Message from Curate Shiloh Sophia, Founder of MUSEA University and the Intentional Creativity® Foundation and Museum

The Cura Council is call from within my Great Work. I have always been headed towards this and many of you have said you are called too! My Great Work is the honoring of the sacredness of all of life through paying attention to the stories Creation is speaking to us all the time; and quite specifically through noticing and honoring space-time as it travels throughout our lives in cycles and seasons. We gather to sing, to paint, to pray, to speak poetry and story, and invite trees to dance with us. We are here to learn from the elements we are in relationship with. We also gather to honor the inter-generational voices of our global community as each one of us accelerates into our futures.

Our ancestors all lived in relationship with creation that honored all life as animated and storied. When we separate ourselves from the ecosystem we arose from, we put ourselves and all of Creation in danger, as is being evidenced right now. But I don't think it has to be this way, or end this way. While we are certainly on a journey towards a big change in life as we know it, what might be possible if a council gathers and begins to awaken ourselves and gather the others?

We are here to journey together and create a future we are a part of co-creating. I was raised in a culture of ritual, ceremony and guardianship. When I prayed, and asked Creator, Creation and the Ancestors who have stewarded me so far - How can I best serve the great unfolding?

The answer: Circle

The form: Ceremony

Intentional Creativity Circle and Guild Gathering in Maui, Hawaii 2018

Ceremony. Continuous Ceremony. Circles upon circles. In person and virtual, a quantum commons. A woven pattern in place and time and space people can depend on throughout their lives. In the age of mounting uncertainty, bring continuity in relationship with the cycles of nature. This is what we have lost and what we must find in order to participate in the Great Unfolding.

Our dates are based in the Wheel of the Year: December 21, February 1, March 21, May 1, June 21, August 1, September 21 and November 1 Every year for 500 years. Add that to your calendar lol! These are based on the pattern of the sun moving throughout the sky in the Wheel of the Year with the Solstices and Equinoxes that our Ancestors have honored since time became time. The 21st dates are the general date of these seasonal cycles of Solstices and Equinoxes and the ones in between, often called Cross-Quarter days by the ancient Celts, we call High Season as they are mid-way between one season and the next and in some traditions the quarter days were the original beginning of the Season. Wherever you live in the world, we welcome you to this circle.

This is a video I created in May of 2023 that can give you a feel for the underlying framework of my approach.

A Vision Informed by Relational Ancestral Storylines

I feel very clear that the inspiration for this vision is informed by my Ancestors. Carmen Baraka, Spirit Warrior, a Native American Elder in our community who walked on in 2022. Carmen says this: "Ceremony, which has been handed down since the beginning of time. It’s like breathing into Grace, into the quantum field. To be in a moment of reverence where you are set free to experience the validity of the true nature of spirit, the sublime nature of beingness. To know you are between worlds, the I am that I am."

While I was praying and asking....I could hear her voice and see the expanse of time move to the 500-year vision from the 100-year vision I have been carrying for the past 18 years. It wasn't something I just invented; it was called forth. This is the extension of the work that Carmen and I created together with our community since 2010.

After the vision, I spent the next few days making the images, the next few weeks making the calendar, and the last few months creating the context and imagery. This message was released on Carmen's birthday, 2.22.

May this work be a blessing and honoring of the Wisdom passed to us here in our community from Carmen Baraka, Sue Hoya Sellars, Caron McCloud, Eden McCloud, Lenore Thomas Straus, Alice Walker and the Intentional Creativity Guild who have walked on.

The Redwood Grove at Musea Center in Sonoma, California, our campus and ranch, kitchen, apothecary, film studio, dorm and inter-generational museum since 2016. We have had physical spaces for people to gather since 1998.

The Cura Council is a Community Collaboration between
Cosmic Cowgirls + MUSEA + Intentional Creativity®Guild
+ Shiloh Sophia Studios + The Intentional Table

Essential questions must be asked to further our mutual evolution with the earth and star. Faceted consciousness which is able to see all sides individually and simultaneously can arise during Ceremony. The journey to becoming conscious begins with energetic emergent inquiry followed by somatic creativity.

Here are three questions you can ask.

I think that hopefulness lives in actions taken one by one to mend our relationship with creation and ourselves in the process. We cannot just say: "it's too late". This is the journey we are on and the first question is:

What part of the unfolding story will I be responsible for?

And the second question is this:

If I say yes to exploring my sacred responsibility, what actions will I take to bring that into life?

And the third question is:

Who will I travel with that I trust enough to explore my part in the Great Unfolding?

What does Cura mean?

This is where the Cura Council comes in. You are in the right place. Really. If you are called, read on.

The term Cura means to heal, the cure, to care. Our foundation here at The Cura Council is that we can learn to care through actually caring for ourselves, our creative process, and community, over time.

Many of us stand at a Living Crossroads calling out to those still in The Numbness, come, eat, drink, nourish, create, and rise into awareness of your own precious life potential in relationship with all of Creation. We need you.

Those of us who Call Out have been given specific messages and medicines. We feel this call so powerfully that we cannot stop the life force coming through. It must flow forth towards the intended destination: Circle.

In the Cura Council we see ourselves as messengers, gatekeepers, and threshold Guardians. This shift in the archetypal framing of your orientation to yourself CHANGES how you live your life and invites you to move in tandem with Creation and the Cycles of Life within our time here in the Milky Way.

For the years 2023-2024 in our 500 year cycle we are focusing our ceremonies on Moons, Skies, Seeds, Earth, Matrice, Water, Star and Fire.

The call has been sounded. Do you hear it? The image above was created in 1999 by Sue Hoya Sellars using my hand as the model. She believes that we are "cooling sacks of stars" both cosmic and earthy - able to inhabit both realms consciously. Spirit and Form. Here, our way to engage is through Ceremony and Intentional Creativity.

Many of us have said yes to the call. Within our yes we get lead to a mythological liminality that leads to authentic invention, invitations arise, instructions are given within, and actions are taken in the physical world that align with the internal messaging. The Cura Council is the action taken from the messages received within my consciousness, within community, and within my relational context of Ancestors and the Living Earth we call home.

The Quantum Commons where the Cura Council Gathers
includes virtual spaces and physical spaces.

For thirty years I have been a guardian of circles, one calling to community and a bringer of a ritualistic art making practice called Intentional Creativity®. I am inviting you to gather with us at the Quantum Commons - which is the term for our virtual space for our 8 Ceremonies a year, as well as a physical place in the lands that steward us in Sonoma California.

The Cura Council is a call to living with intention and mending our relationship with creation: one stone at a time. One tree at a time. One stargazing night at a time. One living ceremony at a time. One by one by one we rematriate our relationship with Creation. Everything that exists is a part of this unfolding story. Every single thing you have ever known and will ever know is speaking this story through us. Will we listen?

This is your Invitation to 8 Gatherings
based on the Turning of the Wheel of the Year
Guided by Curate Shiloh Sophia
and The Cura Council

The Cura Council is a collaboration of practicing students at MUSEA University and past graduates. All of us together adding our voice to a ceremony that says: All life is sacred.

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Gather with people around the world to honor all of Creation in The Cura Council. All traditions are welcome as we come together to honor earth, sun, sky, star, water, plant, our relationship with ourselves and humanity within the Matrice of all of life.

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Many of us are seeking a creative spiritual practice where we can be in tune with ourselves, our self-expression, the natural world and one another. There is so much fragmentation and fear these days. Let's gather in ceremony.

This painting is called We Must Move Into the Future Creating it as We Go and is by Sue Hoya Sellars. The image of the feminine stretching the future out like a loom, while holding within her framework the ancestral feminine is a gorgeous interpretation of the work we are approaching. On the right you can see my birth mother Caron, and earth mother Sue. This photo was taken at our wedding in 2014. They are both now, in their futures.