We did our monthly New Moon Gathering tonight, and had some new people, which is always lovely. It was a powerful meditation for me. Here are some barebones notes about the current energies: New Moon in Cancer (water sign) – first lunar cycle of the summer (Mad Midsummer Moon) Intentions set now have the possibility…
Category: Meditation
Weekly Round Up of Web Links
As I putter around the web, links catch my attention and need to be shared. Trying to keep that impulse down to once a week. The Heroic Delusion Cheat Sheet Cultivating Stillness Elemental Castings podcast Healing Sounds radio show Constructing Your Shamanic Dream Team
More on Stress
For the past few weeks, we’ve been exploring stress, its impact on us, and what we can do about it. Let’s recap what we know so far: Stress is what happens when the body responds to physical, mental, or emotional pressure by releasing stress hormones (such as epinephrine and norepinephrine) that increase blood pressure, speed…
A new tool for stress relief: Acoustic Therapy
“Stress can be defined as the brain’s response to any demand. Many things can trigger this response, including change. Changes can be positive or negative, as well as real or perceived. They may be recurring, short-term, or long-term and may include things like commuting to and from school or work every day, traveling for a…
The Universal Connection and Magnetic Crochet of this Solar Flare
Last night, this appeared in my inbox: The magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2017 erupted yesterday, March 29th, producing an impulsive X1-class solar flare. Ionizing radiation from the flare produced electrical currents in Earth’s upper atmosphere and a ripple in Earth’s magnetic field detected by magnetometers across the dayside of our planet. Read more about this…
If you prefer your meditation music in CD format…
The other day, I recorded a new, studio-quality Singing Bowl meditation. It’s about 50 minutes long. I had planned to just sell it as a downloadable MP3, but a few people have asked me about getting a CD of it. I don’t really have cash on hand to make CDs right now, but if I…
As I Walk Through Sacred Space…
As some of you may know, I am drawn to sacred spaces of all types. I refer to the last time I was in England as the “Church and Graveyard Tour.” On our first day in Iceland, we managed to find ourselves strolling through a lovely cemetery. It was quiet and peaceful, and still somehow…
A Forty Day Practice
As I was walking the labyrinth this morning, I was asked to create a very specific 40-day practice based on the paths I was traveling. I invite you to join me. Starting Monday, January 20th, I will be focusing on a different theme each day. If you have a local labyrinth, I invite you to…
My Work in the Dreamtime
I’ve taken to a new bedtime ritual. Once I’m settled in to bed, I do a little bit of research on a totem or deity or something similar, programming my focus toward that subject. It keeps my brain occupied as my body relaxes, gives me something to do while I’m getting sleepy, and gives me…
Water Water Everywhere, Taking Us Into The Shadows
This is a month of much water… All the Mercury Retrogrades this year are in water signs, which makes them a little different that usual. They’re much more emotional than mental or physical. So, if you’ve been working on your emotional authenticity, or you’ve been doing a lot of emotional work, you may very well…
Solar Storms
I posted last night to FaceBook that Spaceweather said “A moderate (Kp=6) geomagnetic storm is in progress on June 28-29 as Earth passes through a region of south-pointing magnetism in the solar wind. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras. In the northern hemisphere, solstice twilight will sharply reduce visibility; southern hemisphere observers may…
New Moon Introspection
This is a New Moon of Trickster energy, of contradictions, and of crumbling foundations. Go inward, into your heart, and get to know yourself. Get the ego out of the way, and get real. Ask yourself the hard questions. Find out what’s really going on. Clear out the cobwebs, throw the windows open, and shake…