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Igniting Our New Moon Fire April 10th, 2013
It has been about a year since I've blogged here. I’ve missed you!
The last 12 months have comprised a period of great shift for me. I know that a lot of us are in the throes of major transition. In an effort to slow down and really integrate the wisdom of recent experience, I spent... [Read More] |  | | Are You In It For The Cure? March 4th, 2012
Well, one thing is for sure: I cannot be accused of junking up anyone’s inbox this winter as I’ve been fairly MIA on the newsletter front. While I have been extremely busy in my practice (thanks to all of you wonderful folks who are a part!), I have also been hard at work on a brand new... [Read More] |  | | Learning to Stay in the Fertile Void December 8th, 2011
This month I have been participating in a 21-day “Spiritual Cleanse” through the Awakening Women Institute. What’s happening during this time of paring down and emptying is that I am re-finding not simply my center, but the center – a place that feels formless and... [Read More] |  | | The End of a Cycle: The Transmutation of Lead into Gold October 29th, 2011
October 28, 2011 was the proposed end date of the Mayan calendar by Carl Calleman. It is said to represent the Ninth Wave, or the top level of a series of evolutionary stages. Calleman's research has shown that this date is important as an evolutionary leap in global consciousness rather than as... [Read More] |  | | Cosmic Jailbreak September 28th, 2011
Yesterday I logged onto Facebook and a fellow yoga teacher posted a picture with the following note scripted inside: “People don’t mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.”
I absolutely love... [Read More] |  | | Tending the Soul Garden May 31st, 2011
June is nearly upon us and we can expect it to be an energetically intense month. Tomorrow marks the beginning of the powerful mid-year triad, with eclipses happening on June 1st, June 15th, and July 1st. The three occur exactly 15 days apart, and all of this is punctuated by an... [Read More] | | | Consolidating Our Inner Power: How to Promote Creative Flow April 30th, 2011
April has been an incredibly rich month – but the energies were not always comfortable! Perhaps you, too, found yourself pushed up against some of your deeper growth edges as the Universe all but forced you to surrender in even bigger ways than you imagined possible. Maybe you went... [Read More] | | | Being Hospitable to the Unknown March 31st, 2011
Spring is a time not only of rebirth, but also of revelation. It is during this season that the snow melts, exposing the previously-hidden Earth once more.
The other day I happened upon a poignant quote from Rebecca Parker. She says, "Revelation comes to those... [Read More] | | | Heeding the Call of the Higher Self February 28th, 2011
This morning I logged onto Facebook and, there in my newsfeed, was a shared link from one of my favorite writers, Rob Brezsny, to an Onion article entitled "Open-Minded Man Grimly Realizes How Much Life He's Wasted Listening to Bullshit." I chuckled, clicked on it, and passed it... [Read More] | | | On Depth Psychology and "New Age" Spirituality January 27th, 2011
As a healer/therapist (and, admittedly, one who might be said to embrace a "metaphysical" paradigm of thought), I have been thinking a great deal lately about the relationship between what I am going to call depth psychology (think Jung, shadow self, integration) and "New Age"... [Read More] | | | The Gifts of Grace and Surrender December 23rd, 2010
Last week, not only did we celebrate the Solstice, but we also saw the first total lunar eclipse to fall on a winter solstice in 372 years! The last time a lunar eclipse corresponded with a winter solstice was on December 21, 1638.
Mythologically speaking, the Winter Solstice... [Read More] | | | Moving Up the Vibrational Scale November 21st, 2010
As November winds down and we prepare for Thanksgiving, I have been thinking quite a bit about the trajectory that the month has taken. Several weeks ago, we began with the mid-term election, an event that troubled me greatly (although not for the reasons that you might imagine). No,... [Read More] | | | The Crack Between the Worlds October 25th, 2010
Next week Halloween will be upon us -- ahh, the fun of costumes, parties, and gorging on candy! But, as the Real Witches, Pagans, and others who follow Earth-based Goddess traditions would have it, there is a deeper spiritual meaning underlying the holiday that predates... [Read More] | | | Dialoguing with Mystery September 19th, 2010
Next week marks the arrival of the Autumn Equinox; on September 23rd, the hours of daylight and darkness will be in perfect balance. From then on, as we move into the season of Fall, night becomes longer than day.
Some astrologers and scientists believe that during the... [Read More] | | | Heal the Individual, Heal the Collective August 17th, 2010
Here we are, well into the "Dog Days" of summer, where temperatures...and tempers...are at their height. I don't know if you've considered it, but, lately, there seems to be almost an epidemic of people "losing it" in some manner -- from the woman in Ohio who punched out a... [Read More] | | | Mystical Maturity and Intuition July 16th, 2010
So here we are in the seventh month of the year...and, in numerology, 7 is a highly-charged number. In fact, it is sometimes known as "the number of the Universe." Consider, for a moment, how 7 is represented -- there are 7 wonders of the world, 7 pillars of wisdom, 7 days of... [Read More] | | | The Sun June 16th, 2010
Last week I had a fascinating conversation with a client who informed me about a relatively recent news story. About a month ago there was a decent amount of press about Indian holy man Prahlad Jani who claims to have lived for decades without food or water. At the time, he was being... [Read More] | | | Mothering Energy May 9th, 2010
Last night I attended my 15th year high school reunion. Growing up I went to a small, private, Quaker school; my graduating class had 43 students total and many of us remained together for 12 years. Thus, the experience of communing with old classmates is flavored with a strange... [Read More] | | | The Shadow in Spring April 10th, 2010
Last weekend, when I originally sat down to think about my April newsletter, I came across this seasonally-appropriate, albeit snarky quote: "Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there." Perhaps you don't even celebrate Easter and, even if you do, you might... [Read More] | | | Welcome, Spring! March 19th, 2010
For the last several weeks I've been making my way through a wonderful book called Pronoia by Rob Brezsny. Its title is taken to mean the opposite of paranoia; the premise is that the Universe is actually conspiring to bless us. Now, I understand that this could all sound ridiculously... [Read More] | |
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