Happy Holidays! We have moved out of the intensity of October and November and into a place where we can muster some enthusiasm, looking ahead, and take a long-term view towards change. Hopefully you are hooked into that joy and anticipation; if you’re not, here are some helpful things to move you in that direction:…
Category: Seasons
Weekly Round-Up of Web Links
Today is astrological Samhain. As a cross-quarter holiday, it is most appropriately observed at the mid-point between Autumnal Equinox and Winter Solstice. That is today, regardless of what the calendar might say. So the links I offer you this week are predominantly about doing ancestor work. Giving Thanks How Elves and serpents are saving Iceland…
October Newsletter
If you would like to receive the monthly newsletter in your inbox, please sign up via the button to the left October … We are in the Time of the Psychopomp. We have just been through the pause in time of the Autumnal Equinox, and the days are getting shorter, the veils are thinning, and…
Grief
If you’ve taken any of my classes, you may be familiar with the idea that different parts of the body correspond to specific processes we do through. Liver is anger, the neck is creativity, shoulders are the pressures we put on ourselves, low back pain can be emotions we don’t want to look at, and…
September’s Newsletter
The monthly special will be updated here on the website when I return from retreat. In the meantime, here is what I had to say about September in the newsletter. If you’re not on my mailing list, and you would like to be, you can sign up here. Blessings to you and yours! September is…
Weekly Web Links Round Up from Around the Web… Links…
As I wander around the web, I come across links that should be shared, and this is my way of keeping it down to one post a week… Ways to celebrate the longest day of the year Day-to-day actions & attitudes that research has shown strengthen a relationship Stray cat finds a friend at the…
The March Newsletter is up!
Regardless of what the weather might be telling us, Spring is Coming! But the weather certainly is trying to shake things up, isn’t it? I have two big pieces of news: * The website has a new, awesome design! I’ll still be tweaking around some pages, but the design is set and it is great….
Blessed Solstice
I have been remiss at making blog posts this month. It has been an introspective time for me. As soon as the weather begins to turn and cool, and the seasons in Southern California are offset from most of the rest of the country by about 2 months, I go inward. This year, it has…
Into the Darkness
I won’t be doing a public New Moon Ceremony this weekend. My dear friends, who were going to host, had their schedule shifted by the early arrival of their new son. Additionally, Samhain took more out of me than I anticipated, so I’ll be honoring the Dark Moon privately. This doesn’t mean I can’t still…
October is About Renewal
As we approach the autumnal thinning of the veil, the Universe asks us to take stock, to get rid of the old, and to reinvent ourselves if necessary. If we don’t do it consciously, the Universe may handle the details, which is not usually preferable. Sometimes, of course, regardless of how consciously we work our…
October Newsletter
As always, subscribers get notified about monthly specials. Here is the text of the body of the newsletter: That period of time between autumnal equinox and Samhain is an interesting period. We move from the balance of light and dark into darkness; the veil thins; we are called to clear out the old and to…
September Energies
What have you been working on this year? What have been the patterns, the lessons, the challenges? Because all of that is going to be really loud for you in September. September is always the climax of the year’s patterns, the time when the Universe asks, “Have you gotten the message yet? Here, let me…