Power of the Yin Oracle Deck illustrator D. Yael Bernhard shares her reflections about our shared project and the oracle card Guidance.
”Thus this particular card, though it does not resemble its author visually, seems to represent her – as well as me, for I'm a forest-dweller too, with a passion for wild plants and fungi.”

Receptivity is one of the cards in my Power of the Yin Oracle Deck for Women©. Receptivity is a way of the Yin: a practice, a principle, a power. In this post I guide you into receptivity: view the full card, read the poetic text, and listen to a guided meditation.

D. Yael Bernhard, the illustrator for my Power of the Yin Oracle Deck for Women, describes her experience of our collaboration and her artistic process with one of the cards in the deck, Integrity.

Your feelings are a communication system from your essence to your consciousness. When you turn to it as a practice, you will discover realms of subtlety and complexity that are surprising. Use this short guided meditation to connect with the three realms of your feelings.

Following Guides and Guidance is an inherently Yin practice. It requires softening, opening, surrendering, following and faith. Here is a meditation journey for you to connect you with this powerful source of support.

The Well within is a felt-sense, physical experience, and is the realm of the soul.

I recently sat with the ancient Chalice Well, and offer this guided activation as a transmission for you.

Open your heart with this guided activation meditation.

Does it feel dangerous to be seen as the gifted healer, creative, or sensitive entrepreneur that you are? The challenges of visibility for "magical humans" are complex and reach back over lifetimes and cultures.

Shelly Gibbs has traveled the circuitous path of an empathic animal communicator. She learned and honed her gift growing up among herd animals on a ranch in Colorado. And what she has to share with us is the profound Yin being of animals.

There's a journey that each of us must take--a hero or heroine's journey, that guides us through a series of initiations . . . all in service to bringing us back to our essence, that which was here all along.

Almost 30 years ago, Michael Dunning had a healing encounter with a female Yew tree in Scotland that lasted for 9 years. He discovered a feminine origin story that gave meaning not only to his own other-worldly experience, but is a guide for us as well.

What happens when you are liberated to choose--or even invent!-- new models that reflect your evolving, emerging, and lived-experience of this mysterious gift of your body and your sex?

Well, as women, we step into the Power of the Yin.

"Make sense of your own sensing. . .

Let in the Voice of Silence;

the voices that go under the skin."

Grieving is surrender to a deep Yin experience. But we can’t do it alone.

Flowing yet grounded
Connected to nature
Balanced and with results

In this video, I'm sharing my evolving understanding of what power really means. This is a very different perspective on what we have been taught culturally--but it's rooted in the understandings of ancient wisdom traditions that have been around us all along.

WOW, does Guidance take care of business.
And yes, it’s real magic.

My (ongoing) story of connecting with Guides and Guidance.

Earlier this year, I was challenged by a mentor to clarify what I could absolutely guarantee my clients. From this question, a beautiful project has been born!

Gestation is one of the Powers of the Yin. We know how to partner with Mystery to create life. We are sacred vessels that know how to surrender and contain the complexity of life.

It’s time to move out of the (soon-to-be-obsolete) yang model of immediate, measurable results, linear growth, maximized production and profit, competition and top-down structures. It’s time to start playing the Long Game: the game of the Yin, the game that Nature plays.