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
Kurt Vonnegut wrote that “A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.” Conversely, insanely out of balance, distorted and crazy-making mental states may be the completely sane reaction of a sane person to her insane society. This is how I understand my own bouts with psychic disturbances such as depression and anxiety that… Read More