in the garden
December 9, 2020

…thoughts

In this catch all there is encouragement for creating, exercises just for fun, and a series of tarot spreads to assist in contacting your muse (it can be used as a writing prompt if you are not woo-woo inclined). You’ll find a few poems , a love story and even a warning. And here’s a […]

October 7, 2024

visual journaling – how to get started

October 7th, 2024. What a difficult year. This beautiful process, Visual Journaling, literally saved me this year. Unlike journaling with words, the act of downloading to a page marks, colors, and forms directly sources the experience of our soul and our body, way more directly than words can. This is not to suggest abandoning a […]

July 19, 2023

the elder/alchemist

Living for any length of time on this earth is both an accomplishment and a gift. In June I turned 70 and while I’m all about ‘endorsing yourself for your effort’ …f*cking 70! Most evident to me with this transition is the long list of accomplishments that must be dropped from the resume (that epic […]

January 27, 2023

a new moon journey

* A New Moon is the first lunar phase and occurs when the Moon is not yet visible to the naked eye. During this invisible phase, the Sun and Earth are on opposite sides of the Moon. The Moon takes approximately 29.53 days to orbit the Earth and complete one lunar cycle. If the first new Moon […]

January 24, 2023

a series of tarot spreads

*The questions posed in a spread can also be used as prompts for personal exploration and free writing and do not need to be used with a Tarot deck. general: a moon phases spread an earth medicine tarot spread a cycle of change tarot spread cycle of the year: a winter solstice, yule, tarot spread […]

June 15, 2021

what do you value?

How do we make decisions unless we have a strong sense of what we value? We are always either moving toward or away from our values with every action we take. It can be hard to tell which direction we’re moving, unless we know what the principles are we stand on and for. Creating a list […]

May 5, 2021

how to take a journey

a Moon Walk on Water Indigenous Shamans have long taken journeys to access healing and protection for their communities. These journeys are usually performed on behalf of and in service to others. They are soul excursions to non-ordinary reality. With honor and respect for the depth of training and initiation required of indigenous Shamans, I call it simply journey, following […]

March 12, 2021

orthodoxies of a rebel mind and other poems

on ‘parting ways’ a black swan my dream gets hacked, I opened a bad link all the while our best lives get scribed onto future scrolls bound with the spirit texts, alt alternatives the unnecessary cruelties, remember, forget them the system floods, the banks cannot contain this river under the river, nephrologist, endocrinologist, archaeologist the diagnosis, a sodium depression pre-scribing medicinal poetry […]

March 4, 2021

the disseminating moon

The Moon was so beautiful that the ocean held up a mirror. – Ani DiFranco New Moon Waxing Crescent MoonFirst Quarter MoonWaxing Gibbous MoonFull MoonDisseminating (or Waning Gibbous) MoonThird (or Last) Quarter MoonBalsamic (or Waning Crescent) Moon (Dark of the Moon) So it turns out I am a selenophile, maybe you are too. That is, […]

February 11, 2021

a new moon

…in response to Patti Digh’s Writing Prompts 2021 – #13: “Write about the hardships of a fairytale wizard.”             The Magician wasn’t sure if he could take one thing more. His life was already perfection and he was so over it. I mean seriously, enough of the blue skies and the freaking blue […]