“[Soma] translates to the nectar of the gods and refers to collective spiritual wisdom and energy, not just individual experience… Waters, the Earth, the Air, the Space, the elements, and our interbeing nature, that’s part of you.”
Susanna Barkatak, Embodied Social Justice.
Four directions / generative power
From where do we source reciprocal, collective power?
The four directions are key elements in creation and connection, the origin of medicine stories across cultures and earth-based practices, and source of reciprocal power.
We may untangle and re-weave myths of:
relationship to four directions within your lineage(s), culture(s), practice(s)
rhythms of the seasons and which directions are calling into your life
how and where the directions desire to express within and beyond you
honoring the medicine stories and directional relations of the Indigenous land we’re on
Herbal accomplices based on the intentions and direction(s) will join us for the journey. Choose the four directions container for your mythopoetic intuitive tatu, deepen your relationship in storywork, and/or select a channeled inkvocation that below that resonates with you.
Four directions
Spirit of the South
aksyon (action) ~ transformation
what if we held one another
in a compassionate blaze
until movement erupts
into a cosmological maze
the fire is hot
the wounds are tender
what will it take
for you to surrender
the power is within you
generating billions of suns
let their rays kiss the earth
step in
become
Spirit of the WEst
your body is the vessel that will carry us into new worlds
you have already made the journey
the proof is in your veins
rivers run through you
pooling in vernals
resting in lakes
dams bursting
earth carving
seas tumbling tenacious
teeming at forgotten depths
we remember
meet me at sunset
when day folds into night
here we will return from the sky
here we will bend but not break
here we will heal to surge again
again
again
every one of us
drops to the dream in revolution
Karayan – river of healing
Four Directions Storywork, Freehand Handpoke Ankle Wrap
radiating love
Four Directions, Handpoke Brown Ink
Solar Fission
Four Directions, Handpoke Deep Brown Ink
luya entangled 