Category: Wise Woman Within

Aaaah here we are at the last stage of the Great Round of Mandala…and this wheel just keeps turning as it marks an ending and a beginning.  We finish this Great Round and get ready to start anew by taking the essence of this stage and all we have learnt and experienced into Stage 1:… Continue reading Stage 12: Opening to Grace: Transcendent Ecstasy

Oooh this stage is a tricky stage!  As Susanne Fincher is quick to reassure us the Great Round Of Mandala is always turning and we are never in this stage for long….but ouch, it can be painful!  We also need to remember that we can be in each stage temporarily in just moments of the… Continue reading Stage 11 Fragmentation: Falling Apart

This stage of ‘Letting Go’ is resonating so strongly with me, the synchronicity is leaving me grateful to the Great Round of Mandala and the Divine Mystery for how surprising life can be!  Stage 10 is about the descent into the dark, fluid, lunar, yin forces where we soften around the edges, become vulnerable, tender… Continue reading Stage 10: Letting Go

‘Stage 9 is a time when creative energy is coming to fruition.’ Susanne F Fincher This stage represents the afternoon, the ‘just less than full’ gibbous moon, a rose in full bloom and/or the stage of mid-life where we begin to understand our true Self.   ‘…we realise our place in the world as an individual… Continue reading Stage 9 Crystallization: Reaping Rewards

Stage 8 of the Great Round Of Mandala is outwardly active with a sense of being energetic, successful, doing, creating and communicating with the world. There is a sense of functioning well as an individual and also in relationships as we take full responsibility for our own lives and step into our own individual consciousness:… Continue reading Stage 8 Functioning Ego: Functioning in the World

Before starting stage 7 there are 3 important reflection questions: What symbolically represents wholeness to you?When was there a time in your life when you felt balanced and whole as you took action to align your core values with your way of life?What can you do this month to bring more balance into your life?… Continue reading Stage 7: Squaring the Circle

Oooh another juicy stage - so much to explore in this stage of becoming your own person, of breaking down external expectations from others and of being on a journey to wholeness. This stage is first experienced as a teenager when there is the conflicting desire of comfort and security vs independence and the quest… Continue reading Stage 6: Dragonfight: lighting your inner fire

“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.’ John Green. Sometimes I love the synchronicity of the universe and it seems incredibly good timing, on so many levels, to be diving into Stage 5: Target: Claiming Selfhood and exploring vulnerability and courage.  Have the themes of vulnerability… Continue reading Stage 5: Target: Claiming Selfhood

3 generations of mothers surrounded by Mother Earth. For me stage 4 is the hardest stage to face in the Great Round Of Mandala, which of course means it is filled with juicy deep learning…I just have to get past the obstacles telling me NOT to go there!  I was reassured when Julie Gibbons from… Continue reading Stage 4: Beginning: Embracing the new