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Question Weaver
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
-Zora Neale Hurston
It seems I’ve been asking questions most of my life. Partially this is a personality trait. I am curious. I have always wanted to KNOW. Why are we here? What can I do with this life? Who am I? What is the way to freedom?
Things I Have Learned From the Woods and Water
There is a strange thing that happens when wisdom starts opening. We recognize the vitality of silence. And in sharing what we have learned, some small piece of truth that we have gathered from our corner of consciousness, we release it. None of us has all the truth....
Soul Dreams Need Retreat
This will be the third year in a row I will go into the Boundary Waters solo. I’ve done a lot of solo journeys like this, but in 2011 I started to become very intentional about these journeys. I was initiated into a lineage that required that I take a journey to mountain peak every year in order to keep this energy current alive in me. It is a way to honor the connection I hold and to strengthen it. It is also a place to make prayers and dream the world into being – for me, for you, for our world….
How Ceremony Helped Me Through Heartbreak
About five years ago, a relationship ended that left me in pieces. I swayed from broken, to numb, to terrified, to angry, until finally ending up in a heap, wet with tears on my bedroom floor. Hopeless, alone, and deeply wounded. From where I sit now (and some wise parts of me knew then, too), I see that this moment was an initiation. It was the moment I stepped onto a new way of being. Really, the path chose me. If I wanted to live through that experience, a new road HAD to be forged. There was no other way….
Kiss Your Shadow
We have come here to get what we need. That is truth. I’m not hearing any other version of this story. We have come to receive the gifts hurled towards us from the Unknown. They are often masked, and so are we. But this is true. You have come here to deeply,...
Please-Like-Me Dis-ease
I’ve suffered from the “please like me” disease, in varying degrees of severity, for as long as I can remember. I’ve been bending backwards when I want to fold in. I’ve been saying yes when I desperately needed to say no. I’ve been carrying someone else’s weight because, yes, my back is strong. I’ve been giving away my heart, my love, my everything because yes, I have a lot of it. Much of this is part of being a lover, but much of it is out of the need to be loved and liked….
Summer Solstice Prayer
I don’t want to celebrate only the “good” things. Today, the longest day of the year, I would like to celebrate all the times I’ve fallen. I’d like to honor those times (many times) I said the absolute wrong thing. For all the times I mis-stepped and fell. For all times I used words as weapons. I’d like to bow to my pain. I’d like kneel before anger. I’d like to stretch my body out against the earth so I can feel the fullness of this – being human – swell like the tide in my bones. I’d like to let it all rise and fill me. I’d like to be swallowed.
For My Wild, Urgent Dreamers
I woke up this morning to a vision. It was gifted by Spirit. I normally don’t share these types of things. These kinds of gifts are often best kept close to my heart, intimate, unsaid, but understood. Sometimes there is magic in things unsaid, in experiences that are all yours. When we share things, they are no longer ours. We have taken them out into the world. They change this way. It is no longer the same thing that was given to you. It’s different now.
But this one is very adamant it wants to be given away. It has to do with my upcoming Kundalini Yoga for Manifestation E-Course. Whenever I am preparing for a workshop or class on a particular subject, I’m always given the opportunity to work through that topic in my own life. If I am teaching on speaking my truth, I am always confronted with the spaces I could exercise these innate talents. It never fails.
So as I open up into sharing manifestation tools I have used consciously and unconsciously, I am being absolutely blown away by what has come forth. Realizations of how powerful this work is keep coming through. I mean, obviously I knew this stuff worked, that’s why I’m sharing this course. But damn! Dreams I have had for years, dreams I didn’t tell another soul for years, are coming to fruition. I have made space in my life to receive wisdom on the topic.
The Wild One
Only if you are very lucky will you be born with chaos close. Only if the stars row up single file to pour their magic into you on the day you are born, only if your first breath synchs perfectly with some greater rhythm, will you have a taste of this madness. It’s the kind that pulls you breathlessly in every direction. It makes every desire and want an open wound. It makes every longing an aching moan, loud enough for Jupiter to hear. Yes, if you are very lucky, you’ll be born with chaos…
Vulnerability is the Best Defense
Only in our attempts to hold it all together (as if there were something TO hold together) do we run the risk of things falling apart. Only when we fool ourselves into thinking life can be tidy or that life plays by the rules do we, ourselves, end up fooled. There is no better defense, than no defense at all against life.
I say, let it all in. Swing your doors open. Let the shutters whack against their frames, hinges wild. There is no protecting against the life that will happen to you. There is no capturing the wind. We cannot tame life. We can only learn to ride.
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