As I write this blogpost, we’re in the energy of the new Leo Moon. In my tradition, this is a time for setting intentions for what we need, or would like, to bring into our lives. In a few days, it a time is set aside in the Northern Hemisphere to offer gratitude for the [...]
“And I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder.” – poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died at 101 last year, said, and as we honor National Poetry Month. Maundy Thursday. Good Friday. Passover begins at sundown Friday. Full Moon in Libra on Friday/Saturday (depending on where you are on the planet.) Easter Sunday. Earth [...]
Imbolc asks us to wake up, to pay attention. Imbolc marks the halfway point between the Winter Solstice and the Vernal Equinox and represents the quickening of Mother Earth, when life stirs deep within the land, bringing the promise of spring. Imbolc comes on February 2 this year, although in some places it is celebrated [...]
As I post this blogpost to my website, the Long Night’s Moon is just past full, and she is still bright in the sky, heralding the coming of light from the sun on Winter Solstice, just a day away. The blogpost below is adapted from one I wrote in 2018. As the moon wanes, and [...]
Occasionally, all the compartments that are my life coalesce into a pattern of connection – a pattern I hadn’t realized was developing. Such has been the case recently, and will continue into autumn. In the midst of the pandemic, my friend and artist Marybeth Bradbury has created a series of amazing paintings she calls “Martyrs [...]
In my February, 2020 newsletter I wrote an article about needing to change my relationship with time. That month I also offered a free MP3 meditation download about the subject. Who knew then that I would view my relationship with time so differently a year later? But, here we are. I can be a very [...]
The fields lay fallow, the crops are harvested, and the darkness grows each day as we move toward the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. For me, this is a melancholy time of the year, when lingering twilight sends me spinning back to ancient times, remembering the need to keep the hearth fires burning, and [...]
In the early 1970s a coworker asked, “What do you believe?” I started writing a document attempting to answer this question, and I’m still writing it. As I learned and grew and changed, many of my beliefs grew and changed, while others remain steadfast to the lessons I learned as a very small child. How [...]
I’m writing this post on Lunar Imbolc, the day the Moon is New in the sign of Aquarius, January 24, here in my eastern US time zone. Imbolc occurs here in the Northern Hemisphere on February 1 this year....
Is 2020 the year you promised you'd work more on your spiritual growth? Is this the year in which you want to tune in to yourself, and to the universal energy around you? If you're like me, you start January 1 each year with these intentions, and then reality hits - jobs, laundry, grocery shopping, [...]
