Yep. You read that right. This may not be a surprise to some of you, as I’ve been slipping new language into my posts and blogs other the past year. I’ve shared about doing readings, getting messages, and practicing energy medicine. And it does say it, explicitly...
Priestess of Ordinary Things
A Blog about Bodies, Earth, Ritual and Resilience for Changing Times
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” Paul Tillich (1)
I have entered a season of doubt. It happens sometimes. To me, doubt feels like a nagging rasp in my throat, or like wearing a windbreaker that’s a little damp and not quite...
A Beltane Greeting + The Five Principles of Abundance
Once you watch this, consider responding in the comments below to the following:
Which of these do I believe in? Which of these do I experience? Which of these do I struggle with? What resonates? What irritates? ...
Today the moon has ripened into fullness. It's the second day of Passover, and what my spiritual tradition of origin calls Holy Saturday. I write to you from a small retreat center in Lacey where my faith community sets up camp from Wednesday of Holy Week until Easter Sunday for the...
Today the moon has ripened into fullness. It's the second day of Passover, and what my spiritual tradition of origin calls Holy Saturday. I write to you from a small retreat center in Lacey where my faith community sets up camp from Wednesday of Holy Week until Easter Sunday for the...
In the traditions of my Celtic ancestors, tomorrow was considered the first day of spring: St. Brigid’s Day, or Imbolc. A feast of hearth and home, this was also the day when the Goddess Brigid* began bringing the world out of the womb of winter’s dark and into the awakening...
Anniversaries are powerful times and I’ve been reflecting a lot these past two months about where I was a year ago. Some of you will know that last year at this time I was on a mental health sabbatical, having spent the fall and early winter experiencing a particularly acute...
Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement. ― Shunryu Suzuki
Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits...
Fall is my favorite season. That might be because it’s my birthday season (November 30th, in case you want to put it on your calendar, and shout out to all the other Sagitariuses), but I think there’s also a quality to this time of year that is sweet and melancholic and...
The morning of the Solar Eclipse last month, I taught an outdoor yoga and meditation class. The women (it just so happened to be all women) gathered, and just before we started, I took a quick trip to the restroom to do my thing, and also to make sure I knew where they were and were...
Here’s the thing: If I had been born to a Swedish baker
I might know the art of weaving a braid of bread.
Had I been born to a Hawaiian mechanic
I might be skilled at fixing engines and sliding through tunnels of water.
Instead
I was born to an Italian man and an Irish woman—two...
To my SKY community—
Many of you have heard by now that I will no longer be teaching at SKY at the end of this month. I have not, though, shared openly the reason I am leaving and I wanted to take the opportunity now to do that.
It came to light this February that I had...
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