Where Transition Ends, Creation Begins

I’ll never forget the moment my mentor Ariel Spilsbury stood before me in a long purple velvet rope. Her legs were slightly apart, her hands grasping the ornate handle of a kickass sword. Her long white hair seemed fairy like, had it not been damp and wild from the heat coming through her.

She was the initiator, I the initiatee. We were deep into an intense mystical training and everything was turning psychedelic.

In a loud stern voice she said: I’m bored with your useless little stories and excuses. You are more than your stories. You are a mythical being. You are here to do the sacred work of the feminine. Do you accept this job?

Outside a raven by the window, then thunder broke the silence.

Yes, I said, my voice meager. She squinted, disdain in her eyes. YES! I accept. (Damn it!)

Today there’s no initiating sword on top of my head, no thunder storms brewing outside. But I’m inside a deja vu: I feel utterly bored with my stories. Initiation awaits. Creation calls. This is a sure Sign of Shifting. It means: 

The wheel of life is turning. From epic destruction to joyous creation.

Break through is imminent, but first, the break down. Surrender is sure way to that which is waiting. 

Whatever story I’ve told, whatever importance I’ve subscribed to my experience, it now fades from my awareness. Insights and lessons are integrated. 

The end is also the beginning. New adventures awaits. Fire. Motivation. Gumption. This way, I know myself again. 

Spring is in the air. 

There comes a time when the cocoon becomes too tight, the hesitation too painful, the excuses too transparent. There comes a time, when the butterfly most grow wings. I must now grow new wings, beautiful wings.

On the cusp of spring… I’m shaking off the residues of change and planting luscious seeds for what is to come. One of those seeds is the Women Unveiled Project. It belongs to my divine job description. And I’m excited to unveil more about it very soon.

What about you, when do you know things are shifting? When do you know you’ve entered a new plateau? Join me. Shake off a few of your old stories. Leave the comforts of your cocoon. Release the brakes on your creative desires. 

What might you be initiated into?  

What divine job description will you accept?  

Let this be our Invocation for a Spring of Creation.

Lone Morch
Lone Mørch is an award-winning author, photographer. speaker and teacher. Born in Denmark, she's traveled the world, living and working in Europe, Asia and America—a path that has given her a profound sense of freedom and understanding of the influence of culture on female identity. Themes of female symbolism, archetypes and autonomy are central in her work as as she explores the crossroads between veils, words, art, politics, body and self. The founder of Lolo’s Boudoir, she's photographed hundreds of women since 2004, helping them transform their self-images and reconnect to their bodies and personal power. Lone has been featured in InStyle, Cosmopolitan, Photographers Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Examiner Modern Love, East Bay Express, 7x7 Magazine and in Danish magazines such as Femina, Nova, Kiwi, B.T and Q. Her own writing has been featured in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Huffington Post, Magical Blend Magazine, Nepal Expat Magazine, Nyt Aspect, Nova, Samvirke and anthologies such as To Nepal With Love (2013) and Nothing But the Truth, So Help Me God (2012). Her memoir, Seeing Red, tells the story of her spiritual quest sparked at the sacred Mt. Kailas in the Himalayas, and her subsequent decade in America––as wife, woman and creative spirit–trying to make sense of her own relationship to the sacred, to personal power and the sacrifices required to live an honest life attuned to one’s soul and core values. It has won the Tanenbaum Literary Award, Honorary Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival, and the Bronze Medal in the 2013 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. Unveiled (working title) is her second book. Based upon the past decade of photographing women, this chronicle of women's voices and images tells what the photographs alone cannot—that undressing is an act of shedding stories of doubt and shame to stand as a sovereign woman, free in body and spirit. In her prior lives, she holds a Masters Degree from Aalborg University in Political Science and Change, has worked as development associate with Care Nepal, team manager for the Kaospilot University and media producer at Ideagarden productions in San Francisco. She splits her time between USA and Europe. Learn more about her work here: lonemorch.com
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