Beauty Potion

Have you experienced…

• Feeling painfully envious of another woman’s beauty (or being attacked because of another woman’s envy of you)… Like Snow White and her wicked stepmother. The Queen sent Snow White to her death so she might continue to be the fairest in the land.

• Being objectified and reduced to your looks… Like Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr. Called “the most beautiful woman in the world,” she was also a brilliant inventor whose wartime technology laid the foundation for Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth - yet she was recognised for her genius only decades later, and even now is still known for her beauty, not brains.

• Being violated and predated upon by others… Like Medusa. The beautiful maiden Medusa was violated by Poseidon, then punished by Athena, who transformed her into a gorgon whose very gaze turns men to stone.

• Moulding yourself to beauty standards to be accepted and approved of… Like the Stepford Wives. They were perfectly groomed, conforming, and compliant, their appearance based on standards created by others.

• Feeling unseen, unworthy, ashamed, and excluded… Like Ragnelle from Arthurian Legend. Her haggard appearance makes her an undesirable outcast, whilst her true beauty is hidden behind a magical curse.

If so, you’ve experienced a wound that’s so often hidden, misunderstood, and minimised, despite it playing a deadly role in stories and lives all over the world, for all of human history.

The Beauty Wound.

And whilst it could seem the Beauty Wound is just about beauty, it’s really a doorway into our collective and personal wounding around the Feminine… What it means to be a woman, how we are hurt, and why we turn against and away from each other, and most of all… How we become ruptured within ourselves.

This wound might not be spoken about directly but we certainly can FEEL the pain and shame it brings.

Left unmet and unhealed, the Beauty Wound prevents us from knowing, let alone embodying, our true inner and outer beauty…

Why enter
Beauty Potion…?

You have carried the Beauty Wound for almost a lifetime - it is ancient, long scarred over, and hidden deep.

Maybe you’ve learned to ignore it, and mostly only notice the ache on cold days and when it’s poked.

You could live for the rest of your days leaving it well alone, lip glossing over it, pasting over its wrinkled cracks, and telling yourself it’s too late for you now anyway.

And after all, isn’t focusing on beauty just vain and shallow anyway? Aren’t there more important things to worry about, especially right now?

And yet…

You have a hidden fascination with beauty, drinking in the almost too perfect beauty of juicy oranges in a cerulean bowl, the blushing face of the first peony, scarlet lips, and Monroesque dresses, feeling the blessing of its healing, inspiring power, and wishing there was a way to bottle it.

You sometimes wonder if the sorceresses of old knew more about true beautification than the modern day bazillion dollar industry of filters, freezing, and fillers.

You feel the pain and shame passed down your female line… The envy, the judgement, the unspoken rules, the faux modesty, the grasping… All, one way or another, leading back to beauty (and yet, at the same time, being about so much more than beauty).

Maybe you even secretly believe, like Dostoevsky’s Prince Myshkin "…that beauty will save the world."

So enter Beauty Potion to…

• Dive into the divine and archetypal aspects of beauty that are fathoms deeper than skin deep.

• Understand beauty’s hidden power - why wars have been fought for it and treasures lost over it.

• Beam loving awareness to the ways you’ve suffered the Beauty Wound, bringing healing balm to it at last. (And remember, the Beauty Wound, is in large part the Feminine Wound, and it goes to the very heart of what it means to be a woman.)

• Discover your Mythic Beauty Type… Maybe the Queen, the Enchantress, or the Artist… Whose power you’re destined to embody.

• And most of all, because you’re ready to be unshamedly beautiful… in the way that’s uniquely true for you.

"She entered, looking like Artemis, goddess of the golden distaff. And a hush fell over the Trojans as they saw Helen approaching, her beauty beyond all words."
Homer, The Iliad

So, enter the Beauty Potion to potentiate your own expression of the union of inner and outer beauty, the kind of beauty that has inspired poets and painters for eons…

…To awaken your Mythic Beauty.

How we’ll journey…

We will prepare and drink, literally and metaphysically, the alchemical antidote to the Beauty Wound… The Beauty Potion.

This will be brewed using Lian’s magical, mystical, mythical secret recipe, unfolding as…

• A 12 week journey into story, ceremony, ritual, contemplation, sensual practices, creative expression… and yes, actual potion making 😊

• 10 soul-stirring circles for healing, invocation, learning, and sharing:

  • Week 1: Tuesday, 29th April

  • Week 2: Tuesday, 6th May

  • Week 3: Tuesday, 13th May

  • Week 4: Tuesday, 20th May

  • Week 5: Tuesday, 27th May - Dyads (there is no circle this week)

  • Week 6: Tuesday, 3rd June

  • Week 7: Tuesday, 10th June

  • Week 8: Tuesday, 17th June

  • Week 9: Tuesday, 24th June

  • Week 10: Tuesday, 1st July - Dyads (there is no circle this week)

  • Week 11: Tuesday, 8th June

  • Week 12: Tuesday, 15th June

All circles are via the magic of Zoom and are at 2pm BST (the time of English roses, afternoon tea, and the Knights & Ladies of Arthurian legend)

• A dedicated private space in which to share your journey with your fellow beauties

In short… if you’ve joined us for a Be Mythical crucible before, Beauty Potion will include all the esoteric smorgasbord of weird and wonderful workings and nigh-on miraculous happenings that you’ve come to know and love - and more!

And if you’re new to our work, you’re in for an eclectic, enchanted surprise!

"Golden-crowned Aphrodite, who stirs up sweet desire, when she goes among the gods, she outshines them all in beauty, and all gaze upon her in wonder."
Homeric Hymn 6 to Aphrodite