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Breaking Ground, Healing Spring Seeds

Nature is my soul medicine and now that I have been able to get out of bed these last two months I am loving, more than ever, being in my garden, on mountain tops, under trees and wading along cold creeks.  I have had a lot of interesting commentary regarding my diagnosis of cancer.  Some people say its bad karma, some say that it was a poor frame of mind, others say I am being punished, but none of these…

Flight of the New Moon

My ritual practices for closing out this year began on the Winter Solstice.  I find it no coincidence that on that very morning, nature as she often does, gifted me with a most magnificent and symbolic spectacle.  I was lying in bed and contemplating the nature of birds, my healing, my feelings of oppression.  I was imaging what it would be like to leap from the tallest branches and coast along sheer sky or,  the sense of freedom a bird…

Spring and the Sacred Cucumber

I woke early this morning with the rise of the sun and found my contemplative throne in the heart of my garden. I was surrounded by the nights lingering chill and the early call of the songbird’s elated chatter.  I was mesmerized by the refreshing light cast from the power of the great sun, and watched as its rays delicately lay themselves upon each stone, atop each fallen leaf, and along the backs of the China Berry tree branches.  As…

To Dream A Fig

The month of October has passed and with it the celebration of my 33 birthday.  Every year on my birthday, I reflect on the year past and set intention for the year to come.  As I look back on the last 12 months I see both great progress and great struggle.  Obstacles presented themselves as teachers, inspiration as opportunity and evolution and challenging transition as an apparent part of this spiritual path. It was a year I faced some of…