Hi! I’m VaneetaBefore I tell you about myself, I would like to give you a few thoughts to contemplate. From my understanding:
13.8 billion years ago a supernova took place in the Universe creating the world.
4.6 billion years ago gas and dust combined to form the Sun.
4.5 billion years ago our watery Earth collided with the divine Theia granting us the Moon.
This supernova also gave us nuclear fusions all over the galaxies that released powerful forces of energies that today we call Stars. We are made up of these stars.
We are Stardust.
Today we live on this Earth which gifts us 365 Sunrises and 13 Full Moons.
Some call it science, and I believe this science is magic.
Always knowing this makes me believe that something greater than myself is at play. It is this belief that has kept me moving through life, especially through my darkest days.
I derive from a Sikh Punjabi background, with grandparents that were displaced during the 1940’s Punjab partition. In the past, with little understanding of my background, I resisted my roots. Now, I wholeheartedly embrace it with awareness of the trauma my ancestors faced and still do today. Oppression presents itself in many forms and every one of us are battling our own generational wounding.
As a young girl, I noticed how emotions, sensitivity and softness were shamed. How pain was considered weak. How rest was unacceptable. How creativity was seen as childish. How a woman’s voice was squashed if she spoke her mind. Or, how girls or women had the rights to make decisions for their own lives taken away from them. This world that has not been designed to support women has suppressed the feminine in this patriarchal system.
During my teen life, whilst rejecting my roots, I was simultaneously conforming to societal expectations because I wanted to feel like I have a place in this world. Struggling to fulfil others perception of me sent my mental, emotional, and physical health crashing into twenty plus years of anxiety and depression.
From the age of 16 I held a variety jobs, from being a tutor to working in a small publishing company. Whilst remaining committed to my writing, it was when I left University that I pushed myself deeper into the working world. After several jobs I landed a position that I was not happy in; my creativity felt squashed in an environment that was not for me. The Universe forced me to wake up when she made me redundant.
This is when my journey started at 28 years old when I walked away from the path others were designing for me. I set out to help myself and found my way home to my Self when I discovered the sovereign power in the feminine. She can be soft and strong. She can be receptive whilst holding healthy boundaries. She can express and serve. She can nurture and grow. Little did I know my inner feminine was raging for freedom since a tender age, because creative writing became my emotional outlet for expression and self-understanding.
At the age of sixteen, my admiration for words led me to penning my own novels and producing the Silver Lining Series; a supernatural story based on healing and growth. When publishing the novels over a decade later, my only intention was to support people. Till this day, I hope my novels help with their underlying self-help messages through the characters experiences.
I have been navigating my journey of Self-discovery in this school called Life for nearly six years; every day I am learning. When I look up at the sky, I am reminded that I am a speck of dust in this grand game at play and that every single moment I breathe is a gift. One of my many obsessions in life is emphasising the creative, loving, and powerful energy of the divine feminine. Through the knowledge I learn, the lessons I experience, the creativity I express and the words that I pen I intend to remind women to hone their femininity in hopes that it helps them to step into their sovereignty.
