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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
Posted in Sacred Art

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
Posted in Retreat

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

  Choose a special place to visit. It can be known as a sacred site, or perhaps it is just special to you in some…

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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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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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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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Today I turn seventy-one-derful. (Thank you Liziah Today I turn seventy-one-derful. (Thank you Liziah for that yummy phrase). Ruminating on all the paths not taken, all the ones I did take, all the paths that still beckon me. Life is brutal, and so beautiful. Grateful for it all. 💚 #capricorn
Two Capricorns walk into a cafe… and one brings Two Capricorns walk into a cafe… and one brings a bouquet of flowering witch hazel. Thank you @kathiehardy 💚
Oh those winter sunrises! Starting out the day wi Oh those winter sunrises!  Starting out the day with awe & wonder. And coffee. ✨
A waterfall of New Year’s blessings … may all A waterfall of New Year’s blessings … may all beings be happy, healthy, safe, and kind. 💚🕯🙏🏼
Setting goals and intentions for the New Year no l Setting goals and intentions for the New Year no longer lights me up like it used to do. I've slowed way down this past year, in part due to ongoing health issues. I'm asking for help more often and finding the practice of letting go to get easier every day. ::
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My priorities are pretty simple: Spend time with people I love. Make lots of joy-inducing art. Call the circle and collaborate with others; ask for help. Get my health back. Read good books. Move my body. Love the land. Love my community. Make a difference, even in tiny ways. ::

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And (because it's always "both/and", not "either/or") here's a golden oldie New Year's spread from the Gaian Tarot book that I created 20(?) years ago. Still a good one. ::
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:: New Year's Spread: Out with the Old, In with the New ::
1. What do I leave behind in the Old Year? 
2. What do I open up to in the New Year? 
3. Key Opportunity of the New Year 
4. Key Challenge of the New Year 
5. Hidden concern (pull from bottom of the deck) 
6. Deep Wisdom / Counsel (pull from middle of the deck) 
7. Key Theme of the New Year
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Happy New Year!
May you & your beloveds nestle into the comfort of May you & your beloveds nestle into the comfort of nurturing darkness and the joy of returning light. Happy Solstice! #wintersolstice
From my porch: Good morning snow! Good morning pon From my porch: Good morning snow! Good morning pond! Good morning blackbirds! #wintersolstice
On the fourth Sun-day before Solstice, we light th On the fourth Sun-day before Solstice, we light the candle for the element of Earth. In the sweet darkness of waning sun and waning moon, we await the return of the Sun on Solstice morn. #adventsunwheel #solsticesunwheel #yule #wintersolstice
First snow … First snow …

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