Mara Branscombe – The Huntress Invitation: Mindful Activation for Clear Vision

3 oktober 2023

(Global Heart | Mara Branscombe) No longer fear how your vision, purpose, and activation evolves throughout your life. You get to live out your life—not for anyone else, not to please, or prove, or play it safe. Take the big life questions like “who am I?” and listen. Receive the stirrings, the whispers, the awakenings at 3:00 a.m. Gather the resources and activate this information like the Huntress honoring her soul vision inside this great mystery of life.

This excerpt is from Mara’s Book Sage, Lover, Huntress, Queen

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The Huntress Invitation: Mindful Activation for Clear Vision

The Huntress invitation is to be in ongoing conversation with your inner dialogue and your environment. To become present to which daily fires you are tending. Observe when you are feeding lower energies of greed, guilt, or righteousness. Can you expand your listening skills to be truly present? Rather than listening only to figure out your response, enter the world of the one you are listening to and elevate them with your presence.

This way of listening requires patience and the willingness to put your own agenda aside. It is most challenging when you are under stress, trying to get kids off to school, attempting to stay open to your partner’s process, and when grief or life’s great challenges are before us. The practice of presence and steadiness allows for greater clarity, connection, and balance in your relationship to self and others.

At some point in your life, you may have learned strategies from others that keep you from engaging on a deeper level. In this way you avoid intimacy. Observe when you tune out, and when a repetitive thought pattern takes over. This is a three-step process. First, acknowledge that you are no longer present—awareness is everything. Second, take a deep breath. Third, soften and let go of any judgements you have, whether of yourself or others. Now you begin again with an awakened presence.

This is a practice that you will do over and over again, each time deepening your personal process and expanding your awareness. Whatever your chosen life path is, doing this will naturally improve the quality of what you put out into the world. Be it creativity, activism, leadership, business, or justice—your persona will exude compassion as an active listener, an engaged, kind, and respectful individual. As the one thing we can count on in life is change, we can continue to hold the flame of our personal evolution.

Meditation

Visualize a large outdoor fire before you. This is a ceremonial fire where all your beloved soul friends and family are gathered. They are here in your honor; you are loved and supported. Your soul family is also here to honor your gifts and talents, the ways in which you contribute to the world—not necessarily related to your productivity or your career.

This is a deeper ritual where your soul is given permission to be wholly expressed. There is no need to hide behind a role or to fear being abandoned, rejected, or shamed. This circle of community is here to hold you up and unconditionally support your visions. Instead of seeing what is not working or what you aren’t doing, see all the things that are working in your life. Feed this sacred fire with the Huntress vision that empowers you at the core of your being to live the life you are worthy of.
If the Huntress is ignored, ungrounded, and living in chaos, she will collapse and feel defeated. Anger, shame, and fear will shoot arrows of hardship and resentment into those she loves. She will veer off the natural trajectory of her life.

Yet the wake-up call of the Huntress comes in the precise moment where we lose faith and ignore those deep inner stirrings. Can you imagine meeting those stirrings with curiosity and compassion? How would this look and feel for you personally?

Weaving in a daily gratitude practice is generative of transforming negativity into positivity. Meeting your inner ecosystem through journaling, conversation with trusted friends, and conscious mind– body practices bridge from lack to wholeness. You can transform your state quickly when you show up daily. Committing to what personally lights you up is key.

When you can no longer access joy or wonder, that is the Huntress calling you to come home to recalibrate. This is the time to gather your tools, name your resources, and practice compassion, goodness, and right actions. Your daily self-care boosts mind–body radiance. Catching the Huntress visions will come like glimmers of what is ready to birth through you and expand out into the world. The sacred hunt comes alive. One direct way to listen, feed, and express the Huntress within is to ask this simple question: “Does this path expand me, or make me complacent in my own life?

Answer the call to be fully present on this soul-reviving journey. Each cycle, experience, thought, feeling, and action is part of your universal metamorphosis. No longer fear the dark of the mundane, look up to see the shimmery night sky. You are of ancient composition. Be a child of the earth, witness her miraculous ways. Ignite your torch and let it guide you into the world. Love is the nectar inside the vision of the Huntress.

The Huntress Matrix

The Huntress holds the wisdom to evolve into your ensouled destiny. Sculptor, artist, mother, daughter, hunter, gatherer, lover, sister, activist, spirited friend—this path of service rides the tender and the tough in all of life’s energy. At any given moment, she is willing to dive into the unknown and to acknowledge fear. She intuits the path of action that feeds her deepest purpose. Finding those sacred mirrors in which she can be vulnerable and share her deepest fears and greatest visions is the bravest work she can do.

Honoring the big questions Who am I? Why am I here now? Where is the most valuable place to put my focus? How can I align to evolve into the karmic unfolding of self and greet the planetary shifts already in motion?

With inquiry and a connected body–mind system, her awakened sensory alertness guides her towards right action, goodness for all, and truth. The Huntress can see through the eyes of the artist, touch with the hands of a healer, and source filaments of the sacred while living with an awakened presence to all experiences. She can perceive and move energy within pain and struggle in herself and others, using this as an alchemical force to attain freedom. She understands that to get free from the narrative of the past is the greatest healing.

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About the Author:

Mara Branscombe is a yoga and meditation teacher, writer, mother, artist, ceremonialist, and spirit coach, who finds great joy in leading others along the path of self-transformation. She is passionate about weaving the art of mindfulness, self-care, mind-body practices, and earth-based rituals into her offerings. Mara is a regular contributor to Spirituality & Health Magazine, Gaia, and Wanderlust. The author of Ritual as Remedy and Sage, Huntress, Lover Queen, she lives in both Vancouver, Canada, and a cabin in the woods with her husband and two daughters. https://marabranscombe.com/