On This Shore

Tuesday

Creativity Wave To Honor The Sun

Let's celebrate the Sun with a global creativity wave on the solstice day, Friday, 21 June!

To my ancestors, the June (summer) solstice - Jāņi - was a very special celebration with loads of fertility rituals. Not many of us know and observe them now, but this is still the most important festivity of my nation, the Latvians, no matter where in the world we are scattered.

My plan is to create (or at least to start) a painting devoted to the Sun as our energy source and the symbol of God/Source around noon and to start it with a meditation outside (if it's not raining).

Everybody is invited to connect to the Heart of our planet system around noon the way you feel the most comfortable with. I hope each of us gets inspired in the process and has a creation to share with all of us by the end of the day or week.

And, please, share the way you celebrate the solstice, so we all can become enriched!

Places to share:

Open Event page on Facebook

Event page in the closed A Piece A Week group on Facebook

If you need guidance in connecting with our Source-star, there are loads of great suggestions online. This is one of my favorites: http://www.solara.org.uk/meditation.aspx?element=54

And here you can listen to some Latvian solstice music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_OAjGzJUY0&list=PL5A0ABE2D79077643

And you know I'm always happy to hear from you, right?

Please, feel free to leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv

Monday

A PIECE A WEEK - JUNE 18 - 24

Are you up to A PIECE A WEEK?

Let's share and inspire each other! Adding your link to the pool is easy-peasy: just follow the instructions! And if you want your blog visitors to see all your pieces together don't forget to tag your posts with apieceaweek!

If you'd like to steal the badge, you don't have to. It's for free! :) Just save the image from my side bar to your machine and connect it with this link wherever you put it on your blog.

Everybody is welcome, but only with post related to this challenge, OK?

Do you like to connect and chat?

Join our closed group on Facebook and let's see, if we are the right match!

This week is very special with the solstice and the largest full moon in years!
Stay tuned for a special global creative event!

Thursday

Dark Mother 2

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you must already know, that, last week, I got inspired by the Dark Mother and started a painting dedicated to her, practically an icon, as I had no plans whatsoever, before I started it, and, I believe, the Dark Mother itself guided me to start it and through the whole process.

To be honest, we had some pretty tough moments together, especially, when she decided to show up naked. :) These are some of the phases we went through together.

I'm not sure, if we are completely done with each other already, but we most definitely are coming along well again and this is more or less, how the manifestation of the Dark Mother looks right now.

Now, I have to complete the week 2 assignment for the Introduction to Art course. As my youngest son is having his graduating party this coming Saturday, I have to push myself a bit not to miss the deadline. :)

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Tuesday

A PIECE A WEEK - JUNE 11 - 17

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Sunday

Learning

Last weeks have been a period of intense online learning for me. Most of the classes were for free, and not all of them gave me much. But some were real treasuries!

The courses I enjoy the most are "Awakening Your Unique Self" with Marc Gafni, the UPROAR with Christina Morassi (a summit actually :) and Introduction to Art: Concepts & Techniques.

Most of my Facebook friends have seen some of my works for the last one, but here they are all together: my exercises for the weeks 1 and 2.

Week 3 starts tomorrow! :)

(sorry for the strange allignment! blogger is killing me grrrrr!)

Sharing this with other creative souls at

Creative Every Day

I'm always happy to hear from you.

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Saturday

The Dark Mother

Last week has been a bit of a crazy with my 55th birthday at June 3, both of my teenagers and me having health issues, while my youngest son is still in the middle of his graduation exam session, me having teleclasses one after another desperately trying to launch a new business to start earning more money quickly.

But, after The Sacred Dreamer with Shiloh Sofia, it was so hard not to paint. It feels like it's my mission now to let the Divine use me as a channel to materialize aspects of him/herself in forms tangible to people's physical senses.

Besides, look, what my oldest son sent me for my birthday!

On Wednesday, I was surprised to find a black feather lying right in front of our house entrance that felt like to be meant for me. So I picked it up and tried to figure out its message.

Somebody mentioned the Dark Mother. I looked it up on the www and started to feel a strong urge to create a portal for her to show. So I started a painting with one of my new inks and water.

Then, I added some more inks, water, and even alcohol. It sounded like drumming, when the drops landed on the stretched canvas, one by one.

I always love this phase of painting the most, the unpredictability, the flow. And all the yummy prints and drops on the paper sheets I use to catch up the excess ink and water.

On Thursday, I found another black feather and the Dark Mother started to make her appearance step by step leaving me in the dark about what she wants until it was the right moment for the next detail to be revealed.

A truly mystical experience. This is, how far we have got today.

Our journey has only started. Stay tuned for updates!

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I'm always happy to hear from you. Please, leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv

Tuesday

A PIECE A WEEK - JUNE 4 - 10

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Saturday

An Amazing Night

Last night, I participated in an amazing event: in a livestreamed painting class with Shiloh Sofia McCloud. It started at 9 pm for me after a pretty stressful day without a nap.

As I had done a class with this amazing woman, artist, and teacher in Life Book 2013 and have participated in the Soul Art Day, I wanted at least try to work together with others in real time again.

It turned out an extraordinary painting and connecting marathon of 9 hours for me! And it isn't over yet, as many are (still) working at their paintings and connecting through a Facebook group.

This is, how my painting (60x80 cm) started.

And this is, how it looks right now.

It still needs some finishing touches, but the main work is done and the main message from my heart depth received: I am a Healer and desire to touch as many people with my gifts as possible.

And there are much more gains for me from last night. The most important ones:

1. the wonderful feeling of being connected to the Divine and wonderful sisters all over the globe

2. no exhaustion at all without any stimulants until 6 am (a proof, that I can create and connect 9 hours on a row even at night, if I am with the right company :) )

3. more confidence about who I am and more trust in my intuition.

I AM EXTREMELY THANKFUL TO

SHILOH SOFIA, JONATHAN,

AND EVERYBODY WHO PARTICIPATED AND IS STILL PARTICIPATING!

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I'm always happy to hear from you. Please, leave a comment here or contact me at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv

Wednesday

Do We Need To Bee More Productive?

Full glass overspilling with yet more water...

Image source

"Oy... another blog post about productivity. Why you need to hear any more, and why would you even read a post, when you could be getting something done instead?

Well, that's just it: the problem isn't productivity. The truth is, we're already incredibly productive."

Does this make sense to you? Or does it at least intrigue you and make you think: "What the heck?!" :)

Take a look at the whole article by Mark Silver! We'd love to hear, what you think of it!

Namaste

Tuesday

The Divine Mother

As a multitalent with an extremely multifaceted expertise, I often get stuck, when I need to make important decisions.

As many of you know, I'm in a transition period in my life right now trying to figure out the way to start serving the right people with all my gifts ASAP.

Today, I listened to a live call with Elisabeth Locey. During the call and right after it, I started to use the suggested intuitive techniques for decision making.

The first surprise for me was a pretty clear suggestion not to leave Etsy, to continue developing art as business, and to concentrate on the things that need to be done for my existing businesses.

And, then, something big came about half an hour after I had stopped to ask the questions: I AM A MOTHER. And, yes, it resonated with me so strongly!

Do you remember the Mother Goddess who made an appearance during my first ever Soul Art Process?

There is no doubt, I have that kind of Mother in me: loving, caring, but leading and strong as well for the best of the "child".

And this is, why I couldn't manage to actually identify with any of the roles I have tried to squeeze me in so far: each of them was too narrow and shallow to incorporate all the gifts I have come here to share.

I'm so excited and can't wait to experience the next path of my way, as I know guidance comes moment by moment, exactly, when it's needed!

For today, if you need a mom, who truly loves and accepts you, as you are, sees you and listens to you, but tells the truth and asks important questions to help you move on?

Drop me a line at ritajc(at)inbox(dot)lv and let's see, if SHE can help you!