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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.

We’re now in the deep, black waters of the dying year, in the last weeks of our journey towards the darkness. ​ This is the final stretch...

Our own ecosystem is informed by the external world. This is because we are Nature. Our energies are woven in and through the landscape.

Summer gifts us many things, including the exploration of the element of Fire. In the Celtic Pagan tradition, Fire is exalted now, and we

The Spring Equinox is upon us, which will usher us into the light half of the year. For the next 6 months we will be in the domain of...

The land is waking up around us. (I’m sure you’ve noticed.) The crocuses and daffodils have shown up first to the party, showcasing their...

It’s often at this mystical time of year that I find myself lingering in a liminal space in the early morning before I fully wake. Where...

The other day, I stood beneath a tree looking dazzling in her red gown, as I listened to the raindrop sounds of the leaves falling to the...

The rains began on the Autumn Equinox here in Portland. A signal from Water that Autumn was underway. That Water was taking the reins and...

Eco-somatics is the interface of where our bodies meet our surroundings and how we feel as we engage with this “Other.”