The Sonoma Studio · Virtual + In Person · Path of Mystics 2027 · Enrollment Open Now · Starts January 1

Rainbow Phoenix: 13 Moon Path of Mystics 2027, guided by Curate Shiloh Sophia

Path of Mystics

at Stardust Ranch, Sonoma, California

Reveal Your Sacred Life Force

Begins January 1, 2027 · From $195 a month
Limited to 25 women

IN WINE COUNTRY · ABOUT AN HOUR FROM SAN FRANCISCO OR OAKLAND

Join Shiloh Sophia in person each month at Stardust Ranch to sit in circle and paint together during the Mystic's Fireside Painting, and come into community through a Red Thread Connection Circle. We'll begin our journey in January with a special Welcome and Opening Red Thread Circle and move through the seasons with 8 ceremonies throughout the year.

In 2027 You Can Experience

CuriosityOver fear, doubt and overwhelm
ExpressionOver productivity and busyness
PleasureOver obligation and self‑neglect
ConsciousnessOver unconscious patterns

Your life force was never meant to be given away. The Phoenix chooses her own fire, and rises in her own colors. This is the year you take your life force back.

The creative spiritual practice you always believed was possible
meets you right where you are
and gives you the tools to take you where you're called to arrive

A Devotion of Intuitive Painting + Poetry + Photography + Scrapbooking + Ceremony
All rooted in self-expression and the somatic science of brain waves and heart coherence

Optional in person: The Full Moon Harvest Gathering, November 12–14, 2027 at Stardust Ranch, Sonoma

Answer the Call

Since 2012, women have joined Shiloh’s year-long journeys more than 2,500 times, and in 2026 alone, over 150 joined us for the Path of Mystics.

Will this be the year you learn to generate your own life force through Intentional Creativity?

Home

The Sonoma Studio at Stardust Ranch

Gather in person in wine country, Sonoma, California

In the days of AI, virtual everything, and Zoom, being together in person has become completely precious.

Women's spaces for sacred work are rare, and they matter more than ever.

As part of the Sonoma Studio, you will gather at Stardust Ranch in Sonoma, welcomed by Shiloh Sophia, who has been holding temple space for women since 2000.

Here you are surrounded by redwood trees, gardens, and the Stardust Lineage artwork collection, in an environment entirely designed for transformation. From the temple to the film studio, every space is held with intention.

Alongside this circle of women, you will engage in acts of self-expression that amplify consciousness, awareness, and embodiment.

This is a place to refuel, gather your strength,
and carry your life force home.

MUSEA Center at Stardust Ranch, Sonoma, California

Stardust Ranch is about an hour from San Francisco or Oakland, and half an hour from Napa and Petaluma.

The Sonoma Studio is limited to 25 women.

Last year the Sonoma Studio sold out in a week.

Sonoma Circle Redwood Grove

The Beauty of Being in Person

Your Sonoma Studio Day

10:00 to 11:00 AM
Arrive, set up, opening circle and café, with coffee and tea provided

11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
The Mystic's Fireside Painting livestream, painting together in the studio

1:00 to 1:30 PM
Quiet painting

1:30 to 3:00 PM
Potluck lunch, circle and sharing, while you keep painting

MUSEA in spring, Sonoma
MUSEA in spring
Lavender Grace singing and drumming at MUSEA Sonoma
Lavender Grace singing and drumming at MUSEA Sonoma

One Cannot Help but Be Inspired

“The retreat with Shiloh Sophia at the Ranch exceeded any expectations. Shiloh embodies intentional creativity and invites us to look more deeply into ourselves while diving into creativity. She holds a sacred feminine container allowing each of us to be witnessed and supported. The Ranch is an inspired, beautiful space full of creativity and attention to detail. One cannot help but be inspired in that space.”

— Tamara H.

A Salve in Today's World

“The Stardust Ranch is a magical vehicle of change; it is a place to hold others and be held and a space to intentionally lean into being heard while witnessing others. I leave that life-affirming ranch feeling more myself and also bringing my best, whole self back into the press of normal life. The energy at the ranch is palpable and necessary; a salve in today's world.”

— Paula O.

Answer the Call

Curate Shiloh Sophia

Curate Shiloh Sophia in the redwoods
MUSEA's founder in the Redwood Grove at Stardust Ranch in Sonoma, California

The Invitation

Do you know The Secret of the Rainbow Phoenix?

Your presence is requested in the Rainbow Covenant.

Beloved One,

What if 2027 is the year you stop abandoning yourself?

What if your creativity could lead you back to the life you were born to live?

For the journey of 13 moons, I'm inviting you into a creative spiritual practice you can believe in, through intuitive painting, poetry, and photography. One painting. One journal of poetry. A circle of women walking the same Path of Mystics.

Each moon brings one intention that takes us further into our life force. Each intention becomes layers of paint. A color becomes a feeling. A photograph becomes a revelation. A poem becomes a truth you could not have reached any other way. By the end of the year, you will hold a painting that reveals what happens when you put yourself in the optimal position: your 42 degrees.

42 degrees is the angle at which white light reveals a rainbow through an optic, the raindrop. Your heart is the optic.

While this experience does include painting and writing, no previous skill is required. We will show you everything you need to know because everything is intuitive. No hierarchy. You only need the willingness to follow a spark, make a mark, catch a glimpse, or write a line, and discover where it leads. Show up every month, paint with me live, be witnessed, and feel your life force come back to you. Can’t make live gatherings - no worries - it is all recorded!

You don't have to do this alone. You'll be held within the Stardust Lineage, alongside women around the world who are choosing themselves too. A whole buncha wild women mystics are gathering together!

Thirteen moons. Three creative portals. One unfolding life.

The Rainbow Phoenix is calling. What is ready to be burned up and rise through you?

Will you answer the call of the rainbow phoenix? I will if you will!

- Curate Shiloh Sophia

Answer the Call

We are all cooling sacks of stardust.

Sue Hoya Sellars, Matriarch within the Stardust Lineage

MUSEA: Center for Intentional Creativity® and Consciousness

The Toxic Load We Were Trained to Carry

Are you ready to lay it down?

Chaos. Overwhelm. Collapse. Trained to people-please and stay in line.
Taught to say yes when you mean no.
Abandoning yourself in the name of helping.
Putting everyone else first, again.
Cut off from your Source.
AND
Kept separate from other women who are mystics too.
Never given the space and time to cultivate your intuitive gifts.
Silenced for your knowing, and afraid to speak.
Wondering who you are in the grand scheme of what's unfolding in the world.
Your creativity left on the back burner for years… until now.
Carrying the wounded healer archetype long after it stopped serving you.
And the question of who you are becoming.
Would you relish a creative spiritual practice you can believe in, because so many of us have left a lot of religion behind…where to now? 

You're not new to this path. You've done the healing work, and now you're ready to leave the wounded healer behind.

Here’s where Path of Mystics can serve you right where you are!

Co-Creation, a painting by Shiloh Sophia
Co-Creation · Shiloh Sophia · 2020

What I would like to invite us to in 2027 is a degree of discernment where saying no happens more often. Where setting boundaries and making decisions that support you without abandoning yourself becomes a priority. Fierce discernment is called for during these times, whether that's how you engage with social media or politics or even family obligations or cultural customs or your relationship with yourself.

We don't have any time to waste, do we? Let's stop giving in and putting up and shutting up, and instead chart a path for ourselves, a path of and for mystics. Women who walk between the worlds!

If you recognize yourself here, you are in good company. This is exactly where the Rainbow Phoenix begins. She has been getting ready to burn up her past so that she could step into who she knows herself to be. 

What You Can
Experience & Claim

Our intention for you through Path of Mystics 2027

A creative spiritual practice provides the structure that makes it possible for you to dream into a new framework.

OUR FRAMEWORK IS CHOSEN REBIRTH

The Phoenix Mother teaches us how to give birth to ourselves. This is chosen rebirth. You're the one who sets the nest on fire, and you're the one who rests and rises again.

What Is Ready to Complete
in Your Life?

What are you setting on fire?

The legend of the Rainbow Phoenix is about choosing what you want to let go of and leave behind so it can open up to what wants to come through next.

Setting new boundaries. Drawing distinctions. Discernment. Releasing toxic bonds. Breaking cultural spells. Walking through taboos. Saying no to people and situations that don't work for you anymore.

And then, after a time of recovery, through Intentional Creativity, you rise again. Self-expression is what makes this possible through painting and poetry. Your yes is at hand. When you know what your no is, your yes is much more available.

Labrys: Saying No More Means Saying Yes More to What You Actually Want

THE LABRYS CUTS BOTH WAYS

The labrys, the double-edged axe of the sacred feminine, cuts both ways. When we say no to things, we say yes to other things. Every boundary is also a door. This is part of the manifestation teaching of our year: we need to be specific, at 42 degrees, about what we want. When we can be crystal clear then the white light can shine into the optic of you and reveal colors you never imagined you could see.

Answer the Call

Imagine a Creative Spiritual Practice Aligned with the Moon Cycles and the Seasons

13 Moons + 13 Intentions

The Path of Mystics is an invitation for a woman to have a dedicated creative spiritual practice: painting, poetry, photography and digital scrapbooking. All mystical paths have rituals and practices that go along with them, and most mystics make up their own. Many mystics sing, write, paint and pray. These practices are our devoted discipline.

Painting

Poetry

Photography

Scrapbooking

Each moon brings one provocative inquiry and ritual, and each one becomes part of your painting. By the final moon, your painting is an artifact of the power you've claimed.

See all 13 moons and their intentions ↓Close ↑
  1. 1REFLECTLooking honestly at where you are. Dreaming about where you want to go this year. Letting go of self abandonment.
  2. 2RECKONIdentifying the changes you've been craving to make. Coming to terms with what needs to change to be more free. 
  3. 3REALIZESeeing clearly what you want, and what not having it has cost you. Beginning to open to a pathway of potential waiting for us.
  4. 4RESISTSaying no, setting boundaries, creating discernment practices. Resisting what they told us about who we could be or would be.
  5. 5RELEASEBurning up what no longer serves you, letting go. Rituals of release that allow for an opening after the dumpster fires of the past 5 years.
  6. 6RESTLetting the ashes cool. Recommitting to self care and more sleep. Choosing pleasure each day to rest in your stardust bones.
  7. 7RECOVERRestoring your life force and practicing new time for yourself. Honoring the needs you have right now and reorganizing your schedule 
  8. 8RECLAIMTaking back what is yours and has always been yours with power and the support of the Stardust Lineage and Path of Mystics,
  9. 9REVEALLetting what's been hidden in your stardust bones show itself to you and express it through the storyline of the Rainbow Phoenix.
  10. 10RISERebirth yourself and renew your commitment to you. What changes are needed in your life to feel you have risen to a new level?
  11. 11REDESIGNIntentional design towards pleasure that makes you feel more you. What areas of your life are seeking a new kind of inspired order.
  12. 12RECEIVEOpening to what wants to come to you and through you. You have been preparing this entire year and now it is your turn.
  13. 13REVELThe Revelation of a lifetime because you said so. Choose to revel and reveal into the Path of Mystics gifts of revelation. 

The moon moves the tides of every ocean on Earth, including your own body of water. In 46 BCE, Rome traded the moon for the sun, and the calendar we live by today still follows that choice. Your body never forgot the moon. That's why we return to her.

MOON 1REFLECTMOON 2RECKONMOON 3REALIZEMOON 4RESISTMOON 5RELEASEMOON 6RESTMOON 7RECOVERMOON 8RECLAIMMOON 9REVEALMOON 10RISEMOON 11REDESIGNMOON 12RECEIVEMOON 13REVEL

Our year follows the moon cycles and the pattern of the Wheel of the Year. You'll receive your 2027 lunar calendar, with every moon phase in Pacific Time, so you can work with the moons in your own practice and honor the influence of creation on your body. Even if you are no longer menstruating you are still tugged on by the moon.

My Body and Spirit Can Fully Benefit from the Medicine of Flow

“As I sit here in my studio painting at 2 in the morning, I look down and see the teacup I got the first time I came to Stardust Ranch. It says, “The Muse is awake.” Being a part of Path of Mystics this past year has been an awakening for me.

Gathering in circle each month, whether virtually or in person, has enabled me to truly relax into the Intentional Creativity container, where my body and spirit can fully benefit from the medicine of Flow. I’m ready to keep coming back, and would be honored to have you join us.” 🧶

— Ruby Monson

Watch out for women with Big Brushes and BIG Attitudes

We have stood in the rays
of the Rainbow Covenant.

Caron McCloud, Matriarch within the Stardust Lineage

Shekinah's Glory, a painting by Caron McCloud

Shekinah's Glory by Caron McCloud

Painting: Our Archetypal Lens

For more than 40,000 years, our ancestors have left their images on cave walls. Around the fire, women have gathered in circle to tell stories, share power, and receive the healing and intuitive gifts of the women beside them. Now you join this lineage. The Stardust Lineage offers Intentional Creativity from hand to hand and heart to heart.

As you can see from the image above, Shiloh's mother Caron was also a painter, although she only made five paintings in her whole life. This is one of them. What a treasure it is to have a painting like this living at the ranch. Imagine being able to give a painting like this to your family as a record of what matters to you.

Imagine working on one big painting and one journal of poetry for a whole year, and the magic that will hold - a record of resonance that keeps you inspired, on track and connected.

The Heart of Our Practice

The Rainbow Phoenix is our archetypal lens, the myth we will look at our lives through this year. The painting that emerges is entirely your own, revealed to you layer by layer.

Rainbow Phoenix painting by Curate Shiloh Sophia, 2019
A Rainbow Phoenix painting by Curate Shiloh Sophia, 2019

In Intentional Creativity, we paint with intention: to heal, to move, to transform. Each moon you add meaningful layers, with intention, blessing, ritual, mark-making and witnessing, writing as things arise.

She reveals herself to you the way your gifts get revealed to you. A little at a time, it is intimate, and glorious.

By the end of the year, you will hold an artifact of your 42 degrees, revealed moon by moon, that will tell the unfolding story of your year and provide endless intuitive insight.

If you don't create with intention, you may generate life force and never notice it. When you paint with intention, you know it, feel it and can duplicate it.

Curate Shiloh Sophia live in the livestream studio
Live in the studio with Curate Shiloh Sophia

In the Studio at the Mothership

In the Sonoma Studio, you're in the room for our two-hour Mystic's Fireside Painting. Curate Shiloh Sophia paints live, and you paint right alongside her, as the session streams to the women of Path of Mystics around the world.

These sessions are sacred. It's as if you're attending sanctuary: painting, teachings from the Stardust Lineage, transmissions, full-body meditations, the Stardust Lineage movement meditation, ritual, altar building and ceremony, writing prompts, music and dancing.

During every Fireside, we paint and post together in the iMusea app, with live support from Intentional Creativity Graduates. Each session is recorded, and the recording is available instantly, so you can return to it whenever you like.

I Wasn't a Painter

“I was looking for a consistent practice, but I wasn't a painter and couldn't conceive that painting could provide that kind of sacred container, but it did. I've never looked back since, and I've been painting for years.”

— Rosie D.

FROM CAVE WALL TO BILLBOARD

Close-up of a painting

Through the lens of the Rainbow Phoenix, you'll paint your own archetypal myth, drawn from the wisdom already carried within your stardust bones. Your painting will hold what you are choosing to manifest, and the life force you are reclaiming. Imagine it found on a cave wall 500 years from now, or seen on a billboard by hundreds of thousands of people a day. What story of rising would it tell?

Your life story can be your masterpiece, your great work, what the alchemists called the Magnum Opus. This year is the invitation to turn your story into the legend you want to live.

What legend are you ready to live?

Sacred Tools for Your Creative Spiritual Practice

Techniques and Processes You Will Experience in 2027

Layer by layer, moon by moon, inquiry by inquiry, through the powerful work of Intentional Creativity®

  • Layering
  • Contrast
  • Composition
  • Blending
  • Glazing
  • Scumbling
  • Highlighting
  • Shadows
  • Texture
  • Washes
  • Flow pouring
  • Tiny brushwork

Painting

In Intentional Creativity, we paint with intention: to heal, to move, to transform. Each moon you add meaningful layers, with intention, blessing, ritual, mark-making and witnessing.

You don't need to have any painting experience, but if you do, this will still be completely innovative and emergent for you. Moon by moon, layer by layer, your intuition develops and your subconscious begins to speak to you in symbol, code, and stardust bones.

Poetry

Poetry inquiries show you how to access your inner language, provoked by what happens in the painting process. We treat the painting like an oracle, giving her the pen to see what insight is revealed. You don't need to be a writer or a poet for this work to come through onto the pages of your life.

Photography

See your world through the eyes of the Rainbow Phoenix, where the ordinary becomes magical. Gather an album of color, bring your photographs into your painting, and learn to mix the colors you love. We'll share simple editing tools for your phone.

Your Scrapbook

You are invited to make a digital scrapbook, or a physical one in a mixed media notebook, of your painting layers, your poetry, and your photography. This is your record, your artifact of what you have chosen and designed for your life this year.

What is your intention for 2027? Name it, and the Path of Mystics will hold you while you bring it into form.

The Stardust Lineage teaches that paintings are generators of energy. Layer by layer, you are building an energetic resonator that you collaborate with to access the deepest intuitive insight available.

Answer the Call

The one seeking the healing becomes the healer she seeks.

She Saw in Me the Potential I Couldn't See Yet in Myself

“Working with Shiloh came at just the right time for me - I had a project in mind and had some clear direction about it. When I shared it with Shiloh, even on the first session, she helped me think even BIGGER than I was and her enthusiasm was contagious. She saw in me what (potential) that I couldn't yet see in myself - The project was a huge undertaking and she was with me all the way.

Simply put, it was magical! Together, we created a movie, my first one woman show, a book for my granddaughters, the outline of a workshop, and we hosted a one day workshop at my home.”

— Clair O.

I like to visit the other world, where I meet the self that feels most like me, and try to bring something from that world back into my day-to-day life.

Gregory Scott Davis, aka Phoenix, Shiloh Sophia's father

The Secret of the Rainbow Phoenix

Жар-птиця

Zhar-ptytsia · the firebird

Rainbow Phoenix by Curate Shiloh Sophia, Path of Mystics 2026, 13-moon painting
Rainbow Phoenix by Curate Shiloh Sophia
Path of Mystics 2026, 13-moon painting
Read the Secret of the Rainbow Phoenix ↓Close the story ↑

as told by Zhara

I am Zhara. My name comes from Zhar, which means heat in the language of my ancestors: the glow that lives in the ember after the flames have died down.

The grandmothers of the Slavic lands told stories of me to their grandbabies. They called me the firebird, Zhar-ptytsia, Жар-птиця. My feathers were crimson and flame orange, and it was said that just one of them could light a whole darkened world. As I flew, they fell, and they glowed, and they were cherished.

Sometimes I was hunted for my feathers. I heard stories of my siblings who were taken, and as soon as their feathers were taken from them, they stopped glowing. It is the life force that makes the feathers glow, and life force cannot be seen by those without the eyes to see.

What the grandmothers didn't speak about openly, I will tell you now. They only spoke of it around the campfire, where women's voices spoke quietly about things they didn't want the old men to hear. Each of my feathers holds hidden wisdom for these times. And I am the one who set my own nest on fire. No one did it to me. I chose it for myself.

For many years, the fire of my heart went into making eggs for my babies. From the time I was born until the time my moon blood ceased, I carried their potential. So much of my life force went into my family, fire and blood and baby birds. It was a long tending of everyone around me, until the light in my feathers began to dim. Day by day they grew duller, and I didn't feel like flying anymore. All I wanted to do was sleep.

Then there was a day. I'm sure you've had one too. I knew there was no going back. To move forward, I would have to let go of who I had been and open to the potential of where I might be going next. As I acknowledged this time of completion as a death, a flame rose in me. The ember I had been missing came back up.

I laid everything that no longer served me into the nest like a ritual, piece by piece. The yeses I never meant. The other creatures I had been pleasing. The times I was quiet when I wanted to speak. The customs I let go of because I was afraid. All the hiding, so they wouldn't take my feathers. The obligations draining my life force. Even, sometimes, the love I gave to my babies.

Then I turned my rainbow crystal eye toward the sun and gathered its light into one bright point, the way a clear glass held in sunlight gathers the rays until dry grass begins to smoke. I was afraid, but it was time. I set it all on fire.

No one came to rescue me, and no one needed to.

In those flames, I died too. There was a moment of being uncertain whether I would rise again. Then I rested for a long time, and the ashes took generations to cool. There was a long forgetting, until I was down to just an ember. And in my sleep, I dreamed of how I could use my life force in new ways.

After hundreds of days, or perhaps hundreds of years, on one full blood moon, I began to smolder in the nest. I am a creature of the moon, after all, and the moon's light is the sun's light, reflected.

I began to rise. And when I rose, I came back as a rainbow phoenix.

Like a raindrop holding the light, I became the exact place where white light enters, bends, and opens into every color at once, shining out at 42 degrees, in the light of the sun and in the light of the moon. The rainbow had been in me all along.

The flashes of light on my wings are the women of the Stardust Lineage and their families, the ones who walked before me and the ones walking beside me now. We are cooling sacks of stars, illuminated by the sun and the moon.

Now I am calling you.

I have been dropping rainbow feathers on your Path of Mystics for a long time. A song that arrives in the exact moment you need it. A stranger who says the words you need to hear. A rainbow appearing after a heavy storm. These are the clues I've been sending you. Synchronicities.

Perhaps you've been looking for me. Really, you've been looking for yourself.

And now I ask you, beloved one, what are you ready to set on fire?

Join me in a flock of Phoenix, so we can complete what's ready to complete and then rise again.

Rise with us in 2027.

Discover the Secret of the Rainbow Phoenix in Your Life

Answer the Call

At 42 Degrees a rainbow is revealed

A rainbow is revealed at 42 degrees.

The Science of Precision

A rainbow is very precise.

When sunlight passes through raindrops, red light emerges at about 42 degrees from the point directly opposite the sun, and violet at about 40 degrees, with every other color fanned out between them.

And here is the part that changed everything for me: every rainbow is centered on the person seeing it. The bow forms around the shadow of your own head. Two people standing side by side see two different rainbows. Your position decides which drops send their colors to your eyes.

Position yourself, and the light reveals its colors to you.

We have to position ourselves as the optic to receive the white light, and then the rainbow becomes effortless.

How do you get there? Through the big turning points and the small daily choices, held by a creative spiritual practice of devotion and discovery.

Read the science ↓Close ↑

THE SCIENCE OF PRECISION IN YOUR BRAIN WAVES

Our lineage is rooted in both mysticism and research. Science, somatics, self-expression and spiritual discovery all meet in Intentional Creativity, a methodology being refined since the 1930s, beginning with Lenore Thomas Straus.

Brainwave frequency wheel: Artists are not just born unicorns

Just as a rainbow depends on your position, your inner life depends on the state of your brain. Throughout the year, we work with three brain-wave states.

Beta, the busy mind, is where most of us spend our days: problem-solving, planning, overthinking. This is the home of the low grade perpetual freak out.

She Dreams in Full Color, a painting by Shiloh Sophia
She Dreams in Full Color · Shiloh Sophia
work in progress

Alpha, the threshold, is where imagination forms and intuition becomes audible. When we paint, write poetry and move with conscious awareness, attention turns inward, and increased alpha power during creative thinking is among the most consistent findings in the neuroscience of creativity.

Theta, the deep, is where images and symbols surface on their own and the inner critic steps back. It's where your painting begins to reveal what you couldn't have planned.

HOW WE WORK WITH IT

  • Painting layer by layer, which turns attention inward
  • Poetry inquiries that open your inner language
  • Full-body meditations and movement to help the nervous system settle
  • Contemplative inquiry and witnessing through discovery and discernment.

ART-MAKING AND STRESS

In a Drexel University pilot study, 75 percent of participants had lower cortisol, a stress hormone, after 45 minutes of making art, and prior art experience made no significant difference. It points in the same direction as what we've witnessed in our circles for decades.

My Intuition and Trust in Myself Has Returned

“During this past year during Path of Mystics, my intuition and trust in myself has returned. Having a creative practice I can count on and have life changing capacity shifts from utilizing regularly, has been a game changer.

Shiloh Sophia shares her Stardust Lineage teachings which is women centred, going as far back as the 1930’s! Women supporting Women, within the Arts. 🎭 💞

I have claimed my place as a Creative Mystic 🙌 🌟”

— Kelly H.

Your Life Force in Every Season

This year is for every woman, in every season of her life. Your life force can be redirected at any age, into your creativity, your vision, and what you choose to manifest. And your body still answers to the moon.

Intentional Creativity work by Curate Shiloh Sophia

When our moon blood ceases, we begin to reassign our life force to other things. Our creativity gets to be redirected, and our bodies are still responding to the moon.

Read what the science says ↓Close ↑

WHAT THE SCIENCE SAYS

Neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi of Weill Cornell Medicine describes the menopause transition as a renovation of the brain, and finds that it can settle into a new normal.

And the moon? Even after our moon blood ceases, our sleep still follows her. Researchers at the University of Washington found that people fall asleep later and sleep less in the nights leading up to the full moon, across communities from rural Argentina to urban Seattle.

Three Graces by Curate Shiloh Sophia
Three Graces by Curate Shiloh Sophia
V. O.

“PLASMATIC!, the revolution continues,… the Path unfolds forward, inward & through out the Universe. SOUL Sensing self inspires… I Am.

PATH of Mystics is the never ending yet potent INTENTIONAL CREATIVITY micro dose, & everlasting homeopathic.”

~ V. O.

Guided by Shiloh Sophia: Artist, Author, Entrepreneur, Educator, Cosmic Cowgirl, Spell-Breaker, Rebel, Innovator

Meet Curate Shiloh Sophia

A work in progress by Curate Shiloh Sophia from the 2024 Path of Mystics
A work in progress from the 2024 Path of Mystics

Curate Shiloh Sophia has been doing this work for 33 years and teaching it for 25. She is a visionary artist, author, and educator, and the founder of Intentional Creativity®, a methodology that brings together painting, storytelling, inquiry, embodied practice, and the radical proposition that creative self-expression is a fundamental human right.

Shiloh Sophia is a Renaissance woman, a prolific painter, poet, publisher, and mentor to thousands of women.

Read Shiloh Sophia's story ↓Close ↑

Her art grew from a creative lineage that includes her mother, poet Caron McCloud, and master artist Sue Hoya Sellars. Through decades of painting, writing, and teaching, she developed a distinctive visual language of powerful feminine figures, mythic imagery, symbolism, and sacred art. Her paintings have been collected internationally.

An artist who became an institution builder, she has opened seven galleries centered on women's art, created eight published books, journals, and illustrated works, and generated more than $3 million in paid work and opportunities for women worldwide.

With her husband and business partner, Jonathan McCloud, she co-founded MUSEA: Center for Intentional Creativity® and Consciousness in Sonoma, California, a living museum, educational center, and sanctuary. She is the steward of the Stardust Lineage.

For Shiloh, art is a way of exploring identity, telling the truth, recovering forgotten stories, and imagining new possibilities for the future. Her work invites people who may never have considered themselves artists into creative practice.

She is walking the passage too.

She's Seeing Colors More Vividly

  1. “I seem to see colors more vividly and am noticing beautiful things around, such as flowers and trees.
  2. I don't feel like I am being pulled through life.
  3. Though I do work 45 hours per week, I have found many hours to focus on art.
  4. The painful problem that brought me to working with Shiloh, feels completely resolved

These are just a few of the things that have shifted, amongst others. If it were not happening to me, I just wouldn't believe it. Have you found so many phenomenal shifts to be common?”

— Terre J

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Investment

The Sonoma Studio

In person at Stardust Ranch · Limited to 25 women

$195 per month, 12 monthly payments

or pay in full: $1,950 (2 months complimentary, save $390)
That makes it $162.50 a month.

Your Year at a Glance

12studio days at Stardust Ranch: 60 hours with Shiloh Sophia
12Cura Women's Circle evenings at the ranch
13Mystic's Fireside Paintings
13Red Thread Connection Circles
13New Moon Astrological Readings
8Wheel of the Year Ceremonies
3Mystic Slumber Parties
AccessPrivate app and private classroom

Your Module 0 opens when you enroll. Plus your 2027 lunar calendar, the Closing Circle Show & Tell, and every session recorded.

  • 12 Mystic's Fireside Painting studio days in person with Shiloh Sophia at Stardust Ranch, also recorded, plus a 13th moon video
  • A day-long with Curate Shiloh Sophia the first Friday of every month, 10 AM to 3 PM: sit in circle, paint together and share a potluck
  • 12 Cura Women's Circle evenings at the ranch, the first Thursday of each month
  • 13 Red Thread Connection Circles on Zoom with your Path of Mystics cohort, all recorded
  • 8 seasonal ceremonies around the Wheel of the Year with The Cura Council
  • 13 New Moon video Astrological Readings with Michelle Dench, one for each new moon of 2027
  • Module 0 · Orientation, open in your Classroom the day you enroll
  • Poetry, photography and scrapbooking teachings from the Stardust Lineage
  • Plus everything in What's Included, below

Monthly

12 monthly payments of $195: $195 today, then $195 a month on the same date.

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Pay in Full

$1,950 today, which offers you 2 months free. You save $390.

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Because every cost and collaborator is set at registration, we don't offer refunds once you've enrolled. And if life happens, we'll always listen to your story.

What's Included

In person at Stardust Ranch, Sonoma, California

Study with Curate Shiloh Sophia:13 Mystic's Fireside Painting Gatherings

Paint alongside Shiloh in the studio at Stardust Ranch. The session also streams live, and the recording is available instantly.

You Belong Here:Connection with the Community of Mystics

13 Red Thread Connection Circles on Zoom, guided by Curate Kelly House and Curate Dr. Cheryl Boudreaux, beginning with an Opening Red Thread Circle in January. Each woman gets a chance to share as we pass the Red Thread, and you'll learn the basics of Red Thread Circle. Connection, integration, simple ritual, and an open mic for your poetry. You won't walk this year alone.

Gather with Community to Co-Create:Mystic Slumber Parties

Three optional 24-hour Mystic Slumber Parties, where everybody is working on their paintings together.

Your Care for Your Body:Stardust Lineage Meditation

Full-body meditations, a consistent practice in our community.

Your Sacred Time Matters:Poetry Prompts

Poetry inquiries working with the imagery and imagination that arises from the painting, allowing it to give birth to poetry and revelations. Poetry brings our brainwaves into flow state.

You See the World Your Way:Photography Prompts and Instructions

Monthly photo prompts and phone photography. Your natural world and environment come to life as you look through the eyes of the Rainbow Phoenix. Shiloh Sophia shares the best way to use your phone to take photos and edit them.

You Keep a Record:Digital or Physical Scrapbook Instruction

A digital scrapbook, or a physical one in a mixed media notebook, of your painting layers, your poetry, and your photography, with support in creating it.

You Are Already Part of Our Lineage:Stardust Lineage Teachings

The Revelation Teachings, focusing on the Rainbow Phoenix. Each month is designed around its own theme: Reflect, Reckon, Realize, Resist, Release, Rest, Recover, Reclaim, Reveal, Rise, Redesign, Receive, Revel.

You Deserve Privacy:Private Space to Connect

Your private community in the iMusea app, where you are witnessed, held and encouraged without hierarchy or pressure. Post, comment and share your painting. During every Fireside, Intentional Creativity Graduates are there live to support you, answer questions, reflect and witness. Everybody painting and posting together, supporting one another, is one of the most awesome parts of the course. Don't worry, you can post anytime you watch.

A Chronological Record of Everything:Your Private Classroom

Your private Kajabi classroom, organized by date, so you know exactly where you are as you check off each assignment.

You Are Part of the Greater Community:Gather with the MUSEA Community

8 Cura Council Wheel of the Year Ceremonies, on the Equinoxes, Solstices and Cross-Quarter Days, guided by Shiloh Sophia. Intentional Creativity, ritual, ceremony and group healing anchor your year in the turning of the seasons.

Each New Moon:New Moon Astrological Reading

13 New Moon video Astrological Readings with Michelle Dench, one for each new moon of 2027.

We Witness You:Closing Circle Show & Tell

Our year closes with the Cura Council Solstice Ceremony and a Closing Circle Show & Tell.

Your Connection to Your Body and Mood:Cycles of the Moon

Awareness of the phases of the moon throughout the year. We follow the seasons, the eight ceremonies, and all thirteen moons of 2027.

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On Your Own Time:Every Session Recorded and Available

This is your sacred time, and it's here when you need it.

Enhance Your Experience

  • Full Moon Harvest Gathering: Optional in person, November 12–14, 2027 at Stardust Ranch, Sonoma. Learn about the Full Moon Harvest Gathering
  • Your Sonoma Coordinator: Vicchi is your coordinator and concierge for the Sonoma Studio.
  • The Virtual Path: Prefer to join from home? The Virtual Path is $100 a month. Explore The Virtual Path
  • Painting Lab: Want more personal one-on-one guidance? The Painting Lab is limited to 33 women. Coming to the Sonoma Studio and want the Painting Lab too? Email support@musea.org.
  • Returning Mystics: Check your email or the iMusea app for your optional savings scholarship code. It expires December 21, 2026.

This is our creative, spiritual practice, and our team's entire year is designed around it. Everything is recorded and there for you when you're ready.
Questions? support@musea.org

Questions

When do we gather in Sonoma?

The first Friday of every month, beginning January 8, 2027, from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, with a potluck lunch.

What if I miss a studio day?

You just watch the recording. It's there for you right away.

What do I bring?

Bring your painting and your paint supplies to each studio day. If carrying them back and forth is too hard, storage in the studio can be arranged. A supply list is provided.

How do I reach V?

Vicchi (“V”), our Artist in Residence at Stardust Ranch, is your Sonoma concierge. Once you enroll, she'll reach out and welcome you into your private Sonoma WhatsApp group.

I've walked the Path of Mystics before. Will this be new for me?

Yes! It's the same wonderful creative spiritual practice, the same incredible community, and the same livestream and Zoom power, now through the Rainbow Phoenix framework, with a new painting revealed moon by moon.

Where is the studio?

Stardust Ranch, 75 Fremont Drive, Sonoma, California.

Is the livestream part of the studio day?

Yes. The Mystic's Fireside Painting livestream runs 11 AM to 1 PM during your studio day, and the recording is in your Classroom right away.

What is the Cura Women's Circle?

An in-person circle at Stardust Ranch on the first Thursday evening of each month, 6 to 8 PM, open to everyone. It isn't recorded, so it's a gift for those who can be there.

When can I start?

Right away. Module 0 · Orientation opens in your Classroom the day you enroll, and the course begins January 1, 2027.

How much time does it take?

About four hours a month, or one hour a week. And if all you had was two hours a month, the Mystic's Fireside Painting, you'd be able to do it.

Do I need to be an artist?

Art is for everyone. Art-making has nothing to do with talent. Everyone is inherently creative. The way we teach painting makes it possible for you to do it.

What if I can't show up for everything? Will I still benefit?

Yes. Everything is recorded, so you can paint along whenever you're ready, and post in the iMusea app anytime you watch. The benefit is beyond imagining.

Can I come to the Full Moon Harvest Gathering?

Yes. The Full Moon Harvest Gathering is an optional in-person gathering, November 12–14, 2027 at Stardust Ranch in Sonoma, live with Curate Shiloh Sophia. You can always decide later.

Is there a refund?

Because every cost and collaborator is set at registration, we don't offer refunds once you've enrolled. This isn't a membership you stop and start. By registering, you're giving your word to your creative spiritual practice for 2027. And if life happens, we'll always listen to your story.

What if I need to stop partway through?

This is a year-long commitment, so payments continue for all 12 months. If life happens, email support@musea.org and we'll talk with you about your options.

Other questions?

Email support@musea.org

The Path of Mystics Support Team

Curate Kelly House · Liz Chamberlain · Curate Dr. Cheryl Boudreaux · “V” Vicchi Oleski · Ali Stoddard · Michelle Dench · Michelle Baldovin

FLY WITH THE RAINBOW PHOENIX

Thirteen moons.
One painting.
Your 42 degrees.

Choose what you're ready to set on fire.
Rest in the ashes.
Rise in colors.

Position yourself, and the light reveals its colors to you.

What am I ready to claim as my own?

Your life force was never meant to be given away.
Now it's time to cultivate it.

This is the year you become a life force generator.

Answer the Call

Enrollment Open Now
The course begins January 1, 2027
Gather in person at Stardust Ranch, Sonoma, California

Science sources: World Meteorological Organization International Cloud Atlas, "Primary rainbow"; HyperPhysics, Georgia State University, "Rainbows"; Fink, A. & Benedek, M. (2014), "EEG alpha power and creative ideation," Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews; Lustenberger, C. et al. (2015), "Functional role of frontal alpha oscillations in creativity," Cortex; Kaimal, G., Ray, K. & Muniz, J. (2016), "Reduction of Cortisol Levels and Participants' Responses Following Art Making," Art Therapy; Lee, D. J. et al. (2018), "Review of the Neural Oscillations Underlying Meditation," Frontiers in Neuroscience

Science sources: Mosconi, L. et al., Weill Cornell Medicine, 2021 menopause brain imaging study; Casiraghi, L. et al. (2021), "Moonstruck sleep," Science Advances

Held Within the Stardust Lineage

Intentional Creativity work by Curate Shiloh Sophia

The life force of ancient stars and greening earth is who we are.

When you join Path of Mystics, you enter a 100-year creative lineage, with plans to gather for 500 years.

This lineage has been taught at the United Nations, in universities and graduate programs, and in communities around the world, by over 800 certified Intentional Creativity teachers to tens of thousands of students.

Path of Mystics is the path that women who are modern-day mystics take to be connected with other mystics on the path. You won't walk it alone.

Answer the Call

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