I was honored to be a guest on my friend Martha Hines’ “Living the One Light” interview series. We talked about many of my favorite topics, primarily “Connecting with the Divine through Writing;” also, creating “silence, stillness and solitude,” hearing a true inner voice, the power and magic of women’s writing circles, and how I lens and guide “Divine Ink ~ Illuminating the Heroine’s Journey.” If you’re inspired, I’d love for you to listen … thank you! Love, Janet
Author: Janet Lucy
Called to The Heroine’s Journey? Join me four different ways …
Go Deep:
“Divine Ink ~ Illuminating The Heroine’s Journey” : Seven-Week Online Writing Group via email ~ self-paced with reflective feedback
Date ~ TBA: Cost: $695 (Deposit ~ $195)
“Divine Ink” guides and illuminates the heroine’s journey, a universal divine feminine path, essential to women’s writing and lives. This archetypal journey, distilled into seven distinct stages, is a spiritual path and literary model based on the call to adventure, transformation, and self-discovery.
During this seven-week journey, we will articulate and affirm our individual callings as well as the collective call of women today. Together, we will set out on the heroine’s journey, each week exploring one of the seven distinct and essential stages with inspiration, guided writing activities and prompts. Women will learn to discern an authentic voice from the internalized shadows of fear and doubt, clearing obstacles that may have previously held them back; find inner and outer resources to support them through the inevitable tests and challenges of life; and discover uncertainty to be a powerful place of unforeseen possibility. Here is where we discover the “boon,” lighting the way home.
At the end of the journey, women will come home to a new knowing of themselves, the awareness that the journey is ongoing, and the map and compass within them.
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Listen …
For more information and inspiration please listen to my podcast, a conversation about the Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Lourdes Viado, Ph.D., MFT on Women-in-Depth.https://janetlucyink.com/my-podcast-the-heroines-journey/
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Dip In …
Introduction to The Heroine’s Journey ~ Three-hour small group workshop via Zoom
During this three hour workshop, we’ll journey through the seven essential stages, illuminating the opportunities in each through teaching, reflection and writing. At the end of the workshop, you will have a clear understanding of this universal divine feminine path, a knowing of the blueprint inside you, and a map and a compass to take with you. Quite likely, you will have a heard a new “Call” and feel your spirit ready to divine an inspiring new dream or vision!
Date TBA ~ Cost: $195
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Be Guided …
Project Focused Group: Eight Wednesday Afternoons 1:30 ~ 4:00 Beginning April 14 via Zoom
Cost: $550 (Deposit ~ $250)
Designed for women who have a writing project in process, whether in concrete form or vision. Each week, women will bring a piece of writing from their projects to share for feedback, and to receive insights and inspiration for deepening and development. We’ll have time for inspired and reflective writing to create the next pieces or steps forward guided by the map of the heroine’s journey. Together we’ll create a sacred container and strong structure of support infused with the magic of our collective momentum.
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Individual Guidance and Writing Consultations available ~ For more info please contact me at:
janet@thethreesunflowers.com
Summer 2020 ~ The Heroine’s Journey Zoom Group and Online Course
This summer I’m offering The Heroine’s Journey two ways …
A Zoom group in which we’ll write together and read outloud, and an online course where we’ll share our writing via email, both offering witnessing and reflective feedback.
Each venue will guide and illuminate the heroine’s journey, a universal divine feminine path, essential to women’s writing and lives. This archetypal journey, distilled into seven distinct stages, is a spiritual path and literary model based on the call to adventure, transformation, and self-discovery.
Please listen to my podcast, a conversation about the Heroine’s Journey with Dr. Lourdes Viado, Phd, on Women-in-Depth.
*THE HEROINE’S JOURNEY ~ Zoom Group or Online
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ZOOM Writing Group: The Heroine’s Journey
Eight Wednesday Afternoons 1:30 ~ 4:00
Beginning July 8 ~ August 26
Cost: $550 (Deposit ~ $250 by June 30)
For more information or to enroll, email janet@thethreesunflowers.com
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ONLINE Course: “Illuminating The Heroine’s Journey”
Eight-week Course via Story Circle Network
Beginning July 27 ~ September 21
For more inforamtion or to enroll, click here: Illuminating the Heroine’s Journey
*Class Description (Zoom & Online)
During this eight-week course and journey, we will articulate and affirm our individual callings as well as the collective call of women today. Together, we will set out on the heroine’s journey, each week exploring one of the seven distinct and essential stages with inspiration, guided activities, and writing prompts. Women will learn to discern an authentic voice from the internalized shadows of fear and doubt, clearing obstacles that may have previously held them back; find inner and outer resources to support them through the inevitable tests and challenges of life; and discover uncertainty to be a powerful place of unforeseen possibility. At the end of the journey, women will come home to a new knowing of themselves, the awareness that the journey is ongoing, and the map and compass within them.
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Individual Writing Consulting available via Zoom or phone.
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Please email if you’d like more information: janet@thethreesunflowers.com
New Podcast ~ “Divine Inspiration” on Divinity Unbridled
This is a new podcast co-created with Hannah Rose Childs of Divinity Unbridled, during which I talk about divine inspiration, hearing a true inner voice, the collective call to write, and how we tap into our wisdom in our women’s writing groups ✨✍️✨
I also share my experiences with the infinite realms, navigating the inner landscapes through finely tuned and felt listening, time traveling through intuition and imagination ✨🔮✨
We hope this offers new ways to embrace the mystery, surrender to the not yet known, and trust the wisdom of uncertainty.
If you have a spare hour to listen, I’d love to hear your feedback … thank you! 
Fall 2019 ~ Women’s Writing Groups
Fall 2019 ~ Women’s Writing Groups
“One day it’s the clouds,
one day the mountains.
One day the latest bloom
of roses—the pure monochromes,
the dazzling hybrids—inspiration
for the cathedral’s round windows.
Every now and then
there’s the splendor
of thought: the singular
idea and its brilliant retinue—
words, cadence, point of view,
little gold arrows flitting
between the lines.”
~ Thomas Centolella
(Watercolor by Meganne Forbes)
Ten Tuesday Mornings 10:00 ~ 12:30: Beginning September 24
Cost: $650 (Deposit ~ $250)
Ten Wednesday Evenings 5:30 ~ 8: Beginning September 25
Cost: $650 ~ (Deposit ~ $250)
Ten Thursday Mornings 10:00 ~ 12:30: Beginning September 26
Cost: $650 ~ (Deposit ~ $250)
Janet Lucy, MA, is an award-winning writer and poet, the author of Moon Mother, Moon Daughter ~ Myths and Rituals that Celebrate a Girl’s Coming of Age and The Three Sunflowers, an award-winning children’s book, and the bilingual version, Los Tres Girasoles. Her latest children’s book, Mermaid Dreams, is available now, and coming soon in bilingual form. She has been a contributor to Mamalode, Mothering, Natural Solutions, The Sun, Skirt! and Real Travel magazines. Janet is the Founder of “Women’s Creative Network” in Santa Barbara, CA, where she offers intuitive and creative consulting for spiritual and professional development, facilitates women’s weekly writing groups, as well as international women’s writing retreats. Janet loves to share her divine inspiration with other women.
New Podcast! The Wisdom of Mermaid Dreams on “Women in Depth”
I discuss my new children’s book, Mermaid Dreams, with Lourdes Viado, Phd on her program,”Women in Depth”
112: The Wisdom of Mermaid Dreams
“Mythology and storytelling are age-old methods of passing along wisdom, sharing experience, and explaining or teaching about life.”
Learning to trust your intuition, feelings, and dreams is a powerful experience.
With all the stories and lessons told to children today, our society does not seem to support the notion that women should learn to trust their intuition. This is a meaningful lesson for any woman, whether she’s a Maiden, Mother, or Crone. This is a lesson that is truly universal.
In this episode, I talk with Janet Lucy about her new children’s book Mermaid Dreams. This book encompasses many missing lessons from today’s children’s literature, while also depicting the connection between mother and daughter. Janet also shares how goddess mythology illuminates her ideas within the book.
Take a listen to learn Janet’s new book Mermaid Dreams and how this story passes along universal wisdom to women.
Some Questions I Ask:
- What inspired you to write Mermaid Dreams? (3:14)
- What is the significance of the Mermaid to you? (7:17)
- How does the story in Mermaid Dreams depicts the connection between mother and daughter? (12:46)
- What coming-of-age concepts does Mermaid Dreams address? (14:15)
In This Episode, You Will Learn:
- About the story of the African goddess Yemaya. (9:12)
- How the power to change your dreams coincides with the power you have over your psyche. (15:03)
- How Janet’s book teaches children to go within themselves and learn to trust their inner voice. (18:00)
- How Janet’s books apply to all women. (20:54)
- How women’s internalized beliefs can manifest into the basis of fear. (25:15)
Resources:
Episode 91: The Heroine’s Journey: The Call to Transformation
Episode 95: Mothers, Daughters, Myth & Moon: Rituals to Honor a Girls’ Coming-of-Age
Summer WILD 2019 ~ Writing Group Invitation & Offerings
Summer WILD 2019 ~ Writing Group Invitation & Offerings
“Wildness
reminds us
what it means
to be human,
what we are connected to
rather than what we are
separate from.”
~ Terry Tempest Williams
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“We need the tonic of wildness …
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things,
we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable,
that land and sea be indefinitely wild,
unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
We can never have enough of nature.”
~ Henry David Thoreau
Eight Tuesday Mornings 10:00 ~ 12:30: Beginning July 9
Eight Thursday Mornings 10:00 ~ 12:30: Beginning July 11
New! Online Writing Group ~ Eight Weeks: Beginning July 9
This summer I am offering an online group for women to connect from far and wide … you will receive the weekly inspiration and prompts I offer my Santa Barbara based groups with three distinct writings each session (15 minutes, 30 minutes, five minutes), and an opportunity for witnessing and reflection of anything you choose to share. This will be done through email, all through writing. I will provide clear guidelines for how to participate as a writer and a witness.
Writing Group Facilitator’s Training: Dates TBA
You’ll receive all the guidance—practical and spiritual—to create and facilitate an inspiring and successful writing circle. Also excellent for retreat facilitators and other group leaders.
Janet Lucy 