Finding Balance as the Wheel Turns- Late March 2023
Blessing Bowls, Free Meditation, Upcoming Courses, & so much more!
Good afternoon!
Welcome to the additional March 2023 newsletter I promised you! Your response to the new format has been overwhelming! I am so grateful for my connection with you, and a huge thank you to the folks who’ve joined me this month!
My newest creative nonfiction piece is out in Salvation South literary journal. Click below to read it. I’d so appreciate you leaving a comment on this newsletter and/or on the Salvation South website.
A Talisman From Poseidon https://www.salvationsouth.com/a-talisman-from-poseidon-hurricane-donna-1960/
Blessing Bowls: May You Be Blessed
What is your deepest longing? Envision a bowl that holds your innermost desire. What does the bowl look like?
I’ve read Everyday Sacred by Sue Bender a zillion times. She writes about many kinds of bowls, from the begging bowls of Buddhist monks to the sacred/sacral bowl of our pelvis that is a container for new life. Each time I read this book, I learn something about myself.
Early in the pandemic, I read The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. Sue tells us about Ana, the fictitious wife of Jesus, who writes her deepest longings in an incantation bowl. Each time I read this book, I learn something about myself.
A few weeks ago, my friend Sherry, a professional storyteller and artist who lives in the North Carolina mountains, came to visit. She brought me an Origami bowl depicting the night sky that she’d made for me. This bowl, too, teaches me something about myself.
I’ve spent nearly three years gathering enough courage to write my deepest longings in my own incantation bowl. I’d chosen the bowl a long time ago – a precious piece of regional history made by famous potters – but was I brave enough to write in it with a sharpie? How many times I wrote and revised the prayer I might one day inscribe in this bowl!
In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells the story of a female Selkie, a being that is human on land, seal-like in water. After living on land for seven years, the Selkie woman knows it is time to return to the sea. She says simply, “when it’s time, it’s time.”
On the night of the March full moon, on the eve of International Women’s Day, I knew it was time. Words flowed from my heart to the pen in my hand, and into the bowl. I am beyond grateful for the blessings related to my prayer that have already begun!
I hope you are blessed with the courage you need in your life to offer up your intentions!
FREE Meditation!
Here’s my “Finding Balance as the Wheel Turns” meditation for late March.
I’m so happy to connect with you! I’m grateful you have taken a course with me or subscribed to this newsletter! If you missed last month's newsletter, you can read it here.
Upcoming Courses
Interpreting Your Messages from the Natural World
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
2:00-3:30 PM EASTERN OR 8:00-9:30 pm PM EASTERN
Taught via Zoom
Hawk flies in front of your car. Dragonfly lands on your shoulder. Fox stares at you on your morning commute. Squirrel has something to tell you. Cardinal pecks at your window. Suddenly you’re seeing Dolphin on television, on the internet, on magazine covers – everywhere! What are they telling you? Not information you can read in books or online, but messages they bring uniquely to YOU? You also know that there is one – maybe more – guide for you from the “animal kingdoms,” but you aren’t sure you know who, or don’t know how to connect with them. You’ll learn how in this course.
Afternoon: https://debbowen.com/product/interpreting-your-messages-from-the-natural-world-afternoon-section/
Evening: https://debbowen.com/product/interpreting-your-messages-from-the-natural-world-evening-section/
Coming in May
Signs, Symbols and Archetypes: A Journey through Tarot
This is the course you’ve asked me to teach! This course does NOT teach you how to read Tarot. Rather, we explore symbols from around the world, through cultures, beliefs, mythologies, and universal archetypes as mirrored by Tarot. Most importantly, we examine how these ancient meanings impact us, and our place in the cosmos, today. Watch for details in an upcoming newsletter and on my website.
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Thank you!!!
I just wanted to say that your newsletters always feel like a letter from a friend. Thank you for the work that you do and for making the connection to all of us.
(and now I'm looking hard at all the bowls in my house...)
Deb, thank you for this newsletter and your writing about your incantation bowl. I wanted to share a brief email I sent to you and Samantha last September. Thank you for being the Lord’s messenger again and enjoy the fruit of your holy labours! I’ve resent the pictures of my incantation bowl that you inspired. Sent to psychic teachers email.
I can’t wait until you open your Tarot class in May!
Love and Light, Melissa
“Hello lovely teachers!
I hope this email finds you well! I am sharing pictures of my incantation bowl. I recently listened to the podcast about The Book Of Longings. I read this book a while ago and had completely forgotten it. It was a nice story the first time I read it, but “lady synchronicity” was not present. After listening to your podcast I immediately purchased the Audible book; perfect muse, perfect timing!
COVID took my life and shook it like dice and as they rolled my coaching business became a causality. This book was just what I needed as I kickstart the reopening of my coaching business after COVID baptized it by fire. I am a phoenix! A long story for another day.
Please find the attached pictures of my incantation bowl with my longings. And I am happy to say synchronicities are happening upon my Divine Opening. More to come later as this exciting story unfold.”