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

Tarot Deep Dive: June 2024 Temperance Suite II

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

Summer Solstice 2023 – Resurrection in the Heat of Summer

In the middle of last summer’s heat, the multi-year drought affecting my state wove it’s cyclical death spell deeper into our lives. My thriving garden suddenly turned brown, withered and died. This happened to my company’s flourishing garden as well. It felt like the dying happened overnight and I felt a horrible sense of dread…   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

Solstice 2022 – Sailing to Mexico at Year’s End

Finally, after the years of pandemic we were able to take another cruise, something we enjoy because it gets us out and onto the sea in search of adventures. The compression of living during this especially difficult time has taken a toll on everyone as we have been forced to release old ways of releasing…   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

Animal Inhabitants of the Blue Dog Temple – A Healing Reminder of our Relations

As we have had to go into deep hibernation and the necessary self-reflection that has ensued during this tumultuous period of a shifting world, we have had to be more mindful of the relations which whom we share this sacred physical and spiritual planet. I know everyone has stories of communion with their pets and…   Read More