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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.

Last weekend, walking back from the Dogwood Ceremony on Powell Butte, a few of us were lingering behind, soaking up all the fun flowers...

April has become one of my very favorite months since living in Portland. ​ It feels as though almost overnight, the Earth breaks open in...

I love how the Spring season draws us out of hiding and lures us into her majesty. ​ The cherry blossoms are singing and the magnolias...

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...

Every year, the spring flowers call to me, one by one, as they open up their blooms, and express their creative unfolding to the world....

It’s Spring tomorrow! How are you feeling about it? Thrilled? Anxious? Somewhere in between? This Spring Equinox aligns with the new moon...

I feel so nourished and uplifted as I write to you after getting back from a neighborhood stroll. I'm so filled by all the scents and...

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...