“What comes after ambition?” This is the question I held in my fields last year when I started feeling myself being purged of ambition. The answers I got and continue to get are multi-layered, but divesting myself of authority is one of the more recent developments. Who am I without ambition? Who am I without authority? It is a strange, sometimes uncomfortable, but very rich place to be right now, as out of step as Read more…
Over the winter my learning around balance found new ground in our community yoga practice. Even in Vinyasa classes, where transitions are important, most yoga teachers tend to focus on getting students to experience the fullest expression of an asana their body is able to find on any given day. By contrast, our teacher @wellandkell brought mindfulness and playfulness around these oft-forgotten moments. The modest spaces in between poses became, in themselves, fertile ground for exploration. The Read more…
Long, long ago I got confirmed in the Catholic Church on Earth Day, and at the time I felt there was something significant about the coincidence, but it’s taken me decades to come to it. Last year, when I felt the call to build a garden—I mean a food forest sort of garden, not just the hosta garden I was already tending—I was kind of thrown for a loop. It was gonna be a lot Read more…
I may have mentioned before how the Hermit card regularly comes up for me, signaling or confirming an instinct to turn inward for an extended period. Yet surprisingly, the card I’ve been drawing with startling consistency during lockdown has been the High Priestess. She taps into the magic that lies under the hood, in the in-between spaces, in the heart of paradox. In a world that prizes the light of clarity and reason, she reads Read more…
Last year I started teaching a process of graceful change and expansion that I have been doing for myself since 2015. I call it “manifestation mantra” because that is the name that came to me from Spirit, but to be honest I find it a bit misleading. Most people see “manifestation” and think “law of attraction” or “the Secret.” But this isn’t about your mind cooking up an idea of what your life should look Read more…
Earlier this year my 2020 manifestation mantra came to me as I was chipping old paint off a door: “A heart like the sun.” It came in on rays of yellow and orange, so I set up a crystal grid with those colors, including a tarot and oracle card that came up in a personal spread. What I’ve noticed since then was that the learning this mantra brings has certainly been rather elliptical. First there Read more…
Yesterday I had the joy of sharing breath and heart space with two magnificent beings: a pine tree and my Gramps. What a heart field this pine had. I could barely speak while feeling its energy. I could feel it even 20 feet away, and it was very hard to leave. In its presence, all truly felt right with the world. It boggles the mind to stand in such truth in these times, but to Read more…
This morning in that liminal state between sleep and wakefulness I felt myself join the waters of planet, but in such a way that I sensed their connection and their wholeness. I felt, in other words, how the sweet waters eventually flowed into the salty depths of the ocean, only to rise again into the atmosphere and fall as precipitation. This was a beautiful reminder that when you truly begin to recognize that you are Read more…
About two and a half years ago I wrote about how challenging it was to stomach the mounting stream of natural disasters around our planet. Yet what kept coming back to me was this recurring vision that always gave me very odd comfort: a young woman sitting in the rubble of a post apocalyptic scenario. Amidst the apparent disaster I always sensed an undercurrent of hope and excitement: the promise of a new world, perhaps Read more…
When I want to set a stronger intention for walking my highest path and I am not sure what that looks like, I connect with what it feels like. The easiest way I have found to do this was something that the Akashic Records taught me during a client session: connect with the future version of myself that has already gone through whatever experience I am moving through or intend to go through. It is Read more…