Dear AJ,

Yes, my adventures have started! The 12-week learning challenge has kicked off. It’s happening! I am creating my first Syntropic Enterprise: PlanetHive, the home of Earth Influencers and Syntropic Storytelling.

I’ve been patiently waiting and preparing for this moment while reminding myself to trust in kairos time. If I had ignored the many signals universe has sent me, I would have embarked way too early. Yet I am an interconnected being in the web of All life, and it is never just me who is manifesting.

I need to admit this is probably the first time when I did not apply force to bring something into existence. I allowed myself to sense and respond to what wanted to unfold at what time. I experience the alignment of it all as a special kind of magic, which I am grateful for. 🌌

Monday, November 7th, would have been my late dad’s 71st birthday. He passed away nine years ago. Samhain’s beautiful gift of a thinner veil and Venus in Scorpio helped me to connect even deeper with my rebellious heart. I heard repeating words chanting from afar:  ‘Go and play, venture and love’. I send gratitude to my dad  for the dancing rebel inside me. ❤️‍🔥

And then, of course, there was the Total Lunar Eclipse the day before the Embarking Circle. I was lucky enough to see glimpses of its beauty. The energetic freshness I could feel in the morning after made me appreciate how much I have managed to let go of these past 22 months on my journey and how much I have made space inside me and have grown since then.

I feel urged to repeat something I’ve said during the Embarking Circle. I am not an expert. I am an Ecstatic Learner. I am not holding any answers. I learn from my experience, I learn best in togetherness and from love, and there is no right or wrong. Everything belongs.

Before I journal away, it is my heartfelt wish to express my gratitude to Trent and his magnificent space-holding gifts. I am grateful for his sacred bond with the lands, this flow in synarchy and love we both play in, and so much more…there is a reason why he is the King of Space in my world and the hawk in my kin-ship mind. 💛

Adventuring the outer realms

After the Embarking Circle, Trent gave me another wonderful gift, this time in form of a question: Why is this so exciting for Kath?

Such a straightforward question, yet it is so spacious that it is challenging for me to grab a single thread of joy and describe it to you. All I can do is try! The beautiful world of syntropy has shaped my perspective of what is possible. I see potential in Syntropic Enterprises to change the ways we come together to work, collaborate, and play. Ways that honor the laws of nature and account for the value of everything, going way beyond currency and profit. When I started talking about PlanetHive to folks in the traditional start-up scene many months back, their only interest was profit growth, profit growth, and profit growth. Sure, I could have built a profit growth machine to fit into the business-as-usual model. Judgemental Kath felt this profit growth thing is a bit lazy, boring, and so not what the world needs anymore. AJ, please forgive my judgment. 🙇🏼

I moved on because we didn’t speak the same language. I remember one of the first pitches I gave; my pursuit for value accounting beyond monetary values, and building a community rooted in trust as a business strategy with exit to community was somehow Alien to my audience. Am I the alien? It wasn’t easy to shake off the self-doubt that this experience left behind. Am I the only person who wants to build a business that breaks free from the reductionistic scarcity mindset? My heart, which holds a vision of a future where we live in harmony with nature, kept telling me: Surely there are others. Keep on searching! 🗺️

We are nature! From my experience of entertaining a career in Modernity, I can say that I am not made for a 9 to 5 job in traditional workplace structures. They aren't designed to value my multidimensional being as a whole. In German, we say ‘Der Fisch stinkt vom Kopf’, meaning the fish rots from the head. I know we Germans are funny! Oh, how I love the German language for its literal richness. The rotten fish head is a metaphor to describe challenges that arise in organizations where the leadership is simply dysfunctional.

I say this because I can see that when we define the key elements of a Syntropic Enterprise from the core of our hearts, and we are disciplined enough to apply its clean communication tools in compassionate self-honesty, aligned with our pattern integrity, then the fish doesn’t have to rot, but can live and die in dignity. 🐡

I hear you saying a rotten fish isn’t necessarily bad because it's part of the natural cycle of death and birth. Yes, that is true. I am nodding in resonance. However, in a metaphorical sense speaking about business-as-usual organizations in Modernity this is what I experienced as entropic. While entropy belongs to the beauty of nature just as syntropy does, when I stay for too long in an entropic field without genuinely spiraling to a higher frequency, I find myself stuck in dis-ease. Hello anger and frustration! Farewell effortlessness and flow!

My experience is unique to my life, yet I know that my struggles are not mine alone. In my 15 years or so in traditional employment, I constantly ran against walls. Most often with my head first, forgetting to ask my heart. Some of the walls fell for the better, and all of them left scars behind. They are a gift to remember. What I remember the most is the damaging effects on my well-being. The more I tried to stay within the boundaries of my role, the more I dampened my intuitive ingenuity and kept my inner creative vastness as tiny as possible to fit in. I invited anger and frustration into my body, which took over a lot of space, leaving almost no energy for the beauty of All Life. I was exhausted by all the noise in and around me. I realized that in this rat race I signed up for, the singular focus is on What we do, and no one asks for the Why and How anymore. There I was, witnessing reductionism at its best, feeding virtue signaling and tokenism, denying meaningful engagement.

My learnings from the Syntropic Masterclass and Synergistic Accounting workshop in Syntropic World have allowed me to scratch the surface of the tools and methods for ‘Why we are’, and ‘How we do’ in service of All Life.

It’s pure bliss to know that in a syntropic enterprise we can bring in our whole self from a place of sovereignty and account for values holistically. I am eager and ready to go deeper and learn from practicing.

I’ve been contemplating an intriguing question Bunny asked during the Embarking Circle:

What does it mean to leave everything better?

I’d consider this a living question that I might never be able to answer fully, perhaps on my deathbed one day. What is true for me in this present moment of writing to you is that to be able to leave everything better, I need to commit to my inner work as much as I do to my outer work. I know from experience that doing my inner work into surrendering, accepting, and forgiving is helping me to let go of judgment. The hardest work of all! Without this layer of judgment my heart can stay open, and I can fully listen with the sole intention of understanding other viewpoints.

When you think about it, every thought, feeling, and action has a precessional effect. I dare to say leaving everything better is a multidimensional responsibility for each of us if we want to be good ancestors and stewards. Perhaps, it might even be a practice. 🤷🏼‍♀️

It means to me that I am more conscious about the energy I bring into all my relationships. I try to meet myself and the world with compassion, radical tenderness, and sense-fullness. Do I succeed all the time? No, not at all! My basic skills in forgiveness and honoring the gift of learning have helped me to stay in practice. After all, for-giveness is the spirit of unconditional love. 💞

Adventuring the inner realms

It seems like I already started journaling about my inner journey in the last paragraph. There is no outer world without an inner world. I want to say this more clearly: My outer world manifestation can only be pure and become a legacy if I do the inner work. They dance a passionate tango; it takes two to tango! 🩰

The fabric of experiencing reality is woven by the relationship with our thoughts. For some time now, I felt called to dive deep into this relationship with the intention of better understanding my conditioning.

My aspiration is to greet my shadows with acceptance and compassion. I want to find all the hidden beauty that only comes with awareness and love. That's why I entered the Venus Retreat in the Gene Keys Community, a six-month contemplative experience that started when Venus was in Scorpio. ♏

Stepping into the love stream has beamed me into a magical synchronicity. My heart skipped a beat in a moment of joy when I found this beautiful gift of wisdom by Richard Rudd in the Venus Retreat resources:

The Bees are our thoughts. The Hive is our body. The world is the orchard. The flowers and blossoms are our experiences in the world. As the bees draw the pollen from the flowers, so we have to draw as much sustenance as we can from the experiences that come our way. Like the bees, our thoughts always return to the Hive, our body, and it is there that they store the precious substance they have gathered from their adventures. Deep within the Hive, an alchemical process takes place, as life is broken down and its essence is extracted and refined. All this work is done by the bees. Those wonderful, busy bees.

Here I am contemplating the fascinating life of bees, knowing that they don’t judge the flowers they visit to collect pollen. There is so much I can learn from bees.

My wish for the six-month inner journey is to deepen all my relationships from a place of love. I want to sense the highest purpose of my relationships and understand their chemistry to bring beauty to life.

I am super excited about exploring the relationship with my baby girl Syntropic Storytelling. She is four months old, and since her arrival in August, my capacity to love has grown immensely. I can only imagine other mothers feeling that way, too. I see many of my traits in her already, yet we are wired very differently. Raising her is a never-ending story of strengthening my capacity to love even more. 🧑🏼‍🍼

Entering the Venus Retreat is my commitment to be in a relationship with All Life and to honor my sacred bond with Mother Earth. She is and will always be at the core of my reason for being and doing.

I want to bring more height and depth to my heart because we will need all the love we can find in the years ahead.

Thank you for giving me this generous space to share, AJ. 🙌🏼

Aroha mai. Aroha atu.

Love giving. Love receiving.

Kath 💚

heART: Frequency FreqVE 'Adventuring’ by Lady Daya; photo of hawk by Nigam Machchhar via pexels

Written with heart on the lands of Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika, I wish to acknowledge them as tangata whenua, the people of the land.

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