Upcoming Summer Solstice Retreat: A Day of Renewal in Nature for Women

Join us on Saturday, June 22!

Connecting to Self & Spirit in Nature: A Solstice Day of Renewal for Women 

Want to get outdoors, connect with other women, celebrate the seasons, and spend more time in Nature? On the Summer Solstice weekend, your hosts - Annette Poliwka and Erin Reese invite you to join a magical day-in-nature retreat for Bay Area women!

Together, from 9am to 2pm on Saturday, June 22, we will honor the Sun and the element of fire. We will alternate gentle hiking through Tilden Park, with several planned stops to gather. We will cultivate our passion and spirit to clear out the old and make way for what the creative summer season will bring: new life, love, abundance, and joy! We will renew our lives and our hearts with a guided hike, ritual, visualization and intentioning centered on celebrating the Summer Solstice!

We gather together as sisters, friends, healers, and leaders - women of all ages - combining ritual and connection with gentle hiking through beautiful Tilden Park in the East Bay Hills. During our easy walk in Mother Nature, we will pause at several points throughout the day, focusing on:

• Clearing and preparing
• Intentioning and journaling
• Sharing and connecting
• Meditation and silent hiking time
• Divination and the Tarot
• Gratitude and grounding with Mother Earth

Come join us for "Connecting to Self and Spirit in Nature: A Solstice Day of Renewal for Women."

Click here to register.

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Receive an additional $15.00 off when you register before May 31. Use code EARLYBIRD.

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Register early and take the Early Bird discount before May 31.

When: Saturday, June 22

Time: 9am to 2pm

Place: Tilden Park, East Bay

Cost: $95 to $125 sliding scale.

Who: Gender-identified Women. Maximum 12 participants so register early!

REGISTER HERE

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YOUR HOSTS:

ANNETTE POLIWKA is an environmentalist and adventurer who empowers women to get outdoors. She inspires women to challenge themselves, and to connect with their deeper selves. Annette passionately helps people take that first step toward their out of doors goals, where they can own their personal power and build momentum around their dreams. Whether you want to start hiking, plan a backpacking trip, or explore your soul’s desires Annette is your go-to gal!

ERIN REESE is an author, artist, teacher, modern psychic, and spiritual counselor based in the SF Bay Area. An intrepid traveler, Erin has backpacked solo all across Asia and Europe. A lifelong outdoor enthusiast, today she can be found running trails in the East Bay Hills, exploring the beauty of California and the Southwest. Erin spent many years studying yoga, meditation, and non-dual philosophies in India, living in huts, jungles and ashrams in the most rudimentary conditions. She is deeply connected to Mother Earth, the Divine Feminine, and Kundalini energy. Erin works online with clients all over the world.

Click here to register today!

Got questions? Simply reply to this email or contact erin@erinreese.com

We look forward to having you there! Please share with friends and family.

Full Moon in Scorpio: Truth-Telling Moon

Today, we welcome the full, blue moon* in the fixed water sign of Scorpio. We salute the serpent eagle, scorpionic sign of psychological depth, shared intimacy, finances, debt, death and rebirth. Magic and mischief. Thorough transformation.

This month’s blue moon represents a Pandora’s Box being opened. Secrets are out! It’s once in a blue moon, and Venus is conjunct unpredictable Uranus to add to the surprise factor. More is revealed, more is brought to the surface than you may’ve thought necessary, or possible.

The reason for this comeuppance is that many of us have held back far too long, holding your tongue, keeping it ‘above board,’ kosher, polite. 

Not so these days. It’s time we are speaking up to each other more and more, opening up and revealing our inner experience, points of views, strengths. This is in our families, our communities, our partnerships and businesses. Even when it stings, like Scorpio.

We are saying, THIS is the Truth. This is what hurts. That feels good. This is how I feel. This is who I am! We cannot sit silently by at this Full Moon time. Scorpio presides in its anaretic, or karmic, 29^th degree – a grand finale, last hurrah with extra oomph.

Yes, Pandora’s Box is opened. Hobgoblins may hop out. And imps, upstarts, will-o'-the-wisp, sure. But! So will helper spirits, lucky charms, hidden gems and lost treasures!

When you take a risk to speak up, open up, reveal yourself, you know you’ve hit the vein of gold hidden in true intimacy.

A Word on Money 

Scorpio is the ruler of investments, shared finances, bonuses, windfalls, and debts. Those who have dealt with inheritances, divorce settlements, scholarships or grants, family or partnership business money will all know how deeply intimate this realm is. When we get honest about money, we’ve hit paydirt, gotten to the core.

If you’ve been asking yourself, where is my abundance? Where is my money? My financial success? If your flow has stopped, if you’re confused or stressed about money, or worried about your financial security or illusory future, take note:

Opening up Pandora’s Box, telling the gut-honest truth to yourself and the others in your life, will open up your money flow! Consider making best use of this truth-telling full moon in Scorpio. You may just hit the jackpot.

Ready for a Reading?

Blue Moon Client Appreciation Special thru May 20th!

Contact erin@erinreese.com for booking.

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Erin Reese is an author, spiritual guide, teacher, and modern psychic reader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients all over the world. For readings and spiritual counseling by Skype, phone or email, contact her directly. She can be reached at erin@erinreese.com.

 *A blue moon occurs when there are four full moons in one season, in this case spring. The blue moon is the third full moon. It only occurs once every two to five years! 

Client Appreciation Readings: 'Once in a Blue Moon' Special 🌙

Hello dear beloved clients,

It's a Blue Moon this weekend - a perfect time to offer a sliding scale reading special!

Please share this link with friends and family.

Contact me at erin@erinreese.com to book.

I look forward to reading for you.
With love,🌙
Erin

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Erin Reese is an author, spiritual guide, teacher, and modern psychic reader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients all over the world. For readings and spiritual counseling by Skype, phone or email, contact her directly. She can be reached at erin@erinreese.com.

Happy Mother's Day ~ Honoring the Divine Feminine

Happy Mother's Day!

Honoring the Divine Feminine in each of us,

Our Inner Mother, Mother Earth, Maa!

The part that heals, that part that soothes, the part that knows.

Acceptance, compassion, patience, receptivity.

Attraction, magnetism, mystery, abundance.

Those who mother children, inner and outer.

Those who care for others, near and far.

Those who have given birth to beings, to art, to creativity.

I honor the Goddess, the Divine Feminine in each of us.

Gender no bar!

I especially honor the Great Mother to those who have had strife, turbulence, lack and pain in their lives.

And the children - of all ages - all over the World,

who need Your healthy mothering, modeling, manifest presence.

I honor You, dear Mother.

Thank you.

New Moon in Taurus: Earth Beauty

Today we welcome the New Moon in the fixed earth sign of Taurus, the Bull. Sensual, stubborn, headstrong. Committed, earthy, material. These are just a smattering of words that have been used to describe the nature of the Venus-ruled springtime babes.

As we birth the merry month of May, we are drawn into celebrating the earth element: our bodies, our sensuality, our abundance and prosperity. We are also coaxed to remember Mother Earth in new ways. Honoring Her. How is she supporting you? How has she continued to never let you down? How are you practicing gratitude for clean water, necessary shelter, nutritious food in your belly, and warmth in your heart?

Taken By the Sky: Taos, New Mexico

Taken by
Taken by the sky

Dreams unwind
Love's a state of mind

~ “Rhiannon,” Stevie Nicks

As I write this, I’m having one of the best sensations a writerly woman can have: tears flowing down my cheeks, blowing my nose, heart exploding with Love. Inspired to write and humbled at the same time. The appreciation I have for the beauty I am experiencing is flattening me. Hardly able to know how to express myself, simultaneously knowing I must share even in the impossibility of conveying exactly what is happening within and without. That very feeling is Beauty and Truth.

It’s been a long time since I’ve been floored by a place. I’ve been a traveler, a gypsy wanderer all of my life. India, of course, is one of my Soul’s main homes. It was often difficult to write there, because my heart was flooded with emotion, with bhakti. Caught up in a Neptunian undertow of Love, it’s hard to put experiences into words.

And now, here, where I sit, atop a mesa just a few minutes’ walk from the rim of the Rio Grande, outside of Taos, New Mexico – I’ve got that same emotion. Can’t stop crying. A knowing that this is one of my Soul’s “places and spaces.” That there is a budding relationship with this land. In this life. Surely in past lives. I swoon. I can barely talk at times. Looking out at the azure skies. Watching a jackalope scamper across the road. Coyotes howling to welcome me home at night. Nothing but the high desert sounds. No roads, no sirens, no nuthin’. Just me, and the desert of Northern New Mexico.

Yes, I say. Yes, to Georgia O’Keeffe. To D.H. Lawrence. Yes, Natalie Goldberg. Aldous Huxley. And of course, Julia Cameron. No coincidence I’m blown open while teaching an Artist’s Way course online this spring. The very author of The Artist’s Way made Taos her home for a long time, now settling in Santa Fe.

Yes, to so many creatives, free spirits, guided souls, earth ship builders, natural mystics. The Taoseños.

Yes, to the painters, photographers, writers, artists. To the actors, like Dennis Hoffman, Dean Stockwell, and others, who have been drenched in the dust, mesmerized by the mesas here. Yes, I say.

This is Taurus. To be so moved by a place that you feel the roots rise up from deep within Her, to take hold of your Soul and let you know: You are Home.

And so I ask You at this time: can you allow beauty to affect you so deeply that you can’t speak? Can you let Mother Earth to flatten you with Her wisdom, power, truth? 

Can you give your Self the gift of visiting a wide-open space and place that humbles you, brings you to your knees? Perhaps this spring, summer. Perhaps it’s a secret wish to visit a national park, a heritage site, a monument, an exotic land. Perhaps it’s a People. Perhaps it’s a forest, a canyon, a desert, a natural spring.

Whatever is calling you, let the whisper turn into a solid “Yes.” Now go.

On the Rio Grande

Erin Reese is an author, spiritual guide, astrologer, and modern psychic reader based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She works with clients all over the world. For readings and spiritual counseling by Skype, phone or email, contact her directly. She can be reached at erin@erinreese.com.

Footnote: "Her Name is Rio"

Yesterday, I went for a trail run along the rim of the Rio Grande. I could not resist playing Duran Duran's "Rio." My inner 12-year old was giddy with glee. Never would I have thought I'd be running in this place, having such a fantastic life, hearing this song, 35+ years into the future.

Thank you, Goddess. Fairy tales ARE true.

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand
Just like that river twisting through a dusty land
And when she shines she really shows you all she can
Oh Rio, Rio dance across the Rio Grande

Taos Mesa Vista Sunrise, Photo by Jackie Sajewski