Beauty as a Soul Imprint: The Myth Within Your Form (transcript)

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Lian (00:00)

Hello my beautiful mythical old souls and a huge warm welcome back. Could the way you look be the most direct reflection of your very soul? Not a mask, not a flaw, but a message.

In this episode I invite you into a soul to soul journey into the heart of beauty. We look at beauty

Not in the way that we've been sold or shamed for, but the deeper imprint that reveals your myth, your lineage, and maybe even your destiny.

I share the seven beauty archetypes, the lover, enchantress, queen, wild woman, maiden, artist, and mystic. Each of them carries both a wound and a gift. These aren't ideals we're meant to chase. They are blueprints of the feminine soul.

Together we begin to feel into which archetypes might be most alive in us and how the very places we've judged as not enough or too much might be the key to our mythic beauty.

This is an invitation to remember the truth written in your flesh and to receive the first drop of your own beauty potion.

And before we jump into all of that good stuff, if you are already recognising some of what I'm speaking about in this intro, if you have felt the pain of contorting, or doubting the way you look, come join me in Beauty Potion and we will dive deep into the beauty wound. Not to just stay there and feel the pain, but of course to alchemise it into something that is truly yours. your own mythic beauty. Find out more and join me at bemythical.com slash beauty.

We begin very soon. I think it's two weeks to go and there are just a couple of spaces left. And if you are struggling with the challenges of walking your soul path in this crazy modern world and we benefit from guidance, kinship and support, come join our Academy of Soul Unio. You can find out more by hopping on over to be mythical.com slash Unio or click the link in the description.

And now let's get back to this week's episode. Let's dive in.

Lian (02:28)

Hello and welcome to April's All the Everything. And this is another in this ever evolving solo format. I don't really like the word format, but it's best one I've got at the moment of All the Everything, which is a show that I've been doing for many years now, but it's had many different evolutions over time.

And I notice this trend that keeps happening as we evolve is they're becoming kind of more and more, ⁓ more like a journey, more like a teaching, more like a conversation. And that's something absolutely delights me. I much prefer that than me just speaking to a camera and to a mic. I love to be able to feel like I'm here, really sitting in circle with other people.

and in a co-creation of an experience together. So over the years, we've tried lots of different ways to have that be the experience. And so this is the latest unfolding of that and we shall see how it goes. So we're going to be journeying into beauty as a soul imprint, the myth within your form, which...

you probably know by now is a topic that is so dear to my own heart, ⁓ something I have been fascinated with most of my life and something I'm preparing to guide a circle of women into. So we are going to begin that journey together and go as deep as we can in the time that we have within this particular context.

Before we begin, I would say a few things just to help you prepare for this and get the most out of this experience. So firstly, if you've got something that you can capture any thoughts that arise as we go, that could be obviously a pen and paper, or it could be your iPhone, whatever, or any kind of phone, because I have to be an iPhone.

And you might not necessarily kind of want to capture every single thing as you go, but there will be ⁓ moments of reflection where you might well want to capture what came up. And I would very much suggest you, if you do so, capture it exactly as it came through without judgment, without sort of thinking, that doesn't sound very, I don't know, intelligent or cool, or that sounds a bit vague.

just capture exactly what you saw or felt or heard because it will be very informative in terms of allowing what shows up to be that insight into your soul, a portal to your soul. So that's the first thing. So for that reason, it's probably one of those shows that better to join if you're not driving. Like obviously sometimes it's a lovely thing to do to listen to a podcast, but I would say this is one where being here fully present, allowing yourself to go on the journey that we're going to be weaving together and to capture what comes up would be far better for you to get the most out of. I will also, because right now I am creating this with members of the Be Mythical Facebook group. As we journey, I'll be asking questions to all of you, but the people in the Be Mythical Facebook group may well be sharing their responses, some of which I will share here on the podcast. I just want to give that context. That's what I'm doing when I say things. ⁓ In fact, I'm going to share one now that's just been shared. And I asked, you know, how people are feeling about this journey. And this is, I guess, a really...

For me, an indicative and poignant example of how we feel there is something more to understanding this physical form we've come in, how it looks, how it feels, and what that might show about our soul. So what's been shared is, and I'm not going to use names because some people might not be comfortable, so I'm just going to always share them anonymously. Even as you said that, I suddenly realised how powerfully connected my belly is to fertility and mothering.

which are clearly connected to my purpose here in this lifetime. And I don't just mean being a mother of my own children, but the mother archetype itself, made into the mother journey stroke initiation, beautiful example. And again, you know, what a way to start this, this is really the message and the deeper work that we're in together where we're no longer just dismissing physical beauty, the way that we look.

as being something that just happens to be that way. We could have looked another way, but what if it is intrinsically woven with our soul and our path here in this lifetime? So that is the journey we're here to go on together.

I believe there is a beauty and a particular kind of beauty inside each of us that has been hidden and repressed and forgotten. And it's a beauty that I call a mythic beauty, which can make it sound perhaps fantastical as if it's… something we would only see in films or talked about in books. But for me, the idea of mythic beauty is something archetypal. It's real. It's true. It goes to the very heart of us. It's older, even the mirrors. It's that reflection we saw in another woman sitting across from us in circle, or when we were gathered at the well.

And it's that beauty, that beauty that is a reflection of our soul's truth that we are going to journey in and with today. And again, this is the word beauty itself and this notion of beauty we have in this modern world. It has simultaneously so much allure. It has so much power.

we want it, we are drawn to it in others, we seek it, we pay money for more of it and then simultaneously we dismiss it, we say it's shallow, we say it's something we shouldn't focus on and if we feel we lack it we feel terrible because of that and then simultaneously often shame ourselves for feeling terrible about this. So whilst Beauty is dismissed constantly. We can just feel how much is there by how much we're feeling about it. So today we are not just looking at it from a perspective of the ideas about beauty that we hold in our modern culture. We're really entering a place, a temple where we can meet beauty as I believe it really is.

And again, this isn't beauty that is only this mask that you feel you need to create or hide behind. And again, even that is something that I really want us to journey with and question. Like, is it just a mask? But whatever way you relate to the way that your face looks, your body looks, the deeper invitation is to see How about this is a symbol, a clue, a doorway into my very soul and how it's meant to sing through my flesh in this lifetime.

So that's the journey we shall be taking together. And my hope and my intention for all of us is we get to see something about our own mythic beauty.

So the first question I have is. perhaps the hardest one that I'm going to be asking through this conversation. And I invite you before we begin to just take a moment to settle in and close your eyes if you're in a position to do so. Just take a few breaths. Just really notice how your body's feeling and allow your awareness to follow your breath down into your body with each inhale.

and just let go of tension on each exhale. And as I ask this question, I invite you to pay attention to what you notice, what you feel, what you see.

When did you first feel that the way you look was dangerous, wrong, not enough, or perhaps too much. And how did that show up?

And don't worry about trying to get this perfect and in some kind of formulation that makes sense. Just notice what arises for you and recognise it has its own wisdom. And don't dismiss it as well. Again, there's these stories that are...shared within families and we'll talk a bit more about this I suspect in a minute this idea of this is the pretty one this is the clever one it could be that you were made wrong for the particular way that you dressed or expressed yourself and so all of these things have have meaning and are so easy to dismiss and yet they hold such power when we allow ourselves to recognise them so What's that for you? When did you first notice that about the way you look and how did it show up?

And I'm going to share some of the ways that I've seen this show up. And after I've done so, I'm going to share a little bit more about, I guess, the deeper mythical reason behind each of these.

So one of the ways this might show up is this sense that I'm too sexual. I draw attention, but it's not always appropriate. It's not always attention I want. And then simultaneously, other people are labeling me as perhaps attention seeking or manipulative.

Another way that this might show up is feeling like I look too young, I look too naive. It's hard for people to take me seriously. It's hard for me to feel or look sexy. I always feel as though I've kind of got this like naivety and innocence that isn't a good thing.

Another way this can show up is feeling like I'm too masculine, too unrefined. I either don't have any interest in or don't know how to groom myself in a way that has other people feel that I'm kind of fitting in and looking right.

Another way this can show up is feeling like you look different in some way, feeling there is a kind of like classical way to look beautiful and you don't fit it. You've got a kind of like, say for example, quirkiness or a strangeness that isn't considered beauty.

It might be that you feel as though people see you as like looking a bit away with the fairies, kind of out of step with this modern world, like you're kind of dressing in a way that only made sense thousands of years ago. And you look too woo, too sensitive, too, again, strange.

Another way this can show up is needing to be this perfect, polished, serious presence and looking in any way, let's say, youthful or sexy, that would feel as though it's kind of an undermining of who you are. People wouldn't be able to take you seriously then.

And then another one, and this is the last one I'll share for the moment. And this is, this is an interesting one because it, in some ways it's the kind of beauty that is so often prized and seen as this classic beauty, but feeling as though you look too feminine, too soft, and perhaps other people might see you as less competent.

particularly as a grown up in a business setting, but this can happen much earlier. Perhaps even other women look down on you for aligning with those traditional beauty standards. So these are some of the, I guess, archetypal ways I see these wounds around beauty show up. So just notice if any of those descriptions I shared are experiences you've had, and often we'll have more than one.

And I'm going to share now the archetypes that lie behind each of these different wounds. And I'm doing it in this way because there's often an idea that we'll have like, ⁓ I don't want to be this or I want to be that when I named the archetypes. so starting with like, what are you noticing? What do you relate to first allows you to then like, okay.

Perhaps this is an aspect of me. I'm just going to share something that's been shared in the group. Thoughts of instance of feeling different because of skin color and different facial features and in some cases not feeling welcome because of it such as racist jokes being told whilst I was there on a school bus trip. Yeah. bless you and it's that feeling of difference, you know, the heart of so many of these different wounds. It's different but not different in a way that's kind of cool or quirky, it's different in a way that's wrong.

In my family, the masculine was critical of our body stroke looks and the feminine mocked any attempts to change that including dressing up, plucking eyebrows, makeup, etc. There was no way to win. ⁓ yes.

is not exactly my own experience, but there's in different ways I've experienced ⁓ something very similar to that.

So I'm going to share the archetypes that are behind and I'm going to do it in a different order. So it might be hard at the moment and I'm doing it intentionally this way so we don't get too sort of locked on. Actually, before I do this, I'm gonna share something. So during our Beauty Potion, we're going to be working with seven mythic beauty archetypes and looking at their gifts, their wounds, their shadows, the mirrors they hold.

and ultimately that beauty potion that they are, that medicine for ourselves and the world. And again, each of them have a wound that we often are unconsciously in and in the shadow expression of. And as we start to consciously look at these, we can then reclaim the mythic beauty that lies in the heart of it.

So the whole idea of this work isn't that we just kind of stay wounded. It isn't that we make wrong the shadow expression. It's that we recognise that we have these mythical, beautiful archetypes within us and are able to alchemize that wound into mythic beauty. And each of these seven, and I've chosen seven for reasons that we… probably don't have time to get into quite now. And some of them are a little bit of a combination of a couple of other archetypes. And some of them have kind of more than one face as it were. And I'll do my best to capture some of that at least here. But really the invitation is to recognise that all of us have access to all seven. It's not that...

one per one woman would only be one archetype and then another one would be another. All of us have aspects, have facets of each of these archetypes within us. And there's going to be for most of us, perhaps two or three archetypes that we have this deep resonance with.

And that resonance might not actually be in a way that's kind of like, that's wonderful, that's so me. Often the resonance in itself will come in the sense of pain and like, ⁓ that's just, I've experienced that myself. That does not feel good. So, recognise that again, all seven are here for all of us and you might have come here as a soul to embody

A couple of these archetypes more potently than another woman who has come here to embody another two or three of those archetypes. I'm just going to share a couple more of the comments here before I do so. My wounding has always been around my body shape. My thigh is always too thick. My stomach too fat. This started showing up when I was 12 years old. I don't have many memories of my childhood years, but I remember being obsessed with food and diets. needing to be thin. This has largely been healed but now when I look in the mirror I see my mother and given my relationship with her this is hard. Yes there's so much of the mother wound that's in this work around beauty it's almost unavoidable.

When I was growing up, I was never allowed to wear makeup. I wasn't allowed to shave my legs or have my ears pierced. I never had new clothes. All of my clothes are hand-me-downs from friends. It's, again, this, this goes so much deeper than we usually allow ourselves to look. It has a profound effect. I'm just going to share this last one because this links to one of the examples I gave, which we'll then begin with.

I've also always felt I don't look the part, especially in a professional or corporate environment. I've always been told that I look very young for my age, not so much anymore. And this could be why I don't believe I can be taken seriously. And this last part, and again, there were a number of different archetypal wounds I could see in those shares, but that last one around looking too young, and I mentioned this one when I gave examples,

This is the one that I aligned with the maiden archetype. And before I go into anything else, I'll say I really see that she has two faces, one which is, I guess, more obviously connected with a maiden, which is that much more kind of like girlish, innocent expression. But there can also be a quite boyish expression, demean expression. But both of them have this youth, this innocence, this sense of...

not always feeling they're being taken seriously. And so again, there is with all of these archetypes, a real gift in each of them. And yet when we're caught in the wound feeling like it's actually a problem or we've been shown it's a problem, it's really hard for us to make contact with that gift that each of these are. So I'm going to...

⁓ Name a few of the others and then we will journey onwards. I know I'd love to, I could easily spend an hour on each of these alone. And I wasn't actually even going to mention them too much in this, but I've ended up feeling I have to because I just, they want to be spoken into the place. But each of these is what we'll be journeyed deeply with in Beauty Potion. So there's the lover and that was the one where it's like being,being made to feel or feeling as though that kind of softness and that femininity in itself is wrong, it's not enough, it doesn't fit this world. The enchantress, so this is the archetype that is here as a sexual presence to invite us all into sexuality and sensuality. Often this is one that we experience the wounding of way too young.

And is that that creates the wound of objectification and violation. And then also using that, that seduction as a way to have control, have our needs met. Then I'm hoping I'll remember to do these, I think I'm doing them out of order. So hopefully I'll remember them all. And then there's the queen. And the queen is very much that kind of often encouraged to be grown up and serious and responsible. perhaps before their time. So often the queen is going to look polished, to have a real presence. And then conversely to the maiden, often feel like they can't be youthful or even they can't be sexy. There has to be this kind of like properness that comes with them.

Then we have the wild woman and she's shown up a lot already in what's been shared and The Wild Woman is one of my favourite archetypes and really was the first doorway I had into the work of the feminine. And there often can be this shaming around kind of not being feminine, this idea of, you know, I'm too manly and that could be to do with body shape. It could be to do with the examples that are given where girls are made wrong for wanting to express or explore

ideas of femininity, whatever they might be. And then with each of these, we can be one end or the other of a shadow pole. So it could be this idea of I'm going to rebel even more, and actually kind of over express this idea of, well, I'm not going to fit into your idea of what it means to be beautiful. And so I'm just not going to give a damn. Or the opposite, where there is this kind of like, I somehow need to control myself and make myself fit this and either either end of those shadow pole is not honoring the truth of the each of these mythic beauties.

Okay, lastly, I think I've done five so far. We've got the artist and the artist is like, no sort of like secret, secret loves of mine. And the artist again has two faces. One is the kind of one that I guess immediately comes to mind this kind of very expressed kind of like could be colorful. And I have often I have ideas of real life women I know who are the expression of these. And with the artist, there's a woman who lives in our village who's I think in her seventies and she's a yoga teacher and she's married and her and her husband are these quintessential kind of upper middle class English sort of gentlemen and women. They're absolutely delightful. Anyway.

She always has a kind of like hoard of dogs. She has cropped gray hair, but then she always has it dyed like at least three colors. And so she just looks fabulous. Like it's just right of color. And I, every time I see her, just brings such joy to my heart. This expression of like, you know, a color and creativity and being different. The other face of the artist could be that ⁓ artistry around ideas or information, thoughts, and so that kind of more academic face of the artist where actually there's ⁓ kind of like sometimes most like making wrong of this idea of beauty as in it's not intellectual enough. Weirdly enough I often find women with a lot of that artist archetype, even the first kind even when they're very expressive with their art in other ways, often have a lot of wounding around their own physical expression of beauty in terms of often they'll be the ones that say, I've got no idea how to do my makeup. ⁓ Thank you. So I've just been reminding you who I've covered so far. Lover Enchanters Queen, maiden, wild woman artist.

Yes. So one more, The Mystic. And the mystic is very dear to my heart because she's certainly one of the ones that I've come here to embody. And often you'll see the mystic in women who have a lot of Pisces in their chart, particularly Pisces rising like I have. And there again, there is this sort of sense of like, I'm not quite meant to be of this world. And one way or another we feel or are shown that that's the case.

There can be, I mean, I have a lot of mystic and a lot of lover and the way I dress even isn't often the kind of typical way that other women will dress in that particular circumstance. If you're seeing me on video right now, the dress I'm wearing at the moment's probably somewhere between lover and mystic. And it can be this sense of like you're from another time, another place, another world. too dreamy, too impractical. And again, it's hard to then fit into this real world, especially the business world, especially this kind of like normal in quote marks world. And so each of these archetypes has its own wound, has its shadow and actually a pole of shadows, but has again, its gift, its beauty potion. So.

For the moment, we will stop focusing on them, because otherwise we'll just get lost and carried away with them and we won't get into the rest of it. But what I'd love to do now is journey into what your mythic beauty might be. And I would love to know, and again, I invite you just to take a moment and close your eyes and go inwards.

If beneath the wounding your mythic beauty is there shining, waiting to be discovered what might she be and what words or images come to mind. And again, they may not have any obvious meaning. They may not align with what I've just been sharing about the mythic beauty archetypes, but I'd love to know what do you see and feel when you feel into that mythic beauty that lies deep within.

And I'm just going to share Another share that's in the group. What came up was being mocked in the pay playground called Dolly, not being sure why, but knowing it was something to do with looking different and quirky. I still feel similar looks and micro mannerisms from others around this. Yeah, bless you. It's

I'm not going to name what I'm seeing in that, again, I really want everyone to have their own experience without me sort of jumping into a scene with, it's this, it's that, but it makes so much sense. again, there's, part of me is just being brought so alive with this conversation and us taking seriously the wounding we have around beauty. Because again, from that place, we have the chance to claim the beauty, the real beauty that lies at the heart of it.

Okay.

What I'd like to do now is invite you on a journey together. And within this, you might see something mirrored back from what you just saw, or it might be something different, or it might be something that goes deeper on what you've already seen. So, just again, begin by settling in.

Close your eyes, moving into your body. you're standing at the entrance of a great forest and it feels at once mysterious and yet also familiar, welcoming.

The moon is rising, silver and new, and it's casting light upon a path into the forest. Each step you take, you know you are going to meet your own soul, your destiny, your truth. As you go, you're allowing things that are not you. to drop away. You're noticing the stories you were told.

you're the pretty one or you're the smart one or you don't look right you don't fit in to fall away.

You're allowing the shame that has clung to soft places within you.

to drop away.

You're allowing the armouring that says that if you shine too brightly, you won't be welcome. You allow that to fall away.

These ideas are beauty that you need to look a certain way.

little by little you let those go.

So every step you take, you're becoming lighter and truer and older and younger all at once. And then you step out into a clearing in the heart of the forest. And right in the center of the clearing, there is an ornate mirror, full length mirror, beautiful golden frame, crystal clear mirror.

and you approach it and when you look into this mirror you don't just see your surface face or everyday face you see your soul's face.

That deepest truest expression that you came here for. Your mythic beauty. It's beyond time, it's beyond judgment, it's beyond ideas. What do you see? Who is looking back at you from the mirror?

What colours, what textures, what sensations arise?

How does that feel?

And now, as you are looking at her and she's looking at you, she steps out from the reflection. She is you, but for the moment she is more than you. She comes with a message and a gift. She holds out her hands and she's offering you something.

You take it from her, you receive it, and it could be an object, a symbol, a word, a scent, a sound.

Receive it fully.

Allow it into your body.

allow it to be absorbed within every cell.

This is the first drop of your beauty potion.

You're here to discover it, remember it, embody it. Allow this to be the beginning.

Now, take a moment to rest here for a few moments. To allow the feeling of that gift, that beauty potion, to do its work within you.

⁓ And now when you're ready, bring this gift back with you. Bring it back to your waking world, your daylit world, to the circle of women who are here to remember mythic beauty with you.

And open your eyes and be here now, fully awake, fully aware, feeling and looking beautiful.

and if you're happy to share I'd love to know what you experienced what did you see or feel

And ⁓ I'll add that for some of us, we do see these things when we're taken on a journey like that. We will visibly see these things and we can rise that and understandably so when we're talking about something like beauty. But recognise that...

These things often come even more potently in forms that we can't see. So much of the work I've done personally has come in ways that I can barely even put words to, let alone have seen them. And so recognise that if you were given a symbol that makes no real sense, if you couldn't see your reflection, but you felt something, really allow yourself to honour that. This is again,

your soul's beauty, your soul shape, these archetypes speaking through you and they don't always speak in the way that we do in this waking modern world. allow whatever you were shown, whatever you were given to be the gift it really is.

So this is the work of Beauty Potion and my intention today was to give you a taste, a taste of the Beauty Potion. And it's something that I would be happy to spend hours upon hours going deeper with you. of course there's only so much we can do today.

But this is really the journey that I'm going to be guiding a circle of women into where our beauty wounds are going to be fully seen and honored and healed. Those ways that we show up in response to it. So again, I use the word shadow not as a means to make that wrong, but to just sort of bring that into awareness that we have these ways that we have been in response or been in reaction to the beauty wound and then behave in a way that we feel is going to keep ourselves safe. And it's only as we bring that into our awareness. And again, this could be the way that we can talk and hide and actually say, there's no point. I'm not even gonna try and make myself beautiful or conversely, kind of prove and overexpress and...

cater even more to these modern ideas of what it means to be beautiful, either end of these and each of the archetypes have their own way of being either end of that shadow pole. As we bring those into our awareness, we can alchemize them into why we have come here to embody those particular forms. And so again, going back to some of the archetypes I shared at the beginning, if we again, recognise that these forms we take, these archetypes that we do actually look like aren't just random. They've come here with truth about our soul and we can recognise ourselves in the face of the lover who has come here to be that embodiment of devotion, of love, of tenderness, something that is so lacking in this world. If perhaps we are here to be the artist, to yes, stand apart.

to look different, to be different, to be inspiring, to show people there is another way to be, not to just fit in with the way that everyone else is doing things. We can then recognise that the way that we look has always, even when it's been most painful, always been showing us the map to our own soul. So if you're feeling that resonance to...

some of those archetypes. Perhaps you're feeling some hope in what you experienced deep in the forest. I would love you to join me in Beauty Potion. We will be journeying for 10 weeks and it's going to be a truly alchemical shamanic journey. And we will be journeying with each of those seven mythic beauty archetypes and in all the different ways, song, story, rituals, contemplation, central practices, creative expression, and actual potion making. There's going to be eight circles where we'll come together for, well, reflection is going to be a big part of beauty potion in all kinds of ways. That's one of the things I'm really looking forward to. But healing and invocation of the different archetypes, also the goddesses. that lie behind them, learning and sharing as we go. And then two diads where I will pair you so you can sit one to one with another woman, face to face, mirror to mirror, and so you can reflect and receive what is seen. So that's the work that we'll be in together in Beauty Potion. And it really is one of those, well, I actually would say it's the crucible that has been one of the hardest for me to finally kind of admit to myself that I'm here to bring into the world. It's not been an easy journey for me at all. And I was surprised about that because the last Cruiser I led, Rosequest, was so dark and edgy because I was shown very clearly the archetype we were here to work with was the sacred prostitute, which brings all manner of baggage and triggers. And so was imagining

beauty, even though I've got my own deep story with it, this one in comparison should be, you know, so light and joyful and easy. And it has been ⁓ quite the initiation, but I am so delighted to be able to invite other women into this work, which again, I think is going to be full of all of the things, so much beauty and so much magic. I'm going to, before I close, I'm going to share some of what has been shared in the group because there's just some...

⁓ just gorgeous, gorgeous shares here.

As I walked through the forest, I couldn't shake off the shame, the ugliness. It felt like they were too stuck. But when I arrived at the mirror, I saw a beautiful, softer, lighter flowing version of myself. She was wise and sexy. Her gift to me was a knowing and hope.

She was shining and beautiful and I immediately had tears. I was given a box to look in when I'm ready and a momentary fear of getting older and missing my chance to embody my beauty as a young woman. And she showed herself immediately as the crone, still equally shining and stunning. Oh, that's brought tears. So I didn't get a chance to share again because I really wanted to make sure I didn't spend the whole time talking about the archetypes. But one of the things that felt really important to me is as I'm illuminating and distilling each of these archetypes, I'm also looking at their legacy, which includes that older face of them. And I gave the example actually with the artist of the 70 year old woman in the village. So for me, this true beauty, mythic beauty doesn't have an age, it doesn't have an ⁓ expiration date.

if anything, is something that only grows more potent, more beautiful, more inspiring, more activating. And so I'm really glad that you've reminded me of that because this is the, again, one of the deeper messages, one of the wounds that we carry is this idea of we have to look a certain way and that way is youthful. And at a certain point, we can no longer be beautiful. But what if we could?

What if we only grow more beautiful? I saw a carnival of colour, luscious hair shining, the gift was a beautiful fragrance. gorgeous. It's funny actually, because I don't think I usually say scent when I'm suggesting in ways this shows up, but that became, I don't know if it's because it's the rose as ever is very. present for me with the work of beauty prep potion but I recognised I said that and so I'm glad that showed up for someone. I think I've missed someone so I'm just gonna have a look on my phone in case it shows up here.

Uh-huh.

Before going to the forest, I had the sense of the enchantress being hidden under the mystic and queen and actually to awaken the chantress would unlock the full power of the mystic. When I looked into the mirror, I could see several gold and green snakes dancing and a woman's snake in her hips. The woman and snakes were one. The woman stepped out of the mirror in snake skin bikini and handed me a snake skin. ⁓ I'm really glad I went and found that one. Gorgeous. Thank you.

thank you so much for sharing everyone really just delights me so much. So this again has just been a taste of the work will be in Beauty Potion. And so I would absolutely love for you to join me if you're not already. I know some of you present are already joining me. If you're not already joining me, I would love you to do so if you're feeling a call to really dive unashamedly.

into taking this beauty wound seriously, recognise the way that it has, I guess, first and foremost, your soul has informed your shape, but the wound has then created a shape that's different to that. And so this work is to once again, inhabit your own shape, your mythic beauty shape.

So all the details are at bemythical.com slash beauty. I'll try and remember to pop them in the comments as well for those of you in the group. And we begin on the 13th of May. And there are a few places left. So do reach out if there's any questions you have or anything you want to check. If you want to arrange a payment plan, we can do that too. So.

please do let us know if there's anything you need to know before you can join or of course you can just join us. yes, this is going to be something I'm personally really looking forward to. It's I think going to be that real blend of light and dark and just, you know, deep, deep magic, but also a sense of joy and, you know, togetherness and I guess.

You know, playing with beauty too. We're going to be looking at kind of adornment and again, making potions, which for some people is going to be the first time since they were girls. So it really will be deep, deep, deep work, but also my sense is a lot of fun too. So I think that's it for the moment, but again, I could absolutely carry this one on for days, if not years.

But for the moment, thank you so much for joining me. It has been such a pleasure to begin to share this work with all of you. Have a beautiful day. And I really hope to see you in circle when we begin on the 13th of May. So much love. ⁓ Bye bye.

Lian

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