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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
We are a web of light, glowing, shining, beaming the path for ourselves and others to tread as we move toward wholeness. We are the keepers of ancient knowledge, lodged in our bodies and our psyches. We have suffered. We have rejoiced. We have loved. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We [...]
There are moments, even in bright sunlight, when grief overcomes me and I sob, wailing in a voice I’m too proud to let anyone hear. I weep, thinking of all I have left undone as I become increasingly aware of my mortality. I howl, thinking of roads not taken, life not experienced. “I’m too young [...]
"When we truly grasp for the first time that the symbol of woman can be a vessel of the sacred, that it too can be an image of the Divine, our lives will begin to pivot," says author Sue Monk Kidd in The Dance of the Dissident Daughter. Clay bowls made by potter friends, wooden [...]
