{ A Solar Eclipse New Moon 🌚 Love Note }
— This is an adaption of the emails I sent out yesterday and this morning -
I wanted to share a personal note about mine & Soul Seed Gatherings journey, as I haven’t been regularly posting or sharing… other than on our Soul Bloom Magazine Substack.
Let’s say I have been on one long transition - listening, learning, attuning and shifting - arriving back here, with so much to share, I don’t even know where to begin.
Firstly, there’s been a lot of personal deaths this Winter - perhaps for you also?
Death of old identities, old patterns, old anxieties and old operating systems. I’m still processing a lot of it. Some of it will become good fertile soil to share in the future.
One major death has been our Gatherings within ​Soul Seed Gathering​, {or at least a several year hold} as we shift our focus to the research and storytelling heart of our work, that’s asking for all of us right now.
I was not expecting a personal ego death with it, but it left me with a big gaping hole... it turns out I really liked my identity with these gatherings. When I think of all that i’ve created - I’m really proud of those events and how the impossible magic and miraculous was pulled off. But then, they also took a big toll on me energetically, physically, emotionally and eventually financially, over time.
Turns out, it’s not sustainable to treat yourself like a non-profit when running a non-profit and I’ve had to have that lesson knock me over the head many times.
When we finally closed the chapter on the gatherings, the biggest release of energy flooded back into my whole system… so much of me was tied up with them, and now I felt the spaciousness and freedom of anything is possible again!
Then,
The Invitation to Egypt came.
Unexpectedly, undeniably, comically, and with so much ease.
I’m feeling the newness of Spring & I’m also holding on for dear life as the magic carpet ride is taking me with it.
Funnily enough, this feels exactly like the first year of Soul Seed Gathering. The innocence, flow and abundance of saying yes and jumping all into a vision and invitation from source, without any attachment or expectation because it’s so brand new.
From the moment of Soul Seed Gatherings’ conception on the Summer Solstice in 2016, I wondered how could a women’s traveling gathering be pulled off to fund our research and documentary work… And, am I willing to go all in to try? Stepping into the invitation felt so pure because it was so audacious, I was fully open to guidance, with a simple but dedicated ‘show me the way…’ each day.
3 months later we took our first funded research and documentary trip to Guatemala & 6 months later we held our first gathering with 49 women who attended. It’s nothing short of miraculous as we didn’t have a big social media following, and were brand new to hosting something like this. We also didn’t have much of a team - all I can say is, it just flowed. While I also learnt to rise and sometimes wobble at each initiation that was asked of me to steward it.
We then responded to the call to Colombia and then, later Costa Rica.
Each of these gatherings have been profound, life changing, transformative and taken years and years of integration. To take space away from them feels sad, and also like a major relief, like let’s breathe some space between us and let all of that deep power and beauty simmer between us.
& so with this space away from big events for Soul Seed Gathering, my whole soul has been lit up with - what other travels, events or experiences could I and Soul Seed be a part of hosting, joining, co-creating, sharing or speaking at?
And some beautiful invitations have come through, but this one to Egypt took me most by surprise…
When my friend Kashi told me she was traveling to Egypt to celebrate her birthday in May, I thought that sounds nice, and in no way did I perceive that I would go. It didn’t make sense in my plans, and honestly felt like it would still be a few years away before I would be going to those lands I’ve dreamt of since a child.
Cue one comical message after message from the universe showing up ushering me to go - Egypt was suddenly everywhere - and when I felt into it, I felt the full rush of my body saying yes. I kept saying to myself ‘this feels like the most magical timeline I could step into.’
Shortly after saying ‘ok show me how…’ I also received a clear message that we were meant to bring a group. And my immediate response was again how?? Knowing this was our first time… not knowing really anything about how to organize it in such a short time frame (we journey 5th-15th May.)
Again, a simple ‘ok show me the way…’
Cue a connection to Katy Noura Butler and then, Akara. Two women who call Egypt home with their respective Egyptian husbands, both hold temple spaces and guide two different areas of Egypt between the pyramids and the temples of Luxor to Aswan.
Effortlessly, itinerary’s beyond my wildest dreams were proposed - with secret access to temples, sailing traditional felucca boats, Sufi healers and zar dancers, and so much local indigenous knowledge steeped in magic.
I hadn’t even had a chance to send out emails yet… and we have 5 incredible souls who have signed up to join us. It’s clear that we’re all being called there for a specific reason at this time and those who feel it (beyond the minds rationality) will feel the full soul yes.
Which brings me to a final but much bigger topic of how are we here to show up at the world at this time? To respond to spirit calls and say yes to life’s adventure?
Listening and creating space has brought me some audacious requests from spirit…
One of these recently, has been to tend to sacred land portals, and energy grids across the world and invite others to join this work with me.
Already, this work has begun in Costa Rica at several sites (that I’m honestly still processing), one called to me in Wales last year by the Preseli mountains (where the inner circle stones of Stone Henge are from), and now Egypt…
This is also part of the call and the invitation to join us - to join in this work of showing up for the Earth and Humanity at this time - and learning how we best serve.
So much more to be shared soon…
Thank you for reading me!
If feeling the yes or curiosity to Egypt - email hannahruthdyson@gmail.com and I’ll send you our PDF guide.
With so much love to where you are,
Hannah