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The Kitchen Table Sessions

Yesterday was a day where wisdom hit from a multitude of directions. As I got out of bed, two friend messaged for help and as that settled, I received the business guidance I’d called in more than a week ago. (Forget that you have any true control of the timing of things!)

It was a tempestuous first 90 minutes as the past and future called. (I don’t do caffeine — so mornings are their own special kind of crazy for me!)

It was hard to stay anchored in the present, but I’m always delighted and awed at how guidance and support arrives.

What sparks an epiphany. How I get a powerful reframe. What arrives to give me a tiny boost of confidence to take the next step.

Especially since so much of this is brand new for me.

✨ Knowing clearly what I desire and holding myself accountable to move toward it.

✨ Building a business congruent with my values and my multi-passionate nature.

✨ Turning to face the sun and breathing into a bigger space (that often feels uncomfortable).

✨ Listening closely when I receive guidance. Leaning into my support systems when I wobble (especially if and when it feels like I’m losing my bearings).

After a whirlwind start to the day, I got to step out of the mental melee and spend a few slow nourishing hours with one of my favourite humans. Over a delicious home-cooked lunch we talked about the spaces we are dreaming into being for our work. We ended up in a conversation about our mutual love of kitchen tables.

Later, sitting in the library while my son was at work, when the trainer wheels of my authentic direction wobbled, Christina peppered me with questions to bring me back to centre .. and here I am to invite you to my kitchen table.

The Kitchen Table Sessions

My desire for my Winter Year (starting on the equinox) is for six slow, deep  months of personal and creative work, and for that to be reflected in my client work. I want to work with a small group over an extended period.

I also want as many people as possible to experience my unique blend of tarot, intuitive downloads, story telling and coaching before I ask anyone to consider working me across 6 months.

From Saturday 18th – Sunday 26th (over the Equinox portal) I’m offering the Kitchen Table Sessions.

The A$23 pass will get you access to seven (7) Zoom calls.

THE KITCHEN TABLE SESSIONS ARE NOW FREE!!

Each call I’ll pull a card for everyone present, then I’ll ask some questions and give everyone space to talk to their experience. I’ll offer intuitive guidance and a practical way to action what we’ve unveiled together.

It’s Depth Work meets Pass-The-Parcel: Every call we’ll each be unfolded a little.

You’ll get to spend time with me, my “method” and gauge whether it is something you’d like more of. Plus, you’ll have a chance to move through the energetic passing and opening with access to support and guidance.

The pass allows you to attend as many sessions as you want. (And yes, I have one scheduled for Equinox).

And because I am a firm believer in word-of-mouth, when you purchase an Equinox Pass you can bring a friend (or many friends if you attend multiple sessions!)Each session is ~90 mins (depending on the number of people on the call)

GET Your Kitchen Sessions Pass (click and select your sessions)

Decompress the End of the Astrological Year

Saturday 18th 8am (hour of Mars)
Sunday 19th 3pm (hour of Mercury)
Monday 20th 11am (hour of Venus)

Welcome the New Astrological Energy

Tuesday 21st 12pm (hour of Jupiter)
Thursday 23rd 7pm (hour of Saturn)
Saturday 25th 9am (hour of the Sun)
Sunday 26th 4pm (hour of the Moon)

I’m excited-terrified to take my depth work into this expanded space.

I love the group energetic experience with my Network Chiropractor and my heart belongs to collective sharing/learning and circle work. So I guess it’s time.

The Kitchen Table Sessions will be empowered stepping stones across the Equinox Portal and into the slow, depths of The Poetry of You (if you choose to continue on) which begins Tuesday 28th of March.

Get Your Kitchen Sessions Pass — one-stop via Acuity

Where This All Leads…

On the weekend I sent emails about my slow, deep work for the Winter The Poetry of You. 

The journey below the surface looks different for everyone one. There’s no prescriptive “how to” and that’s what makes it both exhilarating and trepidatious. With a flexible structure and myself as SCUBA buddy, wise woman and fellow traveller, we dare to go deep together.

Learn more.

 

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Changing My Relationship With the Passing Year

I’ll be honest, my 40’s have been far from ecstatic.

They have been hard. Fucking hard. All manner of rough comings out — from polyamory to being psychic. Reinventing myself as a writer. Revisioning then rebuilding the kind of experience I wanted in publishing (and I’m still so so so far away from it, but that’s okay.) Fumbling through what it means to be multi-passionate and how to do business when you’re not flying just one kite.

There was the navigation of high school with a chronically ill son, then making my own way through years of chronic illness born from more than a decade of chronic stress and isolation.

For so many years I felt as though I was slow-falling through any sense of solidity or certainty. I tumbled down an endless Alice abyss.

And I hated it.

I railed.
I fought.
And I fucking resented everything.
Endlessly.

I couldn’t wait to get beyond each fucked up year and get a fresh start. The thing was, I never did. It was like stepping in dog shit and treading it from one year to another.

I wanted to stop feeling trapped and tortured by my years.

That liberation began with changing the relationship I had with the passing year.

Four Quick Hacks I Embraced

1. I quit shitting on the year that had shat on me. 

I stopped labelling years bad and just let them be neutral. I mean, you’ve heard it, or even said it yourself:

“Can’t wait for this year to be finished.”

“Shit year!”

“This year can fuck off.”

Three years of a pandemic has had us collectively saying some version of “Twenty-Fucking-Twenty…”

While this might provide short term rapport with all the other people also pissing on the year, the thing is, if you do this, you take the resentment, animosity, grief, disappointment and whatever else the year stirred up … you take into the new year.

You repeat patterns.
You miss a fresh start.

2. I honoured all of the year by getting curious.

This let me see if there was something, anything, beneath what was going on. Especially the hard-as-shit stuff. Attempting to see if, then how,  I was changing: growing and adapting in positive ways to the challenges.

It let me gentler in how I perceived the hardships I’d gone through. It let me make conscious, specific choices about what I wanted to leave behind.

In the beginning it was hard to see them. As the years have gone one they are more apparent.

3. I  got discerning

This meant celebrating the peak experiences alongside the obstacles, dead ends, frustrations, the heart breaks and unexpected failures. It allowed me to rehabilitate my focus away from  obsessing on everything hard or not going my way.

I started to acknowledge it was like that some of the time, but not all the time.

4. I let my years be multi-faceted.

I embraced gloriously imperfect years which lead me out of two-dimensional monochromatic shit storms of misery that could be summed up in one or two catchy words.

Few years are all good or all bad.

Even the worst years have a few shiny spots in them if we’re open to search for them.

A Clean Start

Few people can simply wake up with a clean slate by sheer force of will and 8 hours of sleep between Dec 31 and Jan 1.

Spending time with my year, holding it lightly and honouring all parts, let me cut the passing year away cleanly. Itt was a huge relief to enter a new year without the other one hissing and spitting at my heels.

Best of all, I stopped dragging the old year into the new as the forever compare-and-contrast. The new year got to be bold, beautiful and full of potential on its own terms.

The Thresholds Tarot Readings

In 2021, I created the Thresholds Tarot Readings out of this practice.

I wanted to provide a space for clients to intentionally review the passing year with an open-heart and mind. Through the cards, questions arise to give clients a unique journey through (and perspective on) their year.

These 90-minute readings are super-charged and provide insights into the themes, peak experiences and growth points of ‘22, with guidance and suggestions for celebrating and cutting lose the year that was.

Places are limited.

Bookings are recommended sooner rather than later to get the best date for the farewell you and your year deserve.

Schedule Appointment

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Thresholds Readings Open for the 22/23 Bridge

Thresholds #22 by Jodi Cleghorn — cut from Women Who Run with the Wolves — project developed with Christina Hira

The practice of honouring all of my year inspired the creation of The Thresholds Tarot Readings in 2021.

I wanted to hold space for clients to unpack their year open-heartedly, with potential to gain a new perspective on how the year had unfolded. To see with uncommon clarity the highs that might have been missed and the gifts in the difficulties. To pattern-check in a unique way and leave the reading with a concrete path out of one year and into the next.

I tested the new reading with a friend and we dived into unexpected places, even though we’d talked and drawn cards for a whole year together. We found richly glorious and horrific stories. I pulled up questions which illuminated themes and patterns she hadn’t considered, leaving her with clear stepping stones out of ’21 into ’22.

But 2021 found me in a strange between place — still birthing pregnant babies (ie. timing all wrong so what I created could not be effectively nurtured once it was released).

I still had a permanent residence in the liminal and hadn’t yet considered a bigger life for myself. Much less what it might mean or look like, personally and professionally. All that has changed over the course of ‘22

This means I’m ready to bring all of me (this powerful New Me who is recently qualified and full of enthusiasm ) to meet all of you at the table for the 2022 round of Thresholds Reading.

I’m making sure the offering goes out into the world with plenty of time for everyone to book a slot before ‘22 slides out the door.

Book and Thresholds Reading

These 90-minute readings are super-charged and provide insights into the themes, peak experiences and growth points of ‘22, with guidance and suggestions for celebrating and cutting lose the year that was.

Places are limited.

Book now to get the best date for the farewell you and your year deserve.

Biggest Love,

✨ Jodi

PS: I’m also  offering Year Opening readings in January and February, to help future map 2023 with you.

Book both now for a $20 discount.

P.P.S: If you are in the Brisbane area I love to share readings at my kitchen table over tea and cake. If you are in the surrounds (Gold or Sunshine Coast, Ipswich etc)  and would like to host several readings, I’m more than willing to travel for 2 or more in-person readings. I’ll also consider opening Sundays for readings if the demand is there in December.

Contact me below if this might be you.