In the Beginning was the Word – Ogham, or Om, or I Am We will never know for sure and we don’t need to to do what needs doing to tend the Tribe to love everyone to love the Earth to seek the Serpent’s Egg Will you journey with me tonight, oh child of wonder, […]
Alchemy is much misunderstood, usually over-simplified, and frequently used badly out of context – all to the fierce detriment of an amazing tradition. Very rarely these days does anyone actually study the true art, because wowzers, those people tend to blow up a lot of stuff and reek of rotten eggs all the time. I
Step into the Garden, friend, see how lush and brilliant it is! But hush, and breathe, and be still – you don’t want to scare them. Now, don’t look at me like that. You must believe just a little bit, otherwise, why did you pay twenty bucks to get in? The Gnostic Knowms are simply
The search is over. We know where it is. Women have always known. Oh, we play plenty dumb, and try to be helpful with questions like, “Where did you last see it?” and “Can you remember if you had it when you were fighting the Black Knight?” But we totally know. And we’re not telling.
Spell for a Happy Yard Make sure there are lilacs, and a rosebush or two. Leave a few of the Inevitable Maples to grow. Leave the violets. Plant some cedars around the edge instead of building a fence. Have a few raised garden beds and grow things you lovelovelove to eat. Don’t mow it very
There’s a function in recording software called normalize. It does some kind of magic to bring a track into a more uniform volume level, mostly by boosting what’s too quiet to bring it more in line with everything else. Sometimes it’s great. Sometimes it’s terrible. Sometimes it does nothing at all. But it got me to
On Tuesday, April 20, a jury in Minnesota defied our weary expectations and convicted a White police officer of murdering a Black man. Let the bells cry hallelujah! Justice is not dead! When confronted with overwhelming evidence, they didn’t turn a blind eye and do the thing we feared they would do, and they deserve
Life Goal: To live as magical a life as is humanly possible. Oh, I talk about other goals, smaller, more manageable things like growing SoundWorks into a community of healers and artists working together in a multitude of vibrational modalities . . . which is not small, but it’s not as big as live as magical
Forgive me, I’m a little confused. You judge me for my size, sneering at my discomfort under your gaze, believing yourself immune to my slovenliness or laziness or genetic misfortune. Oh, I was skinny once; for about 27 minutes back in 1988. It felt great to move through the world with so little drag. To
Once again, I reach the far end of a week where I know there’s a blog post that needs to be written for Tuesday and . . . crickets. So I surf through past posts to see if I can dig up any inspiration, looking at what I was thinking about in March 2020, 2019,
