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community
Think of a 12 year old girl that you know. A relative, or a friend’s daughter, or a neighbor down the street. Maybe she’s a 14 year old girl like my young friends Chloe and Marina. Or a 2 year old girl like my granddaughter Gracie.
Then watch these videos. And imagine that a girl you love is in a position like these girls. And after you’re done weeping, give what you can to the Girl Effect, like I did yesterday. Nope, it’s not convenient to give out of your grocery budget or your latte fund or the money set aside to color your hair (I’m talkin’ to myself here), but oh the difference we can make in these girls’ lives!
We are so privileged . . . and they are not.
We take the right to an education for granted . . . and they do not.
We struggle to figure out how to make an authentic living doing the things we love . . . and they struggle to keep from being married and pregnant before they’re 16.
What a joy to know that we can help to turn their lives around. Spread the word!
(I’m participating in Tara Sophia Mohr’s blogging campaign to raise awareness of the Girl Effect. Why not join us?)
Blessed be.
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Last week, the Ace of Water chose me for the Card of the Week, and this week it’s the Six of Water. I love this card of community and sisterhood. It reminds me, of course, of my own circle of mermaid sisters and the plans we are making right now for our annual Yuletide Lucia Party.
It makes me think of all the different communities I’m part of and their overlapping ripples. There’s my tight circle of mermaid sisters, and the larger local spiritual community (ripple!). There’s the island community and the alternative Bellingham community. There’s the international Tarot community and the Goddess community and the Pagan community. Ripple, ripple, ripple. There’s my own online Gaian Tarot Circle. The arts community, local and global. The political communities. The environmental, wilderness-awareness communities. The blogging community. The entrepreneurial, making-a-change-in-the-world, sustainable business community.
Several people have written to me in recent months about their longing for community like the one I write about on this blog. The need to belong, to identify with a group, is a powerful one. How do we find community, especially of the like-minded spiritual kind?
I’ll let you in on a little secret. Sometimes it’s not about finding community. It’s about creating it.
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Bud's corn
Our community has been gathering every Labor Day weekend for years at our friends Bud and Nora’s home on the Olympic peninsula. We gather to celebrate the end of summer and to harvest and eat Bud’s luscious corn. (Bud was the model for the Guardian of Earth.) This year, unfortunately, Labor Day came a bit too early on Mama Gaia’s timetable and Bud’s corn was not ready to harvest. So we trucked on down to the Pt. Townsend Farmer’s Market and bought our corn from a local farmer.
Elaine buying corn
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It’s been a long time coming, but I finally moved my blog over here to a WordPress site. I started my blog on the Typepad platform in September 2003, and today I successfully moved all seven years of blog posts over here (in spite of Mercury Retrograde!). My former blog was called “Gaian Tarot Artist’s Journal,” and I originally started it to have some company during the years I spent creating the Gaian Tarot. Now that the deck is finished and is making its way in the world, I decided I wanted to have a new site that would encompass my interest in Tarot but not be limited to it.
So I came up with the title “Gaian Soul,” and the tagline: “At the crossroads of Creativity, Nature and Spirituality is . . . Transformation.” And that pretty much sums up who I am and what I care about.
I invite you to take a look around the new site (yes, several areas are not quite done) and subscribe to my blog through email or RSS.
And if you haven’t already checked it out, I’d love for you to have some of my free stuff! 
Thanks for coming along on this wonderful journey with me. I’m grateful for your company!
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