Welcoming Samhain
Although Samhain officially lands on November 6th this year, marking the official halfway point between the Autumn Equinox and Winter Solstice, Samhain is not just a day but a season of time that opens us up to the thinning of veils between physical and energetic, the material and spiritual. Can you feel it upon us already?
The day I met my Witch Wound
Back in 2009, when I first moved to Portland and first began to put myself out there as a fledgling massage therapist, I started to develop some right upper leg and hip pain. I didn’t think a lot of it, and it would come and go over the years, sometimes screaming at me loudly and other times quiet and in the background. It was pretty silent for a few years and then started up again maybe 8 years ago, so loudly that I was concerned.
The Season of the Witch
Can you feel that we’ve entered into the "Season of the Witch?" As if on cue when the sun moved into Scorpio, this past Tuesday I began...
The Land Longs for You Too - Exploring the Complexity of Belonging to Place
Last weekend I officiated my brother’s wedding, and I got to spend the week visiting the land I grew up on. It’s a special place, that...
Animism Lives on Through our Bodies
The world is ALIVE. In our ancestral animistic spirituality, our ancestors knew this deeply. They knew that we have relationship with the...
Hollow Bones
Photo by Artem Mishukov I woke up this morning with the words “Hollow Bones” ringing in my ears. I had been dreaming about old, jagged...