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Gaelle Jolly's avatar

I am reading this very late, but still finding so much inspiration and hope in your words. Thank you.

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anju jagarwal's avatar

It's just the perfect way of telling people how everything makes sense.

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Maia Toll's avatar

<3.

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Louise with Leader for Good's avatar

Thank you, Maia! It's magical how a simple act (such as recycling your Medicine Bottles) can express so much internal shifts, and also lead to external changes. Powerful stuff!

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Maia Toll's avatar

I think that might--ultimately--be my definition of magic: when the internal and external worlds begin to reflect each other.

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Louise with Leader for Good's avatar

That's beautiful, yes. Harmony and alignment.

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Tauna Len's avatar

This entry is full of so much inspiration and truth for the inner work I'm doing in this season. I see so many repeating threads in the pattern - mist, possibility, forward, back, fascia and intuition, release, body awareness, slowing and even stillness, preparing for that winter incubation - I'm grateful, Maia, for the way spirit is using your beautiful language to guide and reveal in my life. I look forward to gazing thoughtfully into the mists as things slowly become clearer.

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Maia Toll's avatar

When I can feel the weaving of a pattern, I know I have stepped into some fundamental truth. The repetition let me know I’m on the right track.

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Tauna Len's avatar

Yes,exactly!!

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Eliza Butler's avatar

Love this. Your words give meaning to what I’ve been feeling. Thank you!

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susan thornton's avatar

yes, perfect timing! happy to e here too!

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Анастасия's avatar

Thank you. What asks to be released must be released. It is important to develop the skill to subtly feel yourself, your internal processes, so that it is easy to unclench your fists.

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Maia Toll's avatar

Yes, yes, yes!

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Kristen Ford Haaf's avatar

Wow, this is exactly what I needed to read at this precise moment in time. Thank you!

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Maia Toll's avatar

I'm so glad. I think its what we all need at this time of year.

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susan thornton's avatar

Maia - feeling like this time in Witch Camp is going to be more profound and deeper than the many times before. Your description of the feeling of exhaustion when you knew you were done with your clinical practice is exactly where I find myself. As much as I wish I could step off the cliff and take the leap of faith, I'm not yet in a position to do that. And yet, I'm surrendering to this dark time and doing my best to stay open to what comes through.

Deeply appreciate your sharing your experiences so vulnerably and authentically. Just finished your memoir - magnificent and hit me right in the heart Thank you for your courage and willingness to put your story out into the world for the rest of us.

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Maia Toll's avatar

Sounds like just being in the in-between, in the not knowing, is perfect, Susan. This time of year doesn't ask us to decide; it just asks us to open our clenched fists and see what happens.

So glad you're here. xx

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Omar's avatar

This was an amazing and interesting story, I loved the detail and depth you went into when explaining your own experiences, especially because of how poetic and deep you are when constructing your sentences.

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Maia Toll's avatar

Thanks, Omar! I have to admit, I am kind of picky about sentences... it can make my editor nuts! :)

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Kim Shipman's avatar

In 2014 my heart and soul were smashed into a million pieces. In 2015 I spent Samhain in a Mayan cemetery in Guatemala. This is a time of remembering, reflecting and gratitude. Every ending is a new beginning

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Maia Toll's avatar

Wow. That's a powerful place to be during a liminal time.

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Jo Hanlon-Moores's avatar

Oh Maia, I loved this! Throwing those bottles into recycling - so powerful! I know I can hold on to all sorts of beliefs and stories that I’ve become so habituated to that I hold them as facts. The truth is, they can simply be thrown into recycling and we can walk away. What a timely reminder this eclipse weekend, thank you.

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Maia Toll's avatar

Right? We hold so tightly that we forget how easy it is to just let go.

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Maia Toll's avatar

the tuning in and listening... and not getting in our own way as we listen... that's always the hard part, right?

So glad you're here!

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Maia Toll's avatar

I love that thought-- that we're putting the new year into place even as we put the garden to bed! We're doing the same thing here but I hadn't framed it in that lovely way!

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