Part 6b: Resurrection - what remains after the stripping away…
Initiatory themes: At this final stage constituting resurrection, in the initiation rite/journey as alchemical process, I first had to...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Sep 28, 20219 min read
Part 6a: Resurrection - what remains after the stripping away…?
Following from Parts 1 to 5 in previous blog posts... My story At the end of May 2021, shortly after the roads around the Forest of...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Sep 18, 202111 min read
Part 5: Born and baptised again – the great flood!
Following from part 4, my previous blog post. My story We as community members all breathed a sigh of relief, as our nervous systems...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Sep 10, 202110 min read
Part 4: The hero/heroine’s journey - no cauldron, no alchemy
(Continued from previous blog posts, Part 1, 2 and 3) My story: Life in the forest on the farm continued peacefully for me up until the...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Sep 10, 20218 min read
Part 3: The hero/heroine’s journey – no fire, no alchemy
(Continued from previous blog posts, Part 1 and 2) My story Then, at the end of February 2021, I suffered another loss in the form of an...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Sep 10, 20214 min read
Part 2: The vision, the descent, the dying…
(following from Part 1, the previous blog post) My story: I have been (and still am, to some extent) going through the most advanced rite...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Sep 7, 20214 min read
Dancing with the cycles of death and resurrection – a scholarly and a personal take.
Part One: The initiation rite as the alchemical process, sensuality as the alchemical elixir. As we are collectively finding ourselves,...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Apr 15, 202110 min read
The Handless Maiden - living the myth
The handless maiden – venturing off into the woods The following deep share forms the basis of an invitation to a women’s retreat, in the...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Jul 16, 20203 min read
What lies beneath the surface of every day consciousness...
.... is our own underworld: A metaphor, as well as a reference to the landscape of our unconscious mind. Here we find both our limiting...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Apr 15, 20205 min read
What do rebirth, transfiguration and resurrection look like in these times?
Just before the pandemic chaos hit the globe, I wrote a blog about how I was making a metaphorical descend into the underworld, in the...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Mar 17, 20207 min read
Inanna (and our) descent into the Underworld...
In these trying times, especially now in the context of the Crown virus, I cannot but help to want to harvest the meaning of and make...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Feb 14, 20206 min read
Look to your childhood, for healing and your life purpose
In many ways this piece is one of the most difficult and vulnerable pieces for me to share, and it took me a long time to finally make...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Nov 25, 20193 min read
Allow me to ignite a flame for gardening!
In our little garden in the Southern Suburbs, is where I sun bathe, where we earth every morning while we do our pranayama practices and...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Sep 12, 20192 min read
Dancing with light and dark
I am a light worker AND I am a shadow worker. This weekend I danced with very brave, bold and beautiful sisters from the Rouge Revue, to...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Jul 1, 20193 min read
Honoring of the Divine romance and the eternal cycles...
So much of life consists of cycles: there is the 30-day lunar and menstrual cycles, the seasons every year, all of our organs have a...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
May 12, 20199 min read
To all my female friends, sisters, mothers and daughters
On this Mother’s day, I have been called to share very vulnerably, my story in relation to the females in my life (not the feminine per...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Apr 2, 20195 min read
Honouring the Queen inside you with unapologetic boundaries
In our most recent sisterhood gathering, we gathered in a forest ravine, where red ochre is found in abundance on the river walls. Within...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Feb 25, 20193 min read
The fourth Niyama, Svadhyaya (self-study)
The important question to ask then is what is the self? The Vedas teach that there is the self with a small s which has its own unique...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Jan 19, 20195 min read
The art of Sacred Adornment:
Since the dawn of humanity, both men and women have taken certain measures to enhance their physical appearance, ranging from elaborate...
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Dr Monet Viljoen
Dec 5, 20183 min read
The observance of discipline
The third Niyama, Tapas, translates to discipline or ‘austerity’ and is derived from the root Sanskrit verb ‘tap’ which means ‘to burn’....
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