Shamanic Practitioner | Poet | Philosopher
Last Sunday I had an amazing communion with a dragonfly. I was tending my garden beds while my wizard husband tended the yard. Suddenly, a large dragonfly appeared in the air front of me. I snapped to attention because I had not observed dragonflies in my garden till now. I was immediately excited and dropped… Read More
Our garden has been a place of deep healing and learning for me after coming off several decades of Western education and spiritual training. Everything is alive and awaiting to be revealed as I learn to pay more attention to what is happening on the micro and macro levels of life doing what it does.… Read More
After coming off a graduate program that lasted fifteen years and after decades of esoteric study and spiritual training, I have had to ask myself what am I doing now? I am at the point in my life at which I am assimilating large amounts of knowledge and integrating some intense experiences that I have… Read More
The summer season brings a first harvest. Even as we experience another heat wave here in Northern California, the first fruits from our garden have ripened and I have with much delight harvested some of them. Summer harvest is a sacred time of reaping what we have sown during the winter and spring seasons. During these earlier… Read More
The art of spiritual communion is the masterful art of 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… 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