Astraea
In a talk about compassion, a former teacher of mine once said that practice prepares the mind, but suffering prepares the heart. Perhaps the final step in the healing of all wounds is the discovery of the capacity for compassion, an intuitive knowing that no one is singled out in their suffering, that all living...
Lionheart
The Sacred Year begins on the 26th of July, with the planetary New Year, and is preceded by the celebratory “Day out of Time” on the 25th of July. On the 25th your ancient ancestors knew to celebrate the passing over from the old cycle to the new, with creative joy and festival. On the...
Ritual
You find out that what you are is a force …. A force that makes it possible for your body to live, a force that makes it possible for your whole mind to dream. Without you, without this force, your body would collapse on the floor. Without you, your whole dream just dissolves into nothing. What...
Release
Transmutation noun;the action of changing or the state of being changed into another form. Over the years I have processed many areas of a truly horrific childhood. As I head towards being 50 years old and having experienced two major deaths in the last couple of years I felt I had traversed most emotions….. grief,loss...
The Dryad Chamber
To be human is to become visiblewhile carrying what is hidden as a gift to others.To remember the other world in this worldis to live in your true inheritance. You are not a troubled guest on this earth,you are not an accident amidst other accidents you were invited from another and greater nightthan the one...
The Secret Garden
Every seed you plant contains within itself an enormous amount of information about the Universe. Through the help of these data the seed knows the exact time, down to the millisecond, when it is to come alive, grow, what juices it is to take from the Earth, how to make use of the rays of...
Cosmic Essence
Ultimately, self-compassion is a series of choices, a moment by moment conscious turning away from that which will harm your spirit toward that which will nourish and sustain you. It is choosing, in any particular situation, and over and over again whether you’ll treat yourself well, or beat yourself up, whether you’ll deny yourself, or...
Creative Abundance
In embracing creativity as a spiritual practice, we commend ourselves into the Creator’s hands, knowing that our goal is to disappear. And when we do, we become one with all creation. The divine spirit dances us, it plays its music through us. We become the instrument through which the divine flows like a river. When...
The Waters Of Nu
A spiritual organisation with a hierarchical structure can convey only the consciousness of estrangement, regardless of what teachings or deep inspirations are at its root.The structure itself reinforces the idea that some people are inherently more worthy than others. Beware of organisations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark;...
Sweet Blossom
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has the power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleanor Duse
Unified
The pattern that your soul had etched for your incarnation before you were born includes pathways that were designed to carry you through this life fluidly and effectively. These pathways were meant to serve you so you could fulfill your soul’s purposes with elegance and ease. This doesn’t mean that your soul offers you a...