It is Samhain 2020. I take the exquisite piece of craft work out of the bag. The label on it reads, in my mothers hand,...
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“Safe Passage”
Sail Forth Sail forth – steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O Soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me, For we are...
Ours not Mine
Do you have experiences sometimes of feeling like someone has copied your idea? Or that an idea you’ve had is suddenly the zeitgeist of the...
‘What we Expected but did not Receive’
Francis Weller is one of my teachers, even though I’ve never met him. He writes and speaks about the 5 Gates of Grief. These are...
From the Inside Out ~ Exploring Direct Inner Action as part of the Change needed at this time
It is my belief that grief is part of the healing and maturing we, as a species, need to do in order to be made...
The Bird Guide at the Threshold ~ What does it mean to be a Vision Quest Guide?
His little body flailed around in my hand, and sometimes was still. I had no idea how this creature came to be in his final...
Challenging our Healthy Boundaries
We are living in a time of prevailing disconnection. Our whole system – political, economical, and societal is colluding that this is the hole we...
Belonging is Healing
There is a fundamental aspect of being fully alive that many of us do not experience – knowing our belonging. This is so intrinsic to...
Self Care or Avoidance?
I intend to explore something here that I experience myself and also something that I perceive in others. It’s around the fine line between taking...
Authentic Ceremony & Reciprocity
My experience of creating what might be termed ‘indigenous’ ceremonies is an ongoing feeling-in-the dark experiment, an emergent feeling into what is needed, and what...