Some people, like myself, thrive on change. For others, it’s not so easy.

 

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Regardless of personality type, change is something we all face. It’s is part of human destiny, individually and collectively. Even Nature and the Universe are in a constant state of change. The planets are always moving, and the seasons on Mother Earth are always changing.

 

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Change, it seems, is inescapable. I wrote my children’s book Blue Jeans with the theme of change in mind.

Here’s how it was reviewed in The Mother magazine:

Blue Jeans, written by Veronika Sophia Robinson, and illustrated by Susan Merrick
www.veronikarobinson.com
www.susanmerrick.co.uk

Blue Jeans is a heart warming story that at its heart tugs at every mother’s heart. It’s the story of how children grow too quickly as is evidenced by the rate they grow out of their clothing.

Written from the perspective of a pair of blue jeans, this book covers quite a number of themes: moving, making new friends, accepting changes, letting go of someone we love, and the value of recycling and upcycling. While probably not meant to be the central themes of this book, they do come up and would make great talking points with younger children.

Blue Jeans belonged to a city family, but when he was outgrown, he moved to the country as hand-me-down jeans for a country cousin. On the farm at his new home, he quickly grows to love the differences between city and country and falls in love with the country way of life.

The book paints an idyllic picture of life, with TV-free evenings, children doing chores on the farm, gathering wood, collecting herbs and vegetables to store for the Winter and sell at the market.

When the mother in the story patches his knees and passes him on to a younger sibling, Blue Jeans is happy again to have a few more years of adventures with his country family.

Blue Jeans is perfect for those who enjoy a longer bed time story.

 

BlueJeanscoverAvailable from my website, Starflower Press, good bookshops, and online retailers.

Have you read the latest issue of The Mother magazine? (TM64)

 

It features my article Yoni: Portal to Ecstatic Femininity.

 

 

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“As little girls, many of us were told ‘don’t touch yourself down there’, or ‘dirty girl’ or ‘disgusting’…Here is the truth: our yoni is as beautiful as a blossoming orchid, and, when our diet and lifestyle are healthy, does not smell offensive, but more like Summer rain or wild-crafted honey.”

The clitoris has only one purpose: pleasure. Is that why our culture has made sexual pleasure for women such a taboo?

 

If you’d like to subscribe to The Mother, quote Veronika Sophia at the checkout and receive 20% discount off your subscription. www.themothermagazine.co.uk

 

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Cycle to the Moon: celebrating the menstrual trinity, is publishing in just a few weeks!

 

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Spend £10 or more on my website www.veronikarobinson.com this Bank Holiday weekend, and we’ll send you a free copy of Cycle to the Moon (offer available worldwide)…

Quote VR blog when purchasing. Offers expires Midnight GMT Monday 26th May 2014.

moon1If you have a business which offers holistic menstruation products which are kind and ethical to women’s bodies and Mother Earth, and would like to be mentioned in the resource directory of my new book, Cycle to the Moon (celebrating the menstrual trinity: menarche, menstruation and menopause), please email me all the relevant details to: veronikarobinson at hotmail dot com before the end of May 2014.

astro3For this weekend only, for each astrology session you book with me, you can have a FREE one for another family member. This 2-for-1 offer finishes midnight (UK time) Sunday 18th May.

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FBpicFrom February 2002 to January 2014, I edited The Mother magazine www.themothermagazine.co.uk ~ the international publication of connected, holistic, conscious parenting.

I am still available for mother-to-mother mentoring, by phone to anywhere in the world, or face to face at my home in Cumbria, UK. For the duration of May 2014, if you book a session www.veronikarobinson.com you can have a follow-up session for free. I am available to talk through any concerns or questions you have on any aspect of The Continuum Concept and natural parenting. I look forward to sharing your journey with you. Love, Veronika Robinson

Bluey'sCafecoverlowresBluey Miller lives a charmed life in Calico Bay, a small rural town on the east coast of Australia. She built her popular wholefood café from nothing, and it has garnered a well-deserved reputation for world foods. When her mother dies, Bluey discovers that there was far more to her mother’s life than she’d realised. Why so many secrets? As she begins to unravel her mother’s past, she’s left wondering about their relationship. They had been so close over the years, yet now Bluey feels like she didn’t know her at all. Her very identity hangs by a thread. Who am I? she wonders. Who was my mother?

Seemingly insurmountable challenges lie ahead, and Bluey must face them without her mother by her side. She finds strength from her local community and daily nourishment from the welcoming atmosphere of her café, but is this enough? Drawing succour from the Australian bushland around her, friendships, emerging spirituality, a life-changing romance, and the memories of good mother love, Bluey must somehow find enough courage to allow the best of the past to become the foundation for her future.

 

This is my second novel, and is available on Amazon, from good bookshops, www.starflowerpress.com or www.veronikarobinson.com I do hope you enjoy reading it as much I enjoyed telling Bluey’s story. Love, Veronika x

I had expected to sleep in this morning, being Sunday and all. That was the delicious plan; the promise I made to my muscles, all weary from four consecutive days using the rowing machine at the gym. But no. The muse had other ideas.

 

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This week my mind has been filled with the final stages of my non-fiction book Cycle to the Moon: celebrating the menstrual trinity ~ menarche, menstruation and menopause. I am so grateful that after all these years I have finally found an artist to illustrate this book/journal. I feel it is such an important topic, and that anything I can add to the body of literature which breaks the taboo around our bleeding time, all the better.

 

What I didn’t plan or expect was that a second book on this topic would emerge. I awoke at first light…with the seed of an idea for a novel germinating. I know from experience that it can be one of the best times of the day to ‘craft’ a novel. The conscious mind isn’t getting in the way too much, and dreams and whispers bubble up to the surface like spring water rising from Mother Earth. I let this bathe me, the ideas flitting in here and there, nourishing my soul.

 

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I stayed warm under the duvet letting the ideas grow. I’d write them down later. Inner muse wasn’t having any part of that. Those sisters of the sacred Moon don’t have time! Get up and tell our story, they demand, hands on their hips. Okay, okay. They must have conspired with William, our cat, (darn witches!) for he insisted on standing outside my bedroom miaowing non-stop until I let him in. No chance of going back to bed now!

 

There is something about this novel that is really exciting me. Perhaps it’s the way the ideas are emerging that shows me it will reach and touch the hearts of both mainstream women and those who walk a path rather similar to mine. At least, that’s how the characters are selling it to me! (laughing)

 

Dawn has broken over this beautiful morning. The birdsong is exquisite, the sunlight is bathing the lush green fields and leafy trees with a promise. I have been given another gift. A book begins to gestate in my heart, and for this I give thanks.

 

And that’s what it’s like being a writer. You’re nothing more than a puppet on a string being told what to do by your characters. So today, the Moon is in Aries in my fifth house of creativity. On Tuesday morning (7.14 UK time), there is a solar eclipse in Taurus lighting up my sixth house of day-to-day work. I guess I could be writing rather intensively for a good while. See you on the other side!

For this weekend only (April 26th & 27th), if you book an astrology reading with me, you can have a second one for someone in your family for free. You can purchase your reading online: www.veronikarobinson.com Sessions are by phone or in person (at my home in Cumbria). I look forward to sharing the secrets of your birth chart with you. ~ Veronika x

 

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