Some of us have reached the age where our heroes are disappearing off the face of the Earth. We have to figure out how to navigate a world without Tina Turner, Gordon Lightfoot, Cormac McCarthy, Harry Belafonte … so many are gone. It’s part of growing up, like being kicked out of yet another nest. […]
I am a night-lover, a moon-chaser, a star-gazer, an aurora-guzzler … Yep, I am one spacey cadet. And I do not get out under a naked sky on a lunedark night nearly often enough. Lunedark? Is that not a word? I beg to differ. My friend Sam Knutson recently recommended a book to me called
The land has stories to tell for those who are willing to listen. It’s not a quick and easy process. You have to learn to hear them, and earn their trust. But through the Shamanic work I am doing, I am learning to use my ears in another new way, and the Land Spirits are
I did something recently that scared the shit out of me, but ended up really, really good anyway. I don’t need to elaborate, much anyway, because really, it’s kind of a universal idea. I knew I needed to do a thing, figured out a way to make it happen, sewed an extra pocket into the
I suspect that I am not alone in feeling this. It’s Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, and thank Goddess it’s green again, and the days have been just lovely and the birds, as few as there are these days, are out and about and building the nests and making the babies … and it seems
I try not to whine about my personal shit – unless I can use it as fodder for a post. I’ve been sick as the proverbial dog since the end of February. Not with the ‘rona, or any other virus that’s currently stalking the land. No. I have been sick as a dog because of
Photo by Matt Neely, 2017 Solar Eclipse, used with permission One can be a single unit or a sum greater than its parts We are, each of us, One and sometimes two become One But the power of the individual is in the ability to share a vision a mission or a life We are
The Big Secret is, secrets are dumb and we are better than that. People who want to have secrets are people who want power over others. Anybody who says to you, “Yes, I can teach you the secrets of blah blah blah universal blah blah blah, sign up for my $6000 course,” might be taking
I’ve written about him before, plenty, because he’s just so gosh darn fascinating. I really can’t help myself. So first, let’s just establish here, that the original mentions of our 6th Century CE friend Merlin (from a book called Historia Brittonum, attributed to a monk called Nennius in the 7th Century CE), are all about
It’s the Vernal Equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Autumnal Equinox for our friends in the Southern. Happy Equality Day, everybody! There, I fixed it. I have been ranting for … a couple years now about this whole Equinox binary story, and I just realized this morning that this holiday has been celebrated
