The Seed of Samhain in Beltane
Beltane historically honors eros. Honors the lovers. Honors how love, desire, sensuality, and pleasure help sing the world awake towards the climax of Summer Solstice.
How reveling in beauty is just as important as honoring the harder aspects of life we’re facing right now, the grief, pain, the shock, the fear. How if we don’t, in fact, honor pleasure, we cannot know the full depths of Life.
Your Needs + Desires are Holy
Last weekend, walking back from the Dogwood Ceremony on Powell Butte, a few of us were lingering behind, soaking up all the fun flowers...
Snake Medicine: Sensuality + Earth Connection
Often representing the Goddess herself, snakes symbolize healing, fertility, wisdom, rebirth, guardianship, and their intimate relationship
The Fertile Center of Spring: Beltane's Beauty
As we approach the fertile center of the Spring season, we find ourselves greeting the season of Beltane (meaning "bright fire"), usually...
An Herbal Ally for Emotional Times
One of my favorite things to do when I’m feeling emotional, chaotic, or just a bit ungrounded, is to sit with the plants. I find a tree...