A note regarding what a Cosmic Cowgirl is...
A Cosmic Cowgirl is a woman who moves between the worlds — She is connected to things divine and etheric (cosmic) and to the earth, the grass roots. She likes to work in the earth with her hands, and she loves to get dressed up and sparkle her magic. She can manage her own ranch and she rides her horse in the "rodeo of the soul." She holds within her the desire to be both Holy Woman and Wild Woman, and have them be not polarized, but integrated. She does not toss away the challenges and suffering of the world as "negative" but uses them for compost from which to grow beauty. She is both fierce and compassionate.
Images of cowgirls conjure a woman sitting tall, and inspire fun things like cowgirl boots and hats, music on the back porch with our family and human friends and our animal friends — fun creatures that we can playfully bond with. In researching women and horses, we have come up with amazing stories from all over the world, like cowgirls were among some of America's earliest professional athletes. Tracking the evolution of the horse shows that they have inhabited most of this planet in one form or another at one time or another. We like to imagine that girls and women have always played and worked with them.
At our Cosmic Cowgirls Conference we wore hats and boots and vests along with our lace and pearls, and roses and rhinestones. We celebrated our legends. We are reclaiming the land, the range, and the territory for ourselves. Think of women who are in control of their lives and loving it. Women who dare. Women who love hard. Work Hard. Play Hard. Women, like us, who take what belongs to us and use it for good.
A Cosmic Cowgirl must decide for herself what this represents for her. It is up to each of us to create our own legends. We are the hero of our own story. We are the ones riding off into the sunset. Let's celebrate! Yahoo!
2 comments:
You are amazing. Your work is so moving, as are your words. The love and spirit that are key ingredients of your paintings are very apparent as my spirit was deeply touched this morning. I think my spirit dolls will have a little extra something in them today. :)
I am just reading your workbook which was given to me by my own daughter for Christmas. She stopped into a little store in Mendocino last month while on a trip there and knew I would just love it. She's right. I have been a Cosmic Cowgirl most of my life and didn't know it but now that I'm 63 and have been stuck in the mush of life (so to speak) for the past eight years, first taking care of my dying parents and now my disabled 43 year old son, my own creative life has sort-of taken a back seat. My CC daughter is trying to tell me something--to get back up on my horse and ride into the sunset maybe? or to try to figure out what it is I need to do to regain some of my spunk back. I still have many dreams left to manifest but have lost some of my motivation. I hope this book helps. I look forward to completing it..its beautiful. Also would love to attend one of your workshops some day.
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