Matisse Williams

mbolc means “in the belly” and celebrates Celtic goddess Brigid. She is goddess of inspiration, creativity, and healing. She is also a Goddess of the Flame.

Today is the midpoint between the solstice and equinox. One of those sexy cross quarter days (my favorite)!

In my ancestral home of Ireland, this would be the time of year the first lambs of the season are born.

Today is the sign of new light, of emergence from darkness and a quickening towards spring. A time of change and a time of devotion.

Brigid is an eternal fire goddess, a figure of the alchemical fire of transformation…

Speaking of fire, let’s call for a CEASEFIRE NOW.

The descent does not get easier
The shadows become familiar.
The surrender
The letting go
The trust fall into the mystery
Is excruciating
It is not for the faint of heart
The path of truth
Dancing in the mystery

The ones who see in the dark
must carry the weight
But it’s worth the wait

We’re changing things up for 2024! Our horse and nature constellation training will be 3 months as a virtual community this summer, ending in the 4 day in person retreat this coming fall as an add on. I’m exploring offering both east and west coast versions of this to meet the needs of the community. Please let me know if you are interested by dropping me a message below or a DM and I’ll add you to the invite list.

Thank you to those of you who have asked about it !
We’ve been in a big process letting go of a herd member and relocating to Topanga, CA in the past month. However, we look forward to sharing this work and especially connecting with those of you who have reached out but cannot travel for the in-person only format. ❤️

Blessings to all. Thank you for being here with us on the journey. I love you.

Marking time w/

The Return.
The story of my time in the jungle is written on my face.
It is my heart transmitted through my eyes.
The love in my smile.
The room inside for the radiant knowing to flow.
The shifts in my field as my capacity and service grow.

I am so grateful to this path and this process and all the teachers who Ive met as I walk it.

Irake.

Going to sit at the feet of my teacher to learn the language of the trees.

Birth. Growth. Death. Rebirth.

Love. Truth. Freedom. Power.

Find you on the other side, beloved community.

Thank you thank you thank you for bringing your open hearts to the process, the land, and the herd.

Thank you for gathering community with so much love and vision,

I wonder what the version of me from the past would see in her.
The acorn and the oak tree
so desperately trying to be
Herself.
The authenticity which can never be
Discovered externally.
Tada.
All that she could ever be,
Was right there all along.
Waiting to be excavated.
Liberated
Integrated
Allowed.
Given permission to be set free.

Sharing our end of year calendar here :)

+ Oct 15th: Mini Horse Constellation Group in The Hudson Valley (2 spaces left)

+ Oct 21st: Forma x Tisse Collaboration. Ojai.

+ December 2nd and 3rd: Horse Constellation Circle. Ojai.

+ January 29th - Feb 2nd 2024: Horse and Nature Constellation Training. Ojai.

Private Sessions and Groups are welcome anytime! Check the Acuity Scheduler or DM for availability.

Mentorship spaces reopen in December.

And the women will gather 🌹
Our first female focused horse constellation weekend at will be September 23 and 24. You are welcome one or both days.

Womb Ritual & Ceremony in the lavender field. A special focus on feminine reproductive healing journeys and rites of passage: fertility, infertility, abortion, miscarriage, menstruation, pregnancy and birth.

Message me if this is for you.

Partnership.
One picture. 1,000 words.

Part thirst trap. Part truth punch.
The power of sweat.
For myself, my partner, my family, my clients, my tribe.
Truly the healthiest thing you can do while sitting still.
Get. It. Out.
Play and Pray. Heal and Feel.

Especially if stuck in the looping or spinning in the mind. The antidote to thinking is sensation. Carl Jung put these two at opposite ends of his cognitive function quad.

If someone is stuck in the mind, get your hands in the soil, use the body for tactile and ideally repetitive moments like walking, sketching, knitting, organizing.

Or. Go. Sweat.

What is she thinking?

Lil Tisse. 1991.

Photo from

I love you Dad! THANK you for the gift of life. I am so proud to be your kid.

This year my pops, is publishing his first book,📚 which has forced him to get social medial! He thought he was off the hook 😆).

Vitality.
Voice.
Vision.
Visibility.

Our spring Horse Constellation Teacher Training group is
🔥💃🏼🚀🫶🐎

Heart so full.

It is life and death.
When it comes to the cost of
keeping her tangled up and boxed in.
Caged. Hidden. Unexpressed.
Impossible to feel fully alive.

Listen to her. Connect to her.
Give her a voice.
If you’re terrified.
You’re hitting the spot.

The only way out is through,
And the only way through is down.

Her liberation.
Her integration.
Her expression.

This is what I live for.
What I am alive for.
To serve this energy.

appreciation post.
This man. This MAN.
In the last three months this man has rebuilt our home after a flood. He has driven a tractor all around the horse pasture fixing the mud. He built the horse shelter that was taken down by wind. He has put his blood sweat and tears into creating home for us. We have been in this tunnel together, staying present and true. Both making space for the scared little boy/girl in each of us. Both holding the place for the full expression of the other. It has not been easy, leaning so far into uncertainty and unknown, but at each turn the love seems to grow.

He is my teacher, my lover and best friend. Thank you for being B.

Hello Beauties! I’ve been having such a nourishing and inspiring time doing intake calls for the May Teacher Training that I’ve opened up Connection Calls on the calendar. If you have been curious about attending one of our programs or enrolling in the mentorship, please reach out! Let’s have a virtual tea date and talk all things animal, earth, and anima.

I’ll be going on a west coast “tour” this summer in Colorado (June) and Montana (July). If you are in those areas and want to attend our retreats or work in person, let me know 🫶

the trail to the big picture
begins with the next step

« Balance »
We live in a global reality of increased separation and hostility. The feminine force is rising up because the damage to sentient life needs to be addressed. We have overvalued the sun in comparison to the moon. Within the structures of civilization and within the psyche of the individual, the animus is dominating the anima. These two forces are designed to make love in everlasting harmony through their marriage within and without. This is the true nature of both the individual and the collective.

The way we form our anima/animus has to do with how we internalize the men/women in our life. Our right brain is spatial and intuitive. It correlates to the feminine principle. Our left brain is temporal and linear. It correlates to the masculine principle. We have grossly favored the left brain functions and processes over the right and this imbalance requires correction. This is directly connected to the imbalance of the anima/animus in the collective unconscious and our consensual agreement reality.

When the left and right are balanced, we jump into a triad. To the transpersonal. To the transcendence. The peak of human experience is bridging the left and the right. We must build the bridge, the corpus callosum, so that data may flow freely from both sides. We can absorb the new energies entering the planetary system, through sound currents and streams of light, and we can shift our neuropsychology to unite the left brain world of language and time to the right brain world of possibility. It is from this bridging path of the corpus callosum that True Creativity is born.

We are actually the signal and our brains are the receptors. We are who we have been waiting for. When right and left are balanced, then we can reach up to higher dimensions of ourselves and reach new solutions to our problems.

If we are going to survive as a species, we need to find new ways of solving problems, and the main problem is how we are treating women’s bodies and the earth bodies. We need to create an antidote for hatred and violence. Especially violence amongst women but not just women. The deeper level, the anima. and its relationship and union with the animus.

« Family »
Grateful for those we chose to experience the cycles with.
Loving, living, birthing, dying.
Celebrating, creating, collaborating.
Moving, staying, starting, ending.
The ones you cast in the movie of life.
Loving them all our growing family so much.

« Containment »
Just a note that I’m here if you need some support as we enter holiday season, family gatherings and the darkest days of the year.
A family constellation / illumination session can help you prepare for or integrate the holidays when a lot of our old stuff tends to get kicked up or activated. We can get your energetic system relaxes and open so riding the emotional waves is smoother. I am here to co-create this container with you to allow space for forgiveness, release, grief, inspiration, love, and trust to flow. Let’s charge you up! All of you is welcome.
Sending everyone love and tenderness this weekend.
Be kind to each other and take care of your hearts 🫶

You can schedule above or DM me if you have questions.

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Chatting with Matisse - Horse Constellation Business owner

« Lineage »
There is nothing like the power of transmission directly from teacher to student.
You plug into a river of love and wisdom to serve with the flow of creation.
I am beyond grateful for the magical, power house that is (Pictured here together in Aug 2018.)
I met Sara in 2010 after a family member was hospitalized for mental illness. I experience her constellation work with horses and it radically altered my trajectory. I was a 22year old college student, feeling helpless and powerless to the process my family was going through. I was smoking a b**g every day, convincing myself that being in Business School was good for me, and blacking out regularly. The session with her and the horses was a turning point for me. It not only helped my family, but also helped me to meet my self, my true self. We did the constellation where the three representatives were my Goal, my Fear, and my Power. I saw how much I was self-sabotaging, and I saw how missing pieces of my family system needed to be acknowledged in order for the flow of love to move through us all.
I started my healing journey, and my practitioner journey as a result of that session. One session on a Saturday afternoon in Topanga. It was the wake up call and the fist medicine of many that would influence my path of becoming.
Fast forward to 2017. I went to the Jungle in the Amazon for the first time. I saw myself coming out of the belly of a white horse. I also saw that it was the ending of my marriage. When I returned home, I saw a newsletter from Sara that she was offering mentorship, and I took the visions and turned them in to action. My partner and I separated, and shortly after I adopted 3 horses (Gigi, Obi and Nugget) and began intensive study in Constellation Work under the mentorship of Sara. She, the constellation process and the horses held me through the biggest and most challenging transition of my life. Radical on every level. I had no experience with rescue horses, or horses that hated humans. I lived in the woods alone. I did all the care taking of the horses every day. I chopped wood, carried water, shoveled s**t, and picked hooves. was an initiation.

I felt something knocking from the inside. It was HER demanding to be let out. Unf**kable. Unforgiving. Unapologetic. Untamed.

Feral Majesty. Your Vagesty. Mysticism and Elegance. Sensual and Surreal. It is she without a name.

I didn't question her. I created the space for her to emerge.

In the mirror of the lens, Now I see her. I get to know her. I get to be her.

In my own way. A Merger. Fuller Expression, Deeper Truth. In partnership.

Her Daughter. Born from her energy. Her Mother, giving her expression and form.

A rebirthing in her own way. Not like anything I've done, shared or seen with my woman before.

A Dance with light and mirror. Shot with love and magic on halloween.

A Heart Warrior. A Plant Priestess. A Pony Queen.

She had to have the vision match the frequency of the mission.

The maiden and the mother no longer in collision.

Nice, Small, Pink, Sweet. Eclipsed by the Moon. Awoke from the Tomb.

Big. Bold. Red. Powerful was awaiting her arrival in the unknown. No need to seek.

The Creatrix is back online. and She is ready to speak.

At this time, I don't know what I'm selling.

I'm SPELLing.