Musings

"Pandora" painting by John William Waterhouse

Dreams, Hopes & Longings

🌕 Full Moon Gathering via Zoom 🌕Wednesday, February 16, 6PM PST The folklore and mythologies of our western patriarchies are rife with women unwittingly wreaking

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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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Thanks-giving

Right now it’s hot coffee and cloudy skies and palm trees that wave in the wind like skinny junior high school me doing the snake

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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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Wade Gasque walking on path in the mountains

Making Meaning from the Mess

Years ago I studied with screenwriting guru Meg LeFauve who said all stories have a big beautiful idea at the center – the raison d’être – which

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The Hermit

Heading up to a cabin in Big Bear for a solo retreat tomorrow and I can’t wait. I know we’re supposed to be excited about

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Hilma af Klint Altarpieces No.1

Spring Cleaning

One quarter of the country has been vaccinated, quarantines are being lifted, and I feel like one of those fumbling newborn antelope plopped down in

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Robert E Lee statue with protestors

White History

I grew up in South Carolina in the 80’s and I distinctly remember a sense of pride in the room of my junior high American

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Nina Simone lyrics Birds flying high you know how I feel

Good Omens

Inauguration comes from the Latin augur: “one who sees favorable omens for success”. (The word auspicious comes from this as well.) In Ancient Rome the

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