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Earth Wisdom

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A Blessing for Place
Dreaming of Tulsi & Roses
The Moon and Me, in Three Parts
Down to the Sea (on grief)
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Tarot

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Seven Ways to Get to Know the Herbcrafter’s Tarot
The Story of the Gaian Tarot: Life / Death / Renewal
Doing My Part to Demystify the Tarot
A Tarot Blessing for a Difficult Time
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Sacred Art

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Swept Away by Brigid’s Creative Fire
Encaustic Tarot Play
Work in Progress: Elder of the Scar Clan
Circles Turning: Bloodlines (A Collage on Canvas)
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Seasonal Lore

How to Have a Soul-Satisfying Summer Solstice Celebration
Lammas at the River
How I Celebrate Winter Solstice
In Search of Lady Spring
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On Retreat

Return to Aldermarsh
Aldermarsh Farewell
Listening to the Land, Dancing our Goddesses
Mermaid Sisters and La Diosa del Mar
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The Collective

Create Community Circles
A Collective Underworld Initiation
Center. Create. Activate. Repeat.
Musings on the Circle Way
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Personal Journey

Resource Yourself
Island-Bound, Heading Home
Maine + Autumn + Grace
Yuletide Pentimento
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Holding

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood ... #fe

It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood ... #februarysnow #pnw #bellingham #rootedcourse

Awaiting the big storm, keeping warm inside with i

Awaiting the big storm, keeping warm inside with icy breezes outside... yesterday was a good day for making cottonwood bud oil from windfalls I’d gathered a few days earlier. The fragrance to me is all about this edge, this turning of the Wheel from the crone of winter to the maiden of spring. Hope, the Star card. The quickening of the year. #cottonwoodoil #cottonwood #herbcrafterstarot #rootedcourse

Looking forward to this event! Repost from @ahayd

Looking forward to this event! Repost from @ahayden52 - Please join me at this author event hosted by Seattle Town Hall and Third Place Books on February 11 at 7:30 pm PST. June BlueSpruce and Anne Hayden will be reading from and sharing about their essays recently published in Whiteness is Not an Ancestor, edited by Lisa Iversen. We are honored to have Dr. Bonnie Duran as the moderator. Link to register for event in @ahayden52 bio.

May you accept the offering of my Sacred Fire. May

May you accept the offering of my Sacred Fire.
May your heart and hands burn with creative passion.
May you give birth to poetry, music, dance, and art.
May your head burn with oracular fire, marking you as seer or bard.
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May your hands be healing hands, glowing with inner light.
May you allow yourself to be transformed in the flames of my forge.
May you smolder with sacred rage and stand against tyranny.
May you drink a long swallow of clear water from a sacred well.
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May you notice the unopened bud encased in ice, the purple crocus peeking up through the snow.
May you gaze with gratitude at the sight of swans feasting in late winter fields.
May you tie a prayer cloth to a holy thorn on Bride’s Eve.
May you rejoice in longer days, knowing that the fire of the sun emerges from its winter slumber.
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I am Brigid, Radiant Flame of Gold, Summoner of Spring.
And I am kindling a flame in your heart.
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— Joanna Powell Colbert #imbolc #candlemas #brigid

Friend Witch Hazel greets us here on the border of

Friend Witch Hazel greets us here on the border of Winter-Turning-to-Spring. Full Moon coming, followed by the portal of Imbolc / Candlemas / Brigid’s Day. Dancing on the threshold between what was and what can be. #rootedcourse #imbolc #naturejournal #witchhazel #herbcrafterstarot

Repost from @eastonbranam - We have less than 60 d

Repost from @eastonbranam - We have less than 60 days to act in solidarity with the Western Apache tribes fighting to stop this. Please google Apache Stronghold @protectoakflat and Oak Flats. San Carlos Apache tribe member Wendsler Nosie has been leading the resistance and has a list of actions to take on the apachestronghold website. If you don’t have money he asks for you to contribute whatever praying means to you.
#saveoakflat #apachestronghold #methowvalley #rockclimbing #rockclimber #rockclimbinglife

It’s going to be a good day!

It’s going to be a good day!

I almost missed this because my attention was on m

I almost missed this because my attention was on my screen. ::
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Welcome, new morning. Welcome, Inauguration Eve. May America live up to the promise of what she can be.

I’m looking forward to presenting a live Zoom co

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