Quote I am considering this week
“Life is self-organising. It seeks to create patterns, structures, organisation, without pre-planned directive leadership
If you think of life as a network, then you don’t have bottoms or tops. Emergent solutions can come from anywhere, but they are always very situational, always highly contextual, and therefore they’re going to be quite variable, and always unplanned
Emergent organisations are leader-full, not leaderless. Leaders emerge and recede as needed.
Leadership is a series of behaviours rather than a role for heroes.” Margaret Wheatley
Woman I am watching
Amia Srinivasan – Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford
About to release her book “The Right to Sex” this feminist academic is making waves in the realm of sexual justice, the intersection of philosophy and feminism and the role of anger in politics
Her work slices through received opinion on feminism, in particular western feminism and asks the difficult questions we should all be asking around what’s next in terms of women’s empowerment
In a post MeToo world how do we truly empower not only ourselves as women but the female collective voice?
How do we effectively move forward not only personally but politically?
Seeing the reactions around Simone Biles at the Olympics (read more here) shows that we are nowhere near a space of full acknowledgement for the impact of sexual trauma on the lives of women from across the spectrum of experience, regardless of status or achievement
Here’s to continuing to deepen and broaden this conversation, making space not only for personal healing but for a whole new narrative
and One More Thing
Mercury joins the Sun in Leo
In case you hadn’t noticed….we are in LEO season bby 🦁 where things are deliciously hot and spicy. The Sun made it’s entrance last week and a couple of days ago Mercury joined to create a little bit of explosive drama for us all…
Mercury just loves to chat…and Leo loves to be the centre of attention…you see where I’m going with this…
Expect your conversations to fizz and pop a little more than usual, make space for bold, wild new ideas to come flooding in demanding to be expressed in big ways
You may even feeler braver and more confident in letting people see more of you, in showing your feelings and choosing to wear your heart on your sleeve with pride rather than apology
After Mercury’s more docile turn in Cancer, have fun in bringing back some gregariousness to proceedings, be a little loud, indulge in the excitement…and most of all ENJOY!
Take a look at the House in your Natal Chart that Leo is in…that area is being illuminated for you right now, see how you can bring some lightness and joy to this part of your world, piggybacking off the Sun, Mercury team helping you out