Scattered Saturdays . . . wander through GoddessLeonie!!

So here I am, once again finally surfacing -- quite literally!!!!  Missouri has been flooded again for the last week.  I've lived here my entire life, and I've never spent any length of time like this before!  We have snow, ice, heat, and tornadoes -- but I've never had a spring and summer that was under water!  The chaos of life is definitely catching up with us!!!  My apologies for not being able to keep up with my writing --

 I was SO thrilled to have the opportunity to talk on the phone with Leonie -- it was such fun to feel her enthusiasm for life!!  And to be able to throw the interview in with our visit was just icing on the cake!!!  There is something about making a connection to a sister that allows you to expand on what you feel -- I started out just excited about interviewing one of the weekly writers for JustBeConnected!!  I thought it would be a different twist -- but I found myself really connecting while Iwas talking with Leonie -- the smile I heard -- and the smile I was wearing were just so warm and deep!!!!!  When I visited Leonie's site, I found her love for the earth, her connection of self, and her connection with her sisters in every word!! 

Read the interview and get to know Leonie -- and visit her site!  I think you'll find something very refreshing, and perhaps her art work will be a connection for you!

Tell me about yourself!!

Well, I'm a 25 year old artist, writer and photographer. i also run womens circles and retreats i call Goddess Gatherings. I live in the south of Australia near alpine mountains in a cottage with my beloved and our spirit-dog charlie. I grew up on a cattle farm in the tropical north of Australia, and we are planning to head back there to live in the country and close to the earth and family again.

2.    What is your most important accomplishment to date?

I      I think just being myself has been my most important accomplishment. I feel like the most important thing I can do this life is be the best and truest Leonie I can be.

      I am also deeply proud of myself for following my intuition to run my first Goddess Gathering retreat - nine women, three days, a very transformational, blissful and sacred experience. It took a huge amount of energy to run it, and it called on every part of me, but to see the shining faces of the goddesses around me was the greatest expression of a soul contract made true.

I am proud to be a spirit on earth at this time, proud that I dared to love and grow, proud that I have written books, created artworks, had amazing picnics, connected people in new ways, let go, healed, and gone where my spirit asks me too. I'm proud that I've travelled overseas to wild and wonderful places and proud that I am learning how to BE in balance with the DO. I'm proud that I am a dog-mama, a lover, sister, daughter, friend and all these things. Everything is equally important and equally sacred.

3.   What motivates you?

Beautiful, beautiful life. The people in it. The connections we share. Mama Earth.

Sacred space, seeing people find the divine in themselves, being in love, going on adventures.

I most want to create because I want to remind myself and others of the beauty inside us. I want to remind myself and others that we are goddesses and gods, that anything is possible and that love is all around.

Why GoddessLeonie – why that path?  Why on the web?

Such an interesting question!  I started off as leonielife.com on the web about four years ago... sharing about my everyday adventures. Then as I began circling with wise women, I realised that I most wanted to remind myself that I was a goddess. I headed off to India late last year, and in that time my website went on its own self imposed retreat, and leonielife.com just didn't want to be brought back. When I returned home I had this deep knowing that I wanted to live my life on an even more authentic, soulful level. GoddessLeonie.com was born. So that's the story of the web name!  If you are asking why Goddess Leonie is the path I have chosen on a spiritual journey, well, that's a whole other but intertwined story! :)  I believe that Great Spirit has no gender, it's way bigger and more profound than that... but that we are each a beautiful part of Spirit... each of us are Gods and Goddesses. We each have our stories, our myths, the lessons we can teach others, the lessons we learn ourselves. Just as Aphrodite is the Goddess of Love and Beauty, we are each a Goddess that has special gifts. 

Where would you like to see yourself in 2010?  And your websites in terms of users, features, etc.?

In 2010 I'll be on the land again living in a country with my love, our puppy and some horses. I'll still be creating, and living my life however my spirit calls. I'll still be living the Goddess life, whether that means circles, retreats, photography, writing, painting... however it blooms, I'm happy.

I'd love for my website, art, creativity and spirit to touch millions of people's lives. Just letting you know, universe :)

Last few, that I just have to add!!!   I absolutely LOVE the "Things to Do This Life" list!!!! Where did you come up with the idea for that?  How has it worked in to your everyday life – it has to be different having made the list – kinda knowing ahead of time what you *might* do! *grin* And last – for now anyway – the path you describe – of magic, love, dreams and the goddess within you – has it drawn others? Allowed you to develop friendships that you would otherwise not have been connected to?

I wrote my Things to do this life list after reading Superhero's Mondo Beyondo list www.superherojournal.com. I wanted to write all my dreams down to do this life... since then, so many have come true! Some intentionally, some just HAPPENED in the most serendipitous and beautiful ways, without me even REALISING it was on my list until long after.

For example, I wrote down that I wanted to see a buffalo, which is one of my totem animals. We don't have them in Australia, so I thought for sure I'd have to wait until I was in the US to see them. Then I went on adventure holidays with my love to a tiny town in the middle of South Australia nowhere. And guess what? Just next to that tiny town is a big zoo that I didn't even know about. A big open plain zoo that has large herds of animals in big paddocks that you drive through on a bus. And guess what had just been moved there? BUFFALOS. It was one of the most beautiful and joyful days in my life to be sitting right next to these large, mythical creatures that had been so important to me. Dream come true in the most impossible of ways!

(link to my list to do this life is here )

love and laugh ~  Scarlett     

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 This has been an entry of:

Scattered Discoveries of a Strega!

Every Saturday Scarlett will wander through several of the Creative Blogger sites – interviewing the owners, perhaps those who wander the sites frequently as well, and searching for the wonderful ideas that have remained hidden in the dark corners of the net!! She will pull out the hidden inspiration from the blogs she rambles through – sharing that with all of you! 

About Scarlett

Scarlett (aka Becca Robinson) is a wife, mother,psychologist, and strega. Her journaling and blogging are now focused on allowing the deep emotions of her inner self to flow out – and become a focal part of her newly discovered artistic self! Follow the chaos of life, the imaginative thoughts and – well, you never know what – on Scarlett’s blogs –

www.becca.disorderlywitches.net The home of Scarlett’s herbal work, her thoughts, feelings, ideas and her connection to life is all here!

www.scatteredreams.wordpress.com A new blog – for her artistic discovery – and the workshops she is taking this summer to develop those artistic finds!!!

Comments

[Goddess Leonie]

oh you are a darling scarlett :)

i LOVED connecting with you... you are such a wild & wonderful goddess... and am so glad you are drying off after your midwest monsooning!

it was such a delight to connect with you possum, you have such a beautiful heart :)

<3
with love, light, and laughter,
Leonie

[Scarlett]

My apologies! I did not realize I carried over the colors from posting the interview on my site as well! I fixed it so that all the fonts are the same *normal* size -- and all the text is in black! I hope that helps! :::hugs:: ~Scarlett~

[Frostfire]

Please, please be mindful of those of us who are a little older and whose eyesight isn't what it used to be. I couldn't read half of this post because of the tiny, tiny fonts and the lack of contrast between text and background!