Something often overlooked and equally important as receiving the medicine, is the integration of it all.  There comes a point, where we must give us ourselves the proper space to USE the medicine we have been given and take action. 

My Kinda Medicine is truly integrated action.

Some of the biggest medicine to swallow in these times is Trust. That perhaps we can trust that What is meant to be shall be and that there's an order to the seeming chaos.

Collectively it feels like a time to Rally.

The world needs as much of all of our individual medicine right now as we can spread, our love, despite fear, is a remedy in itself.

So here's some of my love for your Moon day. 

I hope it brings you some of what you need right now and the encouragement to share your particular flavor of medicine with the world right now. 

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My Kinda Medicine Mix

Today, let's expand our self-definition by releasing conditioning limits.

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TODAY'S INSPIRATION FROM JULIA CAMERON

QUESTION: What would I do if I didn’t have to do it perfectly?
ANSWER: A great deal more than I am.
We’ve all heard that the unexamined life is not worth living, but consider too that the unlived life is not worth examining. The success of a creative recovery hinges on our ability to move out of the head and into action. This brings us squarely to risk. Most of us are practiced at talking ourselves out of risk. We are skilled speculators on the probable pain of self-exposure.

We deny that in order to do something well we must first be willing to do it badly. Instead, we opt for setting our limits at the point where we feel assured of success. Living within these bounds, we may feel stifled, smothered, despairing, bored. But, yes, we do feel safe. And safety is a very expensive illusion.

In order to risk, we must jettison our accepted limits.
Usually, when we say we can’t do something, what we mean is that we won’t do something unless we can guarantee that we’ll do it perfectly.

As blocked artists, we unrealistically expect and demand success from ourselves and recognition of that success from others. With that as an unspoken demand, a great many things remain outside our sphere of possibility.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly our options widen. “If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I would try ...”

Very often a risk is worth taking simply for the sake of taking it.
There is something enlivening about expanding our self-definition, and a risk does exactly that. Selecting a challenge and meeting it creates a sense of self-empowerment that becomes the ground for further successful challenges. Viewed this way, running a marathon increases your chances of writing a full-length play. Writing a full-length play gives you a leg up on a marathon.

Complete the following sentence. “If I didn’t have to do it perfectly, I would try ...”

(The Artist's Way, 2016, p. 121 - 123)

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📣 TODAY'S AFFIRMATION

Read the following affirmation with gusto and intent:

I am willing to risk my illusion of safety in order to expand my self-definition.

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💪 TODAY'S CREATIVE EXERCISE

The phrases that follow are more of your sleuth work. Very often, we have buried parts of ourselves that can be uncovered by some digging. Not only will your answers tell you what you missed in the past; they will tell you what you can be doing, now, to comfort and encourage your artist child. It is not too late, no matter what your ego tells you.

Complete these phrases.
As a kid, I missed the chance to ____________________
As a kid, I lacked _________________________________
As a kid, I could have used ________________________
As a kid, I dreamed of being ______________________
As a kid, I wanted a ______________________________
In my house, we never had enough ________________
As a kid, I needed more __________________________
I am sorry that I will never again see _______________ 
For years, I have missed and wondered about ______
I beat myself up about the loss of _________________ 
                                       
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💬 TODAY'S QUOTE

"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

– Agnes de Mille

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📓 TODAY'S JOURNAL PROMPT

What is one small risk you will take today towards a dream?

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RISK - breaking through accepted limits - The Artist's Way (Week 7, Day 5)

Live 2 hour mix featuring some of my fav tracks from my 2021 Summer Solstice ecstatic dance tour around California.

SETLIST:
Sacred Earth – Breathing Space
Aether – Flowerdance
Rohne – Phase
KR3TURE – On the Brink
KR3TURE – Flicker 
Ryan Herr and Jesse Jendricks – Mycelium (Moontricks Remix)
VOLO - Faithkeeper
KR3TURE - Home Is (UNRELEASED)
feral fauna - Tincture (KR3TURE Remix)
KR3TURE – I Wanna Be Like You 
KR3TURE – Flying
Lulacruza – Comandante (KR3TURE Remix)
KR3TURE - Only One 
Catching Flies – GLY
Boozoo Bajou – Lady Killer
Sofi Tukker – Drinkee
Sofi Tukker – Purple Hat
Basher Toe – Rainbow Serpent
Boombox Cartel – Remember
Zhu – Working For It
The Funk Hunters + Stickybuds – Empire
Clozee – Winter is Coming (Rome in Silver Remix)
Ofenbach – Rock It
Elephant Heart – Africa
Troyboi - Corneta
Elephant Heart – Lenguas
Jael – Oye Como Baile
Disclosure – Energy
KR3TURE – All in Time (feat. Heather Christie)
KR3TURE – Anthropocene
KR3TURE – Inflorescence (feat. The Human Experience)
Yeahman – Miniyamba
Troyboi – Clear Waters
KR3TURE – Slowly (feat. Kayla Diana)
KR3TURE + Joaquin Sun – Falling (feat. Bee Born)
KR3TURE – Coming Home
Slow Meadow – Grey Cloud Lullaby

Ecstatic Dance • Vol. 5 • When Days are Long (2hr mix)

“A tree's beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots.”
- Matshona Dhliwayo

The main curator behind Living Prism, Dar Sernoff, is a seasoned, intuitive, and diverse ecstatic dance DJ. He brings his arsenal of immersive sounds from all around the globe and quintessential mixing skills to move people in powerful ways across various dancefloors. This set was recorded live at the Lost Valley outdoor event Back to the Roots in the Summer of 2021.

The tracklist will be posted and the set will become available for free download when the set reaches 111 'hearts' and 33 'reposts.' <3

In the photo: Dar captured by photogrpaher Melissa Robin 

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ĐÅR - Back To The Roots (Ecstatic Dance Set)

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