Shamanic Practitioner | Poet | Philosopher
The art of spiritual communion is the masterful making of relationship with the world around us. We enjoy relationships with others in our family and community, and with our beloved pets and plants everyday, but what about those entities who are not embodied but with whom we share a planet? The Faery are perhaps one… Read More
I have been working with dream yoga for many years. This is an ancient practice in which one seeks to activate lucid dream states for the purposes of exploring ourselves as more than what we are told we are in this perceptually limited consensus reality. I want to post some of my experiences with my… Read More
Husband and I were playing in our garden after days of heavy rain. The power of the elements of water, fire, earth, and air in a great winter to spring dance of inter-relation was palpable. As we stood outside, the ground was soaking up the water even as the water was evaporating back into the… Read More
Here comes the rain storm on this holy day of February 1 in Northern California even as the rest of the country is experiencing an uncharacteristic deep freeze. The winter to spring season is historically expressed in European Pagan traditions as the holy day of Imbolc and the light festival of St. Brigid. This is… Read More
I put some seeds into containers today in anticipation of a spring garden. I was waiting until the moon began to wane and was in the astrological sign of Scorpio, a fixed water sign and a perfect seasonal mood to plant new seeds. Of course the witch in me knows that everything in reality is… Read More
These last few weeks I have been feeling the spring in the winter as short bursts of blue sky illuminated by full sun break through blankets of grey overcast clouds and the spurts of welcomed rain we are experiencing in Northern California. Even with these moments of light and warmth, it is still cold in the… Read More
Here in Northern California the weather is dry and chilly, but moments in the sun remind me of the fiery energy of spring pulsing just under the winter cold. I love the darkness of winter but I also love the tease of spring that reveals itself in brief moments of light. Here is a photo I… Read More
I am deep into the energy of the Solstice as I experience my physiological, emotional, and spiritual responses to the ancient tide of swelling darkness that occurs during this potent seasonal portal. During this seasonal movement of energy, one that portends the new year and invites us to review all matters of life, I am… Read More
Relations are members of the planetary family with whom we share our environment. They are both physical and other-than-physical, and in my worldview they are unique persons with their own souls, lives, perceptions, and agendas and should be respected as individuals. And if we are lucky enough to be in relation with some of them, even… Read More
The seasonal transition from autumn into winter marks the time of descent in many cultural myths. It is the period in the Western hemisphere in which we are called by the cycles of nature to physiologically, psychologically, and metaphysically turn inward. It is a time of closing in, of reconsidering, of re-calibrating and re-adjusting as we… Read More