Musings

Judy Chicago artwork "In the Beginning" 1982

Mother of Us All

Oh, mother. Is there a more complex, complicated figure in our lives? Who else is more pivotal, more revered, reviled, scapegoated and projected upon than

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Themes of the Year

A belated but jubilantly Happy New Year to you, friends. This year (2+0+2+3) moves us from the relational, “other-oriented” six to the mysteriously mighty seven. There is

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Quiet Answers

Happy Equinox, friends. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the interiority of night is closing in now, shrouding the sun’s light, that outward

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William Blake watercolour Teach These Souls to Fly, 1796

Applied Mythology

Artist Malika Ali Harding wrote a great article recently for Puttylike on her interests in “woo woo” practices and her experience working with this woo

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Image of Andy from The Shawshank Redemption newly free standing in the rain

Go Soft

“Emotional numbing” is a psychological phenomenon that can develop when we witness ongoing trauma – near-daily mass shootings, for example, or years-long pandemics, or when

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Richard Avedon photo of James Baldwin

James Baldwin on Freedom

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the

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The Lovers card Pagan Otherworlds Tarot

Your New Year Forecast

2022 reduces to the number 6: a number of compassion in the Kabbalist tradition, a number correlating with our intuition (the sixth spiritual body) in the Tantric tradition, and

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Christ in the Wilderness, painting by Stanley Spencer

The Sting

The Scorpio of ancient Greek myth was a giant scorpion summoned by Gaia (Earth) after hearing the hunter Orion boast that he could kill every

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Narcissus by Caracaggio

The Stories We Serve

If I’ve learned anything from my work as a writer, healer and human, it’s that we are all storytellers. Think of the countless stories wafting

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