What is LoQuiTa Laughing About?

That was the question I asked myself when she first appeared on paper before me. At first, I found it quite annoying – especially because I didn’t feel like laughing at all.

But over time, I began to understand... as more and more insights started to emerge. I started building a deeper connection with my body and the cyclical nature of life – and when I revisited my old notes and drawings, it all suddenly made sense!

I love that feeling when awareness awakens, and everything starts falling into place: LoQuiTa had been telling me the same thing all along! Even if I couldn’t grasp it with my rational mind...

She’s laughing at me! And she’s laughing at you too...

Because maybe people think you're crazy too – for living at your own pace, for enjoying solitude, for not fearing the dark, magic, stillness, contemplation, change, transformation, or the everyday miracles of life. Because your entire life follows its own RHYTHM.

Loca es otra cosa...
Being crazy is believing that things never change,
that they don’t grow and shrink.
Being crazy is living
as if we were not part of nature.

Time and again, I’ve discovered countless ways to connect with this cyclical energy. It’s all around us in nature, and without this rhythm, there would be neither so much life nor such abundant harvests.

This wisdom applies to our emotions, our physical world, the realization of our dreams, and even in business!

How did we ever lose this knowledge? That was the moment when humanity truly went mad.

One of the best ways to reconnect with this cyclical wisdom is by observing the moon. It’s no coincidence that in so many ancient cultures, the moon played a vital role – in agriculture, navigation, fishing, and tracking the seasons. Many of the celebrations we observe today have their roots in these cycles: the phases of the moon and the Earth’s journey around the sun.

When you begin to open your senses in a “different” way, you’ll start to see this pattern repeating almost everywhere. And that’s exactly where creativity resides.

To create, we need emptiness – space for new ideas to arrive, like seeds carrying their full potential within.

Then, we must water and nourish them, care for them, observe and harvest them, rejoice in them, enjoy, share, release, say goodbye, give thanks, and trust – and then return to emptiness, ready to begin again.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés says that in order to understand the cycles of Life-Death-Life, a woman must reconnect with wild nature. One way to do so is by tending a garden.

"Sometimes, in order to bring a woman closer to this nature, I ask her to keep a garden. Let this be a psychic one or one with mud, dirt, green, and all the things that surround and help and assail. Let it represent the wild psyche.

The garden is a concrete connection to life and death. You could even say there is a religion of garden, for it teaches profound psychological and spiritual lessons. Whatever can happen to a garden can happen to soul and psyche – too much water, too little water, infestations, heat, storm, flood, invasion, miracles, dying back, coming back, boon, healing, blossoming, bounty, beauty.

During the life of the garden, women keep a diary, recording the signs of life-giving and life-taking. Each entry cooks up a psychic soup. In the garden we practice letting thoughts, ideas, preferences, desires, even loves, both live and die. We plant, we pull, we bury. We dry seed, sow it, moisten it, support it, harvest.

The garden is a meditation practice, that of seeing when it is time for something to die. In the garden one can see the time coming for both fruition and for dying back. In the garden one is moving with rather than against the inhalations and the exhalations of greater wild Nature.

Through this meditation, we acknowledge that the Life/Death/ Life cycle is a natural one. Both life-giving and death-dealing natures are waiting to be befriended, forever loved. In this process, we become like the cyclical wild. We have the ability to infuse energy and strengthen life, and to stand out of the way of what dies."

– Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With The Wolves (Chapter 3)

Life becomes more fertile when we live it in our own rhythm.
Do you know yours?
Do you want to discover it?
There is so much power within us that we have yet to uncover...
And when you find it, you will laugh.
When you discover it, a smile will cross your lips.