Rx for Summer Intensity – Lammas 2024

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

Summer Solstice 2023 – Depression in the Moment of Radical Evolution

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

Faery Summer Garden! 2021

In the garden one can find everything–food, communion, beauty, healing, knowledge and joy. This is a share from my personal garden journal as I teach myself how to tend this space and become a better steward in the world. Hopefully, this photo essay transmits the absolute joy I feel being intimate with plants, and cultivating…   Read More

Equinox 2021 – Catching the Faery Fire of Spring

If you want to play with the Faery realm it’s best to make it your business to cultivate light and also to catch those moments when the Earth’s elements are in wild play–after a storm when rain water rises to steam as the ground heats up or when the vibrant blast of winter chill punctuates…   Read More

Incandescence of the Natural World – Healing in this Time of Transmutation

I have been feeling overwhelmed — on a personal and family level, and with society at large. A lot is happening at the same time as we transition our consciousness to keep up with the evolutionary forces that govern our reality. It has been hard for me to know what is real and what is…   Read More

Seeds of New Consciousness — Letting Go

I have been tending my garden this season as it incandescently displays its spring to summer transitional dance of relationships — sun, soil, wind, insects, birds, plants and seeds all in sacred interplay at the various stages of their lifecycles. Meanwhile I am the observant and reverent witch who caretakes this parcel of Earth with…   Read More

Personal Witchery – Assimilating Knowledge and reflecting on the long, strange trip it’s been

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

Seasonal Witchery – First Harvest & Summer Abundance

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