Shamanic Practitioner | Poet | Philosopher
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
We in the Bay Area finally received the gift of rain during this holiday season as the hellish Camp Fire ravaged parts of Northern California this month. The air has been heavy with smoke and ash, and the sun has been apocalyptically orange hidden behind a veil of haze and hanging heavy in the sky.… Read More
Autumn is my favorite season. I love the darkening days and the crispy weather. I wait all year for the particular shifting of the light that elongates shadows in October and I always get a boost of energy as we move into the fall. I love Halloween, the Pagan holy day of Samhain, and the… Read More
In the North American Native myths, Spider Woman creates worlds out of thin air. We can see this power in the beautiful architecture captured above at Samuel P. Taylor Park in a perfect spider web that delineates a world in time and space situated between two young trees in which a spider will feed… Read More
Here I am presenting at the American Academy of Religion at the beautiful Pacific Lutheran University in Parkland, Washington, in May, 2018. I spoke about the earliest creator god whom our Indigenous ancestors envisioned as an original single female entity. In the Pueblo mythology, and seen in other mythologies worldwide, this singular creatrix initially projects her… Read More
I awoke Solstice morning to an artful sunrise. The sky was radiant and the colors diffusing through Gaia’s atmosphere were angelic. I have been working with the angelic energies that are present during this season. Let me backtrack a bit. My spiritual teacher Norma Tringali taught that during the season we call the holidays, the… Read More
As I mentioned in post I of this series, we were fortunate to have been able to take our cruise in Alaska during the Autumnal Equinox and to experience incredible weather with brilliant seasonal sunshine. We intentionally booked a cruise that went to Sawyer Glacier via the Tracy Arm, which is an ancient fjord that… Read More
We were fortunate to have been in Alaska during the Autumnal Equinox, that point in the Western hemisphere which marks the seasonal change from summer to autumn. This is the time when light gives way to dark as the days get shorter, and what has blossomed begins its descent into decay. Both these elements were… Read More
This is a picture of a totem we took at the Totem Bight State Historical Park, which is north of Ketchikan in Alaska. It is one of my favorite places. The environment is a rain forest so it is full of awesome trees. Like this one. Besides the great trees and plants, the park is… Read More