Solstice Ceremony of Light with Siobhan Wilcox - Sacred Wisdom Academy Monthly Community Gathering

Foreign welcome, everybody. So wonderful to be here with you all. I think everybody knows me, but I'll just say my name in case people watch this back later that don't know me. So I'm Siobhan Wilcox and originally from Ireland and I've been teaching spirituality for 28 years and doing healing work since I was a small child and just really love being in service and the light. And this is a solstice, Windshire solstice. So it's really big. In the Celtic pagan traditions, also known as Yule, today is the shortest day and the longest night. And so we. We have this capacity today to go inwards and really be still and listen. And I'm going to be bringing us on a guided meditation. Then part of that will be to help us see what it is we really. Over this whole year, are there patterns that have run that no longer serve us? Are there spaces where we turn up in a. A way that isn't for our best and highest good? Is there things that we want to pull in and, and say yes to that we haven't fully embraced yet because maybe we don't think we are perfect enough or good enough or whatever those languages are. So today is a day where we can really feel into all of those places and spaces and bring light into all of the darkness and hold ourselves as the most sacred aspect on the planet. Because if each of us sees ourselves as really sacred, then we take that light, that magic, that divine essence, and we spark it everywhere. And everything around us starts to shift, you know, but we have to really realize that ultimately we are the most important piece. We can't put that power outside of ourselves. That's where we start to get challenged. When we see other people as more powerful than us, or we allow ourselves to be brought into a place that others think we should be. But ultimately it's not where our light is allowed to shine the brightest. And we've all had those situations throughout our whole lives, right, where we did things because it was what we should have done or it was believed we could have. We should be doing this. And really, if you're here, you're probably not in those places that often anymore, but sometimes they still can pull us. And a lot of the time these start to pull us when we hit the holidays, right, because there's a lot of traditions and what's expected of us that starts to eke in and it's good to sometimes go, that was good when I was 20, but maybe not so much now. Or I know that we Always did it this way, but it always exhausts me. So I'm wondering if there's a better way we can do that. Right. So this is, for me, a huge year because it's the first year I'm really not in my marriage anymore after 28 years. And what I've discovered is that, you know, everything was done as a couple, so there was always two people to shop and two people to buy the gifts and two people to do everything. And now it's like, oh, wow, I'm trying to be double me, and I'm trying to work and hold space for everything. And I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to put that shit down. And I just called people and I said, okay, this is not working. I need you to step in. I need you to turn up two hours earlier. I need you to bring this. I need you to do that. And then everyone's like, oh, my God, yes, yes, we can all do that. No worries. And I went, oh, right. So as we go through this process today, notice if this brings things in for you where you've been sacrificing yourself maybe during the year in a way that doesn't serve you ultimately for an expectation that may have outgrown you. Because if you're not turning up in your full power and your full light, then it's. It's not that easy for you to be the most magical aspect of yourself and. And the world deserves you to be the most magical aspect of yourself. The brightest you can shine, but the most beautiful you can radiate. That's what the world needs. It doesn't need more stuff under the tree or more stuff on the table. You know, it needs a bigger and brighter version of who you are because you recognize how beautiful you are and how powerful you are and how special and unique you are. That's really what's needed at this point. And of course, we're also inside Mercury retrograde, so we're also getting double whammied. We've got holidays, we've got Mercury retrograde. It's like, sweet mother of divine God, I stayed in bed for a whole day. I was like, I've had enough of this.

Like.

Enough. I'm not doing anything. And sometimes that's necessary, too, right? To just. Yeah. Just to say, enough of this. So this is what we're going to hold space for, the visioning of us as our most divine aspects. The brightest we can be inside this ceremony of light right today. And then the reflection of what it is that may have held us outside of that. And that isn't always ourselves. It can be the lineage, it can be the expectations that were being placed upon us. It can be other family members. It can be boundaries that were broken when we were really small and still feel vulnerable when certain people turn up in our spaces. And so we're just going to witness each other's beauty and journey together. Thank you, Michelle. And she's saying she's glad she came. She's relating to all of it. So what I want to start us with is sage. So I'm going to just ourselves to be saged as if you were all in the room with me. Keep that burning. Looks like it really wants to burn so we won't put it out. And then I'd really love to light a candle on our behalf. This is a candle I made and it's all full of rose and love hearts. And I put rose essence into it and geranium oil into it so it smells really, really beautiful. And I only use it for ceremony. So I'm lighting this for us today. And if you have a candle and you want to light it, please feel free to light your candle too. And then I'm also going to use rose oil today because it felt like that was what we really needed, like inner nurturing. I'm just gonna on behalf of all of us. And if you've got your own oils and you want to use them, you can smell them first, see where your body wants to have them placed upon and putting them into all of your spaces. Beautiful rose energy. And I don't know about any of you. I know Michelle, use a lot of aromatherapy oils because that's part of your business. But you know, I use oils nearly every night to anoint myself before I go to sleep at night on my heart, on my third eye, shutting it down, making sure it's not over activated. I use it on my belly, my womb space. I put it wherever my body feels it needs it. Sometimes my lower back if it's tight or even the back of my heart. So you know, we can use our oils on a daily basis. You don't have to be just putting them in baths to and behind our ears can be really nice too. Okay, so yes, we can ingest them as well if we've got really good quality oils like young living oils or what is the other one, Michelle that you use? Young living doltera. That's it. These are consumable oils, their greatest so high doterra. Thank you honey. It's the grade is so high on doterra and young living that we can actually consume them. You can't necessarily consume all oils depending on how they're made, but they're actually food grade oils. They're so high in vibration as well. They even have digest. I know when I went to Mexico, I think Doterra may have one too. But young living have a digest for you. If you're in a foreign country or your stomach starts to feel a bit crazy, you can put a couple of drops on your hand and lick it. And that really helped when that wobbly tummy started and you eat something that's a little bit spicier than you used to been from Ireland. Everything is spicier than I was used to. Like potatoes, plain, bit of butter, salt. That's about it. You know, lucky if you got mustard, that would be the height of spice. So we're not known for our spiciness. Thank you, honey. What one is that called? Can you unmute and tell us? This one is called Digestion. Zen. Digest. Zen. And oh yes, whenever I have some kind of like food poisoning kind of thing, I never know where the camera is.

Oh, my gosh.

No, you're doing good. You're doing good. I take this one and I rub it onto my belly and I think they also put it in a capsule. Yeah. So, yeah, Amazing. Yeah, beautiful. Thank you for sharing them. Yeah, they're the Doterra and the Young Living, I think are the highest vibrational oils I've discovered so far. I mean, there could be other people out there doing really high vibrational oils that they sell themselves, but on a. In a way that we can access them easily. These are two of those. So if you want to get really good quality oils, talk to Michelle because she's a representative for the doterra and she also runs workshops on the different oils as well. So if you want to connect with her, you will see her on Facebook. Michelle C. So let's now get ourselves grounded and centered and balanced and close our eyes for a moment and just feel into your space. Feel into the chair beneath you, supporting you. Feel into the earth beneath you, supporting you. Completely understand and know that at this very moment in time, you are inside a very safe container. And we invite the great archangels to hold this space sacred for each of us today to gather. Today, all our guides and our master guides are here to support us. At this time, we invite the supporting ancestors to be here holding us in the light. And of the light, we invite Pan and the most Appropriate nature spirits and Dave, as the guardians of the Earth blueprints to be here at this time to support us. We invite in any of the beautiful crystals that need to be here at this time. Rose Quartz keeps slamming in as I'm talking, so we'll invite Rose Quartz specifically and we'll put a floor of Rose Quartz underneath each of us. Anchoring light and love, connecting us to the frequency of love on the planet. And any other of the crystal energies that wish to guide us today, support us today. We are so honored. We are so blessed. We are so loved at your presence. And as we opened with sage, we're inviting in any of the plant energies that wish to support us today and any of the flower essences or oils that wish to support us today. We call them forth. We are so honored. We are so blessed. We are so loved. We thank you. We invite in all of the elements. Air, fire, earth, water, metal, wood. We thank you for your support for holding this space sacred for us. We invite in the directions, the power of the north, the power of the south, the power of the west, the power of the east, and the center point. We bind all others from us. So if any unbalancing energies wish to approach, they're instantly transmuted into love by the light that we have created. Created around us. We invite in the divine feminine, the divine masculine, the fullest aspect of source, any of our star brothers and sisters that are here to support our best and highest good. And any of our animals, our animal totems that are here to bring light to us, to bring support to us, to bring messages foreign. We thank you for this guidance we receive here today for this protection. We receive here today for this grounding with the earth beneath us. We honor you, Gaia. Mother Earth. We honor you. Sky. We honor you. The moon. We honor you, Sun. We thank you for the blessings we receive on a daily basis through our connection to Earth. Resourcing us, grounding us. Bringing everything we need to us bountifully. Water to consume, Air to breathe, Food to eat. An environment to protect us. Trees to clean our air. Beautiful vistas of mountains and beaches. Bodies of water, Meadows of flowers that fill us with love when we see them either in pictures or in reality. If we have the blessing to stand upon the earth in beautiful places, it nurtures us. It nourishes us. Colors of the fruits, the flowers even take a moment to consider the beauty of an orange. It's vibrant color, scent, taste. It's something you wish to taste. Its smell. Or if there Is a fruit you would prefer to interact with. Allow yourself to get the sense of it now, the texture of its skin, the shape, the taste of it, smell of it. Colors are vibrant, alive, life giving A moment to appreciate how blessed you are to be even able to have that piece of fruit. Take a moment now to shift your energy from the fruit after blessing it and thanking it, and moving into the energy now of the most beautiful flower that is attractive to you at this very moment in time. There's so many to choose from. See the colors, the scent of the flower, colors of its leaves, its stem, how it makes you feel it. See how this flower wishes to interact with you. It we going bring your awareness there to any plant other than a flower that wishes to interact with you. Maybe it's a food you love to eat, vegetable. Maybe it's a healing plant. A herb, a tincture that comes from a healing plant. It honor that plant, get a sense of that plant. See what this plant brings to you and what your recognition of what this plant brings to you. How this impacts the plant, the tree.

The herb.

And then thank the plant, the herb, the tree, whatever interacted with you. Recognizing that in nature everything is in co creation with us. Yes, the earth is resourcing us, but it is also our awareness, our interaction, our consciousness of how we walk and step and honor and turn up on the planet. That then in turn allows us to be even more resourced, Allows us to receive more frequency and vibration from the food we eat. Allows our bodies to be nourished deeper, Allows herbs to heal us in a way that they don't always heal others. It is a co creative relationship. Take time over this holiday season to recognize that when you serve food, when you make the food, when you even go for a walk in nature, be in a co creative relationship with all that is juices up your receiving, your ability to say yes. Because you are allowing flow more life force, more energy, more love, more honoring. And as you recognize that outwards to that which nourishes you and resources you around you in the plants and animals, you then in turn allow yourself to receive that even more. So taking in more, allowing more, saying yes to more. From this place of deeper reflection, of awareness, building co creative energy. Allow yourself now to be aware that a pathway is opening up in front of you. And you're allowing yourself to journey down that pathway step by step by step. And as you go down that pathway, each step you feel your body relax more, your breath deepens, your mind becomes stellar. The chair beneath you supports you completely. As you go deeper and deeper and down the path you go until you reach in front of you, a doorway. This doorway is only activated by you, your vibration or your hand or maybe your voice, but just by you. Nobody else can use this door. So you know as you go through this door. Now on the other side is a sacred, sacred space that is just for you, aligned for you, held in sacredness, just for you. Nobody else can use this space but you. This was created by your higher self for you to receive deep healing here on this planet. Deep awarenesses of things you need to become aware of. An understanding of wisdoms you may not be fully conscious of yet. They can all be accessed in this place. And you allow yourself now to look around this place, amazed by its beauty. It's a vibrancy. Its colors, its smells, its textures. You take it all in. It fills you up completely. And when you're ready, find somewhere beautiful to sit down in or rest in in this sacred space. Somewhere that's comfortable and cozy and saf. And as you get yourself comfortable, you reach your hand out and you realize that beside you is a journal. A journal from your higher self to you, filled with insights and wisdom. Depending on what it is you need to receive most at this time, this journal will have the answers it might bring into your awareness of passion you've been running that no longer serves you, or a piece of guidance you've been calling out to receive that you need to allow in, but that your logical mind wouldn't allow. Or something about your body you need to understand or know. And it's almost like that, just when you hold this book, the information starts to filter through into your space. You don't necessarily even need to open it and read it, it's just there. It's like a vibrational exchange and knowingness and understanding. An awareness building happens inside you right now, this very moment in time for your best and highest good. And as you lie here holding this wisdom book, the sacred wisdom written by your higher self to you, you can ask it questions. Maybe you want to ask is there any patterns I'm running or ways I'm turning up that no longer serve me? Maybe you need to ask it about is there any foods or anything you're consuming that you need more of or that you need less of? Maybe something you haven't considered you need to understand and know about your physical body. Or maybe there's a group of people or even an individual you've interacted with, maybe newly or maybe for many, many years that the interactions, the boundaries, the ways of being with each other are not always serving. Maybe that's an awareness you need to understand and know at this very moment in time your best and highest good. And maybe you get guidance on a different way of being. Of course, that's always about how you turn up the languaging you use your ways of communicating. We can never change another person. We can only be different in the interactions. So much of our pain in a relationship comes from us expecting something different from another person, when the truth is they can only be themselves and what triggers us is not their responsibility. How we respond is our responsibility. How we choose to create a boundary, how we choose to self care, how we choose to say yes, how we choose to say no. This is where we we evolve. This is where we grow. This is where we explore ourselves, our inner. Sometimes most hidden places, unhealed places, turn up in the presence of the ones we love the most. Then as you're holding this journal, ask it if there's anything else that you need to have awareness of at this moment in time. For your best and highest good. Then thank this journal. Thank your higher self. Thank the sacred space deeply. Honor yourself at this moment in time. See if there's anything else you need to receive today inside of the sacred container. It then ask the journal what it wants. Does it want to stay here in the sacred space? You can come back and visit? Does it want to come with you? Where does it want to reside it? And then start getting yourself ready to move back towards that doorway again that comes back out into this current environment you're in. As you walk towards the doorway, you know that on the other side of that doorway again is that pathway. You also know that this sacred space is only for you, created by your higher self, and nobody can enter it. So it's safe and sacred and you can return here any day, at any time. You are the key to this place. Nobody else can enter. So take a moment to honor this sacred space and thank it for being here for you. It represents the amount of divine energy that you came to this planet with. This beauty, this grace, this ability to connect to yourself, to the divine, to the earth. And then go back out through the doorway, closing it gently behind you and start moving back up the pathway. With every step you take now, you become more and more aware of your environment. You might notice noises outside your environment. You might notice noises inside your environment. You notice your breath entering the body. You might notice the texture of your clothes against your skin. You might notice smells in Your environment. You might notice the texture of your tongue inside your mouth. You might notice the chair beneath you, supporting you completely. Your feet on the earth grounding you, balancing you. As you come back into the awareness, you are really aware of that grounding cord into the earth, bringing you to be fully present here and now. Roots anchoring you down to the earth. Wriggle your fingers, wriggle your toes. Take a moment when you're ready to start making note of anything you needed to become aware of in that session. You may think you'll remember, but you will forget pretty quickly. So even if you're not with a journal, maybe text it to yourself, take a note into a messenger, do some way of recording it. If you want to put anything into the chat box that you want to be witnessed for, please do. If you want to unmute in a couple of minutes, you can. You want to be witnessed for anything or add anything that you want us to hold sacred for you, feel free to do that too. It. So we've got around 10 minutes left. If anybody would like to add anything in at this point point, please do so. Michelle is saying the message she got was she needed to stop settling beneath her station. She needs, she needs to believe in herself more and give herself more self care. And finally you can do this. Beautiful, Michelle, thank you. We witnessed that for you. We're holding that for you. Michelle, honey.

Ever just like feel like you've, you've done all this stuff in the unconscious and you can't remember any of it? That's kind of what I feel. I just kept getting body sensations and I feel like it's a sexual healing. I kept getting a vaginal pulse.

And.

I've had it before, but this just felt different. Like my body's healing from something past traumas or the use of my body and how I've used my body or abused my body or someone else has abused my body? I'm not sure and I don't understand why I feel that way. But I've felt like I've protected it and it wants to be free of that. So that's kind of what it feels like. And I, I just feel like I'm going through a lot of body healing in the unconscious.

Thank you for sharing that, Michelle. Yeah, it's really a beautiful awareness and sometimes, you know, our body really needs to give us those messages in ways that the mind is like trying to pull us out of it. But I love that you're really listening, listening and hearing that and staying in the space with it. Too. And, you know, see, you're such a strong, strong healer in your practice. So do you feel you have the tools you need to move the energy or heal that energy at this time?

I feel like that's what I've come into, is that now I feel like it's. For me to see it. It's ready for me to see it.

Yeah.

And I fell today. I've just felt the joy and the magic today. And. Yeah. Just like it's a switch or something, it's turned.

Yeah.

Once I agreed. Once I agreed to it and saw it and just allowing it to unfold and. Yeah. Yeah. I had some wonderful visions this morning that just showed it to me. I. I saw, like, I saw my own Merkaba moving through the air, and I've never had that before, so it's just a beautiful experience. And so I just feel like I opened myself up to this deeper receiving. And I've been receiving, but it's like. Yeah. But I just feel like sometimes there's things in the unconscious and I don't understand them, but I just honor what's there, knowing that there's a lot of deeper work going on, and that's beautiful.

Recognition, Michelle, because sometimes we don't need to know, and it doesn't serve us to poke at it constantly. It sometimes just wants to move through and just be honored in the moving through. We don't have to know all the pieces and, you know, and. And sometimes all the energy we feel, particularly as a sensitive. You may even be feeling stuff that other people gave to you to process for them because they didn't know how to do it. And when that's the case, we can't even figure that out for ourselves. We're like, I don't know where this came from. Well, it's not yours, so, you know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. My door was bright red. The door was bright red. And I seen another door today, and I saw one, you know, before that, but this one was bigger, and it was red. And then on the other side was just this. It was like I could see a little bit of the current reality, but then there was nothing there. And I was like this white light. So I just feel like I'm kind of in within between this, like, walking in through it. Yeah. And it was a big, thick, red door.

Yeah. Beautiful. Thank you for sharing that.

Yeah.

We honor you and witness you and thank you for your vulnerability of all of those pieces because they're collective pieces for women, you know? Thank you. Beautiful. And I see April has Put a piece in here that she wants to honor me. Oh, thank you, sweetheart. For all that she's they offer. And she needs to stay in a quiet inner space right now. That's perfect. Love you. And Joanna's saying she felt calm and in a sense of deep calmness. Beautiful. Thank you, Joanna. And Margaret, the flower I interacted with, said that they hold the energy of memories. The plants represent nostalgia from past women on my mother's line that co create with us and transmute energy in the past memory. Oh, beautiful. Or something like that. That's beautiful. Beautiful. And this is also, you know, the power of these flower remedies like the Bach flower remedies are very big in England and Ireland and they do that. They are designed to release memory of traumas, memories that have held us back. They bring us into deep places of healing. And they were originated out of Dr. Bach himself who needed to heal some wounds. So the oils and the flower essences are really beautiful, powerful ways of working on the planet. Yeah. And so we look at our traditional medicines. They all originated from nature. They were all originally created from a herb, a healing plant process with plants interact inter that interacted with our bodies. And then to make that possible for us to take them in mass production. They've been synthesized, but originated from old ways of creating remedies for our bodies. So, you know, many of us don't want to take medications and we sometimes will push them away from ourselves when really our bodies may need them. And we sometimes will find a herb that replaces a medication instead of taking the synthesized version of it. But other times we really just need a medication. But always bless that medication before you put it in your body. Recognize that it is coming into your body in a way that really can support you, conserve you can heal you. Like don't just randomly throw that in the mouth and then give out to yourself for having to take a medication. And as we, you know, get older, this often happens with us. We have to take a hormone for this or we have to take something for this and you know, and. Or we have anxiety and we have to take anti anxiety medication. Thank you, honey. So, you know, but just honor that you really need whatever that you allow it in, like allow it in as if it's the support you need. And then your body can start to respond differently to it rather than. And even if you want to go eat a chocolate bar or something like that, like don't demonize that chocolate bar, like, oh, best chocolate bar ever going to eat love on that chocolate bar. So it's like so yum, yum, yum, yum. And then you probably only need to eat like three or four squares of that chocolate bar in case the whole thing. Because now it's like satisfying your body instead of you beating yourself up for eating the chocolate bar, which we always do. Right. So. Oh, I'm sorry you phased out, honey. Yeah. Thank you. You'll get the recording, so if you want to go back in and you can redo that healing process anytime you want. So I'll be sending the recording out tomorrow to everybody and that's a good way of going back in. And. Well, thank you, Michelle, for sharing your doterra as well. Beautiful. So it's wonderful being here with you all. I'm so blessed and so honored. And tomorrow I have my last gathering for the 40 day incubator. And so for those. Some of you have already been in that incubator with me that are here. But we had great fun over 40 days. And it's only $88 and I'm starting it again on January 8th. And we meet six times over that for an hour on Zoom over six meetings and layers of stuff have been coming off people that they needed to shift and lack and limitation. But I've been doing this 40 day abundance container personally for myself, like this practice for many years. But the process of being inside a container with others is amplifying the energy so powerfully. So it's really valuable to consider rejoining that or starting that if you haven't already done it. It's a beautiful practice and it's easy to do. It only requires 10 minutes a day, so it's not like you have to go, oh my God, 40 days. I don't know. It's only 10 minutes every day for 40 days. It's easy, it's not hard to do. It's just a little meditation and a statement that you write out every day and then focus on that statement and then write in anything that comes up from it. And I'm also going to be hosting my Feng shui for the year, for 2024 at the end of January. So watch out for that. That's going to be a really big one this year because we shift into a whole new 20 years of energy. So we've been in an 8 for 20 years. In classical Feng shui, we now move into a nine and all of the energies move around in the bagua of Feng Shui. And so it's a whole different frequency. And it's actually a frequency that women can really thrive within for the first time in a long time, it's the energy for 20 years of the Phoenix rising and the divine Feminine rising. And for us to be able to anchor in a lot more abundance and visibility with our magic and our gifts. But we have to know how to use that energy correctly. So. So we don't sabotage it. So I'll be teaching all that over three hours and I think it's January 27th. And that will kind of set you up for the year with the remedies that you need to know about and how to create. I teach you how to create this magical ritual that then you can place in different parts of your home that keeps working all year to keep your space clear of negativity. So it's really powerful. So I'll be sending all that out and I'll send it out with the recording so you can go and find out more about all of those pieces too. So have a wonderful rest of your solstice. Make sure you drink water. Look after yourself, sage yourself if you have sage or if you want to have a salt bath, that would be a beautiful thing to do. Or even a salt shower with the salt. Scrub in the shower before you go to bed so that you can release anything that isn't was coming up that doesn't serve. And anoint yourself with oils if you have some going to bed tonight. And just. We're going to thank everyone that held the space sacred for us because there was a lot of beings here that were supporting the great archangels, the earth herself, Father sky, the divine Feminine, the divine Masculine, the fullest aspect of Source Pan and the most appropriate nature Spirits and devas, our guides and our master guides, our higher selves. We thank all of you.