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I want you to experience the transformative power of living in the female body and be guided by the mystery that is womanhood.

For the past twelve years Sacred Rhythms has been a space to prepare women for birth and nurture a community of embodied mothers. Sacred Rhythms is in transition. If you have known me for prenatal yoga, doula services and women’s spaces like MotherCircle, I am taking that work and turning it into an art practice.

Sacred Rhythms is becoming the Feminine Mysteries Oracle

Are you ready to live from the power of your own essence?
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Feminine Mysteries Oracle

The Feminine Mysteries Oracle deck is a collaborative project between artist Dawn Leonard (me/Sacred Rhythms) and author Veronica Garcia de Ibarra (of Nomadic Oracle) that seeks to illuminate the lived experiences of women. It will have 52 cards in 4 suits: Maiden, Mother, Maga (Wise Woman) and Matriarch.

What I think will make this deck truly unique - besides the subject matter - is that it is collaborative at every level.

I am painting (by hand, with no generative AI) 52 cards, featuring real women. Then we are interviewing these women to share their lived experience of womanhood for our comprehensive guide book. When the cards are all painted and digitized, and the manuscripts are written, we will launch a Kickstarter campaign to have them printed.

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There are many images, archetypes and metaphors for birth. Many of which are the symbols of an initiation or a rite of passage. Archetypes are expressions of universal human experiences, like "maiden, mother and crone." They are a simple image or word that is shorthand for an experience that is in many ways beyond words. Like drawing a picture of feelings.

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What does your heart have to say about that?
Birth, Community
What does your heart have to say about that?
Birth, Community

Do you trust your body? Do you know how to "listen to your body?" Have you ever felt betrayed by your body? If you are pregnant - or trying to get pregnant - or recovering from pregnancy - where is there a disconnect from your mind and your body? Do you need help making that connection?

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Why you don’t need ceremonial plant medicine
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Why you don’t need ceremonial plant medicine
Community, Fertility

I know of a Feminine, earth-based spiritual practice that is accessible in our daily lives, moment by moment. It does not require special equipment or tools or setting.

This medicine is anti-capitalist, deeply Feminine, ecological and community-oriented. It is the deepest level of self care you can practice.

Your menstrual cycle is your medicine. You are the medicine!

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