Shamanic Practitioner | Poet | Philosopher
One year ago on Feb 1, the old Shell oil refinery located down the street from our house that has stood for a century and creates jobs for thousands in our area including me burst into flames. It was a Sunday and the holy pagan day of Imbolg, a sacred Celtic cross-quarter fire festival. After… Read More
Coming off our trip to Alaska at the Autumn Equinox, even as we’re collectively living through an absurd psycho clown-car year of incredible chaotic destruction, I find my spiritual antenna activated at this Solstice season. I am ablaze. The increasing seasonal darkness occurring at the Autumn Equinox terminates in full expression at the Winter Solstice.… Read More
Once again we found ourselves undertaking pilgrimage to dazzling Alaska at the pagan holy day of Mabon. This Celtic cross-quarter season celebrates the necessary establishing of balance – with self, family, community, relations and the planet. Passing under the Golden Gate is always thrilling because we know we are traveling to a fantastic realm of… Read More
This rant is a fist thrust to the sky I wrote after the devastating election. I am posting it now with a eclectic selection of photos that remind me of the preciousness of this human life rife with raw beauty and thrilling adventures. Enjoy these pics from our latest journey to Alaska. May they cleanse… Read More
I love this time of year. In fall I come alive. I feel the expectant crackling energy of the coming rejuvenating dark seasons pulsing through me. Being that I am a devotee of Persephone, I know that it’s time to follow the cyclical path of her descent to the Underworld to face my inner self… Read More
Wtf! Is going on in this world right now? The seasonal evolutionary heat is on. Turned up so high our outer and the inner realities are synchronized in perfect accelerated chaos for nearly everything and everyone. It’s like hell and heaven existing in the same point of time and space dancing some crazy-assed prophesied evolutionary… Read More
My personal go-to card spread is based on the Sun Lodge spread and the Celtic Cross. It’s a spiral pattern culminating in a right-handed staff, which represents the elements, Western metaphysical correspondences and the Celtic Pagan year wheel. The the spiral represents body, mind, spirit, emotions and center while the staff position is a riff… Read More
I had a hard week on all levels of my being –physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. I’m not new to the raucous life rodeo, but these last days have kicked my ass. Usually at least one of my antennae seems to be on straight, but this week I felt as if I was totally off… Read More
I went to see Barbie with two friends of mine earlier this year. Together we spanned three generations of women. The youngest pushed me to go. “You have to go” she emphasized with urgency. “You have to!” So we went, snacks abounding, to the movie theater which was a treat after the isolation of Covid.… Read More
The Solstice seasonal wheel is turning and so we find ourselves careening into 2024 — at the forefront of a profound massive evolutionary shift of consciousness that will quantumly affect us individually and collectively. Where will we as souls land in this uncharted terrain? How exciting! Despite the absurd clown-car hell realm in which we… Read More