Big ol magic moon: Lunar Beltane in the hills

That big ol silly moon, just a stand out in the sky like someone shot a paint ball up there and smack-landed it on the flat east canvas, a perfect white slab.  She was staring at me while the sun was still out.  A smile I couldn’t reach or run from, just had to laugh…

Cycles of creativity

Thanks for this, Andrea! As a woman, cyclical knowing is our cherished knowing: the phases of living, that include, as the moon, a wane or dying, though not to entirety but on a continuum: that we grow new again. Like spirals, on and on. I am thinking the most lately about the soul life, the…

My second half. Suddenly I am different.

My second half started yesterday–the reflective part of my cycle, post-ovulation. It is amazing–suddenly I am different woman, unknown to myself or at least in context of the “committed to her work and firey with creative projects rebel grl” of the past several weeks. Today me, she just wants depth.  She has neeeeds.  Clings to,…

She stayed.

I hope, with deepest love, that you also know the Mary, Maria, Mir-yam, Guadalupe of wilder heart, of long journeys with a blurred map,of night fires at the far encampment that you know the Old Lady who in the old stories, when nearly all the apostles ran away… She stayed… Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Women’s Mysteries: Venus & Our Perceptions of Love

There is in fact no separation between human and divine love, because all real love is divine, and divinely powerful and transformatory.  Andrew Harvey Something so exquisite about the lines of the body when there is breath and stillness to fill it, just as there is something so exquisite about returning to your space, no matter how…

New Moon at the New Year

….means prophecy. Such a peak night, when our inward and outward nature’s actually align and if we want to abandon ourselves to whim, we can actually see within our soul glow straight to the magic medicine of the heart. Good questions for right now concern what you care most about, what you value, what brings…

Christmas Love

Luke 2:15-20 15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they went with haste, and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in…