i am more moon than calander

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Happy New Year!

And, I am not ready.

My house is not clean, I don’t have goals, I don’t know what I want, I am not complete with last year…Basically I’m a messy mess.

From one perspective.

Actually from another, softer point of view, I am a creature of the moon and the push and pull of the ocean tides. A being of flow and rhythm not easily governed by linear time and calendar grids.

I am still in the hazy dreamy space of my what-is-next.

And I want to stay here just a bit longer until what is true comes into organic focus. I have spent too many years of this lifetime conforming to the date on the wall, the hands of the clock, the linear march of time that waits for no one. I’m doing different right now. Waiting in the cozy in between, allowing what is next to arise with clarity and allure.

Until then I will tend my inspiration, hone my desire, keep taking the next step of what is next to be done. As the moon makes her way to fullness, I trust so will my vision.

Where are you with the New Year? Ready, prepared, optimistic, excited? Or more confused, worn out, not sure? Maybe a bit nervous and apprehensive? Where every you are, if you feel that some support would be helpful, consider working with me. 

How ever this New Year is finding you, I wish you much Love and Beauty.

found signs

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I am gradually putting out my seasonal things. I don’t do it all at once but over time. Building, adding, layering bits and pieces I have gathered. Yes, I am one of those collector, gatherer types. I am always picking up sticks, rocks, piece of moss, leaves, little bits of nature. My windowsills are lined with beach rocks and my altars always have some bit of collected nature.

I found this bit of fallen tree branch a couple of years ago, struck by the skull so clearly marked. To me that it. Since I was out searching for things to add to an altar for an October dark moon ritual, this seemed like a divine sign!  A found skull on a piece of dead branch just a few days before Halloween, the time of the thinning veil and spirits. It spoke to me of magic, transition, endings and meaning after death. I felt tingles and a giddiness of discovery and understanding!

On the way home I passed our neighbors and when they asked what I was carrying I showed them my treasure. He didn’t see the face in the wood but she did. For them it was merely an interesting oddity. And that is the way of signs. They speak to us in different ways, as individual as our fingerprints. This piece of wood is placed on many of my altars as a reminder of the power of death, the gifts of nature, the way our world is always speaking to us. We just need to slow down enough to learn our language together.

This is the season of reading signs and finding meaning in the ordinary and it is one of the ways we will be celebrating in Signs, Stories, and Shadows.

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Do come join us if you feel called to wrap yourself in the energies of deep Autumn!

thresholds

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(want to hear me speak this? Scroll down to the SoundCloud link below.)

Thresholds

Life will cast you through many
it is the way of things

Each day bringing a new passage
into more of life, or less
into more of yourself, or less

Into more, or less

What is the threshold in front of you?

Are you eager to walk through or frightened?

Perhaps both

There is magic in the liminal space of the threshold
where time and being still so the new can come together

It is an instant of life
holding all that has come before and all that is possible after

Your task is simple

Walk forward

One step closer to yourself

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something newChange has happened, is happening, will always be.

New things emerge, old things fall away.

It is the rhythm of life, of my life, however uncomfortable.

And yet the sun comes up and then sets, never disappointing.

***I thought I would wait until all the dust settles to emerge from behind a curtain I didn’t intend to close. But, I realized after months of thinking, “Soon, very soon…”, waiting for the tidy space is not always best. Sometimes showing up in the midst of chaos and unraveling is the just the settling needed. Thank you for checking in on this space. More soon, promise!***

 

~invitation monday~ september 7, 2015

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(Monday is Moon Day. What are the tides of your week calling you to? Want to hear me read this? Scroll down to the SoundCloud below)

An Invitation: light a candle and whisper your Wishes

Wishing is an intimate act
one that is most powerful
in whispered tones
illuminated by sacred flame

You can tell anything to fire
the element of transforming
and igniting

When married with
the breath of your longing
alchemy takes hold
the Unseens take notice

Your world changes
as you cast your spell of desire

What are you wishing today?

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~invitation monday~ august 24, 2015

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(Monday is Moon Day. What are the tides of your week calling you to?)

An Invitation: allow Awakening

It is a choice
to suffer the pickles
and pains
that will
overtime fade

For the sake of
your Awakening

It is a choice
to seek that which will
poke you in
your tender vulnerability
before ecstasy
emerges from
the dark place you sleep

Allow your Awakening
it is your truth coming home

 

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