my last Journal Entry for this Learning Challenge: Packed with heartfelt completion, resolution, and gratitude, a multidimensional mini-graduation if you want. ♾️

Before I share from my experience, lessons learned, and aspirations for coming adventures, I want to express my deepest gratitude to all my fellow adventurers who have supported me in so many ways. I continue to reflect on the indeed adventurous past 11 weeks. There is an aspiration alive in me to account for the gifts I have received in multiple domains. Perhaps, that will be the Synergistic Audit I couldn't commit to so far, even though it was one of the steps in the Learning Challenge. 🫠

For now, I send heaps of love and gratitude to Luke, who was brave enough to marry me; my Mutti mom, who traveled across the world to be with me and supported my right livelihood as best as she could; my dear friend Trent who has held the weekly synchronous learning circle with so much love and care; and to grandmother midi for meeting my limiting beliefs and perspectives with radical tenderness to help me go deeper inwards and see beyond the horizon. 🌈

The first time fundraising for my right livelihood has been an experience of liberation. I have learned that it takes much patience and honest discernment between my needs, my wants, and my wishes. Sustaining my right livelihood can only happen when I bring the willingness to take full responsibility for my actions and be free of any expectations towards others. To feel fully free is a long-haul journey.👣

Well, turns out, I have plenty of wishes, I want a few things, and I barely need anything. 🙃

One most notable outcome is that I am dancing in the field of trust. There are many layers of trust and I learned to wholeheartedly trust myself and the universe.

In my Journal Entry #3, I referred to Buckminster Fuller and his self-discipline to serve all humanity. Remember?

My understanding of this discipline is that as long as my honest intention is to wholeheartedly be in service of All Life, as opposed to seeking business-as-usual or traditional personal gain, I will have enough resources to sustain my right livelihood. I dare to say I attempt to spiral to a place of selflessness and being in reciprocal relationships. An adventure that can only happen when I embody my values from an honest heart and give generously without expecting anything in return. There is a difference between holding expectations and trusting. This deep self-trust, which I have never experienced, is here to help me to see my limiting beliefs for what they are. 🌻

This principle resonates most deeply when I reflect on my perceived struggles with sustaining my right livelihood while adventuring this Learning Challenge.

Only with the incredibly generous support of my loved ones - my family, my friends, and my community, I exceeded my fundraising goal for sustaining my right livelihood. I wouldn't have been able to come this far on my adventures without their selfless giving. I am deeply grateful and humbled.

Herzallerliebsten Dank! 💚

Adventuring the outer realms

Yes, PlanetHive is a Syntropic Enterprise: The source idea is pregnant with clarity. The evolutionary purpose is a gift of love in every sense of the word, and their pattern integrity speaks the silent language of Mother Earth and brings the invisible to light.

I now experience PlanetHive as a living entity that just started to hum. A wonderful feeling of alignment! Compared to the slime mold feeling from before. PlanetHive is definitely here to leave everything better.

One of the most beautiful outcomes of this learning challenge is my evolved relationship with PlanetHive. Thanks to the dialogue, mirroring and witnessing during the Learning Circle and beyond, I was able to break through some blockages and limiting beliefs I was holding around my role as the Steward Leader. 

There was an unnamed expectation I put on myself that blocked much of the energy inside me to flow: to have figured out every little detail of PlanetHive by the end of this Learning Challenge. I found myself caught in a web of expectations which at one point moved my attention away from learning and experiencing the adventure towards delivering something as an outcome, forgetting to trust in the precessional effect. 👀 

My mind trapped me in a scarcity mindset. I needed to remind myself to appreciate what is here and respond to the emergence. I need to let go of so much more of the old ways of being, understanding and doing. 

I am so utterly excited about all that I have received and I am curious to learn more about what it means to organize as a hive. There is so much we can learn from Tetragonula bees, from all bees, well from All Life. 🐝

AJ, I guess you can sense the freed-up energy sprinkling in and around me that is exhilarating and gives me new space to continue to grow. Even though, or perhaps because I can feel the vastness and beauty of the sprinkles like ocean spray on my sun-kissed face, I will pause my journeys in the Outer realms for the coming Six weeks to go deeper into my inner realms. Oh yes, it is indeed tempting to continue adventuring this manifestation! However, it feels very right, true, and beautiful to immerse me in my heightened sense of simply being.

Adventuring the inner realms

I will now travel through Aotearoa New Zealand to say Ka kite anō! Bis bald! See you again! to the beautiful lands that have given me so much over the past Seven years. Here I have found my sacred bond with Papatūānuku Mother Earth again. A true sense of belonging that was always there, hidden deep inside me. I’ve been crying countless wild tears of grief and gratitude as I found this treasure of unconditional love in my heart radiating out into every cell of my body, which will give me the strength and openness I need to renew the relationship with my birthplace, essentially an old new bioregion I am about to meet.

I can hear the calling of ancient relationships that want to be awakened in their reciprocity when I am about to adventure my old home in the Northern Hemisphere. A calling I wouldn’t have been able to receive without all that I have received in my new home in the Southern Hemisphere.

My intuitive knowing helps me to see that to help manifest love and trust for a syntropic future, I need to travel my past. The Venus Retreat in Gene Keys has invited me to contemplate the first three seven-year cycles of my life, starting with my teenage years (21-14) and going back to the beginnings of my creation.

What better place to dance in this emergence than where my roots are? I don’t know what any of that means. However, there is an inherent relationship with my birthplace, which I am curious to explore. I will try to find a deeper connection with my ancestors and my Heimatland homeland, Brandenburg in Germany.

I feel fully supported and ready to create more space within to receive even more fully.

These past months I’ve been lucky enough to experience glimpses of that emptiness. Didn't I write to you about this place, AJ? I described it as small, clean, and spacious deep inside me.

It is pulsing and expanding as it cracks through an invisible shell, fuelled by the intimate connection I can hold in my relationships with all life. Only with openness in my heart, I can sustain this intimacy. The more I listen to and follow my heart, the more I can release, and energies can move freely through me to embody honesty and compassionate kindness.

I continue to learn to integrate spiritual practices into my daily life for the muddy waters to clear for me to truly look at the essential current of pain and love that is moving underneath. Practices I am eager to inhabit when coming into relationship with my homeland because they are a strengthening force for my well-being.

It is also my contemplative mind that is calling me inwards. I can describe it as a palpable inner force that allows me to be patient and wholeheartedly connected with Mother Earth. It has often been so challenging for me to safely express what is happening in my inner realms. My open heart has helped me in so many ways on this path of learning to communicate in radical tenderness. I now hold a hint of capacity to transform triggers and traumas inwards instead of projecting them outwards. A spiraling space-giving experience I never want to miss anymore. ♾️

Thanks giving and closing words

The weekly circle has been a stable point for me. It was a joy to adventure with so many wonderful humans. I found myself contemplating the essence of learning in community on this pathway, synchronous and asynchronous. For me, it was sometimes challenging to sustain a syntropic energy field in this multi-week learning challenge. The presence of everyone, including you AJ, helped me stay at ease when I was braving entropy. If your heart starts giving you a warm sense, then know that this gratitude of mine is yours to receive. 🌈

I want to give honorable heART thanks to Trent for his awe-inspiring NFT gift and Lady Daya for her most beautiful Visionary Frequency 'Adventuring'.

I have grown, and PlanetHive has grown! And there is nothing else for me to generate or manifest right now! I am grateful that I have arrived where I arrived. PlanetHive is one of the most beautiful living entities that has entered my web of life and has gently but persistently invited me to be their steward leader. Once I have arrived at my birthplace, I am willing to tune even more into the universe to guide me in stewarding PlanetHive’s evolutionary journey.💞

Aroha mai. Aroha atu.

Liebe geben. Liebe empfangen.

Love giving. Love receiving.

Kath 💚

HeArted 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.

🗺️ Visit Native-Land.ca to learn more about the ancestors of the lands and waterways where you live, work, and play.

heART: Frequency FreqVE 'Adventuring’ by Lady Daya and photo of cuckoo by Rajukhan Pathan via pexels

Last Learning Circle, I tried to describe how I am experiencing PlanetHive. At that time, however, I couldn't go beyond the human world, and all I could refer to was the Centraal railway station in Antwerp, Belgium. I recalled a memory from when I took the train from Antwerp to Rotterdam in the Netherlands to catch a flight home to Berlin after a week of work. I remembered the station as this grand golden hall of shining ornaments. The beauty took my breath away. I needed a moment to take it all in when I entered the station. I felt tiny in a good way. I felt busy spaciousness, an interconnectedness, and intricacy that required all my attentiveness to allow the grandness of the place to move through me. Everything was in a relationship with All. Invisible but deeply felt.

As I navigate the stars of my inner realms way beyond the ocean current, I want to give space to PlanetHive, and invite them to share their cosmic perspective in this letter of love, written 500 years from now.

In honor of all bees,

Kath 💚

To bee or not to bee?

…a question that was asked a few times in 2022. I remember that it was only two years earlier when I chose Kath to be my Kween Bee. To her unknown, she was going to be the Steward Leader to hold the emergence of bringing all my beauty into existence. It was her right and responsibility to ignite my inner magic, which supported a foundational change in how humans come together to learn, work, and play. My existence today in the year 2523, and this letter is living proof.

Society and work at the beginning of the Millennium looked very different than it does now five centuries later: The planetary systems were collapsing, exploitation and extraction were widely accepted, and business models focussed on profit growth only, derived from a mindset of scarcity, separation, and fear. Organizations used to employ people for growth generation and to sustain their existence by all means. Employment was most often paid, on a 9 to 5 model, Eight hours a day, for usually Five days a week. People were called employees. They had an employment contract with the organization, the employer. Once employed, you had a so-called job with regular remuneration, which you would use to pay for your living costs. One value domain dominated: Currency, namely money and Kronos time. Only a few were aware of Kairos time. Without going into detail, money was the one form of valuation, of measurement everyone bought into, which was a mirror to the arbitrary system humans set up for themselves. A monoculture in its design, money evolved into something capricious, governed by nation-states that had little to nothing to do with the bioregions that exist now.

Sustainability, Regeneration, and Syntropy were new words for most of the world.

In hindsight, it is tempting to say these were the Dark Ages of Modernity riddled with:

Fear

Greed and Loss

Trauma and Grief

Loneliness and

Lack of Trust.

Walking through her valley of suffering, Kath knew early on that if there would be a post-collapse world, humans needed a new human-work-earth relationship; and new ways of being together. Instead of exploitation nested in scarcity, she longed for heart-centered collaboration rooted in trust and reciprocity. Her creation vision for me was an intentional hive-like ecology enabling humans to steward the well-being of All Life.

I’ve chosen her because at heart she was always a bee. Growing up as a worker bee, driven by her love for All Life, trusting and trusted, she was a natural gatherer and pollinator of information; she had the great gift to dance in authenticity. Knowing what is not good for the hive is not good for the bee, she learned to listen attentively with an aspiration to manifest syntropic structures like mine. Or shall I say she is? Because when you read my words AJ, she still has a few decades to generate and manifest beauty. 🌺

Today many generations later, the Kween Bee has long returned to earth and is loving rainbows from another realm. As for me, I am an integral part of societal and cultural scaffolding for humanity: A space of creation where love stories for All Life are born.

AJ, think of me as one of those rare wild bee hives that could hold its pattern integrity without a queen and where worker bees have the capacity for reproduction if needed and wanted. My design mimics the hive of the Tetragonula bee, a stingless native to what you know as Australia.

Tetragonula was declared extinct along with many other pollinators before and during the peak of the planetary collapse. By the 2040s, global supply chains evaporated, supermarkets were full of empty shelves, and most people were learning to rely on their gardening skills, only to realize with shock that the existence and well-being of bees and other pollinators were essential to human survival. So the run on securing pollinators for oneself began. Any pollinator, in particular any honey-making bee, was traded for money to the most bidding, and prices for bees skyrocketed, which drove them straight into extinction. The ocean of loss and pain is one we can never forget. I am here to help us all to remember.

And then, in the early 2200s, out of seemingly nowhere, Tetragronula and a few other pollinating friends returned from their almost 200 years of disappearance. 🐝🦋

Aboriginal elders tell the myth of a brave female warrior who was as much of a genius as a queen bee at heart. In the early days of collapse, the story tells the heroine had knowing foresight, so she was on a cunning mission to build secret sanctuaries for a small number of as many native pollinators as possible in each bioregion in so-called Australia and beyond. Protected by the connected spirit of land and people of the land, any attempt to harm their peace received a powerful energetic response, often followed by a precessional effect of life-changing magnitude to the intruder.

I wish I could say that the spiritual protection of All Life has been restored fully by the time I write to you. But I can’t because that would be a lie, and I would bring dishonor to my letter and to you. Humanity lives more harmonically with nature. Yes, I can say that! However, living and being regenerative means a commitment to selflessness and lifelong learning for all present and future generations.

Wisdom from Elders reminds us to never forget. Earth Influencers and the archetype practice of Syntropic Storytelling help to remember suffering, solace, and unconditional love, just like we can remember even older stories and myths, such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, which was committed to 12 tables around 2100 BC.

In the natural world, you can find me in hollow tree trunks. When a Tetragonula colony is seeking a new home, they will look for a protected space with only one small entrance and a large, ideally well-insulated, internal cavity to house an intricate, clockwise spiraling design.

Two main characteristics of the beehive setup have proven to be essential for my living structures:

1. Hexagonal spiral combs hold successive generations of bees until they reach adult stage and hatch.

2. The surrounding of the spiral is a complex interconnected web of small resin pots to store honey and pollen.

Someone wise once said healthy bees are productive bees. Yes, it has been my humble hive experience since 2023, when I first homed Earth Influencers to learn and practice the creative heART of Syntropic Storytelling.

My structures operate in a so-called excitable medium, a physical phenomenon observed in crystals, slime molds, the heart, and hives, since the beginning of time. It means that I grow in a layered manner. The growth of the next layer begins after one layer has had enough time to mature. I like the harmony this rhythm of resonating growth brings to my operations, my frequency, and my whole being.

The spiral allows the hexagonal combs to be responsive to change, which has shown to be ideal for mimicking the mastery of communication and collaboration of bees. The hexagonal combs hold the capacity for Synergistic Audits based on the 12 Degrees of Freedom by Buckminster Fuller and brought into existence by Christine McDougall in the early 2000s.

Today, homing the 100th generation of Earth Influencers and being amazed by the many thriving daughter, sister, and aunt colonies, experience has shown that the minimal complexity necessary needs to be rooted in trust. Trust in oneself and the collective to maintain this dynamic structure in a frequency of unconditional love and devotion. Since its inception centuries ago, the super-organism evolving within my protected space is rooted in trust and has followed a small set of behavioral agreements to allow for prosocial relationality. From my first years witnessing humans learning to dance with trust again, I remember a certain stickiness like the one that comes from spilled nectar. With the years, decades, and centuries nectar was spilled less, and it became less sticky.

The colony I am home to can sufficiently sustain the well-being of the collective organism they form in honor of my evolutionary purpose.

A never-ending love story for All Life, pollinating across the planet, regenerating a contagious narrative honoring Mother Earth and Universe. 🌺🐝

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Beehives have long been a metaphor for a self-organized society. Most prominently, perhaps in The Fable of the Bees by Mandeville from 1714.

Growing up in a collapsing world riddled with selfishness and fear, less peaceful than now, Kath knew in her bones that it was dynamic ecologies rooted in trust that humans needed to transform their relationships with work and Mother Earth into one. Into one with a deep sense of purpose and joy from the heart: Being in service of All Life! Remember, in the early 2000s, a job was a necessity to make enough money to afford to live within the system, so-called Modernity. Not everyone was to enjoy a sense of purpose and joy in their work. Only a few were brave enough to imagine a heart-centered syntropic world where us-all humans and living entities exist for earth regeneration until the end of time.

AJ, when you read this letter of mine, I am in the early hours of my creation story. It makes me humble and grateful to have been in service of All Life for the first half of the 3rd millennium AD. My spiral starts to glow deeply golden when I listen to stories about how my presence helped to restore and stabilize the trust field. Another one I enjoy hearing is that love has never spread faster across the planet than now, which evolved from a frequency shift in narrative and language over centuries, supported by generations of Earth Influencers. After all, I am only a space. It is humans who do the heart work.

I remember Kath was always an advocate and role model for transparency from the heart to restore trust and love. We’ve come a long way. Please give her this big honey pot from the future when you will bee with her. 🍯

Bee well,

PlanetHive 🐝

Date heARTed: 1/3/2523

Date received: 1/3/2023

HeArted on the lands of Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika in Aotearoa New Zealand. I wish to acknowledge their mana whenua as people of the land.

🗺️ Visit Native-Land.ca to learn more about the ancestors of the lands and waterways where you live, work, and play.

heART: Frequency FreqVE 'Adventuring’ by Lady Daya and photo of duck by DSD via pexels, NFT on OpenSea created and manifested as a heART gift by the amazing Trent with 💛 and the assistance of AI

Today, I am writing to you from multiple dimensions, so magical that I feel humbled to call it my lived experience in this interconnected web of life. Deeply touched by the universe, I am grateful for my awareness and intuitive knowing, which both have led to this experience.

The story I am telling in this journal entry is about Kath being one last time a Volunteer Ranger on Mātiu Somes Island, the biggest of the three islands in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, the Wellington Harbour.

Mātiu and the two smaller islands Makāro and Mokopuna are intimately connected to Kupe, the Polynesian navigator. The legend is essential to many creation myths and stories being told about Aotearoa New Zealand, including the naming of Mātiu and Makāro islands for his nieces or, in some storylines, his daughters.

Mātiu Island is a 24.9ha, predator-free island reserve of scientific and historical significance. Centuries ago Māori tribes established the first pā sites on the island. In the 1820s to 1830s Iwi of Taranaki migrated down to the Wellington region and maintained their mana whenua role, the customary authority since that time.

From 1839 to 2009, tangata whenua, Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika, was excluded from stewarding the Harbour islands, resulting in 170 years of disconnection of people and land. Then called Somes Island, the Crown used the land for many purposes ranging from human quarantine and later on as an animal quarantine station, wartime internment camp, and military defense. And more recently for conservation: In 1995, when the management of the three islands was established with the Department of Conservation (DOC), they were classified as scientific and historic reserves and opened to public access.

In September 2009, a Treaty settlement returned land title and ownership of Mātiu, Makāro, and Mokopuna to Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika and recognized the loss of land and cultural connections by the iwi. Grounded in the first claim, lodged with the Waitangi Tribunal in 1987, the unique Statement of Forgiveness, which was a significant healing element for the relationship with the Crown, and the Crown Apology which indicated the desire to begin the healing process for the grief and suffering, and to build a relationship rooted in trust and cooperation.

Mātiu Somes is in some of the deepest waters in the Harbour. All three islands are peaks on a ridge formed 1.5 million years ago. Originally a basin that flooded when land southeast of Wellington fault tilted down formed Te Whanganui-a-Tara, the Wellington Harbour, and submerged the ridge with the three islands. During the earthquake of 1855, Mātiu Somes was lifted, and much of the present shoreline is now surrounded by cliffs perfect for nesting and breeding sea and shore birds like Kororā little blue penguins, Tōrea oystercatchers, seagulls, shearwaters and shags.

Initiated first in 1981 by the Lower Hutt chapter of charity Forest and Bird, followed by many years of a concerted effort by many volunteer groups has fostered the regeneration of native plants and returned much of the island landscape from livestock paddocks to native bush. My favorite island bush bird is the red-crowned Kakariki, NZs small green parakeet. Numerous other species have been successfully reintroduced, including wetas, geckos, skinks, and the Brothers Island Tuatara. The regeneration program has resulted in regular sightings of other native birds on the island, for example, Kōtare the Sacred Kingfisher, Ruru NZs native owl, and Karearea NZs bush hawk. AJ please remember: I hold a deep kinship with all three birds.

The shores are home to Kūtai green-lipped mussels, which are considered kidneys of the sea. As they feed on plankton, their powerful pump filters vast amounts of water of up to 1-2 bathtubs per day, depending on the size of the mussel. By removing harmful bacteria and heavy metals, they are essentially clearing the water of floating sediments, stabilizing the seafloor, and improving water quality and light penetration, benefiting fish, other shellfish like Pāua, rock oysters, seagrass, and seaweeds.

Over the past 15 years, the Eastbourne Forest Rangers assist DOC rangers with voluntary duties like welcoming and guiding visitors through the biosecurity procedure to keep the island a predator-free sanctuary. I am humbled to have served as an Eastbourne Forest Ranger and welcomed just a few of the several thousand yearly visitors to the island.

However, I was not an active ranger for the past two years, mainly because of a decision from my heart to enjoy every minute with my late dog Nalu, given to me.

With my Mutti mom visiting and us moving to Germany early next year, I rather spontaneously committed to one last ranger volunteering shift. Oh, I was delighted when we received the confirmation that we could stay overnight, an experience also new to me. ✨⛺

On the ferry, my mind was trying to loop me into this fear of not remembering my welcome mihi, the biosecurity, health, and safety induction. I said to my mom: Oh Gott, ich hoffe ich kann mich noch an alles erinnern. Oh god, I hope I remember everything. My mom responded with so much love: Ach Quatsch. Das kriegste schon hin. Du wirst dich schon erinnern, wenn du da vorne stehst. You got this. You'll remember by heart.

I was excited to see my fellow volunteer ranger Donna and DOC island resident ranger Gemma down on the wharf when we arrived along with 26 other visitors. Luckily, I did not have to jump in straight away. Donna took this turn. Phew, I was so grateful to have had time to arrive before I welcomed some 50 visitors that day. My mom was so right when she said I would remember all by heart. 💞

I experienced the island in a special kind of magic on my last day of duty. First, I was responsible that no mice, rats, seeds, or Argentine ants would visit the island so that the native birds, plants, and reptiles could live a predator-free life. I also acknowledged Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika as tangata whenua and asked visitors to respect Māori Tikanga. It was a heartfelt honor to have had iwi members, Gemma, and her whanau family present during a few of my welcoming that day. 🙇🏼‍♀️

The countless Kakariki in free spirit added lively green dots to the blue sky. What a gift! Just like I remembered my mihi by heart, their chatter was back in my memory. Suddenly, I realized how much I missed them and the land. They responded to my gratitude with joyful flight races in threes across the island.

While I was on duty, my mom explored the shores and found Kūtai in the shallow waters of low tide. We asked Gemma if it was all good for us to collect some of the mussels for dinner. Yes, we got a green-lipped light. We did not need to ask for her permission, yet it felt most respectful to do so.

After the last ferry, my last day on ranger duty officially ended, and my mom and I grabbed our swimsuits and went down to the shores to collect kai food gifted in abundance by the glorious Pacific Ocean. We enjoyed getting wet and cooling down after this splendid, summerly hot Boxing Day while exploring and collecting dinner. With gratitude, did we receive these gifts of freshness and yummy nourishment. 🌊💗

Time on the island goes by quickly. After lecker dinner, we headed out to take a long sunset walk along the so-called Tuatara Highway back down to the wharf to witness little blue penguins coming home. We did not see any Tuatara. However, Donna and others did see one eating a Weta. 🦗🦎

As I said, I have never stayed overnight on the island before. So you can imagine AJ that I was excited about the chance to witness Kororā coming home to their chicks after a long day of feeding out in the Cook Strait. Often, I shared with visitors what the best spot is to view their daily arrival during the breeding season, but never have I experienced it myself. I relied on the wisdom of seasoned rangers and my knowledge of distinguishing between penguin and seagull poop. 🐧💩

I can say the island is different during the night. The lively concert of cicadas, kakarikis, and seagulls protecting their nests with all their voices fades out when the sun sets behind the Brooklyn Hills of Wellington. Some 10 to 15 of us who stayed overnight had a loose but committed date right after dusk to be a silent witness to the penguins' homecoming of the day.

My mom and I were lucky to have witnessed a few arriving. One couple was in a hurry to get out of the water and up the hill. Perhaps they could hear their chicks from their burrow up the steep hill. For them, there was only a little time for cleaning and sensing the environment. Others took way longer, and some took time to rest in the soil before heading onward.

We witnessed a silent penguin dialogue dance, accompanied by ocean waves crashing against the rocky shores behind them, when suddenly one Kororā voiced their intention to go home, headed towards the hill, and joined by others to make space for more arrivals. As I looked up in an attempt to spot them on their path into the dark and wondered how far up they might need to go, my mom and I witnessed them taking a shortcut by sliding up the rocks. We both looked at each other in amazed disbelief and pure gratitude for this memory, one only Taiao Nature can bring into existence. ♾️💚

We took the longer, more easeful way uphill back to our cabin, accompanied by the Waxing Crescent Moon setting behind the hills right where the sun was setting a few hours earlier and by an orange glowing Venus. Only then did we realize that the little blue penguins truly live across the entire island, even in a shed next door to the cabin block we spent the night. By the sounds of their little burrow, we could tell the chicks were hungry. Luckily, it was a successful day of feeding out in the Cook Strait: The chicks were calm shortly after their parents' arrival, subsequently turning the island into a space of silence.

At 5:30 am, my friend Kōtare was greeting the rising sun at dawn outside the cabin. His song was the first I heard that broke the peaceful stillness of the night. What a wonderful blessing it is to be woken up by this magnificent messenger of love and prosperity.

Two hours later, I also greeted the rising sun above the Rimutaka Hills on a 20 min brightening walk along the Eastern Track. Pīwakawaka fantails interrupted their chasing game to greet me for this glorious day, a Kakariki was having breakfast just a few meters ahead of me, and the other three continued their flight race from yesterday. When I arrived at the Eastern lookout, I was only up for 40 min - including 13 min morning meditation - as a deep sense of gratitude started to flow through my body. The next second I spotted a pod of dolphins while overlooking the glassy waters of the Harbour across to the hills I was fortunate enough to call home for the past six years. Overflowing with gratitude, I hear myself singing Te Aroha as my eyes release grateful tears. 🥲

Te aroha (Love)

Te whakapono (Faith)

Me te rangimarie (Peace)

Tatou tatou e (For us all)

Released of energy that was not mine to hold any longer, there was this ecstatic anticipation pulsing inside me. As I hurried back to the cabin, I was full of joy to see that mom was already up and all set to explore the island before the first ferry from Wellington arrived. I grabbed sandwiches, drinking water, and binoculars.

Back on the track, the dolphins have moved on, yet plenty of Kakariki and other bird life close up and afar let our hearts dance. We sang the German song 'Im Frühtau zu Berge' a few times to remember the lyrics right before we watched a seagull giving its first swimming lessons to its three chicks. It was then when a Kōtare flew along the cliff underneath our lookout and gave me a sense of pure magic: A split second of memory for me to hold as Heaven and Earth came closer together to connect right below us. 🕊️

Back on the mainland, as we drove up the hill in Ngaumatau Point Howard my mom and I spotted a rainbow cloud. Minutes later, still admiring the bizarre beauty, I received a photo message with this rainbow cloud from my dear friend Karen who was also in awe wondering about its appearance. What a beautiful gift! 🌈

After I arrived in Aotearoa in 2016, I migrated from Taranaki down to Te Whanganui a Tara, the Wellington Harbour, where I found a sense of home, unknowingly that I was following a pathway tangata whenua walked 200 years ago.

These past 48 hours have had me experiencing an energy flow moving through me of deeply reconnecting nature. If I have to find words for this, it would be: A relational web of multicultural ancestors lines - Maori, English, and German - dreaming under one roof while navigating the stars in harmony with Mouri, the essential life force that sustains life. In other words, I could feel the healing, regenerating, and peaceful nature of the land. 💚

I consider myself fortunate to have experienced these glimpses of energetic harmony, which I believe are moments that can only exist when tangata whenua and mana whenua are reconnected with the land.

This farewell gift is made of dreams I could not have imagined: Giving me another spark of curiosity for the adventures that await me in Germany, deeply contributing to my self-reflective inquiry into my relationship with my ancestors, my source idea PlanetHive, and its pattern integrity. 🌌♾️

Aroha mai. Aroha atu.

Love giving. Love receiving.

Kath 🐝

HeArted on the lands of Taranaki Whānui ki Te Upoko o Te Ika in Aotearoa New Zealand. I wish to acknowledge their mana whenua as people of the land.

🗺️ Visit Native-Land.ca to learn more about the ancestors of the lands and waterways where you live, work, and play.

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I hope this message of love and appreciation from my honest heart voice receives you well. I’ve spent the past week in my moon time cave, honoring my feminine cycle by listening deeply to my inner realms. A sacred practice I started ten months ago, which is now essential to my being: My moon time is an invaluable gift for me to pause and be. Once a month, when I am menstruating, I seek this incredibly nurturing space of silence and aloneness. In this spaciousness, quite a few epiphanies of ground-shifting magnitude arrived for me. These 4-7 days in my moon time cave each month help me to stay in flow and be more resilient.

So, in my inner and outer realm adventures, I’ve been going deep to that sweet spot called source to do nothing more than sit, listen, and receive. 🧘

Adventuring the inner realms

I am learning to love BEING.

Grandmother Moon has the power to govern the tides and oceans and me by gently inviting me into the practice of pausing and observing. Thanks to surrendering to her, I have expanded my capacities to explore and discern resonance, to be patient with myself, others, and the unfolding. I am dancing on the edge of what is next, and I am here to manifest a new way of being.

Core to all that I have learned from experience is that my well-being wilts in monotone consistency. I need to move more fluidly. There is a difference between having practices, a rhythm, rituals, and monotone consistency: Think of having a morning routine that is nourishing or a 9 to 5 job where you perform the same thing day in and out. Can you feel this difference?

As a highly intuitive woman, I need to be in tune with my energetic cycle to experience being at ease and enjoying flow. I have learned and continue to learn to attune to my feminine cycle. I cannot explain any of it through a biological or chemical lens, yet I can write about how I experience the flow of my energy:

Allowing myself to step into this experiment toward embodying the four phases of my cycle has been an absolute game changer. I feel utterly privileged that I can even follow this sacred practice.

I need to admit there is a tint of rage in my belly that this shouldn’t be at all a privilege. Every menstruating human being should be able to follow their natural rhythm. I am deeply grateful for the wholehearted openness, acceptance, and support I’ve been receiving.

Some have asked what it gives me. Most of what I am receiving is challenging to put in words: It is more an embodiment of who I am and how I show up to the many relationships in life. However, I can name that I have built a new compassionate relationship with myself and my intuitive voice(s). I have found new self-trust and self-love.

AJ, you might remember I carry loads of manifesting energy inside me. I love to be part of creating beauty in every dimension you can imagine. Following the moon rhythm allows me to experience a special kind of wealth: I can breathe and move between layers of conscious awareness while pacing myself in ebb and flow. I have learned to do less and be more while wholeheartedly cherishing my time alone. I observe where wisdom wants to emerge and where I feel called to dream things into being.

Most importantly, honoring my moon time has opened my heart to receive my inner voice. Yes, I am here! I am listening, and I love you dearly. 🥲

Adventuring the outer realms

Underneath the surface of pausing and listening inwardly, I am expanding outwardly. It feels like stepping into an ancient yet new story while moving far beyond the known. There is an awareness being activated inside me that I wish will create a new narrative in honor of all life in as many hearts as possible. If you ask me to suggest where this awareness comes from, I would say my core, my source.

In Syntropic World, I have learned that a Source Idea can take time to arrive. Yes, this is true for my experience with PlanetHive, which first appeared in 2020 as a Climate Action Workspace, a collaboration space rooted in trust. A year later, PlanetHive evolved into The Home of Earth Influencers. Imagine brand-, nano-, or micro-influencers, and instead of selling something to someone, we are creating and telling love stories for Mother Earth. Then a few months later, Syntropic Storytelling moved in, and she is calling to be a new paradigm job, or what future generations might call an archetype practice.

PlanetHive = Workspace + Earth Influencers + Syntropic Storytelling

PlanetHive is a space connecting Earth Regenerators and Earth Influencers. PlanetHive is where love stories for All Life are born.

I need to admit, I never asked why PlanetHive wanted to be a hive. 🙈

When deeply contemplating the first arrival of the source idea these past couple of weeks, one of the questions I inquired into was about its texture. I remembered how I was raving to my dear friend Alex about honey bees and honeycombs and how their way of organizing and working is so utterly inspiring and freaking invaluable to life. 🐝

Most of all, I remember how honeycombs, Honigwaben in German, hold the shape of a hexagon perfectly. Little did I know back then about Buckminster Fuller, the 12 Degrees of Freedom, the Jitterbug, or anything about the importance of geometry. ♾️

With every question I ask and the deeper I go, I gain more clarity to the broader vision of what I am here to manifest. Again it seems that I am going inwards to go outwards.

• What does it mean to be the birthplace of love stories for Mother Earth?

• What does it mean to be a workspace when no one ever will be employed with PlanetHive?

• What syntropic business models can support all this?

I am not holding any answers to these questions. However, they lead me to the most exciting and terrifying question thus far:

How can Marketing be in Service of All Life?

What comes up first with this huge untamed question is the sensation of sadness about Marketing itself and how the ancient practice of storytelling has been reduced and abused for too long in this fast-paced attention-seeking society. Even though I consider myself a seasoned marketing professional, I needed a gentle reminder of how it was once about building meaningful relationships for transmitting wisdom.

The follow-on questions I asked myself might be too honest and raw for you, AJ. So, please excuse my language:

• Has marketing turned the beautiful magic of storytelling into a prostitute of profit?

• What is someone’s true intention for telling a story? Is it selling? Selling what, why, and to whom?

• What is the difference between telling and selling?

• When was the last time you shared or received a story that came from the purity of the heart?

There is probably more. However, I am stopping now. If you feel challenged by my provoking inquiries, I ask you wholeheartedly to look inwards and listen with radical tenderness. If guilt or shame is coming up for you, I know how that feels. AJ, all I can say is: It is an old story, and I hope you can let it go before 2022 draws to an end.

From a caring and fierce heart and in honor of the moon, sun, earth, and universe. 🌌

Aroha mai. Aroha atu.

Love received. Love given.

Kath 🐝

HeArted 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.

🗺️ Visit Native-Land.ca to learn more about the ancestors of the lands and waterways where you live, work, and play.

heART: Frequency FreqVE 'Adventuring’ by Lady Daya and photo of geese family by Matthew Montrone via pexels

My heart is dancing, singing, and celebrating the beauty of life. I want you to ease into all that is alive in me, so I ground this journal entry into a gift Trent left for us-all to enjoy:

Evolutionary Purpose is to imagine the most beautiful world you are able and set your being alive to align with that Evolutionary Vision - every day, being as it already is.

I love this framing because it reminds me of the importance of dreaming! Only when we allow ourselves to dream, imagine, and even feel this vision of the most beautiful world can we tap into a practice of listening and discerning from our hearts. A reflective self-inquiry dance between resonance and dissonance that keeps me grounded in my integrity and aligned with my evolutionary purpose.

Like any other ecstatic dance, there is no set of defined steps in order to move. Your dancing might look very different from my dancing, yet we both need trust in ourselves to follow that subtle feeling that started our dancing in the first place.

My self-trust fuels my commitment! A commitment to continuously dance this vision of a more syntropic future into existence. My creative response to the painful awareness of planetary collapse and the abundance of entropy in my life. Both are inviting me to relate differently to my lived experience. The processes, principles, and rhythms I learn and adopt are only here to guide my unlearning and growth while moving through the many layers of my conditioning with radical tenderness. They might help your dance, or they might not. That is not up to me to figure out! Only you can know what moves are right, true, and beautiful for your ecstatic dance. 💃🏼

Hidden behind the many layers, I found a tiny space of clarity and ease, a kind of home that feels familiar and new simultaneously. In that small yet expanding space lives a sense of purpose - in Dzava language duty - that comes with a great responsibility to be the most disciplined steward I can possibly be.

A steward for all life, especially this beautiful life I am privileged to enjoy.

A steward for my evolutionary purpose, I am honored to have received.

A steward for the many small and big source ideas calling for my unconditional love.

A big part of nurturing my self-trust is to listen to and be in relationship with my intuition. Trust and intuition are like flowers and bees. One cannot live without the other. My intuition has always been one of my most loyal companions, even while I was oblivious to her gentle guidance. Only by entering the field of self-trust, I reconnected with my intuition.

From my outer realm adventures

Now I can see clearly how following my intuitive knowing has brought me here, which is the essence of PlanetHive’s source idea. Without my intuition, I would have never pursued a career in Marketing or rediscovered my sacred bond with Mother Earth while living in Aotearoa New Zealand. My evolutionary journey and my passion for justice and inclusivity allowed the source idea to emerge: PlanetHive is where love stories for All Life are born.

When I stepped out of the Modernity career game, Escape Artist Kath wanted to run as far away as possible from Marketing and what it stands for in Modernity. I was pretty damn good at pointing out the evil of data-driven marketing frameworks and the optimizing frenzy to squeeze the shit out of click-through rates and cost-per-clicks to sell something to someone. I tried to run away from my complicity, the guilt, and the shame that came with it. Marketing was dead for me! PlanetHive was born as a Climate Action Workspace. I thought all we climate activists need to make a difference, are collaborative spaces and systems rooted in trust. And while I still believe this is What we need, I refused to look at the Why and the How because I occupied myself with trying to ignore my evolutionary journey. I essentially blended out everything I learned in Modernity while I unconsciously did marketing of some kind in Samara Trust and Earth Regenerators. I know, AJ, it is bloody hilarious!

It was exactly a year ago when a more refined version of PlanetHive’s source idea arrived. A moment of epiphany I will never forget! Immersed in the most mundane act of cleaning the kitchen, I suddenly started laughing out loud, feeling silly about the simplicity of it all and my inability to have seen it before because it was right there in front of me. Fifteen minutes of uncontrolled laughter and tears of emotional relief have brought Marketing back into my life: PlanetHive was calling to be the Home of Earth Influencers! Imagine brand influencers; instead of selling something to someone, we are creating and telling stories of love in service of Mother Earth. 🌏

Oh, Hey Marketing! I almost didn’t recognize you with your different look; fresh, even pure, without the heavy cloak of cold data-driven BS selling you used to wear. 

The following days were full of switching between euphoria and emotional overwhelm by what this all meant. The distinction felt right, true, and beautiful, yet I was terrified by the hugeness of this revelation. Whenever I tried to tap into this new stream of awareness, I struggled to breathe, and my chest and throat would tighten up, and I would ask myself Why me? My gut - home of my intuition, emotional passion, and rage - usually responds first in those (now rare) Why me?-moments by asking Who else, if not you? ❤️‍🔥

And there it was, the open invitation from deep within me to dream into existence what Marketing in Service of All Life can be. Today, a year later, I still cannot see the source idea in all its beauty. Yet, what I can sense is enough to stay and trust in the flow of the many inquiries that guide me on my adventures. 🧭

What became clear, however, is that PlanetHive is not only the home of Earth Influencers but also the home of Syntropic Storytelling, a new paradigm job, or what future generations might call an archetype practice. PlanetHive is a space where stewards of regenerative projects can connect with well-trained syntropic storytellers. I can also see that PlanetHive will not be an employer as we know it from Modernity. There will be a new type of workspace, yet to fully emerge. There will be no transactional one-on-one exchange of money for services provided. However, there will be means for Earth Influencers to sustain their right livelihood while learning and practicing syntropic storytelling. However, it is not time to name any of that yet! All I can do is let go of any force and surrender to trusting in Kairos time. I will know when that time has come because I will find the right words effortlessly to address the many missing gaps.

The deep conditioning of Modernity does not allow me to walk this path of no force while trusting in nature half-heartedly. It takes conviction, a freaking amount of patience, and the only force in universe that is truly invincible: Love.

From my inner realm adventures

I am feeling immense pressure from my external environment to show a profitable business model for PlanetHive, often expressed through questions and remarks like But how do you want to make money? You need to know how to make money out of this.

Yes, I hear you, and my former self would have tried to react urgently to these inquiries of care with some half-baked solutions that I would have carved out to fit perfectly into Modernity. A reaction rooted in the desire to move our conversation out of discomfort, driven by an unconscious attitude to aid my survival. The perfect escape!

Today, Adventuring Kath also hears you. However, I am not trying to please you or me by forcing our relationship into a felt sense of comfort that is merely a shiny illusion. I am comfortable with sitting in that tension and letting all that comes with it move through me.

Do I wish to not worry anymore about how to pay for rent, power, and food? Yes, I do! I would not be honest with myself if I would not admit this wish exists and is alive in my inner reals. Equally, I would not be honest with myself if I would not acknowledge and honor how much my resilience and trust have grown because of this felt scarcity of my financial means. I try to dance as best as I can with appreciation, gratitude, and curiosity when learning to embrace entropy. So far, I can feel how it strengthens my courage and helps me to stay in my integrity while trying to be fully present in my awareness and embodiment.

Instead of asking Why me? I now ask Who am I truly serving, All Life or myself? Buckminster Fuller had a beautiful self-discipline that resonates deeply with me: Serve All Humanity.

My understanding of this discipline is as long as my honest intention is to wholeheartedly be in service of All Life, as opposed to seeking business-as-usual or traditional personal gain, I will have enough resources to sustain my right livelihood. I dare to say it is my attempt to spiral to a place of selflessness and being in reciprocal relationships. An adventure that can only happen when I embody my values from an honest heart and give generously without expecting anything in return. There is a difference between holding expectations and trusting. This deep self-trust, which I have never experienced, is here to help me to see my limiting beliefs for what they are.

Not long ago, I found myself at a seemingly challenging choice point of going back to playing the career game in Modernity, so I can afford the rent for this most beautiful home I’ve been lucky enough to live in for many years now. I am holding this place, my first felt home, and the countless memories I have been given so dearly in my heart that I couldn’t let go. Well, I didn’t want to let go!

First the discomfort I sat in felt like I was giving up. Yes, there was an impulse to run again, but I chose not to escape through the wide-open backdoor into Modernity. Instead, I stayed and asked myself some honest heart questions:

• What am I truly giving up by holding onto this lifestyle I have built for myself?

• Who am I actually in service of by trying to hold onto it?

Oh AJ, the truth can be so utterly painful to accept: I would give up everything I believe we as a species are capable of embodying! Along with some of the most precious resources I have to offer: Energy and time. They say the times are urgent, so we need to slow down. I wholeheartedly agree!

Going back into playing the Modernity career game, I would give away energy and time. I wouldn’t be able to slow down nor trust in Kairos time while essentially spending my valuable resources on serving myself and the lifestyle I so utterly enjoy. Because I enjoyed it so much, I made myself believe the lifestyle is what I need to be of highest service. I still enjoy my lifestyle for as long as it last, but this moment when brutal honesty and love for All Life slapped me in the face has allowed me to ask myself Is this truly what I need, or is it something I want, or I wish for? Ouch!

All I needed was a new story that I could tell myself: I am ready to let go because I am grounded in my roots. I am strong and mature enough to feel at home and to be in service of All Life anywhere because Mother Earth loves me no matter where I am.

This love story has given me the peace I needed to leave all that I have been holding onto behind. I feel grief with the utmost gratitude for the many moments of magic I’ve been so fortunate to experience. I hold deeply cherished memories of love in my heart. They will always be with me wherever I’ll be.

It’s a bit ironic that I leave this home behind with so much grief when I move back to the place where my biological roots are. I cannot call it home yet, but I can say that I am wholeheartedly committed to living into and embodying a new relationship with my birthplace. Being fully aware that this is not an easy adventure, I am excited to reconnect with new and old tree friends, bird friends, water friends, and even human friends.

There is so much more for me to learn and unlearn. It feels like I am only scratching the surface of the many layers of my conditioning. However, the inner expansion that comes with my conscious choice to sit and be with the many triggers I experience is rewarding, intriguing, and healing.

AJ, my life is changing - upside down and inside out! Flip it, flip it one more time or as often as you want. Bring it in! I am ready! I am committed to traveling at the speed of trust with an open heart and mind to how the more beautiful world wants to be brought into existence; while stubbornly holding an evolutionary vision in my heart that feels right, true, and beautiful.

Aroha mai. Aroha atu.

Love received. Love given.

Kath 🐝

HeArted 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.

🗺️ Visit Native-Land.ca to learn more about the ancestors of the lands and waterways where you live, work, and play.

heART: Frequency FreqVE 'Adventuring’ by Lady Daya and photo of Cormorant by Shlomo Shalev via unsplash

much has been alive in me since the last learning circle. I want to start by expressing my gratitude to Daya and Alicia, who joined my adventures. It is pure joy for me to explore and learn in togetherness. 👯💞

During the circle, we took on our first quest inquiring into evolutionary purpose for our heart ventures and/or ourselves. Our guiding prompts were:

Describe the evolutionary purpose. What am I working towards? What do I intend to do to get there?

Before responding to the prompt and diving deep into the evolutionary purpose for PlanetHive, I want to share what I have learned about it all so far.

The evolutionary purpose is greater than a purpose or mission statement as we know it from business-as-usual organizations. It goes way beyond maximizing profits, market shares, or staying in business by all means. An evolutionary purpose is something greater than any one of us.

In my heart, it is a burning flame. Once ignited and in service to the whole, it requires tender care, whether it is shy flickering light or wants to be a full-on bone fire. My responsibility is to stay in a relationship with the flame, listen and respond to its needs. I cannot predict or control it in any way. ❤️‍🔥

In my understanding, any living entity can have an evolutionary purpose. A living entity can be a person, a project, an enterprise, a group, or you, AJ.

The nature of an evolutionary purpose is aspirational; that is at least true for PlanetHive and me. I believe a shift in my consciousness triggered by the devastating fires in the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil in 2019 was the cause for my flame to start burning again. Before that, I was somewhat oblivious to the exploitative force of Modernity and ignorant of the contributing role I was playing.

AJ, please don’t get me wrong. I have always tried to give back to the community in any way possible, either through volunteering or organizing donation rallies, sometimes beyond my own means. However, none of it ever felt like a true calling for me. It is different with my evolutionary purpose. It feels like a deep calling from within. At times it is big and overwhelming. In those moments, I remind myself to pause, breathe and acknowledge that all I can do is try wholeheartedly. And I need to remember that I am not walking alone on a right, true and beautiful pathway.

![My evolutionary purpose I am here to remind humanity that we need to restore our sacred bond with Mother Earth. And that our inherent connection with this beautiful planet we call home is one to be re-discovered, nurtured and lived.

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Have I shared before that my evolutionary purpose was not always clearly visible? Even when PlanetHive as a source idea arrived, I had no freaking clue of what my calling was or that it was inside me all along. Neither did it land as a shiny parcel on my doorstep. It is more like Fia sings in her beautiful song Waterfall of Wisdom:

There is a waterfall of wisdom at your fingertips

If you would only reach a little further in

Everything you're looking for

The pieces of your puzzle

All the love you seek, it is right there at your feet

The day after the learning circle, I went into my moontime cave. The moon called me early this month, as she does every now and then. It always feels disruptive when she either calls on me early or late. However, as soon as I can permit myself to surrender, I enjoy a deep peace in the gift of silence. 🌑

It is not a coincidence that my inner and outer realm adventures started with an invitation to enter the sphere of purpose. I am so intrigued by the liminal space between purpose and evolutionary purpose. I know they are not the same, yet I can feel a meaningful connection between them. However, I cannot find coherent words as of yet. I ask us-two to be patient, AJ. 🧘🏼‍♀️

Adventuring the outer realms

During the Learning Circle, I said PlanetHive is here to change the narrative of climate justice activism from fighting against the system to being champions of love for Mother Earth. You can watch my 6 minutes exploration in this video highlight. 📺

And while this feels right, true, and beautiful, I cannot ignore this question lingering in my gut: Is this big enough? Considering an evolutionary purpose is something that might always be beyond reach. ✨

I had little choice but to take this inquiry with me into my moontime cave and let it wander as deep and wide as it wanted to.

What I collected during my quest in silence is: PlanetHive is where love stories for All Life are born.

Hmmm, I might be playing with the source idea already: Our quest for next week. Bunny was right when she said that following a linear process in this learning challenge is challenging. I take this as a gentle reminder of the interconnectedness of all things. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in isolation. ♾️

This detour helped me to take PlanetHive out of the climate justice activism field into another dimension. Somehow I feel it might have had a limiting effect on its evolutionary purpose. Who am I to say that PlanetHive only has the power to change the narrative of climate justice activism? 🙇🏼‍♀️

Is a narrative shift needed in the climate justice movement? Yes, I wholeheartedly believe so. I have experienced climate activism as a constant fight fueled by an entropic environment. 🖤

What is an entropic environment? For me, it is a hectic and noisy race where we limit our focus on WHAT; when we should slow down and go deeper into HOW and WHY. How can I meaningfully engage with others when activism speaks a narrative of fighting driven by stories of complaining, blaming, and shaming?

With PlanetHive's source idea in front of me, I was ready to look at the first quest again.

Describe the evolutionary purpose. What am I working towards? What do I intend to do to get there?

You should be able to describe your Evolutionary Purpose in a simple sentence or statement in such a way that people will immediately know what you and your enterprise are all about.

My explorations led me to this beautiful gift, which was manifested as a heART gift by the amazing Trent with 💛 and the assistance of AI as an NFT on OpenSea:

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A never-ending love story for All Life, pollinating across the planet, regenerating a contagious narrative honoring Mother Earth and Universe. 🐝🌺

Adventuring the inner realms

AJ, how much do you know about the Venus Retreat, hosted by the Gene Keys community, beyond what I have shared so far? I have linked some resources throughout this entry, attempting to leave you some honey drops when curiosity might come and visit you. 🍯

According to the Purpose Gene Key in my birth chart - GK12.3 - I am an escape artist and adventurer embracing vanity on a journey of refinement, balancing soul and mind in an aspiration to seek purity from the heart. I know, right? So very true from where I am experiencing this life of mine. 😶‍🌫️🌈

Funnily enough, and yes, it sounds cliche! But there is absolutely nothing I can manifest in the outer realms to reach purity from the heart. I can only be wholeheartedly present and learning to embody the alignment between my values and my behaviors. 🧬

This interwoven spiral is where self-trust and self-love grow and live if I care for them with radical tenderness. A broken spiral of self-inquiry can lead into a field of illusion driven by a deep fear of separation and unworthiness and the belief that someone can take away my freedom. The belief story I told myself was most often why I escaped from many relationships in the past. It was too challenging for me at that moment to find any compassion in my heart. It was challenging to even find my heart, logged away behind layers of illusionary fog and shadows of conditioning. Emotions, mine or these of others, have been overwhelming for me ever since I can remember. I learned early to build a wall of protection around me to hide my insecurity and overwhelm, which I embodied through arrogance. I am grateful for my strength to dismantle the wall and the spaciousness my heart has received to open up more fully in all its beauty. 💗

Today, I am consciously learning what it means to be an adventurer without my wall of protection while walking and exploring pathways toward a future dear to so many hearts. It is humbling to me when others say they are inspired by how I dance and be(e). 🐝

What comes after inspiration? Adventuring on a pathway of curiosity, bravery, and unknowing that us-all will embark on and walk at our own pace. I only can try to be the best version of myself in all my relationships, and my heart will smile full of joy if that sparks something in someone. However, it is neither my right nor responsibility to kindle their flames. 🔥

I have become more sovereign in my energy by better discerning which emotions are my experience and those that are not mine to hold. I constantly ask myself: How does this make me feel? And where is this feeling coming from, my gut, my heart, or my head? Is it charged? Do I need to channel any emotions and thoughts through my heart before expressing my voice? By staying with this self-inquiry, I am more courageous to not escape from my relationships. Instead, I am committed to learning to see through my judgmental mind to embrace hidden emotional charges by accepting, forgiving, and loving myself to balance my overwhelm. For a born rebel like me, it feels like learning a new heART. 🏹

I have found a deeper, more profound level of self-trust and trust in life which keeps my inner peace and resilience in harmony. I am learning to understand that my open heart, fully anchored in self-trust and self-love, can never be hurt by anyone. It might sound like I flow in pure, free-from-pain waters. No AJ, that is not my reality. What is true is that my awareness and ability to discern between gut, heart, and head have evolved. I am better equipped to meet my shadows as friends, as an invitation to learn something. I give myself space for contemplation, self-inquiry, and simply being.

On that note, I am eager to say that honoring my moontime for many successive months has added a special kind of richness to my well-being. Perhaps it even had an accelerating precessional effect on opening my heart. I am slowly stepping into a deeper alignment with my natural rhythm. It brings a sense of effortlessness into my life. I deeply value the wealth I receive through this sacred practice. 🌑

I am grateful for you AJ. 🙏🏼

Aroha mai. Aroha atu.

Love giving. Love receiving.

Kath 💚

heART: Frequency FreqVE 'Adventuring’ by Lady Daya and photo of Toucan by Zdeněk Macháček via unsplash

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

🗺️ Visit Native-Land.ca to learn more about the ancestors of the lands and waterways where you live, work, and play.

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

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These past 22 months, I’ve been dreaming of and searching for new ways of ‘building businesses’ and ‘working together’. My journey led me down several pathways of explorations, many of them a Sackgasse - German for cul-de-sac. All of them are full of invaluable lessons for me to learn and to grow with, for manifesting my evolutionary purpose and being in service for All Life.

One of these pathways introduced me to the wonderful world of Syntropy, which has reshaped my perspectives of what is possible. ♾️

After learning with Syntropic World, I am embarking on a daunting and intoxicating adventure to manifest love for All Life, a future workplace, and a new paradigm job.

My provisioning for this journey sees me:

• Establishing PlanetHive as a Syntropic Enterprise;

• Achieving a Ph.D. in Wisdom Studies to undertake research into storytelling and to gestate scientifically proven methodologies for syntropic storytelling; and

• Creating a Learning Course for the heART of Syntropic Storytelling.

In this 2 min video I talk about my passionate dance with PlanetHive and Syntropic Storytelling. 💃🏼💞

I see potential in Syntropic Enterprises to change how we come together to better work, collaborate, and play. Ways that honour the laws of nature and account for the value of everything, going way beyond currency and profit.

Here is where I hope you’ll say, ‘Kath, wait a minute! What is Syntropy?’

Yes, let me pause and rewind a little. Here is a short video from a few months back, where I speak to what I know about Syntropy.

The living wisdom of Syntropy is relatively young. Less than 100 years ago, Buckminster Fuller and others coined the term. Words of wisdom by my teacher Christine McDougall, Buckminster Fuller, and Richard Rudd, have been shaping my understanding of Syntropy.

A vision of a collective embodiment of selflessness and leaving everything better inspires me.

Here is where I invite you to contemplate: What does it mean to leave everything better?

Take a few minutes and let this question sink in deep, before you continue reading. 🍵

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 toughest work of all! Without this layer of judgment my heart can stay open. Only then can I fully listen and hold 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. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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 newly refound 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. 🕊️

I hope my adventures excite your heart! With love,

Kath 💚

heART in header image FreqVE Adventuring by Lady Daya in Samara Trust 🦉

Written with love 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. 🗺️ Visit Native-Land.ca to learn more about the ancestors of the lands and waterways where you live, work, and play.