Writing novels is very different from writing non-fiction, and character building is one of the biggest. I have found it great fun to come up with the different personalities and how they play off one another. I know some authors plan out every aspect of their books beforehand, along with minute details and descriptions of their characters. For me, writing is something that keeps evolving. The words bubble up through me, and though I have an outline of the story’s direction, the details build as I write. (I wrote what became Book 3 first, which shifted everything about how I understood the series.)
Meet Monia
The main character that runs through the Gaea Remembered Series is Monia. She first came to me as an elderly Mehter Thea (Mother Superior in Greek) of the Temple of Gaea on a small ancient Greek island during a writing retreat in Hawaii in 2017. At that time, the story was about a young novice priestess at the temple. For various reasons, the story sat dormant until early 2025, when I had time to return to it. I still thought it was a standalone book. You can read more about this in my previous article, Birth of the Gaea Remembered Series
Monia as a Guide
During a meditation at a Hay House Writers Bootcamp, Monia came through as a guide, and since then it is her voice that comes up through me. I very much felt she wanted her story to be told, for her legacy to be heard over the eons of time. She was born as the world changed from one where women were honoured and were often leaders, the glue that held society together in peaceful collaboration, to one where patriarchy and one God became the norm. A world where the power of woman was restrained, belittled, and squashed.
Over the last century women have been gradually reclaiming their voices, but we have no role models to guide us. We are having to reinvent everything, and at times this has meant, especially in the workplace, women acting like men, using their masculine essence to the detriment of the feminine. This causes stress to increase in both women and men as no one is sure of their role in society.
The world around us feels on many levels as though it is falling apart. Many of us, myself included, are looking for another way of being that is more in harmony with the beauty that Gaea has to offer. A world where we are sovereign beings, living in peace with one another. A world where men and women are co-creators, working together, everyone using their unique gifts and essence. Merging together the best the old world can teach us alongside the best of modern technology, so we and Gaea can flourish.
I see Monia as a guide from the old world, where nature was revered and offered its own healing through the plants and animals that are still all around us today. She teaches the importance of learning to slow down, of taking time to stop and listen, not just to the world around us, but to our own bodies and inner wisdom.
Monia’s Story
Book 1 of the Gaea Remembered series, Daughter of the Solstice, begins with twelve-year-old Monia witnessing the destruction of her family and homeland in ancient Ireland. It is not safe to remain there, and her father sends her to Kemet (ancient Egypt) under the care of his closest friend and right hand, Ameny, to become a ward of his old mentor, the Magi Akhon.
Even though she is grieving, Monia is keen to learn and to remember her ancestral roots: Lemurian from her father and Atlantean from her mother, lineages of ancient wisdom from bygone worlds. Under the gentle guidance of Akhon, she learns to listen, to slow down, and to go inside to be guided by her intuition. She learns how to read and draw hieroglyphs, to listen and remember what the temple energies have to share with her and how to have conversations across the veils of time.
From her grandmother, she learns to be a gifted healer and how to feel her grief rather than distract from it or run from it. She grows into a confident young woman who knows her own mind and is prepared to stand up to the queen to protect her sovereignty and heritage.
I’ve Learnt from Monia
I have learned a great deal from Monia and her processes as I have written her transmission. I hope you will embrace her wisdom too as you read Daughter of the Solstice.
Daughter of the Solstice will be published on 21 June 2026. I will be hosting a launch party on Substack and Zoom. Please follow me on Substack or sign up at https://www.pamlob.com/daughter-of-the-solstice-2/ to receive a free chapter and invitation.
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