Marilyn Steele, Author at Dr. Marilyn

Everything, Everywhere All At Once: Becoming the Light in Spite of it All

Everything, Everywhere All At Once: Becoming the Light in Spite of it All

By Marilyn Steele|2026-02-17T18:17:37-06:00March 31st, 2025|Blog|

Greetings beautiful souls, "The human heart is the first home of democracy", said Terry Tempest Williams. And our hearts are being broken daily by the stream of unjust, illegal, cruel policies from this Administration. It is a time of American reckoning which shakes us to the core. How do we go on? And what is our place in this terrible testing time of initiation? We grieve. We resist. We create. We love. We gather together for strength. We are in a mythic time, with mythic characters on the national and world stage destroying [...]

YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE and IMBOLC, AND THE WOLF MOON

YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE and IMBOLC, AND THE WOLF MOON

By Marilyn Steele|2026-02-27T16:36:56-06:00February 11th, 2025|spiritual ecology, Stories|

Greetings beautiful souls, DREAMING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD:MAPPING A-MOTHERWORLD "Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing absurdity." – Vaclav Havel I have been struggling to find ways to make hope possible rather than despair convincing. On the morning after the Inauguration, reluctant to rise, "distant from the hope of myself"(Mary Oliver)I remembered the dream: I am outside in a stone landscape, balanced on [...]

After the Rain, Fire

After the Rain, Fire

By Marilyn Steele|2025-02-20T13:15:48-06:00January 5th, 2025|Blog|

Greetings beautiful souls, One day last week, I took these photos of an immense and textured sky. We had just been through a "bomb cyclone", a storm of hurricane proportions, here in northern California. And of course there had been the election. John Coltrane was playing "After the Rain" on my car radio. I thought: After the rain comes fire. When I woke up the morning after the Presidential election a month ago and heard the results, I said to myself "Huh." So there's that. Although I had been engaged and active, obsessively following the [...]

CALLING ALL MYSTICS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: TIME FOR A REVOLUTION (OF LOVE)

CALLING ALL MYSTICS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: TIME FOR A REVOLUTION (OF LOVE)

By Marilyn Steele|2024-06-28T13:26:48-05:00June 28th, 2024|DIVINE FEMININE, Shamanic dreaming, spiritual ecology, Stories|

Greetings beautiful souls, A large brown mama bear with her slightly darker cub walk along the rosemary covered retaining wall in the long grass of my backyard hill. They pause to look at me. It is a summons. My dream over the weekend of the Solstice and the Full Moon called me to my stalled work on the Motherworld book, Spirit directed, and to focus again on the wisdom and powers of the Dreamtime. Perhaps you, too, are feeling the urgency of a call to find your courage, to bring your powers to [...]

Remember the sacred stories of our own wild souls!

Remember the sacred stories of our own wild souls!

By Marilyn Steele|2023-07-25T17:55:59-05:00July 25th, 2023|Blog|

Happy Super Full Moon in Capricorn. In ancient times Capricorn was symbolized by the Seagoat, who was connected to the invisible mysteries as well as visible earth. It also represents the Council of Grandmothers, the wisdom of the Wise Elders, who can help us build and manifest a long lasting foundation for life anchored in the heart. As the Sun entered Cancer at the Solstice June 21, beginning our Summer in the Northern hemisphere we gathered the imaginative stories spun at the Gemini new moon. Perhaps Grandmother Spider Woman is spinning a new [...]

MOTHERWORLD: FROM THE HEART OF CREATION, A CALL TO LOVE

MOTHERWORLD: FROM THE HEART OF CREATION, A CALL TO LOVE

By Marilyn Steele|2022-08-05T14:35:18-05:00August 5th, 2022|Blog, News|

Art: Sally Barlow August is an especially intense month for radical change and creation. Driving along turning over the latest stories of fires and floods, the growing stream of revelations of attempts to undermine democracy in the U.S., the mountains of sorrow over the murdered children of Uvalde, the Supreme Court overturning Roe vs. Wade and crippling the EPA, I felt my heart was on fire with fury. What then is my role in this? Where can I help? I mulled over some wonderful groups and classes and gatherings that are [...]

Flowering Wild Feminine Power & Leadership

Flowering Wild Feminine Power & Leadership

By Marilyn Steele|2021-12-10T17:24:35-06:00August 20th, 2021|Blog|

“We are here to build something great” (sign on a truck in front of me this morning) “We have seen what we thought was unseeable” A physicist on viewing the first image of a black hole by Dr. Katie Bouman The war on women continues. The challenges to the rule of law. The numerous cruelties to children, immigrants. Destructive decisions that harm our beloved planet and kin. The “evil on top of the table” as Jung put it, rather than hidden out of sight underneath. We lost Polly Higgins, a lawyer for the [...]

The Greening of the Soul: Creativity & the Wild Feminine

The Greening of the Soul: Creativity & the Wild Feminine

By Marilyn Steele|2021-12-10T17:25:15-06:00August 20th, 2021|Baby Boomers, Blog, DIVINE FEMININE, Dreamtime, Eco-feminism, Ecopsychology, feminine power, Feminism, Happiness, Jungian psychology, New Story, spiritual ecology, Women and Leadership, women's leadership|

Did you not see that when your creative force turned to the world, how the dead things moved under it and through it, how they grew and prospered, and how your thoughts flowed in rich rivers? If your creative force now turns to the place of the soul, you will see how your soul becomes green and how its field bears wonderful fruit? – C.G. Jung, The Red Book In yoga this week, we were doing a pose called “Parivrtta” something. (I looked it up: Parivrtta Paschimottanasana.) One leg is stretched straight out; [...]

Walk in Beauty & Power

Walk in Beauty & Power

By Marilyn Steele|2021-12-10T17:25:12-06:00August 20th, 2021|Blog|

Hope can be neither affirmed nor denied. Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path- yet, as people are walking all the time in the same spot, a way appears. –Lu Xun, Chinese Poet & Essayist Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky…Hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency… because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth’s treasures and [...]

After the Apocalypse: Dreaming in the Time of Corona

After the Apocalypse: Dreaming in the Time of Corona

By Marilyn Steele|2021-12-10T17:24:07-06:00August 20th, 2021|Blog|

“If there is to be a change, it will come from us. Right here, where we stand. Women were always the story-givers, the memory keepers, the dreamers. Listen now to the land’s long dreaming. Do you see what it is dreaming? It’s dreaming you.” – Sharon Blackie, If Women Rose Rooted Ten weeks ago we were just hearing about COVID-19. Not quite sure whether it would be serious or not, how far it would spread, we gradually recognized that this was a life-changing experience. For all the predictions about 2020 being a [...]

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