A perfect time to change

Mars (action), Jupiter (expansion), Saturn (foundation, structure, boundaries), and Neptune (dream time, imagination) are all in their home signs.

Reaching your goals is a measure of your effectiveness

As the calendar year changes over, a lot of people get more aware their goals. Something about deadlines, I suppose. We never seem to be as effective as we would like. Sometimes it’s because we set too lofty of a goal, sometimes we aren’t able to shift old patterns of behavior enough to effect a…

Water: Receptivity in Being

“And God looked out upon the Waters…” In many traditions, water predates Creation. It is the primordial beginning, the thing that begets life. In traditions that have a balanced masculine and feminine, Water, especially the ocean, is associated with the Goddess. The human body is 3/4 water. Consuming enough water increases our coping skills and…

The dangers of practicing plant medicine with poor supervision

I and a number of my colleagues have seen a surge in the number of clients seeking assistance post-Ayahuasca ceremony. Some people present as stuck in trauma trance, and their energy looks like broken mirror shards. The challenge is that many facilitators are not trained well enough, and it is dangerous.

Dood/ette, do you even Gratitude?

It’s that time of the year, when a lot of people talk about gratitude. A year-round gratitude practice is a brilliant idea, as you will see, so why not take the opportunity this week to start creating those habits? When you only focusing on gratitude for a day, a week, or a month, you do…

What’s Kabbalah all about?

Kabbalah is a mystical philosophy, like Buddhism. It doesn’t conntradict belief systems; it works in concert with them. There are threads of Kabbalah throughout the Abrahaamic religions and Eastern philosophies. The teachings are designed to help the seeker to have an experience of the Divine.

Heads up: Incoming solar activity again!

This note about solar activity came through my inbox today: NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is monitoring a large hole in the sun’s atmosphere, now directly facing Earth. A stream of solar wind escaping from the opening is expected to reach our planet during the late hours of Nov. 3rd, likely sparking minor G1-class geomagnetic storms…

Your World Is Your Reflection

From a Shamanic point of view, what you call reality is really just a Dreaming. You have likely heard this before, possibly from me, but what does that really mean? If you have done much reading on dreamwork, you know that, more often than not, dreams are a way for the mind to process our…

October is for releasing and ancestors

I have been so focused on getting everything together for my 2019 classes, and doing current marketing, and actually teaching the classes currently on the schedule, that I have completely forgotten to post. Sorry about that. I feel like we’re in wrap up and catch up energies currently. I’m sure part of it is the…

How to Make a Choice Between Anger and Fear

Anger, as I keep saying, is merely a call to action. Yes, it can mask other emotions, and it’s still a call to action. You can channel the passion and energy of your anger into empowered forward motion. Fear, on the other hand, is a call to inaction; when you are in fear, anxiety, or…