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Feminine Fire Rising Migration
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Gone from both. The checklist is 27 items now, and the certificate paragraph is out of the email file so nobody trips over it later.
The plain text I gave you above is unaffected, so that's still the version to send Annie.
Name change student email copy
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Straight answer to your question: yes, but not as a story about a decision.
The reader of this page is a prospect. She has no history with either name and no stake in your business decisions. If the section becomes "we used to be called X, here's what happened," the page turns to face you instead of her, right at the moment she's deciding whether this is for her.
But the flip does need stating, in one clause, because she will meet the old name on the tagline and in the manifesto and it would be strange unexplained.
The useful reframe: your students get the story, your prospects get the meaning. The email already does the story job. This page just needs to say what both names mean and why both are here.
One thing worth noticing. As a title, the old name was a demand: read this explanation before you're allowed to consider the course. As a tagline, it's an offer she can take or leave. The reclamation argument lands better in that position, because it's no longer standing between her and the decision.
Here's the rewrite. Same CSS untouched, so it'll behave identically in LearnWorlds.
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The copy, so you can read it without opening the file:
THE NAME
Why Feminine Fire Rising?
Fire holds two things at once. The fury and the warmth. The thing that burns and the thing everyone gathers round. Most words make you pick one, and women have spent a very long time being asked to pick the warm one.
There is a year in the Chinese calendar called the fire horse. It comes round once every sixty years, and this is one of them. In Japan a belief grew up that a girl born in a fire horse year would be ungovernable, and that the man who married her would not survive her.* In 1966 enough families believed it that the birth rate fell by a quarter. Half a million children who were not born, because of what a daughter might turn out to be. We have named this course after the thing they were afraid of.
You will also see Sacred Pussy Magic around these pages. That was the name of this course, and it is now the line that sits underneath it. The word has been used against women for a long time, to shame our sexuality, our feelings and our power.** We are not handing it back. As a title it was doing all the talking, and we would rather talk about the course. As a tagline it stays exactly what it has always been, which is ours.
We're Aimee and Annie, two women in our midlife years who have done the real work, not the performed version of it, and built this course from what we actually learned on the other side. We speak from experience, from the kind of difficult inner work that doesn't always look pretty, and from a genuine belief that a woman who has stopped shrinking changes everything around her.
We hold this work, and we hold you, with complete seriousness and in deep reverence.
What I did with your question about the flip: it's one clause. "That was the name of this course, and it is now the line that sits underneath it." Anyone who knew the old name gets their answer; anyone who didn't reads straight past it.
Four other choices worth knowing about.
Your Aimee-and-Annie paragraph is untouched. It was doing the page's real job, which was never explaining a word. It was telling her who she's dealing with.
The fire horse paragraph is the new hook. It replaces the reclamation argument as the thing that stops her scrolling, and it's a stronger hook because it's a story with numbers in it rather than a position she has to agree with before she can continue.
The footnote does the honesty work. It says the superstition is Japanese and that the Chinese calendar carries no such meaning, which keeps you on the right side of your own brand rule about facts. It also pre-empts anyone who thinks you've made it up.
"We are not handing it back." That's the line carrying the reclamation now. It says more in five words than the old two paragraphs did, and from a position of strength rather than defence.
One thing to check: the CSS is byte-identical to yours, so if the old block is still on the page you'll want to swap rather than add, or you'll have two .spm-lesson style blocks fighting.
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Fabulous. I like it. I wonder if when introducing us as the course creators it is stronger to say that we built the course and community that we needed. In real life, we often tell people how much this course has changed us. It has forced us to be accountable to what we know to be true. And we crave the community of others that drives this.
That's stronger, and it's stronger for a specific reason worth naming.
The current paragraph is a credentials move: we've done the work, we're qualified, here it is. It edges toward the guru voice your brand guide explicitly rules out. What you're describing does the opposite. It says we are in this with you, still, and the course is what keeps us honest.
For this audience that increases your authority rather than reducing it. The woman you're writing to has done the therapy and the circles and the courses and is suspicious of anyone claiming to have arrived. Your own quiz already makes this argument in the Wildfire read: even the most lit woman slips without other women around her. Saying that about yourselves on the sales page is consistent, and it's true.
It also does something useful structurally. It makes the community the point rather than a feature listed further down.
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We're Aimee and Annie, two women in our midlife years. We built this course because we needed it. It is the room we could not find, and making it has changed us more than we expected. It keeps holding us accountable to the things we already knew and were not always living, which turns out to be most of the work. We are not at the front of the room, we are in it. A woman who has stopped shrinking changes everything around her, and we would like to be surrounded by them.
Notes on what I did with your words.
"The room we could not find" is lifted from your own quiz copy, in the belonging close. Using it here means the two pieces rhyme for anyone who arrives via the quiz.
"Accountable to the things we already knew and were not always living" sits deliberately close to the Powerhouse Furnace line, I know all of this, I just can't seem to live it. That's the sentence your audience recognises herself in, and having you say it about yourselves is the whole move.
I kept "a woman who has stopped shrinking changes everything around her" because it was the best line in the old paragraph and it points outward at the movement. "We would like to be surrounded by them" is the honest self-interest you described, which suits the voice better than a stated belief does.
One thing I dropped: "the real work, not the performed version of it." Good line, but it's a claim about being ahead, and the new paragraph is built on not being. Say the word if you want it back and I'll find it a home.
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The name
Why Feminine Fire Rising?
Fire holds two things at once. The fury and the warmth. The thing that burns and the thing everyone gathers round. Most words make you pick one, and women have spent a very long time being asked to pick the warm one.
There is a year in the Chinese calendar called the fire horse. It comes round once every sixty years, and this is one of them. In Japan a belief grew up that a girl born in a fire horse year would be ungovernable, and that the man who married her would not survive her.* In 1966 enough families believed it that the birth rate fell by a quarter. Half a million children who were not born, because of what a daughter might turn out to be. We have named this course after the thing they were afraid of.
You will also see Sacred Pussy Magic around these pages. That was the name of this course, and it is now the line that sits underneath it. The word has been used against women for a long time, to shame our sexuality, our feelings and our power.** We are not handing it back. As a title it was doing all the talking, and we would rather talk about the course. As a tagline it stays exactly what it has always been, which is ours.
We're Aimee and Annie, two women in our midlife years. We built this course because we needed it. It is the room we could not find, and making it has changed us more than we expected. It keeps holding us accountable to the things we already knew and were not always living, which turns out to be most of the work. We are not at the front of the room, we are in it. A woman who has stopped shrinking changes everything around her, and we would like to be surrounded by them.
We hold this work, and we hold you, with complete seriousness and in deep reverence.
