You know that song, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun from the '80s?  I've never really been a play/barrel of fun/life's a party kind of personality, but I've always really gotten that song.  I'm thinking maybe "fun" could best be interpreted as FREEDOM.

We all want to feel free.  Our femininity and creativity are huge factors in this.  We want to be who we are.  Free to go and do what sings to us, embrace what we were created to have and become. Dance in our authenticity.  Celebrate our aliveness.

"The privilege of a lifetime is to be that which you truly are."  (Joseph Campbell)

Who we are is housed in the recesses of our hearts as DESIRE.  Desires are the tiny seeds planted in our hearts that turn into dreams. We often don't allow these dreams and desires full expression because of the cultural labels and limits attached to them.

I'm not just talking about our culture at large limiting us, I'm talking about our sub-cultures: our families, our friends, even our churches.

When we heed the culturally-generated lies and don't honor the desires of our hearts, a part of our soul dies.  During this soul sickness, we judge others as they boldly and confidently pursue their dreams.  We judge and attack because we secretly wish we could give ourselves permission to pursue our own.

How would it feel to let your dreams all come out, unjudged, unreserved, unabashed?  And spiritually allow others the freedom to do the same?

Today I learned of the birth of my little "niece", Brianna Kathleen.  I have niece in quotes because technically she's not my niece.  At least not by traditional familial standards.

I'm about to share something really personal, even Sacred to me.  I wouldn't normally post such things, but I'm feeling the, "It's okay, others might need to hear this" prompt from the Spirit.

Oh, how my heart aches today for my friend whose 17 year-old daughter just took her own life.  Jessica was (is) a beautiful girl with so much love inside, so much kindness and empathy.  An empathy born of her own struggles with despair and hopelessness.  Able to see pain in another's eyes because of the pain behind her own.

In Part 2 we discussed how Deity seem to organize and assemble things in twelves to achieve perfect balance and structure.  Twelve is a type of ordinal fulfillment represented repeatedly throughout heavenly and earthly creations.  Including our bodies.