Nourish - The First Food.

Nourish - from Latin nutriō (“to suckle, feed, foster, nourish, cherish, preserve, support”).

This is the living, evolving, shape shifting altar created for a continual honoring and offering I make primarily to the Spirits of Venus and Jupiter and the energy they have asked to come through me in the sign of Cancer this lifetime. Thank you for your continued nourishment... for feeding me with plenty and abundance so that I too can share food here.

Secondly, this is for my mother, my sisters and my spirit child. Your love has set me free. Has given me purpose. Has given me every single direction of where to go with my work along the way when there was no other way I could find to turn.

Thirdly, this is the fulfillment of a promise to myself, my soul, my Spirit, and all my relations that came before me and that currently surround me. I love you.

I envisioned Nourish and Revolve to be a reflection, manifestation-of and, most importantly, a shared space of written word, transmitted messages, empowerment, and place of resource and OPTIONS dedicated to the physical, energetic and spiritual foods that feed the life of Women and all humans. I wanted to create a space to share the foods that have both transformed and continually feed my life as a woman. The foods that have made me feel as if my life as me, as this woman I am and becoming, was worth living. I simply want to share the ideas and information that other women, humans, books and Spirit have shared with me that uplift, sustain and foster evolution, growth and living from a rooted center that is connected into the Source of All Things.

Just as food is felt, smelled, chewed, swallowed, sifted through, transformed, used for sustenance and then embodied, while waste is eliminated - so to are the transmissions and resources given in this space intended to work.

There will be nourishment shared that has shown me the path to working with, caring for, and ultimately, truly loving women and also being a woman. Through my life and experiences I feel blessed to have been guided to plug in to the energetic tap root that exists in all of our wombs and feeds us with the sustenance of love, poetry and creation that is ceaseless.

While I've also "eaten" foods on this path that were poisonous or soured over the years, womanhood has taught me how to work to transform this as well - to still pull out the viable nutrients and lessons that were there anyways and how to continue to grow from it.

Most importantly, the path I have been on has taught me how to love me. What started off in my life as a seeking of ways to "fix women" or "fix myself" or "fix things for my family" or "fix systems that harm women," turned into a realization of all the ways I constantly felt I wanted to fix things because I didn't actually want to be me. It gave me a clearer view into all the unconscious and hidden ways I had been conditioned to hate being a woman and that all women need "fixing" that is outside of themselves. I've seen the constant messaging of all the ways we are told we should be something different than what we actual are at every single age and every single stage of being a woman. I realized I had embodied an energy of not wanting to really be me which led me to always seeking something more or some different version of me... ways I could manipulate/fix myself.

I saw in my clients and the women I shared space with - how much they suffered from constantly wanting to be fixed or different: their body, their shape, their age, their period, their fertility, their hormones...all of us were crying to be anything and anywhere but where we were with our bodies and lives as women.

And so I stopped so many things I was doing and started aiming to shift or get underneath all the "problems" of being a woman and turning to the question: Can I love being a woman? Can I love being me? Can I love my body and what it is showing me? Can I follow it, listen to it and tend to it?

Through this process, I began loving myself and finding myself, and for the first time, truly and deeply wanting to be a woman. Wanting to really be me...even feeling excitement to get to be in this experience, this body, this life. Being a woman - I suddenly wanted to be her more. I stay curious - wanting to know what it all means. What is a woman? How does she feed? How does she change? How does she evolve? How does she bloom? How does she die..over and over again and still live? Why? How can I touch this more physically, literally, experientially - all these fleeting phases of womanhood that are here today and quickly gone and on to the next phase tomorrow.

Through this process I ultimately learned that I want to be, and in fact am, a woman. A woman that has pulled myself out of invisibility, self hatred, depression, broken relationships, broken work structures that simply do not work for my moods and who I am. I stopped reaching for all the little pills and drinks that make it all numb and I evolved this yearning to constantly be anything and anywhere other than what I was into creative energy, work, practice and joy.

Now I sit, sinking further into the hips and embrace of womanhood, and I know it is just the beginning of my own unfolding. Our unfolding together.

So while the writing and work and publication and collaboration here is to offer energetic, physical and spiritual tools, words, art, classes, courses and movement to uplift, empower, feed, support and nourish us - the real intention behind it all is to create a deep rooted love for womanhood and being a woman in us all. To create a wave of more women moving in the world, from their center, that fucking love and can't get enough of being a woman. A greater community of women who love themselves and who love other women and that want to further connect and root more deeply into this energy system of womanhood that initiates us in to a vast network of nourishment that goes beyond being human if we are willing.

When you read and move through this work there will always be multiple components to explore: written word, shared stories, upcoming learning opportunities, physical movement and energetic components that go with it- but behind it all is the subtle hum of that which is Woman. The invisible world that we will all return to when our time here is done... the place where we will find our spiritual home as part of the river that will water and sustain the next women to come. For now, we tap in to this beautiful river of sustenance during our lifetime here.

It is a river that flows and flows and flows and never stops.

& this is just one living spring rising up from it.

Thank you for being here. I look forward to what you'll create and share and learn.

I love you,

Jazmin●•●Cosmic