Happy Birthday Joan of Arc!

Yesterday, January 6, was Joan of Arc's birthday. She was born exactly 600 years ago in the year 1412. As I slacked on the blog post (sorry yesterday was crazy), the country of France wildly celebrated Joan's birthday anniversary. If you're up for a bit of a history lesson, check out my Joan of Arc website where you can take a journey through images of France and get a feel for her accomplishments. If you wish to read an engaging first-person account of Joan from a mystic's perspective, check out my ebook on Amazon or my website devoted to my Joan writings. This exceptional girl has been a strong influence in my personal and professional Inner Constellation work and here's why:

1) Joan valued personal freedom above all else ('freedom' was her North Star)
2) She identified anything encroaching upon this basic human right and overcame it (i.e. foreign invaders entering her country)

I decided to highlight Joan in this month's Freedom Series and as January unfolds, explore her North Star--that of freedom. Here are some questions I'll be considering, great ones for the new year, 2012:

1) What does it mean to be free both in actuality and symbolically?
2) How do we identify and knock down obstacles to complete freedom?
3) What does it mean to be strongly rooted in the North Star of freedom in spite of opposition?
4) In what ways is Joan's North Star continuing to shine around the globe, especially in places like the Middle East and countries continuing to fight for this most basic of human rights?

Whew, that should keep me busy! I would love to hear your thoughts, especially if you were born, like Joan, in a country fighting to keep the North Star of freedom shining.