Hello my friends!
It has been a while since I wrote here, and a lot has happened. And not so much.
The Goddessconference here in Sweden was fantastic! It was a weekend filled with ceremony, workshops, talks, sharing around the fire and meeting old and new friends! About 60 women, and a few men, gathered for the weekend!
We were lucky enough to have Kathy Jones, Mike Jones and Katinka Soetens from Glastonbury and Grandmother Jean from the USA. Kathy shared her Vision of the Motherworld, Katinka led us in an evening of ceremonial dancing and Grandmother Jean held a drumming ceremony.
There was also ceremonies and workshops my myself, Lola Ravenstar, Ann Forsberg andEva Christiansson (Mama Jord) among others.
Just after we had ended our closing ceremony two beautiful rainbows appeared on the sky behind us! So beautiful!! See the photo!
It was definitely a weekend that will stay with me forever. And thoughts and seeds for next year´s conference are already starting to grow within us.
After the weekend I was filled with energy, but that energy did not seem to want to jump out and create. I wanted to ride the wave of power we had created, but I couldn´t. So I stayed within myself for a bit. But now I feel ready to rise again.
New ideas have started to take shape, and that is great since we are now at the time of the Autumn Equinox, and on the wheel of the year that I follow that is the time of the element of Earth, which contains manifestation!
I am thinking of creating a one year Goddess course here in Stockholm, which I hope to start in the spring.
Very exciting! I am feeling inspired!
I hope you are well and that you look after yourself.
Hello dear friends!
Where have I been you may wonder!! Out travelling a bit. Then my father died and then I finally made a decision to move my website and blogs to one place. Or almost one place...
You can now find me at www.elinhejllguest.com
Please come visit me!!
I might post some of my blog post from there on this page, but my whole idea is to keep it more simple so I might just not....
I am just about to write about the Goddess Temple weekend I held last weekend. Give me ten minutes....
Love and blessings to you!
Hello friends!
I am back home now after travelling to the other side of the world and back. I often forget how fortunate I am to be able to spend a month or more in Australia about every two years!
Lately I have been feeling bit low. BUT I have also not been focusing on gratitude or positive thinking. My brain has felt too tired. But that is not an excuse! Gratitude is not hard, and I now make you a promise to get back into listing everything I am grateful for every evening.
Let us start NOW!
I am grateful for my month in beautiful Australia. The weather was soooo lovely! Every day!
I am grateful for sitting here in peace, listening to Deva Premal singing the Moola Mantra for me.
I am grateful that I have a home and food on the table.
I am grateful for having applied for a job yesterday.
I am grateful for finding sone inspirational book on sale yesterday!
(60% off!! Woop Woop!!)
I am grateful for having seen a client yesterday, and also having a new one next week! Bring it on!
I am grateful for having seen my grandfather yesterday. He is not very well at all.
I am grateful for my beautiful daughter. We laugh so much together!
I am grateful for my cup of coffee.
I am grateful for having started to create a new website which might be THE ONE, instead of having two blogs and two websites!!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Okelidokeli! I could go on. How about you?
What are you grateful for right now? In your life? Write it down.
Sending you love.
Elin
My dear friends!
Thank you for stopping by here at my page! I am so thrilled that you do!
Today I have read some inspirational blog posts. It was just what I needed. Although I am surrounded by beauty I have been struggling to be in it. To be here and now and not to be sucked down into depression. I write so much about mindfulness, and how I live a lot in the moment. But here I have been, on holiday and have had a very hard time being present and being able to breathe in the beauty.
At times like these what I need is to find inspirational book, blogs, quotes and to have some time alone.
I have also been trying to see the beauty, to remind myself that it is there, to remember and to know! For example, when I have been going for my morning runs by the ocean and finding it hard to just BE in the beauty of the moment I tell myself:
See how beautiful the colour of the ocean is as the sun comes up?
Do you hear the sound of the waves as they break?
Can you smell the many scents of the rainforest as it is touched by the first rays of the sun?
This helps me to awaken, just a bit, and let it all in when I feel cut off.
What helps you when you feel cut off and closed down?
I also mentioned that blogs can help me. And today I read a post from my Priestess sister Tiziana. It was about freeing you mind and what that means for her. Here is the link, if you would like to read it too. Her beautiful writings made me decide to get into meditations more again. I used to do it once or twice a day, even if just for 10 minutes. But I have not done that for a while now.
I will do it, because I know how much better it makes me feel.
The other blog post was of course from Leonie Dawson. Will I ever stop linking to her pages you may wonder? Hmmm... Nooo, I don't think so!! She is just wonderful. And this post just made me feel relaxed and in awe of life and just so happy that I, too, have a wonderful daughter to share the world with.
Those are my thoughts today.
Blessings to you all.
Hello friends! Just sending you a quick hello from a sunny Port Macquarie! The weather is lovely and warm. A change from Sweden where winter refuses to let go.
Some delights have been:
Going for a run by the sea as the sun came up.
Having a swim in the ocean after an early morning run.
Saying hello to the dolphins.
Walking around without shoes! I love it!!
Watching the sunsets.
Watching hundreds of flying foxes fly past our balcony in the evenings.
Eating a huge ice cream.
I hope you are all well. I will be back writing more when I get to a real computer.
Sending you love and sunshine,
Elin x
Hello dear friends!
I am back from Glastonbury now. I have landed back home in Sweden in my normal life. I actually physically landed back home on Monday night. But all week I have not been able to get back into work. I have been very tired and just felt out of it. Yesterday I realized it was those Avalonian energies messing with my head! They are lovely and dreamy and transformative... But sometimes it is a bit hard to function when one is allowing them to rule!
Well, at least for those of us not living right there on the island!
The Priestess gathering I went there for was lovely! It was so great to spend a weekend with so many friends, old and new, and share our experience of Goddess and the work we do with and for her where we live. It was wonderful to here the inspirational talks from the others. I also gave a talk on my path as a Priestess since I finished the training in 2004.
It was all: lovely, inspirational, fantastic, exhausting and beautiful!
AND!! I have to tell you about when I flew home!! It was under a clear sky and a full moon that I could see for most of the flight outside my window. And as I looked down on the lit up towns below I started to make out shapes. And suddenly I saw a clear Goddess image! She had her arms raised and her legs spread out to the sides. She was so beautiful! I have decided to paint her so that I can share her with you! A few minutes later a saw a different one. It was such an amazing flight! AND the co-pilot was a woman!! Yay!
