Experiment: Birthday Week

Astronomical chart of the constellation virgo

It's my birthday week, won't you celebrate with me?

I turn 39 on August 26th and as a good millennial, I want to share a list but I am not even sure I have a list. As I grow older, my lists want to get longer, so I expect myself to think of 39 things I know at 39 but I know that I don't have a list of 39 things profound enough. That's wisdom right here and I like to believe it comes with age.

But as a Virgo, with all my personal planets in Virgo and depending on house system, I can also be a Virgo rising, I do like a list.

Yes, you read that right. I have my Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars in Virgo and if you read a placidus chart, I'm a Virgo rising. And yes, I need prayers. Your compassion is welcomed.

I have a list of 39 ways you could celebrate with me, some involve gifts, some involve money, some involve your time and sharing your joys with me.

A list of 39 ways to celebrate my birthday with me:

  1. Share a heart-warming memory you made this season
  2. Share a picture in (of) nature
  3. Write me a haiku
  4. Share three words with me and I'll use them to write you a poem
  5. Join me in Facets of Being
  6. Attend this Worldbuilding Website class with me (affiliate link)
  7. Check out the (c)osmosis school - if you do apply, you can tell Katja you found the school through me!
  8. Send me a gift through PayPal
  9. Observe one color for a day
  10. Create your own map of this year of life - inspired by a grief map reel I saw on instagram (there are 3 parts!)
  11. Share something your grateful for
  12. Tell someone you love them
  13. Get the free micro-dreaming guidebook and share a dream with me
  14. Subscribe to my substack
  15. If I created an imagination for liberation school, would you join me?
  16. If yes, what do you want to have in there?
  17. Send me a poem
  18. Send me love
  19. Check out Kenneth Jover's work
  20. Make a list of 20 things you're grateful for
  21. Recommend a book (to me)
  22. Make a card, give it to someone
  23. Write a letter - whether you send it or not is completely up to you
  24. If you owe someone an apology, draft what you'd like to say
  25. Share a recipe with me
  26. What's your favorite memory for the past decade?
  27. What's one piece of wisdom that an elder shared with you that you feel is okay to share with me?
  28. How many languages do you speak?
  29. Where is home?
  30. Share a picture of your kitchen
  31. Share a picture of found art or graffiti
  32. What was the last concert you've been to?
  33. Share your favorite song
  34. Who would you like to hug right now?
  35. Share a heavy thought, I'll send you a prayer
  36. If you'd like to get a free energy facilitation session for me, let me know, I'll share a booking link!
  37. Tell me a PG rated joke so I can tell it to my kids
  38. What's a hobby you've taken up this year?
  39. Share your favorite work with me

I have to admit that it took me a couple of days to get this list ready. It was hard labor, folks! If you made it this far, thank you for reading, I'm really excited to receive all your responses!

Feel free to share this email with your people, much love,

Sara

Cairo, Egypt
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Sara El-Sayeh

I talk about collapse, imagination and liberation, poeticizing the mundane + contemplating belonging/othering under modernity. I'm a Work that Reconnects facilitator, Offers + Needs Markets facilitator + an energy facilitator. I offer online workshops. 1:1 offerings coming soon!