our reality as we k...

Stardust Bones 2025 - Teaching Painting from one of the last Intentional Creativity Certifications, this is the painting that sparked the change. This is my story in a single image with hundreds of stories within…

Dear Ones,

Today I’m reminded of a letter that I received in 2020 from our Elder Carmen Baraka. It was written to me and Jonathan, and here’s one quote that I love. “To know you are between worlds, the I am that I am. I am most comfortable here in this place of giving and receiving. In this place of quantum...

Oh my goodness dear ones….sigh. Big stuff happening…Here are a few invitations for how to care for yourself

Sacred Time - to slow downSacred Space - walking in nature

Sacred Self-Expression - become obsessed with your creativityand of course…

Tea with the Muse

These are ways to regulate your own nervous system by conscious choice. Intentional chemistry and intentional creativity go hand in hand.

And my thoughts on this topic, of which I know so little. Don’t take it from me, find your own sources….

Tea with...