I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life

with yet-to-come surprises.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Dear Catherine,

I'm in the process of "filling my well" after my summer travels to Scotland and France. I'm doing what I encourage all those that come to my retreats to do - make time for daily creative practice and play. I'm dreaming up new adventures for 2023 and I believe communing with the water and the clouds (which might look like doing nothing) is a necessary part of imagining new experiences into being.

Last week I received an invitation from Pilgrim's Landing to come and teach in Cape Cod. As you know I love anywhere that is surrounded by water, and so this was an easy yes, especially as this will be my first visit to Chatham, MA. It is not often that I teach in this area so if you live nearby please consider joining me. There is a beautiful labyrinth in Chatham that we will be using and I'll be offering a workshop entitled "SoulCollage® and the Labyrinth as Pathways for Transformation". 

Activities will include:

• Creating SoulCollage® cards using symbolic imagery
• Creating your own simple Finger Labyrinth
• Learning ways to add the symbolic energy of the labyrinth to your SoulCollage® cards
• Using your SoulCollage® cards as a doorway to your intuitive wisdom
• A facilitated Labyrinth walk

You'll get a kit of all the materials you need plus lots of images to make your cards.

You can register on the Pilgrim's Landing website. 

Apart from a SoulCollage® Facilitator Training in November (which is full), this is the last workshop I'll be teaching in 2022. The workshop will have something to offer you whether you are new to both SoulCollage® and the Labyrinth, or whether you have been using them in your life for some time. In addition, if you are interested in becoming a Veriditas Labyrinth Facilitator, this workshop will serve as a qualifying workshop to attend the Training.

Below are a couple of images from my time on the island of Iona (and a visit to the nearby Fingal's Cave at Staffa Island) in June. Labyrinths were certainly a part of this experience - from the beautiful labyrinth at St Columba Bay to the labyrinth we created on Monk's Beach. Iona is another beautiful place surrounded by water! And if you read to the end you'll find a poem!

May you allow yourself some gentle rest as the summer turns into fall.

Love and peace,

Catherine

www.creativepilgrimage.com

WHEN FEELING STUCK

  By Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

Sometimes I forget I'm surrounded

 by whirl, forget the earth's turning,

forget our galaxy's spiraling nature.

But it helps me today to remember myself

as swirl, from the whorl in my finger prints

to the curl in my hair to the twirl in my step

as I move through the rooms of a house

that somehow feels solid and stable. It helps

to think of the day as a twist,

an infinite trip on a mobius strip,

and suddenly stuck isn't quite so stuck,

and whatever in me is wedged

isn't quite so wedged

like a starry night, ethereal, dreamlike,

as I start to recall the joy in the spinning,

the freedom in the churning,

and I open again to a magic that invites me to play

far beyond the frame.