After this year of awakening as our world restructures itself, we find ourselves gaping at our accelerated social transformation. Despite the horror we’ve been witnessing, I find myself ready for a seasonal shift. I realized it was time to change my outlook, my vibe and my wardrobe. With the oncoming of celestial light I feel… Read More
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
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
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
I’m stuck! I was thinking this as I face an increased work load in a job I want to leave and because I am at a loss to manifest the many new avenues of creation I desire to explore. I have been fighting futility because I can’t envision what could be next for me in… Read More
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
As the drama trauma in which we find ourselves alive and awake continues to unfold in cosmic comedic karmic moments of absurdity, it is important that we remember to remember who we are–spiritual beings experiencing being human on this sentient planet. The great gift is that all lifeforms are alive and we are free to… Read More