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Marsh House, Aldermarsh, Whidbey Island
Posted in Earth Wisdom

A Blessing for Place

When I visit the east coast, I’m always a bit disoriented to realize that the element of water is found in the east, not in…

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Posted in Personal Journey

Island-Bound, Heading Home

Are you still feeling the reverberations of last weekend’s Full Moon? I sure am. I’m sailing on the energy of La Luna Bella, letting her…

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O'Keeffe Museum
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Color, Line, Form, Texture

I am swallowed up in images these days. I could blame it on Pixie Campbell’s Visual Quest course, although I am not following her instructions,…

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Walking the Taos pueblo lands
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Coming Home to Taos

Since my first visit to Taos, Santa Fe, and Ghost Ranch in the summer of 2011, New Mexico has taken firm root in my heart.…

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Posted in Earth Wisdom

How to Make Any Journey into a Pilgrimage

(This post is a sneak peek at some of the content from my Gaian Soul Seasonal Practices e-courses. See Part 1 here. Enjoy!) Choose a special place to…

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Posted in Earth Wisdom, Seasonal Lore

Secrets of the Blackened Pool

In early October I rambled the woodlands of western Massachusetts, and came across a blackened, vernal pool. It looked for all the world as if…

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Posted in Personal Journey

My Heart’s Home

From the moment I drove off the ferry onto the island, I knew I was home. No other place on the planet that I’ve ever…

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Posted in Personal Journey

These Days, Last Year

Yesterday was the first anniversary of my father’s passing. Nora, Craig, and I went for a walk in the deep woods where he used to…

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Posted in Personal Journey

Letting the island take care of me

I wasn’t in a hotel in New York last night, drinking Cosmopolitans with my Tarot friends at the Readers Studio.  Instead I was inside a…

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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 I’m looking forward to presenting a live Zoom collage workshop on February 25th in “Creativity for Priestessing” alongside the luminous @kialagives and wonderful @denisedaffaraart ::
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It’s part of “Tender Heart Priestess Workshops” hosted by  @dr.vanessasage and @stacyannmaskell . My workshop is on Making a Regeneration Collage & Nature Assemblage … oh yeah! ::
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There are more workshops in the series .. please check them all out and join us if you can. Link in profile.

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