I need to put up my ancestor altar before Thursday. It’s time. I’ve got help in the office this week, doing a bunch of my back filing (and believe me, there’s a bunch). She came across the memorial card for my dear friend who passed in 2013; it’s sitting on my desk, his face staring…
Category: Practice
Interesting Sun Flares
On Friday, SpaceWeather alerted me to some solar activity that, while significant, wasn’t aimed at earth. I intended to write about it anyway, but it’s a waning moon, and I’m not betting as much done as I would like. The, this morning, I awoke to this missive: Solar activity increased sharply on Oct. 19th when…
Notes from the Labyrinth October 17th, 2014
Today’s labyrinth walk was mostly an exercise in being present. One of the lovely things about doing this in the Fall (and fall seems to have finally begun here in Southern California), is that I get to walk the labyrinth barefoot. In the summer months, the concrete is just too hot. The labyrinth I walk…
Full Moon – Lunar Eclipse Tonight!
Tonight’s eclipse may be a type of “levelling up” for a lot of people.
Observations from the Labyrinth on Yom Kippur
I’ve resumed my labyrinth practice for the month of October, though certainly not at the level of the 40 day devotional I did this past spring. It started mostly as a way to easy my passage through Mercury retrograde and to support me through the thinning of the veils. I did a walk today, and…
Becoming the Goddess
Many years ago, my Guidance gave me a formula, an adjustable affirmation/mantra of sorts. It has helped me overcome all sorts of adversity, from talking myself down out of panic attacks to leaving an abusive relationship, and all sorts of things in between. Over the years, I have refined it into an empowerment workshop, one…
Weekly Wrap Up of Web Links
Web links I have found in my puttering around the internet…. Building community Art, Oracles, and Culpability Transformational Leaders Jewish Witch – My Devotionals A Prayer of Compassion towards Z Budapest Choosing Love over Fear
Grief
If you’ve taken any of my classes, you may be familiar with the idea that different parts of the body correspond to specific processes we do through. Liver is anger, the neck is creativity, shoulders are the pressures we put on ourselves, low back pain can be emotions we don’t want to look at, and…
Hold On To Your Hats!
This just in from SpaceWeather: This morning (Sept. 9th at 00:30 UT) the magnetic canopy of sunspot AR2158 erupted, producing a long-duration solar flare and a bright CME. The CME, which billowed away from the sun at nearly 1,000 km/s, has an Earth-directed component. A glancing blow is possible during the late hours of Sept….
Harvest Moon
Full moon is Monday night. Her influence carries over until the wee hours of the morning on Friday. The full moon tends to be a magical time for people. Sometimes that’s good, and we are inspired; sometimes it’s less desirable, and people get a little wacky. When a woman’s cycle syncs up with the full…
Where in the World is Ayamanatara?
Every year, for the past 13 (this will be my 14th), at the end of the summer I have packed up and headed for the desert. I tend to just tell people I’m going on retreat, because that’s what it is for me. I’m off the grid, dealing with extreme weather conditions, in sacred space….
September’s Newsletter
The monthly special will be updated here on the website when I return from retreat. In the meantime, here is what I had to say about September in the newsletter. If you’re not on my mailing list, and you would like to be, you can sign up here. Blessings to you and yours! September is…