Sovereignty as Medicine
Hello my favorite peeps,
The world feels loud and anxious right now, and I keep returning to the same knowing: our medicine is forming within. This month, I’m speaking to sovereignty, our feminine erotic power, and the sweetness that grows when we have the courage to slow down and share.
Fan Guide Notes:
In this month's Peeps Fan Guide Video, I talk about:
In winter, the Choctaw dug into what looked like frozen, lifeless earth to find the roots that mattered most. From those roots they made teas, tinctures, and dyes.
Nature knows what she’s doing. When the world goes cold, she draws the lifeblood of trees and plants downward. There, in the dark, is sovereignty: where roots become potent sugars.
Sovereignty is medicine made slowly, underground, in the unconscious. When we go inward and listen to our bodies, we begin to feel our true sense of Self. Our pleasures, our wisdom, our desires, our eroticism.
The Choctaw believed that each person is a unique medicine and that our value increases when it is shared. We are the teas, the tinctures, the dyes of our communities.
But here’s the paradox: slowing down takes courage because we see our shadows. This can feel uncomfortable. Yet these shadows are the raw material for the sugars of our sovereignty.
We are witnessing the shadows of abuse of power, particularly toward women and the feminine. But remember: we were born for this moment and the greater the shadow, the greater is our potential potency.
Our erotic, feminine, life-affirming intelligence needs our sweetness and vitality.
This February, let us tend our roots and potentize our sap. Let us make medicine from what we have lived. Women+: let’s sweeten the pot.
If you feel called, share what you’re noticing inside the Curious Peeps Community Hub so we can tend these roots together.
If you’d rather reflect privately or have a question you’d like me to respond to, you can submit it through the Share with Afia form here. I read every submission and weave your questions into future reflections and conversations. Some responses will be found inside the Curious Peeps Community Hub Facebook page. And some responses will be DM'd to you.
Fan Guide Updates:
Here are the happenings of this month:
We are having so much fun creating these offerings and Fan Guides!
We are up to 125 Curious Peeps in our Fan Guide community! Thank you so much for being here with me, I appreciate your support!
We created a YouTube channel for our podcast, Curious Peeps!
We also created a private Youtube channel for our member listeners on the Facebook Community Hub called Deep Thoughts!
We've taken three podcast courses and Ziona, my executive assistant, is working on three more!
We started working with a designer, Lizzy, to create the podcast cover and accoutrements! We'll share a sneak peek soon ;-)
We'll be creating and sharing a scavenger hunt for listeners soon!
I worked on a budget for my new podcast equipment - it is feeling more and more real by the month!
This Month's Rose Compass Practice
This part of the Fan Guide, Rose Compass, explores our ethics, boundaries, behaviors, and intentions. The Rose Compass is meant to guide our integrity. I named it the Rose Compass because it evolves and blossoms as we evolve and blossom.
Reflection:
This month, as your own best lover, what "teas and tinctures" do you desire for your pleasure? What sugars will you make with the starches of your shadow? What sweetness, pleasure, or wisdom might be forming there, even if you can’t fully name it yet?
Speak a truth you’ve been holding quietly.