“What do we wish for?
To be whole. To be complete.
Wildness reminds us what it means to be human,
what we are connected to rather than
what we are separate from.”
– Terry Tempest Williams
Recent Musings
YEAR OF THE WOOD SNAKE and IMBOLC, AND THE WOLF MOON
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 [...]
After the Rain, Fire
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 [...]
CALLING ALL MYSTICS AND REVOLUTIONARIES: TIME FOR A REVOLUTION (OF LOVE)
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 [...]
Remember the sacred stories of our own wild souls!
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 [...]
MOTHERWORLD: FROM THE HEART OF CREATION, A CALL TO LOVE
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 [...]