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Cat Starlight's avatar

Oh Kate, your words are a balm, a delicious elixir for the soul!

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

from my fire blazing heart to yours ❤️‍🔥🦁💫💥☄️

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Markael Luterra's avatar

Glad to have you back! I have missed your posts and poems and perspectives these last few months.

I too have found my eyes drawn skyward in this time, feeling the vast gravitational dance and our motion within it, watching blazing crescent Venus approaching her near point next month.

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

Thank you so much my friend 🥹🙏 what a moving reflection too.. I am looking forward to going to your page and catching up on the heart medicine i have missed ❤️‍🔥

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Val Alcorn's avatar

I never opened an email so fast. So good to hear from you dear friend 💜 I love your thoughts on Venus, I've been having similar feelings about the winter night sky in general and contemplating how our ancestors saw each celestial body as alive with the ability to wander, breathe, feel and die. Knowing our cosmic kin makes me feel more grounded in this chaotic world.

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

💔💔 that is the kindest Val. Yes our celestial aunties and uncles!! Breathe feel and die, that is so beautiful

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Angelina's avatar

Exceptional. What more can I say.

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

🥹❤️‍🔥🙏 I am so grateful to know it resonates with you

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Danielle Wojcicki's avatar

I really enjoyed this. The fierceness and the love like magnets for one another. Thanks for sharing all the love letters between you and Venus.

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

Magnets, yes ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 I love this insight so much!! Thank you for reading and for sharing this love story with our sister planet 🙏🌑💫

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Steph Zabel's avatar

I love your words and the way you share them, Kate, as well as the beautiful Venusian wisdom you have given us. She has been bolstering my spirits lately, too, as I find solace in the vast Sky.

"when the world seems too hard, too fast

too cold, vain, lost to see clearly:

be Venus."

Thank you.

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

Aw Steph I am so happy to find you here… thank you for reading and for reflecting these words. There is a little Venus in us all ❤️‍🔥

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Steph Zabel's avatar

Likewise, Kate! And that is a very heartening thought -- there is, indeed!!

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Dying to Bloom's avatar

My heart skipped a beat when I saw this land in my inbox. I was somehow able to wait to read it until this morning, as I cozied up with my morning beverage.

I am right there with you. I don’t want this hardness. Yesterday I cried feeling the walls that have been built up around my wild heart. Slowly slowly slowly feeling safe enough to crumble.

Thank you Kate. It feels so good to be back with your words.

Thank you for the lighting the way with your ferocious & fiercely soft heart

Here’s to the spiral of softening again and again and again all the way down to the bone.

Sending you all the softest love,

Kat 🐆❤️‍🔥

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

🥹🕯️☄️ I am so touched by the intentional space you held for this piece. Your reflection is deeply felt… the allowance of crumbling, in the same way that a forest knows exactly how to self-dissolve in order to regenerate. This wisdom is still blazing within us, like Venus shining from deep in the heart caverns… together we can keep reminding each other of this wisdom we carry. I’m so grateful to be connected, dear heart 💝

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Liv's avatar

Incredible read as always, thank you Kate ❤️‍🩹

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

Thank you so much for reading and for sending me this beam of heart encouragement, it is a gift. 🙏🌟💞

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Carrie Childs's avatar

dear one! you have been in my thoughts often over the past few weeks and I’m so delighted to welcome your heart and your words - a balm, yes! - into my morning light kitchen. a sister reminded me recently of my star family in the dark night sky. I have been out star gazing in the middle of the night these past months. Your words are an affirmation of this beautiful and potent connection. sending you deep love and blessings. you are a gift to this earthlight planet and I am so grateful our paths have crossed!!! ✨💛✨

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

Carrie your light is just like Venus. Able to be felt without ever having even met you 🥹🙏 I am so thankful to know you are out there and that we’ve connected in this lifetime, through shared heart longings.

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Carrie Childs's avatar

🙏💛✨✨✨✨✨

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Mila's avatar

I am so happy to read this and hear from you!

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

🥹🙏😘 I thought of you so much during the floods. Still connected through the heart filaments.

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Joshua Kent Bookman's avatar

Ferocious with you. And twinkly.

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

thank goodness someone brought in the word twinkly 🥹✨✨

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Kat's avatar

Welcome back Kate, I’ve been thinking about you a lot and wondering / worrying about how you are in these times. Delighted to hear from you again through your wondrous words and deeply connected point of view. Much love to you

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

aw thank you dear heart… I know exactly how it is worrying about our fellow tender hearts.. thank you for being out there and keeping the heart embers tended

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Jiluna's avatar

Thank you, Kate, for this inspiring, comforting read!

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

💔🙏🌟 thank you so much for reading

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Celeste Zenko's avatar

I was reading some of your old pieces the other night and I had a feeling you were brewing something good to share… I was right. I needed this, the news has become a constant source of terror. Thank you for the remembering.

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

I appreciate your fierce sisterhood so much ❤️‍🔥

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✴ Danielle ✴'s avatar

It is so sweet to see you pop up on my notifications again. Blessings to you and Sistar Venus 💌🍯

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kate gardiner clearlight's avatar

🥹🙏💔 thank you so much for reading what I share 🌟🌟

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Ell, the Cellestiallographer's avatar

Thank you so much for this fantastic share and musing on the magic of Venus! I would love to know more about your arrival to this stream of consciousness, if you care to share?

“I think that every witch

who was ever exiled

or burned at the stake

now resides

as the blazing coven

that is Venus.”

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