How to find magic in the mundane
- Amy Terepka
- 4 days ago
- 3 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
Welcome to the land of the New Year.
While this terrain may seem familiar, be it known that it is wildly different. Because you are different. Because something was laid to rest during the Autumn season, and a new seed of life was reborn at Winter Solstice.
Because you learned and grew and shapeshifted this past year. Even if it doesn’t feel like it. Sometimes the most subtle shifts are the most impactful and long-lasting.
This season of early winter teaches us of the eternal light that perseveres through the darkest of times. The holy flame within each of us. The undying spirit.
Winter teaches us how to tend to, and care for, this seed of light.
To help it feel fortified so it can grow stronger.
To help it know it’s supported and held, that’s it's not alone.
To give it spacious time for rest and deep listening.
To bow ourselves down before the Sacred and drink in the medicine of being alive.
Winter's sacred magic
There is something undeniably sacred about Winter to me, and how during these dark, quiet moments, we get a chance to touch in on the wonder of Life more fully. How we get to lean into a trust that’s only tangible through moments of uncertainty. How we get to encounter the heart of ourselves when we let Winter be slow and tender with us.
As Joseph Campbell said, “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.”
Where we find home within ourselves. In the homes of our bodies. And where we find a sense of belonging to a wider whole.
I often hear from folks that they experience moments of connection with the sacred, but it’s fleeting, and often outside of their daily life.
That they need to leave their lives to experience it.
They long to feel the spiritual aspect of themselves woven into their mundane reality, and to feel the magical nature of life more frequently.
The thing is, the only difference between sacred and mundane is our perception. The only difference between sacred and mundane is our willingness to find the magic within it.
So, are you willing to remember the magic of being a body on the earth? Are you ready to soften your perception and open to the sacredness of this Life?
I invite you to explore three ways to remember and (re)connect to this sacred magic below.
Listen
Gather
Embody
LISTEN: Episode 3 of Plant Wisdom Circle
I’m so excited to share this new episode with you. Juniper’s medicine holds the frequency of the sacred light like no other plant I know. The medicine of the evergreen spirit. The eternal flame. The ancestral night watch. The holy light of guidance.
May it serve as inspiration to you during these quiet, restful, early winter moments.
GATHER: Share in plant medicine with community
Join us for the next in person Plant Wisdom Circle this Friday, January 9 with Western Red Cedar.
Western Red Cedar is a grandmother spirit of these PNW lands, and a pillar of strength during the Winter Season.
The group journeying space creates a strong container for the medicine of the plant to come through. As we share in the plant medicine, we channel insights for ourselves, one another, and the collective. This ancestral practice of deep intuitive listening and dreaming together is such a potent and important gift to the Earth and ourselves.
EMBODY: Infusing the Sacred Into Your Life
I'm offering my 4-week online course, Infusing the Sacred Into Your Life, during the Imbolc new moon cycle, which begins on 1/18.
In this course you will explore your body as the way in which you perceive and receive sacredness.
You will examine what gets in the way of your connection to the sacred.
You will practice deeply receiving from the world, and being in reciprocal relationship.
You will cultivate the feelings of awe and wonder throughout your day.
And you will dive into ceremonial and ritual practices to help cultivate the experience of infusing the Sacred into your life.
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